South African Telescope Spots 1,300 Unknown Galaxies: Astronomers from South Africa on Saturday revealed more than a thousand galaxies nobody knew existed. They were showing off the first taste of the ultimate cosmic feast of what is to come, at least as seen from this particular dusty crumb called Earth.
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Ollie Phillips: Rugby sevens will light up the Olympics: In sevens, more often than not, it can’t be.” Fifteen-a-side world stars like Bryan Habana and Quade Cooper failed in their attempts to secure respective Rio selection for South Africa and Australia. While New Zealand’s Sonny Bill Williams made the final …
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Russian Federation should be barred from Olympics, WADA board says: Germany and Japan were barred from the 1948 games following the Second World War; South Africa was banned between 1960 and 1992 because of apartheid. But 68 Russian track-and-field athletes are appealinc1g to the Court of Arbitration for Sport to compete …
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Leaving the Streets Behind: Though he could barely swim at the time, Msibi showed natural ability on a surfboard. By age 14, Msibi was representing South Africa at the ISA Pro Juniors in Ecuador and he has since surfed for the South African National Junior team. Msibi’s story is …
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IAC: Anti-HIV Programs Miss Too Many at Highest Risk: DURBAN, South Africa – Familiar names appeared in person here to praise progress in the battle against HIV/AIDS achieved in the last 16 years, but also to call for new programs targeting groups on the margins of society – including injecting drug users …
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We Subsidize Crops We Should Eat Less Of, Does This Fatten Us Up?: “We place an import levy on cheap sugar from abroad,” says Paarlberg. “We use it like a quota system to keep cheap sugar from the Caribbean or Australia or South Africa out of our market.” And without the global, free-market competition, “that raises the …
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Batsmen need to make each session count and give time for bowlers: Rahane: It is all about focusing on this series now. As long as we are learning from the South Africa series, it is all about this series now. Patience will be the key as a batting unit, but once you get set it is important to make each and every session count …
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