Designer bacteria bite back against tooth decay
Brush your teeth after every meal. Floss regularly. And be sure to keep your teeth nicely coated with a film of genetically engineered bacteria. That is the advice dentists might offer if scientists
International Herald Tribune (Bangkok)
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An outcry as U.S. bars population control aid
In what amounted to a rebuff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, the Bush administration said that it would not contribute to a United Nations program that it contends provides aid to Chinese
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Bad population politics
There is mind-bending illogic behind the Bush administration's decision to withhold $34 million from the UN Population Fund, which is working in China despite continued practices there of coerced
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The match towards destruction of the environment
Humanity's use of natural resources -the so called ecological footprint has exceeded the regenerative capacity of Earth since the 1980s, and is now about 20 percent too great. If the government do
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Bush offers plan to cut power plant pollution
President Bush announced that he had submitted legislation to Congress that he said would use market incentives to reduce most power plant emissions by 70 percent by 2018.
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Dolphins still at risk of dying in fish nets
It was over a decade ago that Pacific tuna fisheries, pressured by public outcry in the United States, rushed to label their cans 'dolphin safe' a guarantee that their fishing practices would not
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Keeping flamingos in the pink
A thriving Caribbean flamingo population in Mexico, once on the verge of extinction, is threatened anew by environmental changes that could reverse the gains of recent years. Commercial development
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Fire nears sequoias as critics blame park
The fires that continued to roar near hundreds of giant sequoias, the towering trademarks of the area around this central California town, have renewed an argument over how best to manage the Sequoia
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U.S. proposes to cut farm aid if EU and Japan will follow
Under fire from abroad for a huge boost in payments to American farmers, the Bush administration has sought to regain the high ground in the global trade debate with a sweeping proposal that would
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Compassionate, no
George W. Bush claims to be compassionate,and he has declared that fighting global poverty is part of his struggle against terrorism. But the administration's decision to withhold funds for the