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Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. While on assignment this year in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador for The New York Times, my attention turned to big game — moose, that is. In 1904, …

Running into a moose when driving a car or truck is bad enough, but crashing into the giant animal while riding on two wheels can be worse. Kevin Connors barely survived such an encounter while cruising on his motorbike just after sundown on a highway in Newfoundland, a Tennessee-size island …