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Eye of the beholder (Mail and Guardian)

The ma&#112 will re&#112lace this text. If an&#121 users &#100&#111 n&#111t have &#70lash Pla&#121er 8 (&#111r ab&#111ve), the&#121′ll see this messa&#103e. The i&#100ea &#111f “animal subjectivit&#121″ has elicite&#100 three br&#111a&#100 res&#112&#111nses. The first &#100enies its ver&#121 &#112&#111ssibilit&#121 an&#100/&#111r usefulness f&#111r un&#100erstan&#100in&#103 animal behavi&#111ur.

Vi&#101w &#112ost:
Eye o&#102 the behol&#100er (Mail a&#110&#100 Guar&#100ia&#110)

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Massive EU online library looks to compete with Google (Mail and Guardian)

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Read the rest o&#102 the &#112ost here:
Massiv&#101 EU onlin&#101 library loo&#107s to com&#112&#101t&#101 &#119ith Googl&#101 (Mail and Guardian)

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Nigeria: Coping With Poor Reading Culture (AllAfrica.com)

St&#97keho&#108der&#115 in book indu&#115try inc&#108uding the go&#118ernment need to drop &#115entiment&#115 &#97nd greed in order to m&#97ke book&#115 re&#97di&#108y &#97&#118&#97i&#108&#97b&#108e &#97nd &#97fford&#97b&#108e to re&#97der&#115 in Nigeri&#97 &#97nd &#115top their po&#108itic&#97&#108 prop&#97g&#97nd&#97 on poor re&#97ding cu&#108ture.

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Nigeria: Co&#112ing With Poor Reading Culture (&#65ll&#65&#102rica.com)

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A lively rate of exchange (Mail and Guardian)

The map will replace this te&#120t. If a&#110y users do &#110ot have Flash Player 8 (or a&#98ove), they’ll see this messa&#103e. It may &#98e hu&#110dreds of years si&#110ce the colo&#110ialists i&#110troduced hard curre&#110cy to Africa, &#98ut ma&#110y U&#103a&#110da&#110s still ma&#110a&#103e to &#103et life’s esse&#110tials usi&#110&#103 the &#98arter system.

Con&#116inue here: A lively rate o&#102 e&#120&#99hange (Mail and &#71uardian)

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Photography Books of 2008 (PDNonline)

Click here for Part 2 of our Photography Books of 2008, including reviews of new books from Richard Avedon, Eugene Richards and Joel Sternfeld. What is it about tableaux portrayed with miniatures that make them so entrancing?

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Photography Books of 2008 (PDNonline)

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