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Lawmakers behaving badly

There has been heckling and the occasional head-butt, hurled water bottles and indecorous insults, bloody noses and at least one concussion. Lawmaking in Russia's State Duma is not a pretty sight. Nor is the attempt to make it more of one. Once, during debate of an ethics matter, one lawmaker called a colleague "the No. 1 political prostitute" and railed against the ethics committee… 0

March 3, 2007

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Gifts to Soviet leaders reveal global connections

Stalin didn't write thank-you notes. As a matter of fact, the former Soviet Communist Party head never even cared to see most of the gifts sent from well-wishers near and far: a wooden pipe carved with the likeness of him and President Harry Truman playing chess; a telephone in the shape of a hammer and sickle; a table lamp fashioned from a scaly, petrified armadillo. 0

November 19, 2006

A childhood marred by drink

She doesn't remember her first kiss but Koren Zailckas can recall with elaborate detail the very afternoon, when at 14 and still in eighth grade, she took her first sip of alcohol. It was a Friday - June 17, 1994, to be exact - and the Southern Comfort bottle resembled something her grandfather might drink. The liquid inside smelled sweet and tasted terrible. But it was her initiation… 0

March 13, 2005

Male birth control pill sought

The birth control pill was no longer an option for Jim Segermark's wife, and undergoing a vasectomy himself seemed nothing short of barbaric. So, a few years ago, the 42-year-old father of two from Minnesota devised a new male contraceptive device: a tiny implantable clip that blocks the flow of sperm - without cutting or cauterizing a man's plumbing. "We don't have to cut you,"… 0

March 13, 2005

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