1.   It said that Russian scientists appeared to be ahead of their US counterparts in some technologies, including an orbiting nuclear power system and electric propulsion units for rockets.

2.   Radioactive and toxic pollution in the oceans off northern Russia is leading to the deaths of thousands of seals from cancer, according to Russian scientists.

3.   Russian scientists are expressing concern that the Black and Azov seas are facing ecological catastrophe as a result of pollution and oil spills.

4.   A Russian scientist has attempted to mimic that development by starting with wild foxes and breeding the most timid ones.

5.   American security experts feared that even prestigious Russian nuclear scientists and technicians could be lured away to hostile nations as their salaries were cut or delayed for months.

6.   American officials say that many more Russian scientists have revealed such contacts and believe Iran is developing a germ arsenal.

7.   And Russian scientists reported in May that wastes injected at one site penetrated through fractures in a thin limestone layer.

8.   A group of Russian military scientists has agreed to visit American chemical-biological defense centers this summer as part of another exchange program, officials disclosed.

9.   A Russian scientist told a group of conservative policy makers today that U.S. cities, including Las Vegas, are vulnerable to an biological weapons attack.

10.   But among the biggest problems is cultivating the idea among Russian scientists that they can take an idea and run with it in the open market.