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The chairman of the US Republican Party is not the most familiar source of wisdom on abortion, but everybody will benefit from what Mr Lee Attwater has learned in this month's elections in the United States.
Continuing uncertainties about the working of the greenhouse enhancement give the lie to those demanding, at a meeting last week in the Netherlands, that the details of an international convention should be settled on the spot.
Brazilian researchers survive with admirable calm amid an economic tempest. With strong nerves and good luck, the first democratically elected president in decades may next year bring better times.