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  • Lead control

    A POSSIBLE lowering of the hazards posed by the use of lead has come about with, the first international agreement on measures to reduce its use. At a two-day meeting in Paris in the last week

  • Airing woes

    WITH the air in France turning out to be a potential killer, the government has decided to develop 'green pqtrol' by AD 2000. The bio-fuel will contain organic elements such as diester,

  • In Focus

    France, which had raised the ire of many nations by going ahead with its underground nuclear testing programme from September last, may have to face some more music. Reportedly, the atomic

  • Cursor

    Crash H - bomb The French government's move to carry out nuclear tests in spite of protests from many countries and environmentalists lends a great amount of curiosity to Richard Rhode's book,

  • Editor's page

    I am quite sure that if local democratic institutions are strengthened this country, with the ongoing strengthening of the civil society, India too will witness increased vibrancy and numerous innovations

  • IN FOCUS

    France is in a frenzy to be friends again with the rest of the world. Especially with the countries in the South Pacific, which have been smouldering with indignation ever since the

  • SHIP SCRAP

    Grecripeace, the international environmental group has targetted France once again. Suing the country in a US court in Los Angeles, it has demanded the return of its ship and one

  • Pipe screams

    Thefamous i9th century pipe organ at the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris has gone hi-tech. The French ministry of culture has spent US $2.2 million to digitise the organ. Now, a system

  • Flare up in South Pacific

    Flare up in South Pacific

    AUSTRALIAN premier Paul Keating called it .an act of stupidity," and the rest of the world exploded in anger - but Paris remained undeterred. In the wee hours of Septembei 6, the French did what

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