Putin advances South Stream pipeline building to 2012
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin brought forward to
2012 the date for starting construction of the South Stream pipeline
that aims to deliver Russian gas to Western Europe while avoiding
Ukraine. Putin’s announcement marks an acceleration of the timetable
for building the hugely ambitious pipeline and comes after Moscow
won agreement from Ankara this week to lay the pipeline under
Turkish waters. “I think it would be desirable to start
(construction) at the end of next year,” Putin told the chief
executive of Russian gas giant Gazprom Alexei Miller at a meeting at
his Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow. “Very good, Vladimir
Vladimirovich,” Miller replied. “We will do it this way.”
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Brain size may predict risk for early Alzheimer’s disease -
Study
New research suggests that, in people who don’t
currently have memory problems, those with smaller regions of the
brain’s cortex may be more likely to develop symptoms consistent
with very early Alzheimer’s disease.
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Did Cheetah from Tarzan flicks die at 80?
A Florida animal sanctuary says Cheetah, the
chimpanzee sidekick in the Tarzan movies of the early 1930s, has
died at 80. But other accounts call that claim into question. Debbie
Cobb, outreach director at the Suncoast Primate Sanctuary in Palm
Harbor, said that her grandparents acquired Cheetah around 1960 from
‘Tarzan’ star Johnny Weissmuller and that the chimp appeared in
Tarzan films between 1932 and 1934. During that period, Weissmuller
made Tarzan the Ape Man and Tarzan and His Mate. But Cobb offered no
documentation, saying it was destroyed in a 1995 fire.
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