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November 2004

"Art is like medicine - it can heal. Yet I've always been amazed at how many believe in medicine but don't believe in art, without questioning either."
- Damien Hirst


Life, at What Price?

November 2004

Life, at What Price?

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
Photographs by Lynne Cohen Editorial illustrations by Rev. Luke Murphy

Gore Redux

Elections

Gore Redux

Gore Vidal is leaving his Italian villa to fight his biggest battle yet

The Numbers Game

Issues

The Numbers Game

Larger, richer, more powerful than ever: that’s the forecast for the U.S. as its birth rate exceeds that of any other industrialized nation — and nearly doubles that of Canada.

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Amateurs Like Us

Culture

Amateurs Like Us

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


Sounds of Motown

Media

Sounds of Motown

Thirty years ago in Windsor, cklw, one of the greatest rock ‘n’ roll stations ever, lost an angry battle with the newly created CRTC who demanded more Canadian content.


The Brain Trainer

Method

The Brain Trainer

How to focus, focus, focus


Death Takes a Holiday

Field Notes

Death Takes a Holiday

beijing — Controlling the use of highly toxic pesticides, Dr. Michael Phillips is saying, is the single most


Smacking Down the Vote

Field Notes

Smacking Down the Vote

stamford, connecticut—At July’s Democratic National Convention, among the motley crew of talk-show


A Love Affair with Secrecy

Politics

A Love Affair with Secrecy

The Access to Information Act was supposed to get government documents into the hands of Canadians. Instead, it has created a state in which there are often no documents to get.


Space Invaders

Detail

Space Invaders

The seduction of small things made large


The Fruit-Punch Tree

Field Notes

The Fruit-Punch Tree

santiago — Luis Carrasco’s invention is, at first, hard to make out among the shrubs, trees, and rose


Rough Justice

Anthropology

Rough Justice

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.


November 2004

Letters

November 2004

The Calgary School Marci McDonald (


Studies Show...

Reality

Studies Show...

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


A Manual’s Labours

Books

A Manual’s Labours

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


Money for Nothing, a Reno For Free

Field Notes

Money for Nothing, a Reno For Free

cairo— In Khan al-Khalili bazaar, near the two-hundred-year-old al-Fishawi cafĂ© where the Nobel laureate Naguib


Fall Classic

Sightings

Fall Classic

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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