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Russia reigns over its weather

12:50 08/12/2009

Moscow officials are considering cloud seeding to keep snow-removal costs down in the winter. Neighboring towns may get dumped on.

Russian scientists are decades deep into research on bending the weather to their will. They've melted away fog, dissipated the radioactive fallout from Chernobyl and called down rains fierce enough to drown unborn locusts threatening the distant northeastern grasslands.

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