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The European summit next week in Brussels is billed as critical, and the participants say they will not budge on the urgent questions. They should talk less about food and more about trade.
doi:10.1038/308213a0
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| | Neglect of research 214
British policy on higher education has damaged the research enterprise, perhaps irreparably.
doi:10.1038/308214a0
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| | Eugenics in Singapore 214
Mr Lee Kuan Yew should drop his naive eugenic plan to increase the IQ of his community.
doi:10.1038/308214b0
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| | Unesco: Still hopes for reversal of US decision 215
Peter David
doi:10.1038/308215a0
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| | Loss Angeles reactor: Planned scramble for Olympics 215
Sandra Blakeslee
doi:10.1038/308215b0
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| | US space station: Japan reassured on military uses 216
Alun Anderson
doi:10.1038/308216a0
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| | Phaenomenal colours 216
doi:10.1038/308216b0
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| | Commercial space: Poor outlook for Landsat sale 216
Peter David
doi:10.1038/308216c0
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| | UK higher education: More talk at NEDC 217
doi:10.1038/308217a0
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| | UK universities: Row about budgets resolved 217
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/308217b0
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| | Radioactive waste: British search for dumps opposed 218
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/308218a0
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| | Soviet nuclear power: Teething trouble persists 218
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/308218b0
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| | Israel: Backers for nuclear-free zone 219
Nechemia Meyers
doi:10.1038/308219a0
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| | Hungarian universities: Market forces are felt 219
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/308219b0
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| | Japanese literature: Congress seeks more translation 220
Stephen Budiansky
doi:10.1038/308220a0
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| | Applied embryology: No surrogate British mothers 220
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/308220b0
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| | Man or machine in space 221
MARK OWEN MARTIN
doi:10.1038/308221a0
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| | Plum pox virus 221
MAURIZIO CONTI
doi:10.1038/308221b0
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| | Dietary cholesterol 221
MARTIJN B. KATAN & ANTON C. BEYNEN
doi:10.1038/308221c0
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| | Effect and affect 221
R. C. WATKINS
doi:10.1038/308221d0
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| | Henge manufacture 222
DAVID A. SUMMERS
doi:10.1038/308222a0
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| | Japanese IQ 222
JAMES R. FLYNN
doi:10.1038/308222b0
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| | Why abstract? 222
J. R. METCALFE
doi:10.1038/308222c0
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| | Last amateur 222
WILLIAM T. HOLSER
doi:10.1038/308222d0
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| | Count down 222
R. F. ENTWISTLE
doi:10.1038/308222e0
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| | Origin of Solar System redefined 223
Professor Thomas Gold has stood the conventional view of the origin of the Solar System on its head and seems certain to provoke astrophysicists to a wave of recalculation, even observation.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/308223a0
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| | Astronomy: An infrared view of the Universe 224
Joseph Silk
doi:10.1038/308224a0
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| | Radiography of the living brain 225
Jon Darius
doi:10.1038/308225a0
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| | Cell proliferation: Paths to immortality and back 226
T.B.L. Kirkwood
doi:10.1038/308226a0
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| | Laser chemistry: Chaos in multiple photon excitation of molecules 227
Peter Knight
doi:10.1038/308227a0
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| | Vision: Visual hyperacuity 228
Oliver Braddick
doi:10.1038/308228a0
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| | 100 years ago 228
doi:10.1038/308228b0
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| | Archaeology: How to spot a fake azilian pebble 229
Paul G. Bahn
doi:10.1038/308229a0
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G. M. SHEARER & A. S. RABSON
doi:10.1038/308230a0
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| | Evolutionary unease 230
PETER FELLGETT
doi:10.1038/308230b0
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| | Phosphorus, phosphorites and skeletal evolution at the Precambrian—Cambrian boundary 231
Peter J. Cook & John H. Shergold
doi:10.1038/308231a0
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| | Identifier sequences are transcribed specifically in brain 237
J. Gregor Sutcliffe, Robert J. Milner, Joel M. Gottesfeld & Richard A. Lerner
doi:10.1038/308237a0
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| | Point mutations close to the AUG initiator codon affect the efficiency of translation of rat preproinsulin in vivo
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Marilyn Kozak
doi:10.1038/308241a0
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| | Orientation of nucleosomes and linker DNA in calf thymus chromatin determined by photochemical dichroism 247
Sekhar Mitra, Dipankar Sen & Donald M. Crothers
doi:10.1038/308247a0
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| | Radio detection of a jet in the Crab Nebula 251
T. Velusamy
doi:10.1038/308251a0
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| | On the energy balance of solar active regions 252
