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  • Moneymakers

    COMPUTERS:Computer-chip manufacturing technology is about to undergo a revolutionary change. The 4 US-based bigwigs - IBM, AT&T, Motorola and Loral - have put their heads together to develop

  • The state as hero

    Rapid Strides (37 mins, directed by Shahid Jamal) is a success story in which, surprisingly, the state does not play the role of a villain. Arunachal Pradesh's Department of Power, apparently, knows

    • 30/08/1994

  • GATT goes sour

    The US dairy industry is having second thoughts about the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). Jim Bar, the head of the National Milk Producers' Federation, has complained that GATT, as

  • Nocturnal zooing

    Nocturnal zooing

    Night life in Singapore can now mean observing tropical animals. A new wildlife park, the Night Safari Park, has been set up on 40 hectares next to the Singapore Zoological Gardens. Across extra-wide

  • Ban on brimstone

    A RECENT UN accord on acid rain committed its 26 signatory nations to drastic cuts in sulphur dioxide emissions -- largely responsible for the phenomenon that wreaks havoc with humans, crops, lakes

  • I arson the answer?

    ECO-TOURISM has not won many supporters in Russia. Prominent Russian scientists have severely criticised government plans to encourage commercialisation of state-owned nature reserves, says a report

  • Cerebral clowning

    In keeping with its determinedly frothy approach to TV programming, Aavishkar, Zee TV's weekly science programme (Monday evenings at 5 pm) has at least as much clowning around as cerebral

    • 30/04/1994

  • Valet of the brain

    Valet of the brain

    A COMMON charge against the British is that they have sex on their minds more than anywhere else. Now, scientists would have us believe, the Brits were right all along. Recent research indicates that

  • Thorp gets the nod

    MUCH to the dismay of environmentalists in the UK, British Nuclear Fuels has been given a go-ahead for its Thorp plant by the High Court. The decision marks the end of a long battle between the

  • Bangladeshi beacon

    THE Grameen Bank - a rural credit scheme in Bangladesh - is making waves. The bank, the brainchild of economist Muhammad Yunus, advances loans to the poorest sections of the society and reached

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