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. …
Canon USA, New York, is intro ing the world's first fully autorr 35-mm solar-powered camera, Sure Shot Del Sol, The cam weighing about 28 grams, designed to lie flat and has a s panel mounted on the lens cc The camera cim be stuffed in a p, et and can …
THE big bang cosmological model is one of the most successful models of our universe. Its efficacy in predicting the temperature of the cosmic microwave background radiation and the profusion of light elements in the universe (like helium and lithium) remains unsurpassed by any of the competing cosmological models (Nature, …
You had once said something to the effect that Mava Nate Mava Sarkar. What does it mean? Mava nate mava sarkar. Dilli, Mumbai mava sarkar. The people we elect to represent us run the government in Delhi and Bombay. But in our village, we arc the government. We run the …
Meena, a spirited girl, is going to be the new animation heroine in South Asia. Unlike her counterpart, Supergirl, (the American wonderwoman), Meena is a 10 year old with a questioning mind. A co-production of Ram Mohan Studios in Bom- bay, UNICEF, and Fil Cartoons of the Philippines, this is …
GENETICALLY engineered, unusually tomatoes, which have a protect mechanism against cancer and heart diseases, may come up as the answer to the caloric-conscious'craving for heal food (New Scientist, Vol 147, No 1995) Developed by Peter Bramley any colleagues at the Royal Holloway College, London, these tomatoes contain large amounts of …
THE US is likely to build the world's fastest supercomputer capable of carrying out 1.8 trillion calculations a second - to ensure that it never again needs to carry out underground nuclear tests. The us $46 million computer will be built for the us Department of Energy by Intel, the …
The threat sleeping sickness continue to loom large acrow I areas of Africa, Ivory Coast, Togo and 74 Health professiona6 in la Coast and Togo min" that hard economic and diversion of fitmnew scourges such as A have pushed the attack the disease carrying tsetse fly and early identification infected …
IN A recent study, scientists at the On-based Columbia University have disproved the belief that cells in multicelular organisms do not stick together in a glue-iike fashion, but where to one another in the manner of bond formed by a zip (Discover, vol W NO 9). Life on earth evolved …
Can you describe the nature of the health problems encountered by you because of the Aral Sea crisis? The data analysed by us shows that we have increasing levels of anaernia in this region. Our research covers the period from 1982 to 1992 - when the Soviet system was still …
FOR the long-suffering people of Bangladesh, India and more recently Latin America, who have to contend with frequent outbreaks of cholera, here is a message of hope from Rita Colwell, a researcher at the Maryland Universit), Washington. Her research has revealed that a major outbreak of cholera can be prevented …
COSMOLOGY is somewhat of an oddball among the physical sciences. Experimental facts about the origin and the ultimate fate of the universe are usually scarce, making cosmology a concoction of theory, some facts and much speculation. However, the scenario has undergone a change in the recent past because of the …
DOES our universe have antimatter (the oppositely charged counterpart of ordinary matter) in substantial quantities? Do we have whole galaxies made up of antimatter, much like our own galaxy which is made up of matter? These are some of the brainteasers which could be closer to a solution if Massachusetts …
A GROUP Of Scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboragtory In the us have come up with a unique strategy to Pee the carbon dim (Cod gas emans from fuel-burning plants - report responsible for the global war" phenomenon - harmless. Atcordin Klaus S Lackner, the chief physich the laboratory, …
TO ACHIEVE the goal of "Health For All by AD 2000" through the Primary Health Care Approach, the Central Bureau of Health Intelligence (CBHI) and National Informatics Centre (NIC), technically and financially assisted by the World Health Organization, have introduced a computerbased national Health Management Information System (HMIS). Using Sattelite-based …
Named Baby Dopplex 3000 (or A Parturn Fetal Monitor), a hi-a foetal monitor has been devel" by UWs HNE Dignostics compa The monitor uses the advam Doppler technology, where c6q in sound pitch are used to moni the foetal development, (Specirs No 247, july-August 1995). The equipment is a safe …
Envirocoal may just prove to be a rich find for Indonesia. This extremely clean burning coal from Borneo mined by P T Adaro, an Indonesian and Australian company, has a low content of sulphur and ash and is a relatively cheap fuel that is environment friendly. The coal contains just …
THE controversy over irradiated food may finally die a subdued death. The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Bombay, has decreed that the opposition of the Bombay west suburban branch of the im Medical Association to a variety "adiated foods is unjustified. It bases we on the substantial body of evironment …
ALTHOUGH the majority of rural folk have always been lacking access to clean hygienic water for a considerable time, traditional water purification techniques have generally been overlooked. Some of these traditionally proven methods use locally available plant seeds much in contrast to the modern treatment of water. Functionally significant, these …
The Republican Congressmen in the US continue to go hammer and tongs against all things environmental. This time it is the ozone layer. Led by representative John T Doolittle, partyman from California, they have introduced a hill to postpone until January 1, 2000, a ban on the production of chlorofluorocarbons …
IN A long belated move, the Drugs Controller of India early October instructed all state controlling and licensing authorities to ensure that fixed dose combinations of drugs are not sold anywhere. The rule is likely to be extended to cover the manufacture and marketing of fixed dose combinations of modern …
