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'Guess what? Sex is beautiful' *
When Thai massage mogul Chuwit Kamolvisit declared war on the police, no one dreamed he could make a government embarrassed by the flesh trade consider making it legal. CHRIS TENOVE reports from Bangkok. [More]

'The coolest business in the world' *
That's what aviation once was. Now, a conservative industry has clipped its wings. A century after the Wright Brothers, there are still inventors dreaming big about outer-space passenger flights, robot planes, Jetsons-style flying cars. But experts say they might dream forever. Is there really nowhere left to fly? PETER CHENEY reports. [More]

A healthy read *
Health news has never been of more interest -- and it has never been more complex. Each day brings fresh studies and reports that seem to contradict each other at an ever-accelerating pace. [More]

A nightmare without a name *
Fear strikes every parent with a seriously ill child. Imagine how much worse the ordeal is when doctors don't know what's wrong. [More]

A nook on TV for reality nuts *
Some other new digital ventures have already foundered, but the Documentary Channel is going strong, MICHAEL POSNER discovers. [More]

A present-free Christmas? Bah humbug *
Editor's note: One wonders if Leah McLaren has any idea how consistently offensive her comments are...? Ah, well, here she goes again. [More]

A radical approach to aid drug addicts *
SATURDAY SPECIAL: Vancouver gambles on injection clinics to reduce health risks [More]

A Soldier's Diary: 'This may be my last entry . . .' *
It is tiny. The size of a woman's hand. It had to be small, to carry into the trenches. Ragged soldiers were already loaded down with gear... [More]

A story to 'make your blood run cold' *
Pete Flett's last flight began from the tiny French aerodrome at Luxeuil-les-Bain in the early afternoon of April 14, 1917. [More]

A tiny pinprick, a deadly outcome *
Health-care workers launch campaign to prevent needle-stick deaths and injuries. [More]

Accuracy, schmaccuracy: Whose reality is it, anyway? *
Audiences are often outraged by how the documentary, a form that purports to deal with facts, may play fast and loose with the truth, REBECCA CALDWELL writes. [More]

AIDS money could skew Africa's weak economies *
Massive donor spending may exacerbate Mozambique's serious structural deficiencies, STEPHANIE NOLEN reports. [More]

Am I Canadian (2)? *
KEN WIWA says these Canadians are an ambivalent lot: One minute they're peacekeepers, next minute they punch the hell out of each other on the ice rink. [More]

Am I Canadian? *
KAMAL AL-SOLAYLEE says a place where fringe, marginal or esoteric sensibilities come to stand for a whole country can't be that bad. Or can it? [More]

Atkins: Is it good for you? *
The death of a celebrated diet doctor raises the question: How safe is the low-carb, high-protein Atkins diet? Health reporter ANDRE PICARD investigates. [More]

Being Canadian: FIRST MOMENTS *
For some, it's hearing their child speak English. For others, it's selling a painting. Seven recent immigrants describe when they realized they were Canadian [More]

Bodychecking for kids remains a hit and miss proposition *
It's late in the afternoon at Calgary's Centennial Arenas and the loudest guy on the ice is none other than Brian Skrudland, the former National Hockey League player and all-world talker. [More]

Bringing home cash -- and a plague *
In the first of a three-part series, STEPHANIE NOLEN reports the tragedy of AIDS is spreading into impoverished Mozambique. [More]

Cherry slams anti-checking view *
Hockey icon points to tough, clean play in leagues where players learn checking. [More]

Doing Canada justice *
With its landmark decision on same-sex marriage in June, the Ontario Court of Appeal changed the Canadian social landscape. ERIN ANDERSSEN profiles the three bold jurists who have been named The Globe and Mail's Nation Builders of 2003. [More]

Enduring love *
When the fall term begins at Strathcona-Tweedsmuir School next week, seven survivors of February's tragic field trip in the Rockies will return to class. Seven others will not. In emotional interviews with The Globe and Mail, Donna Broshko and Carole Neale -- whose sons died during the outing -- talk to JILL MAHONEY about their struggles to keep their families together in the wake of losses that drive many apart [More]

Filling Edward Said's empty seat at the table *
The controversial scholar, who died this fall, was irreplaceable as a public intellectual, Arab thinkers say. It would take a dozen people to equal his influence. PAUL KNOX finds out who they are. [More]

Good girls do *
School counsellors, researchers and teenagers themselves say that girls as young as 12 and 13 are performing oral sex -- not just the class 'bad girls,' but students from every walk of life. They don't consider it real sex, but an act almost as normal as acne and cafeteria gossip. In today's oversexed consumer culture, reports SARA WILSON, popularity commands a high price. [More]

Hector Fraser Dougall: Tales of derring-do *
In a senseless war that lasted four years and took millions of lives, it was rare for individuals to stand out amid the carnage. But some managed. [More]

Hockey fan still praises the value of a good hit *
Randy Oldfield is watching the hockey action when two skaters, chasing down the puck, crash headlong into the boards. "Oh! Oh!" he shouts. For a moment it seems the 27-year-old who suffered a broken neck in a high-school hockey game on this same ice nearly a decade ago is experiencing a flashback, fearing for the skater who crumpled to his knees, just briefly, after impact. [More]

How do you explain dystonia? *
Having a rare condition with bizarre symptoms can be an isolating experience. Friends can't relate, strangers stare and doctors are bewildered. [More]

Korea still dangerous flashpoint (part three of three) *
Tension increases in world's most heavily militarized zone, writes GEOFFREY YORK [More]

Korea: Chinese vets proudly recall taking on U.S. *
Mao's army pushed back Americans, says GEOFFREY YORK, to force Korean War stalemate [More]

