FROM READERS.
Why You and Me, But Not Them? I am writing regarding the question you asked in your Note "Formative Moments" (March/April), "What makes people care deeply ... about the long-term health of the planet?" What gave me my consciousness and commitment? I'd like to acknowledge some of...

How the Biotech Fruit Trees Were Stopped.
The Okanagan Valley is an important fruit growing region of British Columbia in Canada. At the Canadian Government's Summerland agricultural research station, scientists have genetically altered fruit trees so that the fruit doesn't turn brown when exposed to oxygen, using a patent controlled by a company called Okanagan Biotechnology....

War and peace.
Thirty years ago, in response to the Vietnam War and the ever-increasing concerns about nuclear threat during the Cold War, ACEI published Children and War, a position paper written for the Association by Norma R. Law, Director of the Child Study Center at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver,...

Globalization unplugged; sovereignty and the Canadian state in the twenty-first century.
0802037992 Globalization unplugged; sovereignty and the Canadian state in the twenty-first century. Urmetzer, Peter. U. of Toronto Pr. 2005 232 pages $26.95 Paperback Studies in comparative political economy and public policy ...

John Wayne: new vision, new directions; Barbados-born John Alleyne takes Vancouver's Ballet British Columbia to thirteen U.S. cities this month.
To get from Vancouver, the headquarters of Ballet British Columbia, to Ottawa, Canada's political capital, and to Toronto, the country's economic center, you have to cross the North American continent and three time zones. Living beside the Pacific on the wrong side of the Rockies, Vancouver citizens are content...

12-nation police meet set here.
Delegates from more than 12 countries, including the Philippines, will attend the 2nd Asia-Pacific Conference on Police Education and Training on Aug. 21-23 in Makati City, with the theme ''Partnership and New Approaches in Police Education and Training.'' Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Alfredo...

Women and the White Man's God: Gender and Race in the Canadian Mission Field. (Book Reviews).
Women and the White Man's God: Gender and Race in the Canadian Mission Field. By Myra Rutherdale. Vancouver: Univ. of British Columbia Press, 2002. Pp. xxx, 194. $85; paperback $29.95. Myra Rutherdale has produced a well-researched and readable book on the role and work of...

Counting on sheep; for decades, wildlife biologists and park rangers at Canyonlands and other Southwest parks have worked to restore desert bighorn. These efforts represent a great success story, although the animals' continued recovery is far from ensured.
Sitting atop a knoll in Canyonlands National Park in southeastern Utah, Bill Sloan glanced down the steep, rocky hillside. There, in a wash, stood a dozen bighorn sheep, gazing up at the human intruder. As Sloan mused on the bighorns and their remote wilderness, the animals quietly disappeared around...

BALLET BRITISH COLUMBIA.
BALLET BRITISH COLUMBIA QUEEN ELIZABETH THEATRE, VANCOUVER, CANADA NOVEMBER 5-7, 1998 There's too much talk in John Alleyne's new The Goldberg, threatening the credibility of this otherwise attractively staged work about the mysteries of the universe. Unlike Jerome Robbins's The Goldberg Variations, a 1971 ballet to the...

Beetles portend crisis in Canada: outbreak counters forest's ability to capture carbon.
THE LARGEST OUTBREAK OF MOUNTAIN pine beetles on record is turning a forest in British Columbia from part of the solution into part of the problem in the fight against greenhouse gases. Climate modelers typically count the great boreal forests that stretch across Canada and Russia as...