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Sometimes the poison that kills you can save you. At least that's the hope of Canadian researchers about to begin a one-year, $6.5 million clinical trial that will provide pharmaceutical-grade heroin under controlled conditions to nearly 90 addicts (a similar number will be given methadone). The study, which begins in Vancouver this week and then expands to Montreal and Toronto for similar trials, aims to end the most desperate addicts' dependence on prostitution and crime to pay for their habit. "We hypothesize they can stabilize their lives and get onto a better path," says Dr. Martin Schechter...
...Other planned communities, like the Spanish and Canadian ones, are stranded in the countryside with little industry to support them as organic communities. The world is littered with failed cities, where urban planners overlooked residents' needs and incomes. In the Brazilian capital of Brasilia, for instance, the sprawling urban center was designed for easy car transport but now teems with slum dwellers too poor to afford even bicycles. As Shanghai tries to address the needs of its own multiplying population, some are worried that the same mistakes could be replicated in the city's planned satellite towns. "Each of these...
DIED. JOHN VERNON, 72, prolific Canadian-born character actor, best known for his role as the paranoid Dean Wormer, nemesis of John Belushi's Bluto and Bluto's unkempt fraternity brothers in the 1978 John Landis comedy Animal House; in his sleep, at his home in Van Nuys, Calif...
What's in a name? A wave of bad luck, if you're Toyota. A year ago, the company's Canadian division announced plans to call one of its new models the Celica Tsunami. The car's tag line: "The new wave of bold style." The sporty coupe was even offered in a dark color dubbed "thunder cloud." But shortly after a real tsunami devastated Asia, the company realized it could face a storm of bad publicity. Toyota pulled its Tsunami ads and has quietly changed the car's name to the Celica Sport Package...
...INDICATORS Wrong Numbers Canadian telecom equipment maker Nortel Networks finally restated its 2001-03 results - revealing a 41% cut in profits for 2003. Twelve executives, not implicated in the inappropriate accounting, volunteered to repay $8.6 million in bonuses...