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Even in the U.S., some of the impact has become clear in form of severe droughts in many parts of the South this summer. But as long as we are able to fund billion-dollar irrigation projects and import drinking water from the French Alps and the Canadian Rockies, we do not need to be afraid of immediate impact to our daily lives...
...motion by a disappointing earnings report from Canadian communications firm Nortel, released after the bell Tuesday, the index went vertical at the bell Wednesday and staggered downward until closing time. And the day's big losers - Nortel, JDS Uniphase, Sycamore Networks and Ciena, which all dropped 20 percent or more - had one thing in common. Two words, Ben: Fiber optics...
...upturn at the corners of his mouth. He had a near perfect understanding of the possible uses of celebrity. If a photographer was close, he'd manage a jackknife off the low board, a rose in his buttonhole or a pretty woman on his arm. He knifed through dowdy Canadian politics like the classy skier he was--moving gracefully, radiating freedom, yet somehow making all the gates. He was sardonic, often arrogant, prone to lecture. In parliamentary debate, his abrasiveness drove the opposition into spasms of rage. There's a danger Trudeau will be remembered for his style more than...
...Canadian Justice Department disagrees with this interpretation...
...court hasn't dealt much with biotechnology, and the highest case that got there on patenting life forms had to do with selective breeding, not genetic biotech intervention," said Michelle Swenarchuk, director of international programs at the Canadian Environmental Law Association, which lobbied the government to appeal...