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(March 3rd, 2000)
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Vatican rejects EU's "ungodly" bill of rights
The Vatican said that the Charter of Fundamental Rights adopted at the EU summit in Nice was a "godless" document. (3rd March, 2001)
A quarter of world enjoys religious freedom
About 75 percent of the world's population is subjected to restrictions and violations of their religious freedom. (3rd March, 2001)
Aerosol can reveal envelopes' secrets
An aerosol spray that makes unopened envelopes transparent so that the contents can be read has been invented. (3rd March, 2001)
Spy in the sky fights the flab?
Swiss scientists have tested the ability of the GPS to track people and gauge how much exercise they're clocking up. (3rd March, 2001)
Do you know where your kids are?
To many parents, it may be a dream: A little gadget that can track where a child is at all times. (3rd March, 2001)
Schools in Belgium have a new electronic schoolbook computer system with an integrated chip that can locate students at all times. (3rd March, 2001)
Genetics: What's in your cornflakes?
Would you like to have your morning cornflakes served with milk, fruit, and bugkiller … or would you just as soon pass on the bugkiller? (3rd March, 2001)
Patent allows creation of man-animal hybrid
A biotech company has taken out a patent on a process which would allow animals to be developed with body parts originating from humans. (3rd March, 2001)
Japanese workers skip time off
The still shaky economy and deeply entrenched social pressures are keeping Japan's workaholic work force glued to the office. (3rd March, 2001)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology is struggling with a rash of student suicides. (3rd March, 2001)
South California at risk of one-two earthquake-tsunami punch
A tsunami generated by a Southern California earthquake could deliver 50-foot waves on the region's coastline with only a few minutes' warning. (3rd March, 2001)
Fidel Castro on the world economy
More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World. (3rd March, 2001)
Drive to stamp out Christianity in Laos having opposite effect
... the local people say, 'There must be something to this if the government is taking such a strong stand against it. It must be right,' (3rd March, 2001)
Most people regard them as Christmas card adornments, but at least 800 Britons claim to have had encounters with angels. (3rd March, 2001)
HIV spread outstripping worst predictions
The HIV/AIDS epidemic has outstripped even the worst predictions, surprising experts with the speed at which it has infected 36 million people. (3rd March, 2001)
Exploring the microelectronic world
The semiconductor industry is edging closer to the world of nanotechnology, where components are miniaturized to the point of individual molecules and atoms. (3rd March, 2001)
Kids caught in the world's deadly conflicts
Within the past decade, 2 million children have been killed and 6 million wounded in armed conflict. (3rd March, 2001)
Long after wars end, landmines lie in wait for the innocents
No one knows how many there are, but the estimate is between 60 million and 70 million uncleared landmines in 70 countries. They can remain active for about 50 years. (3rd March, 2001)
The U.S. military budget at $305 billion is 22 times as large as the combined spending of the seven countries Pentagon officials label as potential attackers. (December 31, 2000)
Genetic modifications: To fly or not to fly
The marriage of man and fly is one of the great sagas of modern science fiction. But this is not a movie; it is real life. Is this a path we really want to go down? (December 31, 2000)
Storms are man's fault, says Prince Charles
On and off since mid-October, Britain has been pummeled by rain, whipped by winds and buffeted by storms that have caused untold millions of dollars in damage. (December 31, 2000)
More than 800 million people still suffer from hunger or diseases associated with undernourishment. (December 31, 2000)
Fresh water systems around the world are so environmentally degraded they are losing their ability to support human, animal and plant life. (December 31, 2000)
Nuclear sub came close to meltdown
One of Britain's nuclear submarines came within "a few minutes" of a reactor meltdown, naval experts have revealed. (December 31, 2000)
Love him or hate him, Malaysia's Prime Minister Mohamad Mahathir is one of the true firebrands of the global economy. (December 31, 2000)
Ebola: For every three who survive, seven will die
For every three who survive an Ebola outbreak, there can be up to another seven who end up dead from it. (December 31, 2000)
Fear of diseased beef deepens in France
Throughout France, the public is in an increasing panic about the spread of mad cow disease. (December 31, 2000)
Nanotechnology and the Law of Accelerating Returns
"Progress in the 21st century will be 1,000 times greater than in the 20th in terms of technical change." (December 31, 2000)
If all the optical fiber spreading around the globe could be seen as a single filament, its tip would be advancing at Mach 2, twice the speed of sound. (December 31, 2000)
In his newest book, Just Six Numbers, Rees argues that six numbers underlie the fundamental physical properties of the universe. (December 31, 2000)
UK a society of atheists, says Archbishop.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, believes Britain has become an atheist society in which people look to medicine, not religion, to provide eternal life. (December 31, 2000)
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