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Booked
Issue Date: Feb 15, 2011
Until the second week of January, Stony Stratford, a small town in north Buckinghamshire in the UK, was famous only because its two pubs, The Cock and The Bull.
When McDonald’s ate crow
@ Issue Date: Feb 15, 2011
In 1990, McDonald’s threatened activists of a London-based ethical food group with libel suits. A pamphlet, What’s wrong with McDonald’s, had earned them the ire of the fast food biggie. Three of the activists from London Greenpeace—not to be confused with Greenpeace International, which distanced itself from the matter— apologised to McDonald’s and agreed not to circulate the leaflet. But Helen Steel, a part time bar worker earning £65 a week, and David Morris, an unemployed single parent, were dragged to a London court.
Cracking ammonia
Issue Date: Dec 31, 2010
IT IS the prime ingredient of fertilisers that help sustain one-third of the world’s population. Though it is commonly released as a pungent gas from decomposing organic matter, harnessing ammonia from nature requires an intensive industrial procedure.
Net bonding
Issue Date: Dec 15, 2010
On November 10 more than 70 websites in the UK defied police rulings to issue guidance to student protesters on avoiding arrest.
Gene leakage
Issue Date: Dec 15, 2010
A BACTERIUM, which the biotech industry uses as a vehicle to insert foreign genes in plants, can alter the genetic makeup of other life forms like fungi in the environment, shows a research by UK scientists. This is a way, apart from cross pollination, modified genes could escape into the environment, said the researchers. They call for considering the finding during the risk assessment of bacteria-mediated genetically modified (GM) plants.
Chinese art barricaded
Issue Date: Nov 30, 2010
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei had intended interactive art.
Lobby work
Issue Date: Nov 30, 2010
An environmental documentary is under attack from a leading American environmentalist who was interviewed for the programme, as well as a coalition of anti- GM campaigners based in the developing world.
Orchid’s secret note
Issue Date: Nov 15, 2010
ORCHIDS that the Victorian era naturalists plucked and carefully pressed onto vellum sheets confine climate secrets. A recent study of these orchids revealed over the years global warming has changed their blooming pattern: the spring flower now blooms prematurely in the UK.
The noisier, the healthier
Issue Date: Nov 15, 2010
CORAL reefs that offer exotic ocean views can be surprisingly noisy places, with tiny fish and invertebrates like lobsters, sea urchins, squids and corals producing a relentless cacophony of squeaks and grunts. UK scientists recently listened to these noises and found the noisier the reef the better is its health; meaning, the reef has more living corals, offering shelter to large numbers of fish and other marine animals.
