Rumbles and grumbles from around the world.
A different kind of shake-up will hit the science establishment when the New Year dawns in earthquake-prone Japan, reports Nature in its lead story this week. Science kicks off self-referentially with a lead story about its decision to publish a paper on sequencing the human genome from Craig Venter of Celera Genomics.
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