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Moscow's mourning of the death of Sakharov Is understandable, but Sakharov's life has touched all of us in ways that the international research community dares not forget.
Excitement over developments in Eastern Europe should be moderated by a recognition of the chauvinistic dangers that it brings. What Europe needs is a moratorium on boundary changes. German reunification is best postponed.
Four years late, the British government has published a bill to regulate embryo research. The need now is that the British parliament should take an enlightened view of the freedom of research.
One of the best, but smallest, of Europe's research organizations wants to be bigger. Not before time. But will those who hold the purse-strings agree?
The unexpected early summit meeting between the presidents of the United States and the Soviet Union could be the most fateful of its kind ever to have been held.
The US Secretary of State is rightly cock-a-hoop about the prospects for arms control in the near future, but his vision of what follows is incomplete. But it is not too soon to be planning for the post-strategic world.
The chairman of the US Republican Party is not the most familiar source of wisdom on abortion, but everybody will benefit from what Mr Lee Attwater has learned in this month's elections in the United States.