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| | SALT can have too high a price 175
doi:10.1038/279175a0
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| | NASA carpeted over Space Shuttle costs 176
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/279176a0
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| | US signs treaties on scientific links with China and Japan 176
doi:10.1038/279176b0
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| | Kennedy attacks Carter plan to cut biomedical research 177
doi:10.1038/279177a0
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| | Library report calls for a national periodicals centre 177
doi:10.1038/279177b0
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| | From solar system to social system 178
David Dickson talks to John Gibbons (right), new director of the US Office of Technology Assessment
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/279178a0
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Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/279178b0
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| | Science journalists become activists 179
doi:10.1038/279179a0
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| | Mössbauer's lab destroyed by fire 179
doi:10.1038/279179b0
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| | Oil giants exaggerated Harrisburg−Izvestiya
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doi:10.1038/279179c0
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| | News in Brief 180
doi:10.1038/279180a0
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| | Blue-green algae to fertilise Indian rice paddies 181
The use of chemical fertilisers can be reduced by a third if algae are applied to rice paddies, writes Anil Agarwal
Anil Agarwal
doi:10.1038/279181a0
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| | Ghana: science hangs on amid economic chaos 182
Joseph Hanlon
doi:10.1038/279182a0
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| | Research fails to make a real impact 182
doi:10.1038/279182b0
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| | Work continues despite strikes and corruption 183
doi:10.1038/279183a0
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| | Equipment shortage holds back home-grown science 184
Hanlon
doi:10.1038/279184a0
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| | The Pope embraces science—if it eschews power 185
doi:10.1038/279185a0
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| | East looking west 187
Thomas Jukes
doi:10.1038/279187a0
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| | Is physics levelling off? 188
SEWERYN CHOMET & ELIZABETH NEJMAN
doi:10.1038/279188a0
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| | What happened at Hinckley Point? 188
PETER TAYLOR
doi:10.1038/279188b0
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| | Sociobiology and environmental determinism 188
JERRY HIRSCH
doi:10.1038/279188c0
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| | Reconstructing the visual image in space and time 189
H. B. Barlow
doi:10.1038/279189a0
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| | The productive oceans 191
P. M. Holligan
doi:10.1038/279191a0
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| | Carbon in the sea 191
Egon T. Degens
doi:10.1038/279191b0
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| | When to be incestuous 192
Robert M. May
doi:10.1038/279192a0
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| | Splicing in vitro? 194
T. Barrett
doi:10.1038/279194a0
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| | The Galactic map 195
M. G. Edmunds
doi:10.1038/279195a0
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| | A hundred years ago 196
doi:10.1038/279196a0
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R. Kurth, E. M. Fenyö, E. Klein & M. Essex
doi:10.1038/279197a0
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| | Geomagnetic variation during the late Pleistocene period and changes in the radiocarbon time scale 202
Mike Barbetti & Kevin Flude
doi:10.1038/279202a0
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| | Mobility and fractionation of rare earth elements during weathering of a granodiorite 206
H. Wayne Nesbitt
doi:10.1038/279206a0
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| | Growth rate influence on the chemical composition of phytoplankton in oceanic waters 210
Joel C. Goldman, James J. McCarthy & Dwight G. Peavey
doi:10.1038/279210a0
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| | A mutation altering the function of a carbohydrate binding protein blocks cell−cell cohesion in developing Dictyostelium discoideum
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Jasodhara Ray, Thomas Shinnick & Richard Lerner
doi:10.1038/279215a0
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| | Identification of the UV nightglow from Venus 221
P. D. FELDMAN, H. W. MOOS, J. T. CLARKE & A. L. LANE
doi:10.1038/279221a0
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| | A two-dimensional calculation including atmospheric carbon dioxide and stratospheric ozone 222
J. D. HAIGH & J. A. PYLE
doi:10.1038/279222a0
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| | The physical basis for absorption of light 224
HERBERT M. PICKETT
doi:10.1038/279224a0
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| | Absorption of hydrogen in 'ReO3' 226
S. HORIUCHI, N. KIMIZUKA & A. YAMAMOTO
doi:10.1038/279226a0
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| | The lowest  D value found in a hydrous silicate, pectolite 227
Y. KURODA, T. SUZUOKI & S. MATSUO
doi:10.1038/279227a0
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| | Bracketing dates for two ash falls from Mount Mazama 228
RICHARD N. MACK, ROSE OKAZAKI & SAM VALASTRO
doi:10.1038/279228a0
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| | Problems in interpreting tree-ring 13C records 229
JOHN G. FARMER
doi:10.1038/279229a0
