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Volume 342 Issue 6250, 7 December 1989

Opinion

  • Excitement over developments in Eastern Europe should be moderated by a recognition of the chauvinistic dangers that it brings. What Europe needs is a moratorium on boundary changes. German reunification is best postponed.

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  • The British government seems bent on letting past investments in nuclear power be wasted.

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  • A British minister hopes that compulsory physics will make more physicists, but he could be wrong.

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Correspondence

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Commentary

  • Nature has been in hot water in Australia for supposedly misreporting the prospects for a new technique of genetic manipulation. The truth is more interesting and complicated than Nature (and many Australians) know.

    • John Maddox
    Commentary
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News & Views

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Scientific Correspondence

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Book Review

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Review Article

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Article

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Letter

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New on the Market

  • A gel elutor for extracting nucleic acids or protein, a cryopreservation system for freezing/thawing mouse embryos and a neurotoxicological evaluation service based on the leech brain are just a few of the products outlined below.

    • Diane Gershon
    New on the Market
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Employment Review

  • The reduced numbers of students In higher education likely to result from demographic changes in the 1990s will have to be countered by changes in attainment and participation rates.

    • Richard Pearson
    Employment Review
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