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Other groups -- most notably Canada's 700,000 aboriginal and metis people -- insisted that they were equally deserving of special status. Said Ethel Blondin, a legislator from the Western Arctic and a Dene Indian: "There are 53 aboriginal languages and cultures we feel are equal to Quebec's -- no greater and no less...
...Solomon Gursky Was Here is far more than family saga. On the journey from rawhide to velvet, the Gurskys participate in nearly every event of global importance, from Arctic exploration to the rescue at Entebbe, from Mao's Long March to Nixon's Watergate. Despite the obvious temptations, Richler never reduces them to mere symbols of Jewish persistence or the Canadian past. Each member of his large and hilarious cast has three dimensions and at least two faces...
...Arctic freeze that blasted across the U.S. last week pushed its chilly talons deep into the national economy. How far, farmers and commodities investors from Florida to Chicago are still trying to figure out. Some of the effects were as obvious as the icicles hanging from Sunbelt citrus fruit; others, like increased demand for energy supplies and bottlenecks in heating- fuel distribution, were harder to gauge. U.S. consumers, however, were fairly certain they could count on higher costs for food and fuel this winter...
...temperature to rise as much as 4.5 degrees C (8 degrees F) within the next 60 years. Another 11.3 million hectares (28 million acres) of tropical forest were destroyed. The ozone hole over Antarctica remained alarmingly large, and scientists reported evidence that a second hole was developing over the Arctic. Whether or not all of the dire predictions come to pass, they underscore a chilling message: the planet is in grave trouble. If nations do not take drastic action, it could one day be unfit as a human habitat...
...delicate pastel-tinged whites, a green so dark it is nearly black. Blossoms fluted or fringed, mottled or striped, on plants 30 ft. tall or pendulous stems dripping with 30 flowers. Dazzling in its diversity, the orchid boasts some 35,000 wild species, found as far north as the Arctic Circle...