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guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-14 | world | US tobacco firms liable for $145bn in damages | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jul/15/smoking.janemartinson | A US jury has ordered five of the world's largest tobacco companies to pay an unprecedented $145bn (£97bn) for harming hundreds of thousands of sick smokers in Florida. If upheld on appeal, it would represent the largest amount of punitive damages ever awarded in the US, dwarfing the $5bn demanded from the oil company ... | 659 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-28 | uk-news | Few prisoners broke curfew in first year of tagging | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jan/28/alantravis | Only 460 of the 16,000 tagged offenders released early from prison in the first year of the home detention scheme have been sent back to jail for breaching their curfews, according to home office research published last night. But the study suggests that the scheme's success lies in the fact that prison authorities wer... | 331 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-28 | uk-news | Press warned over William's privacy | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jun/28/monarchy.michaelwhite | Newspapers, paparazzi and TV crews which hound Prince William when he embarks upon his university career can expect an instant rebuke from the press complaints commission, its chairman, Lord Wakeham, will say today. In a renewed attempt to protect the 18-year-old heir-but-one to the throne, Lord Wakeham and Buckingham ... | 418 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-21 | business | Hackney wrangle hits Itnet profits | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/nov/21/3 | Itnet, the information technology contractor, yesterday revealed that its troublesome relationship with the scandal-hit London Borough of Hackney has triggered an accounting shake-up that will wipe out its profits this year. The company has been warned that it is likely to lose a £70m 10-year deal to administer the cas... | 418 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-14 | money | Egg's supermarket opens doors | https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2000/mar/14/shopping.money | Egg, the internet bank owned by Prudential, opened the virtual doors to its online funds supermarket yesterday, aiming to entice novice investors. The service is a discount broker with a difference, based on a successful American model. Until April the service is available only to egg's existing 1m customers who will b... | 819 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-28 | world | G2: Passnotes on Jorg Haider | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/nov/28/features11.g21 | Bless you. I said Jorg Haider. Bless you. No, Jorg Haider ... Ble ... The far-right Austrian politician, former leader of the Freedom Party and the man who has been dubbed the "pariah" of Europe. Ah, right. That Jorg Haider. I wasn't aware there was another one. I was thinking of the Austrian folk-singing sensation who... | 446 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-21 | politics | Trouble unlimited | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/feb/21/londonmayor.uk | What do chronic troublemakers do when they don't get what they want? Simple question: simple answer. They make loads more trouble. And whoever, in the light of so much acrid experience, expected anything else from Ken Livingstone? Trouble unlimited. It's the naivety of Millbank and Downing Street that gets you down. Th... | 1,443 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-21 | media | TV on the internet | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/aug/21/internetnews.mondaymediasection | Catchphrase, the long-running ITV gameshow, could hardly be described as cutting-edge television. A badly drawn cartoon of a horse that has seen better days appears with "for sale" written over its head. The answer to this conundrum? Flogging a dead horse - and so it goes on for 30 frankly excruciating minutes. The pro... | 1,395 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-28 | world | Air France Concordes grounded until further notice | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jul/28/concorde.world4 | Air France said its Concorde supersonic jets would remain grounded until further notice as the company prepared to hold its own private tribute to the crew and victims of Tuesday's crash that killed 113 people. British Airways has resumed its flights from London to New York, but the French transport minister, Jean-Clau... | 732 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-14 | media | ITV defies flak over axed News at Ten | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/may/15/itv.uknews | ITV will tell television regulators this week that it has no intention of bringing back News at Ten, in defiance of mounting pressure to do so. In a report presented to a crucial meeting of the independent television commission on Thursday, the channel will not even propose the widely canvassed compromise solution of b... | 532 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-14 | business | Biotech firm's US launch hit by slump | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/nov/14/nasdaq.stockmarkets | Oxford Glycosciences, the protein-based drugs specialist, yesterday launched a £150m fundraising on the hi-tech US stockmarket Nasdaq, with plans to double its workforce and take up to 30 new drugs into clinical trials. However, the equity issue was immediately plunged into doubt as the biotech company's shares slumped... | 645 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-07 | world | Jewels boycott would hit innocent, not warlords | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jun/07/sierraleone.danatkinson | For the British jewellery buyer with a conscience, the government's push against the illegal African trade raises an obvious question: is it time to say goodbye to a girl's best friend? On a logical basis, the answer is no. For the consumer peering through the shop window, whether in Hatton Garden or the local high str... | 282 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-14 | uk-news | Cancer sufferer doomed by flu delay | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jan/14/sarahboseley1 | A cancer patient