Elevators are great buildings. They look cool, but they also have this huge tall space inside. Unfortunately, with changes in agriculture, they aren’t as useful as grain storage facilities as they once were. A lot of people are always talking about alternative uses for them, because it’s such a shame when structurally sound elevators are […]
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Canadian Big Box Booksellers: The Series
20 March 2001 – 11:13 pm
Apparently, I’m not the only one who noticed the television like nature of the present saga of chain-store bookselling in Canada, or at least as it relates to the relationships of its two most prominent executives: Heather Reismen (formerly CEO of Indigo, now CEO and majority owner of Chapters, Inc.) and Larry Stevenson (former CEO […]
What’s Up With Foot-and-Mouth Disease?
19 March 2001 – 12:01 am
I haven’t really been following the FMD issue very closely, and because I don’t own a television I haven’t seen the on location footage either. Due to time constraints I’m still not focusing on this issue, but I have begun to notice some apparent logical disconnects. Adam Radwanski, in a March 16 article in Pundit […]
Nuclear Power in China
I have just finished reading a very interesting article about nuclear power in China from Wired Magazine. To meet the demands of the world’s fastest growing energy market, the Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology (INET) at Beijing’s Tsinghua University has developed a new reactor called the HTR-10. They’ve apparently solved the problems of […]