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British higher education is once more under scrutiny. Both sectors of the binary system have now made claims and the government will soon decide. But constitutional questions are still begging.
The destruction of science in Argentina will probably never be more than a footnote to the history of the recent military government, whose major accomplishment was the kidnapping, torture and murder of 30,000 of its citizens in the name of Christian and Western civilization. Official neglect of Argentina's dogged potential for scientific excellence is nothing new; inevitably, there is a tendency to see even the most deliberate and calculatingly destructive acts of the military as a mere extension of what passed before.
Last week's Nature conference in Boston suggests that the study of oncogenes will provide a route to general understanding as well as a powerful insight into normal cell biology.
