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  • Macleans

    New Leukemia Treatment

    Given the excitement of a family vacation in California, four-year-old Ashford Slowley's fatigue and loss of appetite did not seem unusual. "The kids were playing hard," says his mother, Tina Slowley. "They don't eat much when they're in the hot sun.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on February 26, 1996

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  • Macleans

    New, Natural Common Cold "Cures"

    Gloria Gribling swears it is the best way to beat a cold. At the first hint of a sneeze, a sniffle or a scratchy throat, the 48-year-old Vancouver art-school employee pops a zinc lozenge and lets the tangy, metallic-tasting mineral dissolve slowly in her mouth.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on February 24, 1997

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    Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies

    The ROYAL COMMISSION on New Reproductive Technologies was established in October 1989 by Brian Mulroney's Conservative government in response to demands for an examination of the use of reproductive technologies.

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  • Macleans

    New Treatment for Diabetes

    This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on June 10, 2002. Partner content is not updated. At the age of 14, Robert Teskey was diagnosed with type 1 DIABETES (better known as juvenile diabetes), a condition which normally comes with an automatic life sentence of insulin therapy.

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  • Macleans

    New Trends in Home Entertainment

    BRENT LESSARD, a 19-year-old with an angelic face and dreadlocks dyed jet black, recently made a copy of the 50th anniversary edition of The Wizard of Oz - for himself. No, he's not regressing.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on May 5, 2003

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  • Macleans

    New Web Browser Challenges Microsoft

    A DECADE AGO, Netscape Navigator became the world's de facto INTERNET browser almost overnight. It was a phenomenal success - that is, until Microsoft Corp.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on February 28, 2005

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  • Article

    Newbridge Networks Corporation

    Newbridge Networks is a world leader in the design and manufacture of digital networking equipment. Since the founding of Newbridge in 1986 by Terence H.

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    Newfie Bullet

    An affectionate but ironic name informally applied to the transinsular Newfoundland passenger railway in its latter days.

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  • Macleans

    Nobel Peace Prize 1997

    Jody Williams celebrated her 47th birthday last Thursday at her private retreat in Vermont’s Green Mountains, a "beautiful, modern home with lots of glass," as she describes it. There is a beaver pond out back and wild turkeys in the surrounding woods.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on October 20, 1997

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    Nobel Prizes and Canada

    The Nobel Prizes are awarded annually for achievements that have significantly benefitted humankind. The prizes are among the highest international honours and are awarded in six categories: physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, peace, and economic sciences. They are administered by the Nobel Foundation and awarded by institutions in Sweden and Norway. Eighteen Canadians have won Nobel Prizes, excluding Canadian-born individuals who gave up their citizenship and members of organizations that have won the peace prize. (See also Canadian Nobel Laureates.)

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  • Macleans

    Nobel Prizes

    This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on October 26, 1998. Partner content is not updated. Relations between the two men are cool, bordering on icy, as could be expected between leaders who represent opposite sides in the religious and political struggle that has bathed Northern Ireland in blood for three decades.

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  • Article

    Noise

    Noise denotes unwanted or unmusical sounds, especially those that are random or irregular. The attitude that noise is not conducive to the well-being of sentient creatures is as old as history.

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    Nonmedical Drug Use

    Drug Use, NonmedicalAlthough drug use generally refers to the nonmedical use of psychotropic (mind-affecting) drugs - eg, cannabis (marijuana and hashish) - opiate narcotics (eg, heroin and morphine), amphetamines, cocaine, hallucinogens (eg, LSD, psilocybin and mescaline) and volatile solvents (including certain fast-drying glues, fingernail-polish removers and petroleum products), most drug-related problems in Canada derive from use of alcohol and tobacco. While some of these drugs have legitimate medical uses, their social use is generally considered...

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    Noorduyn Norseman

    The first bush plane of all-Canadian origin, Noorduyn Norseman was designed after consultations with bush pilots and built in Montréal by R.B.C. (Bob) Noorduyn. It was a rugged, single-engined craft, with the large

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    Noronic

    Noronic was a Great Lakes steamer of the Canada Steamship Lines Ltd, built at Port Arthur, Ontario, in 1913. It was consumed by fire in Toronto at dockside on 17 September 1949. There was a tragic delay in summoning the fire department and 119 people died.

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