A text-mining system for knowledge discovery from biomedical documents.
The life science industry is an emerging market in which application spaces, such as drug discovery and development in the pharmaceutical sector and clinical record management in health care, have become areas of significant recent interest. (1) Documents in the scientific literature play an important role in life science...

From the Amazon Alliance.
[on "the unsupported belief that indigenous peoples cannot be trusted to take care of their own resources"] I would like to commend World Watch for its courage in publishing Mac Chapin's article, "A Challenge to Conservationists" and for taking on the contentious issue of conflict between large...

Sino Mining in northern Tibet: foreign trade is influencing China's state-owned corporations to the further impoverishment of its people and environment. (against the current).
gabriel lafitte on mining in tibet High in the pastures of the Dola Mountains, the final range of the Tibetan plateau before the steep plunge into the Gobi Desert, traditional Tibetan nomadic life has survived through to today. The remoteness and extreme aridity of the area has...

U.S. Environmental Policy: Where is it Headed?
So far, the Bush administration has begun to redirect policies on international family planning, climate stabilization, renewable energy R&D, wilderness protection, endangered species protection, air and water quality standards, nuclear waste clean-up, environmental law enforcement, mining regulations, worker injury compensation, community right-to-know initiatives, drinking water standards, and food safety...

Business Options; On job creation and other encouraging developments in the mining industry.
Byline: Napoleon T. Cabello Talk about job creation and what immediately comes to mind is the considerable amount of initial investments required to meet that need. While obviously that is a big factor to consider, there are other two equally critical elements to look into -- the...

High stakes: the legacy of mining.
Public lands contain thousands of abandoned mineral sites, and at least 30 national parks have ongoing mineral operations. An outdated law is partly to blame, and in its wake are billions of dollars of clean-up costs and subsidized profit for miners who get minerals and for bargain basement prices. ...

Morality tale.
MORALITY TALE: In the face of mortality humans are inclined to think that their community and the life it supports will survive them. But a major disaster like the tsunami in south Asia, which destroyed whole communities, calls that confidence into question. The very culture and civilization we inhabit...

The gender of the gold: an ethnographic and historical account of women's involvement in artisanal and small-scale mining in Mount Kaindi, Papua New Guinea.
INTRODUCTION The mineral price boom of the late 1970s and early '80s led to the opening of new mining ventures in many previously isolated and marginal areas of the Asia-Pacific. As these locales had been traditional foci of ethnographic research, regional anthropologists became increasingly preoccupied with the...

DENR proposes moratorium on small scale nickel and iron mining operations.
Byline: JAMES A. LOYOLA The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), through the Mines and Geo-sciences Bureau (MGB), is proposing to impose a moratorium on future small-scale mining operations for nickel and iron ore. During a seminar organized by the Chamber of Mines and...

Wrong road for forests.
Byline: The Register-Guard The U.S. Forest Service's motto is "Caring for the Land and Serving People." If the Bush administration had its way, it would be changed to "Serving Industry." The latest example of the administration's disregard for conservation came with its announcement Thursday of...