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Staff research at associate at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, offers a view on the study of solar eclipses
David Spurgeon writes from Ottawa on the impact of a symposium held in August to consider how Canada could best contribute in the future to the alleviation of world food shortages