Food technology driving Indian farmers towards suicide

Farmers in India are committing suicide and number is increasing every year. Among the various reasons being cited for the serial suicide deaths  that continues unabated is new food technologies. They are...

Sorry Al, But Indeed An Ice Age Cometh

Opinion: After looking past the global warming rhetoric, and the clamour to clamp down on carbon dioxide, at the hard long-term temperature data going back hundreds of thousands and millions of years, the numbers...

Can Musharraf Survive? by Imanuel Wallerstein

"Poor Pervez Musharraf! He is not very popular, and is under pressure from just about everybody. Yet he labors on, seeking to maintain his equilibrium, and his power, while sitting on top of a seething volcano. He has in fact done better than one might have thought possible."

Common Ground Common Sense-First Strike?! Sorry seems to be an empty word

"First Strike?!: Sorry seems to be an empty word About a year ago, two professors of political science wrote an article in Foreign Affairs called "The Rise of U.S. Nuclear Primacy" ( see http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20060301faes...ar-primacy.html ). The summary reads as...

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"FORTAN:(Formula Translator) A high level programming language used mainly to solve scientific and engineering problems G-77: The Group of 77 (G-77) was established in 1964 by seventy-seven developing countries signatories of the "Joint Declaration of the Seventy-Seven...

Evolution: Genetic evidence for punctuated equilibrium

Evidence for punctuated equilibrium lies in the genetic sequences of many organisms, according to a study in this week's Science. Researchers report that about a third of reconstructed phylogenetic trees of animals,...

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