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No amount of resolution by the United Nations can hide the truth that even a quick resolution of the problems created in Kuwait by Iraq (which seems unlikely) will not restore stability to the Middle East.
Japan is considering a huge financial investment in the US Superconducting Super Collider. But other types of contribution, to this and any international project, are equally important.
There seems to be just a chance that geochemists could reconstruct a record of the Sun's activity as a main-sequence star from measurements of the abundance of xenon-126 in rocks.
