UNESCO Courier articles from January 1995

UNESCO Courier archives from January 1995

Montserrat Caballe. (Spanish opera singer)(Interview)
January 1, 1995... One of the greatest singers of our time, the Spanish soprano Montserrat Caballe has won accolades in opera houses all over the world Her repertoire includes no less than forty roles, notably in operas by Mozart, Richard Strauss and Wagner, and...

Our middle-aged neighboring star.(The Sun: Ancient Myths: New Technologies)
January 1, 1995... The sun actually a middle-aged star. But even though half its life is over, there's no cause for alarm. The heavenly body that gives us light still has a bright future ahead of it. Once upon a time there was a vast empty space within our...

Myths with the sun in them. (includes related article)(The Sun: Ancient Myths: New Technologies)
January 1, 1995... In the religious universe of Ancient Egypt the sun was the core around which everything revolved. The Egyptians attentively watched the sun's daily round, which they represented in the form of a scarab indicating the future, and later as the...

A light that shines through time and cultures. (includes related article)(The Sun: Ancient Myths: New Technologies)
January 1, 1995... After their emergence as tool-making hominids about one-and-a-half million years ago during the Old Stone Age, our prehistoric ancestors instinctively related the sun to all-embracing nature--stones, mountains, trees, plants, flowers, birds,...

Manolo plugs into the sun. (farmer Manolo Hidalgo, use of solar energy)(The Sun: Ancient Myths: New Technologies)
January 1, 1995... A unique and potentially revolutionary means of generating power, solar photovoltaic cells are meeting the energy needs of thousands of villagers in the developing world. One of them is Manolo Hidalgo... In Joba Arriba, a scattered farming...

India's self-help solar villages.(The Sun: Ancient Myths: New Technologies)
January 1, 1995... India is full of contrast and contradictions. On the one hand there is "Bharat"(*) or traditional India with its 600,000 villages, where centuries-old social structures remain unchanged, and where 70 per cent of the country 's 940 million people...

The Pantheon, Rome's other symbol.
January 1, 1995... The Pantheon is one of Rome's oldest, best-preserved and most popular monuments. It is located in the heart of the old city, which was included on Unesco's World Heritage List in 1980. People are sitting round the fountain. Some are reading,...

Mambo mania. (Cuban dance)(Listening)
January 1, 1995... Of African and European parentage, the mambo is the result of a long cross-cultural journey, an example of the kind of sensual alchemy which is a speciality of the Caribbean. Mambo, conga and bongo were originally Bantu names for musical...

Solving the food/population equation.
January 1, 1995... Seldom has the world faced an unfolding emergency whose dimensions are as clear as the growing imbalance between food and people. For our generation, the challenge is to reverse the deteriorating food situation and achieve a balance between...

ENDA Tiers Monde, a fruitful Third-World dialogue. (development group)
January 1, 1995... The international association ENDA Tiers Monde (Enviromnental Development Action in the Third World) is the hub of a network of reflexion, exchanges and field projects that extends to many parts of the Third World, from Senegal to Bolivia and...

The UNESCO Prize for the Promotion of the Arts.
January 1, 1995... In 1993, on the initiative of the Japanese painter Kaii Higashiyama, Unesco created an international prize for contemporary art. Awarded biennially, and known as the UNESCO Prize for the Promotion of the Arts, it is intended to encourage young...

Louis Pasteur, scientist and humanist.
January 1, 1995... A pioneer of the modern era in medical science, Louis Pasteur died a hundred years ago, in 1895. Among his many great contributions to knowledge, he showed that micro-organisms cause fermentation and disease and developed vaccines for rabies and...