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...Astromomical Telegrams, he runs a network that zips word of the latest astronomical discoveries over telegraph wires to stations around the world. The information-including the time of the citing and its specific celestial location-gets to astronomers within moments, in plenty of time for observers to catch a nova while it is still brightening or view a new found comet before it disappears...
...International Court of Justice reduced that number by one. From The Hague, the World Court's headquarters in The Netherlands, the panel announced the settlement of a 20-year-old case between the U.S. and Canada over the Gulf of Maine, which lies between Massachusetts and Nova Scotia. The decision awards the U.S. about two-thirds of the gulf and Canada the rest. The 30,000-sq.-mi. area includes the Georges Bank, one of the world's richest fishing grounds, which may also contain sizable deposits of oil and natural...
...American adults is troubled at any given time coincides roughly with the conclusions of earlier studies. The Midtown Manhattan study, done in the 1950s, reported that 23% of the population had severe disorders, and up to 80% had some mild level of impairment. The Stirling County study, completed in Nova Scotia in 1952, said that 57% of those interviewed had a disorder during a lifetime and 20% were in need of psychiatric attention at the time of the survey. "The most important thing is not what the overall rate is," says Dr. Darrel Regier, director of the NIMH survey...
...outcome presented the Tories with a problem: their new party leader did not sit in the House of Commons. A Tory M.P. from Nova Scotia obligingly resigned, and Mulroney ran for the seat in a special by-election. Leaving nothing to chance, the rookie candidate moved his family into a three-bedroom log cabin in the contested district. Swapping his pinstripes for plaid sweaters, Mulroney beat his closest opponent by more than 2 to 1. Perhaps Trudeau, vacationing in Greece at the time, sensed what was to come. Remarked the Liberal leader upon hearing of Mulroney's election...
...addition, the World Court at The Hague is expected to rule soon on a longstanding fishing dispute between Nova Scotia and the New England states. The U.S. has laid claim to all of the Georges Bank, off the Massachusetts coast, while the Canadians contend that about half the bank belongs to them. The contested area is rich in scallops and other seafood (the annual harvest totals some $75 million), and may also hold abundant reserves of oil and natural...