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... members of the Royal Institution, one of Britain's oldest and most prestigious learned bodies, who are quarelling over a financial crisis and the dismissal of Baroness Greenfield as its director. For over 200 years the RI has been at the forefront of the public communication of science but Lady Greenfield's ideas for strengthening that role in a new era of communications clashed with other approaches. She was dismissed and is now claiming unfair dismissal and sex discrimination. Compromise between opposing factions are proving hard to reconcile.