whose operation was cancelled four times in succession because of bed shortages resulting from the flu epidemic has been told that her cancer is now inoperable. Mavis Skeet, 74, will now be sent home from Leeds general infirmary. Doctors say there is nothing more they can do because the tumour in her o... | 672 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-21 | world | Beijing irked by Taiwan's call for a 'Korea solution' | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jun/21/northkorea | Taiwan's new president Chen Shui-bian tweaked Beijing's toe yesterday by suggesting that if the two Koreas could hold a successful summit, there was no reason why the mainland should not also agree to a "summit for peace". Mr Chen said that a Taiwan-China summit with Beijing's president, Jiang Zemin, should be held "in... | 670 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-14 | us-news | The cult of Reagan | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/sep/15/uselections2000.worlddispatch | The cult of the individual is normally part of the political culture of communist regimes or other dictatorships. But the supporters of Ronald Reagan are doing their best to install just such a cult at the heart of the world's most powerful democracy. Not content with ensuring that Washington's domestic airport is name... | 1,027 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-13 | uk-news | Harrods loses Prince Philip's royal warrant | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jan/13/patrickbarkham | The feuding between Mohamed Al Fayed and the Duke of Edinburgh took a fresh turn today, when Buckingham Palace announced the Duke's royal warrant awarded to Harrods would be withdrawn. A Palace spokesman insisted the decision not to renew the honour at the end of this year was taken because of "the significant decline ... | 725 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-14 | uk-news | £90m guarantee as dome chief's troubles mount | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/sep/14/dome.fiachragibbons | The millennium commission yesterday agreed to underwrite the dome with £90m of lottery money after the collapse of the Nomura deal put its future on a knife-edge. The Japanese-backed consortium pulled out of the £105m sale two days ago claiming the black hole in the dome's register of assets meant they could not be sur... | 543 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-14 | politics | PR takes a bow | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/may/15/pr.guardianleaders | For more than a year after its publication, Lord Jenkins's 1998 essay on electoral reform languished. That formidable political artist had produced a plan as readable as it was do-able. But it was not just Tony Blair's vacillation that put it out of sight and out of mind. Proportional representation (PR) had too little... | 476 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-21 | politics | Hague orders gag on Thatcher to stop her stealing Tory show | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jul/22/uk.thatcher | William Hague is to gag Margaret Thatcher at this year's Tory conference after the former prime minister upstaged the entire party leadership at last year's annual gathering. Amid fears that television pictures of Lady Thatcher on the conference circuit will repel potential Tory voters, Mr Hague's office has asked her ... | 525 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-27 | uk-news | Vaccine under scrutiny after deaths | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/aug/28/stevenmorris1 | The safety of the meningitis immunisation programme came under scrutiny yesterday when it emerged that 11 people have died following injections. Health officials insisted the deaths were not connected to the injection and maintained the programme was completely safe but the handling of the issue was criticised. Since t... | 357 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-28 | media | Broadcast round-up | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/sep/28/broadcasting.tradepressroundupbroadcast | BBC director general Greg Dyke is set to give controller of specialist factual Glenwyn Benson and controller of children's Nigel Pickard responsibility for commissioning, as well as production, in their programming areas. Benson and Pickard will order shows from both in-house programme-makers - whom they also line-mana... | 275 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-14 | uk-news | Excerpts from the testimony | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/apr/14/5 | Julian Bevan QC, for the prosecution: "Mr Noye, the truth is that so far as this incident is concerned you became angry with that young man and deliberately stabbed him, didn't you?" Noye: "No, I am quite a placid man. I did not do that. It is not true." Noye on violence: "I said to my sons from when they were little, ... | 620 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-28 | world | US presidential race | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/oct/29/uselections2000.usa | George W Bush said it himself: 'There must be no mistakes - I'm going to run hard all the way to the finish line. I never take anything for granted.' Just as well - for his opponent Al Gore no doubt feels the same. The only certain thing about America's election in 10 days' time is that only a fool would call it. As Bu... | 2,062 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-07 | business | Budgens hopes to double size of chain | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jul/07/10 | New Budgens chief executive, Martin Hyson, wants to double the size of the 208-strong chain of convenience stores but admitted yesterday that he was cooling on the idea of home delivery. Mr Hyson took the top job in May when his predecessor, John von Spreckelsen, was poached by the Somerfield supermarket chain. He said... | 271 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-21 | politics | Who doesn't dare, loses | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jan/21/lordreform.constitution1 | John Wakeham gets at least one thing right. He states in the opening section of his report on reform of the House of Lords, published yesterday, that the task of any royal commission is to produce recommendations which are "not only persuasive and intellectually coherent but also workable, durable and