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<jats:p> <jats:bold>PARIS</jats:bold> —France's conservative government has defined seven priority areas of science, mostly in applied research, and has decreed that the country's sprawling public research organizations devote increasing amounts of funding to these themes. Most researchers, however, see this as a threat to basic science and are reluctant to play ball. </jats:p>

<jats:p> <jats:bold>PARIS</jats:bold> —The Bernard Gregory Association is devoted to finding jobs for young scientists in industry. It maintains a steady flow of résumés each year between its Paris offices and the roughly 100 companies that help support it, and runs job-recruitment pages on its Internet <jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://abg.grenet.fr/abg/" xlink:type="simple">Web site.</jats:ext-link> Although created in the 1970s, the past few years have seen something of a boom in its activities as public money for hiring scientists has become ever more scarce. </jats:p>

<jats:p> <jats:bold>RICHLAND, WASHINGTON</jats:bold> —An effort to entice researchers to lend a hand in long-range solutions to nuclear-weapons cleanup started with a $50 million a year bang. But a new report from the National Research Council and a pending 10-year plan from the Department of Energy point out serious obstacles to bringing researchers into the cleanup effort. </jats:p>

<jats:p>Rumors of a Chinese fossil dinosaur with feathers sparked skepticism last fall, but the specimen is now being taken seriously by paleontologists who have actually been to China and seen it.</jats:p>