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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Gradual extinction
Norman MacLeod of the Natural History Museum in London and his team suggest that most dinosaurs died due to changes in the earthly environment some 65 million years ago than due to exotic visitors
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Life positive
With infectious diseases well under control in the developed world, it is the non infectious diseases that now threaten us
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Stop gaps
THIS book has come at a time when humankind the world over is grappling with the challenge of providing a cleaner environment. However, the continuing high levels of pollution, especially in the
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The southern connection
Building up of ice sheets in the far north might be due to strong currents in the South Atlantic
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Ready to die
around 5,000 members of the U'Wa tribe have threatened to commit suicide if an oil company from the us does not abandon its plans to drill for oil on their ancestral land. The tribe has already
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Earlier the better
With rapid rise in the incidence of breast cancer, a new approach for early detection is welcome
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MERCOSUR BLOCK
Of late, jazzy terms like 'natural product' (for a traditional herbal drink), 'bio-yoghurts', 'super eco' (for unleaded gasolene) and 'natural supermarkets' have invaded the 'mercosur' trading
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The light of gravity
Highly accurate measurements about a star s features can be made by using its gravity
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All for a name
Naming of elements which are discovered in accelerators is a controversial subject. The heaviest 19 elements are not found in nature and are created by physicists in their laboratories. The
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Sensitive explorer
S R Manalis and his colleagues at the Stanford University, in the US, have reported the fabrication of a new type of cantilever which uses optical deflection and is extremely sensitive. A movable