In July 1988, an Advisory Committee was appointed to review the geochemical activities at the Geological Survey of Canada. This report provides the conclusions and recommendations of the committee, as well as a summary of its activities and the findings leading to the conclusions and recommendations. The report describes the current program and reorganization of the GSC; the development of exploration geochemical activities in the exploration geochemistry and Quaternary geology subdivisions; the effect of changes in the administration of the exploration geochemistry subdivision and proposed solutions to identified problems; the importance of environmental geochemistry; a survey of opinion on geochemical exploration activities of the GSC; and a discussion of GSC geochemical exploration activities and their research and methodology. The issues of training, contracting out, archiving of samples, project generation, and the use of computers and databases are also addressed.

A survey of the regulation of human germline genome modification in eighteen countries and the emerging international standards.

In France, during the 1880s and 1890s, the protection of women and girls in the workplace was advocated by sociologists, social economists, union leaders, enlightened industrialists, and politicians of virtually every ideological hue. In response, laws were enacted restricting not only the number of hours and the time of day that women could work but also their access to dangerous trades. Mary Lynn Stewart argues that these restrictions, though initiated to protect women and girls, were actually a method of exploiting women's dual role of short-time wage worker and unpaid housewife and mother.