Issue # 103 _ September 2004

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Cover

Narcissus the wrong way round
More common amongst youngsters, excessive concern with the body may lead to bulimia and anorexia By and

S&T Policy

management

Flights of an entrepreneur

Scientific director will leave FAPESP to create a new project in the private sector

indicators

Benefits measured

Ibero-American partnership is going to assess the social impact of new technologies

Genomics

Tastier beverage

Coffee Genome Program opens database to researchers

Medicine

Diagnosis over a network

National Cancer Institute creates tumor bank

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Science

environment

Forest guard

Inpe tests new satellites for fighting burning in the Amazon

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environment

Fire against fire

Controlled burning in the Amazon seeks to understand impact on fauna and flora

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physics

The physicist of biology

Francis Crick, one of the discoverers of the structure of DNA and of the genetic code, explored to the maximum the freedom for doing science

molecular biology

Encyclopedia of genomics

A 1,200 page work, written by a hundred scientists from Brazil, is a landmark on the theme

Agronomy

Of genes and dwarf plants

Genome of the bacterium provides clues on ratoon stunting disease in sugarcane

Technology

Biotechnology

Natural archives

Bank of extracts from Brazilian plants is going to help in the search for new medicines

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Energy

Electricity from hydrogen

Small company produces fuel cell to run household electronic equipment

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bioinformatics

Structures without secrets

System developed by Embrapa helps to understand the functions of proteins

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husbandry

Bull's eye for the ostrich

Breeding an African bird in Brazil gains a DNA test and software for managing the business

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Humanities

Cinema

Portraitist of Brazil

The many faces of the country present in the cinematography of director Humberto Mauro

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History

The empire of the senses

Research reveals how the political dimension of prophecies helped Portugal to create its identity

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Antropology

The invention of indolence

Thesis that denounces the racism built into the myth of sloth in the state of Bahia is going to come out in a book

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Urbanism

Floods: the waters find ways out

Projects for recovering green areas and the porosity of the soil alleviate the impact of the rains

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