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IT'S an old joke among visitors to Britain that the only industry that seems to be booming is the heritage industry. There may not be too many shiny new factories around but abandoned quarries and mines or the remains of mills, foundries or potteries have

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Editorial : Beware the juggernaut, my son – LAST WEEK, the British government announced that another six public research institutes are to be sent down the privatisation track.

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Editorial : Why Semtex needs a room of its own – FORENSIC scientists at Fort Halstead, near Sevenoaks in Kent, bear a heavy responsibility.

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Editorial : Time to bury inflation? – ASTRONOMERS should be breathing a sigh of relief with the release of the latest measurements of the Hubble constant, which sets the size and age of the Universe. The good news is that it now appears to be older than t

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Editorial : Not in anyone’s backyard . . . – LAST week, the German government sent in 9000 policemen armed with truncheons and water cannon against 3000 antinuclear campaigners with little more than hoods and scarfs to protect them. That an army of riot p

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Editorial : Australia turns a blind eye – AUSTRALIA has long had a magnificent reputation with astronomers, mainly because of its willingness to invest in telescopes that exploit its location in the southern hemisphere. How sad, then, that this is being u

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Editorial : Thinking the unthinkable – IN Tokyo, the trial of the Aum Shinrikyo cult leader has just begun. Shoko Asahara, the self-styled messiah who convinced his followers that Armageddon was coming and only the faithful would survive, is accused of ma

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Editorial : Green for danger . . . – THE government’s attitude towards reducing the impact of transport on the environment is rather like St Augustine’s view of chastity: “Give me chastity and continency鈥攂ut not yet.”

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Editorial : A narrow kirk in Edinburgh – OVER the past few weeks, Edinburgh University has supported its controversial psychologist Christopher Brand, on the grounds that “academic freedom” allows his studies of intelligence, race and genetics. So far, so

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Editorial : Publish and be debated – WHAT is the difference between “suppressing” someone’s ideas and simply not wanting to be associated with them? Normally, the distinction between trampling on someone and ignoring them is fairly obvious, but last week

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Editorial : Russia’s dangerous game – WESTERN governments are getting increasingly nervous about Russia’s nuclear legacy鈥攁nd so they should be. The secretive ways of the Soviet era have re-asserted themselves in a struggle that threatens not just Ru

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Soapy science for the small screen

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Editorial : Sad, but glad? – DO you find it easier to talk to people on the Internet than in person? Do you feel that if it weren’t for your computer, you wouldn’t have any fun at all? If it has been a long time since you logged on, do you find it hard to

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