Shift on environment faulted
The General Accounting Office has warned against a Bush administration plan to cut federal environmental enforcement and shift resources to the states, saying the move could harm overall efforts to
International Herald Tribune (Bangkok)
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Leading cancer center sues Genentech
One of the leading cancer centers in the United States is seeking sizable royalty payments and damages from Genentech Inc. in payment for groundbreaking research that helped spawn the biotechnology
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India relieved as U.S. limits rice patent
A Texas company's attempt to patent a type of Basmati rice, which became a touchstone for anti-globalization protests in the 1990s, was largely settled last week when the United States granted a
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Stem cells prove hard to come by
If scientists want to develop new supplies of embryonic stem cells, they may have to take the bold and controversial step of creating human embryos expressly for research, many leading fertility
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Poisoning kills 25 in Ivory Coast
Poisoned porridge killed at least 25 people and hospitalized 80 others over the weekend in central Ivory Coast, newspapers
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Bush's stem cell plan
In the three weeks since President George Bush announced his policy on federal funding for stem cell research, it has become increasingly clear that his plan is likely to deliver far less help to
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Foot-and-mouth spreads in England
Britain said that it had called in the army again to help fight an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in northeast England, five months after soldiers last aided a mass livestock slaughter. The
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Air in Denver is cleaner now
Once known as one of the most poluted urban areas for its persistent brown haze, Denver is about to become the first major city to achieve full compliance with the Clean Air Act by eliminating severe
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Central Americans scavenge for something to eat
A merciless and stubborn summer drought has left almost 1.5 million of the poorest farmers in Central America with no crops to sell or food to eat. From Nicaragua to Guatemala, people must scavenge
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Breakthrough on insulin pills?
Purdue University scientists believe they have found a way to make insulin for diabetics available in pills instead of daily shots. The breakthrough is a new acrylic-based, gel-like coating on the