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...much at the end of January, when he announced a moratorium on disharmony, adding that Brown would be offered a contract for next season and that no trades-requested or not-would be made. Feldman followed his ultimatum by inviting Porter and Brown to breakfast. On the menu: bagels, Nova Scotia salmon and soft soap. Bagel diplomacy seems to have worked, but the rest of the league may live to regret it. The Pistons' combativeness has shifted its focus; Detroit players have been in fistfights with opponents during three straight games...
Archeologists came to accept that Vikings traveled to North America only after material evidence--artifacts such as tools and pottery--and settlement ruins were found in Nova Scotia. But Fell's book includes no hard archeological evidence that has not either been declared a fraud by professional archeologists, established as something other than what Fell says it is, or been considered in the context of a more plausible hypothesis than the one Fell constructs...
About a year ago, Schumacher appeared on public T.V.'s "Nova", demonstrating intermediate technology's answer to the two ton tractor. Consisting of a blade attached to a motor driven winch, 50 yards of cable, and an anchor, the "intermediate plow" works as follows. One farmer walks ahead of the plow and plants the anchor. His partner then starts the plow's lawnmower engine and winches himself, plow and all, right up to the anchor. The first man runs ahead and sets the anchor again...
...Harvard, if this wasn't the easiest game of the year then the Larries didn't have 15 Canadians on their roster, seven from Nova Scotia alone. But they did, and the game was boring, so boring that Crimson goalie Brian Petrovek put in a wake-up call for eight o'clock this morning...
...Tahiti ($150,000). Mountaintop retreats? Van Haefton has 20 of them. Also an Indian burial ground in California, a 1,400-acre canyon in Mexico, an obsolete ICBM base in New York State. As for whole islands, Rare Earth lists 400 for sale, including, Van Haefton says, "one in Nova Scotia for $16,000 and another in the British Virgins for $8 million...