Opinion in 1995

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  • Surveys have revealed the unpopularity of Germany as a place for young foreign scientists. In response, Germans need to improve conditions suffered by academics; foreigners need to think more realistically about the country and its inhabitants.

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  • The delay in deciding on a site for permanent nuclear waste storage puts feeble politics ahead of decisive management.

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  • The decision by Australia not to fund the European Southern Observatory is a sign that its politicians see its future in science as lying in the Asia-Pacific region. That conclusion is premature.

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  • Although Nature is about to enter a period of change, its values are not.

    • Philip Campbell
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  • John Maddox steps down as editor of Nature from this issue, to be replaced by Dr Philip Campbell.

    • John Maddox
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  • Britain will probably not rejoin Unesco at this stage, but has a right (and responsibility) to press for new terms of reference as the price for its subscription.

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  • Professor Stephen Hawking's announcement that the Universe is unpredictable is a little premature.

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  • An academic group has protested against gene patenting by putting a nucleotide sequence on the Internet.

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  • EU member states spending too little on research and development need carrots as well as sticks.

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  • It is not an accident that the US Congress has been battling with President Bill Clinton over this year's budget. Both are under global pressure. Each must take care that their compromise does not wreck science.

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  • After a year, the Republican party has full control of the US Congress and has been kinder to science than its critics allow. But that disposition is unlikely to last for long.

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  • British plans further to tighten the laws on immigration into Britain are either discreditable or are doomed to failure, but either way appear to be designed against the impending general election.

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  • The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change must reorganize its work-programme in everybody's interest.

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  • Everybody is anxious to help mould Europe's research policy. The place to start is to say that episodic funding (by means of 'framework' programmes) is a bad idea. What is needed is a truly European research council.

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  • China's bid to join the World Trade Organization does not mean that it is yet a modern state.

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  • The British Committee on the Safety of Medicines seems to have acted with needless haste by warning women against forms of contraceptive pills whose risks may not be all that great.

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  • Global financial markets have made governments' fiscal deficits unsupportable.

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  • Pugwash is a deserved (and deserving) winner of the Nobel Peace Prize announced last week.

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  • Cockfighting and bear-baiting have been banned for several decades in most grown-up countries, but fist-fights between people are tragically still allowed.

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  • The British Labour Party's new leader has made his first mistake in two years with his superhighway deal.

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