Gary A. Chapman
doi:10.1038/308252a0
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| | Solar gravity modes as a test of turbulent diffusion mixing 254
G. Berthomieu, J. Provost & E. Schatzman
doi:10.1038/308254a0
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| | First known EL5 chondrite—evidence for dual genetic sequence for enstatite chondrites 257
Derek W. G. Sears, Karen S. Weeks & Alan E. Rubin
doi:10.1038/308257a0
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| | Chondrite thermal histories constrained by experimental annealing of Quenggouk orthopyroxene 259
J. R. Ashworth, L. G. Mallinson, R. Hutchison & G. M. Biggar
doi:10.1038/308259a0
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| | Molecular fractal surfaces 261
David Avnir, Dina Farin & Peter Pfeifer
doi:10.1038/308261a0
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| | A sampling artefact affecting the uranium content of deep-sea porewaters obtained from cores 263
J. Toole, J. Thomson, T. R. S. Wilson & M. S. Baxter
doi:10.1038/308263a0
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| | Colloid stability of iron oxide particles from a freshwater lake 266
E. Tipping & M. Ohnstad
doi:10.1038/308266a0
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230Th−238U disequilibrium in island arcs: evidence from the Aleutians and the Marianas 268
S. Newman, J. D. Macdougall & R. C. Finkel
doi:10.1038/308268a0
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| | Mastodon butchery by North American Paleo-Indians 271
Daniel C. Fisher
doi:10.1038/308271a0
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| | Desynchronization of the oral temperature circadian rhythm and intolerance to shift work 272
A. Reinberg, P. Andlauer, J. De Prins, W. Malbecq, N. Vieux & P. Bourdeleau
doi:10.1038/308272a0
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| | Proliferation of mature oligodendrocytes after trauma to the central nervous system 274
Samuel K. Ludwin
doi:10.1038/308274a0
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| | Central target for the behavioural effects of vasopressin neuropeptides 276
David de Wied, Odile Gaffori, Jan M. van Ree & Wybren de Jong
doi:10.1038/308276a0
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 and  -opioid receptor agonists differentially inhibit striatal dopamine and acetylcholine release 278
Arie H. Mulder, George Wardeh, Francois Hogenboom & Abraham L. Frankhuyzen
doi:10.1038/308278a0
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| | VIP and noradrenaline act synergistically to increase cyclic AMP in cerebral cortex 280
Pierre J. Magistretti & Michel Schorderet
doi:10.1038/308280a0
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| | A venom peptide with a novel presynaptic blocking action 282
Lynne M. Kerr & Doju Yoshikami
doi:10.1038/308282a0
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| | Inhibition of lung maturation by monoclonal antibodies against fibroblast−pneumonocyte factor 284
Martin Post, Joanna Floros & Barry T. Smith
doi:10.1038/308284a0
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| | Chromosome translocation can occur on either side of the c-myc oncogene in Burkitt lymphoma cells 286
Mary Davis, Susan Malcolm & Terence H. Rabbitts
doi:10.1038/308286a0
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| | Chromosome localization in normal human cells and neuroblastomas of a gene related to c-myc
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Manfred Schwab, Harold E. Varmus, J. Michael Bishop, Karl-Heinz Grzeschik, Susan L. Naylor, Alan Y. Sakaguchi, Garrett Brodeur & Jeffrey Trent
doi:10.1038/308288a0
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| | Tumour induction in the rodent Mastomys natalensis by activation of endogenous papilloma virus genomes 291
Eberhard Amtmann, Manfred Volm & Klaus Wayss
doi:10.1038/308291a0
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| | A protein from human placental nuclei binds preferentially to 5-methylcytosine-rich DNA 293
Lan-Hsiang Huang, Richard Wang, Miguel A. Gama-Sosa, Suresh Shenoy & Melanie Ehrlich
doi:10.1038/308293a0
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| | Fish antifreeze protein and the freezing and recrystallization of ice 295
Charles A. Knight, Arthur L. De Vries & Larry D. Oolman
doi:10.1038/308295a0
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Nature in Tokyo 296
doi:10.1038/308296a0
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| | Telling Stories 297
Bryan Silcock reviews Presenting Science to the Public
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Barbara Gastel
doi:10.1038/308297a0
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| | Putting it all together again 298
R.H. Pritchard reviews Growth of the Bacterial Cell
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J.L. Ingraham, O. Maaloe & F.C. Neidhardt
doi:10.1038/308298a0
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| | Grains of evidence 298
Peter D. Moore reviews An Atlas of Past and Present Pollen Maps of Europe 0-13000 Years Ago
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B. Huntley & H.J.B. Birks
doi:10.1038/308298b0
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| | Explorations in neurobiology 299
Charles F. Stevens reviews Membrane Potential-Dependent Ion Channels in Cell Membrane: Phylogenetic and Developmental Approaches
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S. Hagiwara
doi:10.1038/308299a0
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| | Chromosome cookery 299
Michael Ashburner reviews Working with Animal Chromosomes
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Herbert Macgregor & Jennifer Varley
doi:10.1038/308299b0
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| | Language of physics 300
Nevill Mott reviews Reflexions d'un Physicien
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Anatole Abragam
doi:10.1038/308300a0
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Ingrid H. Williams reviews Social Insects: Ecology and Behavioural Biology
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M. V. Brian
doi:10.1038/308300b0
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