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/ 28 February 2006
Dennis Weaver, an actor with a Midwestern twang who played stiff-legged Chester the deputy on the classic TV western Gunsmoke and the cowboy cop hero in McCloud, has died. He was 81. Weaver died on Friday from complications of cancer at his home in Ridgway, in south-western Colorado.
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/ 28 February 2006
Various United States interest groups have joined forces to fight a proposed bulk e-mailing fee they claim strikes at the heart of online communication — a level playing field for rich and poor. The service would charge businesses and other bulk e-mailers a fee to route their e-mail directly to a user’s mailbox.
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/ 28 February 2006
Nissan has introduced its first diesel passenger vehicle to South Africa, the Micra 1,5 dCi Tekna. It is the first three-door Micra on our market and the reduction in size does give it a certain agility that the other Micras lack. Then again, it also has a turbo-diesel engine and is surprisingly one of the most driveable turbo-powered cars.
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/ 28 February 2006
I don’t know of any law that says speedometers have to over-read, but there are a few that prohibit speedometers from reflecting a lower speed than the vehicle is actually travelling. In the United Kingdom, for instance, speedometers may legally be up to 10% optimistic, but there’s no leeway for under-reading.
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/ 28 February 2006
Cigarette giant British American Tobacco (BAT) announced on Tuesday a 29% slump in pre-tax profits to £2,588-billion ($4,503-billion) in 2005, but the data was skewed by big deals from the previous year. BAT, maker of Kent and Dunhill cigarettes, said in an official results statement that revenue sank 13% to £9,325-billion last year, compared with 2004.
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/ 28 February 2006
South Africa’s real GDP at market prices on a quarter-on-quarter seasonally annualised and adjusted basis rose by 3,3% in the fourth quarter of 2005 from 4,2% in the third quarter, Statistics South Africa said. This brought the annual average real growth for 2005 to 4,9% compared with 4,5% in 2004.
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/ 28 February 2006
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/262374/vote-box_blue.gif" align=left>The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has made "a final appeal to all its members, to all workers and to the people as a whole" to vote for South Africa’s ruling African National Congress on Wednesday in the nationwide municipal poll.
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/ 28 February 2006
Eritrea has rebuffed suggestions for fresh talks over the border stalemate with arch-foe Ethiopia, calling such proposals ”deviations” from the 2002 independent border ruling. Asmara was reacting late on Monday to proposals last week by observers to the 2000 peace deal that ended the Horn of Africa countries’ border war.
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/ 28 February 2006
The fierce opposition in the United States to a management takeover of six US ports by a Dubai-based company is seen by Gulf analysts as unjustified and even racist. "There is a racist dimension in this matter, and that is because the firm linked to the deal is Arab, which, in the opinion of some people, should not manage US ports," said Emirati political analyst Abdul Khaleq Abdullah.
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/ 28 February 2006
A 20-year-old woman has made it big with the Philadelphia Orchestra — she’s been hired to be its tuba player, a job normally held by men in major orchestras. ”The fact that she is a young woman playing a very un-womanlike instrument is really extraordinary,” said Christoph Eschenbach, the orchestra’s music director.