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Cadavers in the water

The thousands of corpses of the brutal gun and machete civil war in Rwanda have been dumped into the second largest fresh water lake in the world.

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30/08/1994
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19th century Indian diet: rice fights wheat

The question of what constituted a balanced Indian diet had the British totally confused

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30/08/1994
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Serving notice on Indian forests

The World Bank and other agencies funding forestry projects in India are insisting on a more effective forest management strategy

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30/08/1994
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Chemical traps

Harnessing solar energy has been a long-standing scientific goal. The latest approach employs chemicals that, like the leaves of a tree, soak up solar energy for use later

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30/08/1994
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Exhausting concerns

The automobile industry is worried about a proposed legislation that may soon make it mandatory for manufacturers to fit vehicles with catalytic convertors to control pollution levels

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30/08/1994
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Britain sounds red air alert

Searing heat and vehicular emissions skyrocketed ozone levels in Britain, prompting the government to caution against using cars, jogging or even exercising outdoors

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30/08/1994
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In defence of the lowly idli

British criticism of the Indian diet focused chiefly on rice. Yet "(I)dlis shine like the cool rayed moon": the humble flying saucer, the staple South Indian food, inspired the Jain poet Terkanambi

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30/08/1994
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External funding

Of the total World Bank aid of $9.9 billion for agriculture development in India upto 1990, about $350 million went to forestry. Since then, projects worth $282 million have been finalised and

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30/08/1994
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Lighting up tumours

New chemical compounds have made radiographic imaging for tumour detection cheaper

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30/08/1994
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Conversion to a safer life

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30/08/1994

NEERI's catalytic converter converts auto exhaust into carbon dioxide and water vapour

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