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| | President Reagan and Mr Perle 167
The US administration seems to be speaking with two voices on arms control. Mr Richard Perle, the hard man from the Pentagon, should be the one to opt for moderation.
doi:10.1038/315167a0
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| | Football squalor 168
The deaths at a British football game should be an invitation to economic realism.
doi:10.1038/315168a0
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| | Patent rights 168
Two years late, British academics are to have title to patents arising from inventions.
doi:10.1038/315168b0
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| | US-Soviet exchanges: Academy divided over new agreement 169
Stephen Budiansky
doi:10.1038/315169a0
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| | Sakharov: Resignation from Soviet academy 169
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/315169b0
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| | Genetic engineering: RAC stakes its claim 170
Stephen Budiansky
doi:10.1038/315170a0
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Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/315170b0
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| | Star wars: Franco-German accord? 171
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/315171a0
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| | Royal Society: All change ahead in London 171
doi:10.1038/315171b0
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| | Japanese environment: Rediscovery of pollution 172
Alun Anderson
doi:10.1038/315172a0
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| | French universities: New watchdog barks well 172
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/315172b0
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| | Japan in space: David keeps Goliath guessing 173
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/315173a0
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| | French research: End to growth in sight? 174
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/315174a0
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| | CNRS spending 174
doi:10.1038/315174b0
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| | Charitable foundations: Wellcome Trust plans asset sale 174
doi:10.1038/315174c0
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| | UK agricultural research: Penury brings radical reappraisal 175
doi:10.1038/315175a0
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| | Tumour necrosis factor: Drug agency jumps TNF gun 175
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/315175b0
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| | Halley's comet in ancient times 176
MARTIN PULBROOK
doi:10.1038/315176a0
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| | Embryo research 176
C.B. GOODHART
doi:10.1038/315176b0
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| | Artificial hearts 176
JAMES B. BOSKEY
doi:10.1038/315176c0
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BERNARD D. DAVIS
doi:10.1038/315176d0
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| | New ways with microscopes 177
The range of the phenomena usable in the construction of microscopes continues to increase. Neutrons, for example, are now being used in place of photons.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/315177a0
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| | Quasi-crystals: Respectable icosahedral symmetry 178
Paul A. Heiney
doi:10.1038/315178a0
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| | Cell motility: Fast axonal transport dissected 178
Dennis Bray
doi:10.1038/315178b0
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| | Wind shear and aviation safety 179
Edwin Kessler
doi:10.1038/315179a0
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| | 100 years ago 180
doi:10.1038/315180a0
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| | Neurophysiology: Potential challenge from glia 181
A.R. Gardner-Medwin
doi:10.1038/315181a0
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| | Atmospheric physics: Predicting the ionosphere 182
D.G. Cole
doi:10.1038/315182a0
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| | Evolution: The point of a toucan's bill 182
J.S. Jones
doi:10.1038/315182b0
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| | Plant geology: Changing weight of photosynthesis in the ocean 184
I. Gilmour
doi:10.1038/315184a0
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| | Scientific creationism and rationality 185
Scientific creationism is a social movement of rationalists — amateur philosophers of science — whose claims upon science policy are nonetheless wholly unreasonable. This thesis may not endear the author either to rationalists or creationists, but it may illumine the movement's behaviour and the sources of its wider appeal.
Michael A. Cavanaugh
doi:10.1038/315185a0
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George Klein & Eva Klein
doi:10.1038/315190a0
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| | Large-scale regional units in the depleted upper mantle revealed by an isotope study of the South-West Indian Ridge 196
Bruno Hamelin & Claude J. Allègre
doi:10.1038/315196a0
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| | A short conserved sequence is involved in the light-inducibility of a gene encoding ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase small subunit of pea 200
Giorgio Morelli, Ferenc Nagy, Robert T. Fraley, Stephen G. Rogers & Nam-Hai Chua
doi:10.1038/315200a0
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R. J. Protheroe & R. W. Clay
doi:10.1038/315205a0
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J. C. Farman, B. G. Gardiner & J. D. Shanklin
doi:10.1038/315207a0
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| | An Ordovician ophiolite in County Tyrone, Ireland 210
D. H. W. Hutton, M. Aftalion & A. N. Halliday
doi:10.1038/315210a0
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| | Seismic sequences in Greece interpreted in terms of barrier model 212
