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- Tales From The Morgue | Orato.com
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  Forensic specialist Doctor in Chief at the Official Morgue of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dr. Roberto Cohen has performed more than 10,000 autopsies in eleven years. From ex-Presidents to his own colleague, he seems to have seen it all. Just in time for Halloween, he teaches us the lessons he has learned by working with the dead.
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- A Canadian fishing for stories (and her heart) in the Balkans
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  Three years ago, a pair of Croatian eyes transformed my curiosity about the former Yugoslavia into a real fascination. These dark eyes of a man laughed and cried at the same time, for they had seen human cruelty during the war but had also lived during the golden age of the former Yugoslavia...
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- The Secrets Behind PostSecret
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  PostSecret began three years ago as a creative idea for an art show exhibit, which just happened to change Frank Warren’s life. With a background in small business, Warren is a self-described, “accidental artist.” PostSecret is not a business. He forgoes profit on what is the largest advertisement-free site on the web. The only other link visible on the stark site, which features a weekly list of secrets written on handmade, anonymous postcards from strangers, is for a suicide hotline...
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- The Flood Of Yesterday's Testimony
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  Late yesterday and early today we heard from a young man by the name of Gerald McLaughlin, who lived on the Pickton property for about two years in an old motorhome on the property. I have no other word to describe him but sweet. A young man clearly nervous about being there, softspoken, polite and seemingly vulnerable. In sharing what I am about to in this story, I too am letting myself be very vulnerable. Parts of this story are graphic and possibly disturbing...
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- Iraq War: A Soldier's Side
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  I chose a life in the military to follow in my father's footsteps and because I really wanted to feel like I "earned" my freedom by helping to protect it. Following these footsteps has involved a number of sacrifices. I'm watching my two-year-old son grow up in pictures, missing birthdays, anniversaries and holidays. But even more than that, my faith in humanity has suffered a pretty significant hit. You can't see the things we see and not wonder about our species...
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- Scott Chubb's Credibility Under Fire
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  Much to everyone's chagrin we went to court with the knowledge we would be sitting through Day Two of Scott Chubb's cross examination. But things got a little heated. “You can attack me, you can attack my character, but I am not on trial for six counts of murder,” was one of Chubb's very heated replies that flew in the courtroom today.
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- $65-Million Pantsuit: Perverting Consumer Protection
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  It isn’t every day that tort reformers and personal injury lawyers find themselves in agreement. But when the newly renamed American Association for Justice (formerly known as the Association of Trial Lawyers of America) recently joined the American Tort Reform Association and small business owners everywhere in condemning an outrageous and seemingly vengeful lawsuit against a neighborhood dry cleaning store, a rare opportunity for nonpartisan legal reform may have presented itself.
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Robyn Stubbs is the Community Building Editor at Orato.com. After studying journalism at Vancouver's Langara College, she spent two years chasing local news stories at 24 hours Vancouver, a daily newspaper and Sun Media publication. In 2006, she was named runner-up for the Dunlop Award for Investigative Journalism for her five-part series on environmental toxins.
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