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- February 19, 2004
UNU Report: End Catch-22 for Indigenous People
United Nations University 19 Feb 2004 To decide whether a new product seeking patent protection is novel or based upon traditional knowledge, officials require free
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- February 4, 2004
Money talks: Concern for biodiversity pressed on boardrooms by new breed of fund managers
10 Feb 04 United Nations University A new breed of fund managers looking to pressure businesses to improve social, environmental and ethical performance, a phenomenon
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- February 1, 2004
UN report: Accelerate global agreement to oversee exploitation of South Pole ‘extremophiles’
01 Feb 04 United Nations University Work should be stepped up on international agreements to oversee prospecting efforts in Antarctica by research institutions, universities and
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- November 30, 2003
First-ever UN University diploma offered to grads of online water-management course
30 Nov 03 United Nations University In an effort to help raise the quality of water management expertise worldwide, the United Nations University has authorized
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- November 3, 2003
Ethical guidelines needed before ‘nutrigenomic’ groceries come to market
Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto 03 Nov 03 New research designed to help consumers create customized diets based on their genetic make up will
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- October 23, 2003
How many fish in the sea? Census of Marine Life launches first report
23 Oct 03 Census of Marine Life An estimated 5,000 previously unknown ocean fish species and hundreds of thousands of other marine life forms are
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- September 12, 2002
New guidelines for MDs draw line between relief of suffering and euthanasia
Joint Centre for Bioethics, Toronto 12 Sept 2002 Peter A. Singer Intensive care unit physicians need to be comfortable prescribing drugs in whatever dose is
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- September 28, 2001
Great Lakes “starting to exhale,” cleansing themselves of accumulated chemicals
Environment Canada, Toronto 28 September, 2001 With lower pollution levels in the air, Lakes start to “out-gas” PCBs, pesticides Significant quantities of chemicals, including PCBs