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Harvey Goldman, a professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School (HMS) since 1960, was presented with the Distinguished Pathologist Award by the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology last month, recognizing a lifetime of medical and educational achievement...
...More troubling events are almost certain in the months ahead. The Canadian deployment is the knife edge of an international strategy to shift the management of "stabilization" operations in southern Afghanistan from U.S. forces to the nato-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)--the transition is expected to be completed this summer--and Taliban rebels are already probing for weak spots in coalition defenses. "The insurgents are learning as they go," says Christian Willach, manager of the Afghanistan ngo Safety Organization. "In the coming months everyone is going to have a harder time...
...Behind the political posturing, however, is a growing national anxiety that Canada's military is heading into risky, uncharted territory and talking more brazenly about it. Defense chief Hillier warned last year that Canadian Forces would be involved in killing "scumbags" as they ramped up their participation in the global war on terrorism. David Fraser, the tough-talking new commander of the multinational brigade, pushed the envelope even further when he asserted this month that the Canadian mission in Afghanistan was part of the "evolution" of the nation's military toward the "harder side" of peacemaking. "We're going into...
...issue threatens to polarize Canadians, who are suddenly confronted with the realities of a strange and distant war. "There's more of a compelling interest in Afghanistan than any other mission we've been in over the last 15 years," says David Rudd, executive director of the Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies in Toronto. "We've seen what an insecure Afghanistan can produce in terms of terrorism against North America, but the previous government never explained it to Canadians." According to an Ipsos-Reid poll this month, support for Canada's deployment in Afghanistan has dropped to 54%, down from...
Margaret Atwood was ready to take us on a journey to the future. But technology let her down--for the moment. Atwood, Canadian author of the Booker prizewinning The Blind Assassin, came up with the idea for a telerobotic writing device that permits an author to remotely inscribe books. The first public test of the LongPen, which can transmit a pen stroke written on an electronic tablet to a robotic pen-wielding arm, took place last week. Atwood, at a book fair in London, prepared to sign books across the Atlantic: in New York City and Guelph...