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| | Students on the poverty line 483
The British government will this week be forced to back down from last month's proposals for modifying students' grants. It should take the chance to reform the system.
doi:10.1038/312483a0
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| | Japanese uncreativity 484
Japan's new strategy for research is more a recipe for continued success than for creativity.
doi:10.1038/312484a0
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| | Damming the water 484
Are the British and French governments losing an opportunity?
doi:10.1038/312484b0
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| | Japanese research: Strategy for next decade aims at more creativity 485
Alun Anderson
doi:10.1038/312485a0
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| | Japan's strategic objectives 485
Alun Anderson
doi:10.1038/312485b0
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| | Anglo-French cooperation: Technology dominates summit 486
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/312486a0
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| | Polish science budget: Paper generosity decreed 486
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/312486b0
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| | No cancer cure 486
Stephen Budiansky
doi:10.1038/312486c0
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| | Cohen-Boyer patent: Licensees ponder weaknesses 487
Stephen Budiansky
doi:10.1038/312487a0
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| | Dangerous pathogens: Illegal US bug trade halted 487
Stephen Budiansky
doi:10.1038/312487b0
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| | UK research councils: Cake-cutting done 488
doi:10.1038/312488a0
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| | EPA moves 488
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/312488b0
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| | Natural environment: UK council counts pennies 488
Philip Campbell
doi:10.1038/312488c0
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| | US shuttle delay: More trouble with loose tiles 489
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/312489a0
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| | Royal Society: Dependant bites benefactor's hand 489
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/312489b0
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| | Problems of defining length 490
B.W. PETLEY & W.R.C. ROWLEY
doi:10.1038/312490a0
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| | English at risk 490
N.W. PIRIE
doi:10.1038/312490b0
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| | Exosat 490
J.L. CULHANE
doi:10.1038/312490c0
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| | Not our drugs 490
M.A. FINDLAY
doi:10.1038/312490d0
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| | Science and the philosophers 491
To scientists, the philosophy of science seems an irrelevance, as does the empirical practice of science to philosophers, preoccupied as they are with the logical consistency of their methods. The gulf between the philosophy of science, which has its roots in the growth of positivism in the late nineteenth century, impoverishes both. But there is now hope that the gulf will be bridged by the evolution of philosophy into theory of science.
George Gale
doi:10.1038/312491a0
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| | Similarities among retrovirus proteins 496
ROBERTO PATARCA & WILLIAM A. HASELTINE
doi:10.1038/312496a0
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| | Privacy and the peer-review system 497
There are disturbing signs that the peer-review system for unpublished manuscripts is no longer as secure as it should be. Commercial competition is not the most serious a cause of trouble.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/312497a0
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| | Sensory and energy transduction: Light-activated retinal proteins 498
Lubert Stryer
doi:10.1038/312498a0
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| | Neurosciences: Spanish reflections and Cajal 499
A. Claudio Cuello & Alan Cowey
doi:10.1038/312499a0
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| | 100 years ago 499
doi:10.1038/312499b0
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| | Seismology: First results from Japanese network for earthquake prediction 500
Y. Okado
doi:10.1038/312500a0
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| | Earthquake prediction: Evaluating hydrological and geochemical anomalies 501
Chi−Yu King
doi:10.1038/312501a0
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| | Immunology: Exclusive immunoglobulin genes 502
Frederick W. Alt
doi:10.1038/312502a0
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| | Tumour development: Oncogenes in transgenic mice 503
Douglas Hanahan
doi:10.1038/312503a0
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| | Surface chemistry: Removing the black magic 504
J.B. Pendry
doi:10.1038/312504a0
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| | Origin of the Solar System dust bands discovered by IRAS 505
S. F. Dermott, P. D. Nicholson, J. A. Burns & J. R. Houck
doi:10.1038/312505a0
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| | Mechanism of colour discrimination by a bacterial sensory rhodopsin 509
John L. Spudich & Roberto A. Bogomolni
doi:10.1038/312509a0
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| | The neu oncogene: an erb-B-related gene encoding a 185,000-M
r tumour antigen 513
Alan L. Schechter, David F. Stern, Lalitha Vaidyanathan, Stuart J. Decker, Jeffrey A. Drebin, Mark I. Greene & Robert A. Weinberg
doi:10.1038/312513a0
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| | Allelic exclusion and control of endogenous immunoglobulin gene rearrangement in  transgenic mice 517
Kindred A. Ritchie, Ralph L. Brinster & Ursula Storb
doi:10.1038/312517a0
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| | Sequence and expression of transcripts of the human T-cell receptor  - chain genes 521
