House approves plan for thinning of forests
The House of Representatives has voted to hasten the burning of underbrush and thinning of trees on federal land, supporting what would be one of the most significant changes in forest policy in 100
International Herald Tribune (Bangkok)
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SARS alert lifted, Hong Kong breathes easy
The World Health Organization's advisory against travel here, reviled as a curse on the region's economy, has now been lifted, but economic growth may not fully rebound quickly. Removal of the
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In Afghanistan, motherhood is a fight for survival
Afghanistan has among the world's highest rates of both infant mortality and maternal death because of difficulties during pregnancy or during childbirth. Millions of women across rural Afghanistan
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An about face on tobacco
The Bush administration finally came to its senses last week and stopped trying to undermine a tobacco-control treaty that was approved by the World Health Assembly in Geneva. The decision ended a
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Pass the butter, please
Dr. Robert Atkins, the diet guru who died last month, would have enjoyed reading last week's issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. It carried two independent studies that enhanced the
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Heat wave leaves at least 370 dead
A two week heat wave has killed at least 370 people in southern India, a government official said. The temperatures, which have soared as high as 47.5 degrees centigrade( 117.5 Fahrenheit), are
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U.S. finds flaws in its policing of water taints
The computer system used by the Environment Protection Agency to track and control water pollution is obsolete, full of faulty date and does not take into account thousands of significant pollution
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The oceans need rescuing
It has long been clear that the world's oceans are in trouble, its coastal waters increasingly polluted and its fish stocks in various stages of decline. Now comes the most shocking news in years : A
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Death throes of a crippler
On Oct 26, 1977, in Somalia, a young man came down with a rash. It was smallpox. But the fellow, who survived, was remarkable, for he had the planet's last case of naturally occurring small pox.
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School in the front line against AIDS
President George W. Bush's new AIDS initiative has heightened expectations of a more robust global effort to combat the devastating threat of the AIDS pandemic. Yet there is still woefully little