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| | Metal co-tolerances in the grass Deschampsia cespitosa
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R. M. COX & T. C. HUTCHINSON
doi:10.1038/279231a0
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| | Ostriches recognise their own eggs and discard others 233
BRIAN C. R. BERTRAM
doi:10.1038/279233a0
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| | New look at the origin of birds and crocodiles 234
K. N. WHETSTONE & L. D. MARTIN
doi:10.1038/279234a0
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| | Transplantation of a circadian pacemaker in Drosophila
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ALFRED M. HANDLER & RONALD J. KONOPKA
doi:10.1038/279236a0
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| | Androgen-insensitive rats are defeminised by their testes 238
K. L. OLSEN
doi:10.1038/279238a0
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| | Cytoplasmic microtubules of higher plant cells visualised with anti-tubulin antibodies 239
CLIVE W. LLOYD, ANTONI R. SLABAS, A. J. POWELL, G. MACDONALD & R. A. BADLEY
doi:10.1038/279239a0
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| | Cigarette smoke condensates damage DNA in human lymphocytes 241
J. M. HOPKIN & H. J. EVANS
doi:10.1038/279241a0
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2-microglobin associated with a human cell surface antigen 243
ANDREAS ZIEGLER & CESAR MILSTEIN
doi:10.1038/279243a0
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| | Sera and cerebrospinal fluids from normal uninfected sheep contain a visna virus inhibiting factor 245
H. THORMAR, H. M. WISNIEWSKI & F. H. LIN
doi:10.1038/279245a0
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| | Antigenic variation in three distinct determinants of an influenza type A haemagglutinin molecule 246
J. W. YEWDELL, R. G. WEBSTER & W. U. GERHARD
doi:10.1038/279246a0
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| | Dog red blood cells exhibit a Ca-stimulated increase in K permeability in the absence of (Na,K)ATPase activity 248
HANS-W. RICHHARDT, GUNTER FRED FUHRMANN & PHILIP A. KNAUF
doi:10.1038/279248a0
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| | Interactions of lysophospholipids and mast cells 250
THOMAS W. MARTIN & DAVID LAGUNOFF
doi:10.1038/279250a0
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D. G. SMYTH, D. E. MASSEY, S. ZAKARIAN & M. D. A. FINNIE
doi:10.1038/279252a0
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J. LÄNNERGREN
doi:10.1038/279254a0
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| | Requirements for in vitro shortening and lengthening of isolated thick filaments of Limulus striated muscle 256
L. BRANN, M. M. DEWEY, E. A. BALDWIN, P. BRINK & B. WALCOTT
doi:10.1038/279256a0
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| | Myelin swelling and measurement of forces between myelin membranes 258
R. P. RAND, N. L. FULLER & L. J. LIS
doi:10.1038/279258a0
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| | Poly(A) polymerase and poly(A)-specific mRNA binding protein are antigenically related 260
KATHLEEN M. ROSE, SAMSON T. JACOB & AJIT KUMAR
doi:10.1038/279260a0
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| | A reversible conformational transition in chromatin 263
D. Z. STAYNOV, M. SPENCER, J. ALLAN & H. J. GOULD
doi:10.1038/279263a0
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| | Lobster shell carotenoprotein organisation in situ studied by photoacoustic spectroscopy 265
MICHAEL L. MACKENTHUN, RODERICK D. TOM & THOMAS A. MOORE
doi:10.1038/279265a0
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| | Energy policy in the West 267
Gerald Foley reviews Western Energy Policy: The Case for Competition
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D. Evans
doi:10.1038/279267a0
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| | Drops, bubbles and solid particles 267
D. W. Moore reviews Bubbles, Drops, and Particles
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R. Clift, J. R. Grace & M. E. Weber
doi:10.1038/279267b0
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| | Ionosphere phenomena 268
W. J. Granville Beynon reviews Non-Linear Phenomena in the Ionosphere
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A. V. Gurevich
doi:10.1038/279268a0
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John M. Charap reviews Group Symmetries in Nuclear Structure
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J. C. Parikh
doi:10.1038/279268b0
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| | Pesticides and microorganisms 269
W. W. Fletcher reviews Pesticide Microbiology: Microbiological Aspects of Pesticide Behaviour in the Environment
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I. R. Hill & S. J. L. Wright
doi:10.1038/279269a0
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| | Processes of osmoregulation 269
Peter J. Bentley reviews Mechanisms of Osmoregulation in Animals: Maintenance of Cell Volume
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R. Gilles
doi:10.1038/279269b0
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Charles E. Rossiter reviews Asbestos and Disease
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I. J. Selikoff & D. H. K. Lee
doi:10.1038/279270a0
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R. K. S. Wood reviews Genetic and Molecular Basis of Plant Pathogenesis
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J. E. Vanderplank
doi:10.1038/279270b0
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| | Obituary: Vincent du Vigneaud, 1901−1978 271
Miklos Bodanszky
doi:10.1038/279271a0
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| | Obituary: Robert van den Bosch 272
Carl Huffaker, Nettie Mackey & and other friends
doi:10.1038/279272a0
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| | Reports & Publications 274
doi:10.1038/279274a0
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