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# Limits of Development: # Migration: Migration and Cyberspace (A Kamal) # Migration From and Within Asia (K C Sivamarakrishnan) # Climatology: Global Warming: # Simple Climate Models (T M L Wigley) # Energy and Electricity Considerations -- Global Warming Perspectives (H Khatib) # Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy: Prions: # Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease and Blood Transfusion (R G Will) # BSE in North America (M N Ricketts) # The Cultural Emergency: Information and Communications -- Environment: # Innovations in Information and Communications Technologies: Benefits and Threats (A Lehmann) # Cosmic Objects: # Asteroid Deflection: Hopes and Fears (R L Schweickart) # The Near-Earth Object Impact Hazard: Space Mission Priorities for Risk Assessment and Reduction (A W Harris) # AIDS and Infectious Diseases: Ethics in Medicine: # Limiting Access to Dangerous Pathogens -- The Need for International Cooperation (D Buriot) # Legal Measures to Prevent Bio-crimes (B Kellman) # Water and Pollution: # Overview of the Hydrological Cycle and its Connection to Climate: Droughts and Floods (S Sorooshian) # Agrarian Transformation and Shifts in Water Requirements in Rural Iran: A Case Study (A I Ajami) # Sustainable Water Resource Management and the Role of Isotope Techniques (P Aggarwal) # Permanent Monitoring Panels Meetings and Reports: # Implications of Climate Variability and Change: A Policy Maker's Summary (W A Sprigg) # Sustainable Nuclear Energy -- Some Reasons for Optimism (R Wilson) # West African Point of View on Migration (M Diop) # Quality of Health Care Assurance: The Kangaroo Mother Care Program Experience (J G Ruiz) # Risk Analysis Permanent Monitoring Panel (T Taylor) # Global Biosecurity Workshop: # The Bio-Science Dilemma -- Precious Opportunities and Dire Threats (B Kellman) # Cosmic Objects Workshop: # Detection of Transient Phenomena on Planetary Bodies (M Di Martino) # Proposed Ground-Based Experiments for Asteroid Seismology (R Goldstein) # and other papers
