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| | Are the philistines in charge? 657
A curious argument in the London Times suggests that those who would make the British universities more productive do not understand what science is about.
doi:10.1038/314657a0
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| | Dollar fragility 658
Why must researchers worry about the dollar? Because research funds may vanish.
doi:10.1038/314658a0
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| | Tarnished initiative 658
The offer to allies of a share of the US defence budget has been indelicately handled.
doi:10.1038/314658b0
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| | AIDS progress: Synthetic vaccine only a distant prospect 659
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/314659a0
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| | Star wars: Israel attracted by spin−off 660
Nechemia Meyers
doi:10.1038/314660a0
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| | Star wars: France rallies European forces 660
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/314660b0
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| | Star wars: US pressure on Japan 661
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/314661a0
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| | Spain: Law of Science brings change 661
Pedro Puigdomenech
doi:10.1038/314661b0
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| | Cancer research: France moves ahead 662
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/314662a0
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| | Heavy ions: Darmstadt to leapfrog Berkeley 662
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/314662b0
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| | Director for Newport News facility 662
Stephen Budiansky
doi:10.1038/314662c0
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| | Bhopal aftermath: Legal complications mount 663
Stephen Budiansky
doi:10.1038/314663a0
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| | Handicapped infants: Physicians win the day 663
Stephen Budiansky
doi:10.1038/314663b0
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| | US universities: All change at St Louis 664
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/314664a0
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| | European geoscience union thrives 664
Peter Gambles
doi:10.1038/314664b0
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| | Hannover trade fair: Something for everybody 665
doi:10.1038/314665a0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Embryo research (contd) 666
CLIFFORD GROBSTEIN
doi:10.1038/314666a0
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| | Embryo research (contd) 666
JOHN A. DAVIS
doi:10.1038/314666b0
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| | Value-laden science 666
MARK DIESENDORF
doi:10.1038/314666c0
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| | Sizewell inquiry 666
DAVID LOWRY
doi:10.1038/314666d0
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| | News and Views |  |
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| | New ways with aggregation 667
An improved calculation with the classical equations of aggregation suggests new tasks for those who carry out computer simulations of these problems.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/314667a0
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| | Sex chromosomes and evolution: Haldane's Rule OK 668
J.S. Jones & Nick Barton
doi:10.1038/314668a0
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| | Chemistry: Activating the C−H bond 669
J.M. Thomas
doi:10.1038/314669a0
References | PDF (262K)
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| | Developmental biology: Homoeo boxes and strings for the packaging of genes? 670
Brigid Hogan
doi:10.1038/314670a0
References | PDF (266K)
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| | Archaeology: Megalithic recycling in Brittany 671
Paul G. Bahn
doi:10.1038/314671a0
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| | Astronomy: A giant black hole at the centre of a dwarf galaxy 672
C. Martin Gaskell
doi:10.1038/314672a0
References | PDF (135K)
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| | Vision: Fireworks in the retina 672
David I. Vaney
doi:10.1038/314672b0
References | PDF (275K)
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| | Tectonics: Whence British Columbia? 673
E. Irving
doi:10.1038/314673a0
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| | Genetic screening: The heredity of haemophilia 674
Miranda Robertson
doi:10.1038/314674a0
References | PDF (286K)
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| | Mathematics: Feigenbaum's fixed function 675
Ian Stewart
doi:10.1038/314675a0
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| | Scientific Correspondence | |
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| | Mushroom cloud the result of a meteor? 676
ANDRE C. CHANG & JAMES A. BURNETTI
doi:10.1038/314676a0
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| | A mechanism for prion replication 676
MAURIZIO BRUNORI & BERNARD TALBOT
doi:10.1038/314676b0
References | PDF (145K)
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| | Spring Books | |
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| | The ragged edge 677
Reflections upon what is to be found in books, besides the text.
