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*2003 World Summit Award recognition
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*2003 Winner of the Highway Africa New Media award
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* 2002 Winner of the
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This Month's Features
Introducing the bush mechanic
 There
are few people more symbolic of rural African ingenuity than the bush
mechanics. Cost effective, cunning and, hey, it works.
The science of salvage
 Salvage
- utilising some of the most advanced maritime technology on Earth to
save lives, rescue property and protect the environment.
Health
African oil palm
Producing two types of oil and with a per hectare  yield
of as much as 9 to 10 times that of soybeans, the African Oil Palm is
attracting great interest for both human and mechanical (fuel)
consumption.
No ordinary oil -
 Recognised
as a potent nutritional supplement, vitamin rich palm fruit oil
extracted from the African Oil Palm has much more to offer.
Good for your heart
 If
it contains fats, surely it's bad for your heart? Not necessarily. Scientists
shows how red palm oil can actually be good for you.
Technology
Alternative fuel
 With
rising petrol prices and the harm to the environment by fossil fuels,
SA scientists investigate a "biodiesel tree".
African telescope captures the light
 SALT,
the largest optical telescope in the southern hemisphere releases its
first images of distant galaxies.
Insight
 Responsibility
to the Great Apes
With the newest genome mapping showing that humans and chimpanzees
share more than 99% DNA, scientists argue for ethical and scientific
guidelines for our closest evolutionary cousins.
African
universities - bandwidth
Bandwidth in African universities:
too little and too expensive. Access
to decent bandwidth would make several things possible for African
researchers and educators.
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In this Issue
As thousand year old trees make way for crops, scientists explore the
commercialisation of beverages which could save the baobab.
Extinct quagga and its relation to the zebra reveals that it lost its
stripes through rapid evolution after the Ice Age.
Are you a man or a mouse? Latest genetic
research findings to transform our understanding of what makes a
mouse, a mouse, and a human, human.
Okavango's crocodiles given another fighting chance, following the
first step in the approval of a nesting sanctuary.
Scientists in SA find unacceptably high levels of the toxic metal lead,
associated with learning problems, in the paint of children's toys.
Internet traffic on the African continent will soon be travelling
shorter — and, therefore, cheaper — routes.
Poaching of hippos for teeth and meat in the DRC may lead to their
extinction in the Virunga National Park.
Education
Educational films on the environmental
resources and challenges at Lake Naivasha (Ramsar site) in Kenya launched.
First NEPAD e-School in Southern Africa launched in Lesotho - part of
larger plan to connect over 600 000 schools.
Launch of a new fellowship programme in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania to
equip women crop scientists for leadership.
The search is now on for nominations for the 2005 winners of SA's
"science oscars"
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