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KAMEN-RYBOLOV, Russia — Standing ankle deep in mud in a swampy grassland more than 4,000 miles from his home, Yuri A. Bugaev surveyed a mosquito-infested wasteland that the Russian government is offering to would-be pioneers under its own modern-day version of the 1862 Homestead Act in the United States. “This is not really what I had in mind,” said Mr. Bugaev, who had traveled across seven time zones from St. Petersburg, Russia, to scout the possibilities for settlers in the country’s sparsely populated Far East, a territory roughly two-thirds the size of the United States. The nine Far Eastern regions...

America belongs to the Americans. Yes, but the discovery of America does not belong to silly Southern Europe. From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Ericson Viking explorers discovered America. Anyone denying this is selling LIES. Leif Ericson is the King of all explorers. No other Westerner, rightfully, can claim to have discovered America. It's time to see who's who, Columbus.

It is Sunday and with not much to do, I got thinking- could Jack Bauer take Chuck Norris??In two categories - with weapon(s) and with outOpinions, please?

[EXCERPT] The men who don't make it to the top in that world still have the compensation of identifying with the one man who does, as long as they don't identify with any of the women, as long as they don't "say nothing." They still belong to the pack, by virtue of being male. No matter how much sand gets kicked in their face, they still can fantasize that one day they, too, like Charles Atlas, will do enough leg lifts to rise in the ranks. At a time of deep economic and international insecurity, the easy power of the...