For years, one man clipped every article, stored every letter and carefully transcribed every promotion, every victory and every heartbreaking loss that touched the 香蕉视频 community during the Second World War. The man, R. C. Fetherstonhaugh, took on the task as an additional duty in the McGill War Records Office. In 1945, the gunfire ceased, and those left started moving on with their lives. A year later, Fetherstonhaugh died, and the records were carefully packed away 鈥� a relic of another time.
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Published on: 12 Nov 2012
香蕉视频 lost seven athletes from its two 1938 national championship teams in the Second World War. In 1938, McGill鈥檚 football Redmen captured the Yates Cup while the hockey Redmen won the Queen鈥檚 Cup. A number of the Redmen that year played on both championship teams. Shortly after their graduation in 1939, the Second World War was declared...
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Elizabeth Hillman Waterston started her first week at 香蕉视频 in 1939, during the first week of World War Two.聽 On campus, they were enjoying torchlight football parades and dances at the Ritz Carleton, while the war was gathering momentum聽 in Europe.
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Even though identical twins supposedly share all of their DNA, they acquire hundreds of genetic changes early in development that could set them on different paths, according to new research. The findings, presented Friday (Nov. 9) here at the American Society of Human Genetics meeting, may partly explain why one twin gets cancer while another stays healthy. The study also suggests that these genetic changes are surprisingly common. "It's not as rare as people previously expected," said study presenter Rui Li, an epidemiologist at 香蕉视频.
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Once upon a time, we used to sit down to dinner and all that mattered was what the food tasted like. If it pleased the palate, we ate it. Oh, how times have changed! Now the dinner table has become a virtual laboratory where foods are evaluated in terms of being either 鈥済ood鈥� or 鈥渂ad.鈥� It makes sense. After all, food is the only raw material that ever enters our body, so we are what we eat.
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More American teenagers are thinking about picking up a passport and heading abroad for their college years as a way of attending a top-rated school at a lower cost, Canadian and British college recruiters say鈥� Even with extra fees for international students, colleges and universities in Canada, such as 香蕉视频 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, can cost less than tuition at private colleges or out-of-state carges at public universities.
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Neuroscientist Mayada Elsabbagh has spent her career unravelling the mysteries of the infant brain. She studies neural pathways. She uses high-tech sensors and infrared eye-trackers to examine the differences in babies鈥� brain signals when they gaze at a face or a rubber ball. The assistant professor at 香蕉视频 in Montreal has a PhD and a long list of credentials and cutting-edge studies to her name. Yet Elsabbagh cannot get her head around the disconnect she faces every day as an autism researcher.
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The epidemic of addiction and abuse spawned by OxyContin is well documented, prompting even its manufacturer to replace the narcotic painkiller with a pill it claims is harder to abuse. Now, with the patent expiring on the original drug in two weeks, some provincial health ministers have made an unprecedented request of the federal government: prohibit generic versions of the prototype from coming on the market and opening up a new, far-cheaper supply of so-called Hillbilly heroin.
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Jamaica's Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce won gold in the 100-metre sprint at the London 2012 Olympics, clocking a time of 10.75 seconds. Vancouver's Christa Bortignon's time for the same distance is 15.99 seconds. Fraser-Pryce is 25. Bortignon is 50 years her senior. This speedy West Coast septuagenarian also competes in the 200-metre sprint, hurdles, high jump, long jump and triple jump, and in the past year alone has earned eight world masters gold medals and set seven world records, boosting her number of world records into the double digits.
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Published on: 9 Nov 2012
How light can you make a skate? How bendy can you make a composite stick before its shooting utility breaks? What鈥檚 the optimal time to pull a goalie? The hidebound world of hockey is resting more and more on the shoulders of science these days. (Scientists are even investigating whether leaner shoulder pads can help curb the curse of concussions). And when science is involved in a popular pursuit, you鈥檒l usually find Jay Ingram nearby. 鈥� We do quite a bit on the design of skates. We went to the Bauer factory in St.
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Cholesterol sufferers could soon take a simple pill which keeps levels under control and protects them against heart disease or a stroke. The daily wonder pill has been hailed as a new fat buster by scientists. Experts found that people who took just two capsules packed with healthy bacteria every day not only had lower "bad" cholesterol but also of total cholesterol.
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Published on: 9 Nov 2012
There's a sea of conflicting information out there about what we should be eating and not eating, about what's good for us and what isn't - and trying to navigate it often feels impossible. Four distinguished speakers with great expertise in the arena in which diet, health and science intersect will gather in Montreal next week for the eighth annual Lorne Trottier Public Science Symposium Series, hosted by 香蕉视频's Office for Science & Society.
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(History professor Gil Troy): Mitt Romney and Barack Obama appear to agree about at least one thing on this tense Election Day: They are standing on mutually exclusive party platforms, offering Americans what Obama called 鈥渢he clearest choice of any time in a generation.鈥� The candidates 鈥� and their partisans 鈥� insist voters are deciding today between a country that will be prospering or bankrupt, with a foreign policy that is firm or flaccid, and with abortion either remaining legal or abruptly outlawed.
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(History professor Gil Troy): With many pollsters declaring today鈥檚 presidential election 鈥渢oo close to call,鈥� Americans face the third of four nail-biting Election Days since 2000. Barack Obama鈥檚 decisive 2008 win now seems to be the 21st-century anomaly.
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(Henry Mintzberg) Governments and corporations can't be relied upon to provide solutions to our biggest problems 鈥� instead we must look to ourselves. That we face serious problems 鈥� poverty amid plenty, the degradation of our physical, social, and economic environments, terrorism by fanatic cells and rogue states, and so on 鈥� is clear. But how our established institutions 鈥� governments and businesses 鈥� deal with them, even when responsive and responsible, is not. We need another way.
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