In its fourth and final report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), winner (with Mr. Al Gore) of this year's Nobel Peace Prize, concluded that global warming is "unequivocal" and already threatens hundreds of millions of lives and as much as two-thirds of the species on the planet. That warning should be foremost in the minds of world leaders when they gather in Bali, Indonesia, next month to develop a successor to the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change. There can be no more denial and stalling: Immediate action by all nations is required. The IPCC is a United Nations-sponsored...
Yesterday's science fiction is today's cutting-edge technology
Canada Dot Com
Canada Dot Com
PALO ALTO, CALIF. - There's more than meets the eye to today's laser printing technology as decades-old ideas and research breed new methods. An evolving generation of tomorrow's consumer and medical products, displayed in California this week,...
FICTION More satire, please, we're Canadian
Globe and Mail
Globe and Mail
THE BEST LAID PLANS By Terry Fallis iUniverse, 257 pages, $21.95 A few years ago, CBC-TV foolishly cancelled Snakes and Ladders, a political dramedy set on Parliament Hill. The appetite for more Canadian political intrigue, especially with a satiric...
FIRST FICTION Impossible to say
Globe and Mail
Globe and Mail
PARDON OUR MONSTERS By Andrew Hood Véhicule, 182 pages, $17.95 Andrew Hood's Pardon Our Monsters opens on a muggy summer day in 1991, somewhere in small-town Ontario. Joe is 8. He's a pain in the butt and knows it, cultivates it, even when it means a...
FICTION Tightrope-walking in the dark
Globe and Mail
Globe and Mail
STUNT By Claudia Dey Coach House, 245 pages, $19.95 Claudia Dey, playwright and writer for this newspaper's Group Therapy column, is admittedly fascinated with peoples' interior lives. In Stunt, her debut novel, Dey cracks open the intricate interior...
FICTION Lavinia finds Rome, and vice-versa
Globe and Mail
Globe and Mail
LAVINIA By Ursula K. Le Guin Harcourt, 272 pages, $26.95 There was a time when every educated person was expected to know The Aeneid. Virgil's epic relates the odyssey of Aeneas, who flees the destruction of Troy with a handful of his people, in...



