Agriculture

 No fracture hormone

A RECENT study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine has established that women with osteoporosis suffered fewer fractures after treatment with estrogen. Osteoporosis is a potentially

Publication Date: 
14/08/1992
Down to Earth
Tags:
Women, Medical Research, Science And Technology, United States Of America (US)
Environment

 McNamara shoots from the hip

Today's neo Malthusians have acquired a fashionable new fig leaf: environmentalism. And Robert McNamara's recent talk in Delhi was an eloquent expression of this trend

Publication Date: 
29/06/1992
Pamela Philipose
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Environment, Women, World Bank, Developing Countries, Tropical Forests
India

 Eve's motherhood challenged

EVE MAY not have been the mother of the human race after all. Molecular biologists have been arguing that the genetic components of human beings indicate that all family trees lead back to a

Publication Date: 
29/06/1992
Down to Earth
Tags:
Women, Science And Technology, Research, Scientists
India

 Tribal women edged out of forests

IS one born a woman or does one become one? Were women all through history burdened by inequitous norms and rules even during the period when surplus accumulation did not form the basis of

Publication Date: 
30/05/1992
Harsh Sethi
Down to Earth
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Forests, Tribals, Women, India, Bihar

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