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Howard Dean, who crashed out of last year’s race for the White House with his now infamous ”I have a scream” speech, was poised on Tuesday for a political comeback as chairperson of the Democratic national committee. The former governor of Vermont owes his comeback to his prowess as a fundraiser, and to his ability to mobilise the Democratic base.
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/ 9 February 2005
eBay on Wednesday withdrew an Australian couple’s attempt to sell the ”naming, advertising and promotional” rights to their unborn daughter for 000. In an advertisement on eBay Australia under the item title ”Truman Baby”, the couple from Perth invited bids for the right to name their baby girl, due on March 1.
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/ 9 February 2005
Underdog online search engine Ask Jeeves has bought Bloglines, a web log index and internet news funnel popular with serious readers of online journals, in its latest bid to gain ground on heavyweight rivals Google and Yahoo. Ask Jeeves’ stock opened up 22 cents at ,65 a share on the Nasdaq stock market on Tuesday.
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/ 9 February 2005
From next year students in Bangladesh will be given lessons about HIV/Aids issues for the first time.
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/ 9 February 2005
Exposure to too little testosterone in the womb makes women bad at parking cars and poor map readers, according to a study conducted at the University of Giessen in Germany. The study, published in the journal Intelligence, appears to confirm well-established male prejudices in finding that a lack of testosterone has a negative effect on spatial skills.
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/ 9 February 2005
Kaizer Chiefs walloped Inter Club of Angola 3-0 in an international friendly played at the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg on Tuesday. All the goals were scored in the first half. The scorers were Kaizer Motaung Junior, Shoes Moshoeu and Rene Richards.
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/ 9 February 2005
Canadian junior miner Platinum Group Metals, or PTM, is hoping to start mining platinum in South Africa within five years, PTM CEO Michael Jones said this week at the Mining Indaba. PTM’s key asset is its joint venture with world number one platinum-miner Anglo Platinum (AngloPlat).
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/ 9 February 2005
The absence of broad-based black ownership of the South African economy may lead to economic insecurity and possibly even political instability, says Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi. "I believe that the absence of broad-based black ownership might result in political alienation, economic insecurity and, possibly, even political instability," he said.
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/ 9 February 2005
For the moment, world number one diamond-miner De Beers has no plans to move the venue of its main sight from London where its marketing arm, the Diamond Trading Company, has its headquarters, De Beers group MD Gary Ralfe said on Tuesday.
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/ 9 February 2005
The psychiatry head of the Gauteng health department will consult a mentally ill woman after she attacked a fellow patient at a hospital. Departmental spokesperson Popo Maja said on Tuesday the woman, being held at Sterkfontein mental hospital after she slit the throat of a pensioner at the Cresta shopping centre in Johannesburg, would be visited on Thursday.