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
Churches in South-Central Los Angeles are helping female parishoners take their health seriously. Older black and Latina women have fewer mammograms than their white counterparts, putting them at
Some of the trees that will be saved in the agreement made by the federal government, the state of California and Pacific Lumber Company to protect the Headwaters Forest, the world's last groves of
Managed care exists to keep costs down. How unfortunate that premiums this year in U.S. will rise by five times the rate of inflation : a
Virginia is currently United States' second largest rubbish importer, behind only Pennsylvania. Some 87% of Virginians, according to a recent poll by Virginia Commonwealth University, want to set a
Bolivia has tried for years to curb its coca industry, not least because the United States has insisted that it must. The main tool has been eradication of coca bushes, with hefty compensation for
It is nearly four months since Mitch swept through Honduras, while its wide skirts of rain soaked Nicaragua (and to a lesser extent, parts of Guatemala, El Salvador and south-eastern Mexico). The
Take public concern about the safety of food, add a dash of scientific controversy over genetically modified foods and it is easy to manipulate a series of hysterical headlines. For the past 10 days,
It was a tree-hugger's dream. Save the rainforests. Respect and honour the knowledge of the people who live there. And still make money for your shareholders. Unfortunately, it doesn't look as though
Making sure that a medicine works only in the right part of the body is tricky. Using drugs that must be illuminated to become active might be the solution : a
If Article 299A of Senegal's penal code were fully applied, some 1m-2m Senegalese would go to jail. The amendment, which parliament passed last month, makes it a crime to carry out female genital
