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| | What to make of the price of oil 359
The failure of the oil-producers to agree last week has triggered off a wave of anxiety among their customers. Nervousness is understandable. Failure to grasp the opportunities will be unforgivable.
doi:10.1038/301359a0
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| | Reagan's conversion 360
The US Administration has been won over by science and technology. What will Congress say?
doi:10.1038/301360a0
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| | US budget: Generosity and selectivity the passwords to 1984 361
Deborah Shapley & Stephen Budiansky
doi:10.1038/301361a0
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| | India in Antarctica: International treaty still on ice 362
Deborah Shapley
doi:10.1038/301362a0
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| | Science in Greece: Starting almost from scratch 363
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/301363a0
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| | Heavy ion research: More machines come on-line 363
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/301363b0
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| | El Salvador physicians: US medical team reports abuses 364
Stephen Budiansky
doi:10.1038/301364a0
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| | US computer research: Inman to join cooperative 364
doi:10.1038/301364b0
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| | PWR league table: Germany tops 365
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/301365a0
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| | Consent in clinical trials: Will verbal assent suffice? 365
Tim Beardsley & Martin Flanagan
doi:10.1038/301365b0
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| | UK industrial research expenditure and jobs 365
Melanie Kee
doi:10.1038/301365c0
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| | Australia in space: New consortium blasts off 366
Vimala Sarma
doi:10.1038/301366a0
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| | Todaro to leave NCI 366
Deborah Shapley
doi:10.1038/301366b0
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| | Soviet Jewry: Higher hurdles to jump over 366
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/301366c0
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| | US medical education: The return of the intern? 367
Deborah Shapley
doi:10.1038/301367a0
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| | West German research: Time to count costs 367
J. S. Dunnett
doi:10.1038/301367b0
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| | Wegener polar institute 368
V. BAGAN
doi:10.1038/301368a0
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| | Future of universities 368
S. R. BOSWORTH
doi:10.1038/301368b0
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| | Friend or FoE? 368
D.C. PRESSEY
doi:10.1038/301368c0
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| | Earthquake light phenomena 368
P. HÉDERVARI
doi:10.1038/301368d0
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| | Seeing stars 368
FRANK H. ALLEN
doi:10.1038/301368e0
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| | Oncogenes, reductionism and all that 369
Much of the excitement generated of late by studies of human oncogenes stems from the belief that the causation of cancer will be better understood. But is that not naive reductionism? Simply: NO
doi:10.1038/301369a0
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| | Child development: Phonological awareness: a preschool precursor of success in reading 370
Max Coltheart
doi:10.1038/301370a0
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| | Migratory DNA: Mitochondrial genes in the nucleus 371
Thomas D. Fox
doi:10.1038/301371a0
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| | X-ray astronomy: Hot astrophysical plasmas 372
Richard McCray
doi:10.1038/301372a0
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| | El Chinchón eruption: The dust cloud of the century 373
Alan Robock
doi:10.1038/301373a0
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| | Immunological diversity: How the elephant got its trunk 374
Elizabeth Simpson & Michael Pope
doi:10.1038/301374a0
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| | X-chromosome inactivation: Switching off blocks of genes 375
Lucio Luzzatto & Stanley M. Gartler
doi:10.1038/301375a0
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| | [News & Views 'picture story'] 375
doi:10.1038/301375b0
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| | Cystic fibrosis: One part of the puzzle 376
V. Schwarz
doi:10.1038/301376a0
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| | Earthquake prediction: Electromagnetic emissions before earthquakes 377
Chi-Yu King
doi:10.1038/301377a0
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| | Cell membrane skeleton: The spread of spectrin 377
Anthony J. Baines
doi:10.1038/301377b0
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| | 100 years ago 378
doi:10.1038/301378a0
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| | The ecology of carnivore social behaviour 379
David W. Macdonald
doi:10.1038/301379a0
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| | Variations in magnetization intensity and low-temperature titanomagnetite oxidation of ocean floor basalts 384
Ulrich Bleil & Nikolai Petersen
doi:10.1038/301384a0
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| | Expression of complete transplantation antigens by mammalian cells transformed with truncated class I genes 388
Robert S. Goodenow, Iwona Stroynowski, Minnie McMillan, Margery Nicolson, Kurt Eakle, Beverly Taylor Sher, Norman Davidson & Leroy Hood
doi:10.1038/301388a0
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| | Extrachromosomal circular copies of an 'inter-Alu' unstable sequence in human DNA are amplified during in vitro and in vivo ageing 394
Robert J. Shmookler Reis, Charles K. Lumpkin Jr, John R. McGill, Karl T. Riabowol & Samuel Goldstein
doi:10.1038/301394a0
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| | Inflation and time asymmetry in the Universe 398
P. C. W. Davies
doi:10.1038/301398a0
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| | Optical variability of QSOs and gravitational lenses in galactic haloes 400
Roland Bacon & Jean-Luc Nieto
doi:10.1038/301400a0
