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Space police
A group of skywatchers set their sights on secret space missions—including a U.S. Air Force project An orbiting weapons platform, a spy plane, or a decade-old, billion-dollar money pit. The U.S. Air Force’s X-37B space planes are a cloak-and-dagger project, … Continue reading
Filed under Journalism, Maclean's, Print, Science/Environment, Society
‘Keep out of my fridge’
An Ottawa man is fighting for the right to slaughter and process meat for his friends Four squad cars squealed into Mark Tijssen’s yard with their lights blazing, just after dark on a cold November night last year. Tijssen, who … Continue reading
Filed under Journalism, National, Print, Society
A league of their own
In Seoul, StarCraft is a sport with pro athletes, and big salaries. And now the rules of play are about to change. Heavy metal music booms and strobe lights flash on a sleek, multi-level black stage as the standing-room-only audience … Continue reading
Filed under Entertainment, Journalism, Print, Society
The End: Antonio Montenegrino | 1974 – 2011
He was a lung cancer survivor and hometown hero for pulling a man from a burning building. ‘It was almost like smoke wanted him.’ Antonio Montenegrino was born in late 1922 to a poor peasant family in a small village … Continue reading
Filed under Journalism, Maclean's, Obituary, Print
FanExpo: freaks, nerds and corporate takeover
Are bigger comic cons better? Veterans Stan Lee and Lloyd Kaufman tackle the issue. The cramped and kind-of-smelly halls are packed with blue-haired anime nuts carrying six-foot cardboard swords, gangly Chinese Checkers experts with an encyclopedic knowledge of Star Wars, … Continue reading
Filed under Entertainment, Journalism, Print, Society
