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| | The Shackleton incident could profit international law 435
doi:10.1038/259435a0
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| | Looking at the job first 436
In Nature last November, Cyril Cooper of the Institution of Professional Civil Servants highlighted the discontent among UK Civil Service scientists, and argued that it stemmed largely from differences they experience in salary and career progression compared with graduate administrators. David Budworth of the Confederation of British Industry replies.
David Budworth
doi:10.1038/259436a0
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| | "Genetics" and how we made it 437
Steven Rose, Professor of Biology at the Open University, looks at the origins and purpose of the OU's new genetics course
Steven Rose
doi:10.1038/259437a0
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| | USSR: Environmental protection under state socialism 438
In the Soviet Union environmental issues have surfaced in recent years as just one consequence of the country's rapid development. The problems seem as intractable there as anywhere else. Vera Rich reports.
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/259438a0
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| | Canada 439
David Spurgeon
doi:10.1038/259439a0
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| | USA: Alternative technologies urged in pesticide report 440
Carried to excess, the best things may do more harm than good. Colin Norman reports from Washington on a study of pesticides.
Colin Norman
doi:10.1038/259440a0
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| | OSETP progress 441
doi:10.1038/259441a0
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| | Triple resignation 441
doi:10.1038/259441b0
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| | Israel: Harnessing science and industry 442
As the need to coordinate the work of science and industry even more closely becomes increasingly apparent to the recession-bound developed countries, Nechemia Meyers reports from Israel on the debate taking place there.
Nechemia Meyers
doi:10.1038/259442a0
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| | In Brief 443
doi:10.1038/259443a0
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| | DDT: bystander or participant? 443
THOMAS H. JUKES
doi:10.1038/259443b0
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| | Closure in Belgium? 444
J. E. DUMONT
doi:10.1038/259444a0
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FRANCESCO GHIRETTI & ANNA GHIRETTI-MAGALDI
doi:10.1038/259444b0
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| | Water to the Dead Sea 444
G. S. KELL & Y. LUPIEN
doi:10.1038/259444c0
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| | Superfluid 3He: magnetic pendula 445
P. V. E. McClintock
doi:10.1038/259445a0
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| | The ecology of the ecological literature 446
Judith May & Robert M. May
doi:10.1038/259446a0
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| | A hundred years ago 447
doi:10.1038/259447a0
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| | Myelin structure 447
N. P. Franks
doi:10.1038/259447b0
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| | Chemical antagonism in plant communities 447
Peter D. Moore
doi:10.1038/259447c0
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| | Volcanic processes in ore genesis 448
I. G. Gass
doi:10.1038/259448a0
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| | Phyto-insanitary Britain 449
A Correspondent
doi:10.1038/259449a0
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| | Observing satellites 449
A Correspondent
doi:10.1038/259449b0
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| | Neutron pickup at high energies 450
P. E. Hodgson
doi:10.1038/259450a0
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| | Head-tail radio sources in the cluster of galaxies Abell 1314 451
Jacques P. Vallée & Andrew S. Wilson
doi:10.1038/259451a0
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| | T4 gene 32 protein model for control of activity at replication fork 455
Herbert Moise & Junko Hosoda
doi:10.1038/259455a0
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| | Body weight, diet and home range area in primates 459
Katharine Milton & Michael L. May
doi:10.1038/259459a0
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| | New map of the optical polarisation of galaxy M82 463
R. G. BINGHAM, D. MCMULLAN, W. S. PALLISTER, C. WHITE, D. J. AXON & S. M. SCARROTT
doi:10.1038/259463a0
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| | Variations of the infrared polarisation of VY Canis Majoris 465
T. MAIHARA, K. NOGUCHI, M. OISHI, H. OKUDA & S. SATO
doi:10.1038/259465a0
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| | Fe XIII line in R Aquarii 466
HAROLD ZIRIN
doi:10.1038/259466a0
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| | Pulsars and magnetic monopoles 467
G. KALMAN & D. TER HAAR
doi:10.1038/259467a0
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| | No anisotropy in angular diameter−redshift relationship 468
ANEURIN EVANS & DEREK HART
doi:10.1038/259468a0
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| | Present trends in the Earth's magnetic field 469
J. M. HARWOOD & S. R. C. MALIN
doi:10.1038/259469a0
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| | Possible late Precambrian subduction zone in South West Africa 471
BRAIN R. WATTERS
doi:10.1038/259471a0
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| | A novel beryllosilicate phase containing 3-coordinate beryllium (Rb2Be2Si2O7) 473
R. A. HOWIE & A. R. WEST
doi:10.1038/259473a0
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| | Coccolith blooms in the Kimmeridge Clay and origin of North Sea Oil 473
R. W. GALLOIS
doi:10.1038/259473b0
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| | Dichotic verbal transformations and evidence of separate processors for identical stimuli 475
RICHARD M. WARREN & JOHN M. ACKROFF
doi:10.1038/259475a0
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| | Correspondence between sharp tuning and two-tone inhibition in primary auditory neurones 477
DONALD ROBERTSON
doi:10.1038/259477a0
