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President Reagan's budget request for the next financial year would be good for research. But there are also serious gaps unlikely to be filled by a cost-conscious Congress.
The most sensitive test so far of special relativity is claimed to show that Lorentz invariance is correct to within one part in 1021. But the sceptics will no doubt shrug this off.
Some surveys of intelligence have suggested that the mean IQ is rising; others, that it is decreasing alarmingly. The explanation seems to be that the educational level of the populations has changed.
