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| | Star wars threat to ABM treaty 1
The Pentagon recipe for testing star wars technology without technically violating the anti-ballistic missile treaty is an artificial exercise likely to do more harm than good.
doi:10.1038/315001a0
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| | Fun made dull? 2
British school mathematics may be made worse by the government's recipe for reform.
doi:10.1038/315002a0
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| | Star wars: DoD makes a monkey of anti-missile treaty 3
Stephen Budiansky
doi:10.1038/315003a0
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| | Star wars: Academics sign on for research 3
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/315003b0
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| | Japanese Science Council: Elected body goes out fighting 4
Alun Anderson
doi:10.1038/315004a0
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| | Romania: Nuclear power in the distance 4
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/315004b0
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| | European Communities: More attention for basic research? 5
Anna Lubinska
doi:10.1038/315005a0
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| | French research: CNRS to concentrate resources 5
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/315005b0
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| | UNIDO biotechnology: Twinned-centre jumps legal gun 6
K.S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/315006a0
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| | US science budget: Deficit-cutting means freeze 6
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/315006b0
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| | Australian science: Plans laid for new lobby 7
Jeffrey Sellar
doi:10.1038/315007a0
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| | Famine: Remedy not by bread alone 7
Peter Newmark
doi:10.1038/315007b0
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| | AIDS: Undesirable import to Japan 8
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/315008a0
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| | ESA, Japan agree on participation in planned US space station 8
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/315008b0
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| | AIDS: Undesirable import to Japan 8
Alun Anderson
doi:10.1038/315008c0
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| | Popularization: Royal Society asks for more 9
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/315009a0
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| | Animal experimentation: Alternatives neglected 9
Stephen Budiansky
doi:10.1038/315009b0
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| | Big telescope race 9
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/315009c0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Changing the objectives 10
RICHARD G. BINGHAM
doi:10.1038/315010a0
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| | Plight of refusniks 10
SOLOMON AL'BER
doi:10.1038/315010b0
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| | Abstract policy 10
DANA L. ROTH
doi:10.1038/315010c0
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| | Industrial collaboration on show 11
Professional people do not spend time as salesmen at trade fairs each year. But there is much to be learned from what went on at Hannover last week.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/315011a0
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| | Population biology: Evolution of pesticide resistance 12
Robert M. May
doi:10.1038/315012a0
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| | Most ancient aggregation of serpents 13
doi:10.1038/315013a0
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| | Growth factors: Neuropeptides as mitogens 14
Michael R. Hanley
doi:10.1038/315014a0
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| | 100 Years Ago 14
doi:10.1038/315014b0
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| | Protein structure: Hands on the calcium switch 15
C. Schutt
doi:10.1038/315015a0
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| | Environmental science: Acidification and decline of Central European forests 16
Nico van Breemen
doi:10.1038/315016a0
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| | Primate cognition: Can apes learn to count? 16
Brendan McGonigle
doi:10.1038/315016b0
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| | Biopolymers: The spinning of silk 17
Paul Calvert
doi:10.1038/315017a0
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| | Icythyology: The biology of coelacanths 18
Jared M. Diamond
doi:10.1038/315018a0
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| | Destruction of fisheries in Africa's lakes 19
The introduction of the Nile perch into Lake Victoria, East Africa, has had disastrous consequences. Fisheries have been not merely damaged but destroyed. Lake Malawi has the world's most species-rich fish fauna and the prospect of introduction of alien species could mean disaster.
