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MONEYMAKERS

British trade unions are now considering launching "hi-tech" campaigns. Unison, Britain's biggest trade union, spent US $480,000 last year developing a software system called "Local Negotiator" to

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Feverish inactivity

WHILE the Indian government appears to be a lame duck in the face of the recent spurt in malaria in the country, a joint research team of the University of Western Australia and Murdhoch University

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Tiger anxiety

Tension is brewing in 10 villages in Lahiripur area of the Sunderbans in West Bengal following an increasing number of close encounters with tigers and the alleged inaction by the forest authorities.

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Cutting cholesterol

A new drug for lowering blood cholesterol is a blessing for heart patients

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Odessa defiled

A proposed oil plant threatens to maim and stunt Odessa's marine environment

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Peter Smetacek 5,25 a, Jangpura-b New Delhi 110 014 The International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology Post Box 30772 Nairobi, Kenya International Crop Research Institute for the

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Tax on fly ash

With a view to check pollution and discourage thermal power plants from using coal with high ash content, the Union ministry of environment and forests is preparing draft guidelines for a tax on fly

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Microbial miners

A bacterium can rid magnesite ore of silica, a major impurity

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PAKISTAN

Toxic waste is wreaking environmental havoc in Karachi. A technical survey by the Scope Environmental Management Research and Information Centre reports that Karachi's 1,900 industrial units and 200

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Sounding the blood vessels

Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences has become the country's first hospital to launch a new technique to detect artherosclerosis -- a disease of the blood vessels caused by cholesterol

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