UNESCO centers on biotechnology

Biotechnology on Parade

y the second day of BIO 2001, San Diego’s conference center was buzzing with activity. Inside the barricades were 14,000 registered participants and almost as many police officers; outside was a single raggedy group of seven protestors (two toddlers; five adults), one of whom looked like he had dropped way too much acid in the sixties. This was the biotechnology industry’s showcase, and nothing...

Unesco pays tribute to Albert Einstein on his 70th birthday; The UNESCO Courier; Vol.:II, 2; 1949

A LBERT EINSTEIN was born seventy years ago, on 14 March 1879, in Germany. When he was still a boy, his family moved first to Switzerland and then to Italy. He wasn't a. very bright boy. He didn't care for any school subjects, except mathematics ; and he disliked the disciplines of German schools enough to run away at least once. He had some difficulty in qualifying to take a degree. And the be...

Unesco and the Issue Of

ITU and UNESCO Global Symposium on Promoting the Multilingual

CONCEPT OF RACE and The UNESCO Statements on Race

The race is a term which has been used by a group of persons living in a territory for several generations. In many cases a culturally homogeneous people has been called a race but an anthropologist looks at it in a different way. They study human race in a purely biological sense and therefore the study of race may be regarded as a branch of science itself. It is a biological phenomenon, which...