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The UK Government last week unveiled its White Paper on Public Expenditure and dismayed practically everyone. Colin Norman looks at the implicatians for British science
Sixteen Mediterranean states meeting in Barcelona earlier this month adopted a treaty on the protection of the Mediterranean against pollution which augurs well for a future “action plan”. Robert Allen reports
Canada's space programme was back on the nation's front page and television screens again briefly last month when the United States launched her neighbour's latest satellite, the CTS (communications technology satellite). David Spurgeon reports from Ottawa
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