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/ 14 December 2005
Steven Wooke takes a swig from a bottle of Heineken as his left hand rests on a small table, his fingers spread out like a fan of playing cards. He’s getting a manicure — or hand detailing, as the salon calls it — and it’s a form of pampering the 24-year-old information technology manager has learned to enjoy.
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/ 14 December 2005
Is anyone going to mourn the impending death of the word ”spinster”? It is described in the Cambridge dictionary as referring to ”a woman who is not married, especially a woman who is no longer young and seems unlikely ever to marry”. In Finnish, Bulgarian and Arabic the equivalent translates literally as ”old maid”.
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/ 14 December 2005
On a Sunday morning, academic star Temple Grandin, decked out in her signature black cowgirl garb and well-tooled boots, is at a table in a Nashville hotel lobby enjoying a light breakfast of fruit and juice, while some diners nearby are tucking into more substantial fare: here a plate of bacon and eggs, there a minute steak.
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/ 14 December 2005
When President Thabo Mbeki took to the parliamentary podium in 1996 and declared ”I am an African,” everyone in Parliament who spoke during that debate declared and asserted that they were Africans, from African National Congress members to those of the Freedom Front. The ruling party has since undergone a Damascene conversion.
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/ 13 December 2005
The assassination on Tuesday of a Sunni candidate in Iraq’s election cast a shadow over expatriate voting for a new Parliament that many hope will restore stability to the war-torn country. The election has been billed as a critical democratic step for Iraq nearly three years after the United States-led invasion.
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/ 13 December 2005
New maps show that the Earth is rapidly running out of fertile land and that food production will soon be unable to keep up with the world’s burgeoning population. The maps reveal that more than one-third of the world’s land is being used to grow crops or graze cattle.
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/ 13 December 2005
Five trillion dollars has been corruptly removed from the world’s poorest countries and lodged permanently in the world’s richest countries. That is the ”conservative estimate” of a leading United States businessman and enthusiast for capitalism who has just completed a major study of how wealthy individuals and unscrupulous governments are using the world’s banking systems in ways that spread poverty.
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Threatened legal action by the media against police for barring them from the rape court appearance of Jacob Zuma has been reduced to a letter of protest. The South African National Editors’ Forum, Primedia Broadcasting and The Star have sent an ”official letter” to National Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi.
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/ 13 December 2005
Robbie Williams’s latest album is an energetic and shameless form of pastiche pop, writes Shaun de Waal.