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/ 23 January 2003
Beneath the question of whether a nutty sect has actually cloned a baby, lies the more interesting question of why it actually wants to. "The goal is to give humans eternal life through cloning," say the Raelians. You make a clone copy of me and then "download’" my personality into the clone.
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/ 23 January 2003
OBITUARY: "JOHNNY" JOHNSON: Johnny Johnson, who has died aged 79, did not have to make <i>The Citizen</i> profitable — it was bankrolled by the then National Party government to carry out its mission to propagate the apartheid policies of the NP.
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/ 23 January 2003
Economists were generally upbeat about the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) country report on South Africa, released on Thursday. The report said the South African government continued to implement sound monetary and fiscal policies.
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/ 23 January 2003
South Africa’s Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has denied a deterioration in ties with Zimbabwe during a visit to the country in the wake of a diplomatic row.
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/ 23 January 2003
England cricketers would be ”unhappy” to play their World Cup match in Zimbabwe if the security situation deteriorates, the country’s cricket board said on Wednesday.
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/ 23 January 2003
Now Andre Agassi gets to pick on someone his own age when he faces South Africa’s Wayne Ferreira in the Australian Open semi-finals on Thursday.
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/ 23 January 2003
Australian leg-spinning wizard Shane Warne said on Wednesday he would retire from one-day international cricket after the World Cup, with the aim of extending his Test career by at least five years.
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/ 23 January 2003
The silly season is over… Thank God. Now it will take a whole calendar year before again being subjected to corny Boney M and mince-pie jollity. And I, finding myself newly ”single”, will have a measure of respite from the kind looks, soft comments and unspoken words.
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/ 22 January 2003
Internet service providers (ISP) must agree to requests by the music industry to track down computer users who illegally download music, a US judge recently ruled. It is a decision that could dramatically increase online pirates’ risk of being caught.