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TECHNOLOGY-WARFARE: Virtual Armies Clash By Net
After the Mexican army overran the headquarters of the Zapatista guerrillas in the Chiapas jungle last year, a news photo clearly showed a computer monitor in the abandoned office of Zapatista leader Subcomandante Marcos./ATT EDS: Please related the following to “Information Warfare: Virtual Armies Clash on Net,”moved from Seattle./
While militaries constantly assess and reassess their capabilities, the Internet has long demonstrated its value as an informational equalizer for underdogs fighting in or suffering from conflicts.HEALTH: Antibiotics Increasingly Less Effective In War On Disease
Microbial resistance to antibiotics is one of the most crucial issues now under discussion at the World Health Assembly in Geneva. The drugs the WHO used to bring diseases under control in the last 50 years may not work in another 50.HEALTH: Tobacco Companies Try To Debunk Research on Passive Smoking
Three major tobacco companies have added to the controversy over the dangers of 'passive smoking' by financing an 'independent' study which has concluded that there is no link between environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and lung cancer.INFORMATION-VIETNAM: Hanoi Proceeds Warily Along Internet Highway
The take-off of the information superhighway in Vietnam is being delayed, say observers, by an increasingly cautious bureaucracy in the lead up to next month's eighth Congress of the country's Communist Party.UNITED NATIONS: West Seeks to Eliminate U.N. Information Centres /CORRECTED REPEAT/
Industrialised nations are seeking to cut or eliminate the 70 U.N. Information Centres worldwide on the grounds that high-speed information superhighways have made them superfluous.UNITED NATIONS: West Seeks to Eliminate U.N. Information Centres
Industrialised nations are seeking to cut or eliminate the 70 U.N. Information Centres worldwide on the grounds that high-speed information superhighways have made them superfluous.FOOD-HEALTH: In a Market Driven World, Profits Take Precedence
The recent revelations about Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) or Mad Cow Disease and its transmission to human beings, reflect a fundamental flaw in today's social and economic systems.ENVIRONMENT: Biodiversity-rich Costa Rica Takes Stock
Costa Rica, taking the 1992 International Biodiversity Convention seriously, has begun identifying its flora and fauna and working on strategies for rational exploitation.RUSSIA-ENERGY: Money Squeeze Cannot Halt Nuclear Power
Russia plans to continue pursuing its nuclear power programme despite the severe economic problems facing the country, according to a senior official.ENVIRONMENT: Moscow’s Secret Nuclear Waste Nightmare
There are literally hundreds of illegal nuclear waste dumps in and around the Russian capital, the result of years of careless shipping, corruption and often inexplicable thieving within the country's atomic industry.AFRICA: ITU Reports Weak Performance of Telecommunications
The telecommunications sector in Africa showed little improvement in 1996, and the number of phone lines per inhabitant dropped, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) reported Thursday.GUYANA-TECHNOLOGY: Life In The Dark
It is 11:30 p.m. on Saturday in this South American republic. Thousands of boxing fans are sitting around their television sets waiting for the feature presentation to be pirated from U.S. satellites when suddenly, and without any warning the entire city is plunged into darkness.HEALTH: Britain Agonises Over Mad Cow Cull As Scientists Dispute
A combination of new scientific evidence and political pressure is slowly coaxing the British government to accept the inevitable and begin the mass slaughter of cattle infected with Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle.FOOD: From Rome to Leipzig, Hard Bargaining Over Global Plan
Unresolved issues which nearly bogged down inter-governmental negotiations for a strategy to conserve the world's agricultural diversity, are threatening to hang over future talks on the subject, delegates said.ENERGY: Chernobyl-type Accident Could not Happen Again
Anti-nuclear protestors chained themselves to a railway line near the Chernobyl plant in Ukraine Friday and demanded its immediate closure, as the 10th anniversary of the world's worst nuclear diasaster was marked by protests and reflection.BIODIVERSITY: North-South Divide Over Plant Diversity Looms Again
Developing countries made a bid once more to guarantee their right to access to the plant genetic material they have been losing to the laboratories in the industrialised world.ENVIRONMENT: Time To Entomb the Tomb of Chernobyl?
Ten years after the engineers entombed the shattered hulk of reactor number four at Ukraine's nuclear plant at Chernobyl, nuclear safety experts say it is time to think whether a cover is now needed for the cover.COMMUNICATIONS-TECHNOLOGY: Decoding the Internet — an Online Primer
National boundaries have little meaning on the Internet, which allows individuals on any kind of computer anywhere to share information cheaply and rapidly.LATIN AMERICA-COMMUNICATIONS: Ineternet – From Drip to Flood
What began as a drip in Brazil and Mexico is turning into a flood: today, the ranks of users and providers of informatics networks in Latin America are growing by leaps and bounds.ENVIRONMENT: Fighting for The Facts About Chernobyl
The habit of officials to send out incomplete, contradictory or misleading data on nuclear crises -- when they release data at all -- meant the consequences of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster were more severe than they need have been.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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