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.
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.
Genetically modified mosquitoes were released in Brazil in an attempt to halt the spread of dengue fever by reducing the mosquito population.
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.
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.
Es algo más que un eslogan. Para los organizadores comunitarios, 'Abolish ICE' representa el primer paso hacia un mundo sin detenciones de inmigrantes ni prisiones.
It's more than just a slogan. For community organizers, 'Abolish ICE' represents the first step to a world without immigrant detention or prisons.
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Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Illinois Research Climatologist, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Associate Professor of Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Assistant Professor, Department of Entomology; African-American Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Professor Emeritus of Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Professor of Communication, 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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Professor of Labor and Employment Relations, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Levenick Resident Scholar in Sustainability, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Teaching Assistant Professor, Geography & Geographic Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for East Asian & Pacific Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Ph.D. Candidate/Research Assistant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
