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Spanner in the works

Unlike Enron, which had to face a lot of environmental bugbears but little formal opposition, the Peninsular & Oriental Australia Ports company, bidding for the development ofa port in the Dahanu

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24/05/1998
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Private sector power plant by June

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24/05/1998

The first ever power plant in private sector in Haryana in Sihi Sikandarpur village, will be ready for commissioning next month. This was told to newspersons today by the Haryana Power Minister, Mr

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Breathing Mexican air

The sun has been absent from Texas of late. Temperatures have dropped to an unreasonable low. On May 15th, the air was declared unhealthy over the whole state. Smoke from Mexico is to blame. It is

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23/05/1998
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A fisherman's tale

Overfishing is one part human nature, and two parts poor management : a

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23/05/1998
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Eco-immunity

Evidence is accumulating that the immune system works like an ecosystem, in that its component cells compete with one another for survival. This could have important implications for the treatment

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23/05/1998
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A second fall

The ocean used to seem infinite in its bounty. But now it is suffering from overfishing and pollution. Wherever humanity meets the sea, the sea comes off worse. Two-thirds of the worlds's 5.5 billion

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23/05/1998
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Canadian loggers see environmental light

Canadian officials and forestry executives are suing for peace with environmentalists to end a damaging campaign by Greenpeace against timber exports from British

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23/05/1998
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Keyboard injury test case won

Five former Midland Bank workers won a legal test case when a judge in London ruled that they suffered from "diffuse" repetitive strain injuries (RSI) as a result of overworking at keyboards and

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23/05/1998
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Bonn bans N-waste cargoes

A few drops of contaminated water appears to have succeeded where thousands of demonstrators failed. The Bonn government has halted the transport within Germany and abroad of all radioactive waste

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23/05/1998
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Setback for Pfizer after six die while on Viagra

The inexorable rise of Viagra, the world's first pill for countering impotence, faced its first setback when it emerged that six people had died while taking the drug. The US Food and Drug

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23/05/1998
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