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The word in Washington is that the administration is about to try again for better scientific relations with the Soviet Union. The goal should be to put any new initiative on a permanent foundation.
Geochemists are not alone in failing to make clear the elementary assumptions on which they work. The result is that what they do is under-appreciated.
