June 07, 2005

Book Picks - Health

by Linda DeLaine

A Russian Herbal: Traditional Remedies for Health & Healing
Igor Vilevich
Paperback, 240pp.
Inner Traditions International, Limited
February 1997

The Master of Lucid Dreams
In the Heart of Asia a Russian Psychiatrist Learns how to Heal the Spirits of Trauma
Olga Kharitidi
Hardcover, 192pp.
Hampton Roads Publishing Co., Inc.
October 2001

Improving Women's Health Services in the Russian Federation: Results of a Pilot Project
Patricia Stephenson
Paperback, 50pp.
World Bank, The,
March 1998

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On This Day

Notable events on this day in Russian history

1990: Presidents Bush and Gorbachev wound up a superpower summit in the United States with agreement on a number of arms control and trade issues.

1980: An alarm indicating a massive Soviet missile attack was registered by a communications computer connected to NORAD. 100 nuclear-armed B-52s were put on alert for imminent takeoff. Although the mistake was detected, the same computer produced an identical warning three days later on June 6, 1980. The problem was later traced to the failure of an integrated circuit in a computer, which was producing random digits representing the number of missiles detected.

1973: Cosmonaut Vladimir Nikolaevich Benderov dies at age of 48 -- Crash in Tu-144.

1973: Soviet Union's answer to Concorde, the TU-144, made its first appearance in the West at the Paris Air Show.

1876: Nikolai Burdenko, founder of neuro-surgery, born

1326: Treaty of Novgorod delineates borders between Russia and Norway.

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