Garden variety lunacy
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Researchers from the Space and Advanced-Life Support Agriculture group (SALSA) at Guelph University, Canada, and assessing how to grow crops in space. Plants can provide food and oxygen and recycle water. Lighting tubes are being used by the researchers in a bid to boost productivity, which is otherwise hampered by lack of light due to canopies formed by plants under dense conditions. Dutch and Canadian farmers are interested in the research, which can also help in controlling run-off from farms.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 1999
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A little less lunacy
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The reform of asylum policy announced by UK home secretary David Blunkett may not be a U-turn in policy, but politicians' attitudes have changed. The tone of political debate over asylum-seekers has become less inflammatory, perhaps due to concerns over racial tensions.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 2001
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The last frontier
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The deaths of 58 would-be immigrants in a sealed lorry has sparked a debate on immigration into Britain. There is work for legal immigrants, and more provision for legal immigration would be beneficial for the British economy.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 2000
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