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Peter Ravemdirector, Missouri Botanical Gardens,USAOn the impact of GMOs on agriculture: The technology to transfer genes from one unrelated species or organism to another holds great promise to
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marburg hemorrhagic fever: Following two cases of Marburg hemorrhagic fever in Uganda, scientists are collecting bats from the country's lead and gold mines where the victims had worked. Around five
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Hankering for more
Industry is forcing bad calories upon people, especially the poor
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INDIA
• A review by C Gopalan, president of the Nutrition Foundation of-India, New Delhi, attributes the high incidence of coronary heart diseases in Delhi to increasing air pollution. To promote
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INDIA
• A grant of US $172,000 for cataract research has been extended by the US-based National Eye Institute to an Indian research group consisting of D Balasubramaniam and Mohan Rao of the Centre
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Salt of the sea
Disasters often help science researchers to understand natural phenomenon closely, and the Asian tsunami is no different.
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Pumping iron
The training of women in the maintenance of hand pumps has not only flooded them with confidence, it has rescued a government water supply programme from sinking.
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Breathing easy
A hundred medicines, a dozen therapies but no cure, that is the story of asthma treatment world wide. Complementary medicine fill the vacuum
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Gasping millions
Asthma, the bane of modern life, stalks the young ones and the affluent. It will strike 32 million people in India by 2010. The silent strangler has a propensity to waylay its victims, striking with stealth. An analysis into what triggers the killer which
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Let the drylands bloom
By maintaining terrestrial forestation to improve the soils, drylands can be saved from being further degraded
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A learning experience
NGOs in Bangladesh have made non formal education a trailblazing success story by employing ingenious teaching methods tailored to the needs of the underprivileged
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Checking population growth through the ages
The concept of family planning control dates back to the ancient Greeks. Though many scientific advances have been made in the field since then, a solution to the global population crisis is still not in sight.
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Stretching arguments to point of absurdity
CRITICISING or condemning lopsided developmental priorities and highlighting their consequences is one thing; outright rejection of the very concept of development, science and technology is quite
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The other course
Traditional curative systems like ayurveda, homoeopathy, acupuncture… are being revived as alternative medicine. But in India and the Orient, the original homes of some of the most effective alternative medical systems in the world, these are reduced to
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Perched atop an abyss
The predatory Nile perch, introduced with all good intentions into the Lake Victoria, is turning out to be the magnificent lake s nemesis
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A bit of iodine in my salt
A nation stands divided over the government s proposal to lift the ban on non iodised salt
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Alimentary cases
A battle royal rages in the courts of UK as two nondescript environmentalists take on a giant
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How to be a glutton and bloom with health
How what you tuck into can pull you back from the brink of death
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Global democracy tilts at the axis
Are the "forces of freedom" in the West muscular enough to deepen democracy at the global level?
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Earth health
Clinically clean, gleamingly coloured, hermetically sealed fruits and vegetables face the challenge of organic food