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...biggest remaining deposits are in China, for sure," Ishmael says. Now miners are going all out to find it. Nationwide the commercial-exploration budgets for gold and other metals have climbed from $20 million in 2003 to more than $300 million last year, according to Metals Economics Group, a Canadian research firm. China's Geological Survey Bureau says that last year five new gold deposits with reserves estimated at 600 tons were found...
...Bucharest, and stresses that Europeans have suffered casualties. But he acknowledges that he will "keep pushing" all the allies to do more. He needs to. The U.S., its armed forces already stretched like a piano wire, is now being forced to dispatch another 3,200 Marines to Afghanistan. The Canadian government of Stephen Harper took the unusual step of threatening to pull out of Afghanistan if NATO did not produce additional reinforcements for operations in the south of the country, though it has since agreed to extend beyond 2009. To keep pace with increasing demand, Britain is being forced...
...beach volleyball tournaments each summer. During the season, two-player teams accumulate points, compete in a provincial tournament, and if they’re good enough, get a shot at a national title.During the summer of 2006, Kuld and his partner Jonathan Turalinski took first place in the 18U Canadian Beach Volleyball National Championships and earned a tryout for Team Canada last March. At the selection camp, the duo placed third and qualified as the first alternate for the 2007 Federation Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB) 21U Championships held in Milan, Italy this past September.The beach volleyball experience has done wonders...
...Government professor Stephen P. Rosen ’74, who pushed for war on the basis of American interests abroad. Ignatieff began to reevaluate his stance on Iraq soon after the invasion, he said in a phone interview from Toronto, where he now serves as a member of the Canadian parliament. At the same time as his opinion on Iraq was shifting, he was also moving from academia—where he had served as the director of Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy—to politics. He returned to his native country...
...change its strategy moving in to the playoffs. “Just play our game and focus on our team,” junior Sarah Vaillancourt said. “That is what we have done all year.” Vaillancourt, a gold medalist with the 2006 Canadian Olympic hockey team, was recently nominated as a top-three finalist for the Patty Kazmaier Award—an honor that is given to the top women’s college hockey player in the nation each year. In the regular season, Vaillancourt led the conference and ranked fifth...