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Chris Altman 10 years ago Clearing up a few misconceptions about what exactly cancer is, why we get it, and what we can do about it.

Twitter/Peter Lombard Big game hunting is serious business in Africa. Each year, at least 18,500 hunters from wealthy countries make a kind of pilgrimage to sub-Saharan Africa with the purpose of tracking down one (or several) of the continents rarest and most majestic animals and shooting them dead for sport.

Ullstein BilderdienstHerero tribespeople who escaped Shark Island. Shark Island is a lonely, desolate place, almost Martian in its barrenness and removal from the wider world. Hewn from rocks worn smooth by the Atlantics beating waves, the only protection from the brutal African sun afforded there is a smattering of palm trees.

They were: John DiGiovanni, Robert Kirkpatrick, Stephen Knapp, William Macko, Wilfredo Mercado, and Monica Rodriguez Smith. Rodriguez Smith was pregnant and just one day away from the start of her maternity leave.

Jennifer Pan was a well-behaved teenager, a golden daughter in her parents eyes. A straight-A student at Mary Ward Catholic Secondary School in Markham, Ontario, she was raised by Vietnamese refugees who ran a strict household. Pan did as she was told every day, and soon earned both admission and a scholarship to Ryerson University