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Reviewed by Brigitte Nerlich and David D. Clarke. The new Institute has an interdisciplinary staff drawn from sociology, psychology, politics, law, history, philosophy and English. Brigitte will be involved in studying the linguistic and cultural background of public fears concerning for example cloning, GM foods, the human genome project, designer babies, and so on. The European Science Foundation has agreed to fund a conference series on 'Mind, language and metaphor'. The call for papers will be reproduced here as soon as it becomes available.