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| | New chance for East-West talks 195
The Soviet proposals put at Stockholm last week have been too quickly dismissed in the West as an old recipe for arms control. That they may be, but why not talk about them?
doi:10.1038/309195a0
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| | Star wars unworkable 196
President Reagan's best friends should tell him that his star-wars scenario is an illusion.
doi:10.1038/309196a0
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| | British Technology Group: Commons committee shows no mercy 197
doi:10.1038/309197a0
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| | British universities: Tenure principle to be trimmed 197
doi:10.1038/309197b0
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| | Japanese computers: Fifth-generation machines here 198
Alun Anderson
doi:10.1038/309198a0
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| | Logic and language for the new generation 198
Alun Anderson
doi:10.1038/309198b0
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| | Nuclear test fallout: 1: US Government arraigned 199
Stephen Budiansky
doi:10.1038/309199a0
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| | Government veto for Warsaw rector 199
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/309199b0
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| | Nuclear test fallout: 2: Claim and counter-claim 199
Jeffrey Sellar
doi:10.1038/309199c0
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| | Biochemistry in Japan: Applying fundamentals 200
Alun Anderson
doi:10.1038/309200a0
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| | Molecular sequences: UK community seeks access 200
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/309200b0
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| | Peace protests: Soviet missiles unwelcome 201
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/309201a0
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| | Toxic chemicals: UK guidelines a compromise 201
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/309201b0
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| | Modest ecological disaster discussed 201
Stephen Budiansky
doi:10.1038/309201c0
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| | Computerized dictionary: English language quantified 202
doi:10.1038/309202a0
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| | Nuclear power: UK peers give Europe advice 202
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/309202b0
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| | AFRC cuts meet disapproval 202
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/309202c0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Nuclear war models 203
VALMORE C. LAMARCHE JR & KATHERINE K. HIRSCHBOECK
doi:10.1038/309203a0
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| | Lie detector lies 203
G. H. TOULMIN
doi:10.1038/309203b0
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| | Crater dated 203
STEPHEN R. SUTTON
doi:10.1038/309203c0
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| | Tropical ecology research 204
N. H. AYODELE COLE
doi:10.1038/309204a0
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| | Classic errors 204
MARTIN PULBROOK
doi:10.1038/309204b0
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| | Yellow rain — a palynological analysis 205
Yellow rain, purported to be an agent of toxin warfare in South-East Asia, contains a high percentage of pollen. Analysis of this pollen in yellow rain samples suggests that they are the faeces of honey bees.
Joan W. Nowicke & Matthew Meselson
doi:10.1038/309205a0
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| | Natural history of yellow rain 207
The discovery that some of the yellow rain falling from the sky in South-East Asia is the excrement of bees, first dismissed as impropriety, must now be taken seriously.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/309207a0
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| | Human evolution: A gathering of our ancestors 208
Bernard Wood
doi:10.1038/309208a0
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| | Cell biology: Epidermal growth factor receptor—yet another domain? 209
Shelley Earp
doi:10.1038/309209a0
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| | Retinitis pigmentosa: Progress in sight 210
Miranda Robertson
doi:10.1038/309210a0
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| | Archaeology: The decline of Rome to a fast-food empire 211
Richard Hodges
doi:10.1038/309211a0
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| | Oceanology: Storms in the abyss 212
P. F. Friend
doi:10.1038/309212a0
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| | Colour vision: Direct recordings from the cone cells of a primate 212
J. D. Mollon
doi:10.1038/309212b0
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| | Molecular biology: Anatomy of hypersensitive sites 213
Sarah C. R. Elgin
doi:10.1038/309213a0
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| | Archaeological dating: New method for bricks? 214
E. T. Hall
doi:10.1038/309214a0
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| | Fractals: Aggregationism 214
doi:10.1038/309214b0
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| | Role of RecA protein spiral filaments in genetic recombination 215
Paul Howard-Flanders, Stephen C. West & Andrzej Stasiak
doi:10.1038/309215a0
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| | Sedimentation under deep-sea storms 220
C. D. Hollister & I. N. McCave
doi:10.1038/309220a0
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| | Fractal growth of copper electrodeposits 225
R. M. Brady & R. C. Ball
doi:10.1038/309225a0
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| | Two protein-binding sites in chromatin implicated in the activation of heat-shock genes 229
Carl Wu
doi:10.1038/309229a0
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| | Two types of binary radio pulsars with different evolutionary histories 235
E. P. J. van den Heuvel & R. E. Taam
doi:10.1038/309235a0
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| | Cosmic dust collection by the capture cell technique on the Space Shuttle 237
J. A. M. McDonnell, W. C. Carey & D. G. Dixon
doi:10.1038/309237a0
