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GM and the superhero
Issue Date: Jun 10, 2011
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Class room
Issue Date: May 16, 2011
How Bamboo Got Free
Trouble with doubles
Issue Date: Jan 31, 2003
bored with the humdrum life of the office? Time to take some action, but Michael Keaton should not be your rolemodel. In the famous movie, Multiplicity, Keaton made his clone do all the dirty work, while he had the time of his life. However, the fun did not last too long, with the clone turning out to be even smarter and Keaton losing his identity. The film is a perfect example of how cloning, despite having numerous advantages, is a serious proposition. Rather, a dangerous one.
Drugged by chicken
Issue Date: Oct 15, 2002
the European Union's authority for applying precautionary principle in environmental and health decision-making has been recently reinforced by two rulings of the European Court of Justice. Both cases arose from a 1999 regulation banning use of four antibiotics in animal feed. Two pharmaceutical firms had challenged the regulation arguing that it was based on an attempt to achieve 'zero risk' and not a thorough assessment.
A normal monsoon?
Issue Date: Aug 15, 2002
It is the singlemost important event in India. It affects the fate of a farmer as much as it determines political careers. The most important variable in the Indian economy. The single-biggest transfer of mass from the Southern Hemisphere to the Northern Hemisphere. The most regular visitor to India, and one of the oldest -- it started its annual ritual at least 60 billion years ago. And it touches the lives of 60 per cent of the world's population like nothing else.
Charge of the right brigade
Issue Date: Jan 15, 1996
LIKE most technological discoveries and their innovated incarnations, power-supplying batteries are a necessary evil. While
modern life cannot be envisaged without them, the environmental toll they take is fearsome. Hence, scientists are hot in
pursuit of an environmentally benign cell. Researchers looking for new dry batteries, are working on finding chemical
Green clean
Issue Date: Nov 30, 1995
THE unprecedented increase in population, and the even
greater increase in the scale of human activity, largely in this
century, have been brought about by the growing mastery of
science and its applications.
This has led to prosperity,
improved standards of life,
and opportunities have
expanded beyond anything
that the previous generations
could have imagined. But
these developments have
damaged and deteriorated
the ecological systems and
Making way
Issue Date: Jul 15, 1995
MAN, the most arrogant of animals, has forgotten nature's best lessons. Growing and living in harmony is one of them. Like the humans, they too have their struggles and competitions for survival and growth. Yet, they go through the entire gamut of such exercises without squabbling. This is what the issue of succession is all about.
Catching the wind
Issue Date: May 31, 1995
WEATHER and climate exercise tremendous influence over
human wellbeing and health. Humans make dwellings for
themselves to escape the vagaries of climatic variations. Sitting
in the relative comfort of our airconclitioned offices and
homes - between a past in which electricity was unimaginable and a future in which it probably will be unaffordable -
we are forced to ask whether the price that we are willing to
pay for our modern lifestyles is too high.
Playing dice with development
Issue Date: Mar 31, 1995
THE trappings of power were all there, and so were the traps. The United Nation's World Summit on Social Development, held in Copenhagen between March 6-12, had been projected as a potential washout. The preparatory committees and rounds of meetings, the charting of highly charged agenda, the government delegations and the non-governmental organisations (NGOs) -- all came together with priorities and proclivities of their own, often exclusively their own.
