Issue # 111 _ May 2005
S&T Policy
Telecommunications
The light partners
The KyaTera Project integrates dozens of laboratories by way of optical fibers
Inclusion
The multiplication of ideas
Network wants to spread useful technologies to poor communities
By Claudia IziqueScience
Epidemiology
Gracias a la Vida
Latin American women learn to live with the Aids virus spread by a macho culture
By Patricia Lima and Víctor Hugo DuranGeology
The weather guardians
Caves reveal how the climate of the southern hemisphere has been for the last 100,000 years
By Carlos FioravantiPhysics

Trick of the eye
Simple equations explain the localization of objects that seem to come from nowhere
By Francisco BicudoTechnology
Chanel No. 5

Rosewood perfume No.5 Brazil
Leaves from the Amazonian tree guarantees the continued production of the perfume Chanel No. 5
By Dinorah ErenoForestry engineering
Finite stock in the Amazon
Two species of tree take more than a century to grow and replace the quantity of cut wood
By Marcos PivettaCattle ranching
Better management, more profit
Project rehabilitates small rural producers
By Claudia IziqueBiotechnology
Cleaning crew
Fungi and bacteria form the basis of detergents used in hospital equipment
By Dinorah ErenoNew Materials
A different type of magnet
Graphite developed by a Brazilian and Uruguayan research team has magnetic properties
By Yuri VasconcelosHumanities
Anthropology
In the name of God
Project rescues the true relationship between missionaries and Native Indians
By Carlos Haag