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/ 10 September 2004
The political economist Thomas Malthus caused a stir in 1798 when he published his controversial work, An Essay on the Principle of Population. Malthus postulated that unrestrained population growth will result in the increased production of food beyond the capacity of the Earth’s resources to sustain and this, in time, will lead to scarcity. Saliem Fakir agrees: the lifestyles of the fat and famous could spell the failure of civilisation.
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/ 10 September 2004
Tomorrow is the third anniversary of the epoch-shaping onslaught on New York and Washington but a string of other al-Qaeda attacks since 1998 has left little mark on our consciousness. What has terrorism done to the lives of ordinary people from Casablanca to Karachi? Reporters asked nine people living in the shadow of the bombers.
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/ 10 September 2004
The bloody denouement to the Beslan tragedy was barbaric: no other word will suffice. There could never be any justification for terrorists who, we are told, shot fleeing hostages in the back — nor for those who died at the hands of the ill-judged Spetsnaz operation. Beslan was barbaric — but so has been Russia’s reign of terror in Chechnya.
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/ 10 September 2004
Cricketing Anglophobes have been struggling to disguise smiles of smug vindication this week. Indeed, even for those without an axe to grind it does seem extraordinary that the English press, having been handed a baking summer of spectacular victories, comic-book heroes and now a mini-World Cup, should be as lugubrious as it is.
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/ 10 September 2004
As soon as she walks into the room, it seems ridiculously easy to look up and say ”Oh, hi Delia” as if she’s just popped over for a coffee and a natter about football and a new recipe. I’m tempted, before we get down to the nitty-gritty of deciding whether her beloved Norwich City appear doomed after a mere four games in the Premiership, to offer up Marco Pierre White’s elegant fricassee of sea scallops with ginger and an inky sauce nero as a culinary equivalent of Arsenal.
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/ 10 September 2004
The South African women’s national soccer team, Banyana Banyana, are aiming to win the fourth African Women’s championship, but with inept preparations, a coach that will not be at their opening game and a national body that does not take women’s soccer seriously, there is little chance of the side being crowned queens of Africa.
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/ 10 September 2004
For people with a passion for food, and a preference not to be rushed when they are eating, it could be a feast like no other. Next month 5 000 foodies from 150 different countries will gather in the northern Italian city of Turin to swap experiences, cooking methods and recipes.
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/ 10 September 2004
The smart money is on Botswana going to the polls on October 16. President Festus Mogae made this the stuff of wagers by dissolving his country’s Parliament recently without actually naming an election date. In most African countries this would be seen as ominous. But Botswana is the continent’s longest continuous multi-party democracy. At least a dozen parties will contest the general election.
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/ 9 September 2004
Invoking sweeping security laws, police detained an opposition leader after a series of raids on the homes and offices of government opponents, says Zimbabwe’s main opposition party. Nelson Chamisa, a lawmaker and head of the MDC youth wing, was picked up by police who allege that he held an illegal political meeting.