Word: canadians
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...states and 2 Canadian provinces experienced power failures...
...pollution from migrating GM seeds. In Iowa in 2001, for example, only 1 percent of the fields were planted with genetically engineered wheat (the infamous StarLink variety, in this case), yet eventually 50 percent of Iowa’s wheat fields were contaminated. North of the border, in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, organic farmers were so affected that they are in the process of filing a class-action lawsuit against Monsanto for making it impossible for them to grow GM-free organic canola on their land. Canadian wheat farmers are also threatening a similar suit...
PARMA HAM A Canadian company has secured rights to the name, forcing Italian exporters to call the meat something else in Canada; Italy wants this changed presto...
...Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. The dismissals are meant to secure the military's loyalty to the democratic government that succeeded Milosevic in 2000. As many as 200 lower officers may be fired as well, as the country seeks to gain NATO membership. Homeward Bound SAUDI ARABIA Five Britons, a Canadian and a Belgian convicted of a series of car bombings in Riyadh, in which one British citizen was killed and four other people injured in 2000, were released from a Saudi prison and deported to the U.K. The men, two of whom had been sentenced to death by beheading, were...
...move comes at the end of a week of bad news for MCI. First came word that the U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan was probing the company's creative routing of calls to minimize access fees it had to pay to local carriers. In the so-called Canadian Gateway scheme, MCI allegedly routed domestic long-distance calls that its customers placed to certain locations in the U.S. - where local carriers charged high access fees - through Canada and back to rival carrier AT&T, which then had to pay the access charges. Then came the announcement of another investigation...