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| | British physicians cool on civil defence 93
The British Medical Association argues that its government's recipe for defence against nuclear attack is ineffectual. But we all knew that. The question remains of what to do.
doi:10.1038/302093a0
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| | The worm in the bud 93
Koestler, a courageous libertarian, should not have exercised his last freedom — suicide.
doi:10.1038/302093b0
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| | Greening of the Greens 94
The environmentalists have made the Bundestag. Their problems will now begin.
doi:10.1038/302094a0
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| | US Environmental Protection Agency: Dubious tests of loyalty for committee members 95
Stephen Budiansky
doi:10.1038/302095a0
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| | Lung cancer incidence decreases 95
doi:10.1038/302095b0
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| | High-energy physics: Support grows in Hamburg 96
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/302096a0
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| | Earth as seen by polar orbiting satellite 96
doi:10.1038/302096b0
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| | Landsat: Future plans are up in the air 96
Stephen Budiansky
doi:10.1038/302096c0
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| | Dutch science policy: Unwelcome change to come 97
Casper Schuuring
doi:10.1038/302097a0
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| | Artificial fuel: Waste to burn 97
Melanie Kee
doi:10.1038/302097b0
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| | French geology: Seismic investigation to go ahead 98
Philip Campbell
doi:10.1038/302098a0
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| | Human rights: Harassment in Estonia 98
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/302098b0
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| | Caspian gulf: Whose finger in the dyke? 98
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/302098c0
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| | US science education: Congress attempts rescue act 99
Deborah Shapley
doi:10.1038/302099a0
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| | Cause for concern 99
doi:10.1038/302099b0
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| | British universities: Clean sweep at the top 99
doi:10.1038/302099c0
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| | Plant biotechnology: British venture plans mature 100
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/302100a0
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| | Clouded future 100
doi:10.1038/302100b0
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| | International biotechnology: UN centre to be based in India? 100
Peter Newmark
doi:10.1038/302100c0
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| | Bio-Japan in Bethesda? 100
Stephen Budiansky
doi:10.1038/302100d0
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| | Biotechnology: Silver cloud with a leaden lining 101
Deborah Shapley
doi:10.1038/302101a0
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Nature index of biotechnology stocks 101
doi:10.1038/302101b0
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| | Physics research 102
TED G. BERLINCOURT
doi:10.1038/302102a0
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| | Xenology disputed 102
ROBERT C. REEDY, FRIEDRICH BEGEMANN, LUDOLF SCHULTZ & JANE CRABB
doi:10.1038/302102b0
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| | Xenology disputed 102
WILLIAM BAINS
doi:10.1038/302102c0
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| | Down to Earth 102
S.K. RUNCORN
doi:10.1038/302102d0
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| | Down to Earth 102
doi:10.1038/302102e0
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| | Planetologists of the Solar System, unite 103
European planetary scientists are up in arms for lack of spacecraft and their US colleagues are no better off. They should get together and decide what they want to do.
doi:10.1038/302103a0
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| | Interplanetary travel: A puff of wind for the solar sail? 104
L.D. Friedman
doi:10.1038/302104a0
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| | Retrovirus evolution: Retroviruses and transposable elements — which came first? 105
D.J. Finnegan
doi:10.1038/302105a0
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| | Cell motility: Brush borders on the move 106
Harriet Harris
doi:10.1038/302106a0
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| | Carboniferous fossils: The conodont animal 107
Alan Higgins
doi:10.1038/302107a0
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| | Evolution and classification: Cladistics evolving gradually 108
M. Howgate
doi:10.1038/302108a0
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| | 100 years ago 108
doi:10.1038/302108b0
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| | Earth science: Why does a sedimentary basin subside — a model under test? 109
