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The British government is sensibly seeking to introduce a national curriculum for its schools, but may be defeated by the structure of the system it has inherited—and by some obstacles of its own making.
Cosmologists spend much of their time poring over maps of the distribution of galaxies. A new way of searching for patterns may help them uncover the past, if not predict the future.
