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| | Where now for the Bristish Association? 1
doi:10.1038/293001a0
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| | Mr Watt's fight 2
doi:10.1038/293002a0
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| | Isidore Nabi, RIP 2
doi:10.1038/293002b0
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| | News |  |
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| | Congress faces decision on CFC 3
New ozone data from NASA
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/293003a0
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| | Britain losing out on information technology 3
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/293003b0
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| | Soviet natural resources: Try harder comrades 4
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/293004a0
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| | Heat on BNFL 4
Charles Wenz
doi:10.1038/293004b0
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| | French nuclear energy: Summer strife 4
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/293004c0
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| | Indian technology: Home and away 5
Radhakrishna Rao
doi:10.1038/293005a0
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| | Indian technology: Home and away 5
Zaka Imam
doi:10.1038/293005b0
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| | US synthetic fuels: Going for broke 5
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/293005c0
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| | Correspondence |  |
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| | Stanford's patent 6
FRANK W. COUSINS
doi:10.1038/293006a0
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| | Unnecessary schism 6
SEAN JACKSON
doi:10.1038/293006b0
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| | Discovery unmasked 6
R. DEREK WOOD
doi:10.1038/293006c0
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| | but ... 6
BRIAN J. FORD
doi:10.1038/293006d0
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| | Matter of principle 6
BARRIE PEARSON
doi:10.1038/293006e0
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| | Thoughts on Popper 6
G.D. WASSERMANN
doi:10.1038/293006f0
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| | News and Views |  |
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| | Outward signs of breeding 7
Robert D. Martin & Robert M. May
doi:10.1038/293007a0
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| | The least luminous star 9
David W. Hughes
doi:10.1038/293009a0
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| | The cloning revolution meets human genetics 10
Bob Williamson
doi:10.1038/293010a0
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| | How 'unique' can meteorites be? 11
Robert Hutchison
doi:10.1038/293011a0
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| | Corals the reef and man 12
P.K. Swart
doi:10.1038/293012a0
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| | 100 years ago 12
doi:10.1038/293012b0
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| | The BA and science in retrospect 13
The afternoon of 2 September at this year's 150th anniversary meeting of the British Association at York was given over to a retrospective view of science. The following are extracts from the addresses at that symposium.
D. R. Laurence
doi:10.1038/293013a0
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| | Zoological ideas 1831−1981 15
A.J. Cain
doi:10.1038/293015a0
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| | Vasculum to electron microscope 17
F.R. Whatley
doi:10.1038/293017a0
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| | Sociology another 150 years? 17
Philip Abrams
doi:10.1038/293017b0
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| | Men, bishops and apes 19
Edmund R. Leach
doi:10.1038/293019a0
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| | From Great Duke to microchip 21
Ewen McEwen
doi:10.1038/293021a0
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| | Some consequences of physics 23
R.V. Jones
doi:10.1038/293023a0
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| | Chemistry: the formative years 25
George Porter
doi:10.1038/293025a0
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| | The engine we call our Earth 26
E.R. Oxburgh
doi:10.1038/293026a0
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| | The Earth as the home of man 28
M.J. Wise
doi:10.1038/293028a0
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| | Exploring the lively Earth 1831−1981 30
John Sutton
doi:10.1038/293030a0
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| | Plate tectonics, biogeography and evolution 31
A. Hallam
doi:10.1038/293031a0
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| | Articles |  |
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| | A simple model of Saturn's rings 33
Michel Hénon
doi:10.1038/293033a0
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| | A gene product required for correct initiation of segmental determination in Drosophila
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Gary Struhl
doi:10.1038/293036a0
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| | Letters |  |
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| | Grand unification, the neutron electric dipole moment and galaxy formation 41
John Ellis, Mary K. Gaillard, D. V. Nanopoulos & Serge Rudaz
doi:10.1038/293041a0
