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Stella Atkins The Evolving Pattern That is Stella Atkins

By Sharon J. Proctor, Ph.D.
Photography by Brad Stringer

Imagine your doctor having eyes like Superman's. What an advance that would be for medical science.

Superman has x-ray vision, infrared vision, and several other "visions." He can peer inside you and detect the tiniest atomic particles. A physician with that kind of vision would be able to see the first individual cancer cell form in a tissue, or spot the first altered brain cell that might signal a future of multiple sclerosis.

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Honouring Terry Fox

By Christine Hearn
Photography by Lionel Trudel

Keeping alive the dream of the Marathon of Hope

Ever young, ever optimistic, gazing west - the new statue of Terry Fox stands on the grass in the middle of the Academic Quadrangle. Generations of graduating students will pass the statue as they make their way to convocation ceremonies and the start of their new lives.

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All the News that's Fit to Caricature

By Cathrine Wanczycki

Go online to visit the whimsical world of editorial cartoonist Len Norris.

Trevor Lautens described Norris as "a kind of walking Magna Carta - an Englishman, though long Canadian, who knows his rights, respects those of others, values his privacy, and tends his own hedges and garden."

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