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BY MONICA DOBIE
MOVE over Harry Potter trading cards. Make way for deformed child victim of polio and newborn afflicted with tetanus trading cards. Yes folks, disease cards complete with gory, graphic pictures and interesting facts on the back are making the rounds in school playgrounds across the United States.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes panel has ruled that the United States broke its rules when renewing maintain anti-dumping duties against Argentine exports of oil country tubular goods (OCTG), but has refrained from ordering their repeal. Instead, the US will have to review its tariff against this complex ruling and see whether it can justify their imposition legally using procedures mandated by the panel.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A ROAD map on regulatory cooperation agreed by the European Union (EU) and the United States includes a deal to work together on cosmetics industry rules, according to documents released by Washington. The agreement sanctions cooperation between the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and the cosmetics unit of the European Commission’s directorate general (DG) for enterprise.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FIRST drug specifically designed for a single ethnic group is awaiting approval in the United States. The drug called BiDil was tested to treat heart failure in black patients after NitroMed, the company that sponsored the trials, argued that African Americans have a higher rate of heart failure than Americans as a whole and that they tend not to respond to some existing heart failure drugs as well as other groups.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
BACTERIA in the digestive tracts of cows and other herbivores, that help break down the tough fibre in their diets, could be used as the base for a biological wood glue. Scientists from the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in the United States have discovered that the microbes secrete a sticky outer coating that allows them to cling to a surface, similar to how cavity-causing bacteria adhere to teeth.…

Keith Nuthall
THE UNITED States and Mongolia have negotiated a trade and investment framework agreement, creating a bilateral council charged with boosting the countries’ trade in textile and other goods. Mongolian textiles and clothing dominate its annual US$183.4 million exports to America.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
MOVE over Harry Potter trading cards. Make way for deformed child victim of polio and newborn afflicted with tetanus trading cards. Yes indeed folks, disease cards complete with gory, graphic pictures and interesting facts on the back are making the rounds in school playgrounds across the United States.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITAIN’S tax burden as a proportion of GDP fell sharply in 2002 to 35.8% from 37.3% in 2001, confirming the UK as among the lightest taxed jurisdictions in the European Union (EU). The contrast is especially marked with its key competitors Germany (40.2% in 2002), France (44.2%), and Italy (41.7%), according to the latest available comparative figures from EU statistical agency Eurostat.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
HIV and AIDS are so-ravaging southern Africa that local life expectancy rates are tumbling to where 30-year-olds are considered old men. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has reported cataclysmic falls in life expectancy in Zambia, where 32.7% HIV infection rates for adults aged 15-49 has cut average mortality ages from 47.4 in 1990 to 32.7 in 2002.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NEW global technical standards have been agreed advising manufacturers how to design vehicles so that plastics used in their interior construction are less prone to catch fire. They were agreed by the World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations, part of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE).…