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A report from the Office of Technology Assessment should help to correct the widespread underestimation in the United States of the strength of its electronics industry.
Reductionism is almost a dirty word, especially in biology, but after thirty years of DNA, it is high time that biologists paid attention to the question of what constitutes an explanation.