The greening of Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet president, says the world's deteriorating ecology poses as great a danger to mankind as did the nuclear standoff between superpowers at the height of the Cold War.
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet president, says the world's deteriorating ecology poses as great a danger to mankind as did the nuclear standoff between superpowers at the height of the Cold War.
Poor construction despite sturdy advice : In the case of the devastating earthquake, India can now regretfully dust off the widely neglected "Report of the Expert Group on Natural Disaster
The German government authorized the slaughter of 400,000 cows as part of a European Union program to cull a total of 2 million cows more than 30 months old in an effort to weed out mad cow disease,
According to recent medical findings, many parents believe that childhood vaccines are unsafe and seek exemptions from school mandates. Because unvaccinated children put themselves and others at
The Cambodian government must prevent illegal logging or lose millions of dollars in foreign aid, representatives of the International Monetary Fund and the Asian Development Bank
At least 110 people, mostly women and the elderly, died because of freezing conditions in refugee camps in western Afghanistan, the UN
Eighteen airline passengers in Australia have died since 1992 of "economy class syndrome" or potentially fatal blood clots, an Australian newspaper said, quoting coroner
AIDS has orphaned 12 million children in Africa, nearly triple the number of political refugees and displaced people there, and millions more are expected to be orphaned in coming years, a leading
Brazilian health officials and nongovernmental organizations are accusing the United States of threatening a critical element of this nation's successful anti-AIDS program as part of an increasingly
A new computer game system is designed to teach children to improve their ability to pay attention. Called the Attention Trainer, the game system uses the principle of neurofeedback, a therapy that