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| | Populism ... elitism ... or a middle way? 419
doi:10.1038/277419a0
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| | Doctors claim A-bomb tests linked to rise in child leukaemia deaths 420
David Dickson reports on a statistical survey in Southern Utah
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/277420a0
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| | Budget cuts cause upheavals in earthquake research 421
David Dickson describes how a sociologist's misbehaviour has led to a major gap in efforts to restrict the damage caused by earthquakes
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/277421a0
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| | US scientists want 40% cut in defence spending 422
Clive Cookson
doi:10.1038/277422a0
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| | UNCSTD meeting split on transfer of technology 422
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/277422b0
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| | West Germany boosts research by one fifth 423
Germany is playing for a big lead in innovation, writes Robert Walgate from Bonn
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/277423a0
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| | US at sixes and sevens over Soviet exchanges 424
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/277424a0
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| | Moscow's growing pollution problem 424
doi:10.1038/277424b0
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| | Sigvard Eklund: the uses and abuses of nuclear energy 425
 The director-general of the IAEA (above) put the pro-nuclear case in London last week. Judy Redfearn reports
Judy Redfearn
doi:10.1038/277425a0
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| | Can multinationals aid development? 425
Robin McKie
doi:10.1038/277425b0
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| | News in Brief 426
doi:10.1038/277426a0
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| | A modest contribution to security and cooperation 427
doi:10.1038/277427a0
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| | Causes of cancer 428
RICHARD PETO
doi:10.1038/277428a0
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| | World futures 428
S. V. VAECK
doi:10.1038/277428b0
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| | Energy forecasts 428
J. T. D. MITCHELL
doi:10.1038/277428c0
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| | ARMS cannot negotiate 428
ARLEEN UNGER
doi:10.1038/277428d0
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| | Synthetic genes for human insulin 429
Michael J. Gait
doi:10.1038/277429a0
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| | Gravitational radiation at last? 430
P. C. W. Davies
doi:10.1038/277430a0
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| | Moscow revisited—laser fusion 1979 431
Ian Spalding
doi:10.1038/277431a0
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| | Variations on a theme 431
Peter Newmark
doi:10.1038/277431b0
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| | The world's vanishing primates 432
Michael Kavanagh
doi:10.1038/277432a0
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| | The primates of peninsular Malaysia 433
David Chivers
doi:10.1038/277433a0
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| | Compensation of Doppler-broadening using light shifts 434
Peter Knight
doi:10.1038/277434a0
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| | Interferon and double-stranded RNA 435
John Morser & Derek Burke
doi:10.1038/277435a0
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| | Radioactive waste management 435
S. Weisenburger
doi:10.1038/277435b0
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| | A hundred years ago 436
doi:10.1038/277436a0
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| | Measurements of general relativistic effects in the binary pulsar PSR1913 + 16 437
J. H. Taylor, L. A. Fowler & P. M. McCulloch
doi:10.1038/277437a0
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| | Vulcanian eruption mechanisms 440
Stephen Self, Lionel Wilson & Ian A. Nairn
doi:10.1038/277440a0
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| | Concentrations of metals in very small volumes of soil solution 444
Todd Hinkley
doi:10.1038/277444a0
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| | Crystal structures of Streptomyces subtilisin inhibitor and its complex with subtilisin BPN' 447
Y. Mitsui, Y. Satow, Y. Watanabe, S. Hirono & Y. Iitaka
doi:10.1038/277447a0
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| | The E. coli gene encoding heat stable toxin is a bacterial transposon flanked by inverted repeats of IS1
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Magdalene So, Fred Heffron & Brian J. McCarthy
doi:10.1038/277453a0
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| | Death throes of massive stars 456
S. SOFIA, W. M. SPARKS & A. S. ENDAL
doi:10.1038/277456a0
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| | An ultraviolet spectrum of the high redshift quasar Q2204−408 457
R. WILSON, D. J. CARNOCHAN & P. M. GONDHALEKAR
doi:10.1038/277457a0
