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  • Impudent gesture

    IT is now clear that concern for environment is last on the agenda of the Hyderabad-based Nuclear Fuel Complex (NFC). Brushing aside the advice of three successive expert committees, NFC has

  • Paging or projecting

    Paging or projecting

    A new version of the pager is being developed so that the tiny device can now produce images several times its size

  • Wild thoughts pay

    INDIA may have many C V Ramans or I C Boses hidden among its scientists who are waiting in the wings to get the right break. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has launched

  • Living life lightly

    Six years ago, Bill Mckibben wrote The End of Nature and became the most prominent literary environmentalist. But writing this book depressed him, and he decided to look more optimistically at the

  • Animal wrongs

    A new wave of books against animal rights movements are appearing on the stands. Take Gary L Francione's boodk Animals, Property and the Law. He argues that laws framed for animal welfare, hardly has

  • Sounds of silence

    Seven researchers working for Mitsubishi in Japan have found a way of making machinery, vehicles and aircrafts operate more silently (New Scientist, Vol 147, No 1997). When air flows through a

  • A handful of earth

    THE struggle for existence may finally be over for the tribals and poor landless families in Karnataka who depend on forest land for their livelihood. The state government will soon regularise

  • Gallows if you swallow

    Anyone engaged in espionage in Israel would be well advised not to swallow any incriminating evidence. The ministry of defence in Haifais in the process of patenting a video camera for use inside the

  • ZIMBABWE

    Animal rights activists recently came to blows with the members of Akef Egyptian Circus while campaigning to drive them out of Zimbabwe. They alleged that the circus was just a camouflage for

  • CHILE

    A cellular phone for the ordinary Chilean is passe as the country advances to heights which even the us is yet to achieve in the field of communications. School students routinely communicate via

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