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/ 5 February 2004
The proposed protest march to the opening of Parliament on Friday by disgruntled doctors would be ”counterproductive” and could result in dismissals, the Ministry of Health said. A ministry spokesperson said that while dismissal could not be ruled out, the no-work-no-pay principle would probably be followed.
UDM hits out at govt threat
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/ 5 February 2004
The star witness in the Martha Stewart trial continued his searing testimony on Wednesday, recounting the businesswoman’s sale of shares in the drug company ImClone and the panic that followed as she and her broker tried to hide that she had been tipped off improperly.
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/ 5 February 2004
The Supreme Court of Massachusetts on Wednesday raised the ante in the United States’s culture wars, ruling that gays and lesbians are entitled to full, equal marriage rights and that less politically explosive alternatives — such as civil unions — are unconstitutional.
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/ 5 February 2004
Coca-Cola and PepsiCo sold soft drinks containing pesticides harmful to human health and misled India’s one billion people over claims that their products were safe for human consumption, Indian MPs concluded on Wednesday. Their report recommended stringent new regulations for fizzy drinks.
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/ 5 February 2004
The contentious topic of abortion in Kenya was revisited on Wednesday during events to mark African Women’s Health and Rights Day. At present, the procedure is banned in the East African country. However, women’s groups are urging the government to open a debate on this policy.
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/ 5 February 2004
As the opportunity to comment on the Convergence Bill — aimed at updating old legislation and promoting competition and growth in the South African communications sector — drew to a close this week, claims have been made that the law, if promulgated, will enable the government to regulate the content of websites.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=30662">Less on the menu on US sites</a>
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/ 5 February 2004
As Americans turn to the internet more often for election news, some websites that offer such news are providing less useful information than they did four years ago, a new study has found. The sites contained less original reporting and fewer links to external sites, and fewer opportunities for web surfers to interact with the sites.
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/ 5 February 2004
Our lead article throws new light on the extent to which crony capitalism and influence peddling is reaching high into the African National Congress — a trend that threatens the integrity of the economic system and the democratic order that is not even 10 years old.
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/ 5 February 2004
The electoral campaign is replete with an assertion that has dogged South Africa’s transition to democracy: the view that the youth are apathetic and, most seriously, contemptuous of politics. This view is variously held in the media, public discourse, academia and wider society. If accurate, it clearly presents a potent danger.
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/ 5 February 2004
"I don’t know how many folks spotted the recent article in <i>The Independent</i> saying, among other things, "A study, which is being taken seriously by top government scientists, has uncovered a change "of remarkable amplitude" in the circulation of the waters of the North Atlantic." The disturbing this is that it’s not the only article of its kind, according to Ian Fraser. Be afraid.