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...utilities are not the only businesses using derivatives. In the winter of 1998, Montreal transportation-equipment giant Bombardier offered Midwestern buyers a $1,000 rebate on its Ski-Doo snowmobiles if a set amount of snow didn't fall that season. Bombardier backed the promise with a weather derivative, and with the help of other promotions, saw its Ski-Doo sales in the region jump 38% over the previous year's. "In a market driven 100% by weather, it's a little insurance for us and for the customer," says David Thompson, a Ski-Doo spokesman. This winter...
...Family Viewing, which ultimately deals with Van's oedipal conflict with his father, helped make Egoyan a known commodity in the film world. This visibility was increased through a highly publicized incident at the Montreal Film Festival, in which veteran director Wim Wenders handed first prize to Egoyan after winning for Wings of Desire...
That's all investigators found out before things went wrong again. Slahi, aware he was under surveillance, fled to a Montreal mosque, where the Canadians lost him. U.S. intelligence officers tracked him to Senegal, but before a team could be dispatched to interview him, he was let go. He is being detained in Mauritania, but U.S. officials are worried that they will be denied access...
When a press release doesn't work, other groups take to the streets. In Montreal last week, activists opposed to genetically engineered foods demonstrated outside a global biotech conference. In France last year, similarly inclined groups dumped apples and manure in front of many local McDonald's, protesting their use of genetically engineered beef and grain. And last week a radical group that calls itself the Earth Liberation Front took responsibility for setting fire to a biotech lab at Michigan State University on New Year...
...comes to protesting, less can be more. "If you go too far," he says, "nobody pays attention." On the other hand, it's hard to argue with results. In December the biotech giant Novartis announced that it was washing its hands of agritech. And last week delegates at the Montreal conference agreed to require labeling of all genetically modified goods...