doi:10.1038/314677a0
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| | A pilgrim's progress 678
W.F. Bynum
doi:10.1038/314678a0
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| | Happy repitition 679
David L. Hull
doi:10.1038/314679a0
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| | The conversation continued 680
Philip Kitcher
doi:10.1038/314680a0
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| | Larger than life 682
R.C. Lewontin
doi:10.1038/314682a0
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| | Schools of thought 683
Struther Arnott
doi:10.1038/314683a0
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| | Angles on knowledge 684
David Miller
doi:10.1038/314684a0
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| | Word and number meta-magic 684
David E.H. Jones
doi:10.1038/314684b0
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| | Life with a lighter touch 685
Martin Gardner
doi:10.1038/314685a0
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| | Global matters 686
David R. Rosseinsky
doi:10.1038/314686a0
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| | The foot inaudible and noiseless 687
David Park
doi:10.1038/314687a0
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| | But is it art? 688
Andrew Dearing
doi:10.1038/314688a0
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| | Spring Books 'picture story' 688
doi:10.1038/314688b0
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| | Imagined worlds: visions of theoretical physics 689
David Bohm
doi:10.1038/314689a0
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| | From Cambridge to Moscow 690
Nevill Mott
doi:10.1038/314690a0
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| | Between machination and merit 691
Robert Fox
doi:10.1038/314691a0
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| | On trans-scientific turf 692
Owen Gingerich
doi:10.1038/314692a0
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| | Unreal Science 692
doi:10.1038/314692b0
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| | Continental epic 693
Robert M. Hazen
doi:10.1038/314693a0
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| | Earth science in a fabulous place 694
Peter J. Smith
doi:10.1038/314694a0
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| | Swimming through the cell 694
Tim Hunt
doi:10.1038/314694b0
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| | Nature magnified 695
Peter Evennett
doi:10.1038/314695a0
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| | Psychiatry: beyond analysis 696
Anthony W. Clare
doi:10.1038/314696a0
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| | Sowing the seeds of awareness 698
David Streeter
doi:10.1038/314698a0
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| | Who cares? 698
Marian Dawkins
doi:10.1038/314698b0
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| | Ways to get back to the track 699
David Pimentel
doi:10.1038/314699a0
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| | Biology as science 700
A.J. Cain
doi:10.1038/314700a0
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| | A matter of taste 701
Nicholas Kurti
doi:10.1038/314701a0
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| | Books Received | |
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| | Books Received 702
doi:10.1038/314702a0
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| | Dynamic solidification of a binary melt 703
Herbert E. Huppert & M. Grae Worster
doi:10.1038/314703a0
Abstract & References | PDF (512K)
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| | Cordilleria, a newly defined Canadian microcontinent 707
V. E. Chamberlain & R. St J. Lambert
doi:10.1038/314707a0
Abstract & References | PDF (878K)
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| | Structural analysis of murine genes containing homoeo box sequences and their expression in embryonal carcinoma cells 713
Anamaris M. Colberg-Poley, Stephan D. Voss, Kamal Chowdhury & Peter Gruss
doi:10.1038/314713a0
Abstract & References | PDF (844K)
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| | Letters | |
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| | Are galaxies more strongly correlated than clusters? 718
Alexander S. Szalay & David N. Schramm
doi:10.1038/314718a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (237K)
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| | A new non-thermal galactic radio source with a possible binary system 720
E. Fürst, W. Reich, P. Reich, Y. Sofue & T. Handa
doi:10.1038/314720a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (240K)
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| | A higher limit to the mean galaxy mass allowed by gravitational lens image distortion 721
Steven Phillipps
doi:10.1038/314721a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (119K)
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| | Synthesis of ethylene and ethane by partial oxidation of methane over lithium-doped magnesium oxide 721
