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How is it that US inhabitants can be supplied with 218 pounds of meat annually per capita? Modern farming methods are responsible, but are unfairly criticized as inhumane.
Will Siberian forests be spared the wholesale destruction suffered by the world's tropical rainforests? The enormous changes now occurring in the former Soviet Union offer opportunities as well as challenges.
Britain urgently needs to return to traditional, but now abandoned, values in science. Scientific administrators and EC directorates should revise their policies in the light of Japan's experience.
The economic benefits of NASA's programmes are greater than generally recognized. The main beneficiaries may not even realize the source of their good fortune.
1992's anniversarial celebration encompasses the Old World and the New, by route of Tasmania. The Celsius scale and the revolutionary calendar join other births (Babbage) and deaths (Schrapnel) in this year's cornucopia.