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Moves to convert power stations from oil to coal are generating controversy about the effects on air quality. David Dickson reports on one such dispute in New York City.
Italy has drafted a career diplomat to its Ministry of Science expressly to improve its position in European research organisations. Robert Walgate reports from Rome.
Experiments to test the safety of cloning viral genomes in E. coli, published earlier this year, have allayed fears about the risks of recombinant DNA. But, argue Barbara Rosenberg and Lee Simon, the experiments actually indicated some worrying aspects of the behaviour of recombinarit DNA.