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| | What place for social sciences? 789
Lord Rothschild's enquiry into the British Social Science Research Council seems to be complete but the report has not yet been written. Here is what he should conclude:
doi:10.1038/296789a0
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| | "Freeze" frenzy hits US 790
Does the public demand for a nuclear weapons "freeze" reflect a basic shift of opinion?
doi:10.1038/296790a0
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| | Hasty abolition 790
Disappearance of the Schools Council was predicted, but may have been unwise.
doi:10.1038/296790b0
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| | News | |
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| | US biomedical research threatened 791
New director at NIH faces discontent
Deborah Shapley
doi:10.1038/296791a0
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| | Franco-Soviet space flight plea 791
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/296791b0
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| | Commercialization of research: Patent views 792
Michael D. Stein
doi:10.1038/296792a0
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| | Dutch pharmaceuticals: New era vaccine 792
Casper Schuuring
doi:10.1038/296792b0
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| | Environmental research funding: Bleak outlook 793
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/296793a0
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| | NERC stays afloat 793
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/296793b0
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| | US recombinant DNA guidelines: Expected change 793
Deborah Shapley
doi:10.1038/296793c0
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| | UK nuclear power: Cracks no worry 793
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/296793d0
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| | University redundancies: Now the crunch 794
Jane Wynn
doi:10.1038/296794a0
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| | UK biotechnology: A start in sight 794
Judy Redfearn
doi:10.1038/296794b0
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| | French universities: Into reverse 795
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/296795a0
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| | Moves on energy 795
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/296795b0
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| | Radioactive waste in India: Looking to glass 795
Sunil Saraf
doi:10.1038/296795c0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Creative engineers 796
THOMAS H. JUKES
doi:10.1038/296796a0
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| | A thermal history 796
N. W. PIRIE
doi:10.1038/296796b0
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| | Not unilaterally 796
J. R. SKOYLES
doi:10.1038/296796c0
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| | Propaganda war 796
J. H. HUMPHREY
doi:10.1038/296796d0
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| | Britain's resources of coal and spent uranium fuel 797
Robert Olby
doi:10.1038/296797a0
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| | News and Views |  |
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| | Not quite full circle? — non-racemic amino acids in the Murchison meteorite 802
C.T. Pillinger
doi:10.1038/296802a0
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| | Mutualistic interactions among species 803
Robert M. May
doi:10.1038/296803a0
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| | Type I supernova — thermonuclear versus collapse 804
Stirling A. Colgate & Albert G. Petschek
doi:10.1038/296804a0
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| | Struggles among the dunes 805
Peter D. Moore
doi:10.1038/296805a0
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| | Somatic gene amplification during Drosophila oogenesis 806
David Ish-Horowicz
doi:10.1038/296806a0
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| | Some like it hot: temperature-determined sex 807
Paul H. Harvey & Montgomery Slatkin
doi:10.1038/296807a0
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| | An Arctic Ocean ice sheet in the Pleistocene? 808
L.D. Keigwin
doi:10.1038/296808a0
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| | The key to the schistosome's success 809
A.J.G. Simpson & D. Cioli
doi:10.1038/296809a0
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| | 100 years ago 810
doi:10.1038/296810a0
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| | Actin-binding proteins—regulators of cell architecture and motility 811
Alan Weeds
doi:10.1038/296811a0
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| | UV radiation from the young Sun and oxygen and ozone levels in the prebiological palaeoatmosphere 816
V. M. Canuto, J. S. Levine, T. R. Augustsson & C. L. Imhoff
doi:10.1038/296816a0
Abstract & References | PDF (432K)
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| | Sr and Nd isotope geochemistry of oceanic basalts and mantle evolution 821
W. M. White & A. W. Hofmann
doi:10.1038/296821a0
Abstract & References | PDF (579K)
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| | Kinematics of oceanic thrusting and subduction from basal sections of ophiolites 825
F. Boudier, A. Nicolas & J. L. Bouchez
doi:10.1038/296825a0
Abstract & References | PDF (437K)
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| | Enzymatic synthesis of bacteriophage fd viral DNA 828
Thomas F. Meyer & Klaus Geider
doi:10.1038/296828a0
Abstract & References | PDF (541K)
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| | Transient emission of ultra-high energy pulsed  rays from Crab pulsar PSR0531 833
A. I. Gibson, A. B. Harrison, I. W. Kirkman, A. P. Lotts, J. H. Macrae, K. J. Orford, K. E. Turver & M. Walmsley
