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The British government has scraped together a little money to save its universities from catastrophe, winning in return a series of promises that academics may not be able or willing to keep.
Fears that, if the greenhouse effect is real, we shall drown rather than fry, require better ways of measuring sea level. There is a little progress to report.
The US National Commission on Space has grandiose plans for the colonization of the Solar System. Has the view that unmanned missions may bring much greater benefit to mankind been passed over?
