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The Nakasone government would reform the Japanese school system. It should begin where the problems may be simpler — with the universities, much in need of a greater measure of autonomy.
The suggestion that the disappearence of species from the surface of the Earth has been periodic has stimulated contradictory explanations and also a diversity of ways of dealing with information.
Sixteen new products are described this week, ranging from a dish for the reception of data from weather satellites to an information package on liquid chromatography techniques.
