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| | Spying is getting out of hand 753
doi:10.1038/316753a0
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| | Upsetting apple-carts 754
doi:10.1038/316754a0
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| | Ballistic-missile defence: US under pressure from Europe to share data 755
doi:10.1038/316755a0
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| | UK overseas students: Market forces shrink demand 755
Charles Wenz
doi:10.1038/316755b0
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| | Australian budget: Modest gains for science 756
doi:10.1038/316756a0
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| | British research: Bed of nails at last vacated 756
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/316756b0
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| | Trees: No news ... ... is good news 756
Maxine Clarke
doi:10.1038/316756c0
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| | Espionage: Soviet scientist accused 757
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/316757a0
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| | Nuclear waste: EPA regulates at last 757
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/316757b0
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| | Nuclear India: New reactor "not for bombs" 758
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/316758a0
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| | Soviet alcoholism: Drunk driver stripped of degree 758
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/316758b0
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| | Environmental organizations: Workings of Greenpeace 759
Elizabeth Collins
doi:10.1038/316759a0
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| | AIDS: US company rejects UK decision 759
Maxine Clarke
doi:10.1038/316759b0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Animal intelligence 760
J. H. FREMLIN
doi:10.1038/316760a0
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| | PhD theses 760
BEVERLEY HALSTEAD
doi:10.1038/316760b0
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| | Modest disclaimer 760
D. F. BARTLETT
doi:10.1038/316760c0
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| | Rates of galactic star formation 761
A remarkably simple argument successfully accounts for the rate of star formation in different galaxies. The snag is that the timescale is uncomfortably short.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/316761a0
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| | Palaeoanthropology: Palaeobiology and age of African Homo erectus
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Eric Delson
doi:10.1038/316762a0
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| | Genetic diseases: Probe for muscular dystrophy 763
P. Michael Conneally
doi:10.1038/316763a0
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| | Immunology: Are peptides good antigens? 764
G. Ada & J. J. Skehel
doi:10.1038/316764a0
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| | Computers: More parallel than others 765
D. Parkinson
doi:10.1038/316765a0
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| | Quantum fluid dynamics: Instabilities at absolute zero 766
K. W. Schwarz
doi:10.1038/316766a0
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| | Cytoskeleton: Splitting hairs and other intermediate filaments 767
Peter M. Steinert & Alasdair C. Steven
doi:10.1038/316767a0
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| | 100 Years Ago 767
doi:10.1038/316767b0
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| | Plate tectonics: Room at the top of the world 768
J. Tuzo Wilson
doi:10.1038/316768a0
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| | The fall of Nikolai Vavilov 769
J. R. S. Fincham reviews The Vavilov Affair.
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Mark Popovsky
doi:10.1038/316769a0
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| | Something in the air 770
James E. Lovelock reviews Chemistry of Atmospheres: An Introduction to the Chemistry of the Atmospheres of Earth, the Planets, and their Satellites.
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Richard P. Wayne
doi:10.1038/316770a0
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| | Sweet — and sour 770
John Yudkin reviews Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History.
By
Sidney W. Mintz
doi:10.1038/316770b0
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| | Eating for survival in China 771
Brian Bertram reviews The Giant Pandas of Wolong.
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George B. Schaller, Hu Jinchu, Pan Wenshi & Zhu Jing
doi:10.1038/316771a0
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| | Matter of a letter 772
Stillman Drake reviews The Galileo Affair: A Meeting of Faith and Science.
Edited by
G. V. Coyne, M. Heller & J. Źyci ski.
doi:10.1038/316772a0
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| | AIDS: the scientific story so far 772
June Goodfield reviews A Strange Virus of Unknown Origin.
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Jacques Leibowitch. & C. Howard.
doi:10.1038/316772b0
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| | Rural poverty breeds fertility 773
The conditions of village life in rural India create the need for large families. Reduced fertility will come only with improvement.
