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Articles in Spring, 1999 issue of UN Chronicle

• Totally amazing mind, so understanding and so kind.' - prevalence of mental disorders
• 'Spirit of cooperation and compromise overcomes 'tyranny of budgetary constraints.' - General Assembly 53 - highlights of the 55th session of the United Nations General Assembly
  by Herst Rutsch
• Development assistance: spiritual-and moral-dimensions - spiritual side of economic development
  by Alfredo Sfeir-Younis
• Burundi: what sanctions meant on the ground
  by Kathleen Cravero-Kristofferson
• Out of dnaL: mapping the medical maze
• 'Quiet revolution' of United Nations reform beginning to show results - General Assembly 53 - Report of the Secretary-General on the work of the Organization
• Can commodity-based associations promote the economic development of their member states?
  by Ignacio Arcaya
• Remote interpretation paperless offices - enhancing efficiency at the UN Office at Geneva
  by Vladimir Petrovsky
• Plant plunder, genes and sneakers: can intellectual property be theft?
  by Andrea Carmen
• Nuclear testing, small arms highlight disarmament agenda - General Assembly 53
• In Cameroon, a female-centred organization works to conquer the poverty of rural women - Rural Women Development Council
  by Rebecca N. Fonkem
• The trees stand … still - UN peacekeeping forces in Jerusalem
  by Annetta Strugar
• From the Secretary-General - UN Secretary General
• In Uganda, elders work with the UN to safeguard women's health - Sabiny Elders Assn
  by Elaine Eliah
• 'Tremors of world financial crisis felt by assembly.' - General Assembly 53 - United Nations General Assembly
• Gains by women reversed in economic downturn
• Who cares? WHO cares - United Nations World Health Organization
• Can global health weather global climate? - UN Secretary General G.O.P. Obassi's speech - Transcript
• In fiftieth anniversary year, assembly reviews progress on human rights declaration - General Assembly 53 - includes related articles on human rights
• Assessing progress in fulfilling commitments - preparation for the United Nations Millenium Summit
  by Rob Wheeler
• The chronicle interview - interview with Gro Harlem Brundtland, Director General of the World Health Organization
• Danger: iceberg ahead - includes related articles on United Nations
• "In an age of information, the United Nations should appear as a transparent institution.' - General Assembly 53
• Ensuring peace becomes the norm
  by Ermentai Sultanmurat
• TB: the leading infectious killer of adults … and the single biggest killer of young women - tuberculosis
• Dry tears of the Aral - includes related articles - deterioration of the Aral Sea
  by Beatrice Grabish
• Japan, United States dissociate themselves from adopted budget outline - General Assembly 53
• Disarmament: a scientist's view - scientific innovations and nuclear weapons control
  by Theodros Solomon
• Malaria, in second place, sees fewer victims, but greater difficulty of control - includes related article on death statistics
• Progress can't always be measured in pipelines - water shortage as a global problem
  by Yvonne Acosta
• Assembly considers measures to stop international terrorism - General Assembly 53
• A year-old 'group of interested states' takes stock of successes and plans new projects - nuclear disarmament
  by Dieter Kastrup
• Then I open up and see the person falling here is - spread of AIDS
  by Benjamin Weil
• And harnessing this 'rather mysterious natural resource.'
  by David Seckler
• To deter and dissuade, and so deny - use of international courts
  by Cherif Bassiouni
• Making Agenda 21 work at the municipal level: the Swedish experience
  by Kjell Larsson
• Let's go for human testing of vaccine, says UNAIDS - Programme on HIV/AIDS
• Underweight, wheezing and infected: whales have health problems too
  by Saundra Middleton
• Three-phased approach towards charter amendment
• Enhancing transparency of Security Council proceedings
  by Jassim M. Buallay