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| | Warnock proposals in trouble 417
By being dilatory, the British government has allowed its policy on in vitro fertilization to be undermined by an ordinary member of parliament. It should quickly set up a licensing committee.
doi:10.1038/313417a0
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| | Big Foot's constituency 418
The search for mythical monsters in the United States is like that at Loch Ness.
doi:10.1038/313418a0
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| | Oxford's indiscretion 418
Those who denied Mrs Margaret Thatcher an honorary degree should now count the cost.
doi:10.1038/313418b0
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| | US Budget: Basic science still to grow, but less quickly 419
Stephen Budiansky & Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/313419a0
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| | Losers for 1986 419
Stephen Budiansky
doi:10.1038/313419b0
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| | More for star wars 420
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/313420a0
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| | National science foundation: Board plans more active role 420
doi:10.1038/313420b0
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| | Australian oceanography: Going to sea at last 421
Jeffrey Sellar
doi:10.1038/313421a0
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| | Canada baboon cruelty trial 421
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/313421b0
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| | Europe in space: Ministers to drive hard bargain 422
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/313422a0
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| | British space agency: Centre seeking definition 422
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/313422b0
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| | International salaries: Britain backs pay rise at CERN 423
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/313423a0
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| | UK industrial research: Bits and pieces of success 423
doi:10.1038/313423b0
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| | Warnock committee: UK agonizes on embryo research 424
doi:10.1038/313424a0
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| | European information technology: New Esprit deadline nears 424
Anna Lubinska
doi:10.1038/313424b0
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| | IT in Britain 424
Maxine Clarke
doi:10.1038/313424c0
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| | Human and animal rights 425
MARK R. ROSENZWEIG
doi:10.1038/313425a0
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| | Determination of IQ 425
P. M. GAYLARDE
doi:10.1038/313425b0
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| | Evolution dogma 425
J.S. JONES
doi:10.1038/313425c0
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| | Benefits of DDT 425
THOMAS H. JUKES
doi:10.1038/313425d0
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| | Astrology and cosmobiology 426
PHILIP A. IANNA & ROGER B. CULVER
doi:10.1038/313426a0
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| | Astrology and cosmobiology 426
AMARDEO SARMA
doi:10.1038/313426b0
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| | Fever in autistics 426
RODNEY M.J. COTTERILL
doi:10.1038/313426c0
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| | The lack of progress in economics 427
It is possible for economics to become a science — if only the discipline would abandon its present practice of eschewing empirical tests of its theories in favour of 'formal' ones
A.S. Eichner
doi:10.1038/313427a0
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| | The misuse of mathematics in economics* 428
doi:10.1038/313428a0
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| | How special is special relativity? 429
A neat new measurement confirms that moving clocks appear to run slow, and by the amount that special relativity predicts (with an accuracy of one part in 25,000).
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/313429a0
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| | Astrophysics: Softening of neutron stars 430
Philip J. Siemens
doi:10.1038/313430a0
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| | Primatology: First fossil tarsier from Africa 430
R. D. Martin
doi:10.1038/313430b0
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| | EISCAT: Coherence from incoherence 431
Henry Rishbeth
doi:10.1038/313431a0
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| | Topography and tectonics: Japanese deep-sea trench survey 432
& T.J. & X. & M. & K. & V. & J.-P. & K. liyamaLe PichonCurieNakamuraRenardCadetKobayashi
doi:10.1038/313432a0
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| | Cortical maps: Upside-down world in bat's brain 434
Edward Jones
doi:10.1038/313434a0
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| | Eukaryotic genes: Are introns structural elements or evolutionary debris? 434
Athel Cornish-Bowden
doi:10.1038/313434b0
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| | 100 years ago 435
W. T. THISELTON DYER
doi:10.1038/313435a0
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| | Palaeontology: Back to the trees for Archaeopteryx in Bavaria 435
Michael E. Howgate
doi:10.1038/313435b0
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| | CG doublet difficulties in vertebrate DNA 437
RICHARD GRANTHAM
doi:10.1038/313437a0
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| | CG doublet difficulties in vertebrate DNA 437
EDWARD E. MAX
doi:10.1038/313437b0
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| | In search of physical reality 438
BERNARD D'ESPAGNAT
doi:10.1038/313438a0
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| | In search of physical reality 438
T. W. MARSHALL
doi:10.1038/313438b0
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| | Global and seasonal variability of the temperature and composition of the middle atmosphere 439
J. J. Barnett, M. Corney, A. K. Murphy, R. L. Jones, C. D. Rodgers, F. W. Taylor, E. J. Williamson & N. M. Vyas
doi:10.1038/313439a0
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| | Preliminary Phanerozoic polar wander paths for the North and South China blocks 444
Jin-lu Lin, M. Fuller & Wen-you Zhang
doi:10.1038/313444a0
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| | Nucleic acid structure and expression of the human AIDS/lymphadenopathy retrovirus 450
Mark A. Muesing, Douglas H. Smith, Cirilo D. Cabradilla, Charles V. Benton, Laurence A. Lasky & Daniel J. Capon
doi:10.1038/313450a0
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| | A trans-acting factor is responsible for the simian virus 40 enhancer activity in vitro
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Paolo Sassone-Corsi, Alan Wildeman & Pierre Chambon
