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<p>Facebook has reached one billion users. Last month the site managed to claim one in seven people on the planet are on the social networking site. It took Christianity 2,012 years to get 2.2 billion followers. Facebook got a billion in eight years. Something so huge does not simply exist without inflicting drastic changes to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Deirdre McCloskey is a woman of many attributes. She is a professor at the University of Illinois in Chicago, an economist and a published author of 16 books. This is all part of her identity. These traits are things you can’t tell simply by looking at her. You also can’t see that Deirdre used to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>He describes it as “a creepy robotic voice.” Luckily he’s trained his ear to listen to  Kerzweil, software designed to read scanned texts. Making up for his lost time, he’s challenged himself each year to read a little faster. Now he can read up to 175 words a minute. Writing his papers, Kalib Demerchant enlists [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Our squash are ripe this time of year and spread along the dining room wall like a gaggle of school kids waiting to go outside. A fair few of them will somehow make their way closer to the heavy oak legs of our dining room table – I assume with help from a black and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Marie Downey searches in her bag for a spreadsheet. “I have to be very organized,” she says. She’s the director of the play “Gut Girls,” as well as a full-time university student, a pastor, a literary instructor, and a mother of three. You can find her in James Dunn Hall on the St Thomas University [&hellip;]</p>

<p>It’s American election time, and we all know what that means &#8211; Canadians will be glued to their television sets, paying close attention to the debates and each candidate’s campaign. The United States’ presidential election matters to Canadians, arguably more so than their own, but why? There’s something about the fired-up debates and over-budget campaign [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Chad stood at the entrance of George Martin. He stood over six-feet-tall, enveloped in a black trench coat and with a ghostly white face topped with a black tuque. Someone with less than perfect vision and a paranoid head could imagine a Slenderman. I galloped over to him and told him he was so fantastically [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Water splashes in my face. The roar of the Métabetchouan river nearly drowns the constant “un, deux, un, deux” rhythm of my boat mates and their paddles. The river is angry and tries to shake us from our boat. But my foot wedges further under the seat in front of me. I feel like Indiana [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The scene is played out each day in dressing rooms all over the world. Women pass clothes back and forth, critiquing each fashion. Laughter echoes through the long hallway of doors and 180-degree mirrors. Shopping can be a bonding activity for women. But what if there are no clothes in the mall for you? Does [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Cody McKay is in the middle of a serious conversation. He runs a hand carelessly through his freshly-cut hair, jams his hat back on his head, and chooses his words carefully. “I think flow is coming back in style,” he says. If we’re to take the fourth year St Thomas University student’s word for it, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Greg Riddell went to Cambodia for seven weeks to help free bears from revolting conditions. While he was there, he was electrocuted five times and mugged once. He lost $300 and his camera. What did he have to say upon his return to Canada? “I’d love to go back. It was a great experience.” An [&hellip;]</p>

<p>It’s been a long day. You had a midterm at 8:30 a.m. which you bombed. They ran out of your favourite Centre Stage meal at the cafeteria and oh – your roommate is mad you left dirty dishes in the sink (again). You need to do something – anything – to get rid of the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When Justin Connors visited New York City pizzeria Lombardi&#8217;s with his wife Sarah, he thought “Man, there is nothing like that at home.” The St. Thomas University student and father of two couldn&#8217;t find anything like the NYC pizza in Fredericton, so he “went out on a quest to recreate it.” A year and many [&hellip;]</p>

<p>You wake up in the morning feeling exhausted and incomplete. The familiar gurgling noise of a coffee maker wakes you up a little more. A sweet cup o&#8217; brew is all the morning needs. Adam Wright, a journalism graduate from STU, applauds the brew and loves the new Tim Hortons extra large sizes. He even [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A group of local activists plan to build an “EcoVillage,” a sustainable, communal agricultural community just outside the city. “What we want to create is a sustainability centre, a housing cooperative, for those committed to living as sustainable as possible,” says Dana Hartt of ecoFredericton Sustainable Living Inc. EcoFredericton is a non-profit organization, formed in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>“By the Shiva’s good graces, in the name of every woodland creatures, turn Nirvana off…I feel Kurt Cobain’s ghost poking me with his dirty-needles.” The thought of needles always produced the fear in me. I crouched down to steady myself – gravity wasn’t working right and even the floor seemed an angry drunk in my [&hellip;]</p>

<p>During an interview with Jay-Z for the New York Times’ T magazine, writer Zadie Smith didn’t have to pick her meal. “He likes to order for people. Apparently I look like the fish-sandwich type,” Smith writes in the Sept 6 profile. Smith’s comment sparked an interest on the Internet from a few writers, questioning whether [&hellip;]</p>

<p>It’s late September and we are nearing the end of the apple picking season in the Maritimes. If you have ever been near an apple tree or an orchard between August and October, you know that there are few things to be careful of when collecting apples – especially “drop apples”, which are the ones [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The road to wellness is long. It’s hard work and it sucks. Do I have the authority to tell you how to take the journey? Certainly not. But I’ve been in pursuit of optimal health for years and I hope you can glean something from my experience. It all started out pretty well. I finished [&hellip;]</p>

<p>We’re a month into school and everyone has pretty much figured out their way around campus, and where their classes are. For some of you, this is your first month in a university class. Others are returning to class as students or professors. All of you are probably encountering the question of laptops, phones, bathroom [&hellip;]</p>