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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Expensive explorer
One ofthe most controversial of scientific projects, Gravity Probe-B, has won the approval of an expert panel of the National Academy of Sciences. The project, proposed by Stanfora physicist
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Protocol prattles
India calls for a united Southern stand to oppose the Moptreal Protocol amendment
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Grudges galore
BIOTECHNOLOGY firms in Britain are extremely sore with the ministry of health. The statement issued by the new secretary of state for health, Stephen Dorrell, criticising the biotech companies'
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Stripe strikes
The rising incidence of tiger poaching may be checked with the creation of a proposed strike force
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Genetic goldmine
Scientists have discovered a gene that may hold the key to breast cancer and several other mysterious diseases
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Atomic intransigency
GERMANY will build its nuclear research reactor at Munich's technical university even if it has to risk brickbats from the rest Of the world community. The us is particularly perturbed about
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Childish foibles
Infected food and unhygienic feeding habits lead to a high incidence of infantile diarrhoea
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MONEYMAKERS
BENIGN REGULATIONS: Go green and mint money: this is the message that Allied Colloids, a Bradford- based chemical company has been conveying to other industrial houses in the UK. In a
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No more
Marcel Sony Labou Tansi. a novelist known for his satire and criticism of colonist Africa and the dictators who followed independence. died of complications due to AIDS. He was 48. His wife
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Silencing the saboteur
American researchers say that a gene believed to be overactive in most types of cancer can be silenced in the mouse by using a stretch of designer DNA. Once the gene has been sabotaged, say