News tagged with worlds poor
Physicist's vision for helping world's poor: self-adjusting eyeglasses
Joshua Silver, a lifelong tinkerer, was fiddling around one day with a cheap, water-filled lens he'd built as an optics experiment when he noticed something interesting.
Feb 09, 2009 |
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Eat a carrot, hurt the economy? Sometimes
Eating a healthy diet may be good for you, but it may be unintentionally slimming for the economies of some developing countries, a new study says. British researchers modeled what could happen if people in Britain and Brazil ...
Nov 11, 2010 |
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Drug-resistant diseases on the rise: study
Efforts by rich countries to provide drugs to help fight diseases in poor countries has accelerated disease resistance to antibiotics, a report out Tuesday said.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jun 15, 2010 |
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Climate talks see some progress as clock ticks
World climate talks late Thursday inched towards common ground that would bring China, the United States and Europe into a deal on tackling global warming.
Dec 08, 2011 |
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Megatrends and megashocks: a new view of our future world
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new report from CSIRO identifies five global megatrends and eight megashocks that are changing the world.
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Apr 23, 2010 |
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