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Cops Go to Elaborate Lengths for Confessions ... Even Bogus Onesnew

In theory, the technique of cops posing as criminals to secure a confession is a sensible and rational approach to solving a crime -- but as the theatrical scenarios become more clever and elaborate, the risks of wrongful conviction are magnified.
NOW Magazine  |  Alan Young  |  02-23-2007  |  Crime & Justice

Ecoholicnew

How to get earth-conscious floors without busting your budget.
NOW Magazine  |  Adria Vasil  |  02-16-2007  |  Advice

Gorilla Thrill in Rwandanew

Officials can't stop tourists from going completely ape-shit.
NOW Magazine  |  Jennifer Hollett  |  02-16-2007  |  Travel

'The O.C.' Dies With a Whimpernew

What started with a bang is ending, and no one seems to care.
NOW Magazine  |  Barrett Hooper  |  02-16-2007  |  Travel

Alt.Health: Pain, Pain, Go Awaynew

Get beyond pill-popping with powerful turmeric and ginger.
NOW Magazine  |  Elizabeth Bromstein  |  02-16-2007  |  Advice

Berlin's French Breezenew

Two French films make major noise at the festival, although Canadians are piping up, too.
NOW Magazine  |  Cameron Bailey  |  02-16-2007  |  Movies

'Radiance' Glowsnew

Lambert's first novel gently detonates the emotional land mines dormant in diverse characters.
NOW Magazine  |  Zoe Whittall  |  02-16-2007  |  Fiction

Medical Terrornew

This investigation takes the reader on an odyssey from Southern slave shacks to modern-day New York City, where medical investigators starved and bled young black males in a search for "the criminal gene."
NOW Magazine  |  Howard Goldenthal  |  02-16-2007  |  Nonfiction

Instant Starnew

The ex-makeup artist blows up on MySpace.
NOW Magazine  |  Benjamin Boles  |  02-16-2007  |  Profiles & Interviews

Satan Clawsnew

These Montreal rockers have the devil on their side.
NOW Magazine  |  Tim Perlich  |  02-16-2007  |  Profiles & Interviews

Shelter Scramblenew

Are shelter closings part of a strategy to push homeless out of the city?
NOW Magazine  |  Jenny Yuen  |  02-16-2007  |  Housing & Development

Wall-to-Wall Wallsnew

Sooner or later our terror-mad world will be cut off from itself by security fences.
NOW Magazine  |  Gwynne Dyer  |  02-16-2007  |  Commentary

The Answer's Underfootnew

Soil is our best carbon trapper -- if only conventional agriculture wasn't churning it up.
NOW Magazine  |  Wayne Roberts  |  02-16-2007  |  Environment

A Night On the Edgesnew

Toronto strongly encourages outreach workers to stop giving out blankets.
NOW Magazine  |  Paul Terefenko  |  02-16-2007  |  Housing & Development

Cellphones Set to Get You Offnew

Sex games on cells are big business in the UK and Europe.
NOW Magazine  |  David Silverberg  |  02-09-2007  |  Tech

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