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...edge, harpooning seals and walruses with tools made of bone and ivory. When a slight warming period hit about 1,000 years ago, the ice receded. Bowhead whales moved in from Alaskan waters, followed by seafaring hunters from the Bering Strait. With their boats, those hunters, the forebears of Canadian Inuit, eventually spread east to Greenland. For reasons still not clear, the Dorset disappeared. As with most environmental changes, the warming of northern Canada set in motion a series of complex, interrelated events that produced winners and losers...
...slush. Once the thaw begins, a number of mechanisms kick in to keep it going. Greenland is a vivid example. Late last year, glaciologist Eric Rignot of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and Pannir Kanagaratnam, a research assistant professor at the University of Kansas, analyzed data from Canadian and European satellites and found that Greenland ice is not just melting but doing so more than twice as fast, with 53 cu. mi. draining away into the sea last year alone, compared with 22 cu. mi. in 1996. A cubic mile of water is about five times the amount...
Navratilova did not get to the top by making excuses. She has won 167 pro singles titles--more than any other player, man or woman--and 175 doubles titles, including one last year, when she paired with Germany's Anna-Lena Groenefeld, 20, to win the Canadian Open. The oldest player on the women's tour, Navratilova plans to play a full doubles schedule this year--and improve on her showing at last year's Grand Slams, in which she reached the doubles semifinals of Wimbledon and the U.S. Open. She says she may even play singles "on the grass...
...Broe, a Denver-based real-estate and railroad magnate. The press-shy Broe, 58, who describes himself as a junk dealer ("I buy troubled stuff and turn it around," he says), has a history of contrarian investments. When he purchased 807 miles of nationally owned railway stock from the Canadian government for $11 million in 1997, he also picked up, for the token sum of roughly $8, the port of Churchill, Manitoba...
...Wiebes didn?t drink or dance; storytelling was the top-billed entertainment. We can almost watch Wiebe grow into an author. He is simultaneously obsessed by with God, sex and fiction?the troika of many great writers. With Of This Earth, he gives us another delightful album of rural Canadian life...