R. McQuillin
doi:10.1038/302109a0
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| | Translation control: Protein phosphorylation and translation of messenger RNAs 110
Mike Clemens
doi:10.1038/302110a0
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| | Magnetic monopoles and the solar neutrino problem 111
J. S. Trefil, H. P. Kelly & R. T. Rood
doi:10.1038/302111a0
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| | Molecular cloning and nucleotide sequence of a transforming gene detected by transfection of chicken B-cell lymphoma DNA 114
Gerard Goubin, Debra S. Goldman, Judith Luce, Paul E. Neiman & Geoffrey M. Cooper
doi:10.1038/302114a0
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| | Retrovirus-like particles containing RNA homologous to the transposable element copia in Drosophila melanogaster
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Tadayoshi Shiba & Kaoru Saigo
doi:10.1038/302119a0
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| | Initial spin and magnetic field of the fast pulsar 4C21.53 124
K. Brecher & G. Chanmugam
doi:10.1038/302124a0
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| | Sunspot cycle and associated variation of the solar spectral irradiance 125
H. Holweger, W. Livingston & W. Steenbock
doi:10.1038/302125a0
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| | Long-lived eddies in the laboratory and in the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn 126
P. L. Read & R. Hide
doi:10.1038/302126a0
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187Re−187Os systematics in meteorites and cosmochemical consequences 130
Jean-Marc Luck & Claude J. Allègre
doi:10.1038/302130a0
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152Eu in samples exposed to the nuclear explosions at Hiroshima and Nagasaki 132
T. Imura, T. Nakanishi, K. Komura & M. Sakanoue
doi:10.1038/302132a0
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| | Crustal thinning and subsidence in the North Sea 134
Rosy Wood & Penny Barton
doi:10.1038/302134a0
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| | Amino acid analysis of Pleistocene marine molluscs from the Gower Peninsula 137
Kathryn Headon Davies
doi:10.1038/302137a0
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| | Selective dissolution of siliceous microfossils observed in a box core from the north-east equatorial Pacific 139
David Kadko, Joyce R. Blueford, Lloyd H. Burckle & John Barron
doi:10.1038/302139a0
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| | Biogeography and the caves of Bermuda 141
Thomas M. Iliffe, C. W. Hart Jr & Raymond B. Manning
doi:10.1038/302141a0
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| | Acoustic distance discrimination by the cod 143
A. Schuijf & A. D. Hawkins
doi:10.1038/302143a0
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| | Nutrition and lactational control of fertility in red deer 145
Andrew S. I. Loudon, Alan S. McNeilly & John A. Milne
doi:10.1038/302145a0
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| | Genetic kin recognition: honey bees discriminate between full and half sisters 147
Wayne M. Getz & Katherine B. Smith
doi:10.1038/302147a0
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| | Antibodies to epithelial desmosomes show wide tissue and species cross-reactivity 148
P. Cowin & D. R. Garrod
doi:10.1038/302148a0
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| | Developmental patterns of insulin-like growth factor-I and -II synthesis and regulation in rat fibroblasts 150
S. O. Adams, S. P. Nissley, S. Handwerger & M. M. Rechler
doi:10.1038/302150a0
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| | Control of timing of cell cycle events in fission yeast by the wee 1+ gene 153
Peter A. Fantes
doi:10.1038/302153a0
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| | Measurement of in vivo mutations in human lymphocytes 155
Alexander A. Morley, Kevin J. Trainor, Ram Seshadri & Richard G. Ryall
doi:10.1038/302155a0
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| | The gene encoding the Ia antigen-associated invariant chain (Ii) is not linked to the H−2 complex 157
Camilla E. Day & Patricia P. Jones
doi:10.1038/302157a0
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| | A minor transplantation antigen detected by MHC-restricted cytotoxic T lymphocytes during graft-versus-host disease 159
E. Goulmy, J. W. Gratama, E. Blokland, F. E. Zwaan & J. J. van Rood
doi:10.1038/302159a0
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| | Only membrane-associated RSV src proteins have amino-terminally bound lipid 161
Ellen A. Garber, James G. Krueger, Hidesaburo Hanafusa & Allan R. Goldberg
doi:10.1038/302161a0
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| | Sequence homology between Lac and Gal repressors and three sugar-binding periplasmic proteins 163
B. Müller-Hill
doi:10.1038/302163a0
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Classic textbooks bring renown to their authors, but students rarely read them. Walter Gratzer argues that publishers would do well to woo a new breed of textbook writer.
