Harry Potter is not magic for everybody

"Sunday July 1, 2007 The Observer Evil appeared to be prevailing at the end of the last Harry Potter novel with a clutch of main characters dead and the teenage wizard hell-bent on revenge. But while fans are...

Reclaiming Cape Town's Streets, at Least in Name

"Cape Town's renaming panel has recommended that slain musician Taliep Petersen be remembered in a street name, and that a clutch of apartheid-era prime ministers drop off the map. A total of 46 changes suggested...

A Tiny Robotic Hand - a new tool in microsurgery?

"Early this winter in a University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), laboratory, a mechanical hand less than one millimeter wide deftly plucked ba single fish egg from a gooey underwater clutch, demonstrating a new technology that could one day make it into surgeons' tool...

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