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Urban Reform
Urban reform refers to a loosely knit set of municipal government and citizen group initiatives, from the late 1890s to the end of the First World War and from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s, aimed at improving city life.
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Urban Studies
Urban studies is the study of Canada's urban development in all its diverse aspects, including the evolution of communities (urban history); city-building processes (urban geography, urban economics, planning, architecture); urban politics and government (urban political science); and urban society (urban sociology and anthropology, urban demography).
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Urban Transportation
Horse-drawn trams were a vast improvement, but they were far from ideal transportation. Heavy loads could not be hauled, and horses were expensive and required frequent rest periods; they also polluted the streets.
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Urbanization
Urbanization is a complex process in which a country's population centres tend to become larger, more specialized and more interdependent over time.
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US Abortionist Slain
The soft-spoken Vancouver doctor, in her late 40s and a mother of three, does not want her name used. Nor does the 52-year-old doctor in Edmonton, a father of two. Another Vancouver gynecologist, a bespectacled grandfather, wont reveal his name or even his approximate age.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on November 2, 1998
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U.S. Attack on Iraq Angers Arabs
KILOMETRES down the highway, past the hordes of media, the satellite trucks and multiple army checkpoints, the man with the violin is standing alone at the Iraqi border, shivering in the gathering desert darkness.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on March 31, 2003
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US Backlash Against Affirmative Action
Cathy Wattendorf is a white 20-year-old student taking a "really cool" engineering course and training to be a U.S. Air Force officer in the southwest Virginia college town of Blacksburg.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on March 20, 1995
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US Embassies Bombed
The search for survivors in Nairobi was long and gruelling. It went on for 24 hours a day, lit at night by lights from a film studio truck and using heavy equipment donated by local construction companies. Officially, it ended on Aug.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on August 24, 1998
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US Overhauls Welfare System
Andrea April Rush was carrying her three-year-old daughter, Amanda, in one arm and her year-old son, Tomlee, in the other as she plodded through a shopping centre in Columbia, Md.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on August 12, 1996
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US Presidential Candidate John McCain
John McCain's campaign bus is rolling through New Hampshire, from Laconia to Nashua and half a dozen places in between.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on January 31, 2000
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US Strikes Back at Terrorists
This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on August 31, 1998. Partner content is not updated.Osama bin Laden is a slender man with a thick black beard, lightened by traces of grey, and soft eyes that give his face a melancholy air. He does not look dangerous, but according to American officials the Saudi Arabian exile, about 40, is the world's leading terrorist.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on August 31, 1998
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USS Chesapeake
During the NAPOLEONIC WARS, Britain insisted on the right to search neutral ships on the high seas for Royal Navy deserters. On 22 June 1807 HMS Leopard forcibly took 4 seamen from the American frigate Chesapeake.
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Utilities
UtilitiesUtilities are often described as businesses so "affected with the public interest" that they must be regulated by government regarding entry into (and exit from) the market, rate charges to customers, rate of return allowed to owners, and for the requirement to serve all customers within their area of operation (see REGULATORY PROCESS). Businesses engaged in the production and distribution of electricity, the distribution of natural gas, the distribution of water, telecommunications (particularly telephone service)...
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V-chip Promise
When Maxine Lawson first suspected that her two-year-old son, Caden, might be picking up nasty habits from television, she was not sure what to do about it. "If he caught a glimpse of something like wrestling, he'd start kicking and pushing," the Toronto accountant recalls.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on March 25, 1996
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V-chip Technology
Tim Collings is one of those techies who uses the word "neat" as often as some Canadians use "eh." A soft-spoken engineering instructor at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C., the 34-year-old Collings clearly gets excited by gadgetry.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on June 17, 1996
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