G. F. Karakaisis, B. G. Karacostas, E. E. Papadimitriou, E. M. Scordilis & B. C. Papazachos
doi:10.1038/315212a0
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| | The origin of authigenic ankerite from the Ninian Field, UK North Sea 214
J. D. Kantorowicz
doi:10.1038/315214a0
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| | Anomalous 13C enrichment in modern marine organic carbon 216
Michael A. Arthur, Walter E. Dean & George E. Claypool
doi:10.1038/315216a0
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| | Seasonal variations in natural abundance of 15N in particles sinking to the deep Sargasso Sea 218
Mark A. Altabet & Werner G. Deuser
doi:10.1038/315218a0
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| | Photoadaptation of high Arctic ice algae 219
Glenn F. Cota
doi:10.1038/315219a0
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| | Early hominid from Baringo, Kenya 222
Andrew Hill
doi:10.1038/315222a0
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| | Chromosome Y-specific DNA in related human XX males 224
David C. Page, Albert de la Chapelle & Jean Weissenbach
doi:10.1038/315224a0
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| | X-linkage of steroid sulphatase in the mouse is evidence
for a functional Y-linked allele 226
Elisabeth Keitges, Martha Rivest, Marcello Siniscalco & Stanley M. Gartler
doi:10.1038/315226a0
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| | Does interocular transfer occur in visual navigation by ants? 228
Rüdiger Wehner & Martin Müller
doi:10.1038/315228a0
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| | Voltage-dependent potassium currents in cultured astrocytes 229
Stuart Bevan & Martin Raff
doi:10.1038/315229a0
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| | Expression of T-cell antigen receptor genes during fetal development in the thymus 232
H. Ralph Snodgrass, Zlatko Dembi , Michael Steinmetz & Harald von Boehmer
doi:10.1038/315232a0
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| | Interleukin-2 stimulates association of protein kinase C with plasma membrane 233
William L. Farrar & Wayne B. Anderson
doi:10.1038/315233a0
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| | Altered cytosol/membrane enzyme redistribution on interleukin-3 activation of protein kinase C 235
William L. Farrar, Thomas P. Thomas & Wayne B. Anderson
doi:10.1038/315235a0
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| | Selective inhibition of the anchorage-independent growth of myc-transfected fibroblasts by retinoic acid 237
Anita B. Roberts, Nanette S. Roche & Michael B. Sporn
doi:10.1038/315237a0
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| | Association of phosphatidylinositol kinase activity with polyoma middle-T competent for transformation 239
Malcolm Whitman, David R. Kaplan, Brian Schaffhausen, Lewis Cantley & Thomas M. Roberts
doi:10.1038/315239a0
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| | Primary structure of the  -subunit of transducin and its relationship to ras proteins 242
Tsutomu Tanabe, Toshihide Nukada, Yoshiki Nishikawa, Katsunori Sugimoto, Harukazu Suzuki, Hideo Takahashi, Masaharu Noda, Tatsuya Haga, Arata Ichiyama, Kenji Kangawa, Naoto Minamino, Hisayuki Matsuo & Shosaku Numa
doi:10.1038/315242a0
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| | Translocation of vesicles from squid axoplasm on flagellar microtubules 245
Susan P. Gilbert, Robert D. Allen & Roger D. Sloboda
doi:10.1038/315245a0
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| | A gelsolin-like Ca2+-dependent actin-binding domain in villin 248
Paul Matsudaira, Ross Jakes & John E. Walker
doi:10.1038/315248a0
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| | Local protein−DNA interactions may determine nucleosome positions on yeast plasmids 250
Fritz Thoma & Robert T. Simpson
doi:10.1038/315250a0
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| | Determination of surface topography of biological specimens at high resolution by scanning tunnelling microscopy 253
A. M. Baró, R. Miranda, J. Alamán, N. García, G. Binnig, H. Rohrer, Ch. Gerber & J. L. Carrascosa
doi:10.1038/315253a0
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L. Hennighausen, U. Siebenlist, D. Danner, P. Leder, D. Rawlins, P. Rosenfeld & T. Kelly Jr
doi:10.1038/315254a0
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| | Functional modifications of cytotoxic T-lymphocyte T200 glycoprotein recognized by monoclonal antibodies 254
L. Lefrançois & M. J. Bevan
doi:10.1038/315254b0
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| | Nuts with everything 255
John Rivers reviews Health or Hoax? The Truth about Health Foods and Diets.
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Arnold E. Bender, John Yudkin, Stephen Seely, David L.J. Freed, Gerald A. Silverstone & Vicky Rippere
doi:10.1038/315255a0
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| | Biology at work 256
Norman Carey reviews Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Reviews, Vols 1 and 2.
Executive editor
Gordon E. Russell
doi:10.1038/315256a0
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| | Building for the scientist 257
Michael Brawne reviews Design, Construction and Refurbishment of Laboratories.
Edited by
R. Lees & A. F. Smith
doi:10.1038/315257a0
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| | Ways to deal with discrete data 257
P.W. Hawkes reviews Digital Image Processing Techniques.
Edited by
Michael P. Ekstrom & K.G. Beauchamp
doi:10.1038/315257b0
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| | Vision as a guide to action 258
Stuart Sutherland reviews Visual Perception: Physiology, Psychology and Ecology.
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Vicki Bruce & Patrick Green
doi:10.1038/315258a0
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| | Books Received 259
doi:10.1038/315259a0
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| | Putting the technology into biology 261
Recent entrants onto the expanding 'biotechnology market' include sophisticated computerized systems for monitoring fermentations.
doi:10.1038/315261a0
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