HAVE you noticed the latest coming out of Eastern Europe — the Estonians, the Lithuanians, the Latvians, the Czechs, and let us not forget the Ukrainians? Suddenly everyone thinks it
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IN JULY, the world celebrated 200 years since the birth of Gregor Mendel, who is widely accepted as the ‘father of modern genetics’ for his discovery of the laws of
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It is an atomic bomb. It is the greatest thing in history. — President Harry S Truman (August 6, 1945) ONE of the seemingly endless Good [sic] War myths
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DANIEL Hale, dressed in a khaki uniform, his hair cut short and sporting a long, neatly groomed brown beard, is seated behind a plexiglass screen, speaking into a telephone receiver
THE government’s efforts to suppress the protest movement by the targeting of its leading members individually are polarising the country more than ever before. Instead of addressing the underlying causes