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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Closing in on problems
the term
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The Phuket experience
In Phuket, a community initiative pays dividends
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From cinema to commune
The UFA (Universal Film Studios) Fabrik in the German city of Berlin is a unique experiment in urban living. The former film studio is now home to a comm unity of 50. Having acquired a worldwide
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Tax the lax
The taxation systems in operation today were designed at a time when the availability of resources like forest products and seafood far exceeded human needs. But many governments are beginning to
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A perfect world
A majority of the earth s ecosystems today are in a state of accelerated death , one that can be traced to activities structurally linked with most human societies. The study of those human societies which have been able to integrate themselves with t
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Witness to genesis
Cosmologists spy on galaxies being born, and conclude that these massive stellar assemblages might have formed earlier than believed
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Rickshaw blues
Calcutta will soon bid a final goodbye to the rickshaw (hand-pulled cart), made famous the world over in Dominique Lapierre's City of Joy . While the end has been in the offing, the venerated
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The jungle bungle
World Bank makes a hollow attempt of involving NGOs in a project for the management of protected areas
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MONEYMAKERS
saving stitches: India will have the first indigenously-produced bio-adhesives for suture-less surgery. Nectar Laboratories Ltd, based near Hyderabad, is all set to manufacture these adhesives and
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Bovine benefit
Chromaffin cells derived from the adrenal glands of cows have been made to secrete painkillers that have brought relief to six terminally ill patients