Malaysian State Of Sarawak Bans Commercial Hunting Of Wildlife
...ationSociety (WCS), the Malaysian state of Sarawak voted unanimously to bancommercial hunting earlier this month to prevent further depletion of itswildlife and protect the food source of local communities. The new law ends all commercial sales of animals or animal productstaken in the wild. Up to this p...Report On Electrical And Magnetic Fields Released; Public Invited To Comment At Regional Meetings
... EMF's possible carcinogenicity. None of thepanel voted for the stronger categories of "known" or "probable" humancarcinogen. And the panel chairman, Michael Gallo, Ph.D., of the University ofMedicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Medical School commented thatthe report does not suggest that th...Spring meeting press conferences
...e of Verification In October 1999, the U.S. Senate voted against ratification of the Comprehensive (Nuclear) Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). Several Senators claimed that nations might detonate underground nuclear explosions that would not be detected by the treaty's monitoring system. Their statements stand in co...... changes. Of the six Board members who originally voted to change the standards, only three remain; two are not up for re-election this year, the third won his primary race Tuesday. Below are some statistics from a Kansas City Star and Wichita Eagle poll that was conducted last November, after the Boar...Advisory panel on federal report on carcinogens makes recommendations to NIEHS/NTP for new listings
...ncountered in some industrial uses. But the panel voted against also listing certain alloys of nickel as well. The alloys have many uses as specialty steels and stainless steels and are used in some medical implants. Trichloroethylene (TCE), a degreaser for metal parts such as those used in manufacturin...... UV Radiation, UVA, UVB and UVC. All three panels voted unanimously to recommend broad spectrum ultraviole...l NIEHS committee, but the second and third panels voted against the alloys being listed, recommending only that nickel itself be listed. Talc. Natural ......claimer that the Oklahoma State Textbook Committee voted in November, 1999 to include in that state's biology textbooks: "The word evolution may refer to many types of change. Evolution describes changes that occur within a species. (White moths, for example, may evolve into gray moths). This process is mi...Multilateral Initiative on Malaria Secretariat to move to Sweden
...tly involved in MIM, reviewed the applications and voted to select the new MIM Secretariat. The voting members consisted of 10 funding partners from the North and 11 African countries representing 16 research institutions. These voting members were identified based on their significant and direct involve...AACR reschedules annual meeting for July 11-14 in Washington, D.C.
...f the American Association for Cancer Research has voted to reschedule the AACR 94th Annual Meeting -- cancelled in Toronto, Canada, earlier this month as a result of the SARS outbreak -- for July 11-14 in the new Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC. The decision to reschedule the meeting came a...DNA profiling used on cannabis plants
...sired medicinal properties. Several US states have voted to legalise the medical use of cannabis, though these efforts are being fought by federal authorities. The technology will not help police investigating the production or sale of highly processed or synthetic drugs such as cocaine and ecstasy. Nor do...New 'Understanding Evolution' Web site provides one-stop-shop for nation's science teachers
...e curriculum and the Ohio state Board of Education voted to include some aspects of intelligent design in lesson plans about evolution. For teachers caught up in the imbroglio, or those who just want to brush up on their understanding of the theory or find an engaging lesson plan for their students, the We...Researchers say US military accidentally introduced tree pathogen to Italian estate
...f the king by 1870. After World War II, when Italy voted to dissolve the monarchy to become a republic, the estate was turned over to the president, but public access remained restricted. "The estate is of naturalistic importance because it is a pristine example of a Mediterranean forest," said senior aut...