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| | Computers for British academics 565
The provision of computers in British universities has been generous while the rest of the system has been starved. The government should put computers on an equal footing with other equipment.
doi:10.1038/316565a0
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| | Worries about deficits 565
The failure of the US Congress to put the government's deficit to rights is serious for us all.
doi:10.1038/316565b0
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| | Action to follow 566
The US Food and Drug Administration plans to be more energetic. Time will tell if it succeeds.
doi:10.1038/316566a0
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| | Geostationary blues 566
Governments are perplexed about the diplomacy of geostationary satellites.
doi:10.1038/316566b0
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| | Gene therapy: NIH/FDA dispute likely to delay research 567
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/316567a0
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| | French science: Xenophobia out of fashion 567
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/316567b0
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| | Ocean Drilling Project: Britain still seeks for membership 568
Elizabeth Collins
doi:10.1038/316568a0
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| | UK research: All change at research council 568
doi:10.1038/316568b0
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| | Supercomputing: Meeting British academic needs 569
Maxine Clarke
doi:10.1038/316569a0
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| | European training: Commission plan for mobility 569
Anna Lubinska
doi:10.1038/316569b0
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| | Space physics: NASA told to be be more active 570
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/316570a0
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| | EEC plans risk management 570
Anna Lubinska
doi:10.1038/316570b0
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| | Polish protest (cont'd) 570
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/316570c0
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| | Japanese psychiatry: Mounting pressure for reform 571
Alun Anderson
doi:10.1038/316571a0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Catastrophism still unexplained 572
PAUL R. WEISSMAN
doi:10.1038/316572a0
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| | Conference costs 572
JOHN R.G. TURNER
doi:10.1038/316572b0
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| | Value-free science 572
BRIAN MARTIN
doi:10.1038/316572c0
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| | Paul Rosbaud 572
ARNOLD KRAMISH
doi:10.1038/316572d0
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| | Faith in God 572
S.J.H. HETTLE
doi:10.1038/316572e0
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| | Towards the quantum computer? 573
The Turing machine, an abstract computer conceived half a century ago as a test of what might be computable, has been overtaken by an idealized quantum computer, which also has drawbacks.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/316573a0
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| | Introns continue to amaze 574
Andy Flavell
doi:10.1038/316574a0
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| | Polymer biochemistry: Radical breakdown of lignin 575
Alistair Paterson & Knut Lundquist
doi:10.1038/316575a0
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| | Astrophysics: New detectors for gravity waves 576
James Hough
doi:10.1038/316576a0
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| | Population dynamics: Water fleas as population model 577
John H. Lawton
doi:10.1038/316577a0
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| | Contrasts in Vostok core — changes in climate or ice volume? 578
G. de Q. Robin
doi:10.1038/316578a0
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| | False starts in translational control of gene expression 580
Tim Hunt
doi:10.1038/316580a0
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| | Scientific Correspondence | |
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| | Photosynthetically active radiation — a new unit 582
RALPH A. LEWIN
doi:10.1038/316582a0
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| | Splicing and the evolution of introns 582
DONAL A. HICKEY & BERNHARD F. BENKEL
doi:10.1038/316582b0
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| | Current density and permittivity 582
H. MYKURA
doi:10.1038/316582c0
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| | Null hypotheses and the misuse of statistics 582
J. O'QUIGLEY & C.E. BAUDOIN
doi:10.1038/316582d0
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| | Between fact and passion 583
Alan Cottrell reviews No Immediate Danger: Prognosis for a Radioactive Earth
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Rosalie Bertell and Power Production: What are the Risks?
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J.H. Fremlin
doi:10.1038/316583a0
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| | Myth, magic and the common solution 584
Anthony W. Clare reviews Sherlock Holmes and the Case of Dr Freud.
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Michael Shepherd
doi:10.1038/316584a0
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| | The fitful gleam 584
P. W. Hawkes reviews Statistical Optics.
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Joseph W. Goodman
doi:10.1038/316584b0
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| | A life in theory 585
Esther R. Phillips reviews The Mathematics of Sonya Kovalevskaya.
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Roger Cooke
doi:10.1038/316585a0
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| | Book Review 'picture story' 585
doi:10.1038/316585b0
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| | Burning conditions 586
D. B. Spalding reviews The Mathematical Theory of Combustion and Explosions.
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Ya. B. Zeldovich, G.I. Barenblatt, V.B. Librovich & G.M. Makhviladze
doi:10.1038/316586a0
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| | Fit for survival 586
John Hearn reviews Reproduction in Mammals, 2nd Edn. Book 4, Reproductive Fitness.
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C.R. Austin & R.V. Short
doi:10.1038/316586b0
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| | Charting the decline in British science 587
Recent data on the comparative scientific performance of different nations suggest that the decline in British basic science apparent during the 1970s began to level off at the start of the 1980s. However, rather than heralding the beginning of a revival, the evidence suggests that this is merely a temporary halt to the long-term slide.
