On the 20th birthday of the PC, the launch of Windows XP could be the end of DOS as we know it, says Jack Schofield At the end of last month the grey skies over Seattle turned blue after a week of rain, and a helicopter took off from the Microsoft campus with briefcases holding […]

A set of readers, written by teachers, will reach about 160 000 learners throughout South Africa Jubie Matlou Road safety awareness is one subject very close to Alice Segola’s heart. This is not surprising because this is a subject that affects many of her pupils at St Ann’s primary school in Atte-ridgeville, outside Pretoria. When […]

Justin Arenstein and Ongeri John The two South African Aids quacks who were booted out of Tanzania last week left behind a string of debts, including a R68 000 telephone bill. Jacques Zigi Visser and Themba Khumalo were deported last Saturday in the wake of mounting controversy about their role in trials of the discredited […]

Noam Chomsky The terrorist attacks were major atrocities. In scale they may not reach the level of many others, for example, Clinton’s bombing of the Sudan with no credible pretext, destroying half its pharmaceutical supplies and killing unknown numbers of people (no one knows, because the United States blocked an inquiry at the United Nations […]

WAYNE COLE, Singapore | Wednesday POLICY makers and central banks around the world are pulling out the stops to prevent the US terror attacks from so unhinging business and consumer confidence that a recession becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Robert McTeer spoke for many on Wednesday when he said it […]

STUART GRUDGINGS, Tokyo | Wednesday TRAUMATISED financial markets showed signs of steadying on Thursday, helped by a huge fund injection by world central banks in response to the vicious attack on US power centres. But deep uncertainty as well as horror at the human cost ensured trade remained very light and stock markets were still […]

CHRISTOPHER MICHAUD, New York | Friday THE developer who led the group that bought a 99-year lease of the trade center said he was determined to help rebuild the complex, as well as 7 World Trade Center, a neighboring building that also collapsed, the Wall Street Journal said in its online edition on Friday. “It […]

Kabul | Friday AS US strikes against Afghanistan appear more and more likely, the whereabouts of terror suspect Osama bin Laden remain a closely guarded secret. Rumours are rife that he has been on the move since Tuesday’s horrific terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, but no one outside his inner circle of close […]

Nicholas Guyatt predicted the attack The American military has overwhelmed its opponents abroad and an increasing reliance on air power and guided missiles has mini-mised disruption or even awareness of these conflicts at home. Given the increasing pace of technological change, however, it is hard to believe that the United States will continue to go […]

comment Seumas Milne Nearly two days after the horrific suicide attacks on civilian workers in New York and Washington, it has become clear that most Americans simply don’t get it. From the president to passers-by on the streets, the message seems to be the same: this is an inexplicable assault on freedom and democracy that […]