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| | Proposed structures for poorly characterized phases in C2M carbonaceous chondrite meteorites 240
Ian D. R. Mackinnon & Michael E. Zolensky
doi:10.1038/309240a0
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| | Does the photochemistry of the troposphere admit more than one steady state? 242
Warren H. White & David Dietz
doi:10.1038/309242a0
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| | Synthesis of marine humic substances from unsaturated lipids 244
G. R. Harvey, D. A. Boran, S. R. Piotrowicz & C. P. Weisel
doi:10.1038/309244a0
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| | Ciliated protozoa associated with oceanic sinking detritus 246
Mary Wilcox Silver, Marcia M. Gowing, David C. Brownlee & John O. Corliss
doi:10.1038/309246a0
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| | Remote telemetry of daily vertical and horizontal movement of Nautilus in Palau 248
Peter Ward, Bruce Carlson, Michael Weekly & Brian Brumbaugh
doi:10.1038/309248a0
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| | Gradual phyletic evolution at the generic level in early Eocene omomyid primates 250
Kenneth D. Rose & Thomas M. Bown
doi:10.1038/309250a0
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| | Close genetic linkage between X-linked retinitis pigmentosa and a restriction fragment length polymorphism identified by recombinant DNA probe L1.28 253
S. S. Bhattacharya, A. F. Wright, J. F. Clayton, W. H. Price, C. I. Phillips, C. M. E. McKeown, M. Jay, A. C. Bird, P. L. Pearson, E. M. Southern & H. J. Evans
doi:10.1038/309253a0
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| | Formation of germ-line chimaeras from embryo-derived teratocarcinoma cell lines 255
Allan Bradley, Martin Evans, Matthew H. Kaufman & Elizabeth Robertson
doi:10.1038/309255a0
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| | Spinal opiates affect sexual behaviour in rats 257
Z. Wiesenfeld-Hallin & P. Södersten
doi:10.1038/309257a0
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| | A vasopressin-like peptide in the mammalian sympathetic nervous system 258
Michael R. Hanley, Hilary P. Benton, Stafford L. Lightman, Kathryn Todd, Elisabeth A. Bone, Pamela Fretten, Susan Palmer, Christopher J. Kirk & Robert H. Michell
doi:10.1038/309258a0
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| | Voltage-dependent block by Mg2+ of NMDA responses in spinal cord neurones 261
Mark L. Mayer, Gary L. Westbrook & Peter B. Guthrie
doi:10.1038/309261a0
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| | Spectral sensitivity of single cones in the retina of Macaca fascicularis
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B. J. Nunn, J. L. Schnapf & D. A. Baylor
doi:10.1038/309264a0
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| | Localized Ca2+and calcium-activated potassium conductances in terminals of a barnacle photoreceptor 266
N. Stockbridge & W. N. Ross
doi:10.1038/309266a0
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| | Light-dependent calcium release from photoreceptors measured by laser micro-mass analysis 268
Walter H. Schröder & Gordon L. Fain
doi:10.1038/309268a0
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| | ATP-stimulated interaction between epidermal growth factor receptor and supercoiled DNA 270
B. Mroczkowski, G. Mosig & S. Cohen
doi:10.1038/309270a0
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| | Activation of cellular gene by mouse mammary tumour virus may occur early in mammary tumour development 273
Gordon Peters, Audrey E. Lee & Clive Dickson
doi:10.1038/309273a0
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| | Long terminal repeats of human T-cell leukaemia virus II genome determine target cell specificity 276
Irvin S. Y. Chen, Jami McLaughlin & David W. Golde
doi:10.1038/309276a0
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| | Domain interactions of H−2 class I antigens alter cytotoxic T-cell recognition sites 279
H. Allen, D. Wraith, P. Pala, B. Askonas & R. A. Flavell
doi:10.1038/309279a0
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Peter Myler, Richard G. Nelson, Nina Agabian & Kenneth Stuart
doi:10.1038/309282a0
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| | DNA variation and evolution 285
JOHN A. BARRETT
doi:10.1038/309285a0
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| | DNA variation and evolution (reply) 285
S. D. FERRIS, R. D. SAGE & A. C. WILSON
doi:10.1038/309285b0
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| | DNA variation and evolution (reply) 286
E. S. COEN, J. M. THODAY & G. A. DOVER
doi:10.1038/309286a0
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| | 100 Hz is not the upper limit of synchronous muscle contraction 286
DAVID YOUNG & ROBERT K. JOSEPHSON
doi:10.1038/309286b0
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| | Encephalization in Proconsul africanus
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WALTER LEUTENEGGER
doi:10.1038/309287a0
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| | Encephalization in Proconsul africanus (reply) 287
RICHARD SMITH & ALAN WALKER
doi:10.1038/309287b0
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ROBERTO PATARCA & WILLIAM A. HASELTINE
doi:10.1038/309288a0
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| | Primatology by numbers 289
Bernard Wood reviews The Order of Man: A Biomathematical Anatomy of the Primates.
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Charles Oxnard
doi:10.1038/309289a0
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| | Vandalized space 290
Ian G. Halliday reviews Quarks, Gluons and Lattices.
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M. Creutz
doi:10.1038/309290a0
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| | Focus on fleas 291
Harry Hoogstraal reviews The Rothschild Collection of Fleas: The Ceratophyllidae.
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Robert Traub, Miriam Rothschild & John Haddow
doi:10.1038/309291a0
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| | Policy for science 291
Harvey Brooks reviews Science in Government: A Review of the Principles and Practice of Science Policy.
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J. Ronayne
doi:10.1038/309291b0
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| | Books Received 292
doi:10.1038/309292a0
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