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November 2005

Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away
if your car could go straight upwards."
- Sir Fred Hoyle, British astrophysicist (1915-2001)


A Tribute Paid to Reason

November 2005

A Tribute Paid to Reason

by Chris Tenove
Cross-examining the legacy of the Nuremberg war-crimes tribunals
photographs by Ulrike Myrzik and Manfred Jarisch

Do the Math

Education

Do the Math

Why ‘rithmetic shouldn’t make you cringe

Artful Crimes

Art

Artful Crimes

Curators call it the Lost Museum, a vast fictional place that houses all the artwork ever stolen

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Suburbia’s Last Stand

Urban Affairs

Suburbia’s Last Stand

Ontario wants to force its car-dependent masses into denser neighbourhoods


Behind the Cotton Curtain

Style

Behind the Cotton Curtain

The hazards of cross-cultural bra shopping


Ideological Warfare

Books

Ideological Warfare

Why the United States needs opinionated loudmouths


The Brawling East End

Field Notes

The Brawling East End

A mosque in East London


Hubris in Paradise

Field Notes

Hubris in Paradise

Marshall Islands missile tests


Miss You Already

Fiction

Miss You Already

Mary Ann didn’t think she would want the casket open. But when the funeral director led her in and she saw


African Adventure

Detail

African Adventure

Curator Simon Njami on the enigmatic work of white South African artist Jane Alexander


Never on the Rocks

Sporting Life

Never on the Rocks

An American oenophile’s guide to curling in Canada


Young Patriotic Fervour

Field Notes

Young Patriotic Fervour

Young Patriots of the Ivory Coast


The Wilderness Within

Society

The Wilderness Within

A feral child and the quest to be human: a Fijian odyssey


To Fort Mac and Back

Field Notes

To Fort Mac and Back

Newfoundlanders in Fort Mac


To CBC or Not to CBC

Sightings

To CBC or Not to CBC

In the debate over whether Canada needs a public broadcaster, on the negative side the familiar arguments are


The Second-last Corporate Retreat

Imaginings

The Second-last Corporate Retreat

Thinking inside the box


Warm Fuzzy Justice

Field Notes

Warm Fuzzy Justice

Colorado’s circle of justice


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