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...rust bucket of a Russian nuclear submarine, was being towed to a navy scrap yard late last month when it sprang a leak and went down in the Barents Sea. Nine sailors lost their lives--a fraction of the 118 who died when another Russian submarine, the Kursk, exploded and sank three years ago. But this latest sub disaster could have more serious consequences. A high-level Russian official tells TIME that K-159 "presents a threat more menacing than that of the Kursk," a state-of-the-art submarine whose reactors were much less likely to leak radioactive material...
...rust bucket of a Russian nuclear submarine, was being towed to a navy scrap yard late last month when it sprang a leak and went down in the Barents Sea. Nine sailors lost their lives - a fraction of the 118 who died when another Russian submarine, the Kursk, exploded and sank three years ago. But this latest sub disaster could have even more serious consequences. A high-level Russian official tells TIME that it "presents a threat more menacing than that of the Kursk," a state-of-the-art submarine whose reactors were much less likely to leak radioactive material...
CAMBRIDGE—Last Sunday morning, my alarm went off at 8 a.m. Without thinking twice, I sprang out of bed, turned the alarm off and plugged in the electric kettle to make instant coffee. In five minutes, I was (slightly) buzzed, a little disoriented and very excited. Was this momentary insanity, or even the result of a bad nightmare...
...earnest young Americans who flocked there in the early 1990s, but British partygoers who have flown in for the cheap beer and pretty girls. The place that British historian Mark Mazower once called the true dark continent--and from whose curdled soul the horrors of fascism and communism sprang--has become Europa ludens, a community at play...
...earnest young Americans who flocked there in the early 1990s, but British partygoers who have flown in for the cheap beer and pretty girls. The place that British historian Mark Mazower once called the true dark continent - and from whose curdled soul the horrors of fascism and communism sprang - has become Europa ludens, a community at play...