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...decades Canadians have been worried that the French-speaking province of Quebec would secede and the country would fall apart. Last week Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and 10 provincial premiers finalized an agreement aimed at keeping the 125-year-old confederation intact. They agreed to constitutional reforms that would provide greater autonomy for Quebec, more political clout for the country's less populous regions and self-government for aboriginal Canadians...
This gloomy and roughly powerful novel is not a politically correct sermon on cultural diversity. There are no heroes of tolerance here, native or otherwise, although Vollmann grudgingly admires Samuel de Champlain, the stodgy soldier who founded Quebec. French lay explorers craved beaver pelts. The priestly black gowns wore hair shirts and spiked girdles in self- mortification, and lusted to harvest souls. They strove to break down native sexual and religious customs, but, as Vollmann tells it, were more tolerant of the Indians' prolonged and joyous ritual torture of captured enemies. Tribes sold their souls (literally) as dearly as possible...
...then cool following either a volcanic eruption or a high-speed impact. The chemical composition of these beads seems to point much more convincingly to an impact, and the theory is supported by the existence of at least two giant impact craters (one in Sweden and one in Quebec), also about 370 million years old. It also strengthens the idea that evolution owes much to giant rocks falling from space...
Romer, who was born in Ithaca, N.Y., came toCambridge when her husband, the paleontologistAlfred S. Romer, joined Harvard's faculty in 1934.She frequently accompanied him on archaeologicaldigs to such place as Texas, Quebec and Argentina...
...Canadian junior and Olympic star qualifies as a franchise player, which is how at least three National Hockey League teams have treated him since he was the No. 1 draft selection in 1991. But Lindros, from Ontario, refused to play for the team that picked him, the league-lagging Quebec Nordiques, triggering a legal brawl that pitted the Philadelphia Flyers against the New York Rangers. An arbitrator ruled Philadelphia the winner, but at a hefty price. The Flyers will have to give Quebec four strong players, including goaltender Ron Hextall, their top draft pick for 1993, and other considerations...