politically reali... | 1,049 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-28 | money | Moving to put customers first | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/jul/29/personalfinancenews.jobsandmoney5 | Internet bank first-e (www.first-e.com) has hit back at claims that its chart-topping rates could be at the cost of lower consumer protection. The 65,000 customers of the net bank, whose operation centre is in Dublin, cannot complain to the banking ombudsman scheme or qualify for depositor protection because French-own... | 350 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-21 | education | The student body of 2009 | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/nov/21/highereducation.theguardian1 | "Fifty per cent of the population will experience higher education" - Tony Blair's promise for 2009 heralds another expansion of Britain's universities. But how easily will it be done and what will society, and the graduates themselves, be like when this ambition is achieved? Superficially, perhaps not so very differen... | 1,112 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-14 | education | Equipped for life | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/nov/14/schools.theguardian1 | Liesha, a pupil on the life skills course at Harriet Costello School in Basingstoke, sometimes used to be put off her work by the reaction of other pupils. "They'd be taking the mick and laughing," she says. One exercise involved washing cars. "They were all saying 'Is that all you do in life skills?'" she recalls. Lie... | 712 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-28 | uk-news | My journey to hell and back (aka 15.38 Glasgow-Euston) | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/oct/29/transport.world | Glasgow, 3.30pm on Thursday. Preceded by a gentle, recorded harp strum, the cheerful conductor welcomed passengers aboard Virgin Train's 15.38 Glasgow Central to London Euston service with good news. Against all the odds, the train was prepared and would depart from Platform 1 on time. We passengers, who had arrived br... | 2,229 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-21 | uk-news | Woodhead braced for fright at the opera | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/21/news | It is education's longest running soap opera, but the alleged affair between the chief inspector of schools, Chris Woodhead,and a pupil has become the stuff of opera itself. Zoe, which opens next month at Glyndebourne, features a teacher who has an affair with a one of his students. Writer Stephen Plaice insists he did... | 309 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-07 | politics | Dobson trounced in mayor vote | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jan/07/londonmayor.uk | Ken Livingstone has beaten Frank Dobson by a margin of more than 12 to one, pushing the former health secretary into a humiliating third place in the ballot to pick the Transport and General Workers' Union's choice for Labour's London mayoral candidate. The scale of the former Greater London Council leader's victory, i... | 617 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-21 | world | Car bombs in Madrid | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jan/21/spain.marktran | Two car bombs exploded in Madrid today, reviving the spectre of terrorist violence by Basque separatist group ETA. One person was killed and four wounded, including a child.. The first bomb exploded shortly after 8am local time outside an apartment building in an area housing many military families. It was followed abo... | 460 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-07 | business | City briefing | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/sep/07/5 | Honda slashes car prices Japanese car group Honda announced it is slashing prices by an average of 9%, cutting up to £2,500 off its models. The price of a Honda Civic will be reduced by between £500 and £1,300. The news came as figures showed a record 54,400 new cars were imported into Britain last month giving a marke... | 431 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-07 | business | Hint of tax breaks cheers industry | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/nov/07/2 | The chancellor, Gordon Brown, yesterday wooed the business community with hints of more generous tax breaks for research and development and capital gains as he set out his agenda to close Britain's productivity gap with other leading western economies. In a speech warmly welcomed by the CBI, Mr Brown pledged help for ... | 635 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-28 | global | How can I help my daughter when she blames me for her depression? | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/apr/28/features11.g23 | My daughter, who is 32, has suffered from depression for the past seven years. She received counselling and is now on medication. Though happily married with a lovely home and a responsible job, she has low self-esteem which has brought her to the brink of suicide. Recently, she wrote to me blaming me for her illness, ... | 1,150 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-14 | politics | Dewar returns to face exam chaos | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/aug/14/uk.scotlanddevolution | Scotland's first minister, Donald Dewar, returns to work today after major heart surgery to face demands that he sack his education minister, Sam Galbraith, over a school exam results fiasco. Mr Galbraith, who met education officials and representatives from the Scottish qualifications authority yesterday in an attempt... | 527 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-28 | education | Surfing, surfing USA | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/mar/28/schools.rebeccasmithers1 | It's a hot March morning in Charlotte, North Carolina, but Ann Clark is keeping her cool despite the worry of an earlier highway pile-up involving two of her pupils. Even by US standards of sprawling state schools (known as "public" schools in the US), Clark's job is a daunting one. She is in overall charge of four new... | 1,208 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-21 | politics | Analysis | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jun/21/politicalnews.uk | The three-point Labour lead reported by Mori in its recent poll sent shock waves through the political community. All