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| | The profits of being bankrupt 1
The Manville Corporation is using the US bankruptcy laws legally but too cleverly to avoid costly damage suits from asbestos workers. It needs help from Congress.
doi:10.1038/305001a0
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| | Star wars treaty? 1
The Reagan Administration has been too quick to reject the Soviet draft of a treaty on space weapons.
doi:10.1038/305001b0
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| | Yellow rain: Contradictory accounts gathered in Laos 2
Stephen Budiansky
doi:10.1038/305002a0
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| | Computers: NSF pressed on supercomputers 2
Stephen Budiansky
doi:10.1038/305002b0
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| | UK asbestos: Down and going out 3
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/305003a0
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| | Satellite weapons: Soviets propose space ban 3
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/305003b0
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| | Agent Orange: Survey spells out hazards 4
Stephen Budiansky
doi:10.1038/305004a0
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| | [News 'picture story'] 4
doi:10.1038/305004b0
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| | Medicine: BMA at fringes 4
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/305004c0
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| | Canadian technology: Slimmer but more weighty 5
Nicholas Hirst
doi:10.1038/305005a0
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| | Animal experiments: Researcher cleared on appeal 5
Stephen Budiansky
doi:10.1038/305005b0
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| | British nutrition: Report to surface at last 5
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/305005c0
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| | British Association: Scientists to be seen and heard 6
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/305006a0
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| | European Community: Counting the cost of agriculture 6
Geert Linnebank
doi:10.1038/305006b0
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| | Texas thinking big 6
Stephen Budiansky
doi:10.1038/305006c0
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| | US high technology: States compete with novel bait 7
Peter David
doi:10.1038/305007a0
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| | BA makes overtures to industry 7
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/305007b0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Playing games with numbers 8
R.B. ROSENBERG
doi:10.1038/305008a0
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| | Playing games with numbers 8
I.J. GOOD
doi:10.1038/305008b0
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| | Playing games with numbers 8
JOHN F. CRAWFORD
doi:10.1038/305008c0
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| | Sizewell agony 8
RENEE CHUDLEIGH & WILLIAM CANNELL
doi:10.1038/305008d0
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| | Life's thermal history 8
N.W. PIRIE
doi:10.1038/305008e0
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| | Will peptides make vaccines? 9
The prospect of basing a new generation of vaccines on synthetic peptides keeps cropping up. Despite the promise, there is a long way to go.
Peter Newmark
doi:10.1038/305009a0
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| | Cosmology: Matters of moderate gravity 10
Virginia Trimble
doi:10.1038/305010a0
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| | Population: Nations and numbers, 1983 11
Robert M. May
doi:10.1038/305011a0
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| | Virology: Human leukaemia virus mimics cellular antigens 12
Robin A. Weiss
doi:10.1038/305012a0
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| | Stereochemistry: Handedness from symmetry and a stereochemical coupe du roi
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Stephen Mason
doi:10.1038/305012b0
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| | Animal behaviour: Foraging models and territory size 14
Paul H. Harvey & Georgina M. Mace
doi:10.1038/305014a0
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| | Atmospheric chemistry: First results from the Solar Mesosphere Explorer 15
Guy Brasseur
doi:10.1038/305015a0
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| | Meteorology: Anomalous El Niño of 1982−83 16
S.G.H. Philander
doi:10.1038/305016a0
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| | Evolutionary biology: Taxonomy by nucleotides 17
Jared M. Diamond
doi:10.1038/305017a0
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| | An oscillating trend in Phanerozoic non-skeletal carbonate mineralogy 19
Philip A. Sandberg
doi:10.1038/305019a0
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| | Genomic substitutions of centromeres in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
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Louise Clarke & John Carbon
doi:10.1038/305023a0
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| | Identification and chemical synthesis of a tandemly repeated immunogenic region of Plasmodium knowlesi circumsporozoite protein 29
G. N. Godson, J. Ellis, P. Svec, D. H. Schlesinger & V. Nussenzweig
doi:10.1038/305029a0
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| | Letters | |
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| | Outburst period−energy relations in cataclysmic novae 33
G. T. Bath & J. van Paradijs
doi:10.1038/305033a0
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 -Ray line emission from SS433 37
R. C. Lamb, J. C. Ling, W. A. Mahoney, G. R. Riegler, W. A. Wheaton & A. S. Jacobson
doi:10.1038/305037a0
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| | Limits on the Sun's core magnetism from solar oscillations 39
