About ICSU inside front cover
Meeting Reports
The First IGBP Congress 1
Brief report on various meetings at the ICSU
Headquarters 2
Getting to Know
A World Network of Historical Research 4
Keeping the Windows to the Radio Universe
open: The side effects of increased
telecommunication 5
Sophie Boyer King 7
Spotlights on Science
Successes Stimulate Far-reaching Plans:
A report of the 17th meeting of the
Joint Scientific Committee for WCRP 8
World Health Organization (WHO):
The Advisory Committee on Health Research 11
Energy and Wastes: From Plutonium
to Carbon Dioxide 14
Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems 18
A Comprehensive Freshwater Assessment 20
The Star of Tolerance - an object lesson
for astronomy 22
Science and Technology for Development
News from COSTED-IBN 24
Publications News 25
News in Brief 26
Looking Ahead 30
Calendar of Meetings 32
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