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- Device lets asbestos rules measure up

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23/03/1998

Japan, like other nations, has taken steps to reinforce controls on making and using asbestos. A portable device for instantaneous measurement of asbestos concentrations in the air has been developed

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- Following our noses

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23/03/1998

In a paper published in the journal Nature, psychologist Martha McClintock of the University of Chicago reported what may be the best evidence yet of human pheromones. In an experiment she was able

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- El Nino's allergies

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23/03/1998

From the Atlantic to the Pacific, a warm, wet winter promises bumper crops of pollen. Thanks to an extremely mild winter, trees across much of the U.S. - including maple, alder, cotton wood and oak -

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- HIV cases declining in Manipur

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23/03/1998

Cases pf fresh HIV infections have declind in Manipur following awareness campaign agaist Intra-Venous drug users but deaths caused by AIDS are on the

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Dumping by MNCs not to be allowed

Barnala: The government will not allow dumping of chemicals by foreign companies at any cost. He said that any activity harming the interests of the domestic industry would be dealt with

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Lot of synthetic milk being made

Minister: The Uttar Pradesh minister of state for health and medicare, Arvind Kumar Jain, said on Friday evening "large amounts of synthetic milk are being manufactured and sold in UP, with the

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Oil firms continue car maker clash, propose standards for sulfur emissions

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23/03/1998

Continuing to clash with US car makers over meeting new clean-air standards, the US oil industry proposed differing standards for lower sulfur fuels, depending on the region where they are sold. The

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Greenpeace denounces WFP's loggin of intact rainforest valley

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23/03/1998

Greenpeace denounced the decision by Western Forest Products to begin blasting roads into the intact rainforest valleys of the Mooto-Ingram of the Great bear Rainforest. Western's decision

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British military exercises in akamas are "postponed"

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23/03/1998

The Greenpeace Mediterranean office said it supports the efforts of the Cyprus government for achieving a "postponement" of the British military exercises planned to begin in the Akamas peninsula.

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Carbon copies that get a grip on energy

Over recent years tyremakers have introduced "green" or low rolling resistance,tyres by replacing much of the carbon black .Pirelli has now come up with a new formulation of polymers that has allowed

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