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/ 4 August 2003

Bush threatens nukes

Well, war is looming on the horizon and the mad swines of the Bush Administration are drooling over the potential oil that is shortly to be theirs. (I call them mad swine instead of just swine — because of a report that Bush is considering nuclear weapons as an option.

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/ 4 August 2003

Education online

One of the joys about the Internet is the ability it provides to educate you and teach you things on a variety of levels. Which is why governments are using every boogeyman they can find to institute harsher and more restrictive laws to block the ‘Net and send you back to passively watching TV.

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/ 4 August 2003

Way beyond a joke

I’m surprised that Africa is so surprised that Darth Vader Jnr has failed to take action against the lethal chaos of Liberia, in spite of the (somewhat ill-considered) pleas of many of the people of that country that he should.

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/ 4 August 2003

Aids vaccine trials begin

Joseph Sirrah looked forward to receiving his first injection on Tuesday as part of Uganda’s Aids vaccine trials, despite the reservations of his wife and members of his community. In SA, 150 volunteers have already been recruited and screened.

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/ 4 August 2003

Über-merc

PSSST! Fancy a peek at Germany’s most politically-incorrect export since the V2 rocket? The Mercedes-Benz factory has just released pics of their monster SLR McLaren – a gull-winged, aerodynamic beauty rumoured to reach 100 km/hr in under four seconds, and attain a top speed of 340 km/hr.

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/ 4 August 2003

Equal to the best in the world

The recent growth of scientific excellence within historically black universities (HBUs) is being hailed as a remarkable success story. The result of a seven-year collaborative research programme between South Africa and Britain, this growth has taken place in universities that apartheid decreed were to remain inferior forever.