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• His Great Pumpkin is 1,900 lbs. (and still growing)
... old manufacturing engineer in his day job, calls competitive pumpkin-growing “just middle-aged guys having fun.” The growers even have their own yearly convention called The Great Pumpkin Commonwealth, held each March in Niagara Falls, Ontario.
• RIM CEO: AT&T still testing delayed BlackBerry
The delay of the Bold's U.S. launch has weighed on RIM's stock. The Waterloo, Ontario-based company will now be launching several new phones at once in the coming months, and said last week that expenses from those rollouts would eat into short-term ...
• Simple tricks to lose those last 10 pounds
Interval training can trigger a boost in metabolism so you burn more fat during low- and moderate-intensity activity, and even at rest," says Jason Talanian, PhD, a researcher at the University of Guelph in Ontario and co-author of the study. You can ...
• Fossils tell of mass exodus from sea to land
From fossil tracks found in Ontario, Canada, researchers know that a group of insect-like creatures called arthropods were crawling on sand dunes around this time. But how they migrated from the ocean to the dunes — and when — is still a mystery.
• Shorter radiation works for breast cancer
Timothy Whelan of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, who led the study. Many women with breast cancer that has not spread far can have what is known as a lumpectomy, to take out only the tumor and surrounding tissue and save most of the breast.