Word: canadas
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...rifles, Heston takes down a skinning knife made from a deer antler. "It was given to me when I was made a blood brother of the Miniconjou Sioux in 1951," he explains. He fingers it lovingly. And then the actor, who traces his Scots ancestors back to 18th century Canada, exclaims with sudden passion, "I'm pissed off when Indians say they're Native Americans! I'm a Native American, for chrisakes...
...were writing about rampaging dinos today, though, Crichton might have to deal with just such a poultry problem. The reason: a team of paleontologists from China, Canada and the U.S. announced last week that they've discovered not one, but two new species of small dinosaur, each of which was clearly covered with feathers. According to their report, which appears in the latest issue of Nature, the specimens not only cement the increasingly popular theory that birds are descended directly from dinos. They also suggest that many kinds of dinosaur, including the vicious velociraptors that slashed their way through Crichton...
...scientists can say for sure is that these are definitely dinosaurs and that they definitely have feathers. And that alone is a big deal, as the paleontologists involved in the discovery are swift to point out. "It is," says Philip Currie, of Canada's Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology and a co-author of the Nature report, "one of the most exciting discoveries of the century, if not the discovery of the century...
...Personal Electro-Sauna was sold via Hispanic television channels throughout the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico by a company going by the names of Body Fitness Inc. and the TV Store Corp. The FDA, which only learned of the problem when a fire department reported of some suspicious apartment blazes, hastened to point out that it had not approved the product...
Slaves to "Baywatch" and KFC all over the planet have a new savior: Canada has declared war on U.S. pop culture. And this is no solo quixotic tilt against the Golden Arches -- Ottawa got the culture ministers of Britain, Brazil, Croatia, Iceland, Mexico and Senegal, among others, on board for a conference on strategies to counter the global dominance of Americana. Needless to say, Washington was not invited, although the official explanation is that the U.S. has no culture minister. But there may be a commercial motive behind Canada's noble quest: "It's driven as much by the entertainment...