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U.S. Army soldiers shake hands with Iraqi troops during a ceremony transferring the joint security station in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City to Iraqi control

Globe essay

Will Iraqis stand up as Americans stand down?

It's difficult to conceive of a more disastrously managed international initiative than the Iraq intervention. But the chaos has given way to an emergent constitutional order – and there are just two ways it can go Jul 04, 2009 4:11AM EDT

This July, 19 1969 photo released by NASA shows the Earth as seen from the Apollo 11 command module as it orbits the moon before the landing of the lunar module.

Focus

The last sons of Apollo

Forty years after Neil Armstrong's famed ‘small step for man,' the few humans to reach the moon are still waiting for someone to follow in their footsteps Jul 04, 2009 1:34AM EDT

Quiz

The week in questions

Who is the new leader of the Ontario Conservative Party? Jul 03, 2009 2:41PM EDT

Pakistani displaced women from Swat valley sit on their unfolded tents after their arrival in the Jalozai refugee camp near Peshawar, Pakistan, Wednesday, June 17, 2009.

Stephanie Nolen

For Pakistan's female refugees,
a silver lining

For the first time, women fleeing the Taliban open up about their feelings of terror, repression and hope for a new life Jul 03, 2009 7:11PM EDT

North Korea defies U.S. with new missile launches

Act stokes regional tensions that were already high following nuclear tests in May Jul 04, 2009 8:31AM EDT

Palin resignation shakes up Republican presidential prospects

'I think we just saw the opening statement of the 2012 race' Jul 03, 2009 10:20PM EDT

Blast kills soldier, narrowly misses
top Canadian commander

Corporal Nick Bulger was a member of 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Jul 04, 2009 1:11AM EDT

VANOC curbing free speech, group says

B.C. Civil Liberties Association details criticisms of organizing committee's conduct Jul 03, 2009 10:18PM EDT

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U.S. border guards: What makes them so mean?

Greater emphasis on security has changed the border-crossing experience

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer looks toward a car coming toward at the border crossing between the U.S. and Canada, in Blaine, Wash.
Travel
Soul city

Michael Jackson's career began at Motown Records. On the label's 50th, Brad Wheeler visits the modest house in Detroit where soul music was born

Society
One White Hot gala

We asked patrons at a recent National Ballet of Canada fundraiser our million-dollar question: 'How much success is about luck of the draw?'

Kurt Browning, figure skater: 'You're lucky to be good but you have to be good to be lucky. When things came my way and I knew I was at the right place at the right time, I thought,
Camping
Gourmet cookout

Food stylist Adele Hagan takes the kitchen outside for a memorable meal in the wild

Herbed fish fillets sizzle over a campfire. Grill, $8 at Mountain Equipment Co-op (mec.ca).
Endangered species
Animal boot camp

The rare black-footed ferret will be reintroduced to Canada this fall. First, the animals will have to learn how to be wild

The black-footed ferret was believed to be extinct when a small group was discovered on a Wyoming ranch 28 years ago.
Keeping watch on the planet from the bottom up

A new series of deep-sea observatories, developed by Canadian researchers, will give scientists an unprecedented view

Chris Barnes, NEPTUNE project director, stands next to one of the seafloor
Brian Milner
Sun finally sets on notion that markets are rational

Unforeseen calamities and uncontrolled greed have finally buried shaky hypothesis

The Myth of the Rational Market by Justin Fox

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