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General enthusiasm for producing a sequence of the nucleotides in the whole of human DNA is well justified, but more attention should be paid to the need for an international data-gather ing network.
A new determination of the value of the gas constant, and thus ofBoltzmann's constant, seems to be the most accurate in the past fifteen years. But how long will it last?
The PhD degree is not an end in itself but a training for research work. The system of awarding doctorates for unpublished and unpublishable theses is overdue for reform.
