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Kennedy conspiracy theorists have a whole new set of reading materials to digest. Over the weekend at the G8 summit in Germany, Russian President Boris Yeltsin handed President Clinton what could be a new treasure trove of information (or perhaps just false gold): A declassified Russian dossier concerning the 1963 assassination of JFK. The documents are in Russian and apparently concern Lee Harvey Oswald?s travels to the Soviet Union as well as the Soviet government?s reaction to the killing. Kennedy enthusiasts hope the information will yield new insights about Oswald?s life in Minsk in the early 1960s...
...council's treasure trove was not the only money sent towards student groups this year. A collaboration between Epps' office and the council established a new $25,000 fund for student groups that gave its first grants last fall...
BEAR ESSENTIALS As Web design goes, the Bear Den www.nature-net.com/bears is a tad unsophisticated, but it's a treasure trove of facts on grizzly, brown and black bears and pandas (which, biologists tell us, aren't bears but big cousins of the raccoon). There's plenty of information about easily bearable books, videos and other websites, plus a frighteningly good picture gallery...
...involved as the Mormons. Believing that ancestors can be saved through retroactive baptism, they have sent missionaries around the globe, setting up 3,200 library branches in 64 countries and filming massive amounts of documents, touching on 2 billion people. With the promise that the church's vast trove of well-checked data will eventually be available online comes the potential for another burst in genealogical activity...
...script of Talking With looks spare. It is a series of 11 monologues narrated by 11 women--eleven vibrant and madly insightful crazies, characters impossible to ignore or forget. The script looks like a treasure trove for talented actresses in search of audition monologues, but the monologues, strung across the pages of a script look only like the rants of 11 disembodied voices. Such a script does not promise to showcase directorial brilliance...