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IN
THIS ISSUE
1.
Travel Warning
2. Business: Employment for Doctors overseas being curtailed
3. Business: Improvements for Africa in the Pipeline
4. Business: Investing in South Africa
5. Business: Investing in Wood or Wine
6. Business: South Africans sliding into debt
7. Business: US Dollar no longer the King
8. Business: U.S and Chile Sign Free Trade Treaty
9. Education: City of Shadows, A Gothic Tour of Victorian England
10. Education: Complete Home Medical Guide
11. Education: Foreign students in New Zealand
12. Education: Global Environment
13. Education: Imperial War Museum Collections
14. Education: Into the Wardrobe: A Web Site Devoted to C.S. Lewis
15. Education: The Punch Cartoon Library
16. Education: Wonders of the Seas
17. Immigration: Illegally in the USA
18. Immigration: Migrant smuggling undeterred
19. Education: Old Bailey Proceedings Online
20. Real Estate: South African Palaces?
21. The Robert Louis Stevenson Web Site
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1. Travel Warning
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News
Release: Travel Warning for Kenya
The
Foreign Office lifted its ban on nonessential travel to Kenya
last week, and will lift flight restrictions on travel to Mombassa
soon. Visit
the site of the British Foreign Office.
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2. Business: Employment for Doctors overseas being curtailed
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In
what will be a blow to many local young doctors, the United Kingdom
has clamped down on its work opportunities for doctors from South
Africa and many other countries.
Doctors
who apply to register in the UK after the year's end will be given
only "limited registration", states the website of the
General Medical Council (GMC). These doctors will also
only be allowed to work in the state sector under supervision
and their registration will lapse after 12 or 18 months
To
read the full story, go to our NEWS
DESK link
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3. Business: Improvements for Africa in the Pipeline
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Durban
- Global economic conditions were expected to improve slightly
in the near term and this boded well for African economies, delegates
at the World Economic Forum (WEF) Africa summit were told yesterday.
Mario
Machungo, the chairman of Banco Internacional de Moçambique
(BIM), said he expected African economies to benefit from
improving global economic conditions as well as from initiatives
such as the US's Africa Growth and Opportunity Act and improved
investment flows from the world's richest nations.
To
read more go to our NEWS
DESK link
Editor's Note: One of the objectives of our web site is
also to promote the "Africa Growth and Opportunity Act".
We suggest that you visit our page that covers this programme.
Click
here
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4. Business: Investing in South Africa.
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In
simple terms, investors look for two things, a good return
on their investment and an assurance that their investment is
safe.
The
experience of many multinationals is that the return on their
African operations is significantly better than the returns they
achieve anywhere else in the world, developed or otherwise.
Although Africa is a huge continent comprising 54 countries, ignorant
investors, alas, often treat it as a though it were a single country.
So when Robert Mugabe appears on TV screens to celebrate the confiscation
of land or threaten the closure of companies or rebels invade
cocoa plantations in Cote d'Ivoire or geologists are killed in
the Horn of Africa or the South African parliament enacts an empowerment
act decreeing 25% black ownership, investors immediately think
the same thing could happen in all the other African countries
and worry about the safety of any investment they might make on
the continent.
To
read the full report, go to our NEWS
DESK link
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5. Business: Investing in Wood or Wine
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NERVOUS
savers who were caught out by the stock-market slump are being
offered alternative investments such as forestry, films and
wine.
The
Forestry Investment Plan, for example, offers a return equivalent
to 8.7% a year after 10 years. If you are interested in investing
in wine or vineyards, visit our web page on Investing. click
here
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6. Business: South Africans sliding into debt
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South
Africa is facing an escalating "silent crisis" surrounding
the rapidly rising number of individuals - largely among the poor
and middle-class - facing debt summons and judgments according
to Tradek economist.
To
read the full story, go to our
NEWS DESK link
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7. Business: US Dollar no longer the King
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Aggressive
easing in interest rates in the USA, slowing US economic growth
and lackluster stock market performance have taken the dollar
weaker against the euro, in particular the US is not viewed quite
as favourably as it was in the late 1990s, so long-term money
is being liquidated.
