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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Super slump
When the US Congress voted to cancel the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) last year, a lot of money had already been sunk into the project. Now with the biggest technological
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Folk theatrically
P Rajagoplan, a Kattaikoothu artist, is directing a play "Pancha Bhoodam" which is being staged in various villages of northern Tamil Nadu. Kattaikoothu is a form of folk theatre prevalent in the
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Hoary tales
Analysis of about 90 quasars in the ongoing quasar survey at the 500 cm telescope at Mount Palomar, California, has shed some interesting light on the ages of quasars (see accompanying
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MALAYSIA
Malaysia's new federal capital was unveiled recently by Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammed. The administrative nerve centre of the country will be known as Putrajaya after Malaysia's first Prime
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SOUTH AFRICA
Keeping the sharks off the swimmers along the Natal Coast in South Africa is the business of the Natal Shark Board (NSB). A combination of a museum and a research lab- oratory, the NSB, situated on
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The cool choice
Absorption cooling could be the answer to peak time electrical loads
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Robust Battery
UK-based Chloride Industrial Batteries Ltd has manufactured a new high reliability battery for military applications. Named Armasafe, the battery uses latest recombination technology
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MEXICO
If the citizens of Mexico City -known to be one of the most polluted cities in the world -want to breathe cleaner air, they must first take care of their kitchens. For, Sherwood Rowland, an
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Tobacco trouble
A study conducted by a UK research group revealed that among women dying due to tobacco intake the world over, Scottish women figure on the top of the list. This is 2/3rds more than in the
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Simian saga
ASIA, not Africa, was the home of the first simians. A.group of Chinese scientists working with the Beijing-based Chinese Academy of Sciences claim that they have discovered evidence