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Biochemicals sweep US free of petrochemicals

Growing environmental awareness is making the Americans switch from chemicals derived from fossil fuels to those made from plant matter.

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Caribbeans fight to protect market share

A GATT ruling that the proposed EC import regime for bananas is unfair to Latin America, has the poorer Caribbean producers up in arms.

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The personal price of protest

Pratibha Shinde, a Narmada Bachao Andolan activist, was among those arrested on June 3 for trying to prevent the demolition of Keshubhai's hut in Manibeli. She was released on June 14. Her story:

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Just a radio signal to whisk you to office

The concept of teleportation or moving people and objects instantaneously, which was made popular by the American serial Star Trek, is now entering the domain of reality.

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Endangered fish

THE POPULAR fish, Palla, or Ilish as it is known in Bangladesh, is an endangered species, says a Panos Features report quoting Mirza Arshad Beg, former chairperson of the Pakistan Council for

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How the NBA wants to discuss the SSP

Medha Patkar suggests the review of the Sardar Sarovar Project be undertaken by both pro and anti dam groups and be completed in three months.

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Faster than the Concorde, bigger than the jumbo

The aviation industry is working on producing two 21st century aircraft: the HSCT, which can cut flying time by half; and the super jumbo, which can carry as many as 800 passengers at a time.

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New rules for NGOs

THE BANGLADESH government has modified procedures for nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) in order to simplify procedures and establish their accountability, reports Mostafa Kamal Majumder. The step

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Human rights violations listed by NBA

January 30, 1989: Official Secrets Act imposed on 10 villages around the dam site; 18 protesting activists and 500 villagers arrested. February 22: Medha Patkar and 8,000 others arrested near

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Culprit gene found

AFTER ten years of frustrating toil, a band of gene-hunters from USA and the UK have at last nabbed the gene that causes Huntington's disease, a debilitating disorder of the nerves. The

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