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We live in a golden age of discovery. While the great explorers - Livingstone and Stanley, Burton and Speke, Shackleton and Scott - filled in blanks on a map, it is we who now learn how the world works and our effect on it. We not only discover new species of fauna and flora, but how they respond to changing climate and human interference. Such discoveries are crucial to the future of this threatened planet.The Royal Geographical Society, of which I was director from 1975 to 1996, is in the grip of an acrimonious debate about how best to deliver this research. Since it was founded in 1830, it has sent out expeditions, while also supporting, through grants, the expeditions of others. While funding for the latter continues, the RGS's own research projects have been halted. The RGS's council feels it is achieving enough by giving larger grants to six of the external projects it considers important. Many, mostly younger fellows, feel this is not good enough: to maintain the spirit of its r

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Negotiations between unions at The Boston Globe and its owner, The New York Times Co., will continue after the company agreed to extend its midnight deadline for the newspapers' employees to make $20 million in concessions. 'Because there has been progress on...

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