Whether the excellent era ended on December last year is a controversial question. There is no doubt that the termination of official support for Windows 95 and Windows 3x on the website of Microsoft marked the end of an important and significant period in the development of operating systems. Online support, Russian users, however, never used it, but now the production in all kinds of paying, updates, etc. for these operating systems has been stopped forever. They died.

Le Club, 15-18 January If the eminent jazzmen Randy Brekker, thanks to the “Le Club”, have become almost their own with us, then the concerts of singer Marion Cowings are a real rarity. The name of Marion Cowings is not mentioned in special jazz encyclopedias, and who he is, only the American jazz vocalists know that he taught to sing. The fact is that Cowings has a high tenor, that is, a type of voice that is almost no application in jazz practice.

They recognized fate in another way: the girls sat down on a bullish skin, closed their eyes and listened: the dog flies - the groom lives on that side, the sound of an ax is heard - to death. At this moment, some jokers began to carry the “litter” by the tail, and since it was impossible to open their eyes, the fortunetellers were sure that the devils laughed at them.

Sergei Ivanov approaches to the sunset of old “results” I led there a “thousand years of insights”, where every week I talked about some invention that changed the life of mankind. When deciding that it was possible to consider inventing electricity always existed and only openly at some point in time, so it is a discovery. But the decimal fraction, invented in 1460, or the concepts of "plus" and "minus", introduced in 1489, - what? Do they exist in nature? Perhaps not.

True - good, but happiness is better The Ntiregers' traditions of the Maly Theater are shaken slowly, but true. Two years ago, Zhenovach put here “Woe from Wit”, now Ostrovsky’s play, and soon he will have another premiere for the production. Paradoxically, it is possible to return to the former triumph of the “Acting Theater” today only with the help of the director.

In the famous town, soap operas happen not only on the television screen. For two years, Andrew Laster, a millionaire and great-grandson of the King of the Cosmetics Max factor, was forced to wear an electronic bracelet recording all his movements at the villa in Santa Barbara. In 2000, he was arrested on charges of 87 crimes: rape, hidden pornical equipment, etc. Before the trial, he was released on bail of a million dollars, and all this time Laster was under house arrest.

The translation of Galina Kopeleva St. Petersburg: Amphora, 2002 navigation and paralle of Lelia between detective intrigue and all kinds of salon -intellectual fun - to put it mildly, not new.

In the January issue of the British Medical Journal, an article was published that a disease called “female sexual dysfunction”, which became considered widespread, was actually “invented” by researchers on the initiative of Viagra and other means to increase potency. Despite the fact that the market for such drugs is huge (in 2001 only Viagra was sold for one and a half billion dollars), pharmaceutical firms are interested in consuming not only men, but also women.

Gyer Monoton Before ten years, Alexei Tegin has been engaged in Tibetan music, or rather, studies and reproduces the music of the ancient religious tradition of Bon. The performances of Tegina and his comrades are more like a sacred ritual than an ordinary concert. Tegin's first experiments resembled industrial music. In the early 90s, he thoughtfully extracted sounds from sheets of iron, pipes, stones and other non-musical instruments.

"Latest news." The famous company Vesingauz produces devices in the near future, which make it possible to prepare any dishes on the radio receiver. Yesterday the first demonstration of the new apparatus took place. In one minute, engineers welded several Frankfurt sausages without the help of any kitchen.

Robot spider in the photo is the brainchild of one of the NASA laboratories. Although the “spider” is placed in the palm of the palm of the computer built into it is enough to work autonomously (for example, when examining the surfaces of planets or orbital stations), as well as to contact your own and work in the group. Site www.totalrobots.

Last week, the IMF published the first edition of the plan to create a global bankruptcy system for countries that are not able to fulfill their debt obligations. The need for such a document has long been ritted: the underwent and potential defaults of Argentina, Brazil, Russia, Turkey and other countries had a huge impact on the world economy and demanded multibillion -dollar interventions to prevent the global crisis.

"Russian Word." The richest gold placers were found in Kamchatka in the Anadiri area. The workers came across separate nuggets weighing 35 pounds. The workers turned to the paramedic of the steamer with a complaint about the pain in the stomach. It turned out that the disease was caused by the fact that they swallowed gold to carry it quietly into their dugouts. December 10, 1912

Each cell of the human body (with the exception of some special, for example, red blood cells) contains a core, and in it - 23 pairs of chromosomes carrying several tens of thousands of genes. In all cells of the body, they are the same (except for the sexual, which contains a half set of chromosomes). That is, in any cell there is all the genetic material necessary for the whole organism. And in principle, it can develop into such an organism as a fertilized egg does that each of us once was.

From next week on TV, it will be possible to “live” with traffic jams on Moscow streets. The Vesti-Moscow program gained direct access to almost one and a half hundred video cameras of the state traffic inspectorate, which are installed on the main routes of Moscow. The video signal from the central control panel of the traffic police auto -engine will go on the air of the program information issues.