On Friday, January 25, at the third hour of the night, a patrol policeman, going around his plot in the suburbs of Houston Shugar Land, saw Mercedes in the parking lot, and in it a man in a driver’s place. The man was sitting completely motionless. Taking a closer look, the policeman realized that the driver of the Mercedes was dead. When examined in the head of the deceased, a gunshot wound was discovered. A revolver was lying in the cabin. There was also a suicide note.

The terrible in the thriller of Alfred Hitchcock “Window to the Dvor” is that the only witness to the murder and, therefore, a helpless disabled person turns out to be the closest candidate for the dead. However, as it turns out, the Hitchcock paralytics were still lucky and more terrible. For example, the main character of the novel by Brigitte The Forest Death, Eliza Andrioli, is not only blind and suffers from tetraplegia, that is, paralysis of all four limbs, and also a lot as a fish.

Amazing, right, the situation has developed with Russian literary prizes. Everyone is fighting for something, set some goals and strive for them steadily. The booker focuses on obvious success and loud names. The Award named after Andrei Bely is trying to identify something on the surface not lying and inaccessible to the first look. The National Bestseller is looking for talents and seeks to ensure its protege commercial success.

Loren’s book was published about Italian cuisine. As a place for filming, a medieval Teutonic Castle Malborc, located in the north of Poland, was chosen. The plot of the video is this: Sophia Loren in a luxurious dress leaves the ball, and reporters ask her what she liked the most in Poland. On this question, the proud daughter of the Mediterranean, without blinking an eye, will have to answer Malma Spaghetti.

String For more than ten years, the American microbiologist Derek Blavliva was looking for microorganisms, the vital activity of which would not depend on the presence of two main factors that caused the appearance of living beings on Earth: water and sunlight as a primary source of energy. On other potentially suitable planets of the solar system of water on the surface, and sunlight does not penetrate deep.

String Japanese scientists from the University of Kinka managed to introduce the spinach gene into the core of the pig cage. In their opinion, this will make the pig of the new breed more healthy, and their meat is less fat. The content of saturated fatty acids in the body of the new piglets was almost 20% less than that of their normal relatives. Now, probably, the appearance of a hybrid of oysters with lemon and a cross between a goose with apples should be expected.

Late at the meeting in the White House, Deputy Prime Minister Valentina Matvienko first of all expressed the assembled everything that she thinks about Moscow traffic jams. The former mayor of New York Rudy Juliani had a full namesake. This name was received by the cub of the Asian elephant, born in the nursery of the New York Center for the Protection of Elephants of the Brothers Ringling.

This is a very strange book. We are talking about the most seemingly soulless and unpleasant matters - ice and snow, but it is told about them with incredible warmth and love. As if ice crystals are alive and grow like flowers. The glaciological (that is, ice -building) deviations arising along the case are akin to Julvern's passages about the underwater world, only much shorter, more unexpected and more exciting.

The subject "Primary military training" was deleted from the study plans of high school in May 1991. According to the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation, he was replaced by the course “Fundamentals of Life Safety” (OBZh). Together with the NVP, the Ministry of Education abolished the position of school military commissar, withdrawing it from the state classifier of professions. Even if in a separate re or school they suddenly decided to reanimate the NVP.

Vanilla sky Seeing in the “Vanilla sky” at Tom Cruise, which brings the light of esoteric fantasy of the 60s to millions of spectators, I was not surprised at all. It has long been known - Hollywood eats everything. Today, the menu of the American cultural underwriting of the second half of the twentieth century. Strictly speaking, Cruz plays the role of an ordinary American millionaire in the film, not a cultural citizen.

“And in this mirror, Frodo, you will see your future,” said the mistress of Galadriel, and the credits flashed on the dark surface: Lord of the Rings. Part ... with this joke, the Russian community of Tolkienists welcomed the release of the film version of their Holy Scripture. However, Tolkien's works in this environment are perceived very peculiarly. Among the interpretations, they come across such, of course, make an exception - who did not read the works of Tolkien at all.

Prohibiting duties will not turn the Lada into Volkswagen, and the Volga into Mercedes The government’s work this year began with a scandal. The Prime Minister did not sign a ready-made government decree on raising duties on used foreign cars, sending it “for revision”, which happens extremely rarely. The actions of Mikhail Kasyanova pre -pre -an interview with the deputy head of the government of the government Alexei Volina, in which the very idea of ​​raising duties was criticized.

Not wanting to accept any of the parties in the dispute, which is better - a new Russian car or a used foreign car, I would like to tell two stories of two cars. They are the same class, cost about the same, about the same was their mileage, both on the go. Engines - with a volume of 1.5-1.6 liters. Mileage-60 thousand km new VAZ-2111 (the best-selling cars in the country) in Moscow car dealerships cost 6-6.5 thousand dollars.

In c -in do (m) - in Moscow The Long Arms Records has dical changed the fate of the avant -garde rock that had then flourished, but in fact it became an exemplary composition of modern DJ music from Trans to Embisent. With him, all our “musical dissidents”) and was ready to throw out a record with notes printed on the cover. But at the last minute he changed his mind and gave the pianist Alexei Lyubimov.

If prohibitive duties for the import of used cars into Russia will still be accepted, about a third of the population of the Kaliningrad region will lose their jobs Another year or two ago in Kaliningrad, in whatever the courtyard you will definitely see a number of foreign cars put up for sale. It was not difficult to identify them - a sign was attached to the windshield, which indicated the year of production, the main characteristics of the car, the price in the cu. And the seller’s phone.