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/ 11 October 2007
The international scientific community is trying to inject new urgency and unity into the elusive hunt for an HIV/Aids vaccine, just weeks after trials with the most promising candidate to date were halted. At a conference in Cape Town, Alan Bernstein was named on Thursday as the first executive director of the Global HIV-Vaccine Enterprise, an alliance of researchers and funders.
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/ 11 October 2007
South Africa and Namibia’s presidents has given the go-ahead to see if a hydro-electrical power station can be build in the Orange River between the two countries. President Thabo Mbeki hosted his Namibian counterpart, Hifikepunye Pohamba, for a bilateral economic meeting at the presidential guest house in Pretoria on Thursday.
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/ 11 October 2007
Expenditure figures for the Department of Housing released by the Democratic Alliance (DA) were ”fabricated and irresponsible”, Minister of Housing Lindiwe Sisulu said on Thursday. Sisulu said the DA claimed the department had increased its accommodation and travel expenditure by 153%.
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/ 11 October 2007
Echoing recent protests at the University of the Witwatersrand, some students from the University of Johannesburg ran amok this week.
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/ 11 October 2007
A pharmaceutical company has donated three Gila monsters to the Tygerberg Zoo near Cape Town to honour the advancements in diabetes care made possible by these lizards. A hormone is found in the saliva of Gila monsters that helps them regulate blood sugar.
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/ 11 October 2007
A march in protest against fee hikes and police shootings will take place at the University of Johannesburg’s (UJ) Kingsway Campus on Friday, students said. ”We are asking for a peaceful and disciplined march; we cannot allow the police to shoot us again,” a protesting student said on Thursday. The march will start at 9am.
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/ 11 October 2007
Sample addresses in nearly a dozen languages will be added to the internet’s central directories as early as this week, paving the way for web surfers around the world to get online without knowing any English. At this point, the 11 domain names are meant primarily for software developers and website designers to test the new system.
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/ 11 October 2007
Couch potatoes beware: Wii owners will be able to get an even more vigorous workout from December when Nintendo launches a new fitness balance board for its hit video-game console. The ”Wii Fit” board and software can be used for exercising, sports and games including yoga, virtual snowboarding, ski-jumping and aerobics.
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/ 11 October 2007
Sun Microsystems and Samsung are jointly developing a cellphone to challenge Apple Inc.’s iPhone, a South Korean newspaper reported on Wednesday, quoting Sun chairperson Scott McNealy. McNealy said on Tuesday in Seoul that the companies are working on a ”Java phone” that would surpass Apple’s iPhone in functionality.
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/ 11 October 2007
The ultra-high-speed Internet2 network just got 10 times faster, partly in anticipation of rising demand for capacity when the world’s largest particle collider opens near Geneva next year. Until recently, the Internet2 had a theoretical limit of 10 gigabits per second (Gbps).