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SNIP: Government statistics show that the average Russian man lives 58.6 years, compared with 73 years for the average Russian woman. In 1990, life expectancy for men was 63.4 years.

The reasons sound simple: Russian men drink too much, smoke too much, live with too much stress and go to the doctor too rarely. The consequences are anything but simple, however. Russia's erupting men's health crisis could trigger social or political unrest. At the least, it is making it more difficult for the nation to grow stronger, both economically and militarily.

Already, military leaders complain that most new draftees are so unfit, drug-addled or psychologically damaged that only about 10 percent are capable of withstanding boot camp. Russia one day could even become nearly incapable of patrolling its borders or policing vast expanses of rural emptiness -- raising the possibility that the country, which already has huge stockpiles of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, could become a haven for smugglers and terrorists.

OPINION: In my opinion, the ACLU and the UN are always competing for the top spot on my personal MOST ANTI-AMERICAN list. Today, the UN went straight to the top.

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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43174

"U.N. 'explodes' American kids
Broadcasters not showing graphic ad depicting soccer children blown apart"

Posted: March 6, 2005
5:27 p.m. Eastern

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ON THE NET...

http://www.brooklynbrothers.com/movies/un60.mov

http://www.stoplandmines.org/slm/index.html

MAG DATE UTC-TIME LAT LON DEPTH region
y/m/d h:m:s deg deg km

5.3 2005/03/07 03:44:30 81.507 119.671 10.0 EAST OF SEVERNAYA ZEMLYA
5.0 2005/03/06 08:24:47 84.919 99.168 10.0 NORTH OF SEVERNAYA ZEMLYA
6.3 2005/03/06 05:21:44 84.938 99.138 10.0 NORTH OF SEVERNAYA ZEMLYA
5.4 2005/03/06 05:01:15 84.927 98.548 10.0 NORTH OF SEVERNAYA ZEMLYA

FOUR 5.0+ quakes near the top of the world in less than 24 hrs in an active tectonic plate boundary...the strange thing is their size and proximity in time and location.