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...Number of Canadian, Australian and U.S. locales among the top 10 cities in which Google users are most likely to search for the word drugs...
...hundred-and-ninety-four years after the U.S. invasion of Canada failed, Harvard is finally recognizing that students from the North Country are not Americans. Starting next fall, Canadian students will be allowed to participate in the Freshmen International Program (FIP). Dean of Freshmen Thomas A. Dingman ’67 approved the change after members of the Harvard Canadian Club complained about the fact that they had been excluded from the program. “We are international, we are from a sovereign nation,” said Lauren P.S. Epstein ’07, prime minister...
...Canadian contingent, by contrast, was populated by the type of starry-eyed wanderers who come to the poorest continent to learn about themselves—and to make a difference along the way. Their demeanor was not new, nor unexpected. But there was something annoying about how they got their jollies from feel-good humanitarianism blended with a touch of delusion and a generous helping of sanctimonious outrage...
...subtle attempt at swaying the voting public? There's a fine line between tongue-in-cheek and just plain pathetic. Final odds: 100-1 Switzerland: six4one If We All Give a Little. Céline Dion won the 1988 Eurovision for the Alpine nation, even though she's French-Canadian, starting a trend of Swiss outsourcing. Last year's Swiss representatives Vanilla Ninja were all from Estonia, and the country's 2006 multinational entry six4one has just one native performer. Luckily, the pop group won't be required to sing Switzerland's national anthem. Final odds: 28-1 Serbia...
...birds seem to be in trouble because of habitat loss. The decline of the rusty blackbird, for example-one of the most rapidly dwindling species in North America, says Butcher-may also be due to global warming, but the immediate cause seems to be a drying up of the Canadian wetlands where it breeds. The same may apply to the Canada warbler. The cerulean warbler, also in decline, is losing habitat not because of global warming but because of another human activity: the destruction of Appalachian mountaintop forests by coal-mining operations...