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...some accounts perished during the Stalinist purges of 1937. His parents seem to have separated before this, and Primakov was brought up in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, where his mother Anna was a gynecologist attached to a local textile factory. The family home was a 14-sq-m room in a kommunalka--a communal apartment where kitchen and toilet facilities were shared by a number of families. He left Tbilisi for Moscow in the late 1940s to study Arabic. Another neighbor headed for Moscow at the same time--his future wife Laura. They were soon married and later...
...robbed her of her childhood. Now a 17-year-old senior in high school, she is asking to be declared a legal adult so she can control her own finances. According to Moceanu, her parents mismanaged her trust fund, pouring her money into a multimillion-dollar, 70,000-sq.-ft. Houston gym complex and a sportswear line. "Her relationship with her parents was only about gymnastics," says Olympic teammate Shannon Miller, who has been counseling Dominique over the past few months. "She wants to enjoy the sport because she enjoys it, not because...
...acres of marble and mosaic floor. And the ceiling chandelier, the largest glass sculpture ever made, 30 ft. by 70 ft. of writhing, billowing trumpets and petals by the glass artist Dale Chihuly. And more acres of slot machines. And the conservatory, whose plants come from a 90,000-sq.-ft. nursery somewhere out of sight. And a prodigious wicker cornucopia, three stories high. "On opening night I'm going to fill it with pumpkins," Wynn promises, and you know there won't be a pumpkin, or not a perfect one, left in New England for Halloween...
Lyerly's work has been furthered by one of the many infusions of corporate money that the medical center has been aggressively pursuing in recent years. Last fall Duke opened a new 10,000-sq.-ft. laboratory, a set of "clean rooms" where cell cultures can be cultivated in sterile surroundings. The $1.5 million facility was paid for by the pharmaceutical giant Rhone-Poulenc Rorer, based in Collegeville, Pa. But this particular deal is unusual in that the company has no commercial claim on any products developed through the use of the new lab. Sue Strauss...
...flat, parched plains of Sudan seem to run on endlessly, right over the horizon. Outside the few towns, there are no roads, no telephones, no electricity. The country is a vast emptiness of almost 1 million sq. mi.; yet it is home to just 28.5 million people, and the only way to get from one place to another is to walk. If you are starving, it can take days or weeks to stagger to one of the dozen feeding centers run by international aid agencies. That is what thousands of stick-figured Sudanese are doing right now: trekking desperately...