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February 2006

Gwynne Dyer fears that bird flu will devastate on the scale of the 1918 flu pandemic; Arno Kopecky looks at the possibility of genetic doping in the Olympics; Pedro Sánchez and Gord Westmacott ponder the future of leftist South America; Alex Mazer examines the thoughts of Michael Ignatieff; fiction by Adam Gilders…

February 2006 / World

The Found City

February 12, 2006May 21, 2020 - by Brahm Rosensweig

Kenya’s cosmopolitan city of refugees

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February 2006 / World

A City Without Men

February 12, 2006May 26, 2020 - by Adnan Khan

Fearing death or imprisonment, Iraqi men flee their cities leaving wives and daughters to fend for themselves

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February 2006 / Justice / The Walrus True Crime

The Wrong Man in the Right Place

February 12, 2006May 26, 2020 - by Julian Sher

Vancouver homicide cops confront wrongful conviction

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Environment / February 2006

Corals Gone Wild

February 12, 2006May 21, 2020 - by Alanna Mitchell

Coral sex in Panama

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Illustration by Monika Aichele
February 2006 / Sports

Dream Genes

February 12, 2006May 21, 2020 - by Arno Kopecky

If you can’t beat ’em at the Olympics, try manipulating your DNA

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February 2006 / Society

Two More Solitudes

February 12, 2006May 21, 2020 - by Ken Alexander

No man is an island, but a community can become marooned on one. Following a spate of blackon- black murders, culminating in a teenager being gunned down on the steps …

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February 2006 / World

Behind the Tent

February 12, 2006May 21, 2020 - by Naomi Buck

Dancing tents from Iran

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February 2006 / Politics

The Separatist Curve Ball

February 12, 2006July 16, 2019 - by Joan Bryden

How the Bloc Québécois cornered federalism

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February 2006 / Media

The Anchors of CNN

February 12, 2006May 21, 2020 - by Barbara Nichol

Who would they be in real life?

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February 2006 / Fiction

Barnyard Desires

February 12, 2006May 26, 2020 - by Adam Gilders

Leona was awoken by a scratching noise from her ceiling. Furtive rasping claws. Scratch, scratch scratch. She sat up in bed and fixed her eyes on the ceiling, straining to …

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