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Eighty-five per cent of US recombinant DNA experiments will be exempted from controls, if the recommendations of a national committee are accepted. David Dickson reports
France has not had the public debates on science and technology of other western nations. Pierre Papon, of the Ecole Superieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles, Paris, outlines why.
This week a law comes into operation in the US which will have the effect of foreclosing nuclear fuel supplies to India. Anil Agarwal here considers India's nuclear future