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There are two sports in which the Canadians expect nothing less than gold: hockey and curling, and not necessarily in that order. So why is curling a Canadian obsession? "Because we have winter," says Bill Holder, a grain farmer from Kenaston, Sask., who has been curling for 40 years. Though the game began in 16th century Scotland, Holder explains how curling caught on in the prairies of western Canada; essentially, he says, there was nothing else to do. In Canada, the shiny bald dome of Kevin Martin, 43, the Canadian men's curling skip, might as well be this year...
...state university. Draped across an easy chair, he looked exhausted-not as heavy as he has been (he is dieting and working out hard these days) but flushed and a little bleary. He was in the throes of an eight-show week-4,000 people in Regina, Sask.; 1,200 in Indianapolis; 2,000 near Utica, N.Y.; a flight to New York City the night before for a meeting with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon; then back to Buffalo this morning for a matinee for 4,000 and, soon, an evening show for 6,000. I congratulated...
...there a plan to make Wikipedia more reliable?-Kelsie Lenihan, Regina, Sask. Definitely. We're looking at software tools that will allow the community to quarantine edits from people we don't know. No one in the Wikipedia community would write that Sinbad is dead [as happened on March 15] and leave it up there. That would be a bannable offense-no question. But in the current setup, it can slip through the cracks...
...Regina, Sask...
...WRESTLING Lyndsay Belisle, Burnaby, B.C. Daniel Igali, Surrey, B.C. Evan MacDonald, Ottawa Christine Nordhagen, Valhalla Centre, Alta. Guivi Sissaouri, Montreal Tonya Verbeek, Beamsville, Ont. Viola Yanik, Saskatoon, Sask...