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The Body Snatchers
June 3, 2009 Meet the Buddhist emergency workers who outrace ambulances and police in hyper-crowded Bangkok.TGIF, thinks Dai. After a full day working for an international bank, the petite and soft-spoken thirty-two-year-old races to the Lumpini Park gates where friends whisk her away for a night on the town. She will limp home at 5:00 AM, having seen four gruesome car wrecks and one suicide.
Dai is a volunteer for the Por Tek Tung Foundation, Thailand’s largest provider of emergency medical services (EMS). Created by Chinese immigrants in the capital of Bangkok more than one hundred years ago, Por Tek Tung began by offering free funeral services for the city’s poor, and …
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ISSUE 43 Tenth Anniversary: Spring 2012
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Anatomy of an Occupation
What really happened at Occupy Toronto? [full text] -
The Death of Networks
Occupy and the Arab Spring are often glowingly compared to the decentralized, democratic internet. But that very similarity may have doomed these movements from the beginning. [full text] -
Tenth Anniversary Timeline
A decade of Maisonneuve. [full text]
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Face the Music
How can someone who passionately loves music also be a terrible singer? Tim Falconer takes up voice lessons—and discovers the surprising science of tone deafness. -
The Big Job
As a teenager, Deni Y. Béchard went to Vancouver to live with his father, an ex-con with a penchant for telling tall tales. He met a man desperate to forget the past. -
The Homesickness of Astronauts
"She felt a great sadness. She would remember next to nothing of this, even soon." - [see full issue contents]