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...days out of a 100- day period. Weight gains ranged from 4 kg to 13 kg (9 lbs. to 29 lbs.). But the difference in the amount gained was much less between twins than between subjects who were not siblings. Concludes Claude Bouchard, a professor of exercise physics at Quebec's Laval University: "It seems genes have something to do with the amount you gain when you are overfed." Some sets of twins transformed the extra calories into mostly fat, while others converted them into lean muscle...
When a gun battle broke out three weeks ago over casino gambling on the vast Mohawk Indian reservation on the New York-Quebec border, journalist Doug George, 35, became part of his own story. He picked up an AR-15 assault-style rifle and took part in an all-night shoot-out against pro-gambling forces. George, editor of two newspapers, the Akwesasne Notes and Indian Times, later wrote a gripping story about the battle, warning, "Unless we have permanent peace here, we're going to resort to terrorist methods...
Last week Quebec police arrested George and charged him with the murder of one of two Mohawks who perished in the fight. The victim: Harold "Junior" Edwards, who reportedly had taken no side in the inter-tribal feud...
...acre St. Regis reservation, as a bitter quarrel over lucrative casino operations has escalated into a virtual civil war. Heavily armed pro- and antigambling factions have battled for control of the main road through the reservation, which straddles the border between upstate New York and Canada's Quebec and Ontario provinces. Last week the fighting reached a new and bloody peak: thousands of shots were exchanged in a three-hour gun battle that left two dead. Hundreds of New York State troopers, who had previously been reluctant to intervene on the largely self-governing reservation, and a force of Canadian...
Some speculated that Grosvenor resisted long, analytical stories, preferring National Geographic's traditional franchise of anthropology, travelogues and scenic montage. Yet it was under his tenure as editor in the '70s that the magazine first tiptoed toward relevance by running stories on Harlem and South Africa and the Quebec separatist movement. More likely, the clash had to do with personalities -- or money. In recent years the society has branched out into book publishing, a TV program, a travel magazine and a research journal. The strain on cash flow triggered cost cutting and staff reductions, leaving Garrett's writers and explorers...