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May 1998

TECH TALK TUESDAY – Choco Diversity

nancy Techie Tues 9-2-97

You like it because it tastes good, but now chocolate may be helping to protect bio-diversity.

Decades ago, plantations replaced the rain forest with cacao trees, a transformation that ultimately lowered productivity.

Now the philosophy has changed.

Chocolate to the Rescue! 
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TECH TALK TUESDAY – Will cyberspace become the main front for new wars?

nancy Techie Tues 9-2-97

In a world where ideas are supreme will guns become obsolete?  Today we learn how technology and ideas might overcome all!

Government Lost &
Defeated in Cyberspace 

by Diego Cevallos 

MEXICO CITY, – Unarmed and lost in the Internet, the Mexican government lies beaten by the ”intercontinental cyberspace liberation fleet,” the vanguard of the Zapatista guerrilla.
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TECH TALK TUESDAY – BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

nancy Techie Tues 9-2-97

That’s the sound of India joining Club Nuke.

Are you worried yet? China, Pakistan and Russia are.

Today we reprint the official announcement and find out why neighboring countries are so concerned.

Club Nuke Grows 
reprinted from The Hindu

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TECH TALK TUESDAY – NEW MOONS OF URANUS

nancy Techie Tues 9-2-97

Uranus had children!

Well, sort of … Two new moons were discovered around this strangely tilting world.
What did we name these new heavenly bodies?

NEW MOONS! 
by  David Brand
ITHACA, N.Y. — Cornell University astronomer Philip Nicholson and his colleagues have proposed names for the two recently discovered moons of the planet Uranus.… Read the rest