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Do prosthetics give runners an unfair advantage?
Vancouver Sun
As it turned out, it wasn't the fastest man on two legs who made the biggest headlines at the recentworld track and field championships in South Korea. It was the fastest man on no legs. It was Oscar Pistorius, the 24-year-old South African 400-metre ...
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Bad News Abounds in Latest Labor Day Employment Report
Public News Service
Report author Orlando Rodriguez says recent college graduates as well as established workers suffered serious job losses, while African-Americans and Latinos fared the worst. "College-educated workers are now also feeling the impact of the Great ...
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Proposed African-American museum in Nashville will have music theme
The Tennessean
The theme of a planned African-American museum in Nashville has recently undergone a facelift to focus solely on “America's music,” a group associated with raising money for it says. The shift reflects recent changes in the museum board's leadership, ...
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SA vehicle sales up in August, growth to slow − Naamsa
Creamer Media's Engineering News
New vehicle sales in South Africa at 51 436 in August was 12.6% higher than the previous month, bolstered by a strong rise in commercial vehicles, the latest statistics released by he National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of South Africa ...
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South Africa: Ministry Welcomes Progress On the Protection of State ...
AllAfrica.com
The Ministry of State Security has noted the latest developments with regards to the processing of the Protection of State Information Bill. The recent developments represent a major step in the direction of completing this piece of legislation which ...
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East Africa: US Pledge to Horn of Africa Hunger Tops $600 Million
AllAfrica.com
He said $10 million of the latest allocation will be devoted to the needs of people in Somalia. Prior to this latest allocation, the United States had pledged about $580 million to feed the hungry and ease suffering in the region. ...
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Turkish aid to Somalia: A new pulse in Africa
Aljazeera.net
Whatever the reason, Erdogan's latest visit to Somalia reminds us of the 192 other UN leaders who stayed home. The Least Developed Countries (LDCs), consisting of 48 states including Somalia, remain in a power vacuum within the international system. ...
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The show that buzzed!
Screen Africa
Mediatech Africa, the continent's biggest advanced technology trade show, took place recently at Johannesburg's Coca-Cola dome and attracted over 6, 000 visitors, all eager to see the latestbroadcast, film, professional audio, post-production, ...
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'Break with convention,' urge Loeries judges
Screen Africa
The latest global trends in brand communication were revealed at the Loerie Awards Seminar held at The Campus in Bryanston, Johannesburg, in July. International chairmen of the Loeries Judging Panels, AndrĂ© Laurentino, Garrick Hamm and Adrian Miller ...
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Format raises India's hopes
ESPNcricinfo.com
England have won three of the last four series at home by a margin of 3-2 and if the record between the two sides in recent years is any indication, the series is set to be another closely-fought one. South Africa and Australia have been the best teams ...
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ESPNcricinfo.com
SMALL CAP MOVERS: City predators eye up the bargains
This is Money
By Jamie Ashcroft, Proactive Investors Deal flow seems to be picking up as we emerge from the carnage of the latest market meltdown and the City's predators spy a bargain. The biggest of the recent wave of deals is of course Hewlett Packard's £7billion ...
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This is Money
Mapeza honours players
The Zimbabwean
FIFA attributed the positive movement to the team's recent victory over neighbours Zambia in a friendly international played at Rufaro Stadium earlier this month. Zimbabwe has been on a steady rise since the beginning of this year and put theirAfrican ...
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The Zimbabwean
New initiative to reward, report cops
BuaNews Online (press release)
Pretoria - A new campaign, aimed at promoting professional policing, will see the best and worst of the country's police officers being singled out by the South African public. The 'Reward a cop, report a cop' campaign was launchedby the Institute for ...
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Sorry, Your “Race Card” is Expired, Over-Limit, and Declined!
Intellectual Conservative
The latest version of a data recovery software are available in a search in various difficulties download rosetta stone mandarin at the history of purchases to learn this. Click OK again and The buy pinnacle studio 12 Computer Technology Industry ...
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Japan ``Remains Committed`` to ODA-based Humanitarian Aid Despite the Earthquake
PanOrient News
Examples of recent Japanese humanitarian assistance after the Great East Japan Earthquake cited by the paper are Horn of Africa, and Yemen. In the "Horn of Africa" region, drought has worsened since last fall. Without sufficient rainfall in the spring ...
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PanOrient News
Tsvangirai's poor judgment increasingly self-evident
Zimbabwe Independent
This is proven historically and in recent struggles against dictatorships all over the world. The recentexamples including the Eastern Europe uprisings against communist regimes and even more current the North African uprisings (with the exception of ...
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UF Officer Fired After Traffic Stop
WJXT Jacksonville
The most recent criticism of University of Florida police officer Keith Smith over three incidents in the past three years has cost the officer his job. In 2008, Smith and other officers from the Gainesville Police Department were accused of throwing ...
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Exxon Blows Past Its Big Oil Peers
Motley Fool
By David Lee Smith | More Articles Thinking about the recent performance of a pair of Big Oil companies, namely ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM ) and BP (NYSE: BP ) , is akin to studying the speed capabilities of a finely tuned Indy open-wheeler and a Conestoga ...
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BoA Merrill Lynch: the case for Turkey
Financial Times (blog)
Despite having created 3.2m jobs since 2009 – more than jobs created in the EU, Russia and South African put together – employment growth has not been enough for a population whose average age is just 29. The young population has another advantage – a ...
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Financial Times (blog)
England name U20 EPS
NOW Rugby
The 32-man group will compete in the Under 20 6 Nations in the New Year before heading to SouthAfrica for the IRB Junior World Championship next June. Hunter, assisted by newly appointed former Bedford Blues coach Nick Walshe, can call on 11 players ...
