Opinion in 1992

Recommendations for a reorganization of US research on the environment are vitiated by the absence of any indication of the likely costs.

The city of Baltimore will offer Norplant in health clinics affiliated with public schools.

US President-elect Bill Clinton is putting pragmatism ahead of ideology in his first major appointments of people with some sympathy for a national science policy.

In Somalia, the world is fighting an unprecedented war in the name of basic nutrition. In the United States, the government has gone overboard on the matter of nutrition and health.

Mr William Waldegrave should not be deterred from consultation by his experience this week.

Squeamishness has too often in the recent past inhibited sensible inquiries into the mechanisms by which AIDS is spread through human populations but now there may be proof that these attitudes are changing.

Virginia education council says entering students should be able to read and calculate

The heads of the NSF and NIH in the United States have followed ways of plotting the future.

The Maastricht Treaty (if ratified) would give the European Communities coordinating powers in education: what hope is there that the outcome will be a better system of universities?

Oxygenated gasoline for US cars is meant to improve air quality in 38 cities.

The GATT negotiations now mercifully reaching the end of their six-year course are not arcane procedures invented to keep diplomats busy, but a vital means by which the benefits of technology are widely shared.

The election of Bill Clinton as US president is good news for fetal tissue research and for AIDS.

If the disappointments of the past few weeks have tarnished the hope of winning ratification of the Maastricht Treaty, why not confess that the treaty is far from perfect and renegotiate it?

Cellular telephony seems likely to turn the US telecommunications business upside down.

The outcome of the election in the United States will matter greatly both for the indigenous research enterprise and for its international ramifications.

The US Congress must reverse its growing tendency to play the role of peer reviewer.

The Vatican's half-hearted rehabilitation of Galileo will not prevent the recurrence of errors of the same kind.

The trial in France of four government officials for complicity in the use of contaminated blood may have ended with the verdicts announced last Friday, but the recriminations will continue.

Eastern Germany is making needless heavy weather over the status of academics.

Studies show no correlation between dietary fat and breast cancer. It is time to move on.