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Saving Lives and Livelihoods in natural Disasters

How successful are attempts at "natural disaster reduction"?

Review of work carried out in the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction. Radio astronomers are learning more about the M87 galaxy. Ten per cent of humans are left-handed 鈥� and other primates exhibit "handedness", too. How left or right "handedness" in organic molecules affects their properties and affects how they are broken down by micro-organisms.

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