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Reports that China has adopted regulations on access to fossils that assign enforcement to a single administrative body. Inadequateness of China's Law on the Preservation of Cultural Relics; Categories of fossils to be protected by the regulations; Basis for concerns of some scientists over the regulations; Optimistic views of a Beijing-based paleontologist on the regulations.

Reports on the adoption of a policy to root out research misconduct in the scientific community at Beijing University in China. Significance of the policy to the scientific community; Reference to a plagiarism of research data; Response of senior faculty members of the university on the adoption.