Word: yuri
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...deux between Yuri Yanowski and Lorna Feijoo stood out as a clear exception. The pair had a wonderful chemistry that benefited in the form of exhilarating dancing—particularly in the pair’s impressive, concluding turn sequence...
Important as the project has been to neuroscience, says Yuri Ostrovsky, a graduate student at M.I.T. and lead author of the paper, "the best thing about it is the humanitarian aspect." Project Prakash has funded about half a dozen mobile eye camps--teams of ophthalmologists that travel to remote areas of the country and provide eye care. The concept itself isn't new, but unlike other camps, these are aimed just at children...
...1970s, Western dance began to catch up. Rising companies like the American Ballet Theater, the San Francisco Ballet and the Royal Ballet of Winnipeg began producing challenging new works. The Bolshoi, meanwhile, under the longtime leadership of artistic director Yuri Grigorovich and ideologically locked behind the Iron Curtain, simply stopped updating its repertoire. By the time the cold war's walls started to fall...
...April 2006, we ran a three-page photo essay by Yuri Kozyrev documenting the state of refugees in Kashmir after the catastrophic earthquake that took the lives of 75,000 people and displaced 3 million more. One of Yuri's pictures was of a slight girl in a hooded orange parka who had lost her leg in the quake. Two days after the magazine appeared, TIME's news-desk supervisor, Eileen Harkin, got a call from a member of the Shriners organization in Los Angeles. It wanted to help the girl. With clues from Yuri's notebooks and the assistance...
...Yard detectives were in Moscow last week, trying to talk to Lugovoy. But the interview kept getting postponed for "technical reasons." Cooperation between the Londoners and the Russian authorities has been frosty. Russian prosecutors insisted that they conduct all the interviews, with the British merely suggesting questions. Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika said no Russian citizens would ever be extradited to Britain in connection with the case, while his office suggested that Russia would open its own criminal investigation in London. Lugovoy and Kovtun were said to be in the hospital with radiation poisoning, but there was no independent confirmation...