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...hopes to sell fuel-cell-powered cars by 2010. Deere & Co., the maker of farm and construction equipment, is working on a hydrogen-powered forklift. And the Canadian government has pulled Hydrogenics into a $6.1 million project to deliver a fuel-cell-powered transit bus to the streets of Winnipeg, Man., by March 2005. Hydrogenics co-founder Pierre Rivard says fuel cells probably won't go mainstream for another 5 to 15 years, but with GM's backing, the $128 million publicly traded company, which lost $20.6 million last year, can probably afford to wait that long...
...pronounce,” he says, attempting to phonetically spell the Icelandic Heidman (his best attempt: hayth-man). Young John Heidman was given the middle name Harvard by his mother, who was partial to the Harvard training aircraft that the Canadian military flew at noisy intervals over their Winnipeg home. But when he entered broadcast journalism in 1959, he shed the unpronounceable trappings of his Icelandic heritage and went simply by John Harvard...
DIED. GISELE MACKENZIE, 76, Canadian-born singer and 1950s TV star; of colon cancer; in Burbank, Calif. The daughter of a Winnipeg doctor, she was a regular on Your Hit Parade, where she and such co-stars as Snooky Lanson and Dorothy Collins would perform the top seven songs of each week. She was later a regular on The Sid Caesar Show and starred in her own short-lived variety series...
...close encounter has spurred observatories and astronomy clubs to throw "star parties" in Portland, Ore., and Portland, Maine; in Winnipeg, Man.; in Austin, Texas; and in Singapore, Vienna and hundreds of other places around the world. Experienced observers will let the uninitiated peer through telescopes and binoculars for a glimpse of this heavenly show. "My phone hasn't stopped ringing," says Derrick Pitts, chief astronomer at Philadelphia's Franklin Institute science museum and host of a show on the Mars encounter that will be broadcast over many PBS stations this week...
...hugely concerned, and I think quite a few of us on the team are,” Botterill told the Winnipeg Sun earlier in the week. “Playing hockey for your country, representing Canada—it’s hugely important to all of us athletes. But at the same time, in the grand scheme of things, it is just a game of hockey...