Word: canadas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...each team engaged in a mini-fracas during the pre-game warmups. Nothing significant amounted from the affair, and the officials separated the two teams peacefully.... It was only fitting that the Canadian anthem was played in addition to the "Star Spangled Banner"--besides being a heartbeat away from Canada, 18 of St. Lawrence's 20 dressed players hail from the country up north...
After completing his studies at Oxford, Pirouz says he plans to return to Canada and work in a diplomatic context, possibly dealing with international organizations, he said...
...Maritimes Selection Committee, a district committee in Eastern Canada, said in a press release that "scholars must be of the highest academic calibre but must also show leadership and distinction in sports or student and community affairs...
...fossil of a puzzling conical creature that appears to be an early sponge. M.I.T.'s Beverly Saylor is sorting through sandstones that contain a menagerie of small, shelly things, some shaped like wine goblets, others like miniature curtain rods. And Guy Narbonne of Queen's University in Ontario, Canada, is trying to make sense of Dickinsonia-like creatures found just beneath the layer of rock where the Cambrian officially begins...
...mark not the invention of new hardware, but rather the elaboration of new software that allowed existing genes to perform new tricks. Unusual-looking arthropods, for example, might be cobbled together through variations of the genetic software that codes for legs. "Arthropods," observes paleoentomologist Jarmila Kukalov-Peck of Canada's Carleton University, "are all legs" - including the "legs" that evolved into jaws, claws and even sex organs...