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/ 22 November 2004
More than six million children die each year in the developing world from diseases that could be prevented by simple interventions. While effective mechanisms for getting the result of biomedical research to the patients who could most benefit from it remains near the top of the priority list, little research is invested in the ‘how’.
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/ 22 November 2004
Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip and the northern West Bank will be able to use the compensation they receive from Israel to build homes in other West Bank settlements, the director of the agency responsible for evacuating settlers said last week. ”They are free people — they can go where they want. They can go to Canada, Jerusalem or any of the settlements in the West Bank,” he said.
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/ 22 November 2004
A 34-year-old cyclist who suffered a heart attack during the Pick’nPay 94.7 Cycle Challenge was ”quite stable and doing very well” Netcare spokesperson Mande Toubkin said. He was rushed to Unitas Hospital in Pretoria on Sunday after suffering a heart attack 15km from the finish-line, said event organiser Tanya Harford.
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/ 22 November 2004
Ricardo Katza’s lone header was enough to propel SuperSport United into the semifinals of the Coca-Cola Cup in a match against Jomo Cosmos at the Loftus Stadium in Pretoria on Sunday. Both sides missed chances, which could easily have turned the game into a high scoring affair.
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/ 22 November 2004
Northampton have sacked their South African director of rugby Alan Solomons after the side’s eighth straight league defeat against Worcester left them just one point off the bottom of the Premiership table. A group of players and some of the coaching staff will now take temporary charge of first-team affairs. ”Alan is a great coach but for whatever reason it has not worked out,” said Saints chairperson Keith Barwell.
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/ 21 November 2004
Gale-force winds dumping heavy snow caused havoc across Austria on Saturday, blowing cars across roads and into deadly collisions, knocking out power to thousands of homes and tearing a balcony off a building that critically injured a man below. In neighbouring Slovakia, the winds were clocked at 173kph.
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/ 21 November 2004
African leaders meeting in the Tanzanian capital Dar es Salaam inked a United Nations-backed agreement on Saturday pledging to find peaceful solutions to conflicts in Central Africa’s Great Lakes region. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said it has taken 10 years to get all the leaders around the talks table.
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/ 21 November 2004
A new computer worm is wiggling its way through the internet. Computer antivirus companies Symantec and H+BEDV are warning their customers of the existence of a MyDoom variant known as Worm/MyDoom.AH. The worm is a threat to anyone using the Microsoft Windows operating system.
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/ 21 November 2004
Browser hijacking is the latest plague to hit the internet. It most commonly shows up as ad banners from dubious companies that suddenly appear during every visit online, even after the computer is restarted. The problem is particularly common with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browser.