Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen announced at a press conference in Jakarta that if Taiwan declared separation from the material and independence, China would likely be forced to resort to military means.

Already 57 Russian financial institutions that attract funds from the public have ceased their activities without returning money to their investors. As the chairman of the Association, injured investor Yu. Palchikov, stated, in total, over three million owners of shares in these structures lost their money in such operations. The amount of unreturned money reaches five trillion rubles, including the money of MMM JSC investors.

TOPIC FOR REFLECTION Whether you and I eat meat, drive cars, or buy disposable goods, we are damaging the environment. With this article, the author encourages everyone to lead a more moderate lifestyle, based on abundance, not excess. The richest billion people in the world have created such a voracious civilization that the planet is in danger. The lifestyle of this “first echelon” - car owners, meat eaters, sparkling water consumers, etc.

Vladimir NEVELSKY There is no need to explain what immunology is. What about cytokinology? A brief explanation may be required here: this is a new field of immunology that has emerged and established itself in the last decade thanks to advances in molecular biology and genetic engineering. The subject of her study is a whole family of relatively small molecules called cytokines, previously unknown to science. Over thirty of them have already been discovered and explored.

Moldovan President Snegur begins his visit to Poland. He plans to sign a treaty of friendship and cooperation, as well as an agreement on visa-free tourism and investment protection.

No matter how much spending on science is cut, it still exists! BAROMETER The Institute of Crystallography of the Russian Academy of Sciences, together with the Research Institute of Semiconductor Devices (Tomsk) and the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, has developed new types of porous membranes, which differ from traditional membranes in the high calibration of pore sizes.

The Research Center of the Ministry of Education of Ukraine, operating at the Lviv Polytechnic University, has developed a unique diagnostic technology. The combination of a large number of tests makes it possible not only to obtain information about the psychological characteristics of each people's representative, but also to find out how conflicting the government body will be, and to check the compatibility of members of the Supreme or local council.

At the institute, her fellow students called her Tsypo. As it turned out, they were not so far from the truth. Today, the popular actress and director Elena Tsyplakova lives outside the city, raises chickens and geese. Lena's husband made an incubator from an old refrigerator: this device is now called the “pregnant refrigerator” in the family. A dog and a cat live in the house. The housewife picks berries all summer, fills the basement with jars for the winter, and loves to entertain friends.

As it turns out, boats carrying passengers and cargo were traveling between Europe and the British Isles long before the opening of the Channel Tunnel - longer than scientists thought. In September 1992, workers in Dover constructing a pedestrian walkway under the tracks leading to the beginning of the tunnel discovered the remains of a 50-foot boat dating back to the Bronze Age (no later than 1300 BC). It was made of oak planks, each of which weighed more than a ton.

And the textbooks... are wrong Konstantin GOMOYUNOV, Candidate of Technical Sciences ## And the textbooks... are wrong Regarding the reasons for students’ misunderstanding of mathematics, better than academician V.I. Arnold, you can’t tell (see “Eureka”, 1994, issue 14 (20)). But a special conversation is needed about the physics course. First, in the eyes of public opinion among the natural and technical sciences, physics serves as a standard of rigor.

Totemsky garrison of the General Gunner, who contributed to the statehood of the most merciful monarch Peter the Great Dmitry SEROV Some time came to Totma the news that the Swedish military people intended to attack the city, capture it and completely ruin it. Being in great alarm at the news, the governor and all the garrison servants were taught to prepare for a cruel defense and to draw up plans for military behavior.

The reform operation in the village seems to have been a success The beginning of November in Smolensk was marked by an unprecedented jump in prices. Without further ado, the telecom operators immediately raised the telephone subscription fee by a thousand, at the same time increasing the subscription fee for long-distance calls. But the main blow fell on food.

The PoV leadership, led by Commander-in-Chief A. Nikolaev, developed a new concept for border security, approved by the president in March. Meanwhile, after the collapse of the USSR, many problems arose related to the territorial claims of Russia’s neighbors. Estonia disputes, citing the Tartu Treaty, that the Pskov region, Kingisepp and part of the Leningrad region, with a total area of ​​2.3 thousand square meters, belong to Russia. kilometers.

President Clinton reaffirmed US determination to confront any military threat in Southeast Asia. Speaking to U.S. troops stationed in the Philippines, Clinton said the United States hopes to make the most of the opportunities that peace brings in the region. However, he said, the United States is committed to protecting security in Asia.

What is happening to boarding school No. 98 in the capital is not a particularity. You become more and more convinced of this when reading the hypocritical replies from the Moscow Department of Education and other departments. All this is a system reminiscent of the children's Gulag, a system worked out over the years, reinforced by thousands of instructions, a fertile ground for corruption, abuse and crime. Let me remind you: in boarding school No.