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December 21, 1997
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<<< NUCLEAR POWER >>>

  2 The Ottawa Citizen December 20, 1997 Pg. A4 Nuclear waste flushed into
lake: Worker jammed valve; Hydro says spill 'not serious' BY TOM SPEARS A
nuclear  worker at Ontario Hydro's Bruce A plant secretly taped open a valve
that allowed 11 tonnes of  radioactive  waste to flush straight into

  3 EUR: BRITISH NUCLEAR WASTE REACHES NORWEGIAN WATERS BODY: OSLO, Norway,
Dec 19 AP A sharp increase in  radioactive  waste from Britain's Sellafield
nuclear  reprocessing plant has been detected in Norwegian waters, the state
Radiation Protection Board said today. Board member Per Strand said levels

<<< OCEANS >>>

  4 Financial Times (London) December  20, 1997 Pg. 02 HEADLINE: More cod
can be caught NEWS DIGEST: DATELINE: Brussels European Union  fisheries
ministers yesterday agreed fish catch quotas for 1998 in a deal which
permits increased allowances for some fish such as North Sea cod. However, a

  5 Press Association Newsfile December  20, 1997 FISH ROW HITS TALKS
BY Geoff Meade France and Ireland were at loggerheads today - over horse
mackerel.  Paris and Dublin fell out at talks in Brussels last night over
who should have the biggest share of a new fish species being included in

  6 New York Times December 21, 1997 Section 1; Page 1; Column 2; Foreign
Desk First Move Made to Mine Mineral Riches of Seabed By WILLIAM J. BROAD
BODY: For the first time, miners have laid claim to rich deposits of gold,
silver and copper in the deep sea, foreshadowing a possible rush to open the

<<< ATMOSPHERE & ENERGY >>>

  7  The Daily Yomiuri December  20, 1997 Pg. 9 HEADLINE: Worldwatch chief
cool on conference BY Lani Cossette DATELINE: WASHINGTON Science BODY:
Lester Brown, a world renowned  ecologist  and president of the Worldwatch
Institute based in Washington, evaluates the outcome of last week's  climate

  8  Canberra Times December 20, 1997 Part C; Page 6 HEADLINE: FROM KYOTO,
THE ONLY WAY IS UP BY PAUL BROWN BODY: A MORE bizarre way of reaching an
agreement to tackle  global warming  early next century cannot be imagined.
Half those involved were asleep on the floor, chairs or tables, unaware that

  9  Asiaweek December 20, 1997 Pg. 28 HEATED DEBATES BY SUSAN BERFIELD
HIGHLIGHT: A global warming  pact divides the rich and poor -- and the
U.S. from everyone  BODY: Global warming  ranks high among the important,
and complex, issues of our time, somewhere between cloning and currency

 10  Agence France Presse December 20, 1997 Environmental decisions must be
based on "correct" data: Arab oil states DATELINE: CAIRO, Dec 20  BODY:
Measures designed to protect the environment should be "based on correct
scientific data", Arab oil ministers said here Saturday. "Environmental

 11  Forbes December  29, 1997 SECTION: TECHNOLOGY; Insights; Pg. 90
HEADLINE: Malthus on a chip BY PETER HUBER; Peter Huber, a senior fellow of
the Manhattan Institute, is the author of Law and Disorder in Cyberspace
(Oxford Press, 1997). E-mail address: PeterWHuber@MSN.com Home page:

<<< TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGY >>>

 12  AP Worldstream December 20, 1997 Activists vow to blockade pipeline
through  forest BYLINE: GRANT PECK DATELINE: BANGKOK, Thailand BODY: Social
and environmental activists have vowed to ''close the  forest' ' by lying in
front of equipment Sunday to protest construction of a natural gas pipeline

 13  Associated Press December 20, 1997, WEEKLY FARM:  Forest  chief says no
more federal logging  profits By SCOTT SONNER WASHINGTON BODY: The chief of
the U.S.  Forest  Service, whose agency's sale of trees to loggers lost
money last year for the first time, says Americans shouldn't expect the

 14  BBC Summary of World Broadcasts December 20, 1997 HEADLINE: Hun Sen
blames  forest  destruction on embargo Source: National Voice of Cambodia,
Phnom Penh,17 Dec 97 BODY:  Excerpts from speech by Second Prime Minister
Hun Sen at the closing of a seminar on natural disaster management organized

<<< GENETIC ENGINEERING >>>

 15 The Associated Press December 20, 1997 Brazil's secret export: super
nicotine tobacco By TODD LEWAN SANTA CRUZ DO SUL, Brazil BODY: Freakish
tobacco plants that explode from the soil in this remote river valley grow
huge leaves on stalks as thick as Louisville Sluggers. The growers here call


<<< OTHERS >>>

 16 Financial Times (London) December  20, 1997, Saturday LONDON EDITION 1
SECTION: PERSPECTIVES; Pg. 02 A cleaner world goes up in flames: The Nature
of Things: Andrew Derrington on a report that says we should burn, rather
than recycle, waste paper: BODY: Next week, as you sit surrounded by the

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