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*2003 World Summit Award recognition
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Winner of the NSTF Award for Science
Winner of the Highway Africa
New Media award
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This Month's Features
Globalising metal pollution
 Reintroducing
leading hit industrial revolution heavy metal favourites such as
Arsenic, Cadmium and Lead to your breakfast table.
Quack AIDS cures' market booms
 "Got
a cure for AIDS?" Report shows little prevents anyone from
packaging untested "wonder products" and selling it to
a captive market.
Beads and human behaviour
 Ancient beads discovery in North
Africa - Human
fascination with beaded jewellery may have begun more than 82 000
years ago.
Microscopic pollution indicators
 There
is more to the brown, slimy stuff covering rocks and plants in rivers.
Diatoms, play an increasingly important role in water monitoring.
Technology
 Sorghum's
bioethanol promise
As fears regarding the effect of bioethanol sourced from food crops
abound, scientists say sweet sorghum offers a ready alternative.
Cape
to Cairo - Connecting Africa
IDRC-supported research helps unleash the potential of Very Small
Aperture Terminal networks, the new generation of satellite-based
technologies.
Hidden
dangers in DIY biodiesel
As many hobbyists turn their attention to home biodiesel production,
caution should be exercised to avoid dangerous accidents.
Insight & Opinion
Eating Chinese honey may be good for your
money
As the tide turns against cost-effective Chinese imports, critics
examine whether the international trend is merely just scare-mongering
to protect local markets.
Link
between AIDS and size of prostitute community
New study challenges role of male circumcision, linking the global
spread of AIDS to the size of the infected prostitute community around
the world.
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In this Issue
Natural selection has caused as much as 10 percent of the human genome to
change in some populations as people began migrating from Africa.
A tiny, blind, hairless subterranean rodent from semi-arid conditions of
Africa could shed light on stress -related infertility in humans.
First all-African produced genetically engineered maize is resistant to
maize streak virus.
Discovery of biological control for aflatoxin crop contamination
could save lives.
Producers of Waragi, a locally-brewed gin raise environmental
concerns, as waste is dumped straight into Uganda's Waki River
Study identifies dietary supplements, medicinal plants and wild spinach to
oesophageal cancer.
A difficult trade-off: 1800 people evacuated in bid to protect Rwanda's
Lake Kivu from water-borne pollution.
optimistic look
A computerised sign language projects is building up a corpus of
South African Sign Language signs.
HIV/AIDS
A ''deeply frustrated'' South African doctor's recent call for compulsory
HIV testing triggered intense debate
Progress and peril when saving people's lives. SA's Western Cape
AIDS rollout out expands as thousands join.
In South Africa the youth often take astounding sexual risks. But is
this intentional dare-devilish behaviour?
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