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Britain's pioneering experiment in mass education, the Open University, has now developed to the point where it seems unlikely that any government will go so far as to close it down. This is a rather modest level of success—one would hardly be justified in saying that the Open University has in any sense 'come of age', even though it has produced its first graduates. But there was a real prospect that the incoming Conservative government of 1970 might have abandoned the experiment, and with higher education generally still in a parlous economic state the mere fact of the continued existence of the Open University is something to take note of. How might the bridgehead established by the Open University be used to best advantage in the coming years? And do conventional universities have something to learn from the Open University in terms of cost effectiveness?
—John Gribbin reports.
John Gribbin
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| | US budget: energy and the military do well 388
Colin Norman
doi:10.1038/253388a0
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| | Dissident voices 390
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Angela Croome
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| | New York diary 392
Colin Norman
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| | Galactic cookery 393
M. G. Edmunds
doi:10.1038/253393a0
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| | The enigmatic protein 394
Aubrey Knowles
doi:10.1038/253394a0
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| | Ancient observatories 395
A. J. Meadows
doi:10.1038/253395a0
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A. Hallam
doi:10.1038/253396a0
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A Correspondent
doi:10.1038/253397a0
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| | Oceanic ridges as collapse calderas 398
Peter J. Smith
doi:10.1038/253398a0
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| | A hundred years ago 398
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| | Where is the myosin? 399
Dennis Bray
doi:10.1038/253399a0
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| | Proline implicated in halophyte osmotic adjustment 399
Peter D. Moore
doi:10.1038/253399b0
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| | Laser studies of atomic and molecular collisions 400
G. Duxbury
doi:10.1038/253400a0
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| | Recent advances in electrical recording from the human brain 401
D. Regan
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| | Surface reactivity of tungsten 407
R. P. H. Gasser & G. V. Jackson
doi:10.1038/253407a0
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| | The nucleotide sequence of an RNA polymerase binding site on bacteriophage fd DNA 410
K. Sugimoto, T. Okamoto, H. Sugisaki & M. Takanami
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| | Radiation as a source of gravitation 414
H. BONDI
doi:10.1038/253414a0
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| | Spectra of the Jupiter radio bursts 415
G. R. A. ELLIS
doi:10.1038/253415a0
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| | Alternative hypothesis for the origin of CCF xenon 417
DAVID C. BLACK
doi:10.1038/253417a0
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| | The beginning of a new cycle of solar activity 419
M. WALDMEIER
doi:10.1038/253419a0
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| | Mathematical prediction of climatic change 419
H. B. GORDON & D. R. DAVIES
doi:10.1038/253419b0
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| | Detection of elastic strainfields caused by fault creep events in Iran 420
G. C. P. KING, R. G. BILHAM, J. W. CAMPBELL, D. P. MCKENZIE & M. NIAZI
doi:10.1038/253420a0
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| | Lineations in the Magnetic Quiet Zone of the North-west Atlantic 423
D. L. BARRETT & C. E. KEEN
doi:10.1038/253423a0
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| | Anomalous delays of teleseismic P waves in Yellowstone National Park 425
H. M. IYER
doi:10.1038/253425a0
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| | Duration of the Kuroko mineralisation episode 428
H. UENO
doi:10.1038/253428a0
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| | Deglaciation of the Labrador continental shelf 429
RICHARD H. FILLON
doi:10.1038/253429a0
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| | Survey of three megalithic sites in Argyllshire 431
M. E. BAILEY, J. A. COOKE, R. W. FEW, J. G. MORGAN & C. L. N. RUGGLES
doi:10.1038/253431a0
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ALAN M. GAINES & JULIA L. HANDY
doi:10.1038/253433a0
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| | Adsorption of divalent phosphate on hydrous aluminium oxide 434
S. S. S. RAJAN
doi:10.1038/253434a0
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| | Reversibility and biological machines 436
B. F. GRAY
doi:10.1038/253436a0
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MARY C. POTTER & BARBARA A. FAULCONER
doi:10.1038/253437a0
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MAX COLTHEART, ELAINE HULL & DIANA SLATER
doi:10.1038/253438a0
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| | A model illustrating the importance of timing in the regulation of breathing 440
D. J. C. CUNNINGHAM
doi:10.1038/253440a0
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| | PTC taste blindness and the taste of caffeine 442
