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To: goldsnow who wrote (14283)	9/3/1999 6:11:00 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 17770

I'm on the alert! However, the paper below is rather gloomy about the Russians' material ability to cut their losses.... Is Russia = Congo + Vodka ? policyreview.com Excerpt: After decades of stagnation, and now recent, unmerciful retrogression, Russia's health profile no longer remotely resembles that of a developed country; in fact, it is worse in a variety of respects than those of many Third World countries. In 1997 --the most recent year for which such estimates are available-- overall life expectancy in Russia was thought to be somewhat under 67 years. That would have been lower than Russia's life expectancy four decades before --but it would also be distinctly lower than the life expectancies today of such spots as Mauritius, Ecuador, or Azerbaijan. Mexico, for all its travails and troubles in the 1990s, now enjoys a life expectancy estimated to be over six years higher than Russia's. [...] To end in a lighter tone: Do you know Muscovites' latest screamer --what's the difference between Russia and Congo (formerly Zaire)? You give up?? Here you're: In Congo, they have only regular African elephants (Loxodonta Africana species) whereas Russia's dominating species is the White Elephant (Elephas Ponzii). BTW, only the former is an endangered species.... Gus.