First food: business of taste
Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it
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SECONDHAND ISSUE
Bungling up of data on secondhand smoke has landed a us company, Healthy Buildings International, in the dock. A federal grand jury is investigating whether the company, which monitors air
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DIRTY TRICKS
Come summer and the squabbling for water between Delhi and Haryana begins. Haryana was pulled up by the Supreme Court of India on February 24, for its failure to stop the leakage of highly
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Back to nature
Computer scientists are resorting to help from a highly unlikely source to solve the software design problems they frequently encounter: nature. A variety of natural phenomena ranging from the upstream migration of salmons to the ability of the human immu
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MUDDY MATTERS
Chinese authorities and a dredging contractor are involved in a mud-slinging match. The government stopped the contractor, Gitanes Engineering, from dumping nearly 250,000 cu m of sludge in
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Avant garde antiques
The world is soon to herald the revived version of a flying machine called the airship which had been relegated to the annals of history. These German crafted machines are being lauded as a new form of air transport
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Slick click
Five famous brands of the photographic industry are throwing their combined weight behind a new innovation. The camera they have developed will prove quite a blessing to the uninitiated amateur photographer
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Unbridled avarice
IT SEEMS poachers can go to any length to carry on their trade. Poaching of flora and fauna goes on unchecked in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. An Institute of British Geographers survey has
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Network
Made for each other Sun Microsystems Incorporated have developed new microprocessor chips compatible with their newly launched Java software. The chips bearing price tags that range
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Stalking new victims
AFTER malaria, it is the turn of Japanese encephalitis. Alapuzha and Kottayam districts of Kerala are in severe grip of encephalitis where it has already claimed 3G lives. Though the situation
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Scientific Indian
My friend, V Nanjundiah, of the Indian Institute of Science us in Bangalore has asked me a very pertinent question: why cannot Down To Earth cover more on Indian science? I am sure it can; I