The agenda : Ecology, poverty reduction, disarming
Three interlinked themes-environmental protection, poverty reduction and disarmament - are vital to preserving the human future. In no area is human interdependence clearer than in protecting the
Three interlinked themes-environmental protection, poverty reduction and disarmament - are vital to preserving the human future. In no area is human interdependence clearer than in protecting the
Racing against the specter of tighter regulation, many of the largest food companies in the United States have agreed to specify whether the foods they sell contain even tiny amounts of everyday
From the National Institutes of Health to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, money has begun to pour into studies on the global scourges of malaria and tuberculosis. The new funds are providing a
Smokers will be banished from bars, restaurants and casinos unless a separate smoking room is provided, under a proposed change in the
An economist J Howard Beales III whose writings were used during a U.S. Federal Trade Commission investigating to defend the use of the Joe Camel Cartoon character in tobacco advertising will become
A new front in Europe's battle with the tobacco industry has opened with a European Commission proposal to ban tobacco advertising. The law proposed would ban tobacco ads in all print publications
The sale of human organs, whether from a living person or a cadaver, is against the law in virtually every country (Iran is perhaps the only exception) and has been condemned by all of the world's
The culprit that has devastated not just the health but the very soul of this impoverished place is something that officials here in Henan Province of China have generally insisted is not a problem :
New Zealand's nemesis is the brush tail opossum, an intruder from Australia first introduced in Taupo in 1837. Threatened by human encroachment in its native land, the opossum had found its niche in
Coca-Cola Co. said it had recalled 700,000 bottles in Belgium of Pomelo, a citrus-flavored drink, after finding that its color and taste had been slightly affected by exposure to light.