W. Dziembowski & Philip R. Goode
doi:10.1038/305039a0
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| | Permian alkaline undersaturated and carbonatite province, and rifting along the West African craton 42
J. P. Liegeois, H. Bertrand, R. Black, R. Caby & J. Fabre
doi:10.1038/305042a0
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| | Hydrodynamic instabilities and photochemical reactions 43
J. C. Micheau, M. Gimenez, P. Borckmans & G. Dewel
doi:10.1038/305043a0
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| | Anthropogenic tritium in South Atlantic bottom water 45
W. J. Jenkins, D. E. Lott, M. W. Pratt & R. D. Boudreau
doi:10.1038/305045a0
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| | Palladium and nickel in north-east Pacific waters 47
Dong Soo Lee
doi:10.1038/305047a0
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| | Comparison of 14C and O2 measurements of phytoplankton production in oligotrophic waters 49
P. J. le B. Williams, K. R. Heinemann, J. Marra & D. A. Purdie
doi:10.1038/305049a0
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| | Injection of GTP-binding protein or cyclic GMP phosphodiesterase hyperpolarizes retinal rods 50
James W. Clack, Burks Oakley II & Peter J. Stein
doi:10.1038/305050a0
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| | Conductance and dye permeability of a rectifying electrical synapse 52
Joseph F. Margiotta & Benjamin Walcott
doi:10.1038/305052a0
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| | Monoclonal antibodies to the acetylcholine receptor by a normally functioning auto-anti-idiotypic mechanism 56
W. L. Cleveland, N. H. Wassermann, R. Sarangarajan, A. S. Penn & B. F. Erlanger
doi:10.1038/305056a0
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| | Cell lines producing human T-cell lymphoma virus show altered HLA expression 58
D. L. Mann, M. Popovic, P. Sarin, C. Murray, M. S. Reitz, D. M. Strong, B. F. Haynes, R. C. Gallo & W. A. Blattner
doi:10.1038/305058a0
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| | Homology of human T-cell leukaemia virus envelope gene with class I HLA gene 60
Michael F. Clarke, Edward P. Gelmann & Marvin S. Reitz Jr
doi:10.1038/305060a0
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 -Spectrin limits  -spectrin assembly on membranes following synthesis in a chicken erythroid cell lysate 62
Randall T. Moon & Elias Lazarides
doi:10.1038/305062a0
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| | Sequence homology between spinach nuclear and chloroplast genomes 65
Jeremy N. Timmis & N. Steele Scott
doi:10.1038/305065a0
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| | Targeted mutagenesis of SV40 DNA induced by UV light 68
François Bourre & Alain Sarasin
doi:10.1038/305068a0
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| | Determination of twist and handedness of a 39-base pair segment of DNA in solution 70
Satori Iwamoto & Ming-Ta Hsu
doi:10.1038/305070a0
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| | Origin of granitoid rocks 73
S. MOORBATH
doi:10.1038/305073a0
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| | Origin of granitoid rocks (reply) 73
R. J. PANKHURST
doi:10.1038/305073b0
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| | Amines and secretory pathways 73
ROGER T. DEAN
doi:10.1038/305073c0
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| | Amines and secretory pathways (reply) 74
H. P. MOORE, B. GUMBINER & R. B. KELLY
doi:10.1038/305074a0
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| | Home truths around Jupiter 75
C.T. Russell reviews Physics of the Jovian Magnetosphere.
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A.J. Dessler
doi:10.1038/305075a0
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| | Venusian probes 75
Lionel Wilson reviews Venus.
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D.M. Hunten, L. Colin, T.M. Donahue & V.I. Moroz
doi:10.1038/305075b0
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| | Filling in space 76
C.W. Kilmister reviews Relativity and Geometry.
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Roberto Torretti
doi:10.1038/305076a0
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| | Upper crusts 76
Janet V. Watson reviews Mountain Building Processes.
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Kenneth J. Hsü
doi:10.1038/305076b0
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| | Describing a drug's charge 77
Gordon C.K. Roberts reviews Quantum Pharmacology, 2nd Edn.
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W.G. Richards
doi:10.1038/305077a0
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| | Landmarks in science 77
doi:10.1038/305077b0
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| | Empowered to set standards 77
Alastair Hay reviews OSHA and the Politics of Health Regulation.
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David P. McCaffrey
doi:10.1038/305077c0
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| | Colour of success 78
Linda Partridge reviews The Arctic Skua: An Account of the Ecology, Genetics and Sociobiology of a Polymorphic Seabird.
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Peter O'Donald
doi:10.1038/305078a0
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| | New on the Market 79
This week's feature includes products ranging from scissors to flash arrestors, and from smoke generators to moisture meters.
doi:10.1038/305079a0
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| | Announcements 81
doi:10.1038/305081a0
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| | Planned education or shortage of skills? 82
In the first of a monthly series of articles, Richard Pearson of the Institute of Manpower Studies* outlines the case for planning the supply of skilled students to meet predicted demands.
doi:10.1038/305082a0
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