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...sweep of Russia's steppes and forests induced "a ghastly feeling of imperturbable calm and deep sleep, of loneliness conducive to abstract, sad musing without any clearly defined thought." Russians seem so overwhelmed by the sheer enormousness of their country that they would rather settle down by a warm stove, break out a bottle of vodka and muse about life than go out and plow a furrow toward the endlessly receding horizon. A leading Moscow architect maintains that this sense of the horizontal is so strong in Russian minds that it is hard to find a straight vertical line anywhere...
...teakettle bubbles on the old tin stove, Nadezhda serves a breakfast of bread and butter while considering her shopping list. "You can't plan now," she says. "Things were more affordable before." Food costs the family nearly 4,000 rubles a month, a sizable proportion of their combined monthly income of 7,500 rubles. Money must also be set aside for rent -- 70 rubles now but set to rise soon -- and for transportation, which runs about 80 rubles. Not a kopeck is left by month's end for saving. Education and health care are still supplied free by the state...
...should be that the unforeseen keeps making the future unforeseeable. In the 1890s it was widely predicted that the U.S. would be bare of trees by the 1920s -- they would all have been chopped down to provide wood for heating and cooking. Along came oil burners and the gas stove, saving the trees to be menaced instead by acid rain...
...most recent alarm sounded at 5 p.m. Saturday when a coffee pot left on the stove in a first floor dorm room caught fire. Four fire trucks arrived and students were evacuated, according to observers...
...know if it's because there are neighbors living near here, but proctors are very strict," says Seth Weintrob '96, as he and his roommate prepared an afternoon snack of noodles on their stove. "But we're usually in the Yard at night anyway...