C.D.N. Barel, R. Dorit, P.H. Greenwood, G. Fryer, N. Hughes, P.B.N. Jackson, H. Kawanabe, R.H. Lowe-McConnell, M. Nagoshi, A.J. Ribbink, E. Trewavas, F. Witte & K. Yamaoka
doi:10.1038/315019a0
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| | Does the ocean−atmosphere system have more than one stable mode of operation? 21
Wallace S. Broecker, Dorothy M. Peteet & David Rind
doi:10.1038/315021a0
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| | Powerful extragalactic masers 26
Willem A. Baan
doi:10.1038/315026a0
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| | Sources of acidification in Central Europe estimated from elemental budgets in small basins 31
Tomas Paces
doi:10.1038/315031a0
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| | Three-dimensional structure of calmodulin 37
Y. Sudhakar Babu, John S. Sack, Trevor J. Greenhough, Charles E. Bugg, Anthony R. Means & William J. Cook
doi:10.1038/315037a0
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| | Letters | |
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| | Low frequency variability and interstellar focusing 40
T. V. Cawthorne & B. J. Rickett
doi:10.1038/315040a0
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| | Fermionic and bosonic interference during spin rotation through 2 radians 42
Herbert J. Bernstein
doi:10.1038/315042a0
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| | Evidence from polar ice cores for the increase in atmospheric CO2 in the past two centuries 45
A. Neftel, E. Moor, H. Oeschger & B. Stauffer
doi:10.1038/315045a0
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| | Vertical structure of the Brazil Current 48
David L. Evans & Sergio S. Signorini
doi:10.1038/315048a0
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| | The Somali Current in autumn 1984, before the onset of the north-east monsoon 50
Friedrich Schott & Michele Fieux
doi:10.1038/315050a0
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| | Determination of the age of the Australian continent by single-grain zircon analysis of Mt Narryer metaquartzite 52
Urs Schärer & Claude J. Alègre
doi:10.1038/315052a0
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| | Halomethane from halide ion—a highly efficient fungal
conversion of environmental significance 55
David B. Harper
doi:10.1038/315055a0
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| | Use of numbers by a chimpanzee 57
Tetsuro Matsuzawa
doi:10.1038/315057a0
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| | Co-localization of corticotropin releasing factor and vasopressin mRNA in neurones after adrenalectomy 59
Betty Wolfson, Robert W. Manning, Leonard G. Davis, Rene Arentzen & Frank Baldino Jr
doi:10.1038/315059a0
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| | Stimulation of connective tissue cell growth by substance P and substance K 61
Jan Nilsson, Anne M. von Euler & Carl-Johan Dalsgaard
doi:10.1038/315061a0
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| | Voltage dependence of Na/K pump current in isolated heart cells 63
David C. Gadsby, Junko Kimura & Akinori Noma
doi:10.1038/315063a0
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| | NMR technique for assessing contributions of heavy and light chains to an antibody combining site 65
Jacob Anglister, Tom Frey & Harden M. McConnell
doi:10.1038/315065a0
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| | Comparison of  -tropomyosin sequences from smooth and striated muscle 67
Nelson Ruiz-Opazo, Judah Weinberger & Bernardo Nadal-Ginard
doi:10.1038/315067a0
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| | Most classical Mus musculus domesticus laboratory mouse strains carry a Mus musculus musculus Y chromosome 70
C. E. Bishop, P. Boursot, B. Baron, F. Bonhomme & D. Hatat
doi:10.1038/315070a0
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| | Simian virus 40 enhancer increases
number of RNA polymerase II molecules on linked DNA 72
Richard Treisman & Tom Maniatis
doi:10.1038/315072a0
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| | Simian virus 40 enhancer increases RNA polymerase density within the linked gene 75
Frank Weber & Walter Schaffner
doi:10.1038/315075a0
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| | Functions of the canal system in the rotaliid foraminifer, Heterostegina depressa
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R. Röttger, M. Spindler, R. Schmaljohann, M. Richwien & M. Fladung
doi:10.1038/315077a0
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| | Books Received | |
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| | Books Received 78
doi:10.1038/315078a0
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| | Tests of influence 79
P.E. Bryant reviews Beyond IQ: A Triarchic Theory of Human Intelligence.
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Robert J. Sternberg
doi:10.1038/315079a0
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| | [Book Reviews 'picture story'] 79
doi:10.1038/315079b0
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| | On the rocks down under 80
Michael Audley-Charles reviews Phanerozoic Earth History of Australia.
Edited by
J.J. Veevers
doi:10.1038/315080a0
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| | Chemists' enzymes 80
Richard Perham reviews Enzyme Chemistry: Impact and Applications.
Edited by
Colin J. Suckling and The Chemistry of Enzyme Action.
Edited by
M.I. Page
doi:10.1038/315080b0
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| | An independent view 81
John H. Lawton reviews The Ecological Web: More on the Distribution and Abundance of Animals.
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H.G. Andrewartha & L.C. Birch
doi:10.1038/315081a0
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| | Classified material 82
V.H. Heywood reviews Guide to Standard Floras of the World.
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D.G. Frodin
doi:10.1038/315082a0
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| | Past futures 82
D.Q. Bowen reviews Late Quaternary Environments of the Soviet Union.
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A.A. Velichko
doi:10.1038/315082b0
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| | New on the Market | |
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| | Eye movements recorded 83
This month's sampling of new products includes a sensitive system for recording human eye movements and a bench-top dry ice machine.
doi:10.1038/315083a0
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| | Women in science and engineering 84
One of the biggest changes in the employment scene in the second half of this century has been the rising participation of women in the labour market.
Richard Pearson
doi:10.1038/315084a0
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