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...Clashes Emboldened by the international war on terrorism, Russian forces have increased their attacks on Chechen rebels. In a three-day battle close to the capital Grozny, Russian officials claimed that 84 rebels were killed. During the Russians' attempt to flush out insurgents from the mountainous area around Tsotsin-Yurt, the rebels countered that 40 soldiers died in fighting while they had lost only eight...
...human body, doctors have shaded in burned areas and included handwritten calculations of the extent of the damage. In many cases, more than 70% of the body is darkened. "The intense heat and the inability to get away [are what] makes these burns so severe," says Dr. Roger Yurt, director of the unit. One patient, scorched by a fireball of debris, lies almost completely swathed in bandages under a tent of heat shields and blankets. Another, propelled forward by a ruptured steam pipe, is scorched along his back and the back of his legs but was miraculously spared...
...patient's body warm and hydrated. In the first 24 hours, the treatment is surprisingly simple: saline fluid--sometimes as much as 8 gal.--to keep up blood volume and stabilize blood pressure, and morphine for pain. Only after a patient is able to maintain normal blood pressure, says Yurt, can surgery begin--a painstaking process in which burned skin is scraped away and substitute sheets grafted in. And even then, only about 20% to 30% of the severely burned will survive...
...However, Russia's indiscriminate bombardment of major cities, as well as reports of looting and an alleged massacre in the town of Alkhan-Yurt, have sapped much of the goodwill that may have existed in parts of the Chechen population. And Moscow's response to the Grozny breakout - the decision to treat all Chechen men as potential enemies - further diminishes Moscow's hopes of finding any significant support in the Chechen population. "In the first war Moscow set up 'filtration camps' to ostensibly separate civilians from militants, and there were widespread reports of torture and beatings," says Meier...
...give him a taste of their culture. He has eaten (by hand) a spit-roasted cow in Romania, hunted for boar in Tatarstan and ridden a camel through Mongolia. Getting the local touch often means bedding down in rather unusual accommodations. Last year, for example, he stayed in a yurt in Turkmenistan. "They wanted me to have the experience, so I stayed one night," says Kaplan. "I was sitting in the middle of the yurt, on Turkmen carpets, and they roasted a lamb outside. The vodka is sitting in the middle of the yurt in the middle of the desert...