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The US Supreme Court is now to have a say in this year's annual budget charade in Washington. Will it be better able than the Congress to count the cost outside the United States?
Yet another experiment has provided a novel test of special relativity, one that duplicates in the laboratory phenomena for which people usually look to astrophysics.
The prospect of live vaccines consisting of genetically modified vaccinia virus expressing foreign genes is exciting, but important issues concerning safety and efficacy need to be resolved.