doi:10.1038/296833a0
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| | Discontinuous precipitation reaction in the metal of Richardton chondrite 835
H. J. Axon & V. J. Grokhovsky
doi:10.1038/296835a0
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| | Distribution and enantiomeric composition of amino acids in the Murchison meteorite 837
Michael H. Engel & Bartholomew Nagy
doi:10.1038/296837a0
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| | Structural features of todorokite intergrowths in manganese nodules 841
Shirley Turner, Malcolm D. Siegel & Peter R. Buseck
doi:10.1038/296841a0
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| | Pulsating flow of a plastic fluid 843
N. Phan-Thien & J. Dudek
doi:10.1038/296843a0
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| | Steam explosions of molten iron oxide drops: easier initiation at small pressurizations 844
Lloyd S. Nelson & Patricia M. Duda
doi:10.1038/296844a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (356K)
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| | Optical spectroscopy in a shocked liquid 846
G. E. Duvall, K. M. Ogilvie, R. Wilson, P. M. Bellamy & P. S. P. Wei
doi:10.1038/296846a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (330K)
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| | Lipids in Harmattan aerosols of Nigeria 848
R. E. Cox, M. A. Mazurek & B. R. T. Simoneit
doi:10.1038/296848a0
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| | Temperature of egg incubation determines sex in Alligator mississippiensis
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Mark W. J. Ferguson & Ted Joanen
doi:10.1038/296850a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (523K)
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| | Effect of adh genotype and heat stress on alcohol tolerance in Drosophila melanogaster
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B. Sampsell & S. Sims
doi:10.1038/296853a0
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| | Signal processing times in bacterial chemotaxis 855
Jeffrey E. Segall, Michael D. Manson & Howard C. Berg
doi:10.1038/296855a0
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| | Low doses of ethanol disrupt sensory responses of brain noradrenergic neurones 857
Gary Aston-Jones, Stephen L. Foote & Floyd E. Bloom
doi:10.1038/296857a0
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| | Conduction block in the peripheral nervous system in experimental allergic encephalomyelitis 860
M. P. Pender & T. A. Sears
doi:10.1038/296860a0
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| | Differences in the kinetics of rod and cone synaptic transmission 862
Julie L. Schnapf & David R. Copenhagen
doi:10.1038/296862a0
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| | Globin structural mutant 
125Leu Pro is a novel cause of -thalassaemia 864
Michel Goossens, Kathleen Y. Lee, Stephen A. Liebhaber & Yuet Wai Kan
doi:10.1038/296864a0
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| | Germ-line MuLV reintegrations in AKR/J mice 865
Winship Herr & Walter Gilbert
doi:10.1038/296865a0
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| | Mismatch correction at O6
-methylguanine residues in E. coli DNA 868
P. Karran & M. G. Marinus
doi:10.1038/296868a0
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| | Matters Arising | |
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| | Early hominids and fire at Chesowanja, Kenya 870
GLYNN ISAAC
doi:10.1038/296870a0
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| | Early hominids and fire at Chesowanja, Kenya (reply) 870
J. A. J. GOWLETT, J. W. K. HARRIS & B. A. WOOD
doi:10.1038/296870b0
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| | Book Reviews | |
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| | Rolled over by technology? 871
Bruce Williams reviews The God That Limps: Science and Technology in the Eighties
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Colin Norman
doi:10.1038/296871a0
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| | Meteorology enters the mesoscale era 872
Edward J. Zipser reviews Meso-scale Atmospheric Circulations
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B. W. Atkinson
doi:10.1038/296872a0
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| | People and change 872
William Brass reviews Population and Technology
By
Ester Boserup
doi:10.1038/296872b0
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| | The doctor of revolution as letter writer 873
Gavin Bridson reviews The Letters of Erasmus Darwin
Edited by
Desmond King-Hele
doi:10.1038/296873a0
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| | The what, why and wherefore of cells 874
R.E. Stephens reviews Ultrastructure, Macromolecules, and Evolution
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Lawrence S. Dillon
doi:10.1038/296874a0
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| | The healing way 874
N.R. Rowell reviews Tissue Repair and Regeneration. Handbook of Inflammation
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L.E. Glynn
doi:10.1038/296874b0
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| | Modelling the growth of literature 875
B.C. Vickery reviews Scientific Information Systems and the Principle of Selectivity
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W. Goffman & K.S. Warren
doi:10.1038/296875a0
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| | The complete angler 875
Bruce R. Moore reviews Circular Statistics in Biology
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Edward Batschelet
doi:10.1038/296875b0
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| | Life viewed in the particular 876
B. C. Goodwin reviews The Foundations of Biological Theory
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E. H. Mercer
doi:10.1038/296876a0
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