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Insite not the answer, but it helpsJune 6, 2008Per
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Insite not the answer, but it helpsJune 6, 2008Perhaps you're already familiar with that ancient fable about the six blind men and the elephant. I find it coming to mind a lot these days in the fight over Canada's only supervised injection site.The Indian fable, put into charming verse in 1873 by John Godfrey Saxe, tells the story of how the six men interpreted what an elephant looked like based on whatever part of the elephant's anatomy they touched first. One touches the animal's massive side and concludes it must resemble a wall; another grabs the trunk and presumes that elephants are shape...
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