To
read the full story, go to our NEWS
DESK link
Editor's
Note: For further information on investing in currencies,
visit our web page
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8. Business: U.S., Chile Sign Free Trade Treaty
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The
United States and Chile on Friday signed the first free trade
treaty between the United States and a South American country.
Full
story available at Hispanic
Business News
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9. Education: City of Shadows, A Gothic Tour of Victorian
England
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Browse
various subjects relating to the history and times of Victorian
England. Subjects include murder, ghosts, art, society, photographs,
and London.
The
pages offer links to other outside pages, for the most part, although
there are some original essays and studies within the site as
well. This is a wonderful overview of a significant era in England's
history. Visit
this site.
Copyright
2003 by Librarians' Index to the Internet
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10. Education Complete Home Medical Guide
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The
goal of this material is to provide "a comprehensive home
reference that teaches you about your body in sickness and health
... [with] emphasis on disease prevention."
Topics
include a guide the U.S. health care system, fundamentals of good
health, an overview of symptoms and the diagnostic process, first
aid and safety, treatment and prevention of hundreds of diseases,
and drugs and their use.
From
the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Visit
this site.
From
The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003
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11. Education: Foreign students in New Zealand
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A
proposed crackdown on the foreign-student industry would require
schools to know where the students were living and take greater
responsibility for their safety.
The
Government yesterday announced plans for a revised code for the
industry, which is worth about $1.7 billion a year.
The
move came after a 22-year-old intellectually disabled Japanese
man died at an unregistered academy. Nine students face murder
charges. Opponents of the code say it would be costly and impossible
to police.
To
read the fill story, go to our NEWS
DESK link
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12. Education: Global Environment
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"Change
and Our Health" is based on a course at Johns Hopkins
University; this site "explores the connection between
a threatened ecology and dangers to our well-being."
The
site, which features articles, animations, maps, and other images,
is aimed at middle school students, teachers, and parents. Includes
information about global warming, ozone depletion, and the effect
of human actions on the environment and human health, and a glossary.
This is a companion to PBS's Journey to Planet Earth television
series.
Visit this site.
Copyright
2003 by Librarians' Index to the Internet.
Editor's
Note: Visit our web pages on the Environment. Click
on this link.
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13. Education: Imperial War Museum Collections
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This
Online Searchable database of film and video material, sound recordings
and oral history, documents, and other items from the Imperial
War Museum (London, England) collections.
Includes
separate search options for the documents, sound, and film collections.
"If you want to browse there are short essays on major historical
themes which lead you to selected highlights from all the collections."
Visit
this site.
From
The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003
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14. Education: Into the Wardrobe, A Web Site Devoted to
C.S. Lewis
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C.S.
Lewis was a man who wore many hats during his lifetime, although
he is best remembered today by the general public as the author
of the Chronicles of Narnia series.
However,
Lewis also published groundbreaking works that examined the function
of allegory in medieval literature and was respected for his Christian
apologetics.
This
site honors Lewis's life and substantial body of work, and was
developed by an aficionado of his works. Visitors to the site
can peruse a brief biographical sketch of Lewis, along with browsing
through a bibliography of his published works.
The
"Related Resources" section is quite helpful, as
it contains links to sites dealing with his contemporaries, including
Madeleine L'Engle, G.K. Chesterton, and J.R.R. Tolkien. The multimedia
section of the site is quite compelling, as it contains a large
photo gallery and a selection of audio clips.
The
clips feature Lewis talking about the idea of Christian love,
and noted thespians Anthony Quayle, Ian Richardson, and Claire
Bloom reading selections from his novels. Visit
this site.
From
The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003
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15. Education The Punch Cartoon Library
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Punch,
the humor magazine, is publishing many of its 500,000 cartoons
from 1841 onwards, on the Web. "There are witty commentaries
on everyday life, hard-hitting political satire and some of the
just plain funniest cartoons ever published."
Browse
by category (from Accidents to Youth), publication year, or artist,
or search by keyword. Visit
this site.
Editor's
Note: One of our partners has a copy of the last Punch magazine
ever published plus a bound book of the best of the past 100 years
cartoons. Make him an offer around $10,000 and he might sell.
