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                    Wednesday, April 23, 2008
            Visually impaired social-work graduate helps other people dealing with vision loss
        
                    
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                    Tuesday, April 22, 2008
            Research out of Stephen Porter's Forensic Psychology Lab at AV¾ãÀÖ²¿ probes whether the face will betray a deceiver's true emotions
        
                    
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                    Tuesday, April 22, 2008
            AV¾ãÀÖ²¿ honours its newest Canada Research Chairs and recipients of the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) Leader's Opportunity Fund
        
                    
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                    Monday, April 21, 2008
            Gifted designer Robert Doyle, the founder of AV¾ãÀÖ²¿'s costume studies program, is named to the Order of Canada. (Shown above, Robert Doyle's sketch of costumes for Fortress Louisbourg)
        
                    
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                    Friday, April 18, 2008
            Zimbabweans talk of Chimurenga – the need to forcibly remove the political dinosaurs – but that plays into Mugabe’s hands
        
                    
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                    Thursday, April 17, 2008
            New bike society aims to advocate for cyclists and start a bike co-op.
        
                    
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                    Thursday, April 17, 2008
            David Scott, professor of Earth Sciences at AV¾ãÀÖ²¿, is reconstructing the history of pollution in Halifax Harbour—determining what sediments on the harbour floor were like in their pristine state. “Halifax Harbour is a large sink for organic matter,” says Dr. Scott, professor of Earth Sciences at AV¾ãÀÖ²¿. “However, the water in the harbour is not the problem—it’s the sediment.”
        
                    
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                    Wednesday, April 16, 2008
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