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...Porcupine caribou herd, which migrates to the coastal plain in the summer. Many do not realize, though, that the herd not only travels past 89 dry oil wells drilled by the Canadian government when it travels from Canada to ANWR, but that is also crosses Canada’s Dempster Highway en route. Neither of these factors have shown to hinder the species’ migration or survival...
Late in the 1890s, a young shipping executive named Edmund Dene Morel stands on the shipping docks of Antwerp, Belgium. Amidst the hustle and bustle of ships destined for the Congo, he meticulously records trade statistics for his employer, the shipping firm Elder Dempster. As Morel watches the sailors unload case after case of rubber and ivory from the incoming ships, he suddenly notices that the numbers don't match up. In these brief moments, standing on the dock in Antwerp, Morel finds himself amidst one of the largest slave-operations of this century...
Under present law Charles and Diana would have to remain separated for another year before they could divorce -- but the government could probably massage the laws if it chose. Gossip meister Nigel Dempster reported last month that Prince Charles had promised to marry his paramour, Camilla Parker- Bowles -- which would depend not only on the Prince's being free but also on Camilla's divorcing her Catholic husband. At the same time, Dempster also suggested that Diana was still hoping for a reconciliation with the man who, in one secretly recorded exchange, expressed his wish to be reincarnated...
...true British tabloid style, no detail was spared. Several papers gleefully reported how Dunne and the princess danced until dawn at a wedding after Charles had left. Nigel Dempster, the country's leading gossip columnist, informed readers of the Daily Mail on Sunday that Di spent the weekend with Dunne and other guests at his family's country home while both his parents and Charles were away. When Diana was photographed at a David Bowie concert next to a handsome man, several papers trumpeted that it was Dunne. It was not; Di's companion turned out to be an officer...
...Rubin was tenured at Chicago Harvard was interested in hiring him [in 1981] but we couldn't get our act together in time. Dempster said. "We finally got our act together...