Tomoyasu Ito & Jack H. Lunsford
doi:10.1038/314721b0
First paragraph & References | PDF (215K)
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| | Highly conducting acetylene−CO copolymers and limitations of the soliton model 723
James C. W. Chien, G. N. Babu & J. A. Hirsch
doi:10.1038/314723a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (211K)
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| | Crustal structure south of the Iapetus suture beneath northern England 724
M. H. P. Bott, R. E. Long, A. S. P. Green, A. H. J. Lewis, M. C. Sinha & D. L. Stevenson
doi:10.1038/314724a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (434K)
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| | Hydrothermal manganese plumes in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge rift valley 727
G. Klinkhammer, P. Rona, M. Greaves & H. Elderfield
doi:10.1038/314727a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (478K)
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| | Fractal dimension of vegetation and the distribution of arthropod body lengths 731
D. R. Morse, J. H. Lawton, M. M. Dodson & M. H. Williamson
doi:10.1038/314731a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (323K)
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| | Education policy and the heritability of educational attainment 734
A. C. Heath, K. Berg, L. J. Eaves, M. H. Solaas, L. A. Corey, J. Sundet, P. Magnus & W. E. Nance
doi:10.1038/314734a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (361K)
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| | The genetic basis of Haldane's rule 736
Jerry A. Coyne
doi:10.1038/314736a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (388K)
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| | Genetic mapping and diagnosis of haemophilia A achieved through a BclI polymorphism in the factor VIII gene 738
Jane Gitschier, Dennis Drayna, Edward G. D. Tuddenham, Ray L. White & Richard M. Lawn
doi:10.1038/314738a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (398K)
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| | Murine T lymphomas with retroviral inserts in the chromosomal 15 locus for plasmacytoma variant translocations 740
Michael Graham, Jerry M. Adams & Suzanne Cory
doi:10.1038/314740a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (531K)
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| | A novel serine esterase expressed by cytotoxic T lymphocytes 743
Mark S. Pasternack & Herman N. Eisen
doi:10.1038/314743a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (379K)
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| | Reversible activation of non-steroid binding oestrogen receptor 745
William J. Raymoure, Reid W. McNaught & Roy G. Smith
doi:10.1038/314745a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (346K)
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| | Dihydropyridine receptors in muscle are voltage-dependent but most are not functional calcium channels 747
Lawrence M. Schwartz, Edwin W. McCleskey & Wolfhard Almers
doi:10.1038/314747a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (597K)
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| | Central nervous system and peripheral nerve growth factor provide trophic support critical to mature sensory neuronal survival 751
Eugene M. Johnson Jr & Henry K. Yip
doi:10.1038/314751a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (231K)
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| | Erratum: Lower mantle heterogeneity, dynamic topography and the geoid 752
B. H. Hager, R. W. Clayton, M. A. Richards, R. P. Comer & A. M. Dziewonski
doi:10.1038/314752a0
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| | Matters Arising | |
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| | Greek archaeomagnitudes 753
M. J. AITKEN, A. L. ALLSOP, G. D. BUSSELL & M. B. WINTER
doi:10.1038/314753a0
References | PDF (125K)
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| | Greek archaeomagnitudes (reply) 753
D. WALTON
doi:10.1038/314753b0
References | PDF (257K)
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| | A Grenville Sm/Nd age for the Glenelg eclogite 754
R. A. STRACHAN & P. J. TRELOAR
doi:10.1038/314754a0
References | PDF (139K)
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| | A Grenville Sm/Nd age for the Glenelg eclogite (reply) 754
I. S. SANDERS
doi:10.1038/314754b0
References | PDF (271K)
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| | Proper solar wind power estimation and planetary radiometric efficiencies 755
D. N. BAKER & L. F. BARGATZE
doi:10.1038/314755a0
References | PDF (237K)
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| | Proper solar wind power estimation and planetary radiometric efficiencies (reply) 756
M. D. DESCH & M. L. KAISER
doi:10.1038/314756a0
References | PDF (102K)
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| | Matters arising 756
doi:10.1038/314756b0
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