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| | The August 1972 solar proton event and the atmospheric ozone layer 458
P. FABIAN, J. A. PYLE & R. J. WELLS
doi:10.1038/277458a0
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E. T. SARRIS & W. I. AXFORD
doi:10.1038/277460a0
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| | Temperature dependence of atmospheric absorption in the wavelength range 8−14 µm 462
A. M. ZAVODY, R. J. EMERY & H. A. GEBBIE
doi:10.1038/277462a0
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| | Effects on prolific petroleum source rocks and major coal deposits caused by sea-level changes 463
B. TISSOT
doi:10.1038/277463a0
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| | Trace elements in the fluid phase of the Earth's mantle 465
H. W. GREEN II
doi:10.1038/277465a0
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| | Speciation of dissolved iodine in estuarine waters 468
J. DAVID SMITH & EDWARD C. V. BUTLER
doi:10.1038/277468a0
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| | Effect of glacial ice melting on the Antarctic Surface Water 469
S. S. JACOBS, A. L. GORDON & A. F. AMOS
doi:10.1038/277469a0
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| | Isolation and characterisation of a bipotential haematopoietic cell line 471
T. M. DEXTER, T. D. ALLEN, D. SCOTT & N. M. TEICH
doi:10.1038/277471a0
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| | A specific helper factor which enhances the cytotoxic response to a syngeneic tumour 474
DOUGLAS G. KILBURN, FRANCE O. TALBOT, HUNG-SIA TEH & JULIA G. LEVY
doi:10.1038/277474a0
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| | Cytolytic and proliferative activity of a permanent T killer cell line 476
GUNTHER DENNERT
doi:10.1038/277476a0
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| | An Lyt differentiated thymocyte subpopulation detected by flow microfluorometry 478
B. J. MATHIESON, S. O. SHARROW, P. S. CAMPBELL & R. ASOFSKY
doi:10.1038/277478a0
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NOBUKUNI OGATA
doi:10.1038/277480a0
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Y. A. LUQMANI, H. F. BRADFORD, N. J. M. BIRDSALL & E. C. HULME
doi:10.1038/277481a0
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T. C. PELLMAR & D. O. CARPENTER
doi:10.1038/277483a0
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ALAN P. DAWSON, MICHAEL J. SELWYN & DEREK V. FULTON
doi:10.1038/277484a0
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GIUSEPPE F. MIOZZARI & CHARLES YANOFSKY
doi:10.1038/277486a0
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DEBORAH KWOH & DAVID ZIPSER
doi:10.1038/277489a0
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JOËL JANIN
doi:10.1038/277491a0
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ERICH NIGG & RICHARD J. CHERRY
doi:10.1038/277493a0
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| | Erratum 494
doi:10.1038/277494a0
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doi:10.1038/277494b0
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doi:10.1038/277494c0
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| | Coesite and stishovite in the Vredefort, South Africa 495
P. A. LILLY
doi:10.1038/277495a0
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J. E. J. MARTINI
doi:10.1038/277495b0
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I. J. SMALLEY
doi:10.1038/277496a0
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| | Major environmental controversy 497
B. A. Thrush reviews The Ozone War
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L. Dotto & H. Schiff
doi:10.1038/277497a0
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John Bridge reviews Ecology of Plant-Parasitic Nematodes
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D. C. Norton
doi:10.1038/277497b0
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John Morton reviews Linguistic Theory and Psychological Reality
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M. Halle, J. Bresnan & G. A. Miller
doi:10.1038/277498a0
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| | Haematological overkill 499
D. J. Weatherall reviews The Year in Hematology, 1978
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R. Silber, J. LoBue & A. S. Gordon
doi:10.1038/277499a0
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J. Connell reviews Leaf Protein and Other Aspects of Fodder Fractionation
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N. W. Pirie
doi:10.1038/277499b0
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| | Gregory Rift Valley and early man 500
Sarah Bunney reviews Geological Background to Fossil Man. Recent Research in the Gregory Rift Valley, East Africa
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W. W. Bishop
doi:10.1038/277500a0
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J. A. W. Dalziel reviews Analysis with Ion-Selective Electrodes
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J. Vesely, D. Weiss & K. Stulik
doi:10.1038/277500b0
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doi:10.1038/277501a0
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doi:10.1038/277501b0
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