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        <pubDate>2009-11-08 08:15:04</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[On the genetic trail of creatures great and small]]></title>
            <pubDate>2009-11-08 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[The University of California-Santa Cruz could someday house the world's largest zoo - holding not live animals, but the genetic codes of 10,000 different creatures, many of them exotic or extinct.
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            <title><![CDATA[Fossil trade puts China's natural history at risk]]></title>
            <pubDate>2009-11-08 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[China's opening up may have led to an economic miracle, but it has been a mixed blessing for one of the world's major finds of prehistoric  fossils, as dealers and foreign buyers have exploited the lack of effective heritage laws to spirit them overseas. 
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            <title><![CDATA[Hong Kong's artistic quest to build  a good audience relationship]]></title>
            <pubDate>2009-11-08 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[As part of a co-ordinated, three-pronged approach to strengthen arts and cultural development - and to underline the importance of community engagement and participation - the chief executive's policy address focused, in part, on building an audience.  
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            <title><![CDATA[Scientists and politicians make uneasy bedfellows]]></title>
            <pubDate>2009-11-08 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Expert advice is often unpalatable to the powers that seek it,  writes <B>Tim Radford</B>.
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            <title><![CDATA[Wealth divide has roots in land policy]]></title>
            <pubDate>2009-11-08 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Few things are more absurd than government comments on the property market. Most of the time, officials claim they do not interfere with it, that prices find their own level. But when prices spike, Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen first suggests that measures will be forthcoming to prevent a new bubble, then subsequently promises that the measures will not depress home prices. Meanwhile, the Monetary Authority takes its own measures to cool the upper end of the market by capping loans.
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            <title><![CDATA[Drop the railing proposal and leave Old Peak Road alone]]></title>
            <pubDate>2009-11-08 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[It seems odd that, once again, I must spend my time having to defend our natural environment, not from vandals, but from our own government. 
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            <title><![CDATA[In her father's footsteps]]></title>
            <pubDate>2009-11-08 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[A missionary's daughter visits Shenyang where he served, and is moved by the fruit of his work. <B>Mark O'Neill </B>reports.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Health check on patient safety]]></title>
            <pubDate>2009-11-08 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Hospital workers are no less prone to error than others but new initiatives aim to cut adverse incidents,  writes <B>Ella Lee</B>.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[If voluntary compliance fails, we must have laws]]></title>
            <pubDate>2009-11-08 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Regulation does not sit easily with Hong Kong's free-market principles. Buyer beware and voluntary compliance with codes of conduct are preferred. But sometimes we need rules for our own good, as with tough anti-smoking and anti-littering fines - and now household energy-saving laws to protect the environment
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