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...resources within 200 nautical miles (230 miles, 370 km) of its coast. The treaty provides for extending that limit up to 350 nautical miles if a country can prove that its continental shelf extends from the coastline beyond the current limit. That explains the rush by Russia, Denmark and Canada to try to use the murky form of the underwater Lomonosov Ridge to expand the territory they control. The ridge, a largely uncharted geological formation named for an 18th century Russian polymath born near the northern coastal city of Arkhangel'sk, runs under the Pole from north of Canada...
...better to lead us out of Iraq, deal with events in Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, respond to the emergence of China (where her novel, Living History, was a best-seller), and realign with our traditional allies (she is the preferred candidate in Britain, Germany, France and Canada...
...Kids actually did stuff then. Those who didn't go to war protested it. (The existence of a military draft helped.) They rebelled against their parents' values, political views and choice of recreational drugs - from martinis to marijuana. They marched for civil rights, vandalized their universities, exiled themselves to Canada. Unlike today's young people, they were idealistic, reckless, suicidal and interesting...
...Fiji-born, Canberra-based historian, says 120,000 Indian Fijians have emigrated since 1987; 313,000 remain. Among the book's most poignant images, and the only ones in color, are snaps sent home by those who've moved on - to big cars in California, snow in Canada. Their forebears saw Fiji as a destination; it's turned out to be only a stopover...
...fact that the vines thrive only on such steep slopes as Burgundy's 2-mile-wide (3 1/2 km), 30-mile-long (50 km) stretch of Côte d'Or (Burgundy and Pinot Noir are synonymous) and in just a few rocky pockets in such places as Australia, Canada, South America and Europe, along with Oregon's Willamette Valley and the coolest spots in California. As for New Zealand's Central Otago Pinots, the pioneers who planted this epic landscape with vines in the 1970s were deemed madmen...