Fish fight: a struggle over resources in Indian waters comes to a boil
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Foreign fishing vessels licensed by the Indian government coupled with years of over-fishing drastically reduce the fish available to native Indian fishermen who in turn have protested. Lack of a fishing management policy underlies the loss of marine resources and conflicts with Indian fishermen.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1996
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Prize mistake
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The n-body problem formulated by Karl Weierstrass in 1885 was given a solution by Wang Qiu-Dong of the University of Cincinnati by introducing a time factor that relegated collision of the bodies involved in the equation to infinite time, freeing the equation into a converging series.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1997
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A little big bang
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Brookhaven National Laboratory in Long Island, NY, is completing its Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. Nuclear collision in this machine will create a condition similar to the first minsecond of the big bang.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1999
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