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  Tuesday, 16 July 2002

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Men gaining ground on women: census
Men are catching up to women in population and life expectancy in Canada, closing a 50-year gap in the "sex ratio," according to census figures released Tuesday. F U L L   S T O R Y
[CBC News]

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Iceland Is Hot for Macworld. Hundreds of Macintosh users are expected to watch Steve Jobs' keynote address from Macworld Expo in New York via satellite in an Iceland movie house. Leander Kahney reports from New York. [Wired News]'Icelandic has six special characters unique to the language and a few special requirements that preclude using International English versions of most software.

Many software companies ignore the language because of Iceland's tiny population (280,000 people; about 100,000 live in Reykjavik). The Mac OS has been localized for Iceland for many years. Mac OS X is still being translated, Magnússon said.'

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Microsoft expands on OS X marketing criticism [The Macintosh News Network]

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iMac, FCP for learning to make movies [The Macintosh News Network]

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Upgrading your memory
Why do we forget? And how can we improve our ability to remember? Science is beginning to unravel the mysteries of recall, SHAFIQ QAADRI writes
By SHAFIQ QAADRI
-- Memories are our soul's private collection, the store of experience and emotion, the defining element of our most personal selves. The modern world rewards a better memory, and many seek to enhance their recall. Others struggle to maintain their current memory, and are terrified of it fading away. Society itself is said to have a collective memory, and psychologists and scientists are researching techniques and medications to turbo-charge recollection. But can memory be improved?  FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts]

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MPEG 4 is go (licence fees capped). Apple dances Quicktime 6 gig [The Register]

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In a Notable Constellation, Canada Embraces Its Star. It's hard to say who the real star is at the Vancouver Art Gallery exhibition of "Carr, O'Keeffe, Kahlo: Places of Their Own." By Hadani Ditmars. [New York Times: Arts]

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Amid Stars and Standards, a Music Director Departs. Seiji Ozawa's final concerts as the Boston Symphony Orchestra's music director, at the Tanglewood Festival, held uneven promise, but mostly proved a delight. By James R. Oestreich. [New York Times: Arts]

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'Dogged' police work nets suspect in murder of Jewish father
Toronto police say they have the prime suspect in custody in connection with the stabbing death of David Rosenzweig. F U L L   S T O R Y
[CBC News]

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Shift in age gap has serious implications: census
Canada is getting older and the age gap between young and old is shifting, according to Statistics Canada census data released Tuesday. F U L L   S T O R Y
[CBC News]'Fewer young people are entering the workplace to replace the older people who are leaving it, a trend that may result in a declining pool of workers and lower tax revenues for the government.'

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Paolo: "Weblogging is not just a way to socialize, it's also a way to do business and to create relationships with people all over the world."  [Scripting News]

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Excellent AP article about integrity in search engines and the US Federal Trade Commission. "Google was the only search engine that appeared to meet all the criteria laid out by regulators."  [Scripting News]

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The death of SmartMedia, the new XD card?. The ever reliable (for leaks) website of the French printed magazine Chasseur d'Images is running a news article about the death of SmartMedia to be replaced by a new card called the XD Picture Card. According to ... [Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)]

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In search of greatness
During more than six decades of photographing the famous, the powerful and the humble, he sought to capture each person's 'inner power'

By GARY MICHAEL DAULT
-- If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men,'' Yousuf Karsh wrote, ''it is vanity. But I mean by ''vanity' only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with vanity alone, of course, a man is nothing.''  FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts]

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The box rocks! But it wasn't always that way
By JOHN DOYLE
-- Here's a curious thing: The marriage between television and rock music, which now looks so strong and convenient for both, got off to a rocky start. If you're in the right age group, think back to the heady days of rock music in the late sixties and through the seventies. Music rarely showed up on TV.  FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts]

Ain't it the truth. I remember very clearly going to Jim's house one night to watch Saturday Night Live because the

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