Alok Vajpayee
doi:10.1038/316773a0
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| | Control of eukaryotic messenger RNA synthesis by sequence-specific DNA-binding proteins 774
William S. Dynan & Robert Tjian
doi:10.1038/316774a0
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| | Residence time of thorium, uranium and lead in the mantle with implications for mantle convection 778
S. J. G. Galer & R. K. O'Nions
doi:10.1038/316778a0
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| | Diversity and structure of genes of the  family of mouse T-cell antigen receptor 783
Bernhard Arden, Joan L. Klotz, Gerald Siu & Leroy E. Hood
doi:10.1038/316783a0
Abstract & References | PDF (601K)
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| | Early Homo erectus skeleton from west Lake Turkana, Kenya 788
Frank Brown, John Harris, Richard Leakey & Alan Walker
doi:10.1038/316788a0
Abstract & References | PDF (460K)
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| | Age of the Okote Tuff Complex at Koobi Fora, Kenya 792
Ian McDougall, T. Davies, R. Maier & R. Rudowski
doi:10.1038/316792a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (308K)
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| | Stratigraphical notes on the Okote Tuff Complex at Koobi Fora, Kenya 794
F. H. Brown & C. S. Feibel
doi:10.1038/316794a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (423K)
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| | A new form of energy dissipation by a moving object in He II 797
G. G. Nancolas, T. Ellis, P. V. E. McClintock & R. M. Bowley
doi:10.1038/316797a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (358K)
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| | Image distortion near galaxies: dwarfs or lensing? 799
J. Anthony Tyson
doi:10.1038/316799a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (248K)
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| | Intermittent baroclinic instability and fluctuations in geophysical circulations 801
R. W. Griffiths & P. F. Linden
doi:10.1038/316801a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (590K)
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| | Garnet phase of MgSiO3 filling the pyroxene−ilmenite gap at very high temperature 803
Takumi Kato & Mineo Kumazawa
doi:10.1038/316803a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (390K)
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| | Neogene history of the calcite compensation depth and lysocline in the South Pacific Ocean 805
David K. Rea & Margaret Leinen
doi:10.1038/316805a0
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| | Downslope transport of metalliferous
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East Pacific Rise during the late Miocene 807
Stephen Knuttel, David K. Rea & Sherwood W. Wise Jr
doi:10.1038/316807a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (476K)
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| | 'Strangelove ocean' before the Cambrian explosion 809
Kenneth J. Hsu, Hedi Oberhänsli, J. Y. Gao, Sun Shu, Chen Haihong & Urs Krähenbühl
doi:10.1038/316809a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (319K)
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| | Mass extinction among non-marine tetrapods 811
Michael J. Benton
doi:10.1038/316811a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (440K)
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| | Susceptibility to murine lymphocytic choriomeningitis maps to class I MHC genes—a model for MHC/disease associations 814
R. M. Zinkernagel, C. J. Pfau, H. Hengartner & A. Althage
doi:10.1038/316814a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (445K)
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| | Amplification of P-glycoprotein genes in multidrug-resistant mammalian cell lines 817
John R. Riordan, Kathryn Deuchars, Norbert Kartner, Noa Alon, Jeffrey Trent & Victor Ling
doi:10.1038/316817a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (435K)
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| | Detection of P-glycoprotein in multidrug-resistant cell lines by monoclonal antibodies 820
Norbert Kartner, Deanna Evernden-Porelle, Grace Bradley & Victor Ling
doi:10.1038/316820a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (518K)
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| | Bombesin-like peptides can function as autocrine growth factors in human small-cell lung cancer 823
Frank Cuttitta, Desmond N. Carney, James Mulshine, Terry W. Moody, Joseph Fedorko, Adam Fischler & John D. Minna
doi:10.1038/316823a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (477K)
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| | Translocation of the p53 gene in t(15;17) in acute promyelocytic leukaemia 826
Michelle M. Le Beau, Carol A. Westbrook, Manuel O. Diaz, Janet D. Rowley & Moshe Oren
doi:10.1038/316826a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (342K)
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| | Unusual organization and diversity of T-cell receptor a-chain genes 828
Adrian C. Hayday, Don J. Diamond, Gary Tanigawa, Joseph S. Heilig, Virginia Folsom, Haruo Saito & Susumu Tonegawa
doi:10.1038/316828a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (591K)
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| | Genomic organization of the genes encoding mouse T-cell receptor -chain 832
Astar Winoto, Shelley Mjolsness & Leroy Hood
doi:10.1038/316832a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (581K)
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| | Organization and sequences of the variable, joining and constant region genes of the human T-cell receptor -chain 837
Yasunobu Yoshikai, Stephen P. Clark, Sheryle Taylor, Uik Sohn, Bonnie I. Wilson, Mark D. Minden & Tak W. Mak
doi:10.1038/316837a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (570K)
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| | Smooth muscle -actin is a transformation-sensitive marker for mouse NIH 3T3 and Rat-2 cells 840
John Leavitt, Peter Gunning, Larry Kedes & Raxit Jariwalla
doi:10.1038/316840a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (388K)
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| | Detection of deletions spanning the Duchenne muscular dystrophy locus using a tightly linked DNA segment 842
Anthony P. Monaco, Corlee J. Bertelson, William Middlesworth, Chris-Anne Colletti, John Aldridge, Kenneth H. Fischbeck, Richard Bartlett, Margaret A. Pericak-Vance, Allen D. Roses & Louis M. Kunkel
doi:10.1038/316842a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (513K)
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| | Relationship between an enhancer element in the human antithrombin III gene and an immunoglobulin light-chain gene enhancer 845
Edward V. Prochownik
doi:10.1038/316845a0
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| | Local cytoplasmic calcium gradients in living mitotic cells 848
Charles H. Keith, Rajiv Ratan, Frederick R. Maxfield, Andrew Bajer & Michael L. Shelanski
doi:10.1038/316848a0
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