Humans vs Machine
Poker game artificial intelligence milestone
Published: Agence France-Presse July 23, 2007
By Deborah Jones in Vancouver
Vancouver, Canada - Two top poker players will pit their wiles and math ability against a computer on Monday, in a two-
Green land hazard
Seven-meter ocean rise if ice cap melts
Published: Agence France-Presse May 1, 2007
By Deborah Jones in Vancouver
The world’s oceans could rise by as much as seven meters in the far future if Greenland’s ice cap entirely melts
Missing women
The Case of the Serial Killings
The murders of dozens of women put Vancouver in the spotlight as gruesome details emerge in the mass-murder trial of an area pig farmer.
Published: Time.com January 26, 2007 POSTCARD
By Deborah
Garry oaks
Drive to save a gnarly tree and a diverse, endangered ecosystem
Little remains of the Garry oak ecosystem in the Pacific Northwest of North America. Cultivated by natives centuries earlier, nearly eradicated by European immigrants since the mid-1800’s, only now
Canadian Amazon
Economics meets environmentalism in the Great Bear Rainforest
Published: Agence France-Presse, January 21 2007
by Deborah Jones in Vancouver
Canada will spend 30 million Canadian dollars (25.5 million US) to preserve the world's largest coastal temperate
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