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The welcome ending of the war between Iran and Iraq should not blind governments elsewhere to Iraq's use of poison gas — and to the need that it should not be allowed to happen again.
Molecular dynamics is proving a useful technique well away from the applications for which it was originally devised. A guiding principle is to make a virute of simplicity.
