They used to go there to get stoked, amped and pumped. But now that one of Europe’s greatest surfing waves has mysteriously disappeared from the waters off the northern Spanish village of Mundaka, the world’s surfers feel it is a complete bummer.
Nearly 25Â 000 Iraqi civilians have been killed in the two years since the invasion, and four times as many died at the hands of United States-led forces as from suicide bombers and other insurgents, according to a detailed study of the human cost of the conflict.
Does criticism of the minister of education for sending her children to private schools infringe the children’s rights to privacy? A reader brought this question to the attention of the ombud in the context of a column that laid into Minister Naledi Pandor for a hypocritical lack of faith in the system she oversees. The Democratic Alliance has also been beating this drum.
Even a seasoned political operator like Britain’s Prime Minister Tony Blair will have found it difficult to swallow the relative failure of this year’s Group of Eight (G8) summit meeting to produce any significant movement on the issue of climate change. Blair began his campaign for a different outcome more than a year ago, when he took over the presidency of the G8 group.
"Over the last three weeks, <i>M&G Business</i>’s Kevin Davie has written a series of articles relating to the National Bargaining Council for the Clothing Manufacturing Industry. Much of it is based on incorrect information selectively fed to Davie by mischievous employers," writes Andre Kriel, deputy secretary general of the Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers Union.
World Environment Day was first held in 1972 by the United Nations General Assembly to mark the opening of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment. On the same day, the General Assembly adopted a resolution to create a global environmental programme.
In stark contrast to the draft black economic empowerment Codes of Good Practice released two weeks ago, the draft health-care charter has laid out aggressive ownership equity targets for the sector. The Department of Trade and Industry launched its draft empowerment Codes of Good Practice recently, setting a target of 25,1% of black equity ownership within the next 10 years.
One day we will look back on the effort to deny the effects of climate change as we now look back on the work of Trofim Lysenko, a Soviet agronomist who insisted that the entire canon of genetics was wrong. There was no limit to an organism’s ability to adapt to changing environments. Cultivated correctly, crops could do anything the Soviet leadership wanted them to do.
I’m irritated partly on aesthetic grounds. Have you seen these things? More often than not, they’re an emetic purple and bring to mind nothing so much as a deformed limb. And that’s if you’re lucky. Increasingly, sex-toy production seems to be under the influence of some kind of paraphiliac dadaism.
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