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Tuesday, December 30, 2008 6:28 PM

No dearth of speakers in the GM food debate

We are a nation of debates, and delays. And when it comes to GM crops, we are also a nation of botched regulation, bad monitoring, slipshod field trials, partial/non-availability of data... I am not even counting the illegal manner in which Bt cotton...
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Thursday, November 27, 2008 11:16 AM

Solving the oldest paleontology mystery

Turtles not only have tough shells, but they have also posed tough problems to scientists when it comes to reptile evolution--how has the turtle's shell and body developed, which has remained almost the same over evolutionary time, since the age of...
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Friday, October 17, 2008 12:57 PM

Chinese premier with a ‘science' editor

Imagine the head of a country meeting the editor of a science magazine for two hours! Unless it's truly a meeting of minds, it's difficult to pull it off, that too among much media glare. Chinese premier Wen Jiabao recently spent two hours with...
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