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. …
THE plucky American spacecraft Galileo, which went into orbit around Jupiter after successfully delivering a 'suicide probe' in December last year, has gradually begun to unveil the mysteries surrounding the planet's atmosphere. , After a reasonably long wait, scientists at the us National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have now …
CALORIE-CONSCIOUS eaters, wary of potato crisps with their high fat content, can now wolf them down. Olestra, a zero-calorie artificial fat, developed by the multinational Procter & Gamble, got the us Food and Drug Administration (FDA) go-ahead early this year. It will replace the conventional fat used in crisps and …
THE earth may not be the only planet capable of supporting life. Two new planets sighted recently can possibly do the same, as they show the ability to hold water and other building blocks of life. The exciting discovery was announced on January 17, 1996 at the winter meeting of …
HELL bath no fury like the US scorned! Venezuela and Brazil have touched on the raw the Big Brother of the First World, by evoking an anti-US ruling from the one-year old World Trade Organization'(WTO). The organisation came into existence on January 1, 1995, as a successor to GATT (the …
CANCER, the Scourge Of the modern world, seems to have had its deadly effects even on the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, leading to their deaths. Juan Collar of the University of Carolina, us, believes that subatomic particles called neutrinos released from dying stars after collision with the nuclei of …
The Occidental Chemical Corporation, a US company which had dumped 25,000 tonnes of toxic waste in the Love Canal locality of Niagara Falls, New York, has reached a US $129 million settlement for cleanup costs with the federal government. Hundreds of homes and an elementary school had been built over …
Smokers in North Miami, US, will either have to give up smoking or remain unemployed, implies a recent US Supreme Court ruling. job applicants are required to sign an affidavit stating that they have not smoked for the past year. The judges upheld a Florida state court ruling that north …
The current budget stalemate in the US has led to environmental management paying a heavy price as all major environment related programmes have been stalled indefinitely for want of clearance of funds. The US Geological Survey has had to stop soil testing at hundreds of toxic waste sites - potential …
IN AN embarrassing confession, the US- based Intel Corp, one of the world's giants in microprocessor technology, has admitted that a snag in the software used to measure the speed of Pentium microchips, caused it to exaggerate the chips' processing speed by an estimated 10 per cent. The error was …
THE scene could be straight out of a medical sci-fi a baboon is sacrificed and its bone marrow processed; a person terminally ill - an AIDS (Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome) victim who has volunteered to be a human guinea pig - is infused with about a pint of straw-coloured fluid …
A JOINT venture between the European Space Agency and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), us, has led to the launching of the us $1 billion Solar and Helioscopic Observatory (SOHO) from Cape Canaveral in the us. The main focus of SOHO will be on recording information about the …
A MINI-EARTH on earth. That was what Biosphere 2, the ambitious programme of an enclosed ecosystem, encapsulated. But with its ownership changing hands last month, the programme is also switching course. Bought by the Columbia University in New York, the 1.2 ha Biosphere 2, encased by glass walls, will no …
A NEW electronic device, called thyristor-controlled series compensator (TCSC), may "revolutionise the way electricity is delivered to customers globally". The first such system was recently dedicated in the US to the Bonneville Power Administration's (BPA) Slatt substation in Antral Oregon. According to a report in (Power Engineering International, Vol 2, …
VISITS to cinema halls might be a totally different experience if the dreams of the us film industry's high-tech planners come true. In fact, if every-thing goes as per schedule, the traditional mode of sending movies to cinema theatres in tin cans will be replaced by the information superhighway. The …
United Nations (UN) efforts at maintaining peace in the world has benefited the US immensely. Thirty-three per cent of all peace- keeping contracts and a further 20 per cent of other UN contracts like the supply of goods and services to the organisation, have aft gone to the US. The …
Stricter environment standards have put the brakes on the entry of Mexican trucks into US soil under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The agreement calling for the free movement of trucks between US, Canada and Mexico should have begun in December 1995. The US has postponed the implementation …
THE battle against the dreaded AlDs disease may yet be won. The Food and Drug Administration in the us recently approved a new class of drugs which inhibits the ability of the HIV virus to cause the disease. Manufactured by Hoffman-La Roche Inc of Nutley in New Jersey, the drug …
A NUCLEAR reactor in your vicinity could be the best way to contract breast cancer, as the latest Greenpeace report reveals. The report titled, "Nuclear Power, Human Health and the Environment: The Breast Cancer Warning in the Great Lakes Basin", endorsed by 13 us cancer experts, indicates that toxic chemicals …
IN A significant move, California is backing away from an earlier mandate which required that within two years, two per cent of the state's cars be electrically powered, says a recent report in the New York Times. The move raises questions about similar mandates in New York and Massachusetts which …
ON MARCH 14,1995, an indigenous man of the Hagahai people (a tribe dwelling in the highlands of Papua New Guinea) ... ceased to own his genetic material." This sensational statement has been made by Pat Roy Mooney, executive director of Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI), a Canada-based plant genetics and …
