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It is properly ironic that the conference on European political union beginning this week should follow so quickly last week's collapse of the four-year effort by 107 governments to extend GATT.
The reasons for Japanese pre-eminence in many areas of technology are widely misunderstood in Western countries, who would do well to take advantage of the opportunities that Japan offers.
A simple explanation why most of the mass in the Universe is not visible unites questions such as the ionization of intergalactic clouds and the age of the Universe in an arresting way.