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/ 1 June 2005

Local Eggs Not All They’re Cracked Up To Be?

Odds are that a few weeks ago, most Senegalese would have looked blank if asked to comment on persistent organic pollutants”. Now, they’re only too aware of the dangers posed by these chemicals also known as POPs. This follows the publication of a study which showed that dioxins had been found in eggs laid by free-range chickens in Dakar.

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/ 1 June 2005

Squatters resist Red Ants in Boksburg

Squatters burned tyres, threw stones and toyi-toyied in Boksburg on Wednesday when security guards, known as the ”Red Ants”, moved in to evict them and demolish their shacks. Incidents of violence were isolated and ”no major resistance” was being shown by the 6 000 squatters, said Ekurhuleni metro police spokesperson Chief Superintendent Wilfred Kgasago.

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/ 1 June 2005

Flush in GP

I was with Ali G the other day. I had collected him from the airport as he landed from Kazakhstan, and he was carrying a magazine with its title "i" turned upside down so it looked like an exclamation mark. Nifty. On the cover stood four young, black people in designer suits. The headline read: "The Colour of Money". He informed me that this was "breaking news", in a Kazakh accent — charming.

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/ 1 June 2005

Pietersen lets his bat do the talking

Kevin Pietersen has been given an opportunity to make the most of the absence of his Ashes rivals by starring for England in the triangular one day series with Australia and Bangladesh. Hard-hitting Pietersen came to prominence by scoring three hundreds during England’s 4-1 winter one-day series defeat in South Africa.

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/ 1 June 2005

The fall of Richard Nixon

The scandal began with a botched burglary that initially attracted little attention but ended two years later with the first and only resignation of a president. To many Americans, Watergate is a dimming memory, if that. A majority of living Americans were not yet born or were children when President Richard Nixon was forced from office in 1974.

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/ 1 June 2005

FBI man: ‘I was Deep Throat’

One of the greatest political and journalistic mysteries of the past century may have been solved after a former FBI official outed himself as ”Deep Throat”, the source of the Washington Post‘s explosive revelations about president Richard Nixon’s Watergate cover-up.