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This week's Farnborough show of the aircraft industry is not so much a trade fair as a reminder that the industry's chief product, civil air transport, is not as accessible or cheap as it should be.
A Nature conference next week is a modest celebration of the prospect that cancer will soon be understood. It does not imply that practical oncology will be transformed overnight.
