Name: John Sulston Institution: Sanger Centre, Cambridge Field: Mapping the human genome Above the reception desk at the Sanger Centre, John Sulston has installed an electronic display, showing the genes of humanity streaming from the sequencing machines in Sanger’s laboratories to the Medical Research Council’s computers nearby. Look at it for a few minutes and […]
ocean’ Ann Eveleth The sale of up to 10-million ounces of International Monetary Fund (IMF) gold reserves will do little to break the 30-year cycle of debt that has trapped Africa in poverty for decades. The R9-billion to R18- billion such a sale could generate is a mere drop in the ocean of developing-world debt. […]
A top office-holder of the Law Society of South Africa has been accused of sitting on some clients’ road accident pay-outs.
Matthew Simpson Attempting to confine the effect of being at a THC gig to words is much like attempting to explain the Aurora Borealis to a blind person. But I suppose it can be found somewhere in the wild, bemused grins plastered on the faces of the audience, in the intricate tap and thump of […]
WALLABY winger Ben Tune will defy a request by the Australian Rugby Union (ARU) and play for Queensland in Saturday’s Super 12 clash against South African team the Cats. ARU doctor John Best wanted Tune, 22, to take a month off to allow his injured knee to heal in time for this year’s international season […]
THURSDAY, 11.30AM: BAFANA Bafana will play fellow World Cup qualifiers Romania in Bucharest in their final warm-up game in preparation for their opening World Cup match against France on June 12. The South Africans were scheduled to play Slovakia in their final warm-up, but South African Football Association CEO Danny Jordaan said the change was […]
CD of the week Caroline Sullivan Until Catatonia came along – or until their breakthrough second album, International Velvet, did – few realised British rock had a niche shaped just like them. Now that they’ve filled it, the question seems obvious: how did pop get by without a Cerys Matthews? Catatonia’s singer and co-lyricist is […]
Maggie Davey The artist formerly known as Sinead O’Connor has made a startling metamorphosis. Not content with having acted the role of the Virgin Mary in The Butcher Boy, a recent film by Neil Jordan, O’Connor has now been ordained (twice) in the Tridentine Catholic faith. In addition to paying 150 000 to finance an […]
The Ministry of Health says it needs proof of the effectiveness of AZT before it can accept discount offers for the drug. Aaron Nicodemus reports The Ministry of Health has so far refused to accept Glaxo Wellcome’s offer of a reduced price for anti-retroviral drugs, and maintains that there is not enough proof that anti-retroviral […]
Friday night Matthew van der Want `I have numerous talents, but bringing back life to the dead is not one of them”. That’s what Professor Sherman no doubt still says to his Wits English students and it’s what I’m left thinking about the audience we play to in the middle of Friday afternoon on a […]