of a sudden, the next election looks like a contest rather than a walkover. But has there not been an over-reaction? Our old friend the "swingometer" suggests a three-point lead should deliver an overal... | 1,132 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-27 | uk-news | Bomb cache sparks terror fears | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/aug/28/stevenmorris2 | The prospect of a terrorist bombing campaign being launched in Britain with devices never seen before by the security services was raised yesterday after a cache of explosives was unearthed in an Oxfordshire wood. Six army bomb disposal experts worked for almost 48 hours to make safe eight sophisticated bombs, packed w... | 719 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-14 | world | Obituary: Heberto Padilla | https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/oct/14/guardianobituaries.cuba | For many years, the name of Heberto Padilla, who has died aged 68, was synonymous with the censorship and intolerance to intellectuals of the Castro regime in Cuba. For many writers in Latin America and Europe, the "Padilla affair" of 1971 marked the end of their support for the Cuban revolution because of the heavy-ha... | 934 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-13 | uk-news | Comment: Refugees in Britain | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/oct/14/immigration.immigrationandpublicservices | Last Friday, the law firm Bhatt Murphy was rung by the Mail on Sunday, who said they were writing a piece about detention of refugees and were interested in featuring one of their clients. This is like being rung by the British National party and asked to give your address so they can send you their autumn catalogue. I... | 960 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-28 | education | Cookery courses | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/nov/28/furthereducation.theguardian5 | Christmas dinner was never my mum's finest hour. Cooking bored her profoundly at the best of times and the idea of prolonged warfare with a 12lb turkey was enough to render her comatose. She went through with it, though, partly out of a sense of tradition and partly because she, quite rightly, recognised that my dad ha... | 735 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-21 | global | Proms review: The Book with Seven Seals | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/aug/22/artsfeatures.proms2000 | Franz Schmidt thought his oratorio The Book with Seven Seals his finest achievement, and it is a masterpiece by any standards. Yet chances to hear it in this country are rare. Sunday's magnificent account, conducted by Franz Welser-Möst, was the first at the Proms, and only the second time that a work by Schmidt had be... | 595 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-21 | media | Channel 4 commissioning revamp | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/sep/21/channel4.broadcasting1 | Tim Gardam, Channel 4's director of programmes, has announced a commissioning overhaul to concentrate on the educational and interactive arms of the station. In an internal memo, Gardam said that the staff reshuffle reflected "the growing complexity of our multi-platform operations, notably the significant investment i... | 240 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-21 | money | Dropping off at Barclaycard | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/apr/22/personalfinancenews.jobsandmoney3 | It may not quite compare with closing 170 rural branches or paying the chief executive Matthew Barrett a possible £30m, but a reader's run-in with Barclaycard will reinforce the view of many, that the only decent thing Barclays' customers can now do is vote with their feet. The owner of the Wrought Iron Bed Factory wen... | 887 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-21 | uk-news | Why I won't go out with a white man (even though I fancy George Clooney) | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/21/lawrence.ukcrime5 | They never wanted to draw attention to themselves, but my parents nevertheless helped to establish a browner Britain. Back in 1969 they thankfully ignored all the dire warnings about the evils of miscegenation, alienated friends and family, and, according to local folklore, wantonly lowered the tone of the neighbourhoo... | 1,260 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-14 | uk-news | Roy Hattersley on the privy council | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/dec/14/monarchy.comment | It would be wrong to pretend that I was not pleased to join the privy council. In truth I was delighted. After "shadowing" Margaret Thatcher for three years, I had hoped to replace her at the Department of Education. But Harold Wilson, offended by a speech in which I had attacked the public schools, exiled me to the Fo... | 2,286 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-21 | world | Russian sub: all crew confirmed dead | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/aug/21/kursk.russia6 | The chief of staff of Russia's Northern Fleet, Mikhail Motsak, has confirmed that all 118 submariners stranded on the sunken Kursk submarine have died. "Our worst expectations are confirmed. All sections of the submarine are totally flooded and not a single member of the crew remains alive," the RIA news agency quoted ... | 752 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-07 | society | Nest eggs | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/jun/07/guardiansocietysupplement10 | It is often said that the inspiration for the government's big ideas on welfare reform have come from the US. Tonight, Michael Sherraden, a leading US social policy expert, is speaking alongside David Blunkett at an Institute for Public Policy Research lecture. He will offer a new policy agenda that ministers might wan... | 1,251 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-28 | global | Should I tell my ex-husband his daughter has dropped out of university? | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/jan/28/features11.g26 | I have recently divorced my husband and have custody of our two teenage daughters. They make their own contact with their father but I still talk with him about their progress and well-being. One daughter has a successful career, the other has recently had to leave university and is afraid to tell her