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Tight university research budgets are contributing to a shortage of computer science graduates in the US. But concern is also growing about the social effects of automation. David Dickson reports
Nuclear power needs to be regulated in the Third World just as much as in the West. But economic pressures in developing countries mean that safety may not always come first. Moreover, western insistence on regulation may be seen as an attempt to hamper Third World progress. Report by Anil Agarwal