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 battle lines of budgetary politics in America have shifted in the past few days. Mr. Clinton has reaffirmed his pledge that the surplus should mainly be used to support the gaint entitlement
Thousands of migrant workers are employed to harvest cherries every year in Washington state. This is a lucrative crop worth more than $1,800 a tonne to growers. Picking is a skilled job, requiring
Milk was on the menu in Rome this week at a meeting of the Codex Alimentarius Commission, a joint body of the Food and Agriculture Organisation and the World Health Organisation. Codex is responsible
The French government in its latest drive to make the French healtier, seems to put illegal substances such as heroin, cocaine and cannabis in the same basket-medically if not yet legally-as alcohol
The rainforests in Central Africa which cover much of the two Congos, Gabon, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and a small corner of the Central African Republic, make up the single largest area of
A study published in Nature Neuroscience, by John Chapin of the MCP Hahnemann School of Medicine in Philadelphia and his colleagues has managed to wire up the brains of some experimental rats in a
In much of the developing world, condom makers face a tough sell. Notions of masculinity and morality make it tricky enough to discuss sex in public-let alone to advertise the merits of condoms. One
The World Bank currently faces a public relations fiasco, and one of its worst-ever shareholder rows. At issue is a project that might have been drawn up as a caricature of political insensitivity.
Public hostility to the genetic modification of crops risks slowing down the development of a potentially important technology-which is why more must be done to reassure consumers : a
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." That seems to be the attitude of the Transmissable Spongiform Encephalopathies Advisory Committee to America's Food and Drug Administration
