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| | New ways with Japan's education? 675
The Nakasone government would reform the Japanese school system. It should begin where the problems may be simpler — with the universities, much in need of a greater measure of autonomy.
doi:10.1038/308675a0
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| | China's reactors 676
The US Administration should sell nuclear technology to China only at a diplomatic price.
doi:10.1038/308676a0
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| | East-West bridges 676
The death of Piotr Kapitza is a sad blow for international relations.
doi:10.1038/308676b0
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| | Nuclear exports: US heads for trouble on reactors for China 677
Peter David
doi:10.1038/308677a0
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| | US nuclear power: Management blamed for failure 677
Peter David
doi:10.1038/308677b0
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| | Japanese education: Nakasone plans for reform 678
Alun Anderson
doi:10.1038/308678a0
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| | UK nuclear energy: Research plans scrutinized 678
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/308678b0
PDF (275K)
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| | Biological weapons: Soviet Union accused 679
Peter David
doi:10.1038/308679a0
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| | Refusnik freedom? 679
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/308679b0
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| | Hungary: Week exposes weak links 679
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/308679c0
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| | Laboratory animals: NIH to lay down the law 680
Peter David
doi:10.1038/308680a0
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| | US science teaching: Texan textbooks evolve 680
Peter David
doi:10.1038/308680b0
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| | Prison for fraud 680
Peter David
doi:10.1038/308680c0
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| | UK geology: Move from London opposed 681
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/308681a0
PDF (135K)
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| | Rifkin bugs bug 681
Peter David
doi:10.1038/308681b0
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| | UK universities: New blood encouraged 681
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/308681c0
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| | Japanese science journals: Nature bites the dust 682
Alun Anderson
doi:10.1038/308682a0
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| | Bulgaria: Computer industry goes soft 682
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/308682b0
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| | Technology by bus 682
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/308682c0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Plant gene banks at risk 683
BRIAN FORD-LLOYD & MICHAEL JACKSON
doi:10.1038/308683a0
References | PDF (136K)
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| | Higher education 683
ROY NIBLETT
doi:10.1038/308683b0
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| | Multi-computer? 683
STEPHEN R. COHEN
doi:10.1038/308683c0
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| | Melding words 683
JOHN GRIBBIN
doi:10.1038/308683d0
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| | Publish abstracts 684
SHEILA M. MOULD
doi:10.1038/308684a0
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| | Publish abstracts 684
I. MCFARLANE
doi:10.1038/308684b0
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| | No simple answer 684
THOMAS H. JUKES
doi:10.1038/308684c0
References | PDF (136K)
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| | The fly domesticated 684
KENNETH L. BELL
doi:10.1038/308684d0
References | PDF (136K)
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| | Count is OK 684
TONY EVANS
doi:10.1038/308684e0
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| | Pagiarism claim 684
LAKSHMAN P. SAMARANAYAKE
doi:10.1038/308684f0
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| | Extinctions by catastrophe? 685
The suggestion that the disappearence of species from the surface of the Earth has been periodic has stimulated contradictory explanations and also a diversity of ways of dealing with information.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/308685a0
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| | Evolution: The causes of mass extinctions 686
A. Hallam
doi:10.1038/308686a0
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| | Gene regulation: Latterday lessons of lambda and lac
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Geoffrey North
doi:10.1038/308687a0
References | PDF (433K)
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| | [News and Views 'picture story'] 687
doi:10.1038/308687b0
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| | Nuclear structure: Bending over backwards 689
Neil Rowley
doi:10.1038/308689a0
PDF (127K)
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| | Immunology: Induction of tolerance to self in T lymphocytes 690
Ron Schwartz
doi:10.1038/308690a0
References | PDF (284K)
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| | [News and Views 'picture story'] 691
Jon Darius
doi:10.1038/308691a0
PDF (152K)
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| | Planetary science: Ices in the Solar System 692
I. P. Wright
doi:10.1038/308692a0
PDF (152K)
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| | 100 years ago 692
doi:10.1038/308692b0
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| | The role of protein kinase C in cell surface signal transduction and tumour promotion 693
Yasutomi Nishizuka
doi:10.1038/308693a0
Abstract & References | PDF (757K)
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| | Dynamics of the oceanic general circulation: the potential vorticity field 698
W. R. Holland, T. Keffer & P. B. Rhines
doi:10.1038/308698a0
Abstract & References | PDF (1,123K)
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| | Single base deletion in the vasopressin gene is the cause of diabetes insipidus in Brattleboro rats 705
Hartwig Schmale & Dietmar Richter
doi:10.1038/308705a0
Abstract & References | PDF (667K)
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| | Letters | |
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| | Terrestrial mass extinctions, cometary impacts and the Sun's motion perpendicular to the galactic plane 709
Michael R. Rampino & Richard B. Stothers
doi:10.1038/308709a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (489K)
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| | Periodic mass extinctions and the Sun's oscillation about the galactic plane 712
Richard D. Schwartz & Philip B. James