Contact us if you are interested.
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16. Education: Wonders of the Seas
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This site is a series of short lessons with images of selected
sea creatures including sponges, cnidarians, mollusks, echinoderms,
arthropods, sperm whales, manatees, and sharks. From the Oceanic
Research Group. Visit
this site
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17. Immigration: Illegally in the USA
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Undocumented
immigrants contribute more to American society than they take,
and ought to be made citizens, Mayor Michael Bloomberg told skeptical
callers on his radio show Friday.
"Make
everyone who is here and undocumented, just make them citizens,"
Bloomberg said on WABC (770-AM). "Let's get on with
it. They'll become taxpayers. They'll become productive members
of society easier..."
Bloomberg
made his remarks in response to two callers, the first identified
as Chaim, a health-care professional, who complained he's paying
higher taxes for "a huge amount of illegal immigrants
here who collect food stamps, welfare benefits, school benefits,
hospital. You name it, they're collecting it."
"Why
should I pay for people here illegally?"
To
read the full report, go to our
NEWS DESK link.
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18. Immigration Migrant smuggling undeterred
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Tighter
border security following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks has done
little to curb the smuggling of illegal migrants, an enormous
problem highlighted by the recent deaths of 19 people inside a
stifling trailer in southeast Texas.
But
smuggling is not confined to the U.S.-Mexican border: Last year,
the U.S. attorney's office in South Florida prosecuted 74 people
accused of smuggling, more than double the number from the previous
year. To read the full report, go to our NEWS
DESK link
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19. Education: Old Bailey Proceedings Online
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Formally known as the Central Criminal Court of London, the Old
Bailey is arguably the world's most well known criminal court.
Serving
the Commonwealth since the 17th century, the Old Bailey has seen
hundreds of thousands of trials for every offense imaginable,
along with serving as the setting for many important trials of
the famous and infamous.
Designed
as collaboration between the University of Sheffield and the University
of Hertfordshire, this ambitious project aims to create a fully
searchable digitized collection of the Old Bailey's entire proceedings
from 1674 to 1834. Currently, visitors can browse through 22,000
trials, from December 1714 to December 1759.
The
Web site indicates that the entire proceedings should be online
by spring of 2004, so interested persons should continue to check
back frequently. From the main page, visitors can search the proceedings
(and elect to read a transcription of each trial or view the original
document), read about the nature of the proceedings, and read
some engaging background essays on crime and punishment through
the court's history. Visit
this site
Editor's Note: What a shock, I even found my Great-Grandfather's
name in the list of cases recorded at Old Bailey.
From
The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003
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20. Real Estate: South African Palaces?
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King
Goodwill Zwelithini of the Zulu nation is to receive a seventh
palace, built in 1993 for R5-million, SABC radio news reported.
Thousands of people, including government officials, amakhosi,
and representatives from foreign embassies have gathered at Ulundi
in northern KwaZulu-Natal, for the handing over.
The Ondini Palace was built in 1993 by the former KwaZulu government,
but remained unoccupied after a war of words between Zwelithini
and Inkatha Freedom Party leaders.
Editor's Note: Visit
our page on real estate, as such great deals are available
in South Africa.
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21. The Robert Louis Stevenson Web Site
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Perhaps best known for his novels "Treasure Island"
and "Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde," Robert Louis Stevenson
receives a fine tribute on this site, which serves both as a compendium
of links, and as a nice resource for primary documents and writings
by, and about, this notable 19th century writer.
Created
and maintained by Richard Drury, a graduate of the University
of Manchester and a professor at the Universita di Bergamo, the
site contains a number of thematic sections that address Stevenson's
life, available online electronic editions of his works, and extended
bibliographies.
Visitors
unfamiliar with the life of this rather fascinating man may want
to start by reading one of the online essays about his life, or
by diving right into one of the electronic editions of his works.
Of particular interest to Stevenson scholars and aficionados will
be the "Critical Reception" area of the site that explores
the ways in which his work has been received over the past century
or so. Visit
this site
From
The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003
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Don't
tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them
surprise you with their results.
~ George S. Patton
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