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 provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
leukaemia breakthrough: A study by a team of scientists at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Children's Hospital in Boston, USA, shows that cancer stem cells are different from normal blood stem cells. Led by Scott Armstrong, the team suggests that targeting these cells would be an effective way to treat …
current avian flu viral strains may lack the ability to trigger a human pandemic, claims a team of researchers. Led by Taronna Maines from the Centers for Disease Control (cdc) in the us, the scientists genetically engineered viruses containing genes from both the h5n1 avian flu strain and a human …
evidence has been found of pesticide exposure in small children (1-6 year olds) of farm-workers in the us, say researchers at the Wake Forest University in North Carolina. Led by Thomas Arcury, the scientists say that their study conducted among immigrant farm-workers across six North Carolina counties confirmed the exposure …
the us Senate is on the verge of passing a bill, which would not only allow oil and natural gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, but also jeopardise a 25-year moratorium on oil drilling along the us coast. The bill, sponsored by Republican senator Pete Domenici, calls for opening …
it may soon be possible for you to get a bubble wrap for your house or your soda bottle or for anything you want to keep either cool or warm. Plus, it will run free of cost on the most abundant energy source known
us president George W Bush on July 19 used his veto for the first time blocking a popular bill that would have expanded federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. "It crosses a moral boundary that our decent society needs to respect, so I vetoed it,' Bush said at a …
power boost: To overcome power shortage, Pakistan has recently given approval to the country's five independent power companies to set up plants at an estimated cost of us $1 billion. These power producers
Global warming portends disaster for much of the multibillion-dollar us wine industry; areas suitable for growing premium wine grapes could be reduced by 50 per cent
in the first week of July, the Florida Supreme Court (sc) upheld an earlier lower court ruling that rejected a us $145-billion award, the largest-ever against tobacco companies. It said that an estimated 300,000 to 700,000 people from Florida, who suffered from the ill-effects of smoking and were part of …
In the first week of October 2006, Valencia in Spain will host the 57th meet of the International Astronautical Congress. On the meet's anvil will be legal issues related to space exploration, matters pertaining to international cooperation in remote sensing and the issue of government and private sector forays into …
A collection of fossil bones, some dating back 40,000 years, jut out of the natural asphalt at Tar Pit 91, the only active urban excavation site in the world at the Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles. It remains open for two months a year, …
More than US $2 billion has been defrauded in Hurricane Katrina and Rita relief operations. The amount is nearly 11 per cent of the total funds spent by the Federal Emergency Management Agency on relief and rehabilitation for the hurricanes that hit the US in mid-June 2005. Federal prosecutors have …
Doctors voted against the imposition of a fat tax on soft drinks at the annual meet of the American Medical Association (AMA) held from June 10-14 in Chicago. In May, AMA had proposed to levy such a tax all over the country as against that in 17 states. AMA's proposal …
• Greenpeace's newest ship, Esperanza is out at sea. It will sail from the Azores to Antarctica, informing people on the way about the crisis faced by oceans. The expedition's primary focus is creating a global network of ocean parks, marine reserves. • The US's climate scientists have given An …
on june 19, 2006, the us Supreme Court (sc) came out with a fractured ruling in two cases related to the definition of wetland under the Clean Water Act, 1972. The court came up with an ambiguous verdict on the broader issues while sending the cases back to the lower …
aids-causing human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) is unusually lethal when compared to similar viruses like the simian immunodeficiency virus (siv). According to a new us study, the reason for the difference may be the loss of a gene function during viral evolution. siv is commonly found among monkeys; but infected non-human …
