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Jamaica Gleaner Eye on Science
published: Thursday | February 2, 2006

The place where you see what you cannot see - Electron Microscopy Unit, UWI, Mona
THE 'NAKED' human eye is unable to distinguish between objects that are nearer than about one tenth of a millimetre to each other. The smallest single speck that the human eye can see...

PROFILE: Walton A. Reid - Investigating internal structures
ALWAYS CURIOUS about how things work and what is inside them, Walton Reid said that from childhood he has been 'investigating internal structures'. He would get very few toys from his parents because he always found a way...


Crime and social exclusion in the Kingston metropolitan area
JAMAICA HAS one of the highest levels of violent crime in the world with a homicide rate of 53.58 per 100,000 in 2004. The majority of these crimes are committed by young men between the ages of 15 and 35.






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