Word: canadas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Chen '96, Brett R. Conner '96 and Emmeline F. Li '96 joined 22 other volunteers from the U.S., Canada and France for an eight-week program designed to provide a cross-cultural perspective and help Chinese students gain a better knowledge of English...
...more practice at docking their craft and allow them to try out space construction techniques. Then, in 1997, they are scheduled to begin putting together an all-new space station, with modules supplied and assembled by both nations. Starting in 1998, they will bring in the European Space Agency, Canada and Japan to expand the facility into a permanently staffed station that will operate through...
...hand, many scientists take issue with A.A. dogma. Says physician Stanton Peele, an addiction expert: ''Every major tenet of the disease view of addiction is refuted both by scientific research and by everyday observation.'' Treatment programs in Canada, Britain, Germany and Australia have long distinguished between problem drinkers, who consume too much alcohol but can cut back if they get help, and hard-core alcoholics, whose only hope is a lifetime of sobriety. Even the most avid proponents of abstinence admit that some former alcoholics have successfully navigated the road to moderate drinking...
...numinous respect for sources and traditions." Pianist Jones and bassist Haden have drawn on some history and autobiography and a little private meditation, set them deep in the spirit, then drawn them out into a jazz pilgrimage through Black spirituals, white hymns and folk tunes from Ireland and French Canada. "This isn't just great music," says Cocks. "It's healing music...
...position to be a censor--that responsibility should be at the parents' level, or whoever controls the terminal," says Gordon Ross, chief executive officer of Canada's Vancouver-based Net Nanny, a program that allows a parent or guardian to monitor everything passing through the computer. Net Nanny users, for example, can enter such phrases as "What's your name?" and "What's your phone number?" in a phrase book. When the software detects one of the targeted phrases printing across the terminal--say, in a chat room of a commercial online service--Net Nanny harrumphs and pulls the plug...