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The debate over Civil Service scientists in the UK continues. Harold Turner of the National Physical Laboratory gives his view and takes up some of the issues raised in Nature's columns by Cyril Cooper last November and David Budworth in February.
An exhibition of Islamic Science opens this week in London—one of many displays, concerts and meetings organised by the Festival of Islam to give a perspective on the Islamic world. David Davies reports
A committee which has been striving for the past year to draft guidelines to control the use of a revolutionary, but currently embargoed, genetic engineering technique, last week paved the way for many uses of the technique to be resumed in the United States. Colin Norman reports from Washington
