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Asian rubies come always with marble and salt
December 2003
Ruby deposits are the primary gem source in Central and South-East Asia.
Nutrient-poor oceans generate their food "hot spots"
December 2003
Half of the southern Pacific Ocean is an immense reservoir of warm subtropical water, yet poor in nutrients and little conducive for the development of living organisms.
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Vanuatu: the coral reef, record of a 23 000 year history
October 2003
A research team from the IRD "Tropical Palaeo-environments and climatic variability" research unit and their American co-workers (1) have succeeded in retracing over a 23 000 year period the history of a coral reef of the Island of Urelapa, in Vanuatu.
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Collective economy: a means for reducing inequality between men and women ?
October 2003
By its very nature and practices, economics is devoted essentially to the market evaluation of goods and wealth and deliberately takes a standpoint outside the domain of intra-family and social relations.
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Amazon Basin sediment accumulation influenced by La Niña
October 2003
Enormous quantities of sediment are deposited in the flood-plains traversed by the Amazon and its tributaries in times of flooding.
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