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Economist (London)

  • Manure happens

    Each day livestock in Wisconsin-America's Dairyland, as it calls itself-produces enough manure to fill the 76,000 seat football stadium in the state's capital, Madison. But the state wants to limit

  • Deadly meddling

    No politician is a keener armchair scientist than South Africa's president, Thabo Mbeki. But Mr Mbeki is a politician, not a scientist, and his cyber excursions have led him to take a tragically

  • Also with us

    Famine relief for North Korea has competition. Later this month, the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) will announce its annual appeal for emergency food aid for the impoverished country. But the

  • Monkey business

    In parts of Brazil's poor north-east, snakes and parrots are on sale by the roadside for a few reais. In Brazil, as elsewhere in Latin America, wild animals have been kept as pets for centuries. But

  • Saved by smokers

    States in US are spending their tobacco winnings in every way except one:trying to stop their citizens from smoking. In fiscal 2002, only one dollar in 20 of the settlement money will be used for

  • Unhappy anniversary

    Twenty years on, the fight against AIDS is not going well. Almost 70% of new infections and existing cases-a daunting 28.1m people-are in sub-Saharan Africa. AIDS is now cutting 15 years off average

  • Fishy figures

    According to Reg Watson and Daniel Pauly, two researchers at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, China has been lying spectacularly for at least ten years over fish statistics. This,

  • The green threat?

    Shearer Lumber Products, a timber company based in Idaho is facing the problem of eco-terrorism. In November, the Earth Liberation Front (ELF), an underground organisation, gave warning that it had

  • Watery graves

    Manatees (also known as sea cows or sirens) are at particular risk from boats. Each year, propellers kill 70-80 of these animals in Florida alone. Hundreds more bear multiple scars from near misses.

  • High steaks

    Ever since September, when a cow in Chiba Prefecture was found to be infected with BSE, Japanese consumers have been shunning beef. Despite frantic efforts to reassure, McDonald's and other

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