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...ship 132 million gal. of pristine lake water every week via specially lined oil tankers to prospective buyers (whom he declines to name) in the Southern U.S. and elsewhere. Canada's provinces prohibit bulk water shipments, on environmental grounds. Still, White's prospects have improved with official hints that Newfoundland's ban might be dropped--and with court challenges arguing that such bans are illegal under terms of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Says Bill Turner, who runs WaterBank.com an enterprise based in Albuquerque, N.M., that locates new water supplies for cities and industries around the world...
...Bush's casual comment, though, lent encouragement to a handful of Canadian entrepreneurs who for years have been promoting schemes to export their country's plentiful water. "It's going to happen for sure," says Gerry White, president of McCurdy Enterprises, a real estate and construction firm in Gander, Newfoundland. "Trying to stop people from selling water is like telling Saudi Arabia not to sell...
...long been known from the Icelandic sagas, but until 1960 there was no proof of Leif's American sojourns. In retrospect, it is astonishing that the evidence took so long to be found. That year Norwegian explorer Helge Ingstad and his wife, archaeologist Anne Stine Ingstad, went to Newfoundland to explore a place identified on an Icelandic map from the 1670s as "Promontorium Winlandiae," near the small fishing village of L'Anse aux Meadows, in the province's northern reaches. They were certain that it marked the location of an ancient Norse settlement...
That's not to say Norse artifacts haven't been discovered south of Newfoundland--but aside from a Norse penny, minted between 1065 and 1080 and found in 1957 at an Indian site near Brooklin, Maine, nearly all of them have turned out to be bogus. The Newport (R.I.) Tower, whose supposed Viking origin was central to Longfellow's epic poem The Skeleton in Armor, was built by an early Governor of Rhode Island. The Kensington Stone, a rune-covered slab unearthed on a Minnesota farm in 1898 that purportedly describes a voyage to Vinland in 1362, is today widely...
While Nancy Bogdanski's three children are still in school this June, she'll leave her husband at home in Durham, Conn., and take off for Vermont with the family's Newfoundland Mickey and Australian shepherd Tucker. "The more you do with a dog," says Bogdanski, "you develop a stronger bond, and you have a deeper appreciation of how intelligent they are." (Telephone...