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The other day, the Chairman of the State Committee for Higher Education, Mr. V. Kinelev, gave an interview to one of the central newspapers. Of the entire text, designed in almost rainbow tones, only one thought stands out (but what a thought!). The thought (?) is as follows: Mr.

Bob Holmes “...You walk through the brain. Nerve cells - neurons - surround you on all sides, shimmering blue, green, yellow and occasionally red. Behind you you hear the crackling of cells sending their rhythmic signals to different parts of the brain. You point your finger at the nerve fiber running to the right.

Rosie Mestel Peter Major demonstrates his device - a machine that transforms pictures into sounds. “It's a bright line going from left to right,” he says, and the machine makes a sound that starts low and then gradually rises in frequency. In general, all the sounds produced by this device seem very strange, but Meijer hopes that one day they will become familiar to many blind people and will then help them perceive the world around them through sounds.

BOOKSHELF Ekaterina Dolgova Dispossessed special settlers in the Urals. 1930 - 1936 In the series “Data Bank on Regional History. The Urals in the 20th century." Vol. 1. Ekaterinburg, Ural University Publishing House, 1994. 232 pages, circulation 500 copies. Today the time has come for a thorough, unhurried, painstaking study of history - the time for documentation.

“Vedic culture is actually a demonic manifestation. And ecumenism is the first stage in the creation of the religion of the Antichrist.” And, despite the commonality of moral laws of different directions, his verdict is harsh: “For a true believer, morality is only moral when it is Orthodox.” More democratic ecumen do not want the prayer of first-graders to turn out to be a formality, and they are also trying to smooth out many contradictions.

The situation around the Chechen Republic is deteriorating by leaps and bounds. Last week, the Federation Council adopted its resolution. Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Ramazan Abdulatipov worked on his project. But today the conversation with Ramazan Abdulatipov was not only about the Chechen problem. — Ramazan Gadhimuradovich, don’t recent events around the Chechen Republic indicate the collapse of national politics or the beginning of its end?

The only shelter for street children in St. Petersburg, and even in the whole country, “Blue Crow,” which dealt directly with street children’s communities, has actually ceased to exist. The famous apartment on Liteiny now scares ordinary people not with noise and “pranks”, but with the emptiness and darkness of the windows. Some of the children who could not be returned to their families were taken to the suburbs, where they live in conditions that are not very suitable for raising them.

Andrey GRAMOLIN NEWS No. 1 How to turn dead water into living water - this is what the participants of the international exhibition-seminar “Clean Water of the Urals-94”, held recently in Yekaterinburg on the initiative of the Medical and Biological Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, talked about.

FORGOTTEN NAMES Abram BLOCH, Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences One hundred years ago, the Russian press worthily celebrated the centenary of the birth of the outstanding self-taught astronomer Fyodor Alekseevich Semenov, the son of a Kursk cattle trader, whose life and work are to a large extent unprecedented, for Russian science in any case.

SYMPOSIUM An international conference of psychiatrists dedicated to ethnic and cultural problems of mental health opens in Moscow. “Cultural” means associated with the traditions of a particular culture, understood more broadly than just the sum of knowledge. Scientists from Italy, Russia, Bulgaria, the USA and Germany, Israel, Yugoslavia, Switzerland will present interesting reports. Previously, it was not customary for us to discuss, say, the ethnic characteristics of the mental structure.

About life-giving water, and not only about it LABORATORY Alexander KULBERG, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences Many years ago, in a book by the outstanding biochemist and Nobel Prize winner Albert Szent-Györgyi, I saw a graph that was amazing in its eloquence. On it, the scientist expressed his idea of ​​the desired and actual progress of research.

Apparently, all orders in this country are written according to this principle Remember, we have already written about complaints from our readers who could not enroll their children in schools for the simple reason that the children and parents are non-Muscovites.

As always, there is not enough money for children. It seems that a whole range of presidential programs to help children has been adopted for implementation - different ones: disabled people, gifted children, victims of the Chernobyl disaster, street children - all these components are combined into one whole under the name “Federal Program “Children of Russia”, but... Officials, as usual, cite a lack of funds.

Bulat Okudzhava. Abolished theater. Novel. Book I. Around the next bend. "Banner". 1993, no. 9, 10. It is not difficult to notice that four of the six works currently competing for the Booker are connected by the time of action with the era of building socialism in one, separately, unfortunate country of ours - with the twenties and forties. I think this is not just a coincidence. Perhaps we can talk about a sign of the literary period we are experiencing today.