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toddlers in trouble: A research institute has found high levels of mercury in 60 per cent of newborns at hospitals in Itaituba city, in the Brazilian Amazon. Out of the 1,666 babies born during 2002 in the hospitals, 1,000 were detected with mercury contamination. Some of the kids had 80 parts per million (ppm) of mercury in their blood, as against the World Health Organization's highest acceptable level of 30 ppm.
charting the course: The task force on interlinking of rivers has directed the Indian Space Research Organisation and National Remote Sensing Agency to map the waterbodies as a preliminary measure. At a recent convention on
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