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/ 17 November 2006
Israel is using nanotechnology to try to create a robot no bigger than a hornet that would be able to chase, photograph and kill its targets, an Israeli newspaper reported on Friday. The robot, nicknamed the ”bionic hornet”, would be able to navigate its way down narrow alleyways to target otherwise unreachable enemies such as rocket launchers.
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/ 17 November 2006
Ségolène Royal’s battle to become the first woman president of France begins in earnest on Friday, after the Socialist party on Thursday night overwhelmingly endorsed her as their candidate in next April’s election. ”This moment of happiness is an intense experience. You won’t be disappointed,” she told party members.
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/ 17 November 2006
Dear Auntie Robert,
I am sure you don’t want to add yet more fuel to the veritable furnace of opinion about Mr Jacob Zuma’s campaign to be the next president of South Africa. In the absence of — in my opinion anyway — any other credible presidential candidates among the ANC elite, I have to wonder whether Mr Zuma wouldn’t ultimately be the best bet for us all.
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/ 17 November 2006
Throngs mobbed stores to buy Sony’s eagerly-awaited PlayStation 3 from New York to San Francisco on Friday as the video-game console finally made its United States retail debut. The long line of bleary eyed customers finally made their way to cash registers with their prized consoles shortly after the stroke of midnight.
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/ 17 November 2006
A drilling company has started operations for diamond exploration in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, an area that Bushmen believe they were evicted from, Survival International said on Thursday. TH Drilling confirmed to two members of the First People of the Kalahari organisation that it had started operations in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.
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/ 17 November 2006
On the morning of April 30 1975 a young corporal in the army of North Vietnam drove a tank through the streets of an unfamiliar city wreathed in smoke and resounding with gunfire, and stopped at a set of wrought-iron gates. Corpses lay on the pavement, and in the distance a lone helicopter rose above the United States embassy and turned towards the river.
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/ 17 November 2006
Niren Tolsi appreciates the fact that Skwatta Kamp are back with more of the same, again.
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/ 17 November 2006
The album <i>Frieze</i> illustrates that Chris Letcher is one of the greatest songwriters to grace the shores of this southern-most tip of Africa, writes Lloyd Gedye.
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/ 17 November 2006
We review some of the hottest music you have to have this festive season.
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/ 17 November 2006
Jake White should have savoured the past six days. When he looks back on his career as Springbok coach it may turn out to have been the only time when the opposition coach was under more pressure than he. It is a nice irony, too, that White has spent the last week in the Georgian City of Bath, where England coach Andy Robinson once played his rugby.