Word: canadas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although Team Canada eventually qualified for the world-wide soccer showdown, Catliff suffered a severe injury to his right knee and could not compete for his country...
...least from Harvard's point of view--there was a saving grace. Catliff, originally a member of the Class of '86, took off the spring semester last year to try to get back onto Team Canada in time for the World...
...settings contribute to this consistent sense of spaciousness: farms and small towns in the author's native Canada, places where change comes grudgingly or hardly at all, where the annual opening of a summer home confirms continuity: "Everything was always the same. Here was the boring card game that taught you the names of Canadian wildflowers; here was the Scrabble set with the Y and one of the U's missing." Such environments do not preclude drama or excitement; they lend individual events a scale of history...
Despite their great age, the stumps, logs and leaves are astonishingly well preserved. "This fossil forest is not petrified, turned to stone by minerals entering and replacing the wood cell structure," says Neil McMillan, of the Geological Survey of Canada, who discovered a similar but much smaller site 30 years ago on nearby Ellesmere Island. Instead, shallow burial in the Arctic soil has left the forest in a mummified state. As a result, says Basinger, "you can saw the wood. You can burn it." Indeed, during an expedition to the site in July, he actually brewed...
...dispute focuses on a piece of Alaska that extends 500 miles south along the British Columbia coast. Canadians deny U.S. claims that the strip's boundaries encompass some 300 sq. mi. of rich fishing grounds near British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands. In August, Joe Clark, Canada's Minister of External Affairs, rejected a request from Secretary of State George Shultz to negotiate the issue...