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| | Formation of complex molecules in TMC-1 402
A. Freeman & T. J. Millar
doi:10.1038/301402a0
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| | Ice in Comet Bowell 405
H. Campins, G. H. Rieke & M. J. Lebofsky
doi:10.1038/301405a0
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| | Stratospheric warming following the El Chichón volcanic eruption 406
D. E. Parker & J. L. Brownscombe
doi:10.1038/301406a0
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| | Absolute measurement by satellite altimetry of dynamic topography of the Pacific Ocean 408
Chang-Kou Tai & Carl Wunsch
doi:10.1038/301408a0
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| | Direct determination of aluminium in natural waters by laser stepwise photoionization 410
G. I. Bekov, A. S. Yegorov, V. S. Letokhov & V. N. Radayev
doi:10.1038/301410a0
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| | Mudrocks examined by backscattered electron microscopy 412
K. Pye & D. Krinsley
doi:10.1038/301412a0
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| | Glacial erosion in an ice-divide zone 413
R. Cornish
doi:10.1038/301413a0
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| | Barrier dynamics and landward migration with Holocene sea-level rise 415
Stephen P. Leatherman
doi:10.1038/301415a0
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| | Prehistoric Maya wetland agriculture and the alluvial soils near San Antonio Rio Hondo, Belize 417
Paul R. Bloom, Mary Pohl, Cynthia Buttleman, Frederick Wiseman, Alan Covich, Charles Miksicek, Joseph Ball & Julie Stein
doi:10.1038/301417a0
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| | Categorizing sounds and learning to read—a causal connection 419
L. Bradley & P. E. Bryant
doi:10.1038/301419a0
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| | Chloride impermeability in cystic fibrosis 421
Paul M. Quinton
doi:10.1038/301421a0
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or1 is a novel, variant form of mouse chromosome 17 with a deletion in a partial t haplotype 422
Lee M. Silver, Deborah Lukralle & James I. Garrels
doi:10.1038/301422a0
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| | Aberrant rearrangement of the  light-chain locus involving the heavy-chain locus and chromosome 15 in a mouse plasmacytoma 425
Brian G. VanNess, Marjorie Shapiro, Dawn E. Kelley, Robert P. Perry, Martin Weigert, Peter D'Eustachio & Frank Ruddle
doi:10.1038/301425a0
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Igh-V or closely linked gene(s) control immunological memory to a thymus-independent antigen 428
J-H. Colle, I. Motta, B. Shidani & P. Truffa-Bachi
doi:10.1038/301428a0
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| | Identity of some human bladder cancer cell lines 429
Carol M. O'Toole, Susan Povey, P. Hepburn & L. M. Franks
doi:10.1038/301429a0
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| | Enkephalin reduces quantal content at the frog neuromuscular junction 431
J. L. Bixby & N. C. Spitzer
doi:10.1038/301431a0
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| | Recruitment of cytosolic proteins to a secretory granule membrane depends on Ca2+-calmodulin 432
M. J. Geisow & R. D. Burgoyne
doi:10.1038/301432a0
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| | Phosphorylation of gastrin-17 by epidermal growth factor-stimulated tyrosine kinase 435
G. S. Baldwin, J. Knesel & J. M. Monckton
doi:10.1038/301435a0
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| | A unique set of polypeptides is induced by  interferon in addition to those induced in common with  and  interferons 437
Jon Weil, Charles J. Epstein, Lois B. Epstein, J. James Sedmak, Jan L. Sabran & Sidney E. Grossberg
doi:10.1038/301437a0
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| | Tissue-specific expression of a cloned chick  -crystallin gene in mouse cells 440
Hisato Kondoh, Kunio Yasuda & T. S. Okada
doi:10.1038/301440a0
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| | Erratum 442
doi:10.1038/301442a0
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| | Over to you, Mr Andropov 443
John Erickson reviews Industrial Innovation in the Soviet Union.
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Ronald Amann & Julian Cooper
doi:10.1038/301443a0
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| | A New World of ferns and their relations 444
Peter H. Raven reviews Ferns and Allied Plants: with Special Reference to Tropical America
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Rolla M. & Alice F. Tryon
doi:10.1038/301444a0
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| | Mostly before Einstein: explanations for the anomalous orbit 445
P.J. Message reviews Mercury's Perihelion: From Le Verrier to Einstein
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N. T. Roseveare
doi:10.1038/301445a0
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| | M and O and S 445
Andrew Holmes-Siedle reviews MOS Physics and Technology
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E. Nicollian & J.R. Brews
doi:10.1038/301445b0
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| | The SCE enigma 446
Charles H. Ockey reviews Sister Chromatid Exchange.
Edited By
Avery A. Sandberg and Sister Chromatid Exchange.
Edited By
Sheldon Wolff
doi:10.1038/301446a0
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| | Naturalist from the Purple Land 446
Wynford Vaughan-Thomas reviews W.H. Hudson: A Biography
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Ruth Tomalin
doi:10.1038/301446b0
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| | Delayed reactions in protein biosynthesis 447
H.R.V. Arnstein reviews Protein Biosynthesis in Eukaryotes
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R. Perez-Bercoff
doi:10.1038/301447a0
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| | More from the Moon 447
J. W. Head reviews Planetary Science: A Lunar Perspective
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Stuart Ross Taylor
doi:10.1038/301447b0
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| | Green animals in the eighteenth century 448
James L. Larson reviews Nature's Second Kingdom
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François Delaporte & Translated by A. Goldhammer
doi:10.1038/301448a0
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| | Books Received 449
doi:10.1038/301449a0
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