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The Next Stage • How a theatre group for newcomers helps kids acclimate—while challenging myths about refugees

LIFE’S LIKE THAT

THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT!

What You Should Know About Buying Insurance

POINTS TO PONDER

Led by the Nose • Postnasal drip: what it is and how to get rid of it

NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF MEDICINE

WHAT’S WRONG WITH ME?

25 Ways to Reduce Your Risk of Dementia • New science, new hope

Good Clean Fun

LOST • A WIDOW SET OUT TO SCATTER HER HUSBAND’S ASHES IN WASHINGTON STATE’S OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK. SHE SAID A BLESSING AND TURNED TO LEAVE. BUT WHERE WAS THE TRAIL?

Keep the Peace • A little bit of conflict now and then is unavoidable. Here’s how to butt heads the better way.

AS KIDS SEE IT

OUR MYSTERIOUS METABOLISM • Eight truths about how we burn calories

WORLD WIDE WEIRD

In Pursuit of the Pronghorn • My biologist father’s fascination with the prairie antelope helped me understand him better

LAUGHTER the Best Medicine

THE BEST JOKE I EVER TOLD

A QUIET CRISIS • Most of the calls paramedics receive aren’t life-or-death emergencies. They’re placed by vulnerable people who are lonely, living in poverty and need someone to care.

I Feel Like an Unexpected Tax Return • (And other realistic idioms)

Healing Home Remedies • Nine folk favourites worth trying—and three you should avoid

THREE HOME REMEDIES YOU SHOULDN’T TRY

DOWN TO BUSINESS

The Miracle Baby • Nine years ago, an earthquake in Haiti caused carnage unlike anything the world had seen since the Second World War. This is the story of one child’s astonishing survival—and my journey to the heart of a country.

COULD I BE A PSYCHOPATH? • We ask Mark E. Olver, researcher on criminal behaviour

FAST FACTS

BRAINTEASERS

TRIVIA

WORD POWER • “Is there no play to ease the anguish of a torturing hour?” asks Theseus in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Spend part of an hour entertaining yourself with these theatrical words.

SUDOKU

City Ways

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