doi:10.1038/308712a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (261K)
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| | Are periodic mass extinctions driven by a distant solar companion? 713
Daniel P. Whitmire & Albert A. Jackson IV
doi:10.1038/308713a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (379K)
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| | Extinction of species by periodic comet showers 715
Marc Davis, Piet Hut & Richard A. Muller
doi:10.1038/308715a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (401K)
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| | Evidence from crater ages for periodic impacts on the Earth 718
Walter Alvarez & Richard A. Muller
doi:10.1038/308718a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (306K)
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| | Fractal character of fracture surfaces of metals 721
Benoit B. Mandelbrot, Dann. E. Passoja & Alvin J. Paullay
doi:10.1038/308721a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (206K)
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| | Atmospheric transport of pollutants from North America to the North Atlantic Ocean 722
R. C. Harriss, E. V. Browell, D. I. Sebacher, G. L. Gregory, R. R. Hinton, S. M. Beck, D. S. McDougal & S. T. Shipley
doi:10.1038/308722a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (432K)
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| | Radiometric determination of the growth rate of Nautilus in nature 725
J. Kirk Cochran & Neil. H. Landman
doi:10.1038/308725a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (334K)
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| | Sperm sharing in Biomphalaria snails: a new behavioural strategy in simultaneous hermaphroditism 727
Warton Monteiro, José Maria G. Almeida Jr & Braulio S. Dias
doi:10.1038/308727a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (311K)
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| | Parallel geographical patterns of allozyme variation in two sibling Drosophila species 729
P. R. Anderson & J. G. Oakeshott
doi:10.1038/308729a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (306K)
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| | Disruption of cortical activity prevents ocular dominance changes in monocularly deprived kittens 731
C. Shaw & M. Cynader
doi:10.1038/308731a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (535K)
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| | Release of endogenous Zn2+ from brain tissue during activity 734
S. Y. Assaf & Shin-Ho Chung
doi:10.1038/308734a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (364K)
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| | Stimulation-induced uptake and release of zinc in hippocampal slices 736
Gailyn A. Howell, Michael G. Welch & Christopher J. Frederickson
doi:10.1038/308736a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (319K)
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| | Self tolerance is H−2-restricted 738
Polly Matzinger, Rose Zamoyska & Herman Waldmann
doi:10.1038/308738a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (395K)
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| | Evidence from in vitro studies that tolerance to self antigens is MHC-restricted 741
Hans-Georg Rammensee & Michael J. Bevan
doi:10.1038/308741a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (495K)
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| | An interaction between vinculin and talin 744
Keith Burridge & Paul Mangeat
doi:10.1038/308744a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (407K)
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| | Isolation and characterization of human calcitonin gene-related peptide 746
Howard R. Morris, Maria Panico, Tony Etienne, John Tippins, Samia I. Girgis & Iain MacIntyre
doi:10.1038/308746a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (336K)
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| | Transmission of the polyoma virus middle T gene as the oncogene of a murine retrovirus 748
Daniel J. Donoghue, Crystal Anderson, Tony Hunter & Paul L. Kaplan
doi:10.1038/308748a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (466K)
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| | Sequence and topology of a model intracellular membrane protein, E1 glycoprotein, from a coronavirus 751
John Armstrong, Heiner Niemann, Sjef Smeekens, Peter Rottier & Graham Warren
doi:10.1038/308751a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (225K)
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| | Matters Arising | |
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| | Seal echolocation? 753
DOUGLAS WARTZOK, RONALD J. SCHUSTERMAN & JANET GAILEY-PHIPPS
doi:10.1038/308753a0
References | PDF (139K)
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| | Seal echolocation? (reply) 753
DEANE RENOUF
doi:10.1038/308753b0
References | PDF (139K)
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| | DNA-binding proteins 753
MARK PTASHNE
doi:10.1038/308753c0
References | PDF (276K)
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| | DNA-binding proteins (reply) 754
ANDREW TRAVERS
doi:10.1038/308754a0
References | PDF (142K)
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| | Book Reviews | |
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| | In search of a subject 755
Anthony C. T. North reviews Biophysics.
Edited by
Walter Hoppe, Wolfgang Lohmann, Hubert Markl & Hubert Ziegler
doi:10.1038/308755a0
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| | Seeing heresy in its true colours 756
J.D. Mollon reviews A Cybernetic Approach to Colour Perception.
By
N.C. Paritsis & D.J. Stewart
doi:10.1038/308756a0
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| | Strategies of proof 757
Graham Higman reviews The Classification of Finite Simple Groups. Vol. 1, Groups of Noncharacteristic 2 Type
By
Daniel Gorenstein
doi:10.1038/308757a0
PDF (139K)
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| | Halley watching 757
David W. Hughes reviews International Halley Watch Amateur Observers' Manual for Scientific Comet Studies
By
Stephen J. Edberg
doi:10.1038/308757b0
PDF (139K)
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| | Faces of hominid evolution 758
Peter Andrews reviews The Australopithecine Face
By
Yoel Rak
doi:10.1038/308758a0
PDF (134K)
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| | One Piaget 758
M. Scaife reviews Piaget: Critique and Reassessment
By
David Cohen
doi:10.1038/308758b0
PDF (134K)
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| | New on the Market | |
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| | Dishes to dispensers 759
Sixteen new products are described this week, ranging from a dish for the reception of data from weather satellites to an information package on liquid chromatography techniques.
doi:10.1038/308759a0
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