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 SERI SERIAL:  NAX20001019000487
 COUN COUNTRY: RUSSIA
 SUBJ SUBJi    TAKE 2 OF 2--RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW FOR 20 OCT
 REF  REF:     1. CEP20001019900382 MOSCOW RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW IN
 ENGLISH 19 OCT 00 ///SPECIFICALLY FOR TRANSPLANTING.
 SOUR SOURCE:  MOSCOW RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW IN ENGLISH 19 OCT 00
 TEXT TEXT:
 THE INFLUENTIAL DAILY IZVESTIYA IS MORE SCEPTICAL ABOUT THE
 SUBJECT. "THE 20TH CENTURY, BY ALLOWING EXPERIMENTS ON HUMANS AND
 CREATING ANIMAL CHIMERAS, HAS PASSED THE MORAL BOUNDARY BETWEEN THE
 POSSIBLE AND THE UNTHINKABLE," THE PAPER LAMENTS.   "WILL REASON
 HELP US TO PREVENT MANKIND BEING PLUNGED INTO ITS FINAL TRAGEDY,
 WITHOUT HALTING THE ADVANCE OF SCIENCE?"
 IZVESTIYA REPORTS THAT THE RUSSIAN PARLIAMENT TRIED TO DRAFT
 LEGISLATION ON "BIO-ETHICS" TWO YEARS AGO BUT MADE NO PROGRESS.
 WITHOUT A LEGAL FRAMEWORK, "ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN", THE PAPER
 CONTINUES AND GIVES AN EXAMPLE FROM THE SIBERIAN CITY OF
 KRASNOYARSK.
 A LOCAL FORENSIC'SCIENTIST HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH ILLEGALLY
 REMOVING PITUITARY GLANDS FROM CORPSES TO WHICH HE HAD ACCESS BOTH
 PROFESSIONALLY AND VIA AN UNDERTAKING BUSINESS HE RAN ON THE
 SIDE.   THOUGH OVER 1,000 OF THE GLANDS WERE FOUND IN HIS LAB, THE
 SUSPECT HAD DENIED TRADING IN HUMAN PARTS.
 UNDER-AGE DRINKING RIFE IN MOSCOW
 THE POPULAR DAILY MOSKOVSKIY KOMSOMOLETS IS CONCERNED ABOUT
 UNDER-AGE DRINKING AND SMOKING IN MOSCOW.   A CORRESPONDENT FOUND
 THAT 14- AND 15-YEAR-OLDS HERE,ABLE TO BUY BEER AND CIGARETTES
 WITHOUT ANY PROBLEM.   TEENAGERS WERE SENT INTO DOZENS OF SHOPS AND
 HERE NOT ONCE ASKED FOR IDENTITY PAPERS.   "I SHOULD THINK THIS IS
 THE ONLY COUNTRY ON EARTH WITH SUCH A LIBERAL ATTITUDE TO SHOP
 ASSISTANTS SUPPLYING UNDER-AGE CHILDREN WITH ALCOHOL AND NICOTINE,"
 THE PAPER COMPLAINS.
 THE HEALTH MINISTRY REPORTS THAT 80 PER CENT OF BOYS AND 90 PER
 CENT OF GIRLS IN THE 15-18 AGE GROUP REGULARLY DRINK ALCOHOL.
 "NOT MANY OF OUR TEENAGERS REALIZE THAT BEING ABLE TO BUY LIQUOR IN
 A SHOP IS NOT A SIGN OF BECOMING ADULT," MOSKOVSKIY KOMSOLETS SAYS,
 AND ADDS "AND THEY WILL NOT DO SO AS LONG AS ADULTS CONTINUE GIVING
 THEN THE OPPORTUNITY".
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 DATE:JUL 2102
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 THE MASS-CIRCULATION DAILY KOMSOMOLSKAYA PRAVDA HAS BEEN
 INVESTIGATING REPORTS OF CROP CIRCLES IN RUSSIAN WHEAT FIELDS THIS
 SUMMER.   MANY READERS ARE STILL CONVINCED THE PHENOMENA ARE
 EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL BUT KOMSOMOLSKAYA PRAVDA DECIDED TO CONSULT AN
 AGRICULTURAL EXPERT TO FIND OUT IF THEY COULD BE FAKED.
 THE ANSWER WAS THAT THEY COULD, BUT IT WOULD NEED A LOT OF
 PREPARATION AND A LOT OF NITRATE FERTILIZER.    ONCE THE CIRCLE IS
 DRAWN ON THE PLOUGHED EARTH, THE AREA IN THE CIRCLE IS OVER-DOSED
 WITH FERTILIZER ONCE BEFORE SOWING WINTER WHEAT AND AGAIN IN THE
 SPRING.   WHEN THE WHEAT GROWS, THE STALKS INSIDE THE CIRCLE WILL
 BE FLATTENED BY THE SLIGHTEST WIND, AN EXPERT TOLD THE PAPER.
 KOMSOMOLSKAYA PRAVDA HAS FOUND A NEGLECTED FARM AND A WILLING
 FARMER NEAR MOSCOW AND TRIED IT OUT.   THE RESULTS WILL NOT BE
 KNOWN UNTIL THE WHEAT GROWS NEXT SUMMER.
 THIS-REPORT MAY CONTAIN COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL.   COPYING AND
 DISSEMINATION IS PROHIBITED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE COPYRIGHT
 OWNERS.
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