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| | Promises and pitfalls for new year 1
From what has been learned in 1982, the year ahead will be full of excitement. And in spite of the recession, most governments plan to protect basic research. But there are pitfalls to be avoided.
doi:10.1038/301001a0
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| | Listen to Andropov 4
Mr Yurii Andropov's views on arms control, unacceptable as yet, deserve close attention.
doi:10.1038/301004a0
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| | What of development? 4
The Brandt Commission's second report should reawaken compassion for the poor.
doi:10.1038/301004b0
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| | US cancer research: Oncogenes cause cancer institute to change tack 5
Deborah Shapley
doi:10.1038/301005a0
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| | Spanish science policy: Socialists name science team 5
Pedro Puigdoménech
doi:10.1038/301005b0
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| | Nuclear physicits in Italy: Give us the money and we will deliver the goods 6
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/301006a0
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| | Proprietary rights to cell lines: Roche pays up 6
Stephen Budiansky
doi:10.1038/301006b0
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| | Nuclear waste: Congress digs deeper 7
Stephen Budiansky
doi:10.1038/301007a0
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| | British universities: Tenure guarded 7
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/301007b0
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| | X-ray satellite: Plea for summer launch 8
Philip Campbell
doi:10.1038/301008a0
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| | UK student maintenance: Loan scheme takes shape 8
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/301008b0
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| | United States in the Arctic: Congress warms to the task 8
Deborah Shapeley
doi:10.1038/301008c0
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| | Consequences of nuclear warfare 9
ED BARBEAU, ERIC FAWCETT, TERRY GARDNER, BRYDON GOMBAY, LEE LORCH, DEREK MANCHESTER, DEREK PAUL, METTA SPENCER & LYNN TRAINOR
doi:10.1038/301009a0
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| | Asteroids or comets 9
KEN HSÜ
doi:10.1038/301009b0
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| | Alternate culture 9
D.F. LAWDEN
doi:10.1038/301009c0
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| | Polywater reviewed 9
B. DERJAGUIN
doi:10.1038/301009d0
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| | UN makes sense on radiation 11
Among the good works the United Nations has attempted in recent decades, its committee on the effects of atomic radiation deserves a special cheer.
doi:10.1038/301011a0
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| | Darwin centenary year: Galápagos evolution continues 12
Peter T. Boag
doi:10.1038/301012a0
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| | Early social evolution: Late Pleistocene life in Tasmania 13
Geoff Bailey
doi:10.1038/301013a0
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| | Reservoirs and earthquakes: Incident at the Aswan Dam 14
R.D. Adams
doi:10.1038/301014a0
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| | Planetary exploration: Probing the lunar interior 15
L.J. Srnka & S.K. Runcorn
doi:10.1038/301015a0
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| | Sexual systems: When to be which sex 16
Robert M. May
doi:10.1038/301016a0
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| | Pope Gregory's calendar: Keeping up with time 18
David W. Hughes
doi:10.1038/301018a0
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| | 100 years ago 18
doi:10.1038/301018b0
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| | Genetic code: Mitochondrial codes and evolution 19
Thomas H. Jukes
doi:10.1038/301019a0
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| | New foods: Proving leaf protein's worth 20
N.W. Pirie
doi:10.1038/301020a0
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| | Apology 20
doi:10.1038/301020b0
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| | Corrigendum 20
doi:10.1038/301020c0
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| | Numerical dating of Precambrian−Cambrian boundary 21
G. S. Odin, N. H. Gale, B. Auvray, M. Bielski, F. Doré, J.-R. Lancelot & P. Pasteels
doi:10.1038/301021a0
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| | The Smoking Hills: natural acidification of an aquatic ecosystem 23
Magda Havas & Thomas C. Hutchinson
doi:10.1038/301023a0
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| | New evidence from Fraser Cave for glacial age man in south-west Tasmania 28
Kevin Kiernan, Rhys Jones & Don Ranson
doi:10.1038/301028a0
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| | Delayed de novo methylation in teratocarcinoma suggests additional tissue-specific mechanisms for controlling gene expression 32
James W. Gautsch & Michael C. Wilson
doi:10.1038/301032a0
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| | Unusual splice sites revealed by mutagenic inactivation of an authentic splice site of the rabbit  -globin gene 38
Berend Wieringa, François Meyer, Jakob Reiser & Charles Weissmann
doi:10.1038/301038a0
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| | Letters | |
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| | Detection of 1014-eV iron nuclei in cosmic rays 44
R. K. Sood
doi:10.1038/301044a0
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| | Mixing motions in the Sun and solar-type stars 46
J. Nittmann & W. P. Wood
doi:10.1038/301046a0
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| | Electric field effects in the thermal decomposition of solids 48