father. He is a s... | 770 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-21 | education | Money matters | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/mar/21/itforschools.schools25 | We used spreadsheets - Excel - to model issues to do with spending money with year 7 pupils, and taxes and related issues with GCSE groups. This kind of financial literacy has until recently not been clearly defined in the curriculum - but it's a vital part of children's preparation for life. For the spending money exe... | 178 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-14 | education | Rope tricks | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/mar/14/highereducation.theguardian2 | There's no safety net. She spins upside down 20 feet above the dark wooden floor, with only the rope around her ankle tying her to the ceiling. Across the room others arch backs, stretching beyond the conceivable, until their toes touch the back of their heads. They are warming up before the final audition for entry in... | 1,046 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-28 | money | Takeover panel to rule on Pru's vote in NatWest bid battle | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/jan/28/business.personalfinancenews1 | The takeover panel is expected this morning to rule over whether the Prudential can vote in the NatWest bid battle. Speculation was mounting last night that Prudential could be banned from casting its crucial shares in the NatWest takeover saga because of a deal the insurance company had struck with Bank of Scotland, w... | 439 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-14 | technology | Games reviews | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/dec/14/onlinesupplement4 | Spyro: Year of the Dragon Sony PlayStation £29.99 Insomniac/Sony **** Can't think what to give friends for Christmas? Problem solved. Insomniac's third and last Spyro game will appeal to players of all ages and sexes, and all skill levels. The only essentials are a PlayStation and a sense of humour. And YOTD is not jus... | 1,330 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-06 | money | Bamboozled by tables? You might still be | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/jun/07/business.personalfinancenews3 | Want to find the best mobile phone deal? The telecoms regulator is about the last place you would try. Looking for the best train fare? The strategic rail authority will not help out. But from next spring the financial services authority will go further than any other watchdog in telling consumers what to buy. Yesterda... | 955 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-28 | business | Nabisco bidders take the biscuit | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/may/28/observerbusiness | There are barbarians at the gate again. Barely a decade after the last great corporate carve-up, some of the most famous names in world food are set to be swallowed up once more. First Peak Freans' maker Nabisco and French yoghurt giant Danone snacked on our own United Biscuits, with a $2 billion joint bid in February.... | 1,526 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-28 | technology | Napster is down but not out | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/jul/28/efinance.shopping | Born in a student bedroom, Napster appears to have died in a courtroom. Yesterday Chief Judge Marilyn Patel of US district court in San Francisco ordered the year-old start-up to close down its website by Friday night and concluded users gain from making copies using Napster by getting music free they might normally pa... | 802 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-14 | technology | Searchable Scottish archive | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/sep/14/news.onlinesupplement | How important is the net becoming as an educational tool? I think it's becoming vital. We're in a situation where the old learning paradigms are breaking down to an extent. Students are increasingly aware of, and fluent in, the new media and perhaps less interested in book learning than they might have been at one time... | 572 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-06 | uk-news | Is this their last hurrah? No. They stay | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/aug/06/monarchy.comment1 | I have not enjoyed the Queen Mother's numerous birthday celebrations. They have been extravagant, unnecessary and clichéd. The media coverage has been sycophantic, inane and repetitive. Once again some are claiming that these outdated ceremonies strengthen the case for scrapping the royal family and installing a presid... | 774 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-21 | society | Race attack family denied new home | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/nov/21/housing | Southwark council has declared a single mother and her seven children "intentionally homeless" after they were forced out of their south London house by a racist gang wielding baseball bats and knives. The Labour council has given June Rowe and her family until December 11 to vacate a hostel in the Old Kent Road where ... | 1,035 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-14 | world | Farewell to Peanuts and Schulz | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/feb/14/duncancampbell1 | Just as millions of admirers around the world were reading the farewell Peanuts cartoon strip yesterday, it was announced that Charles Schulz, its creator, had died in his sleep. Schulz, 77, passed away at home in Santa Rosa, California, on Saturday from colon cancer. "Dear friends", he told his readers in 68 countries... | 268 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-28 | global | Things that make you go yum | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/jan/28/features11.g24 | You know there's something funny about a taste when even those who spend their professional lives preparing, sampling and talking about food struggle to describe it. "Unctuous is probably quite a good description, but there's a sweetness, too, and a mouthfeel," ventures Heston Blumenthal, chef at the Fat Duck at Bray. ... | 1,276 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-14 | global | Tower and the glory | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/may/15/artsfeatures1 | It was the story of the cats and the lavatory that amused me and gave me the clearest