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/ 3 September 2003

Typhoon ravages China

At least 23 people were killed and 109 injured after powerful Typhoon Dujuan struck southern China. Sixteen were migrant workers killed when buildings collapsed on a construction site.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=19894">Earthquake jolts northwest China</a>

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/ 3 September 2003

Zuma application to be postponed

The National Directorate of Public Prosecutions asked the Pretoria High Court on Wednesday to postpone the hearing of an urgent application by Deputy President Jacob Zuma to get access to a letter allegedly implicating him in trying to solicit a bribe.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=19931">Mbeki must speak on Zuma, says UDM</a>

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/ 3 September 2003

Focusing on Ford

Ford South Africa promised us that they’re going to be coming back in a big way to regain their reputation for making value and fun-filled cars that offered great performance. We think they’ve taken a good few steps in the right direction.

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/ 3 September 2003

Spotlight on ad industry ‘bias’

Despite two recent parliamentary hearings on racism in advertising, new research confirms that "white" media continue to garner a disproportionate share of South Africa’s advertising revenue. The implication is that sustained inequality in spend prevents local media from painting a more realistic and inclusive picture of South African society.

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/ 3 September 2003

The future is blue

Colin Humphreys of Cambridge University has the 21st-century equivalent of the philosopher’s stone. He is working with something that sounds like an alchemist’s dream: a substance that could turn base metal into gold. It could transmit light without wasting energy as heat and make computers 10 000 times faster.

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/ 3 September 2003

Is small still beautiful?

Thirty years have passed since the publication of a slim volume of essays titled Small is Beautiful, which was a key text of the nascent environmental movement and helped shape modern environmentalism, development theory and the global justice movement.