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India and Britain last week published taxation budgets for the year ahead. The underlying objectives are closely similar. But the Indian budget is much more imaginative.
There is much concern about the state of West Germany's large forests which are threatened by an unprecedented decline. Research into its causes no longer focuses on acid rain, but on a possible interaction of increased ozone concentrations, acid mist and climatic factors.
The van der Waals force between atoms and molecules is generally taken to be inversely proportional to the inverse sixth power of the distance, but positronium atoms may interact differently.
