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  • No more thieving

    INDIA is arming itself take on the enemy in the 'gene war'. It will no longer be easy for foreign firms to steal centuries-old traditional Indian plant varieties. In a bid to check any attempt

  • Not so easy

    Electronic immobilisers have been highly successful in cutting down car thefts. But security experts fear that skilled thieves could 'crack' an immobiliser if the code sent to

  • WHALE OF A SUIT

    British journalist, Mark Votier, may have to pay dearly for his attempt to save the minke whales. The Japanese Institute of Cetacean Research has filed a suit against him for

  • A hush hush affair

    A new'hush house'just completed by British engineers for the Portuguese Air Force will drastically cut the noise of jet engines on ground tests to no more than a loud hum. The facility,

  • Lend me your ears

    Lend me your ears

    Hitachi, the Japanese electronics corporation is admirably manipulating the wonders of science for the much ignored field of telecom for the deaf. A fascinating new technology being developed opens up the world for the deaf by making it possible for them

  • Tele tracks on fast tracks

    Tele tracks on fast tracks

    Fibre optic telephone lines which would deliver movies directly to the theatres are all set to stage a revolution if US movie moghuls' high tech plans are to see the light of the day. A new video technology which will complement this mode will radi

  • Identity? No more crisis

    A new version of the memory cards could spell a radical shift in our notions of identity cards, passports or quite simply any kind of documentation. YI is this magic memory material which renders these cards more power and capacity apart from being kinde

  • Timber travails

    CONCERTED efforts by officials of the Kamrup East Forest Division have shown encouraging results in containing large-scale illegal felling and trade of valuable trees in reserved forests along

  • Top of the desk stuff

    Top of the desk stuff

    Good news awaits the desk top publishing industry with the development of the FT S700 image input system. Equipped with a high precision charge couple device scanner, the new system promises advantages like higher resolution pictures

  • In Focus

    In Brazil, the feud over Decree 22/91 continues to dog the Yanomami and other indigenous peoples. S A Agropecuaria e lmoveis, an influential mining company, has now requested that the injunction it

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