John Irvine, Ben Martin, Tim Peacock & Roy Turner
doi:10.1038/316587a0
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| | A 150,000-year climatic record from Antarctic ice 591
C. Lorius, J. Jouzel, C. Ritz, L. Merlivat, N. I. Barkov, Y. S. Korotkevich & V. M. Kotlyakov
doi:10.1038/316591a0
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| | A phage repressor−operator complex at 7 Å resolution 596
John E. Anderson, Mark Ptashne & Stephen C. Harrison
doi:10.1038/316596a0
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| | Changing the binding specificity of a represser by redesigning an  -helix 601
Robin P. Wharton & Mark Ptashne
doi:10.1038/316601a0
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| | Reconstitution of an active surface T3/T-cell antigen receptor by DNA transfer 606
Pamela S. Ohashi, Tak W. Mak, Peter Van den Elsen, Yusuke Yanagi, Yasunobu Yoshikai, Andrew F. Calman, Cox Terhorst, John D. Stobo & Arthur Weiss
doi:10.1038/316606a0
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| | Skyhook gravitational-wave detector 610
Vladimir B. Braginsky & Kip S. Thorne
doi:10.1038/316610a0
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| | The geomagnetic mass spectrometer— mass and energy dispersions of ionospheric ion flows into the magnetosphere 612
M. Lockwood, T. E. Moore, J. H. Waite Jr, C. R. Chappell, J. L. Horwitz & R. A. Heelis
doi:10.1038/316612a0
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| | Raman intensity measurements for determining conformer populations as a function of pressure 614
M. P. Dare-Edwards, D. J. Gardiner & N. A. Walker
doi:10.1038/316614a0
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10Be in ice at Vostok Antarctica during the last climatic cycle 616
F. Yiou, G. M. Raisbeck, D. Bourles, C. Lorius & N. I. Barkov
doi:10.1038/316616a0
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| | Net flux of carbon dioxide from tropical forests in 1980 617
R. A. Houghton, R. D. Boone, J. M. Melillo, C. A. Palm, G. M. Woodwell, N. Myers, B. Moore III & D. L. Skole
doi:10.1038/316617a0
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| | Entrainment and vertical transport of deep-ocean water by buoyant hydrothermal plumes 621
J. E. Lupton, J. R. Delaney, H. P. Johnson & M. K. Tivey
doi:10.1038/316621a0
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| | Absolute motion and evolution of the Bouvet triple junction 623
Theodore G. Apotria & Norman H. Gray
doi:10.1038/316623a0
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| | Geometry of propagating continental rifts 625
William Bosworth
doi:10.1038/316625a0
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| | Three distinct types of dynamic behaviour shown by a single planktonic system 628
William W. Murdoch & Edward McCauley
doi:10.1038/316628a0
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| | Light-dependent antibody labelling of photoreceptors 630
Grant W. Balkema & Ursula C. Dräger
doi:10.1038/316630a0
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| | Stimulation of multipotential, erythroid and other murine haematopoietic progenitor cells by adherent cell lines in the absence of detectable multi-CSF (IL-3) 633
C. L. Li & G. R. Johnson
doi:10.1038/316633a0
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| | Nonrandom loss of chromosome 15 in Syrian hamster tumours induced by v-Ha-ras plus v-myc oncogenes 636
Mitsuo Oshimura, Tona M. Gilmer & J. Carl Barrett
doi:10.1038/316636a0
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| | EGF receptor-associated DNA-nicking activity is due to a M
r-100,000 dissociable protein 640
Mitali Basu, Kevin Frick, Anis Sen-Majumdar, Charles D. Scher & Manjusri Das
doi:10.1038/316640a0
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| | Mitochondrial class II introns encode proteins related to the reverse transcriptases of retroviruses 641
François Michel & B. Franz Lang
doi:10.1038/316641a0
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| | Haemophilia B caused by a point mutation in a donor splice junction of the human factor IX gene 643
D. J. G. Rees, C. R. Rizza & G. G. Brownlee
doi:10.1038/316643a0
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| | Attachment of transported vesicles to microtubules in axoplasm is facilitated by AMP-PNP 645
R. J. Lasek & S. T. Brady
doi:10.1038/316645a0
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| | Primary structure of bovine thyroglobulin deduced from the sequence of its 8,431-base complementary DNA 647
Luc Mercken, Marie-Jeanne Simons, Stéphane Swillens, Marc Massaer & Gilbert Vassart
doi:10.1038/316647a0
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| | Ethylation interference and X-ray crystallography identify similar interactions between 434 repressor and operator 651
Frederic D. Bushman, John E. Anderson, Stephen C. Harrison & Mark Ptashne
doi:10.1038/316651a0
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| | Photodriven transmembrane charge separation and electron transfer by a carotenoporphyrin−quinone triad 653
Patrick Seta, Elisabeth Bienvenue, Ana L. Moore, Paul Mathis, Rene V. Bensasson, Paul Liddell, Peter J. Pessiki, Anna Joy, Thomas A. Moore & Devens Gust
doi:10.1038/316653a0
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| | Hydrogen bonding in enzymatic catalysis analysed by protein engineering 656
Tim N. C. Wells & Alan R. Fersht
doi:10.1038/316656a0
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| | Corrigenda | |
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| | The nucleotide sequences of copia and copia-related RNA in Drosophila virus-like particles 657
T. Emori, T. Shiba, S. Kanaya, S. Inouye, S. Yuki & K. Saigo
doi:10.1038/316657a0
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| | Analytical solution for the effect of increasing CO2 on global mean temperature 657
T. M. L. Wigley & M. E. Schlesinger
doi:10.1038/316657b0
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| | Erratum | |
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| | X-linkage of steroid sulphatase in the mouse is evidence for a functional Y-linked allele 657
E. Keitges, M. Rivest, M. Siniscalco & S. M. Gartler
doi:10.1038/316657c0
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| | Matters Arising | |
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| | Aromaticity of soil fulvic acid 658
M. SCHNITZER
doi:10.1038/316658a0
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| | Aromaticity of soil fulvic acid 658
V. C. FARMER
doi:10.1038/316658b0
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| | Product Review | |
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| | Laboratory fittings go Dutch 659
The new products covered here are from some of the manufacturers exhibiting at the 13th International Congress of Biochemistry in Amsterdam.
doi:10.1038/316659a0
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| | Books Recieved | |
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| | Books Recieved 662
doi:10.1038/316662a0
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