Search Results for: united nations⊂mit=Search

BY MONICA DOBIE
SCIENTISTS in the United States have found new evidence that carbon dioxide, the main emission linked to global warming, is cooling and shrinking the atmosphere’s outermost layers, causing its air to be thinner. According to research conducted by scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory, in Washington, the average density of air 60 miles upwards has dropped by 10 per cent over the last 36 years, and could decline by 50 per cent by the end of the century.…

BY RICHARD HURST
The former British colony of Sierra Leone has been a focus of a money laundering scandal since the September 11 attacks in the US, when it was uncovered (in the New York Times) that a senior member of the al Qaeda organisation, Ibrahim Bah, had been purchasing and stockpiling diamonds mined by the country’s Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A COALITION of major business groups has filed an amicus brief at the United States Supreme Court, calling on it to “clarify” the USA’s 1789 Alien Tort Statute, which they claim is being abused by special interest groups.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
ADDING Vitamin E to the diets of turkeys may reduce the instances of people contracting listeriosis, the potentially deadly bacterial foodborne illness. Scientists from the United States’ Agricultural Research Service have found that supplementing turkeys’ diets with the vitamin stimulates their immune responses, helping them clear the gut of the microorganism that causes the disease.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AMERICAN Indians and Alaskan natives (such as Inuit peoples) are more likely to smoke than any other group in the United States, with 40 per cent of adults defined as smokers, whilst Chinese Americans were least likely to smoke, making up 12 per cent, according to a report by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States has requested formal consultations with Egypt at the World Trade Organisation over duties imposed on some textile and clothing products in December 2001. These range from 141 to 51,296 per cent, well above bound rates agreed by Cairo in the WTO’s last general (Uruguay round) agreement.…

BY PHILIP FINE

A UNITED States Department of Energy scientist has developed a process (using a metal catalyst, nitrogen, methanol, and water) that could extend the life of the catalysts that make fuel cells work. Chemist Devinder Mahajan’s low-temperature system avoids the usual degrading to expensive catalysts that convert hydrogen into electricity, turning almost 100 per cent of the carbon monoxide in the hydrogen feed into carbon dioxide and additional hydrogen, he claimed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WORLD tobacco and cigarette production is set to increase significantly this decade according to United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) projections, which estimates the number of smokers will grow from 1.1 billion in 1998 to around 1.3 billion in 2010.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States has requested formal consultations with Egypt at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) over duties imposed by Cairo on some clothing and textile products in December 2001, the first stage of formal disputes proceedings. The row is over promises made in the WTO’s 1990’s Uruguay Round, where Egypt agreed to remove a general ban on the importation of apparel and made?up…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE UNITED States wants to negotiate a deal with Canada that would free up controls on domestic flights in each other’s country. US Ambassador Paul Cellucci has told Canada’s Globe and Mail newspaper that Washington wants a liberalised aviation policy that would include American carriers transporting passengers between airports in Canada and Canadian airlines flying between American cities.…