'The Web was invented by the British but exported to the US...We don't want that to happen again.'

[Carl Remick]

>From: Jim heartfield <jim at heartfield.demon.co.uk>
>
>Tragically, in Britain Department of Trade and Industry policy is moving
>away from investment in the sciences to the promotion of Britain as a
>cultural centre. That, along with the environmental baggage that is
>choking off British inventiveness is a counsel of despair. If you want
>to know how the British elite see themselves, you had to have visited
>the Sensation exhibition of rotting cows heads and mass murderers when
>it was showing in New York.

Buck up, old sport.  Telling evidence of Britain's lingering scientific 
skill -- as well as of Brits' gravest anxieties, mayhaps? ;-)-- is provided 
by the fact that Viagra was discovered at Pfizer's research lab in Sandwich, 
England.

Carl
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