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| | The Red Sea coral Stylophora pistillata is an r strategist 478
Y. LOYA
doi:10.1038/259478a0
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| | Cell differentiation by 3',5'-cyclic AMP in a lower plant 480
AVTAR KRISHAN HANDA & M. M. JOHRI
doi:10.1038/259480a0
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| | Adenylate cyclase activity and steroidogenesis in phenotypic revertants of an ACTH-insensitive adrenal tumour cell line 482
BERNARD P. SCHIMMER
doi:10.1038/259482a0
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| | Inhibitory action of noradrenaline and cyclic AMP in explants of rat cerebellum 483
B. H. GÄHWILER
doi:10.1038/259483a0
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| | Allergic sensitisation of human lung fragments prevented by saturation of IgE binding sites 484
R. C. GODFREY & C. F. GRADIDGE
doi:10.1038/259484a0
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| | Suppression of bacterially-induced hypersensitive reaction and phytoalexin accumulation in bean by phaseotoxin 486
SURESH S. PATIL & SAMUEL S. GNANAMANICKAM
doi:10.1038/259486a0
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| | Collaboration between in vivo responses to LD and SD antigens of major histocompatibility complex 487
HANS W. SOLLINGER & FRITZ H. BACH
doi:10.1038/259487a0
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| | Association of high affinity stereospecific binding of 3H-propranolol to cerebral membranes with  adrenoceptors 488
S. R. NAHORSKI
doi:10.1038/259488a0
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KAZUO IKEDA, SEIJI OZAWA & SUSUMU HAGIWARA
doi:10.1038/259489a0
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JEFFREY L. BROWNING, DAVID L. NELSON & HELEN G. HANSMA
doi:10.1038/259491a0
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| | Synthesis of ATP coupled with action of membrane protonic pumps at the octane−water interface 494
L. S. YAGUZHINSKY, L. I. BOGUSLAVSKY, A. G. VOLKOV & A. B. RAKHMANINOVA
doi:10.1038/259494a0
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| | Antiviral, immunosuppressive and antitumour effects of Ribavirin 496
C. W. POTTER, J. P. PHAIR, LADA VODINELICH, R. FENTON & R. JENNINGS
doi:10.1038/259496a0
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| | Relationship between the oncornavirus gene product gp70 and a major protein secretion of the mouse genital tract 497
BERT C. DEL VILLANO & RICHARD A. LERNER
doi:10.1038/259497a0
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| | Isolation of nucleic acid-binding protein: stimulation of reverse transcriptase-catalysed DNA synthesis 499
P. P. HUNG & S. G. LEE
doi:10.1038/259499a0
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| | Eukaryotic DNA replication complex 502
VALERIO M. GENTA, DAVID G. KAUFMAN, WILLIAM K. KAUFMANN & BRENDA I. GERWIN
doi:10.1038/259502a0
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T. A. HORI & K. G. LARK
doi:10.1038/259504a0
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| | Low temperature specific heat anomalies in melanins and tumour melanosomes 505
U. MIZUTANI, T. B. MASSALSKI, J. E. McGINNESS & P. M. CORRY
doi:10.1038/259505a0
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3H-concanavalin A binding of X-irradiated human fibroblasts 507
G. J. KÖTELES, TAMARA KUBASOVA & L. VARGA
doi:10.1038/259507a0
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| | Detection of bound ferulic acid in cell walls of the Gramineae by ultraviolet fluorescence microscopy 508
P. J. HARRIS & R. D. HARTLEY
doi:10.1038/259508a0
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doi:10.1038/259510a0
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doi:10.1038/259510b0
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| | Worthy of sponsored pilgrimage 511
J. D. North reviews
*Kepler: Four Hundred Years
doi:10.1038/259511a0
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| | Applying a technique 512
G. Longworth reviews Mössbauer Spectroscopy
(Topics in Applied Physics, Vol. 5.) Edited by
U. Gonser
doi:10.1038/259512a0
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E. F. Assmus Jr reviews Graph Theory, Coding Theory and Block Designs
(London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series, No. 19.) By
P. J. Cameron & J. H. van Lint
doi:10.1038/259512b0
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doi:10.1038/259512c0
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P. A. Davies reviews Atmospheric Thermodynamics
(Geophysics and Astrophysics Monographs: an International Series of Fundamental Textbooks, Vol. 6.) By
J. V. Iribarne, W. L. Godson, A. J. Raudkivi & R. A. Callander
doi:10.1038/259513a0
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John Gribbin reviews Astronomy Today
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Fred Hoyle
doi:10.1038/259513b0
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| | Riboflavin 513
David I. Thurnham reviews Riboflavin
Edited by
Richard S. Rivlin
doi:10.1038/259513c0
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| | High fashion in liquid dielectrics 514
J. E. Brignell reviews Simple Dielectric Liquids: Mobility, Conduction and Breakdown
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T. J. Gallagher
doi:10.1038/259514a0
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| | Coding for isoenzymes and haemoglobins 514
Gregory S. Whitt reviews Haemoglobin, Isoenzymes and Tissue Differentiation
(North-Holland Research Monographs: Frontiers of Biology, Volume 42.) By
C. J. Masters & R. S. Holmes
doi:10.1038/259514b0
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R. G. Gosling
doi:10.1038/259515a0
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N. C. Billingham
doi:10.1038/259515b0
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O.S. Heavens
doi:10.1038/259515c0
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Edward Abel
doi:10.1038/259515d0
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| | Detlev Wulf Bronk 516
Frederick Seitz
doi:10.1038/259516a0
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| | Announcements 516
doi:10.1038/259516b0
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doi:10.1038/259516c0
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