Oleg Stekolnikov has a dream

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Oleg Stekolnikov farms 1/4 of a hectare and has five cows, a barn, a potato field and a tractor. He produces 25-30 litres of milk compared with the 12 litres of milk an average collective farm cow produces. He and his wife make cottage cheese and sour cream to sell at the market in Moscow. He works a 16-hour day. President Yeltsin said land reform would be a priority for the new government but the local land reform committee was powerless to process Oleg's application. Further attempts to acquire land from the Committee on Land Reform were unsuccessful as you need to know someone on the committee. About 1/3 of collective farms, kolkhoz, are unprofitable.

Management, Russia, Agricultural policy, Land reform, Collective farms

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Sister Helen stalks the executioner

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Sister Helen Prejean of New Orleans aims to organise a movement against capital punishment, which only exists within Nato countries in the US and Turkey. The death penalty is supported by 75% in US polls. There are 2,729 people on Death Row, many after years of appeals which cost the state millions. In 1987, the murder rate in Louisiana increased by 16.39% after eight people were executed in an eight-week period. Sister Helen has befriended condemned prisoners since 1987. Her book 'Dead Man Walking' was published in Jul 1993 by New York Random House.

Political activity, Public opinion, Authorship, Capital punishment, Murderers, Nuns, Prejean, Helen, Dead Man Walking

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Will the lights go out across America?

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David Kessler, the US government's regulator of food and drugs, has been the subject of extensive criticism. Most recently, he has been attacked for seeking more government control over the tobacco industry at a time when the general trend has been towards deregulation. He believes that tobacco should be seen as a drug which must be regulated, having already assembled evidence that nicotine is an addictive drug. Any move to regulate cigarettes will have a significant impact on the country's powerful tobacco companies.

Health aspects, Influence, Smoking, Tobacco industry, Kessler, David A.

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