doi:10.1038/313458a0
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| | The alignment of distant radio sources 463
Vijay K. Kapahi, Ravi Subrahmanyan & Ashok K. Singal
doi:10.1038/313463a0
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| | Thermoluminescence and radiation damage in bismuth germanate 465
C. L. Melcher
doi:10.1038/313465a0
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| | Dirty snow after nuclear war 467
Stephen G. Warren & Warren J. Wiscombe
doi:10.1038/313467a0
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| | Correlative 90 kyr northeast Asia−northwest Pacific climate records 470
Linda E. Heusser & Joseph J. Morley
doi:10.1038/313470a0
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| | Change in motion of Pacific plate at 5 Myr BP 472
Allan Cox & David Engebretson
doi:10.1038/313472a0
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| | Against an aromatic structure for soil fulvic acid 474
V. C. Farmer & D. L. Pisaniello
doi:10.1038/313474a0
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Afrotarsius chatrathi, first tarsiiform primate (? Tarsiidae) from Africa 475
Elwyn L. Simons & Thomas M. Bown
doi:10.1038/313475a0
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| | A variant of the mammalian somatotopic map in a bat 477
M. B. Calford, M. L. Graydon, M. F. Huerta, J. H. Kaas & J. D. Pettigrew
doi:10.1038/313477a0
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| | An N-methylaspartate receptor-mediated synapse in rat cerebral cortex: a site of action of ketamine? 479
Alex M. Thomson, David C. West & David Lodge
doi:10.1038/313479a0
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| | A common sequence of calcium and pH signals in the mitogenic stimulation of eukaryotic cells 481
T. Robin Hesketh, John P. Moore, Jonathan D. H. Morris, Michael V. Taylor, Jane Rogers, Gerry A. Smith & James C. Metcalfe
doi:10.1038/313481a0
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| | Structural organization of the rat thy-1 gene 485
Tetsunori Seki, Tetsuya Moriuchi, Hsiu-Ching Chang, Roger Denome & Jack Silver
doi:10.1038/313485a0
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| | Binding sites for growth hormone releasing factor on rat anterior pituitary cells 487
Hans Seifert, Marilyn Perrin, Jean Rivier & Wylie Vale
doi:10.1038/313487a0
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| | Cloning and sequence analysis of a cDNA for rat transforming growth factor-
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David C. Lee, Timothy M. Rose, Nancy R. Webb & George J. Todaro
doi:10.1038/313489a0
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| | Vaccinia virus encodes a polypeptide homologous to epidermal growth factor and transforming growth factor 491
Joseph P. Brown, Daniel R. Twardzik, Hans Marquardt & George J. Todaro
doi:10.1038/313491a0
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| | Suppression of the normal mouse c-myc oncogene in human lymphoma cells 493
Salvatore Feo, Abbas ar-Rushdi, Kay Huebner, Janet Finan, Peter C. Nowell, Bayard Clarkson & Carlo M. Croce
doi:10.1038/313493a0
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| | Detection of single base substitutions in total genomic DNA 495
Richard M. Myers, Nadya Lumelsky, Leonard S. Lerman & Tom Maniatis
doi:10.1038/313495a0
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| | Intron-dependent evolution of chicken glyceraldehyde phosphate dehydrogenase gene 498
Edwin M. Stone, Katrina N. Rothblum & Robert J. Schwartz
doi:10.1038/313498a0
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| | Evolution of catalytic and regulatory sites in phosphorylases 500
Dieter Palm, Rudolf Goerl & Klaus J. Burger
doi:10.1038/313500a0
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| | Terrestrial catastrophism: Nemesis or galaxy? 503
MARC DAVIS, PIET HUT & RICHARD A. MULLER
doi:10.1038/313503a0
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| | Terrestrial catastrophism: Nemesis or galaxy? (reply) 503
S. V. M. CLUBE & W. M. NAPIER
doi:10.1038/313503b0
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| | Activation of chromaffin cell Ca2+ channels by novel dihydropyridine 503
H. GLOSSMANN
doi:10.1038/313503c0
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| | Activation of chromaffin cell Ca2+ channels by novel dihydropyridine (reply) 504
A. G. GARCÍA, F. SALA & J. A. REIG
doi:10.1038/313504a0
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| | Taxonomy of death 505
Stephen Jay Gould reviews Extinctions
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Matthew H. Nitecki
doi:10.1038/313505a0
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| | [Book Reviews 'picture story'] 505
doi:10.1038/313505b0
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| | Magnify the soil 506
J.A. McKeague reviews Micromorphology of Soils
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E.A. FitzPatrick
doi:10.1038/313506a0
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| | The nuts and bolts of bosons 506
J.H. Mulvey reviews The Particle Connection: The Discovery of the Missing Links of Nuclear Physics
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Christine Sutton
doi:10.1038/313506b0
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| | Why zoos? 507
Gerald Durrell reviews Zoo 2000: A Look Beyond the Bars
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Jeremy Cherfas
doi:10.1038/313507a0
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| | Stellar instability 507
D. Lynden-Bell reviews Physics of Gravitating Systems, Vols I and II
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A. Fridman & V. Polyachenko
doi:10.1038/313507b0
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| | Astronomy from the darkroom 508
David W. Hughes reviews Colours of the Stars
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David Malin & Paul Murdin and Secrets of the Sun
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Ronald Giovanelli
doi:10.1038/313508a0
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| | Spark o' nature's fire 508
David R. Rosseinsky reviews Electron-Molecule Interactions and their Applications, Vols 1 and 2
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L.G. Christophorou
doi:10.1038/313508b0
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| | Peptides and oligonucleotides 509
New products on the market include kits for manual and automated synthesis of oligonucleotides
doi:10.1038/313509a0
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| | Books Received 513
doi:10.1038/313513a0
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| | Technicians need new skills 514
Two recent reports from the Institute of Manpower Studies indicate that the adoption of new technologies in the workplace introduces the need for, but benefits from, retraining of staff, particularly technicians.
Richard Pearson
doi:10.1038/313514a0
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