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Instead, they base the festivities on the harvest. Because autumn comes earlier to Canada, if they waited until the end of November, snow would cover the crops and there wouldn't be much of a reason to party. But it's no revelation to Canadians that Americans don't know when to hold their own holiday. "Canadian Thanksgiving is set on a day that makes sense. We have a better sense of how to do everything," says James Y. Ko '00, a Toronto native...
...ballet is in two acts and portrays the sorrowful love story of a young peasant girl, Giselle. The first act takes place in a rural village where it is harvest season. A frail young Giselle falls in love with a flirtatious Albrecht who is, unknown to her, a count disguising himself as a peasant. Albrecht quickly wins her heart and swears his love for her in a joyful scene which ends with Giselle pulling off the petals of a flower in a game of "He loves me, he loves...
...costumes and scenery for Giselle were stunning. The first act had colorful sets of vineyards ready for harvest, and the reds and oranges of the trees reflecting the season. The richness of color of the costumes matched the scenery from the browns of the peasants to the deep reds of the visiting nobility in their hunting clothes. The real greyhound dogs were quite cute onstage, and definitely added to the overall scene...
...amiable, unfooled expression and a finger-in-the-light-socket aurora of curly brown hair. She helped organize Greenpeace's Fish Bus Tour '98, a 30-city caravan that left Seattle in July and crossed the heartland toward a September finish on Cape Cod. Middle Americans may not harvest the ocean's bounty, but they are hearty eaters of the catch...
Although the technique yielded a relatively meager harvest of up to 300,000 sperm for each attempt (in contrast to 100 million or more in a natural ejaculation), the results were impressive. Of 14 pregnancies involving couples who wanted girls, the researchers report, 13 produced females. Says Fugger: "We're talking about increasing your chances of getting girls five- or sixfold." No formal report has yet been published on selecting a male baby, which, to the surprise of the scientists, was not the choice of most participants. But preliminary results suggest male selection will work 65% of the time...