Walter Gratzer
doi:10.1038/302165a0
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| | Rating in biological science 166
E.C. Cox & R.M. May
doi:10.1038/302166a0
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| | Before the bridges are built 167
Robert H. Smith
doi:10.1038/302167a0
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| | Populations of all sorts 167
Michael B. Usher
doi:10.1038/302167b0
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| | A farewell to Chinese metaphysics 168
J.S. Jones
doi:10.1038/302168a0
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| | Depth in ichthyology 168
Alwyne Wheeler
doi:10.1038/302168b0
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| | Mechanisms in the balance 169
Thomas E. McGill
doi:10.1038/302169a0
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| | Insects explained 169
M.E.G. Evans
doi:10.1038/302169b0
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| | One type of textbook 169
Alan E.H. Emery
doi:10.1038/302169c0
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| | Practical distillate 170
J.M. Grainger
doi:10.1038/302170a0
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| | Viral displacement 170
Alison Newton
doi:10.1038/302170b0
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| | Quantity and quality in the study of microbial ecology 171
J.H. Slater
doi:10.1038/302171a0
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| | Mega microbiology 171
R. Whittenbury
doi:10.1038/302171b0
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| | Quart in a pint pot 172
D.D. Davies
doi:10.1038/302172a0
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| | Pathology for the botanist 172
R.K.S. Wood
doi:10.1038/302172b0
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| | Forms and functions in the plant sciences 173
James F. Sutcliffe
doi:10.1038/302173a0
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| | Striking the autecological balance in plant ecology 174
Peter D. Moore
doi:10.1038/302174a0
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| | On the safe side of pesticides 174
G.R. Sagar
doi:10.1038/302174b0
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| | On time but out of rhyme 175
M.D. Lilly
doi:10.1038/302175a0
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| | Biotech and the new genes 175
Stephen Oliver
doi:10.1038/302175b0
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| | Resolution & contrast 176
A.J. Lacey
doi:10.1038/302176a0
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| | Principles pictured 176
E.D. Saggerson
doi:10.1038/302176b0
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| | Facing the music of immunology 177
John Humphrey
doi:10.1038/302177a0
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| | Membranes−how they work, what they do 177
Michael Selwyn
doi:10.1038/302177b0
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| | Neuro this, that and the other 178
Maria Fitzgerald
doi:10.1038/302178a0
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| | A line of classical physiology 179
P.D. Wall
doi:10.1038/302179a0
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| | Two-faced toxicology 179
T.A. Connors
doi:10.1038/302179b0
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| | Gardner in Britain 179
doi:10.1038/302179c0
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| | There is no "why?" 179
Stuart Sutherland
doi:10.1038/302179d0
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| | Knowing psychology 180
P.E. Bryant
doi:10.1038/302180a0
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| | Chemistry on the rocks 180
Peter S. Liss
doi:10.1038/302180b0
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| | Horse for a course in environmental science... 181
R.W. Raiswell
doi:10.1038/302181a0
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| | ... out of the field 181
Roy M. Harrison
doi:10.1038/302181b0
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| | Changing the shape of geomorphology 182
C. Kidson
doi:10.1038/302182a0
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| | The geologist at the restaurant 182
Keith Bell
doi:10.1038/302182b0
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| | Under the ocean 183
Peter J. Smith
doi:10.1038/302183a0
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| | Pictures of petrology 183
Bernard Elgey Leake
doi:10.1038/302183b0
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| | Pet rock-pourri 183
Bruce Sellwoood
doi:10.1038/302183c0
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| | In six dimensions 184
R.A. Howie
doi:10.1038/302184a0
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| | Academic questions of geological structure 185
D.L. Dineley
doi:10.1038/302185a0
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| | High and wide 186
J.E. Guest
doi:10.1038/302186a0
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| | The gentle touch 186
David W. Hughes
doi:10.1038/302186b0
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| | Good weather across the Atlantic 187
P.A. Smithson
doi:10.1038/302187a0
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| | Understanding the ordinary 187
M.S. Longair
doi:10.1038/302187b0
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| | Up with the times 188
Michael Rowan-Robinson
doi:10.1038/302188a0
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| | Relativity different 189
John D. Barrow
doi:10.1038/302189a0
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| | The new synthesis at school 189
John Mann
doi:10.1038/302189b0
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| | Atoms and molecules 190
W. Graham Richards
doi:10.1038/302190a0
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| | Subject without seam 190
Colin Upstill
doi:10.1038/302190b0
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| | Showing the flag 190
Maurice Rigby
doi:10.1038/302190c0
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| | Biophysics of course 191
M.E.J. Holwill
doi:10.1038/302191a0
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| | Quantum physics with a difference 191
R.B. Jones
doi:10.1038/302191b0
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| | Playing at farming for real in the Third World 192
Graham Farmer
doi:10.1038/302192a0
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| | Books Received 194
doi:10.1038/302194a0
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| | Announcements 195
doi:10.1038/302195a0
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