The source of lay belief in the causes of diseases and their treatments is the medical literature that abounds with fraudulent studies designed to affirm the safety and efficiency of drugs and surgical interventions. Medical history is punctuated with disasters.
President Robert Mugabe and his cronies have decided that GM corn is a bad thing for Zimbabwe, even if the country is in the middle of a two-year famine. Instead of allowing donations of thousands of tons of corn to the nearly 3 million people, Mugabe has outlawed GM food imports.
I have had a bottom makeover. I have had bio-dermology and bio-therapeutic on my backside, executed by a woman in a white coat and surgical gloves. She looked like a doctor, but was a beautician called Jacqui, with diplomas in subjects such as ”beauty culture”.
Robert Mugabe’s plans to forcibly evict nearly 3 000 whites from their farms from midnight on Thursday suffered a blow when a judge ruled that most of the eviction orders had been wrongly issued.
The Bush administration sat on a Clinton-era plan to attack al-Qaida in Afghanistan for eight months because of political hostility to the outgoing president and competing priorities. The plan was drawn up in the last days of Bill Clinton’s administration.
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A Kenyan study has found that HIV-positive men with low CD4 counts are at a higher risk of reinfection with bilharzia.
In his efforts to expunge from himself all blame for the Democratic Party/New National Party divorce ("Is there love after Kortbroek", August 2), Tony Leon suffers a serious lapse of memory.
We was robbed. Well, OK, it was a long time ago. But collectively we, as a family, are still smarting as if it happened just the other day, and in broad daylight, at that.
Downed by, of all things, a Surrey heatstroke, I missed my flight home and spent an extra week chilling out in the same green Surrey. Out of touch with things South African, I spent some time watching television last week.