Articles by Narindar Singh

was not being negotiated in the FTA, it was eventually included, and is the longest chapter. Tariffs on imports of wheat were removed, allowing for cheaper, lower quality wheat from the US to enter the Canadian market, driving small producers out of business. Standards for pesticides were to be 'harmonised', which meant the watering-down of Canada's higher health standards for agricultural produce. With the FTA having resulted in Canadian farmers. facing rock-bottom prices for wheat and fruits, there is also concern that the NAFTA will drive Canada's fruit and vegetable farmers out of business, due to Mexico's climatic and wage advantage over Canada. Canada's harsh climate results in a shorter growing season for grains, fruits and vegetables. Orchard believes that Canada's self-sufficiency in food is threatened by these agreements.

Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, or rather the power structures they preside over, have taken us all for a ride. This becomes obvious the moment one tries to answer the following question: Does the INF Treaty in any way 'promise to make the world a safer place to live in? Unfortunately one cannot but say 'No' to this query THE INF Treaty which the superpowers have just concluded is being sold by the media as the first authentic and therefore a truly historic step towards nuclear disarmament. For while on earlier occasions the two sides used only to seek to regulate the growth of their weapons systems, this time they have decided actually to begin to dismantle them.

Education and Survival ACCORDING to J Robert Oppenheimer, a professor of zoology at the University of Munich used always to ask only such questions as pertained to worms. Only naturally, therefore, his students also would not try to learn anything which did not pertain to worms. But on one particular occasion, the professor changed his mind and, as a student's turn came for an oral examination, said, Tell me all that you know about an elephant

Introduction ALBERT EINSTEIN'S secretary during the last twenty-seven years of his life, Helen Dukas, and his close collaborator, Banesh Hoffman, had, not very long ago, a delightful little Einstein tale to tell. According to them, a prominent American publisher, whom they chose not to identify, had just broken ground for a new library wing for his country home and wanted to place in the cornerstone an airtight metal box containing items that would be of considerable archaeological interest to the coming generations. Thus, one of the items intended to be interred in this Time Capsule was to be an issue of The New York Times printed especially for this purpose on long-lasting rag paper The publisher wanted Einstein also to contribute a message for posterity and to this end sent him a sheet of this very special paper which he said was expected to last for a thousand years.