Word: canada
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Downtown, New York City; Tuesday, around midnight. Skat is interacting on live chat with Appzworld. A twentysomething blond, she rants into a microphone as a Canon XL-1 digital video camera sends streaming footage of her to a few dozen Webcast viewers across the U.S. and Canada. With her free hand, she types responses to comments posted in the IRC (Internet relay chat) Netfiend room...
...wanted to question whether global warming is indeed upon us, last week was not the time to do it. Two weeks before the official beginning of summer, a heat wave baked the eastern third of the U.S. and Canada, driving temperatures high into the 90s and even 100s. At the same time, a flurry of scientific papers was released that seemed to explain all the late-spring suffering. In one study, French researchers reported that heat-trapping greenhouse gases are at their highest levels in 420,000 years. In another, U.S. scientists found that 57 species of butterfly...
William Griffith Wilson grew up in a quarry town in Vermont. When he was 10, his hard-drinking father headed for Canada, and his mother moved to Boston, leaving the sickly child with her parents. As a soldier, and then as a businessman, Wilson drank to alleviate his depressions and to celebrate his Wall Street success. Married in 1918, he and Lois toured the country on a motorcycle and appeared to be a prosperous, promising young couple. By 1933, however, they were living on charity in her parents' house on Clinton Street in Brooklyn, N.Y. Wilson had become an unemployable...
Within the United States and much of Canada, other colleges--propelled by their increasing wealth and the press's microscopic examination of every aspect of university life--offer Harvard meaningful competition. They may encroach more on Harvard's once unchallenged reputation than on the yield from admissions, but Harvard certainly faces constant comparisons with its competitors...
...they are: Dara Horn '99 of Short Hills, N.J. and Eliot House. Brendan M. Schulman, third-year student at Harvard Law School, of Winnipeg, Canada. ("It's not about the green card," Schulman quips.) Horn, a former Crimson executive, was a literature concentrator. Schulman, a former English major, graduated from Yale in 1996. ("I'm marrying the enemy!" Horn says...