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November 2004

Ivor Shapiro considers a radical proposal for lowering health care costs; Shawn Blore investigates bloody conflict over a rich deposit of diamonds in the Amazon; John Trotter photographs the curiously indistinguishable Republican and Democratic National Conventions; David Hayes looks back at the controversial history of the CRTC…

November 2004 / Sports

Smacking Down the Vote

November 12, 2004May 1, 2020 - by Christopher Flavelle

stamford, connecticut—At July’s Democratic National Convention, among the motley crew of talk-show pundits and political junkies, an unlikely figure could be spotted. A professional wrestler named Chris Nowinski was in …

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Health / November 2004

Life, at What Price?

November 12, 2004May 1, 2020 - by Ivor Shapiro

Canada does not have universal health care, but it could. The secret might lie in the Oregon experiment, a radical and life-promoting solution

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November 2004 / The Walrus True Crime / World

Rough Justice

November 12, 2004May 1, 2020 - by Shawn Blore

Illegal diamonds are the prize. But death in the Amazon rainforest is the price, as Indians, Brazilian miners, and a mysterious third party fight over the richest deposit in South America.

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November 2004 / Society

Studies Show…

November 12, 2004May 1, 2020 - by Ellen Vanstone

. . . that maybe you should, um, eat more chocolate ?

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Arts & Culture / November 2004

Amateurs Like Us

November 12, 2004May 25, 2020 - by Hal Niedzviecki

Those incredible men and women and their sort of doable, not-too-daunting feats

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November 2004 / Politics

Fall Classic

November 12, 2004May 1, 2020 - by Ken Alexander

Facts all come with points of view Facts don’t do what I want them to Facts just twist the truth around—Talking Heads, Crosseyed & Painless

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Arts & Culture / November 2004

Space Invaders

November 12, 2004May 1, 2020 - by Simone Decker

The seduction of small things made large

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Books / November 2004

A Manual’s Labours

November 12, 2004May 1, 2020 - by Don Gillmor

The self-help sex book, like its first readers, has crossed middle age. With Viagra, both get a little lift

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November 2004 / World

Death Takes a Holiday

November 12, 2004May 1, 2020 - by Alisa Roth

beijing — Controlling the use of highly toxic pesticides, Dr. Michael Phillips is saying, is the single most effective measure China could take to improve the mental health of its …

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November 2004 / World

Money for Nothing, a Reno For Free

November 12, 2004May 1, 2020 - by Deborah Campbell

cairo— In Khan al-Khalili bazaar, near the two-hundred-year-old al-Fishawi café where the Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz penned his magnificent sagas of Egyptian life, two tiny girls in ragged party dresses …

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