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Dutch elm vaccine tested in Winnipeg

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Colin Rumbolt
With H1N1 causing all the hype in the news these days it’s easy to overlook other vaccination projects — especially when the vaccine is for a tree. While the final impact of H1N1 remains...
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Why you shouldn’t buy lottery tickets or worry about H1N1

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Jen Robinson
As an only child, sharing was something that I did only under the most serious of threats, like the loss of television privileges for a week. In those terrible instances in which I was...
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Dr. Know

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Dr. Know
OK folks, we’re doing the eighth dimension today — the lesson will be much the same as the last few; the words I’ll say will be different and the sentences will carry different meanings,...
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Ask a scientist

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Leif Larsen
Bullets are so 19th-century, and missiles went out of style with skinny ties and leather pants. It’s the 21st century people, and some of us want to know “where is my laser gun?” Bullets, if...
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Exoplanets, wobbles and spectrum analysis, OH my!

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Leif Larsen
Are we alone in the universe? This question has probably been pondered since humans first realized that each of the bright twinkling dots in the nighttime sky was a distant sun, and has driven...
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Anti-spam bill could protect Canadians by end of year

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Emma Godmere CUP Ottawa Bureau Chief
OTTAWA (CUP) — Canadians could very soon enjoy better protection when it comes to unwanted spam filling their email inboxes. Bill C-27, the Electronic Commerce Protection Act, passed through the House of Commons’ standing committee...
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World W.I.S.E. provides students with international opportunities

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Samantha Lockhart
This past week, the World W.I.S.E. Resource Centre held its ninth annual World Opportunities Week (W.O.W.) to promote working, interning, volunteering and studying abroad. The event included over 35 different organizations, thirty different information sessions...