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...years, Canada sheltered its national identity behind tariff walls, most of which are gradually being ratchetted down to zero under the trade treaty. One consequence, TIME's panelists agreed, is that the country's economy is rapidly reorienting itself north-south rather than along the historical east-west lines from British Columbia to Newfoundland. Provincial jurisdictions that regulate everything from natural-resource extraction to pollution to stock-market rules are following suit. The outcome is a thickening network of business and government ties between separate parts of Canada and their neighboring U.S. states, which will result in complex transnational regions...
...weather outside was frightful last night. Ice, snow, and a sub-zero windchill would have made a polar bear feel chilly...
Because of these two factors, anywhere from zero to 100 percent of a house may ultimately be filled by people who put it down as their first choice...
...ARGUMENTS FOR building the multibillion-dollar space station Freedom is that it would provide a zero-gravity laboratory to grow bigger and purer protein and silicon crystals. But increasingly there is a question as to whether the crystal-growing techniques, at least for proteins, are all that reliable. Reviewing a decade's worth of such space efforts, scientists writing in Nature found that less than a quarter of the experiments actually worked, and then with only mixed success. Their recommendation: rent time aboard the already orbiting Russian space station...
...fellowship--any fellowship--would be nice, but so far I'm zero-for-four on those. I wouldn't mind jaunting around the world, but that won't happen unless I win the lottery...