Arctic Smoke & Mirrors. Gerard Kenney. 1994. Prescott, Ontario: Voyageur Publishing. 144 p, illustrated, soft cover. ISBN 0-921842-40-6. $Can 14.95.

CAPTAIN SCOTT. Ranulph Fiennes. 2003. London: Hodder Stoughton. xiv + 508 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 0-340-82697-5. 20.00

H.G. Wells called the first decade of the twentieth century ‘a period of badly-strained optimism.’ Britain was just emerging from the Boer War. The war — which had gone badly at first — was partly about the rights of non-Boers in the Boer Republics but even more, perhaps, about the diamond fields of the Rand. When the British eventually won, Life magazine summed up international opinion: ‘a sma...

Smoke and Mirrors

News media are in a position to project certain perspectives on domestic violence while marginalizing others, which has implications for public understanding and policy development. This study applies discourse analysis to articles on domestic violence in two U.K. national daily newspapers published in 2001-2002 and 2011-2012 to evaluate evidence of change over a 10-year time span. The research...

Blastomycosis in Ontario, 1994–2003

We describe a case of blastomycosis in an 8-year-old boy with Blastomyces-associated osteomyelitis and possible pulmonary involvement. We also identify 309 cases of blastomycosis in Ontario that were seen during a 10-year period, 57% of which occurred from 2001 to 2003. The overall incidence during the study period was 0.30 cases per 100,000 population. Most patients were from north Ontario (n ...

Classical Statistics: Smoke and Mirrors

Sno-str 1994 94-40

heavy water plus neutral current additive to an activity level of one decay per day per tonne ofD^O (DDT) for the thorium chain and(5(TpDTs for the uranium chain. /O jL^ It is equally important to be able to monitor these activity levels, by some form of ^f radioactive assay. From the point of view of purification the critical isotopes are 2 y year ^Th in the thorium chain (see Fig. 1) and 1600...