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*2003 World Summit Award recognition
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Winner of the NSTF Award for Science
Winner of the Highway Africa
New Media award
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This Month's Features
Outsourcing conservation
 Study
shows private game reserves in South Africa turn the rural economy
around in an environmentally sustainable way.
World's oldest ritual?
 Research
in southern Africa suggests
that modern humans, Homo sapiens, performed advanced rituals in
Africa for 70,000 years.
Frozen herbs - fresh to your plate
 Science
and common sense add value to southern African agricultural products
- staying competitive in the global economy.
Health
Diagnosis through the eyes
 Looking
at changes to the retina, doctors can now diagnose one of the major
childhood killers in Africa.
Illegal trade in used oil a timebomb
 As
fried fast foods spread into modern Africa, the illegal resale of used
oil for human consumption is creating a cancer time bomb.
Insight & Opinion
Science advice can be a matter of life and
death.
African Science Academies Development Initiative highlights the
overwhelming need for understandable, impartial scientific advice in
Africa.
Developing
country universities at risk.
The survival of many developing country universities, especially in
Africa, is at risk if they are not quickly strengthened and geared to
help address regional development problems through research
Fighting AIDS with evidence
Public health authorities in South Africa’s Free State
province design a rollout of ARV therapies that will strengthen the
public health system.
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In this Issue
Mighty little mushroom beats locust plague in Mauritania - pesticides
to treat locust plagues could be a thing of the past.
Ancient remains of Little Foot now shown to be too young to be a
part of humankind’s family tree.
Struggling to find a gift or needing a new year's resolution? Give a
polar bear a tattoo or buy a goat.
Lesser Flamingoes find new paradise flocking in their thousands to -
Kenya's Oloidien Lake - a volcanic crater
Diabetes on the rise in west Africa as high fat and sugar Western diet
replaces traditional meals.
High - tech radio astronomy instruments set to be built as site for
construction of Karoo Array Telescope (KAT) prototype launched.
Education
New initiatives to train African science journalists a welcome boost
for science in Africa.
SA academic has been rated as one of the world’s most influential plant
experts and scientists.
Climate change
An optimistic look
Preventing climate change does not mean stopping economic growth.
Lessons for the USA.
Climate change conference has let Africa and the rest of the
developing world down.
Climate change to blame for increasing epidemics of malaria and
water-borne diseases in Africa.
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