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Issue Date: Sep 15, 2012
>> On August 5, colourful beach umbrellas along Italy’s sun-soaked coast were kept closed in protest against a government plan to auction patches of seafront. Although it is state property, access to much of the Italian coast has long been controlled by beach clubs. The beach clubs say the plan favours multinational companies and will put 30,000 beach business and 600,000 workers at risk.
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Issue Date: Aug 15, 2012
>> Children who watch a lot of TV between the ages of two and four years could risk larger waistlines by age 10. Every extra weekly hour watched may add half a millimetre to their waistline, says a Canadian study that tracked above 1,300 children.
Sunshine sector loses sheen
Issue Date: Aug 15, 2012
Science and Technology - Briefs
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2012
Plant sciences
Agent orange & its ruby
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Issue Date: Apr 15, 2012
>> The Internet contributes to 8.3 per cent of the UK economy, a bigger share than for any other G20 major countries, a study by Boston Consultancy Group suggests. The Internet economy was worth £121 billion (about US$ 165 billion) in 2010, said the research organisation.
TB turns invincible
Issue Date: Feb 29, 2012
In December last, when doctors at Hinduja Hospital in Mumbai raised the alarm over a deadly form of tuberculosis, the Union health ministry was quick to refute the claim. In its press release on January 17, the ministry said the term “totally drug resistant TB” is “misleading”; it is neither recognised by the national programme for TB control nor by WHO. But WHO has received reports of a similar strain of TB bacteria before: first from Italy in 2007 and then from Iran in 2009. With India becoming the third country to have raised the concern, it has now convened a meeting of global TB experts in March to discuss whether the strain should be called totally drug resistant (TDR), or be clubbed under the existing category of extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB), given that advanced drugs are in the making and that it is not possible to test TB bacteria against every possible drug and concentration.
Empty Promises
Issue Date: Jun 30, 2008
As soaring food prices threatened to push 100 million more people into starvation, heads and representatives of 180 countries gathered in Rome in the first week of June to find ways to overcome the crisis. The situation was extraordinary--global food prices have almost doubled in three years and the Food and Agriculture Organization (fao) predicts the trend is not going to ease in the short term because global grain supplies are at their lowest since the 1980s.
Cancun redux
Issue Date: Jan 15, 2004
Cancun: a paper tiger
jurgen maier
From barrels to battlefields
Issue Date: Oct 31, 2002
The US President George W Bush is raring to launch an attack on Iraq. Whether it has weapons of mass destruction or not, Iraq certainly has the world's second largest reserves of petroleum after Saudi Arabia. Thanks to UN sanctions, it produces a mere fraction of its potential. The US, on the other hand, is the world's largest consumer and importer of oil. It is certain whatever else, the desire to control Iraq's oil lubricates the US war machinery.
A conversion problem
Issue Date: Mar 31, 2001
CATALYTIC converters, meant to clean up car exhausts, are polluting the environment. A group of Italian and French researchers have found traces of heavy metals emitted from the devices in remote regions of Greenland. Seth Dunn of the Worldwatch Institute, a non-governmental organisation based in Washington DC, USA, says, “They have broken new ground.” He says. “The implications could be significant for public health.” Workers involved in refining platinum, one of the metals used in catalytic converters, are known to suffer a higher than usual incidence of asthma.
