The quadrennial election of Chief Magistrate has passed off with less than the usual excitement.

Based on preliminary fossil data, the appearance of polydnaviruses within microgastrid genera may predate Eocene and Oligocene deposits and has led to the suggestion that the bracoviruses are derived from a single evolutionary lineage that diverged from related groups approximately 60 million years before the present (Whitfield, 1997).

Two models each for men and women are featured at prices ranging from 100 to 140 rubles, more than the cost of a 'vatnik.' (The ruble is nominally valued at four to $1.)

Not only did it give the Russians an abiding fear of encirclement, whether by nomadic hordes or by nuclear-missile sites, but it also launched them on their relentless drive eastwards and southwards into Asia, and eventually collision with the British in India.