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/ 16 September 2004
This may not come as a surprise to millions of working mothers. And their partners probably know it too. But a comprehensive study of 21 000 people suggests that the rise of ”new men” has been greatly exaggerated. According to the survey, the average American working woman spends twice as much time each day on housework and childcare as the average working male.
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/ 16 September 2004
SABMiller, the world’s second-largest brewer by volume, has declined to comment on Thursday on media reports that the group is in talks regarding a possible joint acquisition of Canada’s Molson. SABMiller spokesperson Nigel Fairbrass said the group couldn’t comment on Thursday’s report in the <i>Wall Street Journal Europe</i>,
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/ 16 September 2004
The JSE Securities Exchange (JSE) was firm at midday on Thursday ahead of the futures close-out at 2pm. Many players were away for the Rosh Hashanah religious holiday, but volumes — at just less than R1-billion so far — were described as "decent" ahead of the close-out.
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/ 16 September 2004
More than 130 years after Alfred Packer ate his five companions to survive a Colorado winter, a museum curator is making a case that the notorious cannibal was innocent of murder. Packer was convicted of murdering the five men — all prospectors he was guiding — but always insisted he had killed only one of them.
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/ 16 September 2004
Gunmen abducted two Americans and a Briton on Thursday in a brazen attack on a house in an upmarket Baghdad neighbourhood where many embassies and foreign companies are based, the Interior Ministry and witnesses said. It was the latest in a wave of kidnappings of foreigners in Iraq.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?cg=BreakingNews-InternationalNews&ao=122251">Iraq war was illegal, says Annan</a>
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/ 16 September 2004
About 20 000 protesters in Pretoria have started marching towards the Union Buildings after a delay outside the Treasury building when they were told Finance Minister Trevor Manuel was not available to receive their memorandum. Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) president Willie Madisha told the crowd that Manuel had known they were coming seven days ago but still insisted on flying to Cape Town.
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/ 16 September 2004
Hurricane Ivan and its 217kph winds churned toward the historic port city of Mobile, Alabama, with frightening intensity as the storm began its assault on the Gulf Coast, lashing the region with heavy rain and ferocious wind, spawning monster waves that toppled beach houses and spinning off deadly tornadoes.
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/ 16 September 2004
Ousted Liberian leader Charles Taylor will remain ”a cloud” over international efforts to turn the war-battered west African nation into an economically vibrant democracy until he is brought to justice for alleged war crimes, the United Nations envoy to Liberia said.
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/ 16 September 2004
Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel has spoken out against the trend of exorbitantly high salaries and greed among professionals, and has called instead for them to give something back to help to reduce the growing levels of inequality and poverty in the country.
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/ 16 September 2004
Despite the strike by public servants, South Africa’s inflation prospects remain good with a strong possibility of interest rates being able to remain at the current level until 2006, according to senior Absa economist John Loos. He is optimistic that the CPIX (consumer inflation less mortgage costs) target can be achieved until well into 2006.