Tubercular alarm bells
Aisling Irwin reports on the Tuberculosis 2000 conference at the Royal Society of Medicine. The growing scourge of tuberculosis, could be eliminated worldwide if doctors and governments were to act...
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Wole, Idi and all that jazz
Africana
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Mission: conserve highfliers
Time is running out for rare Himalayan butterflies, says David Spencer Smith The world's greatest concentration of high mountains lies within the Karakoram range in western Himalaya. It is an arid...
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The right climate for US change?
The Impact of Climate Change on the United States Economy
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Warwick Pounds 40m deal
Science minister David Hunt this week announced a Pounds 40 million link-up between the University of Warwick and design and manufacturing firm Computervision. The research and education...
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Proconsuls who ruled the jewel
VICEROY: Curzon to Mountbatten. By Hugh Tinker. Oxford University Press, 266pp, Pounds 11.99. ISBN 0 19 577698 4. What Hugh Tinker calls "a kind of personal retrospect, completed when a lifetime of...
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Nutcracker sweet
Made for Each Other
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Going, going...gone
Black-market trade in antiquities is destroying some countries' heritage. Anne Sebba reports on battles by archaeologists to stop the looting James Ede, a London-based antiquities dealer, put two...
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China upsets degree awards
Montreal. A LAW doctorate proffered to Chinese president Jiang Zemin has sparked a debate over who should get honorary degrees in Canada. The University of Victoria senate voted last month to award...
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A bloodied country, a state of mind
The Dragon in the Land of Snows
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$7.75m help for Asians
An American family foundation has stepped forward to bankroll a multi-million dollar emergency loan programme to help Asian students through their countries' economic crises. The Freeman Foundation,...
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Open to the worshipper's eye
The Ajanta Caves
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From tiger to poodle?
At midnight on June 30, 155 years of British rule in Hong Kong cease. The handover to China raises complex questions for the colony's institutions, economy and citizens, with Hong Kong's thriving...
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Pill giants look to new patients
The emerging markets of China, India and Brazil will play a crucial role in setting the agenda for pharmaceutical firms worldwide, according to Richard Sykes, chairman and chief executive of Glaxo...
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Power dressing
Commodity and Exchange in the Mongol Empire