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Controversial questions are currently being raised about psychosurgery. Keith Oatley of the Laboratory of Experimental Psychology at the University of Sussex comments on some of the issues
Some two hundred Muslim scientists met at the University of Riyadh in Saudi Arabia last month for the Islamic Solidarity Conference in Science and Technology. Michel Chodkiewicz of La Recherche reports