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/ 19 January 2005
In a blizzard of dry ice, operatic music and multi-ethnic dancing, the world’s largest passenger plane made its first public appearance at a vast airfield on the outskirts of Toulouse in France on Tuesday. Bathed in soft purple light, the Airbus A380 ”superjumbo” dwarfed a crowd of 5Â 000 guests including Tony Blair and his fellow heads of government from France, Germany and Spain.
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/ 19 January 2005
United States President George Bush never campaigned in Utah. He did not need to. Without showing up, he won 71% of the vote there in November, the biggest majority in any state. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints dominates public and private life from its multi-steepled white stone temple in Salt Lake City, and its influence is spreading wider with every passing year.
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/ 19 January 2005
Journalists and advertisers are bound together like squabbling conjoined twins. Advertising pays most of a newspaper’s bills, while journalists bring the readers the advertiser wants to speak to. Anyone who has been in a media environment will be aware that it is a difficult relationship. Managed, in most cases, by keeping roles and responsibilities clearly separate.
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/ 19 January 2005
While a decade may seem a substantial amount of time to some, it is all too short for those who are pushing to have the Millennium Development Goals realised. The prospects for achieving the goals appear especially bleak for sub-Saharan Africa, especially Kenya, unless drastic measures are implemented.
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/ 19 January 2005
On first acquaintance Gillian Wilkinson seems rather vague – dreamy perhaps. But she has the ability to approach things without preconceptions, to see the needs of the moment.
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/ 19 January 2005
Around the world, bullying has always been part of the hidden curriculum at schools. Despite the strategies that have been developed to deal with this scourge, it continues to threaten the well-being of many young people and creates serious barriers to learning. Author Keith Sullivan’s handbook is firstly an attempt to get schools to view bullying as a serious challenge.
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/ 19 January 2005
Last month’s tsunami inundated Sri Lanka’s water supplies and agricultural land with salt water. Despite concerns raised by United Nations officials, Sri Lankan authorities claim the island’s food security is not threatened. The tsunami waves contaminated water and damaged crops most heavily on Sri Lanka’s east coast, whose rice fields produce more than one-third of the country’s total harvest.
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/ 19 January 2005
Scandal, e.tv’s new soapie, taps into the entertainment industry’s latest obsession — journalists. Journalism has clearly become the ”new pink”. But this is not the stuff that drives the media world of intrigue, investigation and controversy. Instead, soapies steer away from sexy minds and keep their cameras focused on the bodies of stars who look nothing like the journalists.
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/ 19 January 2005
The death toll from the earthquake and tsunami disaster in Indian Ocean nations rose to nearly 220 000 on Wednesday with another 50 000 deaths reported by Indonesia’s health ministry. Indonesia was hardest hit by the December 26 quake and tsunamis, with 166 320 confirmed deaths, the health ministry said.
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/ 19 January 2005
An own-goal by Djimi Traore handed Championship side Burnley a deserved 1-0 victory over Premiership giants Liverpool in the third round of the FA Cup in Burnley on Tuesday. Liverpool fielded an under-strength side and paid the penalty, ending the match with 10 men after Antonio Nunez was sent off shortly before the final whistle.