Yasunobu Yoshikai, Demetri Anatoniou, Stephen P. Clark, Yusuke Yanagi, Robert Sangster, Peter Van den Elsen, Cox Terhorst & Tak. W. Mak
doi:10.1038/312521a0
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| | Letters | |
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| | Inflation in the universe and time asymmetry 524
P. C. W. Davies
doi:10.1038/312524a0
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| | Two new young galactic supernova remnants 527
D. A. Green & S. F. Gull
doi:10.1038/312527a0
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| | Hyperbolic umbilic diffraction catastrophe and rainbow scattering from spheroidal drops 529
Philip L. Marston & Eugene H. Trinh
doi:10.1038/312529a0
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| | Rainbow scattering from spheroidal drops—an explanation of the hyperbolic umbilic foci 531
J. F. Nye
doi:10.1038/312531a0
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| | A very narrow Mössbauer resonance in 63Ni 532
H. Muthig, E. Huenges & H. Morinaga
doi:10.1038/312532a0
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| | Structure of Theta-1, the first unidimensional medium-pore high-silica zeolite 533
S. A. I. Barri, G. W. Smith, D. White & D. Young
doi:10.1038/312533a0
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| | The  -recoil effects of uranium in the Oklo reactor 535
Z. Z. Sheng & P. K. Kuroda
doi:10.1038/312535a0
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| | A new heteropolyacid with carbon as a heteroatom in a Keggin-like structure 537
Tetsuichi Kudo
doi:10.1038/312537a0
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| | Major ion chemistry of the Ganga−Brahmaputra river systems, India 538
M. M. Sarin & S. Krishnaswami
doi:10.1038/312538a0
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| | Complexity of human T-cell antigen receptor -chain constant- and variable-region genes 541
J. E. Sims, A. Tunnacliffe, W. J. Smith & T. H. Rabbitts
doi:10.1038/312541a0
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| | Monoclonal antibodies identify a cell-surface antigen associated with an activated cellular oncogene 545
Jeffrey A. Drebin, David F. Stern, Victoria C. Link, Robert A. Weinberg & Mark I. Greene
doi:10.1038/312545a0
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| | Therapy with monoclonal antibodies by elimination of T-cell subsets in vivo
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S. P. Cobbold, A. Jayasuriya, A. Nash, T. D. Prospero & H. Waldmann
doi:10.1038/312548a0
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| | Dynorphin(1−13) improves survival in cats with focal cerebral ischaemia 551
David S. Baskin, Yoshio Hosobuchi, Horace H. Loh & Nancy M. Lee
doi:10.1038/312551a0
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| | Male sexual differentiation in mice lacking H−Y antigen 552
Anne McLaren, Elizabeth Simpson, Kyuhei Tomonari, Phillip Chandler & Heather Hogg
doi:10.1038/312552a0
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| | Analysis of persistent virus infections by in situ hybridization to whole-mouse sections 555
Peter J. Southern, Paul Blount & Michael B. A. Oldstone
doi:10.1038/312555a0
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| | Serine- and threonine-specific protein kinase activities of purified gag−mil and gag−raf proteins 558
Karin Moelling, Barbara Heimann, Peter Beimling, Ulf R. Rapp & Thomas Sander
doi:10.1038/312558a0
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| | Afocal apposition optics in butterfly eyes 561
D.-E. Nilsson, M. F. Land & J. Howard
doi:10.1038/312561a0
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| | Differential responses to male song repertoires in female songbirds implanted with oestradiol 563
C. K. Catchpole, J. Dittami & B. Leisler
doi:10.1038/312563a0
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| | Plant-inducible virulence promoter of the Agrobacterium tumefaciens Ti plasmid 564
Robert J. H. Okker, Herman Spaink, Jacques Hille, Ton A. N. van Brussel, Ben Lugtenberg & Rob A. Schilperoort
doi:10.1038/312564a0
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| | Evolutionary origin of a calcium-dependent protease by fusion of genes for a thiol protease and a calcium-binding protein? 566
Shigeo Ohno, Yasufumi Emori, Shinobu Imajoh, Hiroshi Kawasaki, Masatsugu Kisaragi & Koichi Suzuki
doi:10.1038/312566a0
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| | Holland's Earth 571
James E. Lovelock reviews The Chemical Evolution of the Atmosphere and Oceans.
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Heinrich D. Holland
doi:10.1038/312571a0
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| | Building the modern main-frame 572
John Hendry reviews The Computer Comes of Age: The People, the Hardware, and the Software.
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R. Moreau & Translated by Jack Howlett
doi:10.1038/312572a0
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| | Principle patterns 572
Brian Goodwin reviews Pattern Formation: A Primer in Developmental Biology.
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George M. Malacinski & Susan V. Bryant
doi:10.1038/312572b0
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| | Trains of thought 573
John C. Marshall reviews Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology.
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Valentino Braitenberg
doi:10.1038/312573a0
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| | Sense of rays 574
Richard L. Garwin reviews Beam Weapons: The Next Arms Race.
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Jeff Hecht
doi:10.1038/312574a0
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| | Spectroscopy of novel systems 575
Atomic spectroscopy is alive and well thanks to the continuing development of novel experimental techniques and their application to new areas of interest.
R.C. Thompson
doi:10.1038/312575a0
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| | Spectroscopy and spectrometry 576
Automation and computer-links are the main themes among the latest in spectrophotometers and spectrometers
doi:10.1038/312576a0
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