Determined to keep efforts about second hand smoke dangers from mushrooming, the tobacco industry mobilized a counter attack in the mid-1980s to systematically discredit any researcher claiming

North Korea will remain dependent on foreign aid for many more years because of the effects of recent flood damage and a deteriorating economy, a United Nations agency

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Independent of one another, research teams at Johns Hopkins University and Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland recently made the surprising discovery that medicines originally developed to

Nineteen former employees of International Business Machines Corp. sued the company and its suppliers, charging that exposure to toxic chemicals at the company's semiconductor plant in San Jose,

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The Philippine government declined to lift a ban on lumber exports after widespread criticism that the move would result in destruction of the country's remaining forests. Environmental groups said