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| | Emission line regions and stellar associations in extended extragalactic radio sources 43
D. S. De Young
doi:10.1038/293043a0
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| | Formation of organic molecules on Titan 45
Louis A. Capone, Sheo S. Prasad, Wesley T. Huntress, Robert C. Whitten, John Dubach & Krishnamurthy Santhanam
doi:10.1038/293045a0
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| | Solitary waves in the lower atmosphere 46
D. R. Christie, K. J. Muirhead & R. H. Clarke
doi:10.1038/293046a0
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| | Evidence for northward thrusting south-west of the Rhodes Basin 49
Derk Jongsma & Jean Mascle
doi:10.1038/293049a0
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| | Accelerated currents and sediment transport off the Damietta Nile promontory 51
Stephen P. Murray, James M. Coleman, Harry H. Roberts & Monir Salama
doi:10.1038/293051a0
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| | Testis weight, body weight and breeding system in primates 55
A. H. Harcourt, P. H. Harvey, S. G. Larson & R. V. Short
doi:10.1038/293055a0
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| | Relative brain size and basal metabolic rate in terrestrial vertebrates 57
R. D. Martin
doi:10.1038/293057a0
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| | Selective loss of binocular depth perception after ablation of cat visual cortex 60
M. Kaye, D. E. Mitchell & M. Cynader
doi:10.1038/293060a0
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| | Conditions required for the inhibitory feedback loop in noradrenergic transmission 62
D. F. Story, M. W. McCulloch, M. J. Rand & C. A. Standford-Starr
doi:10.1038/293062a0
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| | Selective transfer of Lucifer yellow CH from axoplasm to adaxonal glia 65
Terry A. Viancour, George D. Bittner & Martis L. Ballinger
doi:10.1038/293065a0
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| | Antigenic variants of measles virus 67
Michael J. Birrer, Stephen Udem, Stanley Nathenson & Barry R. Bloom
doi:10.1038/293067a0
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| | Killing of Mycobacterium microti by immunologically activated macrophages 69
Linda Walker & D. B. Lowrie
doi:10.1038/293069a0
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| | Immunoreactive substance P and serotonin present in the same dense-core vesicles 71
G. Pelletier, H. W. M. Steinbusch & A. A. J. Verhofstad
doi:10.1038/293071a0
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| | Mouse skin cells resistant to terminal differentiation associated with initiation of carcinogenesis 72
Stuart H. Yuspa & David L. Morgan
doi:10.1038/293072a0
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| | Metastatic potential correlates with cell-surface protein alterations in B16 melanoma variants 74
Manuel Rieber & Mary S. Rieber
doi:10.1038/293074a0
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| | Evidence for association of glycosphingolipid with a colchicine-sensitive microtubule-like cytoskeletal structure of cultured cells 76
Kooko Sakakibara, Takashi Momoi, Tsutomu Uchida & Yoshitaka Nagai
doi:10.1038/293076a0
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| | Inhibition of SV40 replication in simian cells by specific pBR322 DNA sequences 79
Monika Lusky & Michael Botchan
doi:10.1038/293079a0
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| | Site of linkage between adenovirus type 12 and cell DNAs in hamster tumour line CLAC3 81
R. Deuring, U. Winterhoff, F. Tamanoi, S. Stabel & W. Doerfler
doi:10.1038/293081a0
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| | Thermoprotealesa third order of thermoacidophilic archaebacteria 85
Wolfram Zillig, Jenn Tu & Ingelore Holz
doi:10.1038/293085a0
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| | Three Mile Island re-visited 87
Alan Cottrell reviews The Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident: Lessons and Implications.
Edited by
Thomas H. Moss & David L. Sills
doi:10.1038/293087a0
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| | Digital image processing moves on 87
P.W. Hawkes reviews Two-Dimensional Digital Signal Processing.
Edited by
T.S. Huang
doi:10.1038/293087b0
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| | Primates home on the Malayan range 88
Michael Kavanagh reviews Malayan Forest Primates: Ten Year's Study in Tropical Rain Forest.
Edited by
D.J. Chivers
doi:10.1038/293088a0
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| | Comprehensive cover 88
A.R. Archibald reviews Microbial Cell Walls and Membranes.
By
H.J. Rogers, H.R. Perkins & J.B. Ward
doi:10.1038/293088b0
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| | Problems and solutions for phytoplankton 89
Karl Banse reviews The Physiological Ecology of Phytoplankton.
Studies in Ecology, Vol.7. Edited by
I. Morris
doi:10.1038/293089a0
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| | The past is the key to the present? 90
Janet V. Watson reviews Precambrian of the Southern Hemisphere. Developments in Precambrian Geology, 2.
Edited by
D.R. Hunter
doi:10.1038/293090a0
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| | Mixed relations between yeasts and man 90
James A. Barnett reviews Biology and Activities of Yeasts.
The Society for Applied Bacteriology Symposium Series, No. 9. Edited by
F.A. Skinner
doi:10.1038/293090b0
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