idea yet of what living in an apartment in a real skyscraper must be like. Lynn Osmond, president of the Chicago Architecture Foundation, lives on the 45th floor of a downtown tower overlooking Lake Michigan on one side and Big John, ... | 1,278 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-14 | society | MPs warn post offices rescue plan is threatened | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/nov/14/communities | Ministers may be unable to prevent a rising rate of post office closures unless they review plans to give them a new role, MPs warn today. In a report on the future of the post office network the trade and industry select committee cast doubt over the cornerstone of the government's plans to give the post offices new i... | 504 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-28 | world | International: In brief | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/nov/28/2 | Punjab hit by bomb attacks. Three bombs exploded in eastern Punjab province yesterday, injuring at least 19 people, the police said. Two bombs went off within minutes of each other in the capital, Lahore, seriously injuring nine people. The third bomb ripped through a crowded market in a town north of the capital. No o... | 241 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-28 | politics | Crucial seats Hague must win | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/dec/28/uk.election20001 | Next year Tony Blair faces the loneliest choice a British prime minister ever makes. He has to decide whether to go ahead with the expected general election this spring and, if so, exactly when. Or should he opt for caution and postpone it until early June, October or even as late as June 2002? By modern standards he s... | 419 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-14 | media | Oh, what a circus | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/aug/14/pressandpublishing.usa2000 | The curtain lifts today on one of biggest media circuses on earth: the Democratic Party convention in Los Angeles, held in a venue roughly the size of Crowborough, my home town in East Sussex. A substantial number of the journalists here are foreign, including a strong UK contingent. This event will be televised, broad... | 795 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-14 | money | Time to prove your worth | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/apr/15/loans.personalfinancenews2 | The self-employed have found it hard to get mortgages because of the need to provide three years' accounts, or similar documentation, to prove their income. With changing trends in employment, however, high-street lenders have become more sympathetic to self-employed borrowers. Brokers say there is a popular misconcept... | 874 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-20 | money | Experts predict that floods will increase | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/oct/21/personalfinancenews.jobsandmoney3 | Everyone puts together a personal checklist when they go house hunting, whether it is a south-facing garden, period features, utility room or cellar. But how many people make a mental note to check the likely impact of global warming on their chosen residence? Environmental experts say that soon more and more of us wil... | 1,083 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-14 | business | Barclays chief defiant on closures and pay | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/apr/15/executivesalaries.personalfinancenews | Matt Barrett, the chief executive of Barclays, promised his staff yesterday that he would learn from the bank's mishaps in recent weeks. In a six-page letter, which he admitted was "a bit long-winded", Mr Barrett told his 55,000 staff in the UK that the decision to close 171 branches was "socially responsible" and hit ... | 757 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-14 | technology | Working the web Football | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/dec/14/internetnews.onlinesupplement1 | For all the talk of rapid internet growth, it is when football players start up their own websites that you know the internet has truly arrived. Forget Tony Blair getting online, it's the idea of the Neville brothers forming a dot.com that shows how accepted the internet really is - and in the current new-media meltdow... | 1,096 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-14 | business | Business: On message | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/sep/14/efinance.internet1 | Instant justice The federal communications commission could force America Online to open its instant-messaging service to rivals as a condition of approving its merger with Time Warner, the Wall Street Journal reported. The FCC has also concluded it should press Time Warner to open its high-speed cable lines to rivals ... | 244 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-28 | global | For the love of veal | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/jul/28/features11.g2 | Few foods have raised as many hackles as veal. Even those who don't in principle mind eating doe-eyed baby animals might balk at tucking into one that has spent its short life in a crate, deprived of light, bedding and all food but milk, unable to move or lie down properly. And yet this, the purists argue, is the whole... | 1,435 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-07 | technology | How a dot.com got dot.unionised | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/dec/07/internetnews.onlinesupplement3 | 'Ubi Soft employees don't have any means to make their voices heard. This situation is unbearable." These few words changed Jérémie Lefebvre's life. It was two years ago and Jérémie was a 26-year-old designer at Ubi Soft in Montreuil, close to Paris. He was like any of the 400 young employees of the ambitious French vi... | 818 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-20 | uk-news | UK news in brief | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/aug/21/6 | Addiction help for footballers Moves by the Arsenal captain, Tony Adams, to open a centre to treat footballers' addictions have been welcomed by the Football Association. He hopes to open a 12-bed treatment centre complete with soccer pitch, pool and gym. Adams, 33, who could be named as England's next captain this wee... | 393 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-14 | society | Peers challenge ministers to insist on gay law | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/nov/14/socialcare | Ministers insisted they would force through measures to lower the age of consent for gay sex to 16 despite it being thrown out by peers for the third time. The government plans to invoke the rarely used Parliament Act - which allows it to override the Lords if it defeats a bill - if peers do not back down before the en... | 622 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-14 | uk-news | Female gatherers are born gardeners | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/apr/14/juliahartleybrewer | Women may be better than men as gardeners because of their evolutionary role as gatherers while their menfolk went hunting. A study of the difference in spatial skills between the sexes found women to be quicker at picking out plants hidden among a selection in two out of three tests. The 57 men and women who took part... | 164 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-28 | money | Barbed farewell for SmithKline chief | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/apr/29/business.personalfinancenews2 | Britain's best paid chief executive, Jan Leschly, retired at yesterday's annual meeting of SmithKline Beecham, attracting a barbed farewell from the drug company's shareholders. Mr Leschly, 59, stood down to make way for the Frenchman, Jean-Pierre Garnier, saying: "Good luck, buddy. I just want to tell you, you've got ... | 359 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-07 | money | University challenge | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/mar/07/workandcareers.drwork | The problem I am 19 and working for a dot.com start-up. Theoretically I am on a year out before university having just failed to achieve my necessary grades. I have two As and a D and have applied for university places for the coming year, and so far have two reasonable unconditional offers but nowhere prestigious. Thr... | 964 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-21 | business | Life beyond the grasp of Gordon Brown | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/mar/21/14 | The Square Mile will go quiet at 3.30 this afternoon. Almost everyone in the City will be glued to the television to find out the contents of Gordon Brown's red box. Everyone, that is, who actually lives here. A growing number of influential British businessmen are choosing to base themselves in Monaco - where the chan... | 2,877 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-28 | money | On the market | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/oct/29/observercashsection.theobserver7 | Contact: 0800 20 40 20. Aim: To take advantage of strong growth by UK companies. managers Ross Hollyman and Ajay Gambhir will pick the best capital growth prospects from all UK companies. Bells & whistles: The managers will go for what they like. They ignore the performance of peer group funds and benchmarks, or FTSE i... | 380 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-14 | business | Future Network shares fall 47% | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/nov/14/6 | Shares in Future Network collapsed 47% to 260p yesterday after the magazine publishing group warned that profits for the year end would fall short of expectations. Future cited a series of problems that are likely to result in a full-year reduction of £6m in underlying profits. "This is quite an enormous blow," said ch... | 379 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-13 | money | A bad day for bananas | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/apr/14/workandcareers | There aren't many repeat customers in the tribunal business. Apart from the sad serial-case souls for whom the tribunal system is a sort of outcropping of social services - somewhere to go for a bit of rather rough and unsatisfactory group therapy. And Dave. Dave is my only non-corporate repeat customer. Not that Dave ... | 712 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-21 | society | Darling hails milestone in reduction of child poverty | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/sep/21/uknews | The government will today claim to have passed a milestone in the reduction of child poverty with figures showing a sharp drop in the number of children who are victims of adult unemployment. Alistair Darling, the social security secretary, will seek to distract attention from evidence of increased pensioner poverty by... | 717 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-06 | world | Africa's Aids fate hangs in balance | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/may/07/davidberesford.robinmckie | Two British researchers were this weekend enmeshed in one of the most bitter scientific controversies of recent years. Virologist Gordon Stewart, of Glasgow University, and pharmacologist Andrew Herxheimer, from Oxford, have joined an Aids advisory board, set up by South African President Thabo Mbeki, which was today c... | 1,160 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-14 | uk-news | Cracking fertility's ethics code | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/14/sarahboseley | Britain's careful regulation of fertility treatment is the envy of the world, but "procreative tourism" is challenging the UK's autonomy even before human rights legislation comes into force in October, according to Ruth Deech, head of the human fertilisation and embryology authority. Under European law, Britons are en... | 956 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-28 | world | Underground treasures | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jan/28/helenasmith | Athens is about to be transformed by an underground railway system that aims to entice passengers through a combination of modern trains and ancient treasures. The £1.2bn network, which will be formally opened today, has been hailed as the answer to the congestion and pollution choking the city. The new 11-mile system ... | 574 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-14 | uk-news | Call for tougher arms export rules | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/nov/14/ethicalforeignpolicy.foreignpolicy | Procedures designed to control arms exports to prevent them getting into the "wrong hands" are riddled with loopholes, Amnesty International and Oxfam say in a report to