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Tanzania's parliament has endorsed a 1.9 billion US dollar budget for the 2001/02 fiscal year, amid mixed feelings in political and economic circles on government's ability to meet its poverty elimination targets.
During a week-long debate that ended Friday night, several legislators expressed reservations about the budget, ... |
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| GENEVA |
World Trade Organisation (WTO) members drew up a timeframe Friday for efforts at ensuring that intellectual property rights do not prevent poor countries from getting badly-needed drugs.
Delegates agreed the WTO's accord on trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights (TRIPS) must be "part of the solution and not part of ... |
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| LUSAKA |
Scientists and wealthy tourists flocked to southern Africa Thursday to watch the first full solar eclipse of the millennium, a midwinter show greeted locally with both enthusiasm and fears for the eyesight of millions of poverty-stricken people.
The eclipse began in Angola and swept eastward across the continent into Zambia, Zimbabwe, the southern tip of Malawi, Mozambique and then Madagascar in the Indian Ocean.
Millions of people witnessed the celestial spectacle of the moon edging its way between the earth and the sun.
Bu many did not have protective glasses, raising fears of a major outbreak of eye problems.
Special protective goggles, made with a cardboard rim and dark plastic film for lenses, cost between ... |
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The Bush administration is deeply divided over the decision it must soon
make about whether to allow federal funding for research on stem cells that
using fertilized eggs derived from in vitro fertilization. Many scientists,
however, believe that these cells could hold the key to curing diseases and
conditions such as spinal cord injury, ... |
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