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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The never ending itch
Giving priority to combating the threat of blindness in the world's 18 million onchocerciasis sufferers has overshadowed treatment and control of a neglected strain of the disease
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Hot spot motion
In a startling revelation, US geoscientist Ian Norton of the Exxon Exploration Company in Houston, Texas has claimed that the hot spot in the deep mantle under the Pacific plates has
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INDIA
• Indians living near the Myamnsr border face a high risk of contracting HIV virus, according to the latest report released by the Southeast Asian information Network recently. HIV
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Bio weapons
INDIA's first home-made, environment-friendly biopesticide promises a bountiful harvest for both manufacturers and farmers. The biopesticides, Trichoderma harzianum and Gliocladiuni virens, have
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Sparkles galore
Shimmering diamonds are not just earthly in origin. They can also be interstellar and meteoritic. From the depths of the earth to the expanses of the sky, it seems that, diamonds are not only forever but also all pervasive
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Noble crabs
THE blue-blooded horseshoe crab found along the Orissa coast is set to change the face of the Indian pharmaceutical industry. These crabs, termed 'living fossils' because of their
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MAKING AMENDS
The Occidental Chemical Corporation, a US company which had dumped 25,000 tonnes of toxic waste in the Love Canal locality of Niagara Falls, New York, has reached a US $129 million settlement
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Sub marine sleuths
Scientists at the Greesthacht research centre In Germany have devised a remote-controlled underwater robot. This robot, designed to work 1,000 metres below the sea level, is being
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GORY ISSUE
With a view to prevent various infections transmitted through blood, the Supreme Court of India, in a ruling on January 4 directed the Union government "to establish forthwith a National
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Chips dip
The electronics industry is being threatened by yet another period of scarcity, with reports that the demand for polycrystalline silicon is outstripping supply (The Electronics and