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...financial crisis continues to take its toll and travelers decide to stay closer to home this summer, Russia's small local industries suddenly find themselves struggling. Now the government is stepping in to try to keep Russia's artisanal traditions alive. Earlier this year the Russian government announced that it would buy $28.4 million worth of nesting dolls (called matryoshka in Russian), lacquered dishes, crocheted shawls, felt caps and other quintessentially Russian knickknacks to bolster the industry and try to protect the livelihoods of some 30,000 workers at around 240 companies. (See pictures of Russia celebrating Victory...
...forces are aware of the danger cited by Nimatullah. "What makes Operation Khanjar different from those that have occurred before is the massive size of the force introduced, the speed at which it will insert, and the fact that where we go we will stay and where we stay we will hold, build and work toward transition of all security responsibilities to Afghan forces," said Brigadier General Larry Nicholson, the Marine commander, in a statement...
...alternate Japan, based on a manga (by So Kitamura), this movie proposes that the country's rulers averted a multicontinental World War II by forging a truce with the U.S. the day after Pearl Harbor - as we say, it's a fantasy - thus allowing the nobility to stay in power amid widespread poverty. Enter K-20, the Fiend (kaijin) with 20 Faces, who can assume almost any identity, and who steals from the rich but also oppresses the poor. Only one man (pan-Asian star Takeshi Kaneshiro) can stop K-20 - if he can just figure out what evil genius...
...said Sweet told him of the news “just recently,” sometime during June, but he declined to provide a precise date. The news came as a surprise, Smith said, adding that despite the FAS leader’s best efforts to convince Sweet to stay, the finance dean stood firm...
...there is the matter of scandals - many scandals. Several top players, including the former national captain, were removed from the men's team last year after allegedly partying all night just days before facing off against neighboring Ecuador in what was a must-win match to stay in the running for the World Cup. Ecuador, predictably, ran circles around Peru...