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...DIED. JOHN G. (JACK) MCCLELLAND, 81, flamboyant Canadian publisher who shepherded the careers of Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Mordecai Richler and many others; in Toronto. Known for his publicity stunts, McClelland once donned a toga with author Sylvia Fraser and rode in a chariot to promote her novel The Emperor's Virgin. "I can usually tell if a manuscript is good," he once said, "but I can't tell...
From July to the beginning of August, she will travel with former Harvard women’s basketball player Laela Sturdy ’00 and her younger sister, Alexis, to Kimpala, Uganda on a goodwill trip with Right to Play, a Canadian-based NGO founded in 1994 by Norwegian speedskater Johann Olav Koss that uses Olympic athletes to provide humanitarian aid and promote sport in developing countries. Members of the organization include NHL great Wayne Gretzky, NBA star Dikembe Mutumbo, and of course Angela Ruggiero...
...kids. Then it’s back to Boston where she hopes to have a flexible job that allows her to continue to play hockey with her team of post-grad U.S. players who don’t want to go up north to play hockey in the Canadian WNHL...
...Canadian native, Tilghman received a degree in chemistry from Queen’s University, later obtaining her Ph.D. in biochemistry from Temple University...
...from engineers for ways to mount a robotic Hubble mission that would extend the telescope's life to 2012. So far, 26 proposals have come in. They include ones for a 25-ft. stick-figure robot from the University of Maryland and a pair of pivoting arms by the Canadian group that developed the shuttles' manipulator arm. The most personable is NASA's Robonaut, which has a torso, arms and a head that are adult size and a leg that plugs in for stability and power. The Robonaut was built as a spacewalk assistant to hand astronauts tools and perform...