Fewer books will be available to South Africans, and the books remaining under copyright will be more expensive, if the country gives in to US pressure to extend its copyright term.
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The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a public research-intensive university in the state of Illinois, United States.
A land-grant university, it is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system. The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is the second oldest public university in the state (after Illinois State University), and is a founding member of the Big Ten Conference. It is a member of the Association of American Universities and is designated as a RU/VH Research University (very high research activities). The campus library system possesses the second-largest university library in the United States and the fifth-largest in the country overall, after the Library of Congress, the Boston Public Library, Harvard University Library, and New York Public Library.
The university comprises 17 colleges that offer more than 150 programs of study. Additionally, the university operates an extension that serves 2.7 million registrants per year around the state of Illinois and beyond. The campus holds 647 buildings on 4,552 acres (1,842 ha) in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana (together known as Champaign–Urbana).
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Changing weather modifies insect traits and can have an impact on their food, natural enemies and predators.
Historically, indigenous people celebrated a girl’s transition to womanhood with a year-long ritual. Many such ritual practices were made ‘illegal’ by the US and Canadian governments.
The knowledge economy creates clear winners and losers in the big cities whose growth it drives. Many Australian and US cities with strong knowledge economies have high levels of social vulnerability.
Astronomi dan astrologi berbeda jalan soal penanggalan rasi bintang zodiak.
Astronomy and astrology do not agree on the dates of the zodiac constellations.
Countries should promote alternatives to pesticides and more carefully examine how to prevent insect invasions in the first place
Take a look at the first high-resolution map of the US food supply chain.
Difficult to pronounce, synecdoche is the form of rhetoric used by President Trump when he told four Democratic congresswomen of color to “go back” to the “corrupt” countries they came from.
Serangga dapat menjadi senjata untuk memerangi kelaparan.
In the eastern reaches of Siberia, scientists discovered plants with exceptional cold tolerance that could be the key to sustainable bioenergy production.
Alleged ‘enemy combatants’ held at Guantánamo Bay who went on hunger strikes to protest their indefinite detention were force-fed by the US military. Today, ICE is force-feeding immigrant detainees.
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Vertical farms have the potential to feed many on the African continent.
Many researchers have studied the impact of carbon dioxide and heat on crop growth inside greenhouses. But what happens in the real world? One team has just done this and the results are surprising.
In these cases, what matters is how much pressure an employer puts on their employee to do the work.
Wounded Knee is among the worst massacres in Native American history, when in 1890 the US military shot and killed 146 unarmed men, women and children in South Dakota.
Many of the crop plants that feed us waste 20 percent of their energy, especially in hot weather. Plant geneticists prove that capturing this energy could boost crop yields by up to 40 percent.
Los insectos son una excelente herramienta para combatir el hambre y la desnutrición porque son abundantes y nutritivos.
Insects are an excellent tool to fight hunger and malnutrition because they are abundant and nutritious.
Sprinter Peter Norman has been memorialised in many ways in the US for his support of Tommie Smith and John Carlos at the 1968 Olympics. In Australia, it’s taken much longer.
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Professor emeritus, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Senior Learning Designer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Assistant Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Graduate Research Assistant at the Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Professor of Communication, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Associate Professor of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Graduate student, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Assistant Professor in Plant Biology & Geography, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Staff K-12 Initiatives, Office of the Chancellor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Assistant Professor of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Associate Professor in Sociology, African American Studies, Urban and Regional Planning and Social Work, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
