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No pitches, no jerseys, but African soccer flourishes
Martyn Drakard | 30 June 2006
Commercialised sport has finally become a part of African life, as current interest in the World Cup shows.
Harvard’s stem cell misstep
Michael Cook | 29 June 2006 | 2
Harvard University has given the cause of therapeutic cloning the backing of its immense prestige. A stem cell scientist tells MercatorNet that this is based on inflated hopes and bad science.
Oath Betrayed: doctors in the war on terror
Michael Cook | 28 June 2006
Have American doctors and other health personnel cooperated in the abuse and torture of suspected terrorists? Yes, says medical ethicist Steven Miles in this exclusive interview.
FOCUS ON EUROPES FUTURE Zapatero reinvents Spain
Ignacio Archaga | 25 June 2006
Spaniards used to be famed as fervent Catholics. But a new socialist government seems determined to change all that.
The MercatorNet IdeaFest In a globalised world, mediocre teaching is doomed
Peter Wood | 24 June 2006 | 1
Why can’t the Western world produce talented, enthusiastic teachers? By 2036 it will be forced to.
FOCUS ON EUROPES FUTURE Putin warns of demographic doom
Carolyn Moynihan | 24 June 2006 | 1
Russia's president recently told his people that demographic decline is their number one problem.
FOCUS ON EUROPES FUTURE Sarkozy calls for a deal with Muslims
Michael Shanks | 24 June 2006
A leading French presidential aspirant wants to reinterpret immutable secular dogmas to integrate Muslim citizens.
The MercatorNet IdeaFest Farewell to governments iron grip on healthcare
Michel Kelly-Gagnon | 16 June 2006
By 2020 you’ll fly to superb clinics in Bangkok or New Delhi if you want cheaper and quicker treatment.
FOCUS ON FOOD The economy begins in the kitchen
Maria Sophia Aguirre | 15 June 2006
Setting time aside for family dinners might seem insignificant, but when Mao Tse-Tung abolished them, 30 million people died.
FOCUS ON FOOD Neurotic standards for professionals and none for me
Prue Leith | 15 June 2006
If order, clean design, a good state of repair and well-mannered personnel are signs of a well-run business, why not of a good home?
Picking soccer winners
Lus Cabral | 15 June 2006 | 1
Backing winners is a game governments play as well as gamblers. The World Cup is a chance to see which succeeds.
FOCUS ON FOOD Hungry souls
Carolyn Moynihan | 14 June 2006
When we sit down to a family meal we are feeding more than our bodies; we are actually nourishing our souls, says philosopher Thomas Hibbs.
Red card for World Cup hangers-on
Carolyn Moynihan | 13 June 2006
Well-publicised protests against forced prostitution around World Cup venues avoid the real problem.
African families fighting Western pressures
Martyn Drakard | 09 June 2006
Family-unfriendly ideas are being imported from the West, but traditional African values are robust and resilient.
The MercatorNet IdeaFest Dodos, dinosaurs and declining birth rates
Jennifer Roback Morse | 08 June 2006
In the first of an exclusive series of essays on soon-to-be-extinct ideas, an economist contends that small families are on the way out.
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