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Reaction time
Electronic conferences can speed up decision making which lengthy, costly and conventional deliberations cannot
Locking horns with the bull
International agreements like the Basel Convention are not enough to defeat corporate agendas firmly rooted in the stock market
No laughing matter
Activists are increasingly resorting to attention-grabbing techniques to bring development issues into the public domain
Bulls from bears
Book>> Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity edited by Michael Lewis Penguin, Delhi 2009
World's state as precarious as ever
STATE OF THE WORLD 1993 Edited by Linda Starke Publisher: W W Norton & Co Price: $13.99
In Rio, try thinking of Kalavati Devi
Castle in the air
The first truly international space station will soon become a reality
The view from below
For down and out tribal women, global developmental extravagnzas mean nothing but rhetoric
A step towards nowhere
The 20th century Nostradamus
FUTURE IN SIGHT. BARRY H MINKIN Macmillan - 1995 Price US $22.95
INDIA
Oily divide
No Armageddon, this
The meteor "shower" was but a mild drizzle, and it took place 16 hours too early
Asian kids on top