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Well, maybe the last one is too much of a stretch, but you get my general point. Seriously though, what's next? A Canadian on the basketball team? Oh wait, nevermind. Sorry, Onnie...
...Bruce Greenwood, a little-known Canadian actor, has made something remarkable out of this poisoned plum. His J.F.K., in the Cuban Missile Crisis docudrama Thirteen Days, quickly moves beyond physical and vocal impersonation to find a harried man in extremis--a young man surrounded by "knowledgeable" cold warriors who have little faith in him. His only rudder is a root belief that America ought not to stumble into an annihilating war with the Soviet Union. From this belief, and Greenwood's craft, a hero emerges...
...results are encouraging. The drug works best on people with the least nerve damage; its only apparent side effect is that it exacerbates PMS in some women. PhyloMed hopes to launch a more advanced clinical trial on Canadian MS patients early this year. Meanwhile, a British researcher has just begun testing the drug's effectiveness against adrenomyeloneuropathy, another debilitating central-nervous-system disorder...
...Neil Young, "Silver and Gold" More of the same from the acoustic half of old Neil's brain, which is to say some ineffably sad and beautiful ruminations on aging and the meaning of life - which, the Canadian curmudgeon tells us, is love. If I were you, I'd believe him. Anyone looking for an arresting profile of a guy with a history of significant adversity and zero tolerance for b.s. would be well advised to check out the hourlong documentary on Young that aired this year. In an era when "keeping it real" is the mantra for every studio...
...popular and addictive is OxyContin these days that it has stirred up a blizzard of a crime wave through the towns of Calais and Bangor, say drug counselors and police investigators. People are using bogus prescriptions to obtain the drug, or they are smuggling the pills across the nearby Canadian border. "Three months ago, we had needles show up outside the middle school," says local drug counselor Carrie McDonald...