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Dressed To Kill
by Rachelle Stien-Wotten
As he is a Graphic Design major at VIU, the last thing you would expect
Stephen Conway to be working on
is a fashion show. But sure enough,
that’s just what he has been working
on for the past year
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Why We Need Anne Coulter
by Megan Radford
On Mar. 23, a group of peaceful
protesters prevented right-wing
American pundit Anne Coulter
from delivering a speech at the
University of Ottawa. In reaction,
the ever-classy Ms. Coulter
condemned the University as a
bush-league school
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Notes From Hanoi
by Jan Beecher
Parenthood: the international glue. Thuy Anh is married, has a degree,
and a three-year-old daughter.
When she gets home from her second
job at night, she makes greeting
cards to sell at a shop she runs
on weekends. Last Fri., I held Thuy
Anh in my arms while she cried
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Deep Fried Sizzling Fuel
by Rachelle Stein-Wotten
Weaning North America
and the world off oil and
gasoline is a monumental
task that will take a lot of
innovation and cooperation.
Some of that innovation
is already here
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The Real Winds Of Change
by Blair Hedley
Imagine, for a moment, an infinite
natural energy source that moves
predictably and with tremendous
strength. Its use causes almost no
ecological impact beyond the initial
construction and placement
of the needed equipment
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Nav-A-Sutra: Working With Your Hands
by Rachel Wilde
Fisting, the practice of inserting
a whole hand into a
woman’s vagina, is emotionally
and physically intense. It’s
all about trust and desire and
intimacy, and a woman has to
want to be fisted in order to
open herself so dramatically
to someone else
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The Clash: The Ancient Genome And The Modern Diet
by Stephanie Allan
As humans, we often believe ourselves
exempt from the forces governing
other organisms, but this is
not true. Since hominids—humans
and our ancestors—emerged five to
seven million years ago
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History Renewed
by Sherry Wota
If you’ve been a long time resident
of Nanaimo, you may remember the
dilapidated buildings at the corner
of Fitzwilliam and Wallace St. in
the Old City Quarter
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Inside Gareth's Mind
by Gareth Boyce
Amidst turbulent and tremulous
times, the Earth itself has decided that
it, too, should join in with the rest of
the chaos in the form of earthquakes.
Scoff all you want, but I see this is as a
real issue and not something that can
be tossed aside as a mere shaking of
the Earth
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