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This should be the case again in Calgary, Alberta, when the 15th version of the Winter Games commences this Saturday and runs until February 28. A brief look at the American entries...
When the Olympics begin Saturday in Calgary, Alberta, current Harvard undergraduates Allen Bourbeau and Lane MacDonald, along with Scott Fusco '86, will take the ice for the U.S. Olympic Hockey Team in its opening game against Austria...
Racing with all the fury of an Alberta Clipper breeze, Lind--who hails from Sasketchewan--reached the puck first. Then she dug it out of the corner and waited...
Hawking's ability to perceive complex truths without doodling long equations on paper astounds his colleagues. "He has an ability to visualize four- dimensional geometry that is almost unique," says Werner Israel, a University of Alberta physicist who has collaborated with Hawking in relating mini-black holes to the new cosmic-string theories. Observes Kolb: "It's like Michael Jordan playing basketball. No one can tell Jordan what moves to make. It's intuition. It's feeling. Hawking has a remarkable amount of intuition...
Sometimes these pickers seem more casual than they turn out to be. Take Alberta Freeman, 55, who turns up at a recycling trailer in a New Orleans supermarket parking lot with 30-gal. garbage bags bulging with aluminum cans. Freeman, her daughter, a daughter-in-law and eleven grandchildren collaborate in can picking. Last year the family cleared some $500, which Grandma naturally spent on the grandchildren...