March 15, 2002

British Scientists Say Bill May Strangle Research; V.S. Naipaul Decries 'Tyranny of Universities Abroad'

Scientists and academics in Britain have expressed alarm over legislation that would grant the government sweeping powers to monitor exchanges of information on technology.

The monitoring would include software programs, e-mail messages, and even research papers.

The export-control bill, which is supposed to be debated in the House of Lords this month, is intended to prevent information on creating weapons of mass destruction from falling into the wrong hands abroad. But

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