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A flood of initiatives promises to relieve some of the current difficulties experienced with the Internet, particularly slow international links. In the process, faith in public systems at communication has been confirmed.
At a time when the number of biotechnology-based patent applications is soaring, it is essential that the law allows a significant 'experimental-use' exemption. The United States urgently needs to modify its legislation in this area.
Patience is a virtue for the evolutionary biologist. Long-term experiments on populations of lizards introduced onto islands in the Bahamas show the forces of adaptation to environment at work.
