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All governments live with nationalized industries, some more willingly than others. Ideology apart, all of them need better guidelines.
doi:10.1038/304473a0
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| | Skin of all our teeth 474
US Congress increased funds for the International Monetary Fund without sensing the dangers.
doi:10.1038/304474a0
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| | Fast reactors: Britain ponders joining European collaboration 475
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/304475a0
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| | Arms control: Remote seismic station on show 475
doi:10.1038/304475b0
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| | UK research councils: Another inquiry under way 476
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/304476a0
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| | Krakatoa still active 476
doi:10.1038/304476b0
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| | Satellite launchers: Europe sees business ahead 477
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/304477a0
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| | The Arine series 477
doi:10.1038/304477b0
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| | Engineering change 477
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/304477c0
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| | Aids research: Big enough spending? 478
Stephen Budiansky
doi:10.1038/304478a0
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| | Confidential matters 478
Stephen Budiansky
doi:10.1038/304478b0
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| | Asbestos: Conflicts ahead on UK rules 479
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/304479a0
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| | Plant biotechnology: Rockefeller seeks new success 479
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/304479b0
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| | European Community: Research programmes trimmed 480
Geert Linnebank
doi:10.1038/304480a0
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| | Albanian science: Flickers of interest again 480
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/304480b0
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| | High technology stocks: Glamour fades in computers 481
doi:10.1038/304481a0
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| | Biotechnology index: First faltering 481
Stephen Budiansky
doi:10.1038/304481b0
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| | Chromosome abnormalities 482
M.H. KAUFMAN
doi:10.1038/304482a0
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| | ARC'S role 482
RALPH RILEY
doi:10.1038/304482b0
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| | CO2 euthanasia 482
DAVID L.J. FREED
doi:10.1038/304482c0
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| | Nature is not all that malicious 483
The proton is not decaying as fast as the simplest unified field theory—SU(5)—predicts. But this is no cause for despair: the search should be for something even simpler.
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/304483a0
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| | Population genetics: Tissue rejection: the price of sexual acceptance? 484
J.S. Jones & Linda Partridge
doi:10.1038/304484a0
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| | Cell biology: Membrane skeleton of skeletal muscle 485
Kuan Wang
doi:10.1038/304485a0
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| | Ecology: Acid precipitation and the Black Forest 486
Kenneth Mellanby
doi:10.1038/304486a0
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| | Materials science: Preparation of soluble conducting polymers 487
Paul Calvert
doi:10.1038/304487a0
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| | Astronomy: Emission lines from galactic nuclei 488
B.E.J. Pagel & M.G. Edmunds
doi:10.1038/304488a0
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| | 100 years ago 488
doi:10.1038/304488b0
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| | Neurophysiology: Listening with one cell 489
Jonathan Ashmore
doi:10.1038/304489a0
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| | Neurobiology: Transfer of information in the visual cortex 490
Nicholas V. Swindale
doi:10.1038/304490a0
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| | Evolution of oncogenes: From c-src to v-src
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IN a recent issue of Nature, Jean Wang discussed the differences between the cellular and viral versions of the abl oncogene1. This week John Wyke reports some recent explorations of two versions of v-src and its cellular homologue.
John Wyke
doi:10.1038/304491a0
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| | Thrusting and duplex formation at Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia 493
T. H. Bell
doi:10.1038/304493a0
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| | Structure of the Ki-ras gene of the human lung carcinoma cell line Calu-1 497
Kenji Shimizu, Daniel Birnbaum, Mary Ann Ruley, Ottavio Fasano, Yolande Suard, Louise Edlund, Elizabeth Taparowsky, Mitchell Goldfarb & Michael Wigler
doi:10.1038/304497a0
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| | Structure and organization of the human Ki-ras proto-oncogene and a related processed pseudogene 501
John P. McGrath, Daniel J. Capon, Douglas H. Smith, Ellson Y. Chen, Peter H. Seeburg, David V. Goeddel & Arthur D. Levinson
doi:10.1038/304501a0
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| | Activation of Ki-ras2 gene in human colon and lung carcinomas by two different point mutations 507
Daniel J. Capon, Peter H. Seeburg, John P. McGrath, Joel S. Hayflick, Ursula Edman, Arthur D. Levinson & David V. Goeddel
doi:10.1038/304507a0
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| | Cosmological estimate of the age of stars exploding as Type I supernovae 513
I. S. Shklovskii
doi:10.1038/304513a0
