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The Year 2000 Software Problem: Quantifying the Costs and Assessing the Consequences

Doomsday is coming! Doomsday is coming!Sort of.Welcome to the Year 2000 Problem, also known in computer circles as Y2K, also known as the Millennium Bug, also known as the biggest single pain-in-the-butt that computer professionals ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Work Less, Live More: A Woman’s Guide

By Paula Brook

In the 1960s and 70s, young, middle-class North Americans got the message loud and clear: follow your hearts, do whatever you want, drop out, be happy. The children of post-war boom years, they were well ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

When Work Doesn’t Work Anymore: Women, Work and Identity

By Elizabeth Perle McKenna

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy

By Sarah Ban Breathnach

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

Simple Pleasures: Soothing Suggestions & Small Comforts for Living Well Year Round, Robert Taylor

By Susannah Seton and David Greer

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

Frugal Luxuries: Simple Pleasures to Enhance Your Life and Comfort Your Soul

By Tracey McBride

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

★ Straight Talk About Children and Sport: Advice for Parents, Coaches and Teachers

By Janet LeBlanc and Louise Dickson

It’s a fact of life that a youngster’s involvement in sport usually means an accompanying commitment by someone older, namely a parent, teacher, or coach. Kids grow in sport by being taught lessons about fair ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Poetic Designs: An Introduction to Meters, Verse Forms and Figures of Speech

By Stephen Adams

Few things are more daunting to students of language than meter and scansion. The very mention of the words can glaze the eye or quicken the pulse with panic. The impulse of teachers is often ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Gage Canadian Thesaurus

By T.K. Pratt, ed.

In 1852, the publishing house Longman released a reference work whose aim was “to supply, with respect to the English Language, a desideratum hitherto unsupplied in any language, namely, a collection of the words it ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Reference