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Under my skin In a stunning article published on 7 November 2010 in Nature, a team of stem cell researchers from the McMaster’s Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute led by Dr. Mick Bhatia announced their method of generating blood cells from skin cells. This method generates immunologically compatible cells for the patient, reducing the need for an extensive bone marrow donor registry. This article comes right on the heels of McMaster’s record-breaking Get Swabbed! Bone Marrow Drive. Talk about feeling boned.
Houston, we have democracy HOUSTON, TEXAS—Everything is bigger in Texas, and a sense of civic duty is no exception. On 2 November, 2010, three United States Astronauts, Scott Kelly, Douglas Wheelock, and Shannon Walker, voted in the US Midterm election while 200 miles above Earth. They voted via a secure internet system whilst conducting research on board the International Space Station. Kelly, one of the astronauts, said that it was an “honour and a privilege” to vote from space. Extraterrestrial participatory democracy began in 1997 when the State of Texas passed a bill that allowed astronauts to vote while in orbit, made possible because of NASA’s Houston based headquarters.
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Incite, I was reading your new Sincite special review of lingerie shops when I saw that Widemart Shoes was on the list! While I pretty much agree with everything about the flimsy interior and unpromising exterior, there should have been even more in the article on the shoes. I know, as this is coming from someone famous for his footwear! I am variously known on campus as “that guy with the boots” or “Sir Kinky Boots” or just “Boots” ...whose exploits to the uninitiated (complete with photos!) can be followed on Facebook at Overheard at McMaster/Discussion: Kinky Boots. Of course Widemart shoes is awesome, since they are the only store for miles that stock “crazy rock star” shoes and boots like mine in weird sizes up to 12. Everyone could do with a better selection of sizes and it is thanks to them that I got to try on, then fall in love with, my famous boots. And what fun it has been wearing them all over town and school!! So reading the review made my day as this is the store that made me the “celebrity” that I am. It is for the reasons above that I think that the reviewer should reconsider their 1.5 hooker boots out of 10 score, and at least boost them to a 2, for a whole pair of awesome hooker boots, or even to a higher rating, for providing me with my two outrageous pairs of boots in outrageously hard to find sizes! Thanks Widemart! Tim 4 ▪ Incite Magazine ▪ December 2010
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