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Against some odds, President Boris Yeltsin has won the part of the Russian referendum that he says matters most, but the really hard work is only just beginning.
At UNESCO's celebration of the double helix's fortieth anniversary in Paris last week, nostalgia was overlaid by vigorous optimism about the future of molecular biology.
Mr William Waldegrave, Britain's cabinet minister in charge of science, has offered a bottle of decent champagne to one who can tell him why the Higgs boson is worth finding (see page 781). These notes may be helpful.
