And they are exacerbated by bad management, says Simon Long AS IT SCOURS the universe for signs of extraterrestrial life, NASA has a motto-cum-mission-statement: “Follow the water”. About 70% of the human
The worst hit in Venezuela's flood was a 100-kilometre stretch of coast, mainly in the small province of Vargas, where whole towns were buried. In an operation involving warships, helicopters and
In 1,000 years, the human race has multiplied 20 fold. Today's 6 billion people may be 9 billion by 2050. Yet the increase has slowed; rich nations breed less : a
The row about depleted uranium is one that NATO could have done without.It has only itself to blame. The critics draw attention to the 1991 Gulf War, when scores, if not hundreds f American
At the end of last year, a town called Friendship Heights, in Maryland's Montgomery County, approved America's strictest tobacco policy. Town officers banned smoking on all public property. This
Bernard Kouchner, the French doctor who is about to step down as UN's administrator of Kosovo, ran into some flak at a meeting of the province's ethnic-Albanian leaders, where the row over the risks
On the roads of North Carolina it is not unusual to see cars sporting bumper stickers that pointedly proclaim "Tobacco pays my bills" or "I smoke and I vote." This state in United States leads in the
Infectious diseases hinder developing countries from developing. Making existing drugs cheaper there would help. Making entirely new drugs would help even more : a
More than 250 related deaths have been reported in 21 states in the mid-west and the east of the U.S. since July 19th. The Chicago area is hardest-hit: 100 people are known to have died to
Applying labels to novel foods sounds like an easy way to balance the opposing wishes of producers and consumers. The reality is more complex : a
Being a Russian these days is a risky business. In 1959, a Russian baby boy could have expected to live, on average, to the age of 65. Forty years later the figure is 61-less than an Egyptian or a
