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December 2008

Charles Montgomery explains how lavish hotels and high-security fortifications are making Kabul more dangerous; Alexander Gelfand ponders how personal genetic testing for drug therapy benefits Big Pharma; John Vaillant recalls an 1884 lynching committed on Canadian soil; fiction by Peter Behrens…

December 2008 / World

Twilight in Tacheles

September 12, 2012July 26, 2016 - by Chris Turner

A legendary East Berlin art collective, fifteen years on

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December 2008 / Poetry

Regret

December 12, 2008February 10, 2018 - by Troy Jollimore

I’d like to take back my not saying to you those things that, out of politeness, or caution, I kept to myself. And, if I may though this might perhaps …

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December 2008 / Health

Selective Testing

December 12, 2008June 15, 2020 - by Alexander Gelfand

Does Big Pharma stand to gain the most from new genetic tests for drug therapy?

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December 2008 / Feature

Eels on Wheels

December 12, 2008July 25, 2019 - by David Lees

The curious conservation of the Great Lakes eel

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December 2008 / Fiction

Feel This

December 12, 2008October 14, 2019 - by Peter Behrens

The doorbell rang as we were sitting down. A maid went to answer, and a few moments later my brother walked into the dining room. He had been overseas three …

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Books / December 2008

Review: Entitlement

December 12, 2008July 5, 2017 - by Charles Foran

Brideshead Revisited and the Flyte to Canada

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Books / December 2008

Review: Distantly Related To Freud

December 12, 2008August 28, 2017 - by Marianne Ackerman

“Sex was power, as long as you kept your head.”

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Books / December 2008

Review: The Steve Machine

December 12, 2008July 5, 2017 - by Stuart Woods

A novel that toys with our notion of reality.

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December 2008 / World

Tiger Balm

December 12, 2008July 4, 2017 - by Larry Frolick

Nirvana amid the jungle cats of Bangkok

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December 2008 / World

Word Is Born

December 12, 2008July 4, 2017 - by Arno Kopecky

A new tongue emerges from Kenya’s cabdrivers

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