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SPUSA is a campus offshoot of a national organization that holds conferences promoting dialogue between professional scientists and politicians. The group takes its name from the location of its first conference, held in 1957 in the village of Pugwash, Nova Scotia, Canada, at which 22 eminent scientists gathered to discuss the threat posed by the advent of thermonuclear weapons. The conference in 1995 was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize...
Curling at Harvard actually began one year before Bronowski’s arrival, when then-first-year Emma P. Wendt ’03, “disappointed that there was no opportunity to curl at Harvard,” started the Curling Club. A native of Nova Scotia who had curled for five years prior to coming to college, Wendt’s love for the sport led her to the Canadian Club of Boston, a local curling group. “It reminds me of home and the lingo and culture of the game brings...
...Ounces of gold recovered from the Bank of Nova Scotia vault (current value: $118.5 million...
Here is a tale of two cyclists. One is me, on Day 2 of a bicycle tour of Nova Scotia's south coast last August. My group was riding from our waterside inn at Hubbards Bay to Lunenburg, an 18th century seafaring town. The first day had seemed easy to this Manhattan bicycle commuter, so I elected the extra-mileage option. As the other members, most of them boomers like me, climbed into the support van provided by Freewheeling Adventures Tours, I set off on my Trek hybrid. Five miles later I spotted a monster hill looming ahead. Behind...
...important part of the trade between the two countries, Cellucci said, is commerce in oil, natural gas and other energy sources. He highlighted work done during his days as Mass. Governor to alleviate a home heating oil crisis by opening a direct pipeline to the state from Nova Scotia’s Sable Island...