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Carlo Alberto Redi. Credit: Sakis Lalas.

By Francesca Colombo

“The clone would be uglier, sicker and dimmer”

Human cloning would serve no purpose; all it would do is create imperfect beings, Carlos Alberto Redi, the Italian scientist who created the first mouse clone, says in an interview with Tierramérica.

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By Mario Osava

Brazil Aims for Most Tender Beef

In 18 months, Brazilian scientists expect to have figured out the genetic puzzle that will allow their country to raise cattle that are more resistant to disease and produce better beef -- and attain a leadership position on the world market.

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By Gro Harlem Brundtland

WHAT DOES THE RIGHT TO HEALTH MEAN?
What does the right to health mean in a world where so many people live in desperate situations? asks Gro Harlem Brundtland, Director-General of the World Heath Organisation.
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The need to protect the environment produced the emergence worldwide of an environmental legal framework in the form of laws,agreements, regulations, decrees and treaties, of national or international scope, requiring a high level of expertise among environmental lawyers.
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Mexican culture in World Environment Day celebration... Youth make pledge to environment in Colombia... Humboldt current mitigates global warming, says Peruvian study... Project to control burning of sugarcane fields in Honduras... U.S. suggests Central America should fine polluters... Ecologists reject environmental bill in Panama.
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