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Science 24 October 2008:
Vol. 322. no. 5901, p. 505
DOI: 10.1126/science.1166199
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Editorial

Making One World of Science

Mohamed H. A. Hassan

TWAS, the academy of sciences for the developing world, celebrates its 25th anniversary in Mexico City next month. When the academy was first established, a great divide existed between the science-rich North and the science-poor South. A quarter-century later, advances in biology, materials science, and information and communications technologies, among other fields, have further split the global scientific community into three worlds: the North, the surging South, and the stagnant South. The global community now faces the critical challenge of preventing lagging countries from falling even farther behind.

Mohamed H. A. Hassan is executive director of TWAS, Trieste, Italy.

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