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Modern governments have in common an obsession with pensioners off the backs of those still at work. They are in danger of ignoring the link with employment and of forgetting equity.
The invention of a word new in the past decade signals a resurgence of interest in nuclear physics. But this time the objectives, if attainable, could be important.