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...Abrams and his partner gave the island a deadly (unseen) monster. Fine. A lot of writers might have done that. But with Abrams, there was also a polar bear in the jungle. There was a mad Frenchwoman marooned on the island for 16 years. There was a scary Canadian guy named Ethan living among the crash survivors, although he was not on the plane's manifest. "We were saying from the beginning, 'This is the level of reality we're dealing with,'" says Abrams. "If you're not up for that, you won't like where the show goes...
Cascadia has been relatively quiet ever since--which can be interpreted as good news or bad, given a geological record showing that the time between Cascadian tsunamis ranges from 200 to 1,000 years. Canadian geophysicists are still puzzling over a series of rhythmic tremors they identified a couple of years ago beneath the floor of Puget Sound. They don't know what caused them, but they think the tremors may be associated with rising stress along the fault. A bit of subterranean rustling doesn't mean that a great earthquake is imminent, of course, but the tsunami warning signs...
...trust the photos in the ads) to keep your house safe from the prying eyes and sticky fingers of scantily clad women. Or perhaps your browser has grown three or four additional “search toolbars” and your home page is packed with links to Canadian pharmacies offering inexpensive generic alternatives to Viagra...
...Hotel Rwanda, one heroic figure emerges as an exception to the UN’s heartlessness: Colonel Oliver, the hard-drinking, hard-working Canadian commander of the undermanned international peacekeeping force. The only problem is that Oliver’s character—brilliantly portrayed by Nick Nolte—is in fact a figment of director Terry George’s imagination...
Oliver’s real-life counterpart, Canadian Lt. Gen. Romeo Dallaire, now holds a visiting fellow post at Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. Dallaire’s journey from the Heart of Darkness to the halls of Harvard is worthy of a film in its own right...