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This month's sale of the telephone company British Telecom will not bring competition but may net the government £4,000 million. The objectives are admirable but the methods are wrong.
The death of Paul Dirac a week ago is a reminder of the precocious and staggering achievement, sixty years ago, of one of the most diffident of contemporary heroes
New products covered this month include a completely sealed ecosystem being offered as a “gift item” and a computerized densitometer for electrophoresis.
