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A controversial plan to pour billions of dollars of federal funds into commercial development of “synthetic” oil and gas from coal and from oil shale is about to face a crucial test in the US House of Representatives. Colin Norman reports
The long, tortuous process of setting controls on experiments involving recombinant DNA in the United States has taken yet another potentially important turn. Colin Norman reports
