Teasing death
The trials run before introducing drugs into the market are peppered with death-inviting inaccuracies and even brazen lies
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A fluid paradox
International aid agencies and local people do not agree on what tastes like real water
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Top quark nabbed
THE elusive top quark has at last been nabbed: 2 competing teams of quark-hunters at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) at Illinois, usa, caught the last undiscovered quark of the
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Laying India to waste
Greenpeace sounds a red alert about toxic waste imports into India at workshops across the country
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Ancient tribe, modern manners'
There exists a canon of empirical literature on Indian tribes. But there has been no adequate explanation of the present status and the process of change of these societies. This well-written and
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Blood read
A new instrument measures the concentration of haemoglobin in the blood
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The rules to be broken
EVERY show is a dress rehearsal for the next one. This adage, so familiar with thespians, holds true for drugs, too. But the note is deadlier. Naturally, any drug must go through a rigorous series
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Patent problems
An surge of gene patents in Europe threatens to overwhelm the law
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Monumental screening
The history of Humayun's Tomb has been captured on a software programme
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How green was the revolution
THIS is a collecton of papers originating from a study of the North Arcot district in the early '80s, undertaken under the auspices of the Washington-based International Food Policy Research
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Powered by waste
...or how to use garbage to generate power
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Market trade off
Following stricter trade sanctions by the US on medical supplies, the Cuban health system is going into a coma
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Fishing fetters
The ban on granting fresh licenses to deep sea fishing projects has encouraged poaching by foreign vessels in the Indian economic zone, reveals Tarun Gogoi, Union minister for food processing. The
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Journos access sci tech
A new science and technology info system bails out mediapeople
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A boost for genetic research
The department of biotechnology (dbt) is planning to promote research in correcting genetic disorders. Scientists will now be encouraged to produce proteins, vaccines and genes for treating
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COLOMBIA
Leftist guerrillas are playing havoc with Colombia's oil pipelines. A recent announcement made by government authorities says that during the last 9 years, guerrilla forces have blown up Colombia's
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UNITED NATIONS
Economic liberalisation is forcing East Asians to drugs, says the United Nations Drug Control Programme (UNCDP). In Vienna on March 15, the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, UNCDP's executive, revealed
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Toxic salt o' the earth
The first-ever comprehensive study on the agarias, salt workers in Gujarat's Rann of Kutch, reveals their serious occupational health problems. They show symptoms of slowly turning numb from the feet
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Budget buzz
The new buzzword around the us House of Representatives now appears to be "research-spending". The recently announced budget indicates that heads of all the major science agencies who were
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Butterfly blues
Several rare butterfly species are facing extinction with the uncannily swift habitat destruction of the Western Ghats. Of the 350 butterfly species available in the Ghats, up to 70 are at the brink