Word: montreal
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...China Blues (Anchor Books). Jan Wong, the privileged daughter of Chinese-Canadian parents in Montreal, became a true-believing Maoist and decided in 1972 to return to the land of her ancestors. The journey was bumpy and led to disillusionment--and also to this lively and shrewd reminiscence. Wong still loves China, but she can laugh at it and her youthful enthusiasms...
...what would make you unique as you lived your unexceptional life would be how long you got to live it. Nematodes in Hekimi's laboratory at Montreal's McGill University have been known to survive for 50 days. Nematodes outside the lab survive for barely nine. A human being this long-lived would be 420 years...
Garth M. Bray, director of neurology at Montreal General Hospital, has been a personal friend of Martin's since they did their residency together in the 1960s...
Richard A. Murphy, the director of the Montreal Neurological Institute, called his colleague a "superstar administrator...
...strike and set the league on a smooth course into the next century. The trouble was past, and even the bitterest fans could look forward to next season without trepidation. Apparently, no one told the owners. Owners of the Chicago White Sox and Cubs, Florida, Kansas City and Montreal are known to oppose the agreement, with Boston, Cleveland, Houston, Minnesota and Seattle seen as leaning against the deal. Eight votes against will doom the deal. And that means more of the status quo: no revenue sharing and no luxury tax, both measures aimed at restraining salaries and closing...