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| | Double-talk on civil defence 459
If Western governments were more ready to acknowledge that there can be no effective civil defence against all-out nuclear attack, their forward planning would be less easily and less often ridiculed.
doi:10.1038/305459a0
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| | Professional misconduct 460
The latest inquiry at Three Mile Island raises urgent questions about professionals' protection.
doi:10.1038/305460a0
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| | Teller as negotiator 460
Dr Edward Teller, not known as a peacenik, is backing a sound proposal on defensive weapons.
doi:10.1038/305460b0
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| | Three Mile Island: Accusations abound as inquiries proliferate 461
Peter David
doi:10.1038/305461a0
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| | Personal disputes at Three Mile Island 461
doi:10.1038/305461b0
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| | French 1984 budget: Fabius backs space, electronics 462
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/305462a0
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| | France on Europe 462
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/305462b0
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| | Clinch River reactor: Congress still evenly split 463
Peter David
doi:10.1038/305463a0
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| | Soviet-US relations: Exchange scholars recalled 463
Stephen Budiansky
doi:10.1038/305463b0
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| | British universities: Shrunken system told to grow 464
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/305464a0
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| | Military beam research: Stanford deals with Pentagon 464
Stephen Budiansky
doi:10.1038/305464b0
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| | Chemical warfare: Ambiguity of Cuban plans 465
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/305465a0
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| | Soviet information technology: Academy scents central role 465
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/305465b0
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| | Poland: More trials lie ahead 466
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/305466a0
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| | East Germany: Engineers gain prestige 466
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/305466b0
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| | Engineers march 466
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/305466c0
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| | Animal welfare: Convention in tatters 467
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/305467a0
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| | US National Institutes of Health: The politics of new diseases 467
Stephen Budiansky
doi:10.1038/305467b0
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| | Spina bifida trials 468
J.H. EDWARDS
doi:10.1038/305468a0
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| | Biotech patent 468
BARRY E. BRETSCHNEIDER
doi:10.1038/305468b0
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| | No to drugs 468
JOSHUA BIERER
doi:10.1038/305468c0
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| | Simulating the replication of life 469
New ways of simulating the replication of abstract representations of living things are mathematically interesting and may yet reinterpret the second law of thermodynamics.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/305469a0
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| | Oncogenic intelligence: The rasmatazz of cancer genes 470
Peter Newmark
doi:10.1038/305470a0
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| | Atmospheric chemistry: Ups and downs in ozone prediction 471
H.I. Schiff
doi:10.1038/305471a0
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| | Invertebrate reproduction: Unique limpet spawning behaviour 472
G.B. Picken & D. Allan
doi:10.1038/305472a0
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| | Immunology: Are complement lysis and lymphocytotoxicity analogous? 473
P.J. Lachmann
doi:10.1038/305473a0
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| | Virology: Molecular biology of the coronaviruses 474
Brian W.J. Mahy
doi:10.1038/305474a0
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| | Earth science: Suspect terranes 475
Peter J. Smith
doi:10.1038/305475a0
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| | Must science be impenetrable? 477
The reasons why the scientific literature hardly deserves that name are now well-known, yet glaring defects persist. Journals must share the responsibility with authors, the most obvious culprits.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/305477a0
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| | Stealing success 479
D.E. Koshland
doi:10.1038/305479a0
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| | DNA evolving 479
Tim Harris
doi:10.1038/305479b0
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| | Molecular meetings 480
P.F. Baker
doi:10.1038/305480a0
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| | Relating chemicals to life 480
R.P. Ambler
doi:10.1038/305480b0
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| | Immune complexes 481
Fred S. Rosen
doi:10.1038/305481a0
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| | Connective issues 481
Karl A. Piez
doi:10.1038/305481b0
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| | Sights set on expansion 482
R.A. Weale
doi:10.1038/305482a0
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| | Behaviour bases 482
Michael Petrides
doi:10.1038/305482b0
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| | Feeding the field 483
John Yudkin
doi:10.1038/305483a0
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| | Checking the spread 484
Peter Alexander
doi:10.1038/305484a0
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| | Malignancy in view 485
Robert Wittes
doi:10.1038/305485a0
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| | Understanding the noxious ... 486
I.F.H. Purchase
doi:10.1038/305486a0
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| | ... and its control 486
Alastair Hay
doi:10.1038/305486b0
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| | Spanning protection 487
Kenneth Mellanby
doi:10.1038/305487a0
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| | Newborn eke-ology 487
R.W. Raiswell
doi:10.1038/305487b0
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| | Captive lives 487
Keith Hodges
doi:10.1038/305487c0
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| | Maintaining the catch 488
D.H. Cushing
doi:10.1038/305488a0
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| | Coral constructs 488
Maurice Yonge
doi:10.1038/305488b0
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| | Limits to growth 489
L.J. Audus
doi:10.1038/305489a0
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| | Icy life 489
Royce Longton
doi:10.1038/305489b0
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| | Tinkering with plant cells 490
Robert Shields
doi:10.1038/305490a0
