One of the men I admire most in the country, Professor Kader Asmal, a former cabinet minister, told me to remember that the country still had strong independent institutions and a vibrant civil society which could hold politicians to account.

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At colleges and universities, young women account for only 11 percent of civil engineering students, 8 percent of math students, and 7 percent of physics students.

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However, says Morrison, overall sales this year may suffer because of the squeeze that the economic downturn is putting on European civil and defense aviation budgets, which usually account for a major slice of the trade at Farnborough.

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The aim of this exercise, called NEAMWave12, is to evaluate the technical alert mechanism and the civil protection services when taking the tsunami risk into account.

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The government has condemned violence on all sides -- saying that any police officers found guilty of heavy-handed tactics would be held to account and that protesters should behave in a civil manner as well.

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To this Mr Powell added three more sources, including a civil engineer and a defecting major, who corroborated the engineer's account of factories on trucks.

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