Word: canadas
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...Travelers of any age are welcome but must be in very good physical shape and willing to spend $25,000, the cost of the trip. Northwest Passage also offers less expensive ways to realize a polar dream, including a $6,000 ski-and-dogsled trek across Ellesmere, Canada's northernmost island. Adventurers travel through an expanse of mountains, fjords and giant icebergs, observing polar bears, musk oxen, caribou and the island's celebrated Arctic wolves. Not for the fainthearted...
...asteroid that's causing the celestial stir is nothing remarkable. Known to astronomers as Eugenia, it measures about 133 miles across and is one of thousands of bits of cosmic flotsam in the great rubble stream between Mars and Jupiter. When an international team of astronomers working at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) on Mauna Kea in Hawaii turned their attention toward Eugenia one evening last fall, however, they spotted something curious. Off on the upper-left corner of the fuzzy-looking image was another smear of light they couldn't identify. "These blobs are often artifacts...
...believe it or not, it stuck around for the enigmatic Len. DJ Moves and Canada's own Drunkness Monster, the group's two turntable maestros, warmed the crowd up with a few selections, including NWA's "Straight Outta Compton." Then the four stars of Len showed up, mikes in hand and adrenaline flowing. The Burger Pimp (a.k.a. Marc Costanzo), D. Rock, Planet Pea and Sharon (complete with backpack) connected with the crowd from the start. When told by a rogue audience member to shut up, the Pimp promptly returned the sentiment and started the next song...
...several points Charest took opportunities to illustrate humorously the differences between Canada and the United States...
Charest pointed to Canada's more centralized political system and more courteous attitudes as major differences between the countries...