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| | Can Population III stars generate primordial helium? 514
J. R. Bond, B. J. Carr & W. D. Arnett
doi:10.1038/304514a0
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Eric B. Norman & David N. Schramm
doi:10.1038/304515a0
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| | Solar oscillations with 13-day period 517
T. L. Duvall Jr, H. P. Jones & J. W. Harvey
doi:10.1038/304517a0
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| | New measurements of the solar diameter 518
John H. Parkinson
doi:10.1038/304518a0
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| | Internal rotation of the Sun 520
H. C. Spruit, E. Knobloch & I. W. Roxburgh
doi:10.1038/304520a0
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| | Solar radius change between 1925 and 1979 522
S. Sofia, D. W. Dunham, J. B. Dunham & A. D. Fiala
doi:10.1038/304522a0
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| | Diffusional behaviour of entangled star polymers 526
Jacob Klein, Dianne Fletcher & Lewis J. Fetters
doi:10.1038/304526a0
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| | Mixing basaltic and dacitic magmas by forced convection 527
Akira Kouchi & Ichiro Sunagawa
doi:10.1038/304527a0
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| | Perceptual organization in moving patterns 529
V. S. Ramachandran & S. M. Anstis
doi:10.1038/304529a0
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| | Specificity of cortico-cortical connections in monkey visual system 531
Margaret S. Livingstone & David H. Hubel
doi:10.1038/304531a0
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| | Processing of polarized light by squid photoreceptors 534
William M. Saidel, Jerome Y. Lettvin & Edward F. MacNichol Jr
doi:10.1038/304534a0
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| | Frequency tuning in a frog vestibular organ 536
J. F. Ashmore
doi:10.1038/304536a0
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| | Voltage- and ion-dependent conductances in solitary vertebrate hair cells 538
R. S. Lewis & A. J. Hudspeth
doi:10.1038/304538a0
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| | Inhibition of pathogenic effect of effector T cells by specific suppressor T cells during influenza virus infection in mice 541
F. Y. Liew & S. M. Russell
doi:10.1038/304541a0
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| | Task variables determine which biological clock controls circadian rhythms in human performance 543
Timothy H. Monk, Elliot D. Weitzman, Jeffrey E. Fookson, Margaret L. Moline, Richard E. Kronauer & Philippa H. Gander
doi:10.1038/304543a0
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| | Growth hormone stimulates the proliferation of cultured chondrocytes from rabbit ear and rat rib growth cartilage 545
Kjell Madsen, Ulf Friberg, Paul Roos, Staffan Edén & Olle Isaksson
doi:10.1038/304545a0
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| | Human preprovasoactive intestinal polypeptide contains a novel PHI-27-like peptide, PHM-27 547
Nobuyuki Itoh, Ken-ichi Obata, Noboru Yanaihara & Hiroshi Okamoto
doi:10.1038/304547a0
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| | A major rearrangement in the H−2 complex of mouse t haplotypes 549
John H. Rogers & Keith R. Willison
doi:10.1038/304549a0
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| | Recombination of parent and daughter strand DNA after UV-irradiation in mammalian cells 552
Albert J. Fornace Jr
doi:10.1038/304552a0
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Hilary A. F. Mace, Hugh R. B. Pelham & Andrew A. Travers
doi:10.1038/304555a0
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| | Creatine kinase role in anaphase chromosome movement 557
W. Zacheus Cande
doi:10.1038/304557a0
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Mark A. Krasnow, Andrzej Stasiak, Sylvia J. Spengler, Frank Dean, Theo Koller & Nicholas R. Cozzarelli
doi:10.1038/304559a0
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| | Erratum 560
doi:10.1038/304560a0
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| | Crustal thinning and subsidence in the North Sea 561
P. A. ZIEGLER
doi:10.1038/304561a0
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| | Crustal thinning and subsidence in the North Sea (reply) 561
PENNY BARTON & ROSY WOOD
doi:10.1038/304561b0
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| | A transcriptional function for repetitive ribosomal spacers in Xenopus? 561
VICKI L. MURTIF & PETER M. M. RAE
doi:10.1038/304561c0
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T. Moss
doi:10.1038/304562a0
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| | Methods in March-hare madness 563
W.D. Hamilton reviews Mate Choice.
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Patrick Bateson
doi:10.1038/304563a0
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| | Balance of power 564
Ian Smart reviews Energy: A Guidebook
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Janet Ramage
doi:10.1038/304564a0
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| | Tackling fuzziness and uncertainty 565
F.H. George reviews Logic Machines and Diagrams
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Martin Gardner
doi:10.1038/304565a0
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| | Counting the cost 565
Joseph Rotblat reviews The Medical Effects of Nuclear War
doi:10.1038/304565b0
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| | Tango with a quango 566
Philip Lowe reviews Policing Pollution: A Study of Regulation and Enforcement
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Genevra Richardson, Anthony Ogus & Paul Burrows
doi:10.1038/304566a0
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| | Local area networks 567
Local area networks are increasingly being used to link data-processing equipment. Adrian Stokes reviews their history and their prospects
Adrian Stokes
doi:10.1038/304567a0
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| | Computers and data processors 568
doi:10.1038/304568a0
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