Final Word. . .
This week's Final Word comes from Queen Victoria's favourite novelist: "At last just as Big Ben chimed the quarter to eleven, one man whom I instantly recognised as a well-known Cabinet minister came...
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Where storage failed to jar
Anna Vari describes how a power plant in Hungary managed to soothe local fears over the storage of nuclear waste Until recently, spent fuel generated by the Paks nuclear power plant in Hungary has...
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A risky business
Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer looks at whether risk can be traded globally Do individuals, firms or even countries have a social responsibility to accept risks from activities such as waste generation, or...
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The beached buoy
The Brent Spar oil storage buoy is still stranded in Norway after plans to dump it at sea were abandoned. And, says Anthony Rice, Shell was right but for the wrong reasons On April 30 1995,...
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All-consuming problems
Demand for organic vegetables has risen dramatically in the past few years. Growers, finding themselves unable to supply the quantity or uniform size and appearance demanded by supermarkets, have...
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Appointments
COLLEGE OF LAW Nigel Savage, dean of Nottingham law school, has been appointed chief executive at the College of Law, succeeding Richard Holbrook on his retirement. UNIVERSITY OF READING Graeme...
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All-consuming problems
Les Levidow, Susan Carr and David Wield (left) describe how legislating on genetically modified food is giving the European Union a headache Since the 1980s there has been a wide-ranging debate about...
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Elections
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE D. M. P. Mingos, professor in the department of chemistry at Imperial College, has been elected dean from September 1, succeeding J. B. Pendry.
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Awards
PRINCIPE DE ASTURIAS PRIZE John Elliot, regius professor of history at Oxford University, has won one of Spain's most prestigious academic prizes. He is the ninth winner of the Principe de Asturias...
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Only safe in a lover's arms
Besides the Chernobyls, Brent Spars and other man-made disasters of our time, German sociologist Ulrich Beck's thoughts are turning to love. David Walker reports Look at a map, preferably one in a...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF EXETER The following chairs have been appointed: Jeremy Black, former professor of history at the University of Durham; Lammy Betten, associate professor in labour law and social...
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The fascination of fear
Weekly, the media highlight another threat to human health - from BSE to powdered baby milk. But how much do we really know about such risks? Since 1987 the Society for Risk Analysis - Europe has...
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Catastrophe converter
How can the insurance industry's record losses from natural disasters in recent years be reduced? Howard Kunreuther has some solutions The insurance industry is gravely concerned that it cannot...
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Grants
THE OPEN UNIVERSITY European funds Dr D. Dickenson, Pounds 393,443 from the BIOMED 2 programme of the EC (collaborative development of European biomedical ethics practitioner education). UNIVERSITY...
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Exclusive: shock headlines induce horror
How much do the media affect public perception of hazard? Quite a lot, according to a recent American survey. John Davies reports If we know more about health hazards than we used to it is thanks to...