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Max Gottesman, from the Laboratory of Molecular Biology at the National Cancer Institute at NIH, was one of ten Western scientists who attended the special four-day Jubilee meeting of the refusnik Sunday Seminar in Moscow earlier this year; the seminar dissolved itself for a ‘summer recess’ in May following official pressure, and reconvened again last Sunday under Viktor Brailovskii. Below, his views of the refusniks' position
Years of hitherto unsuccessful effort in the US Congress have culminated in a bill providing for an increase in research on earthquakes. Chris Sherwell reports from Washington