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| | Growing power 490
C.R.W. Spedding
doi:10.1038/305490b0
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| | Amassing energy 491
P.N. Hobson
doi:10.1038/305491a0
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| | Age relations 491
Derek Roe
doi:10.1038/305491b0
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| | Building on artefacts 491
John Parkington
doi:10.1038/305491c0
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| | Plastic aspects 492
Paul Calvert
doi:10.1038/305492a0
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| | New ways with timber 492
Gavin S. Hall
doi:10.1038/305492b0
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| | Basic matters 493
B. Cantor
doi:10.1038/305493a0
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| | Chemical regions 493
G.J. Leigh
doi:10.1038/305493b0
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| | Analytical power 494
Howard Morris
doi:10.1038/305494a0
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| | New opinions 494
R.J.P. Williams
doi:10.1038/305494b0
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| | Revealing new robots 494
William Clocksin
doi:10.1038/305494c0
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| | Bench power 495
A.N. Barrett
doi:10.1038/305495a0
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| | Plate pursuits 495
Ian W.D. Dalziel
doi:10.1038/305495b0
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| | Mineral spread 495
R.D. Adams
doi:10.1038/305495c0
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| | Providing for nuclear power 496
Alvin M. Weinberg
doi:10.1038/305496a0
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| | Distant detection 496
Robert N. Colwell
doi:10.1038/305496b0
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| | Current awareness 496
A. Holmes-Siedle
doi:10.1038/305496c0
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| | New pathways 497
Peter Hawkes
doi:10.1038/305497a0
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| | Selective preservation and origin of petroleum-forming aquatic kerogen 498
Patrick G. Hatcher, Elliott C. Spiker, Nikolaus M. Szeverenyi & Gary E. Maciel
doi:10.1038/305498a0
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| | Molecular characterization of genome of a novel human T-cell leukaemia virus 502
Irvin S. Y. Chen, Jami McLaughlin, Judith C. Gasson, Steven C. Clark & David W. Golde
doi:10.1038/305502a0
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| | Main-sequence binaries, contact binaries, and blue stragglers in globular clusters 506
Julian H. Krolik
doi:10.1038/305506a0
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| | The Sun's quadrupole moment and perihelion precession of Mercury 508
L. Campbell, J. C. McDow, J. W. Moffat & D. Vincent
doi:10.1038/305508a0
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| | Lithospheric stretching and North Sea Jurassic clastic sourcelands 510
M. R. Leeder
doi:10.1038/305510a0
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| | Rotation of the Peruvian Block from palaeomagnetic studies of the Central Andes 514
Kosuke Heki, Yozo Hamano & Masaru Kono
doi:10.1038/305514a0
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| | Palaeomagnetism of Lower Cretaceous tuffs from Yukon-Kuskokwim delta region, western Alaska 516
Brian R. Globerman, Robert S. Coe, Joseph M. Hoare & John Decker
doi:10.1038/305516a0
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| | Formation of n-alkenes during anaerobic decomposition of a marine algal mat 520
Adolfo G. Requejo & James G. Quinn
doi:10.1038/305520a0
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| | Simulation of Viking biology experiments suggests smectites not palagonites, as martian soil analogues 523
A. Banin & L. Margulies
doi:10.1038/305523a0
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| | The skull of Proconsul africanus: reconstruction and cranial capacity 525
Alan Walker, Dean Falk, Richard Smith & Martin Pickford
doi:10.1038/305525a0
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| | Increased concentrations and lateral asymmetry of amygdala dopamine in schizophrenia 527
Gavin P. Reynolds
doi:10.1038/305527a0
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| | Substantia gelatinosa neurones hyperpolarized in vitro by enkephalin 529
Megumu Yoshimura & R. Alan North
doi:10.1038/305529a0
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| | Polyamines regulate calcium fluxes in a rapid plasma membrane response 530
Harold Koenig, Alfred Goldstone & Chung Y. Lu
doi:10.1038/305530a0
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| | Stimulation of noradrenergic sympathetic outflow by calcitonin gene-related peptide 534
Laurel A. Fisher, Don O. Kikkawa, Jean E. Rivier, Susan G. Amara, Ronald M. Evans, Michael G. Rosenfeld, Wylie W. Vale & Marvin R. Brown
doi:10.1038/305534a0
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| | Early action of nerve determines motor endplate differentiation in rat muscle 536
H. R. Brenner, Th. Meier & B. Widmer
doi:10.1038/305536a0
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| | Hybrid hybridomas and their use in immunohistochemistry 537
C. Milstein & A. C. Cuello
doi:10.1038/305537a0
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| | HLA-DR antigens on lymphoid cells differ from those on myeloid cells 541
Beverly Torok-Storb, Gerald T. Nepom, Barbara S. Nepom & John A. Hansen
doi:10.1038/305541a0
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| | Induction of yeast mating pheromone a-factor by  cells 543
Joan R. Strazdis & Vivian L. MacKay
doi:10.1038/305543a0
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| | A single gene for bovine high molecular weight and low molecular weight kininogens 545
Naomi Kitamura, Yoshio Takagaki, Sumiko Furuto, Toshihiro Tanaka, Hiroyuki Nawa & Shigetada Nakanishi
doi:10.1038/305545a0
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| | Inhibition of transcription of the phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase gene by insulin 549
Daryl Granner, Teresa Andreone, Kazuyuki Sasaki & Elmus Beale
doi:10.1038/305549a0
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| | A 5'-flanking sequence essential for progesterone regulation of an ovalbumin fusion gene 551
Douglas C. Dean, Brian J. Knoll, Mary E. Riser & Bert W. O'Malley
doi:10.1038/305551a0
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| | Uridine-33 in yeast tRNA not essential for amber suppression 554
Lance Bare, A. Gregory Bruce, R. Gesteland & Olke C. Uhlenbeck
doi:10.1038/305554a0
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| | Retrovirus transfer of a bacterial gene into mouse haematopoietic progenitor cells 556
Alexandra Joyner, Gordon Keller, Robert A. Phillips & Alan Bernstein
doi:10.1038/305556a0
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| | Errata 558
doi:10.1038/305558a0
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| | Corrigendum 558
doi:10.1038/305558b0
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This week's selection of products includes a word processor for scientific applications, a universal clamp system and a machine for making dry ice.
doi:10.1038/305559a0
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