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Then came the Nationals. They weren't even born until April 4, and yet they blossomed instantly and improbably into not just contenders but winners. The perennial doormat Montreal Expos, transplanted to the swamps of the Potomac--in first place at the All-Star break. Third best record in the entire major leagues...
...that's the thing. My club? I never heard of these guys until they moved here from Montreal a few months ago. The only Expo I ever heard of was Vladimir Guerrero, who wasn't even an Expo anymore, having walked away like all the great Expo stars who tired of playing on a field with foul lines marked in meters...
...National Laboratory for Drug Detection could test only the remaining, frozen B samples from six years ago. "For EPO, it has happened frequently that the A sample is not confirmed in the B sample," says Christiane Ayotte, a doping expert at the National Institute of Scientific Research in Montreal. Armstrong's 1999 and 2000 victories still stand, as do his five other wins, scored after testing for EPO at the Tour began...
...Union are so worked up over recent plane crashes in Greece and Venezuela, which killed 281 people, that they are considering drafting a blacklist for airlines--mostly in Africa and South America--that fail to meet standards set by such groups as the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a Montreal-based U.N. agency. U.S. officials and industry sources think that an airline blacklist would create unneeded stigmas. Instead, the Federal Aviation Administration monitors air-safety systems by country and restricts flights to the U.S. from 26 nations that fall short of ICAO standards. Says a government source: "There are already...
...Initially, there would be a surge in binge drinking as young adults savored their newfound freedom. But over time, I predict, U.S. college students would settle into the saner approach to alcohol I saw on the one campus I visited where the legal drinking age is 18: Montreal's McGill University, which enrolls about 2,000 American undergraduates a year. Many, when they first arrive, go overboard, exploiting their ability to drink legally. But by midterms, when McGill's demanding academic standards must be met, the vast majority have put drinking into its practical place among their priorities...