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...talented juniors on the men’s hockey team, Kevin Du, a 5’10 forward out of Spruce Grove, Alberta, may well be the most electric on the ice. In this season’s opening win over Dartmouth alone, he accumulated four points...
...find a farmers' market a couple of times a week in every midsize city in the country. Things are sold when they're ripe, generally, and people are allowed to taste and judge for themselves. You learn which is the Red Haven peach and which the Faye Alberta, and you can become very sophisticated about peaches if you pay attention. But even if you don't, you're likely to experience great-tasting food because it is ripe, fresh and in season. The organic movement is said to be growing 300% a year in the U.S., which leads...
Outside our borders, Alberta's tar sands contain 180 billion bbl. recoverable with current technology, and Calgarians are pumping that oil today. A total of several trillion barrels of oil soak the sands of Canada and Venezuela alone--a century's worth at the current global rate of consumption. Then there are methane hydrates. The U.S contains some 30 trillion bbl. worth of those frozen hydrocarbons off the shores of Alaska, the continental coasts and under the Rockies. There's little doubt they too can be extracted economically. If we try, we'll certainly find cheap ways to transform North...
...breezy Midwest and on the Atlantic Coast too. Solar cells can churn out electricity at around 25¢ to 35¢ per kilowatt-hour, falling but still a multiple of the cost of energy from coal-fired power plants. Canada is extracting oil from the tar sands of Alberta for an amazingly efficient price of $15 to $20 per bbl., and the technology exists to convert the U.S.'s huge supply of coal into petroleum. This process, called coal liquefaction, creates a fuel that could power cars and is starting to look economically feasible. Conservation, too, benefits from technology: auto companies...
...percent—of African-American students comprising the Class of 2009, Summers then contrasted this number with the fact that Harvard graduated its first African American woman only one century ago.At a dinner banquet on Saturday night, ABHW presented Bonnie St. John ’86 with the Alberta E. Scott Alumna of the Year award. St. John, who had one leg amputated at a young age, won the silver and bronze medals in downhill skiing at the 1984 Paralympics and was also a Rhodes Scholar. She described how visualizing her own dreams of Olympic glory enabled...