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ARRESTED. Seventeen Canadian residents-12 men ages 19 to 43 and five juveniles-on terrorism charges in Toronto-area raids. Police seized three tons of the explosive fertilizer ammonium nitrate, allegedly intended for targets in southern Ontario...
Nervous kids and obscure words are not the stuff of big-time TV, but this year's Scripps National Spelling Bee was an improbable nail-biter. One of the 13 finalists got reinstated after judges made a spelling error, a Canadian came in second--who knew foreign kids could compete?--and KATHARINE CLOSE, 13, prevailed in her fifth year. The eighth-grader from Spring Lake, N.J., won with ursprache. It means protolanguage. Now try to use it in conversation...
ARRESTED. Seventeen Canadian residents12 men ages 19 to 43 and five juveniles on terrorism charges in Toronto-area raids. Police seized three tons of the explosive fertilizer ammonium nitrate, allegedly intended for targets in southern Ontario...
...threatening.“It wasn’t like undergraduates went around fearful,” Halberstam says. “We didn’t think Harvard would crumble.”A BITTER WINTERAfter he was indicted for contempt of the Senate, Kamin took refuge in Canadian academia for 14 years. By 1968, the Red Scare had cooled down, and Princeton University hired him as chair of its psychology department.But even after Harvard’s book was closed on the McCarthy era, the fallout continues to bother its victims.“I am deeply grateful...
...more widespread now is the lack of equipment," Campbell says. No dragon boats are currently manufactured in the U.S., so most teams have to import them from Germany, although more affordable models from other European and Asian manufacturers are catching up in quality. In the meantime, a Canadian marketing company, Great White North Communications, is filling the void. The Toronto-based firm owns a fleet of 40 boats and charges some $30,000 to provide consulting, technical support and boat hire for dragon-boat festivals...