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Bormann decided to attempt a breakout. Up on the street, he spotted a German tank and started to follow it. A Soviet shell scored a direct hit on the tank, and Bormann was never seen again...
...salaries for cooking, cleaning and child care. As radical as the notion may appear, it dramatizes a discouraging fact: domestic labor, seen everywhere as women's work, is universally undervalued. Indeed, according to a recent survey by Economist Ruth Leger Sivard, director of World Priorities, a Washington-based think tank, the cash value of the unpaid labor of women represents $4 trillion a year, equivalent to a third of the world's gross economic product. Said Brooklyn, N.Y.-born Selma James, a leader of the strike call: "Women are very determined that our work no longer be invisible...
...anyone other than Putin" running the country, Luzhkov said. After uprisings in Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan, some fear for Russia's own future. "The [Kremlin] used to talk about modernization, integrating the country into the community of civilized nations. Now they talk of preservation," says Andrei Kortunov of think tank New Eurasia. Vladimir Ryzhkov, an independent Duma member, thinks the Kremlin is preparing to alter the constitution so Putin can remain in power. Ryzhkov claims to have seen two memorandums, prepared by the security services, arguing for this change. Ryzhkov says the message was: "We have a new style...
...tough for me to kind of choke a few throws that I really wanted to let go early in the season, knowing that I had to save something, so I’d have something left in the tank,” Farkes says. “It was tough on me mentally...
...Dwight (Clive Owen) snaps this demand halfway through Frank Miller’s Sin City, preparing for the need to avoid bullets, outrun the police, and carry a whole lot of bodies. What he gets, though, is a tired jalopy with a tiny boot and a near-empty gas tank...