Quoted by the LA Times Moscow Bureau, 59 year old pensioner Anatoly Lipatov observes: "I noticed today that I have never talked so much with my wife as in the last two days. She is always glued to the screen, you know, watching soap operas and shows. Now she is finally talking to me. I don't know if I can cope with it for more than a week."

-- Carlos (riffraff@cybertime.net), August 29, 2000