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When it came time for the Bolshoi to fly West, the Kremlin paid nothing, at least not directly. The company wheedled Aeroflot into providing two airliners, and got the Defense Ministry to transport some 750 tons of sets and scenery. The Elbim Bank, a new institution for entrepreneurial investments, put up a little cash to help out. "The Ministry of Culture asked me to take a couple of their officials along," Kokonin recalls, with an impresario's smile. "I felt so happy to tell them that I wouldn...
...history of the world has been in great part the history of the mixing of peoples. Modern communication and transport accelerate mass migrations from one continent to another. Ethnic and racial diversity is more than ever a salient fact...
...What about NASA's program to build a hypersonic-transport plane that could take people across the Pacific in a matter of hours? Is this still on the mark...
...canceled the first supersonic-transport program because of environmental concerns. It was too noisy to make economically realistic. But research continues at NASA on a new generation of planes and engines. Our job is to fund basic research and then let the private companies -- Boeing and others -- decide whether the plane should be built...
...dirty, most of them the work of "fly-by-night promoters who find a cat at an exotic-animal auction and then put a deal together." Two hunting guides, Daniel Lee Moody and Ronald Terrell McCloud, were indicted in San Antonio last April for unlawfully conspiring to sell and transport a black leopard; McCloud has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge. A sickening videotape shows the leopard being released from a cage and running under a nearby pickup truck. A pack of dogs flushed it out of hiding, and for $3,000, a "hunter" | from Louisiana had the privilege...