Why all the fuss about the A-380?
Byline: Beth D Romulo WHEN international television played up the unveiling of the super jumbo passenger plane, the A-380, with all the attention normally accorded the coronation of a monarch, one wondered, why all the fuss about another big passenger plane? The last time a plane was...

Books received 2004-2005.
A Ackland, Michael. Henry Handel Richardson: A Life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Agnesi, Maria Gaetana, Rebecca Messbarger and Paula Findlen, eds. and trans. The Contest for Knowledge. Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Andrews, Munya. The Seven Sisters of the...

Three French futures: Australia, Antartica and Ailleurs.
Towards the end of 2005, the international spotlight was focused on France, exposing images of burning cars, bombs in the banlieues, curfews and convictions in the land of 'Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite'. (1) The outbreak of three weeks of 'violences urbaines' followed the death by electrocution of two adolescents and...

Michele Capalbo.
"I think I have Verdi DNA," says Michele Capalbo with a laugh. Those who have heard her sing might well agree, since the New York-based Canadian is making a splash as that rarest of birds, a Verdi soprano. Few singers would dare to make a professional debut in the...

Ouvrages recus.
La liste des ouvrages reçus pour recension figure aussi sur notre site (www.ant.ulaval.ca/ anthropologieetsocietes/ouvragesdisponibles.html). Elle est régulièrement mise à jour. AKGÖNÜL Samim, Le Patriarcat grec orthodoxe de Constantinople. De l'isolement à l'internationalisation de 1923 à nos jours. Paris, Éditions Maisonneuve-Larose, 2005, 214 p., illustr., bibliogr. ...

Artists on stage.
Canadians figure prominently in Seattle Opera's 2005-6 season. Baritone Brett Polegato sings Henry Miles in Jake Heggie's The End of the Affair (Oct.), conducted by Yves Abel; tenors Roger Honeywell and Alan Woodrow will assume the roles of Eisenstein and Alfred respectively in a revival of Die Fledermaus (Jan....

Sotise a huit personnaiges (Le Nouveau Monde).
Olga Anna Duhl, ed. Sotise a huit personnaiges (Le Nouveau Monde). Textes Litteraires Francais. Geneva: Librairie Droz S. A., 2005. 341 pp. index. illus. gloss. bibl. [euro]72. ISBN: 2-600-00962-0. The Bibliotheque nationale de France's Gallica site allows one to download in the blink of an...

Use of Latin Mass to be broadened.
Vatican City--Vatican sources have confirmed that Pope Benedict is set to release plans making it easier for Catholics to attend Masses in the traditional Latin rite dating back to the Council of Trent (1545-1563). The Pope is under stood to have signed a universal indult giving priests permission to...

Alcatel Alenia Space to Design Second-Generation Satellites for Globalstar.
InDEFENSE-5 December 2006-Alcatel Alenia Space to Design Second-Generation Satellites for Globalstar(C)2006 JeraOne - http://www.jeraone.com Alcatel Alenia Space has signed a Euro 661 million contract with Globalstar Inc. to provide its second-generation satellite constellation. As prime contractor, Alcatel Alenia Space will design, manufacture and deliver 48...

European composite fuselage takes shape.
The world's first large commercial transport featuring an all-composite fuselage, the Boeing 787, is due to enter service in 2008. Though Airbus has shunned the idea of a fully composite fuselage until now, work on the technology is nonetheless gathering momentum in Europe. Advantages of composite structures include reductions...