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/ 2 November 2004
If you did a search on Google and typed in the key words "guided missile", you’d come up with a multitude of products such as Exocet, optically tracked, laser-guided, wired-guided and nuclear. Page down and you’ll probably find "Renault Megane Sport" — hardly a product designed for warfare — hidden among the listings.
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/ 2 November 2004
There are countless cars out there that boast sequential gear shift, each with its own nomenclature. There’s SMG from BMW, Selespeed from Alfa, and M-MT from Toyota, to name a few. There’s tiptronic and multitronic too, just to confuse you. Each claim "almost seamless" changes, but few can match Audi’s latest trick, direct-shift gearbox (DSG).
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/ 2 November 2004
BMW’s foray into the hatch market has brought it under the spotlight, and credit must go to not only to the Bavarian auto-maker, but also to its controversial designer, Chris Bangle, who took some heat with the current 5- and 7-Series models. But the 645i Cabriolet and the new 1 Series have elevated him to the favourites list.
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/ 2 November 2004
Kia Motors has launched another new model in mid-sized four door sedan or five door hatch models. The Cerato’s aimed at giving the Toyota Corolla/RunX family and all their competitors severe headaches, and with the value-for-money it offers we think it’s likely to succeed.
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/ 2 November 2004
Racehorces are the traditional plaything for moneyed royals in the Middle East, but Sheikh Maktoum Hasher Maktoum al-Maktoum, the nephew of the crown prince of Dubai, prefers burning rubber. He plans to launch a rival to formula one (F1) grand prix racing.
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/ 2 November 2004
South Africa’s online publishers pulled in about 3,5-million unique users or readers and about 106-million page impressions in the month of August. The first statistics are out and reveal some remarkable trends. Matthew Buckland crunches the numbers.
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/ 2 November 2004
This editorial was supposed to be about the "public sphere". The intention was to link a number of the debates raised in the October issue. But in the middle of September the Audit Bureau of Circulations put out "ABC Alert No. 9", their response to Allan Greenblo’s article ("Circulation Conspiracy?") in the August 2004 edition of <i>The Media</i>, so the plan for this editorial had to change.
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/ 2 November 2004
By way of introduction to the book <i>Learner-based teaching</i>, authors Campbell and Kryszewska explain that it was developed in response to teaching conditions in Poland in the early 1990s. Many language teachers complained about outdated textbooks, and their students were dissatisfied with repetitive course material.
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/ 2 November 2004
Northern Gauteng’s senior women hockey team has a secret weapon – the youngest provincial hockey player to date, but sixteen-year-old Griselda Andries says she is not intimidated by the fact that she is the youngest player on the provincial circuit.
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/ 2 November 2004
Media training in South Africa has been tasked with the job of turning out communicators who understand the country’s changing lifestyles. But are trainees equipped to reflect critically on social ills and developmental needs? There’s hardly a dilemma because the choice is easy, reckons Graeme Addison.