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Friday Movie Roundup: Summer's Over Edition!
Cincinnati CityBeat
Flash forward four months, and numerous facts have emerged: It's been another summer dominated by largely lackluster sequels and other recycled offerings (I couldn't even get excited by the latest Harry Potter — well, besides that fact that it is ...
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Cincinnati CityBeat
Kick back & relax!
The Swazi Observer
The comedy show will be followed by a play directed by South African, Makhosi Dlamini. Landervelt arrived in the country last week with visitors from Zimbabwe, South Africa who attended the recentfestival hosted by PS Studios. ...
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August Jobs -- Zero Progress
Huffington Post (blog)
We saw 18% youth unemployment this summer with 30% for African American youth. This bodes poorly for the future and highlights the disproportionate negative effect that the recent economy has exerted the young.
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After 9/11: our own low, dishonest decade
The Guardian
"They too are our cause," Blair had proclaimed after 9/11, "the starving, the wretched, the dispossessed, the ignorant, those living in want and squalor from the deserts of northern Africa to the slums of Gaza, to the mountain ranges of Afghanistan. ...
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The Guardian
War stories: 10 years after September 11th
Irish Times
He marshals both talents in this latest book, with the aim of exploring the violence arising from the events of 9/11 from the point of view of the actors in the various theatres of war. As Burke says, the focus is not on the substance of decisions made...
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Irish Times
The new gold rush
New Statesman
In 2010, China extracted 341 tonnes, up almost 9 per cent year on year, overtaking other major producers such as Australia and South Africa. With the latest price rises driving further Chinese investment in gold mining, the conventional scarcity of the ...
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New Statesman
The Liberian Referendum: How the Media Dropped the Ball (Guest Commentary)
The Liberian Journal
Front Page Africa, (Frontpageafricaonline.com ), a leading on line Liberian news media, apparently realizing its poor reporting on the first results, tried to make good on subsequent results reporting. In its recent report on the results written by its ...
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The Liberian Journal
Wind energy: 3 reasons why future may belong to Suzlon
Commodity Online
--Focus on Emerging Markets and Offshore: Suzlon is focusing more on emerging markets like Brazil, China, India and South Africa and off shore opportunities in Germany and UK. With Europe's limitations in land area, the opportunity for growth in ...
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Bird Flu Resurgence
Bulatlat (blog)
The H5N1 virus was the cause of the loss of millions of poultry in Asia, Europe and Africa. In 1996, highly pathogenic H5N1 virus was isolated from a goose farm in Guangdong Province in China. A year later, outbreaks of H5N1 were reported at farms and ...
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CEO, NDTV Group
exchange4media.com
During these years, he switched with ease from the prime time 9 o'clock News to the cult favourite 'Gadget Guru', where he slips into a more comfortable avatar to discuss and review all the latestgizmos. But he is perhaps best associated with NDTV's ...
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Sumbandila failures are 'normal'
ITWeb (blog)
Democratic Alliance (DA) science and technology shadow minister Marian Shinn said on 23 August that the latest problem with the satellite in early June is disappointing. She said this time the failure was of the on-board computer to respond to commands ...
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ITWeb (blog)
Travel agents take trip into 21st century
Ct Post
Today, Cruise, Resort and World Travel Inc.'s bread and butter comes from planning exotic trips to Nepal and the African veldt or persuading the Tower of London to open early for a private breakfast and viewing of the crown jewels. ...
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Powering Prosthetics With Thoughts Alone
WJAC Johnstown
Their i-LIMB Pulse is the latest in a range of myoelectric prosthetic devices which "utilize the electrical signal generated by the muscles in the remaining portion of the patient's limb." All five digits on the bionic hand function like a real human ...
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Central Bank Of Kenya: “Stuck Between A Rock And A Hard Place”
Risk WatchDog
This week Mark Schaltuper speaks to Sub-Saharan Africa analyst, Matt Searle, about the Kenyan central bank's conundrum. Subscribe to our free daily or weekly email newsletters or get our latestposts on your prefered RSS reader. ...
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Human gut bacteria seem to be picky eaters
CBC.ca
In that study, the Bacteroides enterotype dominated in the European samples whereas the Africansamples were dominated by Prevotella — the same pattern as in the latest study. Other differences between Europe and Burkino Faso could explain the ...
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Rick Perry set to carry out one or two more questionable executions as candidate
Salon
They did so in part with the testimony of a psychologist, Dr. Walter Quijano, who testified that Buck's race (he's African-American) made him more likely to commit crimes in the future. (Quijano answered in the affirmative to the question of whether ...
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Salon
MovieBob: Ten Movies That Will Never Be
Escapist Magazine
"A young man (or woman) of African-American descent living in the segregated South in the early 1960s joins the burgeoning Civil Rights movement, embarking on a life-changing journey during one of the most tumultuous and triumphant periods in recent ...
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Selling Kuchh Nai
Business Standard (blog)
India is the second overseas market for Kuchh Nai after Canada where it is distributed by one Del Singh, and the company is on the lookout for distributors in countries like “South Africa, China, Nepal, Kenya and Malaysia”. The name, for sure, ...
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FOR RENT | DVD Report Card
Tuscaloosa News (subscription)
By Corey Craft There must be a whole subgenre of African-American comedy based around the mispronunciation of the word “bourgeois,” as I've heard that joke in multiple movies, including “Jumping the Broom” from a few weeks ago and now “Tyler Perry's ...
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Mbada Diamond funds lucrative soccer tournament - Sports ...
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Mbada Diamond funds lucrative soccer tournament, Soccer Sponsorship news from SportsPro MediaAfrica. ... Darlington the latest to offer lottery on shirt sponsorship - 27 October 2009 ...
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