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The British government's new chief scientific adviser would have faced a formidable task even if it had not been complicated by the abrupt transfer of the Office of Science and Technology to the Department of Trade and Industry.
Science remains low on Pakistan's list of political priorities. Money and management both seem to be in short supply — except for nuclear energy which has benefited at the expense of other research fields.
The discovery last year of Sagittarius, a new dwarf galaxy, prompts a train of speculation about the degree to which the Galaxy has scavenged some of its bulk from the surroundings.
