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...certain bitter charm about the thoughtless destruction of the Far North and its native inhabitants. He has a passion for permafrost, Eskimos, whales, seals and wolves. He has lived a chapped and manly life in rural Ontario, on the Keewatin Barren Lands and in balky old boats off Newfoundland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Arms and the Young Man | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

...plans to spend more than $5 billion to produce oil from heavy crude. These projects may be stretched out if some recent finds of conventional petroleum elsewhere prove more financially attractive. Some oilmen believe that two offshore strikes, in the Arctic's Beaufort Sea and along the Newfoundland coast, could prove to be of Middle East proportions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Canada's Western Energy Boom | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...polarization was reflected in the province-by-province tallies. The Liberals held their own in the impoverished prov inces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland. In Quebec, Trudeau easily recaptured his home riding (district) in Montreal, and the Liberals won a smashing victory. A stunning 61.9% of the popular vote and 67 of the province's 75 parliamentary seats fell into Liberal hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: From Trudeau to Plain Joe | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

...atmosphere. But about one-third of the station will rain down in a shower of some 500 fragments along a track up to 6,440 km (4,000 miles) long and 160 km (100 miles) wide. Its location: somewhere in a broad, globe-girdling belt as far north as Newfoundland and as far south as the tip of South America. About 75% of that area is water, and much of the land is sparsely inhabited. Thus the danger is slight; NASA believes that "the probability of injury or damage is less than that from meteorites." Astronomer Brian Marsden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Skylab Will Come Tumbling Down | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

...Maine museum, where the treasure has now been placed under protective plastic, Archaeologist Bruce Bourque was more restrained. Even if the coin is Norwegian, he said, it may have been brought to the site from a Viking settlement in Newfoundland, not by Norsemen but by seagoing Indians. After all, he noted, no other Norse materials have been discovered around Blue Hill. Still, the museum is taking no chances. To stave off a possible stampede of runic treasure hunters who might indeed turn Blue Hill into a facsimile of Trillin's Berryville, Maine officials want the area around the Indian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bye, Columbus | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

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