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/ 13 September 2009
Forty years ago, the first two computers on the Arpanet, the military network that was the precursor to the internet, exchanged login information.
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/ 13 September 2009
"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast," says Mrs Cheveley in Oscar Wilde’s <em>An Ideal Husband</em>.
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/ 12 September 2009
From the land of fish and chips, beans on toast and deep-fried Mars Bars come fish fingers specially designed to be crispy.
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/ 11 September 2009
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has lashed out at Western sanctions against him, condemning "bloody whites" for meddling in Zimbabwe’s affairs.
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/ 11 September 2009
Bagpipes and drums sounded across Ground Zero on Friday in New York as the city commemorated the eighth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
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/ 11 September 2009
The Cabinet said this week it would be “unrealistic” for the government to agree to greenhouse gas emission targets, saying it would hamper growth.
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/ 11 September 2009
The remains of a 2 000-year-old synagogue where Jesus may have preached were found near the Sea of Galilee, archaeologists said on Friday.
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/ 11 September 2009
The rationale behind placing art videos in clothing and furniture shops is to break barriers between contemporary art, fashion and design.
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/ 11 September 2009
Not so long ago the ANC leadership saw it as a duty to enact that law, however unpopular it might have been, but that seems to have changed.
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/ 11 September 2009
This year the <em>Mail & Guardian</em> celebrates the sixth anniversary of the Greening the Future awards in the same week as Arbor Week.
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/ 10 September 2009
A U.S. robber who went back to the scene of the crime to ask his victim out on a date was arrested after the woman alerted the police.
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/ 10 September 2009
<i>The Glass House</i> follows four girls determined to pull themselves out of the margins by attending a one-of-a-kind rehabilitation facility.
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/ 10 September 2009
Eight internationally acclaimed filmmakers who will present their films and take part in the People to People International Documentary Conference.
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/ 10 September 2009
South African gold production fell 7,6% year-on-year in July 2009, Statistics South Africa said on Thursday.
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/ 10 September 2009
Glenrand MIB has returned to profitability with diluted headline earnings per share of 11,5 cents for the year ended June 2009.
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/ 10 September 2009
Barack Obama tried to put his presidency back on course on Wednesday night with a rare fighting speech to Congress on his healthcare plan.
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/ 10 September 2009
A response to the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> article of August 14, "Gateway never had a chance"
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/ 9 September 2009
A regional call for sanctions to be lifted against Mugabe is not to protect him but to promote investment, Kgalema Motlanthe said on Wednesday.
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/ 9 September 2009
Hundreds of Malaysian couples tied the knot on Wednesday in a mass wedding held on the auspicious "999" date that signifies hopes for a long marriage.
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/ 9 September 2009
An Australian fast food delivery man tried to hold a
four-year-old boy hostage as a row over a pizza supreme turned into a Mexicana stand-off.
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/ 9 September 2009
South African author JM Coetzee is in the running for an unprecedented third Booker Prize, after he was named on this year’s shortlist on Tuesday.
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/ 9 September 2009
The National Research Foundation (NRF) is the custodian of one of the world’s most intensive peer review systems in academic research
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/ 9 September 2009
National Research Foundation: A-rated research professors
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/ 9 September 2009
National Research Foundation: P-rated research professors
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/ 9 September 2009
Scopus is one of the main databases used by the NRF in the process of its monitoring and evaluation system
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/ 8 September 2009
Zimbabwe PM Morgan Tsvangirai on Tuesday called on SADC to closely monitor the progress of his power-sharing deal with Robert Mugabe.
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/ 8 September 2009
Barclays bank has been fined £2.45-million for "serious weaknesses" in systems and controls that led to inaccurate reporting of transactions.
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/ 8 September 2009
SABMiller announced on Tuesday that it has been granted a licence by the Namibian government to brew and bottle beer in Namibia.
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/ 8 September 2009
Saif al-Islam al-Gadaffi, the Libyan leader’s second son, is a powerful mover and shaker in Libya and abroad, despite occupying no official position.
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/ 8 September 2009
Spring has sprung and <i>Mail & Guardian</i> reviewers recommend these fresh sounds to help usher in the festive season.
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/ 7 September 2009
Yet another battle that the media will need to fight to keep the fires of democracy burning.
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/ 7 September 2009
Stephen Gray asks if Sinclair Beiles was SA’s overlooked poet or just a con man.