Word: montreal
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...MONTREAL, JANUARY 2000 140 nations, including Mexico, Australia and Japan, sign the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, which requires an exporting country to obtain permission from an importing country before shipping GM seeds and organisms and to label such shipments with warnings that they "may contain" GM products...
...merged Seagram, based in Montreal, would also shed some assets, bidding adieu to its wine and liquor empire, which features brands like Captain Morgan rum and Chivas Regal Scotch and could fetch anywhere from $5 billion to $10 billion. Bottled spirits are much too ancien regime--and besides, you can't download rum. The likely buyer: Britain's Allied Domecq...
...Montreal Expos general manager Jim Beattie, who had Martinez for four seasons but couldn't pay him as much as Boston, says, "Pedro is also the smartest pitcher in the game. Hitters never know what to expect because he has such control of all his pitches, and he'll throw any of them in any situation." Martinez studies batters from the mound, staring in at them deadeyed. If he sees fear, he comes high and inside. Behind in the count, when most pitchers would throw a fast ball, he'll risk a breaking pitch. Martinez in the clubhouse...
Martinez is a fanatic for self-improvement. He trains rigorously and studies hitters' tendencies diligently. Born and reared in the Dominican Republic, he has made himself fluent in English and even speaks a little French from his years in Montreal. He is a sensitive man who tends a flower garden--a pastime handed down by his mother--and readily accepts his responsibility as a role model. He's single, but he doesn't run with a bar-hopping pack. During the season, he lives west of Boston, drives himself to the ballpark and is unfailingly courteous to fans and free...
EXPECTING. CELINE DION, 30, Canadian pop diva; after receiving fertility treatments two weeks ago; in Montreal...