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/ 16 October 2007

Nevermind the name

Give a dog a bad name … Gavin Foster looks at the car with the weirdest name in the world — the Nissan Qashqai. "In a year when there have been so many stunning new cars launched in South Africa, the Nissan with the funny name is, in my book, a shoo-in as a Car of the Year finalist."

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/ 16 October 2007

Environmentalists target iPhone for lawsuit

Environmentalist lawyers are threatening to sue Apple in 60 days if the iconic United States company doesn’t make iPhones greener or warn buyers of toxins in the devices. The Centre for Environmental Health sent Apple notice on Monday after Greenpeace released a scientific analysis of how Earth-friendly iPhones are.

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/ 16 October 2007

A tale of two writers

William Gumede and Ronald Suresh Roberts, who have both written books on President Thabo Mbeki, were given the same brief – to explore where the president’s relationship with the media went wrong. Here are their different takes on the issue. Their articles were written independently from each other.

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/ 16 October 2007

A return to the old ways

Conservation experts are to reverse five centuries of British history and deliberately allow rising sea levels to flood a huge stretch of reclaimed Essex coastline. In the most ambitious and expensive project of its type, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) intends to puncture sea defences around Wallasea island, near Southend in southern England.

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/ 16 October 2007

Elephants wary of buzzing bees

It might seem the epitome of a David versus Goliath mismatch — up to 12 tonnes of heavily armoured mammal flesh versus a few hundred milligrams of irritating insect — but despite their thick skins and size advantage, elephants turn tail and flee at the sound of a swarm of bees, according to research in Kenya.