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...seems sure to be families. According to the local tabloid, the Province, Vancouver prostitutes are disappointed by the lack of swingers. 'SEXPO' BIG FLOP FOR GIRLS, headlined the paper. Shoppers are not lacking for other wares, however, from hot-weather Guayabera shirts at the Cuban exhibit to cold-weather Eskimo parkas and beautiful hand-knitted sweaters at the various Canadian exhibits. Because of a favorable exchange rate (the Canadian dollar is now worth 73 cents), prices are relatively cheap for Americans and even cheaper for foreigners equipped with superstrong currencies like...
...accumulate so much--2,700 pairs of shoes, 3,000 women--if there is no use for all of them? How much gold is enough? Only a sane person would think to ask. An Eskimo hunter who kills only the game necessary to feed his family would have been horrified by Theodore Roosevelt, who could not have consumed more than one ten-thousandth of the animals he slaughtered. Roosevelt loved hunting the way that Imelda loves shopping. He loved the kick of the gun and the smell of the powder. He loved the antlers. The same sportive hormones...
...children give are cobbled together from fragments of speech, and Coles is honest enough to admit that the process is apt to make an interviewee sound like a miniature version of the author. In his pages, Coles- like Irish children offer much the same insight as Coles-like Eskimo children: there is good and bad in everyone, and that is the way of the world...
...force field. It is at the wall that families of the dead cry and leave flowers and mementos and messages, much as Jews leave notes for God in the cracks of Jerusalem's Western Wall. Around the statue, people talk louder and breathe easier, snap vacation photos unselfconsciously, eat Eskimo Pies and Fritos. But near the wall, a young Boston father tells his rambunctious son, "Hush, Timmy--this is like a church." The visitors' processionals do seem to have a ritual, even liturgical quality. Going slowly down toward the vertex, looking at the names, they chat less and less, then...
...week's end, with 2 concern mounting that the I decaying remains of the " caribou carcasses could pollute the river system, a Canadian cleanup operation was clearing the freezing streams. Antlers were chopped off by Eskimo crew members, and the dead caribou, some weighing as much as 400 Ibs., were tied together in bunches to be airlifted to higher ground. Some carcasses were destined for mass burial, but others will be left for predators to feed on Says Canadian Biologist Alexander Banfield: "This is going to be a happy winter for the wolves...