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Mar 26 2007
Big business tops the list of the worst all-time environmental polluters. Whether it is air, water, or land pollution, manufacturing and retail practises adopted by business have been criticised time and again as inefficient, irresponsible, and...
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Mar 25 2007
Are you watching your meals and still gaining the odd pound? The Journal of the American Dietetic Association has reported that the average American gets 22 per cent of calories and 50 per cent of sugar from non-alcoholic beverages! Most drinks, be it a...
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Mar 25 2007
Cows on the frontline of the fight to reduce global warming? No, I am not having one on you. Fact is a cow’s burp is no longer a laughing matter. Almost four per cent of greenhouse gas emissions come from methane emitted by cows. The University of...
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Mar 25 2007
While New Delhi and Lima may be continents apart, this week they are celebrating two significant events. A rare nocturnal animal has been seen in the heart of the Indian capital and in the wild northern region of Peru an endangered owl. Zoologists...
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Mar 25 2007
In what can only be described as human recognition of the significance of nature, the Taiwanese government is closing one lane of a major highway for the migrating purple milkweed butterfly. One of the 13 species of milkweed butterflies, they are...
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Mar 25 2007
What do Oprah Winfrey, JK Rowling, and Meg Whitman have in common? None of them are likely to be short on cash in the near future. These self-made ladies feature on Forbes.com recently published list of billionaires. Today 78 women in the world are...
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Mar 25 2007
What do circus elephants camping on the Eastern Seaboard of the United States get for dinner? Nothing less than nutritious whole wheat bread. Three hundred loaves of bread are ordered annually by Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus for their...
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Mar 24 2007
What do circus elephants camping on the Eastern Seaboard of the United States get for dinner? Nothing less than nutritious whole wheat bread. Three hundred loaves of bread are ordered annually by Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus for their...
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Mar 3 2007
Have you ever had the ‘hiccups’? Yup, we all have. They come at odd and sometimes embarrassing moments and usually disappear as suddenly as they appeared. Of course, sometimes we have longer bouts of them, when we hear our mothers tell us to...
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Feb 28 2007
The British government’s chief scientist Sir David King has come out in support of the use of animal-human hybrid embryos research. His position is backed by the Government’s own fertility watchdog, the Human Fertilization and Embryology...
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