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The doctrine that polluters and other environmental desperadoes should be required to pay for the damage they do is beguiling, but first requires general agreement on broad philosophical principles unlikely soon to be reached.
Since the advent of the genre in the 1930s, horror movies have reflected public anxieties about science and technology. Through the years the images have changed.
Proper excitement that CERN may answer many important questions should be moderated by some deliberate plan for true global collaboration in high-energy physics.