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Mr Caspar Weinberger, the US Secretary of Defense, seems to have put paid to international participation in the US space station. Some putative partners may be grateful to him.
Science and technology are parts of a seamless spectrum, but there is a good reason to believe that the literature of engineering does a disservice to the professional community it purports to serve.
