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December 2005/January 2006

Arno Kopecky reports on Iceland’s move toward geothermal and hydrogen power; Michael Enright learns to skate at sixty; Don Gillmor reflects on the decay of the American mystique; Philip Berger shares correspondence he wrote while working at an AIDS clinic in Lesotho; fiction by Colin McAdam . . .

December 2005/January 2006 / Environment

Non-commercial Farmers are Facing Extinction

December 12, 2005July 1, 2020 - by Julie Traves

With the family farm suffering, some enterprising growers are counting on “agritourism” to bring in revenue

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December 2005/January 2006

A Gentle Revolution

December 12, 2005May 26, 2020 - by Monte Paulsen

All they wanted was to slow the pace of development in their territory. But by the time their 254-day sit-in concluded, the elders had reshaped the Tahltan Nation

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Arts & Culture / December 2005/January 2006

Tea of Tranquility

December 12, 2005May 20, 2020 - by John DeMont

halifax—I’m a coffee drinker of the four-cups-a-day, black-no-sugar variety. But that wasn’t what worried me about the ceramic bowl of thick green tea gently placed before me in a Halifax …

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December 2005/January 2006 / Sports

The Greater Goal

December 12, 2005May 20, 2020 - by Natalie Alcoba

freetown—On a dusty pitch, on the edge of one of the poorest countries in the world, a one-legged man is playing soccer. There is skill here. A trapped ball, a …

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December 2005/January 2006 / World

Silent Takeover

December 12, 2005May 20, 2020 - by Glenn Dixon

lhasa —Tashi leaned over to me and whispered, “Don’t say anything, please. There are hidden microphones here.” We were entering the Potala Palace, the traditional seat of the Dalai Lama, …

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December 2005/January 2006 / World

The Eyes of the Tigers

December 12, 2005July 10, 2017 - by Sarah Dobbs

mulaittivu—Shortly after the tsunami demolished much of the coast, beneath the shade of coconut trees, Regita collects palmyra leaves from the forest floor to stoke the cooking fire. Her face …

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December 2005/January 2006 / Society

The Grizzly Prize

December 12, 2005May 20, 2020 - by Marni Jackson

It’s November, book-prize time.

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December 2005/January 2006

Water to Burn

December 12, 2005May 20, 2020 - by Arno Kopecky

Iceland’s experiment with hydrogen points toward an oil-free world.

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December 2005/January 2006 / Education

Schooling: Repeat After Me

December 12, 2005July 1, 2020 - by Ken Alexander

My first teaching experience was in the late 1980s at Westwood Secondary School, located north of Toronto’s airport in Mississauga. The local population was clearly transient, “just off the plane” …

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December 2005/January 2006

Re: AIDS/Africa

December 12, 2005November 30, 2021 - by Philip Berger

Dispatches from Lesotho, a small, landlocked state struggling with infections

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