K. Rajeshwar, R. Rosenvold & J. DuBow
doi:10.1038/301048a0
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| | Tension fractures and extensional tectonics 49
Jacques Angelier & Bernard Colletta
doi:10.1038/301049a0
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| | The Cerro Galan ignimbrite 51
P. W. Francis, L. O'Callaghan, G. A. Kretzschmar, R. S. Thorpe, R. S. J. Sparks, R. N. Page, R. E. de Barrio, G. Gillou & O. E. Gonzalez
doi:10.1038/301051a0
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| | Effects of increased CO2 concentrations on surface temperature of the early Earth 53
William R. Kuhn & James F. Kasting
doi:10.1038/301053a0
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| | Selenium pollution of lakes near the smelters at Sudbury, Ontario 55
Jerome O. Nriagu & Henry K. Wong
doi:10.1038/301055a0
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| | Interactive effects of metals and humus on marine phytoplankton carbon uptake 57
P. B. Ortner, C. Kreader & G. R. Harvey
doi:10.1038/301057a0
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| | Partial bivoltinism may cause alternating sex-ratio biases that favour eusociality 59
Jon Seger
doi:10.1038/301059a0
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-Endorphin regulates lordosis in female rats by modulating LH-RH release 62
D. J. S. Sirinathsinghji, P. E. Whittington, A. Audsley & H. M. Fraser
doi:10.1038/301062a0
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| | Anxiogenic and non-anxiogenic benzodiazepine antagonists 64
Lia Prado de Carvalho, Gisela Grecksch, Georges Chapouthier & Jean Rossier
doi:10.1038/301064a0
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| | Muscle pioneers: large mesodermal cells that erect a scaffold for developing muscles and motoneurones in grasshopper embryos 66
Robert K. Ho, Eldon E. Ball & Corey S. Goodman
doi:10.1038/301066a0
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| | A dopamine- and cyclic AMP-regulated phosphoprotein enriched in dopamine-innervated brain regions 69
S. Ivar Walaas, Dana W. Aswad & Paul Greengard
doi:10.1038/301069a0
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| | Developmental stability and enzyme heterozygosity in rainbow trout 71
Robb F. Leary, Fred W. Allendorf & Kathy L. Knudsen
doi:10.1038/301071a0
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| | Glucose modulates Mg2+fluxes in pancreatic islet cells 73
J. C. Henquin, T. Tamagawa, M. Nenquin & M. Cogneau
doi:10.1038/301073a0
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| | Tracing the use of torture: electrically induced calcification of collagen in pig skin 75
T. Karlsmark, L. Danielsen, H. K. Thomsen, O. Aalund, O. Nielsen, K. G. Nielsen, E. Johnson & I. K. Genefke
doi:10.1038/301075a0
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| | Magnetic bones in human sinuses 78
R. Robin Baker, Janice G. Mather & John H. Kennaugh
doi:10.1038/301078a0
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| | Thy-1 cDNA sequence suggests a novel regulatory mechanism 80
Tetsuya Moriuchi, Hsui-Ching Chang, Roger Denome & Jack Silver
doi:10.1038/301080a0
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| | Human class II major histocompatibility antigen -chains are derived from at least three loci 82
Jan Böhme, David Owerbach, Maurizio Denaro, Åke Lernmark, Per A. Peterson & Lars Rask
doi:10.1038/301082a0
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| | Production of RNA for secreted immunoglobulin  chains does not require transcriptional termination 5' to the
M exons 84
David J. Kemp, Grant Morahan, Alan F. Cowman & Alan W. Harris
doi:10.1038/301084a0
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| | A mouse type 2 Alu sequence (M2) is mobile in the genome 87
Ryo Kominami, Masami Muramatsu & Kazuo Moriwaki
doi:10.1038/301087a0
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| | Hypomethylation distinguishes genes of some human cancers from their normal counterparts 89
Andrew P. Feinberg & Bert Vogelstein
doi:10.1038/301089a0
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| | Chloroplast DNA exists in two orientations 92
Jeffrey D. Palmer
doi:10.1038/301092a0
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| | Erratum 94
doi:10.1038/301094a0
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| | A saga of the Thames 95
Eric Ashby reviews The Restoration of the Tidal Thames
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Leslie B. Wood
doi:10.1038/301095a0
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| | An encyclopaedia of natural life 96
Alwyne Wheeler & James H. Price reviews Synopsis and Classifications of Living Organisms,
2 vols. Edited By
Sybil P. Parker
doi:10.1038/301096a0
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| | Two views of nerve cells 96
P.F. Baker reviews Physiology and Electrochemistry of Nerve Fibers
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Ichiji Tasaki
doi:10.1038/301096b0
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| | Biological rhythms out of harmony 97
J.T. Enright reviews Biological Timekeeping.
Edited by
John Brady
doi:10.1038/301097a0
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| | Darwin and Dohrn 97
J.Z. Young reviews Charles Darwin, Anton Dohrn: Correspondence.
Edited By
Christiane Groeben
doi:10.1038/301097b0
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| | The psychology of babyhood 98
George Butterworth reviews Development in Infancy,
2nd Edn. By
T.G.R. Bower
doi:10.1038/301098a0
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| | Patents for bioscience 98
B.J. Bate reviews Patenting in the Biological Sciences: A Practical Guide for Research Scientists in Biotechnology and the Pharmaceutical and Agrochemical Industries
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R.S. Crespi
doi:10.1038/301098b0
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