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Reasonable time has now passed for you to act, say the signatories of this open letter to the president and Cabinet ministers
The twenty-year-old will take over the helm of the only daily paper in Cambridge, Massachusetts next year
Oumuamua, the first interstellar object known to enter our solar system, accelerated faster away from the Sun than expected
Without protein, growth is stunted, diseases are more common and early mortality is far more likely.
A Harvard student has been charged for a bomb threat hoax that led to the evacuation of four buildings, in an apparent bid to skip a final exam.
Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban, has been honoured by Harvard University.
South Africa’s Academy of Science is helping to usher in the new by joining global open access.
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Bryan Phillips is part of a group of 30 Henley MBAs who arrived in Cape Town last month to help five NGOs to improve relationships.
Flanked by the flags of Tunisia and his Islamist party, Rachid Ghannouchi, known by followers as "the Sheikh", is avuncular and professorial.
The education we offer many learners is not providing an escape from poverty.
World rankings of universities are worthless, argues UCL provost <b>Malcolm Grant</b>, because they cannot possibly capture tertiary diversities.
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/ 24 November 2008
A report has called for rich nations to make the first cuts in greenhouse gases while developing countries carry on as usual for the time being.
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg stressed his company’s independent spirit on Monday, after a report the social networking site might be sold to software giant Microsoft, which is hunting for ways to beef up its internet business. Asked specifically about the prospect of a sale, Zuckerberg declined to comment.
Taiwan’s Cabinet will soon lose one of its more colourful members who was notorious for sleeping in Parliament, shouting at legislators, picking his nose in public and shoving a journalist. Tu Cheng-sheng, Education Minister since 2004, will step down next month along with current President Chen Shui-bian.
The global credit crunch claimed its biggest victim yet on Friday when the United States Federal Reserve orchestrated an emergency bail-out for Bear Stearns after a cash crisis prompted a run on the US’s fifth-biggest investment bank. President George Bush sought to calm fears of a deep recession in the world’s biggest economy.
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/ 17 January 2008
Celebrated United States cancer researcher Judah Folkman, who demonstrated the link between blood-vessel growth and tumours becoming malignant, died on January 14 at 74 of an apparent heart attack, the Boston hospital where he worked said. He died in Denver, Colorado, while en route to Vancouver, Canada, to give a lecture.
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/ 30 November 2007
Seeking to keep the peace in its popular online hangout, Facebook has overhauled a new advertising system that sparked privacy complaints by turning its users into marketing tools for other companies. Users will have greater control over whether they want to participate in a programme that circulates information about their online purchases.
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/ 30 November 2007
The discovery was announced two years ago amid fanfare and to the astonishment of the art world: a dusty batch of 32 previously unknown Jackson Pollocks had been found in a Long Island storage locker dating from the important period of his early drip paintings, 1946 to 1949.
The Mo Ibrahim Foundation was launched in October 2006 to promote good governance in Africa with the support of world leaders, including Nelson Mandela, Alpha Konaré, Bill Clinton and Tony Blair. On October 22 2007, the foundation will announce the winner of the world’s biggest prize, the Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership, to be awarded to a former African executive head of state.
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/ 25 September 2007
Microsoft is negotiating to buy a stake in social networking site Facebook that could value the company at -billion or more, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. The report said that Microsoft is keen to buy a 5% stake in the company, but is facing competition from Google.
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/ 25 September 2007
South Africa is placed fifth on the latest Mo Ibrahim Foundation Index of African Governance with a score of 71,2 while top-ranking Mauritius scored 86,2. The index rated the performance of 48 nations against a series of criteria including security, human rights, economic stability, just laws, free elections, corruption, infrastructure, poverty and health.