India

 Short shrift to environment

A recent festival of short films bombed by and large

Publication Date: 
14/09/1994
Pradip Saha
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Environment, Children, India, Agriculture
India

 Bad blood

A hypothesis that radiation from a nuclear plant caused leukaemia in the children of its employees has been trashed

Publication Date: 
14/05/1994
Down to Earth
Tags:
Nuclear Power, Workers, Children, Radiation, Science And Technology, United Kingdom (UK)
India

 Contacts with young minds

Schoolchildren in Uttar Pradesh delighted themselves collecting leaves and plants for a unique biodiversity competition

Publication Date: 
14/04/1994
Sudeep Mukhia
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Children, Biodiversity, Education, India
India

 Eager to achieve

MANOJ Kumar, the son of a brick kiln worker, shows the perspicacity of one much older than his 14 years. He not only won both the biodiversity competitions held at Gangagarh, he also topped his class. Manoj spoke to Down To Earth about his motivations and

Publication Date: 
14/04/1994
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Children, Biodiversity, Education, India
Environment

 Footprints of the wild

Publishers worldwide need to be goaded to specialise in environmental publications, but the fair was piled high with coffee table glossies on wildlife and environment, some targeting children.

Publication Date: 
14/03/1994
Anuj Sharma
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Environment, Wildlife, Education, Children
India

 Yi triumphs over one

HOW DO Chinese tots outperform their American counterparts? Psychologist David C Geary of the University of Missouri at Columbia, USA, who has studied the performance of Chinese and American

Publication Date: 
14/02/1994
Down to Earth
Tags:
Children, Science And Technology, Education, China
Agriculture

 Giving girls the horrors

FOR MOST girls, fear emanates from an under-the-bed-world. In an experiment in which children aged three to four years were asked about their night-time fears, significantly more girls than boys

Publication Date: 
30/10/1993
Down to Earth
Tags:
Women, Children, Science And Technology, Research, Scientists
Agriculture

 Heady music

HEAVY metal music buffs who are compulsive hand-bangers need beware because jerking the head to the beat could cause severe injury to their necks (New Scientist, Vol 139, No 1887). Marilyn

Publication Date: 
14/10/1993
Down to Earth
Tags:
Children, Science And Technology, Neurology, United States Of America (US)
India

 Amnesty portrays India's warts in detail

IN DAYS long gone, the bearer of bad tidings was usually put to death unceremoniously. In today's more civilised times, we in the Third World prefer to vilify such messengers as biased agents of

Publication Date: 
30/03/1993
K T Oommen
Down to Earth
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Environment, Children, Human Rights, India, Developing Countries, Women
Sanitation

 For a few dollars more...

Developing countries immunised 80 per cent of their children by 1990 and saved millions of lives. But 35,000 children, under five years of age, still die every day all over the world, because of malnutrition.

Publication Date: 
30/01/1993
Down to Earth
Tags:
Malnutrition, Drinking Water, Sanitation, Children, Poverty, Education, UNICEF, Developing Countries

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