MOLLY J. HALL, LINDA M. BARTOSHUK, WILLIAM S. CAIN & JOSEPH C. STEVENS
doi:10.1038/253442a0
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INGO RENTSCHLER, RUDOLF HILZ & WOLFGANG GRIMM
doi:10.1038/253444a0
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| | Retinotectal mismatch: a serendipitous experimental result 445
JOAN D. FELDMAN, M. J. KEATING & R. M. GAZE
doi:10.1038/253445a0
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| | Re-establishment of functional connections by regenerating central adrenergic and cholinergic axons 446
ANDERS BJORKLUND, BORJE JOHANSSON, ULF STENEVI & NIELS-AAGE SVENDGAARD
doi:10.1038/253446a0
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| | Differentiation of opiate agonist and antagonist receptor binding by protein modifying reagents 448
H. ALEXANDER WILSON, GAVRIL W. PASTERNAK & SOLOMON H. SNYDER
doi:10.1038/253448a0
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| | Requirements for bursting pacemaker potential activity in molluscan neurones 450
THOMAS G. SMITH JR, JEFFERY L. BARKER & HAROLD GAINER
doi:10.1038/253450a0
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B. D. SINGH & B. L. HARVEY
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| | Lack of permeability of mouse placenta to maternal and foetal cells 453
JIM SCHRODER & LEIF C. ANDERSSON
doi:10.1038/253453b0
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| | Cytochalasin B, the blood platelet release reaction and cyclic GMP 455
R. J. HASLAM, M. M. L. DAVIDSON & M. D. MCCLENAGHAN
doi:10.1038/253455a0
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| | Changed surface glycoprotein as a marker of malignancy in human leukaemic cells 457
W. P. VAN BEEK, L. A. SMETS & P. EMMELOT
doi:10.1038/253457a0
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| | Detoxifying effect of yellow substance on E. coli in media containing copper 460
FRED P. MILANOVICH, DANIEL W. WILSON & YIN YEH
doi:10.1038/253460a0
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| | A simple cytochemical technique for demonstration of DNA in cells infected with mycoplasmas and viruses 461
W. C. RUSSELL, CAROL NEWMAN & D. H. WILLIAMSON
doi:10.1038/253461a0
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T. EDWARDS & B. C. MCBRIDE
doi:10.1038/253462a0
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| | Citrate in milk: a harbinger of lactogenesis 464
M. PEAKER & J. L. LINZELL
doi:10.1038/253464a0
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JENNIFER M. STRICKLAND & DAVID A. ELLIS
doi:10.1038/253464b0
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JAMES A. RILLEMA
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J. M. BLANCHARD, CH. DUCAMP & PH. JEANTEUR
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J. GRANT BREWEN, R. JULIAN PRESTON & NAZARETH GENGOZIAN
doi:10.1038/253468a0
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SCOTT BRODIE, JOSE GIRON & SAMUEL A. LATT
doi:10.1038/253470a0
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| | Concanavalin A cap formation on polymorphonuclear leukocytes of normal and beige (Chediak-Higashi) mice 471
JANET M. OLIVER, ROBERT B. ZURIER & RICHARD D. BERLIN
doi:10.1038/253471a0
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| | Specific IgE antibodies in immune adherence of normal macrophages to Schistosoma mansoni schistosomules 474
ANDRE CAPRON, JEAN-PAUL DESSAINT, MONIQUE CAPRON & HERVE BAZIN
doi:10.1038/253474a0
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| | T-cell response to polyvinyl pyrrolidone is linked to maturity of B cells 476
BIRGER ANDERSSON & HENRIC BLOMGREN
doi:10.1038/253476a0
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J. M. SHARMA, R. L. WITTER & H. G. PURCHASE
doi:10.1038/253477a0
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| | Effect of ascorbic acid on hyaluronidase inhibitor 479
STANLEY S. SHAPIRO, MELANIE BISHOP, WOLFGANG KUENZIG, VALENTIN TKACZEVSKI & JEROME J. KAMM
doi:10.1038/253479a0
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| | High affinity uptake of neurotransmitter amino acids 481
L. IVERSEN
doi:10.1038/253481a0
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| | High affinity uptake of neurotransmitter amino acids (reply) 481
LEVI & RAITERI
doi:10.1038/253481b0
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| | Playing possum 482
THOMAS H. JUKES
doi:10.1038/253482a0
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JOHN P. BAGBY
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| | Missing some of Darwin's brilliance 483
William B. Provine reviews Darwin on Man: A Psychological Study of Scientific Creativity
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Howard E. Gruber
doi:10.1038/253483a0
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| | Elementary world climatology 484
John Gribbin reviews World Climatology
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John G. Lockwood
doi:10.1038/253484a0
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W. H. McCrea reviews The Physics of Time Asymmetry
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P. C. W. Davies
doi:10.1038/253485a0
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P. C. W. Davies reviews Space, Time and Spacetitne
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Lawrence Sklar
doi:10.1038/253485b0
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| | Herbert Alexander Sober 486
doi:10.1038/253486a0
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