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/ 19 December 2003
‘Tis Christmastide and I’m not in the mood for being snide about anyone. Filled with love for my fellow beings I’d rather write about something both beautiful and valuable. Robert Kirby chooses flowers.
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/ 19 December 2003
About 450km south-west of London a man-made paradise blooms near the Cornish coast. Called the Eden Project, it is a futuristic microcosm of the world as humans once knew it. Start saving for a place in Eden as we head towards 2014 and eco-death, writes Fiona Macleod.
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/ 19 December 2003
A ground-breaking study by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has sought to predict what life in Africa could be like by 2025. Contributions to the study came from more than 1 000 thinkers across the continent. Their prognosis: four scenarios ranging from imminent doom or stagnation, to rapid modernisation and heightened prosperity.
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/ 19 December 2003
In the second half of the 20th century we planned for the nuclear winter that would follow an atomic exchange, but we now give little thought to the similar conditions that would certainly prevail after an asteroid impact or volcanic super-eruption. Global geophysical events could devastate the planet, so why aren’t we more frightened?
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/ 19 December 2003
So far this could be any dim sum restaurant in Hong Kong. But the menu of stone fish dishes and the lurid green and pink desserts whizzing past on the trolley tell you that something different is going on in the kitchen. Super Star Seafood belongs to a generation of Hong Kong restaurants leading the way in creating ”nouvelle Chinese” fusion of Eastern and Western flavours.
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/ 19 December 2003
Images of Camp Delta’s orange-jumpsuited, manacled detainees provoked international outrage. But the real horror they face is the threat of infinite confinement, without any rights, seemingly forgotten by the world at large. James Meek spent a month at Guantanamo.
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/ 19 December 2003
This year was one in which peace seriously threatened to break out all over the continent. However, true to form, Africa kept enough hot spots alive to maintain its status as the prime area of international concern.
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/ 19 December 2003
Wimbledon tennis organisers are reportedly planning to fit their celebrated centre court with a retractable roof with ”innovative plans” set to be announced by the All England Club in January.
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/ 19 December 2003
New All Black coach Graham Henry hardly waited for the ink to dry on his contract on Friday before saying there were changes coming to New Zealand rugby. Henry stressed that while the expansive style promoted by his dumped predecessor John Mitchell would remain, more attention would be paid to improving the All Blacks’ forward power.
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/ 18 December 2003
Sober or not, the gathering of about 1 000 Afrikaners on Tuesday to commemorate the victory of their ancestors over Zulu King Dingane’s army 165 years ago at the Battle of Blood River was like a lacquered, waterlogged unreality.