Korea: Split by silence *
The fighting in Korea stopped on July 27, 1953, without a peace treaty. Fifty years later, most citizens of the North and South still talk of reunification as their ultimate goal. But when Toronto writer JIN DAVID KIM returns to piece together how the war affected his family, what he learns makes him doubt the great rift can ever be mended [More]

Korean War horrors linger, 50 years later *
Vets recall the savage human-wave assaults of this bloody conflict, GEOFFREY YORK writes [More]

Korean War: Canada's forgotten veterans *
Dave Crook huddled in his sleeping bag braced against the bitter cold of the Korean winter and thought about the Americans on the other side of the icy road. They, too, were in their sleeping bags. But they were dead — shot in their sleep the night before by a raiding platoon of Chinese soldiers. [More]

Listen up, Canada: Message from Canadian Youth *
Government policy is out of whack with the demands of young Canadians, says social scientist MATTHEW MENDELSOHN. Policymakers better wake up and get with it [More]

Locked in a PR nightmare *
The Akkal case highlights Israel's media problems: While some of its spokesmen contradict one another, others attack the foreign press. The Globe's PAUL ADAMS investigates. [More]

Lord and Lady Cross of Black Harbour: TROUBLE IN XANADU *
As Conrad Black's empire crumbled this week, everyone wondered if he and Lady Black could go on enjoying the lifestyle to which they've become so richly accustomed. What kind of lifestyle? We thought you'd never ask. Today, ALAN FREEMAN and GAYLE MacDONALD tote up His Lordship's pleasures -- and the bills that may soon come due. [More]

Magic moments *
It's not about accuracy, art or acting. A love affair with documentaries, at least for RICK GROEN, is all about a few seconds of honesty. [More]

NWT's bridge to the future (part 1 of 4) *
THE COMING BOOM: DAY ONE OF A 4-PART EXCLUSIVE SERIES ON THE NORTHWEST TERRITORIES [More]

Once a hunter... *
Tales of torture and mass murder have made sex offenders a national concern. Now the fastest-growing segment of the federal prison population, they all seek treatment when they're caught. But what if that treatment is useless? JANE ARMSTRONG talks to a man who admits he can never really be trusted again. [More]

People's paradise lost (Part one of three) *
Joining a Chinese tour group gives Globe correspondent GEOFFREY YORK a rare glimpse of the real North Korea. In the first of three reports, he encounters stunted, starving people who eat grass to get by, drive wood-powered trucks and are afraid to look a stranger in the eye. At least their 'Dear Leader' still has his French cuisine and fine cognac. [More]

Players learn early that size matters *
Even before they hit puberty, children leave behind the innocent game of their childhood to play a new, physical brand of hockey in which skill is only part of the equation. [More]

Protecting medical minorities *
At the memorial of an ALS patient, a doctor's plea for the rights of those with rare afflictions was heard by the politicians in attendance -- and recently answered. [More]

Pyongyang takes the Big Lie to new depths (part two of three) *
Dear Leader's propaganda is all-pervasive in North Korea, GEOFFREY YORK reports [More]

Readers, please scour your attics *
By now, everyone must realize that something powerful and paradoxical has transpired in recent years in the realm of Canadian nationalism. [More]

Rejuvenated NFB plots a new course *
The leadership is determined to slash red tape and get back to doing what the board does best, GAYLE MacDONALD writes. [More]

The cost of a normal life *
Sufferers of rare conditions such as Fabry disease need very expensive drugs, and they must fight provincial wrangling over providing treatment... [More]

The Reel Deal (Lacey) *
It's the year of the documentary. Critics are applauding, Oscar has noticed, and record audiences have made them popular, even profitable. In the first of a week-long series devoted to the hot doc, LIAM LACEY answers the question: Why now? [More]

The soldier who refuses to fight *
Jeremy Hinzman tells MICHAEL VALPY that he enlisted to get an education, not to kill people. But his superiors wouldn't listen and ordered him to pack for Iraq. Instead, he packed up his family and hightailed it north. Now, Canada must decide: Can a U.S. Army deserter be considered a refugee? [More]

The truth is in the lens of the beholder *
Advances in technology are allowing young documentary makers to challenge the staid boundaries of the genre, GUY DIXON writes. [More]

Trans fats almost everywhere, tests find *
New Globe series examines restaurant fare for prevalence of 'silent killer'. [More]

Trans Fats: Everything you need to know *
Everything you need to know about trans fats. Complete coverage from The Globe, recipes to avoid trans fat and much more. [More]

Trans fats: We answer your questions *
Readers respond to Globe Series with requests for more information. [More]

Veterans commemorate Korean war armistice *
Old soldiers from around the world, some in wheelchairs and many wearing combat medals, commemorated the 50th anniversary Sunday of the armistice that ended the Korean War. [More]

War for a country's spirit *
The murder of Shia leaders in Najaf is a bid to divide Iraq, and destabilize the region. The world's only hope is to build an Iraq of respect, justice and inclusion, says Jordan's PRINCE HASSAN. [More]

What do hair and $25-million have in common? *
We asked some notable Canadians from the arts community for their Christmas wish lists. Here's what they wanted. [More]

What do these two things have in common? *
In time for Canada Day, 11 of Canada's design gurus pick the country's iconic objects, from a cookie to a felt bag [More]

Why hesitate to make game safer, official asks *
Emile Therien has spent a lot of time around hockey rinks, first as a competitive player growing up in Aylmer, Que., and later when his son Chris, now a defenceman with the Philadelphia Flyers, climbed the sport's ladder to the very top. [More]

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The Globe and Mail's Christmas card to Canadians, 2003 *
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