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...rock-strewn hillside make it clear that a thick forest once stood there, trees that grew 150 ft. high and lived 1,000 years. "You can read the rings -- they look modern, like a lush forest area logged fairly recently," says Paleobotanist James Basinger of the University of Saskatchewan. "But then ) you look around, and you're in a desert. The only trees are dwarf willows one and two inches high." The sparse growth surrounding the half square mile of fallen trees is not surprising: the location is Axel Heiberg Island, less than 700 miles from the North Pole...
Lind spent the first half of the Crimson campaign adjusting to college hockey, and missed several games in December due to a knee injury. But she emerged as a key offensive force in the late-season Harvard surge that earned the icewomen a spot in the Ivy Tournament. The Saskatchewan. Ont., native finished the year with 14 goals and 15 assists...
...both White, who boasted an outstanding 2.36 goals-against average coming into the Brown contest, and Saskatchewan native Brita Lind (14-15--29)--who had played only a version of hockey called "ringette," involving sticks without blades used to push a ring around the ice--before coming to Harvard, are freshmen. Both are legitimate contenders for Ivy League Rookie of the Year...
Taube, who was born to a day laborer's family in Neudorf, Saskatchewan, and moved to the U.S. in 1937, celebrated his award at the regular hamburger and beer party he gives for his students (they provided champagne). With characteristic modesty, he insisted that there were "so many deserving people" who might have been given the prize. But colleagues vehemently disagreed, pointing out that he had totally dominated inorganic chemistry with the originality of his insights into chemical reactions, especially those between metals...
...Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You) are situated in backwaters of Munro's native Canada, places from which any author might have fled long ago, literally and literarily. Instead, Munro still lives in Clinton, Ont, and, in her prose, dwells with contagious affection on the Saskatchewan plain and on the poky small towns and industrial cities of western Ontario. Hanratty, for instance, is "such a narrow place, crude without the compensations of the wilderness, cramped without any urban variety or life...