be released later this month. Official figures show that 81 export licences for military equipment have been issued for the Channel Islands, yet there... | 335 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-20 | politics | Livingstone's full statement | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/feb/20/londonmayor.london | I first want to thank everyone who has voted for me. The overwhelming majority of Labour party members and trade unionists have voted for me, whereas Frank secured the support of just over one third of Labour party members. At a rough estimate, a total of 80,000 people have voted for me in all sections of the electoral... | 411 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-07 | world | EU told to rise above national interests | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/dec/07/eu.politics6 | EU leaders must put Europe-wide interests before narrow national ones at the Nice summit, the German chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, said yesterday in an effort to reassure worried candidate countries that enlargement is safely on track. Visiting Warsaw hours before flying to the French Riviera, Mr Schröder told Polish l... | 763 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-07 | world | The first step in tackling genocide - but not the last | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/feb/07/victoriabrittain | Britain's arrest of Lieutenant-Colonel Tharcisse Muvunyi on an international warrant for the United Nations' War Crimes Tribunal in Arusha is a step forward for the principle of accountability for crimes such as genocide and torture. But, like the Pinochet case, in which the Home Secretary has given at least the appear... | 496 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-07 | uk-news | Majority puts pensions before fuel tax | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/nov/07/welfare.oil | Tony Blair and Gordon Brown's decision to put the elderly at the front of the cash queue ahead of motorists has widespread support among voters, according to a Guardian/ICM poll published today. The public by a clear majority of 56% to 36% think priority should be given to raising pensions against reducing the cost of ... | 509 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-07 | media | Malcolm Wall out of running for ITV's top job | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/sep/07/broadcasting.towardsasingleitv | United Broadcasting & Entertainment chief executive Malcolm Wall has ruled himself out as a candidate for the job of ITV chief executive. Speculation that Wall might enter the running for the post, which has been vacant since Richard Eyre's move in January to Pearson TV, began when United News & Media sold most of UBE ... | 300 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-14 | society | The needless operation | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/jun/14/futureofthenhs.health2 | Michelle McHugh felt a mixture of anger and elation when she learned that she had been misdiagnosed by the histologist at the centre of the Swindon blunders as having a pre-cancerous cell condition, writes Geoffrey Gibbs . Elation that there was nothing medically wrong, but anger that she had had to endure the pain and... | 299 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-07 | global | The town that will not die | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/apr/07/features11.g21 | It was, I remember, a bitterly cold day, so we were delighted when the guide announced: "Foundry next." Ten minutes later, gazing down from the steel walkway overlooking the furnace, we were desperate to rush back out into the icy winds sweeping across the Thames marshes. How did those men in their thick overalls and v... | 2,477 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-28 | world | In brief | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/dec/28/1 | China widens its corruption net The vice-mayor of Hangzhou in eastern China has been arrested for taking "large amounts of money and gifts" in what President Jiang Zemin called the latest move in the "long-term and arduous struggle" for clean government, it emerged yesterday. Ye Defan was detained with 20 other governm... | 385 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-28 | uk-news | Mandelson appeals for calm on Northern Ireland | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jan/28/northernireland.marktran | Northern Ireland secretary Peter Mandelson today appealed for calm as Ulster Unionists threatened to pull out of the power sharing agreement with Sinn Fein in the absence of early IRA disarmament. Northern Ireland's latest crisis followed remarks made yesterday, when Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams warned that any unio... | 639 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-28 | world | US missile shield 'unnecessary' | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jun/28/richardnortontaylor | Washington's plan for a national missile defence shield is unlikely to work, unnecessary, and predicated on exaggerated assessments of threats to the United States, according to a former congressional adviser on security affairs. "Missile defences are unlikely to provide military commanders reliable and effective defen... | 504 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-07 | society | Swept aside | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/jun/07/guardiansocietysupplement1 | It was 6am. Above loomed the turrets of King's College chapel. On the ground, the orange chunks of diced carrot stared back at me. They lay in the centre of a lurid pool of pink, sticky vomit. Littering the surrounding pavement were half-eaten hamburgers, shredded cabbage and discarded packaging. Along the deserted str... | 887 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-14 | technology | Reuters expected to cut 1,000 jobs to focus on internet | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/aug/14/efinance.business1 | Reuters, one of world's biggest providers of financial information, is likely to cut its workforce by more than 1,000 as part of a drive to transform the company, say analysts. The move, part of a two-year plan to refocus Reuters on to the net, is seen as necessary if the company is serious about increasing margins in ... | 553 |
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