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The British government's arrangements for regulating its newly denationalized telephone company leave a lot to be desired. The most obvious missing ingredient is competition.
This year's Nobel Prize for Physics is awarded to Dr Klaus von Klitzing for his work on the quantum Hall effect. The development is an important pointer to a field of physics still poorly understood.
