South African motorists have been warned that petrol could cost as much as R5 a litre. A few (sneaky) ways to modify your gas-guzzling habits include harnessing the power of gravity, souping up your vehicle, using veggie oil and driving barefoot. We tell you how.
July will prove to be frenetic, as manufacturers and importers scramble to launch their new models ahead of October’s Auto Africa show at Nasrec. The all-important Car Of The Year nominations are to be announced at the same event. From minivan to hot hatch, manufacturers provide something for everyone. Here’s a sample of what you can see on showroom floors soon …
Until a few years ago the name David Reimer meant little to those outside his immediate circle. But to anyone taking an interest in the development of psychology in the 1970s and 1980s, Reimer’s life story would have long been infamous, but also pseudonymous. Going by the name ”John”, and subsequently ”Joan”, Reimer had been an unwitting guinea in Dr Money’s sex experiment.
A head for numbers certainly doesn’t guarantee financial fitness, as discovered by mathematician John Allen Paulos after a disasterous foray into the stock market.
The scandal in which the US’s most revered newspaper was duped by one of its
own has rejuvenated a long-standing debate on affirmative action.
Washington’s battle to win public support in the Arab world has begun in earnest with the first broadcasts of what officials say will become a 24-hour satellite television network aimed at changing minds throughout the region with American-style morning chat-shows, sports, news and children’s programmes.
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/ 29 November 2002
According to the Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention, first put forward by The New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman in the mid-1990s, no two countries possessing at least one branch of McDonald’s have ever gone to war with each other.
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/ 19 November 2002
Libyan troops will leave the Central African Republic (CAR), where they have been protecting President Ange-Felix Patasse since a coup attempt in May 2001, and will be replaced by a Central African peacekeeping force, a CAR official said on Wednesday.
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/ 18 November 2002
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein set himself on an early collision course with the US and Britain this week by defiantly continuing to insist he has no weapons of mass destruction. He bowed to international pressure by accepting weapons inspectors.
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/ 11 November 2002
Adoption by the UN Security Council of the resolution on Iraq, tabled this week by the US, will set in motion a detailed timetable that could take the world to war within months. The resolution sets out tough new powers for UN weapons inspectors to use.