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...Australia, some 40,000 students - mainly in private schools - have done friends, which has also reached children in New Zealand, South Africa, the U.S. and Europe. Canadian schools are soon to begin a large trial of the program, which will be translated later this year into Chinese and Russian. "Dr. Barrett's work in childhood anxiety can only be described as ground-breaking," says Dr. Deborah Beidel, professor of psychology at the Maryland Center for Anxiety Disorders, a leading specialist facility...
LEONID NEVZLIN, a major shareholder in Yukos, offering to swap his stake in the Russian oil giant in return for the release of former CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky
...things he enjoyed. True to the old man's wishes, his five offspring have been selling off chunks of the Forbes art collection that took a lifetime to gather. The crown jewels went last week: nine rare Faberge eggs and sundry other works in a private sale to Russian oil and aluminum tycoon Viktor Vekselberg for more than $100 million...
Which is a fitting way to put things. When Kip was in eighth grade, he wrote a paper on Faberge, years before the first egg came into the Forbes fold. The eggs are important historical markers for Russians. Czar Alexander III commissioned the Russian jeweler Peter Carl Faberge in 1885 to make an Easter present for his wife. His son Nicholas II continued the tradition for more than 30 years. After the 1917 revolution, the Bolsheviks lost track of the eggs--there were probably 50--and when they reappeared in Western art markets (after being smuggled out of the country...
...eggs are going home, bringing to 19 the number known to be in Russian hands. Eight are unaccounted for, and the rest reside in museums and private collections around the world. The purchaser, Vekselberg, who ranked No. 147 on Forbes magazine's list of the world's wealthiest people last year, has said he will put the eggs on public exhibition. Museums across Russia are vying to be chosen as the home for the collection...