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/ 2 November 2004
A team of eight economists, brought together by the controversial environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg, has declared it is not worth spending money on climate change because the effects are expected to be far in the future. Lomborg’s bestseller, The Skeptical Environmentalist, created storms of protest by throwing doubt on climate change science, and is hailed by free marketeers round the world, but reviled by many scientists.
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/ 2 November 2004
Following a week of uncertainty about the future of South Africa’s newest national newspaper <i>ThisDay</i>, the newspaper’s executive director, Gbenga Oni-Olusola, said that publication will resume in the near future. The newspaper failed to appear last Monday, and the company is currently dealing with its financial difficulties, he said.
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/ 2 November 2004
Iraqi insurgents on Monday kidnapped an American and up to five others in an audacious attack on a house in western Baghdad. An interior ministry source said the militants approached the villa in the Mansour district in three cars, and that the hostages were taken after a 20-minute gunbattle.
Two car bombs hit Baghdad
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/ 2 November 2004
Indian farmers have come up with what they think is the real thing to keep crops free of bugs. Instead of paying hefty fees to international chemical companies for patented pesticides, they are reportedly spraying their cotton and chilli fields with Coca-Cola.
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/ 2 November 2004
His last film, Kill Bill, bravely incorporated Japanese, Chinese and Spanish dialogue into a mainstream Hollywood movie, but Quentin Tarantino’s next project promises to dispense with the English language altogether. It will be shot entirely in Mandarin, he claims, and it will be ”another kung fu that’s gonna blow your asses off”.
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/ 2 November 2004
Just months after Tata launched its range of vehicles on to the South African market, rival Indian auto maker, Mahindra, has arrived in South Africa. Launched to the media recently, the Bolero and Scorpio will no doubt find themselves competing head on against the more established brands in the market, although at a slightly different level and price too.
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/ 2 November 2004
Public Enterprises Minister Alec Erwin on Monday announced the board of directors to manage Denel, the state-owned arms manufacture. Spokesperson Gaynor Kast said Erwin believed the board — retaining chairperson Sandile Zungu, who has held the position since 2001 — had a good combination of experience and skill.
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/ 2 November 2004
How do you find out which cars are the least trouble-free out there? Why, you go out and ask thousands of new vehicle owners to list the problems they’ve had with their purchases in the first few months of ownership. JD Power and Associates have been doing these studies for over two decades in the USA, and the results of their first South African survey have just been released. Some of their findings are very unexpected …
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/ 2 November 2004
German cartographer Karl Mauch would have approved. He was the man who first mapped the Sabie area in the 1860s, and nearly a century and a half later the German-built BMW R 1200 GS was put on the map in the same region. The R 1200 GS is lighter and consequently handles better than its predecessor over difficult terrain.