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/ 14 November 2005
It seems too good to be true: a new source of near-limitless power that costs virtually nothing, uses tiny amounts of water as its fuel and produces next to no waste. If that does not sound radical enough, how about this: the principle behind the source turns modern physics on its head.
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/ 14 November 2005
In late 1991, after riots between youths and police scarred the suburbs of Lyon, Alain Touraine, the French sociologist, predicted: ”It will only be a few years before we face the kind of massive urban explosion the Americans have experienced.” The fortnight of consecutive violence following the deaths of two young Muslim men of African descent in a Paris suburb show that Touraine’s dark vision of a ghettoised, post-colonial France is now upon us.
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/ 13 November 2005
The South African Police Service is spending R66,5-million a year on hiring private security companies to guard its stations and police buildings. The 10 security firms benefiting most from this bonanza include three that appear not to be registered with the Private Security Industry Regulatory Authority — a statutory requirement.
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/ 13 November 2005
The stereotypical editor is a grumpy old man who talks in grunts and whose desk is full of dirty coffee cups. It’s an enduring image, fuelled by journalists who seem to take pride in having worked under awful bosses. Get a group of them together, and the chances are they will begin trying to trump each other with war stories. My editor was worse than yours — that sort of thing.
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/ 13 November 2005
Novelist David Westheimer, who wrote My Sweet Charlie and Von Ryan’s Express that was turned into a movie starring Frank Sinatra, has died. He was 88. Westheimer died on Tuesday of heart failure at the UCLA Medical Centre, according to his son Fred.
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/ 13 November 2005
Hal O Anger, a pioneer of nuclear medicine who is credited with inventing the gamma camera, has died. He was 85. Anger died at his Berkeley home on October 31. He developed his most noted invention in 1957, employing gamma radiation to depict metabolic processes within a living body.
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/ 13 November 2005
Twenty-six members of Zimbabwe’s beleaguered opposition party who refused to withdraw as candidates for this month’s Senate elections have been expelled, a spokesperson said on Sunday in a move likely to lead to a final split in the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).
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/ 13 November 2005
Supporters of Liberian presidential candidate George Weah, who appears destined for defeat at the hands of economist Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, took to the streets of Monrovia for a second day on Saturday. With more than 99% of votes counted, Unity Party candidate Johnson-Sirleaf has maintained a comfortable lead over Weah.
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/ 13 November 2005
The West African cotton state of Burkina Faso was set to choose a president on Sunday amid opposition charges of vote rigging and abuses by the president, widely expected to return to power. President Blaise Compaore, in office for 18 years, is standing for a third time in one of the poorest countries of Africa.