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| | How to tell success from failure 91
Next week's summit will have served its purpose if the participants merely agree that they should meet again. Some popular goals are unattainable, others deserve more attention than they will get.
doi:10.1038/318091a0
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| | Education in a mess 92
A new wave of anxiety about US science education may, this time, bring action.
doi:10.1038/318092a0
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| | Indian technology: Quest for self-reliance runs into trouble 93
K.S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/318093a0
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| | Biotechnology: Diluted optimism at Osaka 94
Alun Anderson
doi:10.1038/318094a0
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| | Computerspeak: Hope for international standards 94
Bill Johnstone
doi:10.1038/318094b0
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| | Eureka: Optimism in France... 95
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/318095a0
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| | Eureka: But who is going to pay? 95
Jurgen Neffe
doi:10.1038/318095b0
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| | Refusniks appeal 95
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/318095c0
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| | Plant genes: Rifkin opens new campaign 96
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/318096a0
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| | USDA drags feet 96
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/318096b0
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| | Bioengineering: Plan for field tests of bacteria 96
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/318096c0
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| | Israel: Medicine confronts Jewish law 97
Nechemia Meyers
doi:10.1038/318097a0
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| | Academies go west 97
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/318097b0
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| | New RI director 97
doi:10.1038/318097c0
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| | French agriculture: More help for farm lobby 97
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/318097d0
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| | UNESCO: Soviet move too late? 98
Maxine Clarke
doi:10.1038/318098a0
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| | Satellite broadcasting: Direct service standards tested 98
Bill Johnstone
doi:10.1038/318098b0
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| | Brenner to quit MRC post 98
doi:10.1038/318098c0
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| | Climatic change with nuclear war 99
EDWARD TELLER
doi:10.1038/318099a0
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| | Origin of AIDS 100
JOSEPH ROSENIOR
doi:10.1038/318100a0
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| | Biotechnology aids 100
C. FRONTALI & C. SACCONE
doi:10.1038/318100b0
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| | Creationism unloved 100
R.H. CLARKE
doi:10.1038/318100c0
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| | PhD theses 100
I.C. KILPATRICK
doi:10.1038/318100d0
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| | Multiple sclerosis and viruses 101
Evidence that human T-cell lymphotropic viruses are associated with multiple sclerosis may lead to identification of viruses that cause the disease—or to an addition to the list of f ailed candidates.
Peter Newmark
doi:10.1038/318101a0
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| | Astronomy: When is a star a superstar? 102
C. Martin Gaskell
doi:10.1038/318102a0
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| | Embryology: Interacting systems in amphibia 102
Hugh Woodland & Elizabeth Jones
doi:10.1038/318102b0
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| | Human disease: Mechanisms in multiple sclerosis 104
Byron Waksman
doi:10.1038/318104a0
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| | Cell metabolism: Organization in the cell soup 106
Hans V. Westerhoff
doi:10.1038/318106a0
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| | Plate tectonics: Palaeozoic longitude problem 106
A.G. Smith
doi:10.1038/318106b0
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| | Palaeoanthropology: The earliest Sivapithecus? 107
Eric Delson
doi:10.1038/318107a0
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| | Keeping science at the core 109
Harvey Brooks
doi:10.1038/318109a0
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| | Chatting fractals and New Math 111
Thomas Banchoff
doi:10.1038/318111a0
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| | In physical context 111
Ivor Grattan-Guinness
doi:10.1038/318111b0
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| | Where lies the science? 112
Anthony W. Clare
doi:10.1038/318112a0
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| | Scent of semi-science 113
Steve Blinkhorn
doi:10.1038/318113a0
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| | Go for Valhalla 114
Michael Spencer
doi:10.1038/318114a0
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| | Modularity of brain and mind 115
P.N. Johnson-Laird
doi:10.1038/318115a0
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| | Entropy parameters and quantum jumps 116
Walter Gratzer
doi:10.1038/318116a0
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| | Behind the scenes in the fight on tropical diseases 117
Adetokunbo O. Lucas
doi:10.1038/318117a0
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| | Lemons and limes 118
Joe Collier
doi:10.1038/318118a0
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| | Marking the path 119
Peter Laing
doi:10.1038/318119a0
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| | A stir in the primeval soup 119
Jacques Ninio
doi:10.1038/318119b0
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| | Appeal to the laity 120
John Rae
doi:10.1038/318120a0
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| | Biology and the behaviour of man 121
John Maynard Smith
doi:10.1038/318121a0
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| | A case of peripatetic mammaldom 122
David W. Macdonald
doi:10.1038/318122a0
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| | Botanical spread 123
Brian Mathew
doi:10.1038/318123a0
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| | Animals and Plants first 123
Michael J. Bean
doi:10.1038/318123b0
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| | More Darwinian detractors 124
Mark Ridley
doi:10.1038/318124a0
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| | Holding back on dangerous play 126
Lawrence Freedman
doi:10.1038/318126a0
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| | Checks on the spread 127
Gordon Thompson
doi:10.1038/318127a0
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| | Towards a New World synthesis 129
Colin A. Russell
doi:10.1038/318129a0
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| | Space shuttles 130
Peter Kemp
doi:10.1038/318130a0
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| | A light on the past 130
Hendrik B.G. Casimir
doi:10.1038/318130b0
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| | In the realm of the cosmocrats 131
Edward Harrison
doi:10.1038/318131a0
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| | Halley's comet in print 132
David W. Hughes
doi:10.1038/318132a0
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| | Recent progress and future plans on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence 135
Michael D. Papagiannis
doi:10.1038/318135a0
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| | Intensive measurements of turbulence and shear in the equatorial undercurrent 140
M. C. Gregg, H. Peters, J. C. Wesson, N. S. Oakey & T. J. Shay
doi:10.1038/318140a0
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| | Hotspot magmas can form by fractionation and contamination of mid-ocean ridge basalts 145
Don. L. Andersen
doi:10.1038/318145a0
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| | Expression of a foreign gene in myeloid and lymphoid cells derived from multipotent haematopoietic precursors 149
Gordon Keller, Christopher Paige, Eli Gilboa & Erwin F. Wagner
doi:10.1038/318149a0
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| | Multiple sclerosis and human T-cell lymphotropic retroviruses 154
Hilary Koprowski, Elaine C. DeFreitas, Mary E. Harper, Magnhild Sandberg-Wollheim, William A. Sheremata, Marjorie Robert-Guroff, Carl W. Saxinger, Mark B. Feinberg, Flossie Wong-Staal & Robert C. Gallo
doi:10.1038/318154a0
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| | A blue stellar population in the HI bridge between the two Magellanic Clouds 160
M. J. Irwin, W. E. Kunkel & S. Demers
doi:10.1038/318160a0
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| | C60: Buckminsterfullerene 162
H. W. Kroto, J. R. Heath, S. C. O'Brien, R. F. Curl & R. E. Smalley
doi:10.1038/318162a0
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| | High-resolution solid-state NMR of quadrupolar nuclei 163
Eric Oldfield, Hye Kyung C. Timken, Ben Montez & R. Ramachandran
doi:10.1038/318163a0
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| | A hydrated aluminophosphate with both 4.82 and 63 sheets in the 4-connected framework 165
Joseph J. Pluth & Joseph V. Smith
doi:10.1038/318165a0
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| | Meteoritic evidence that graphite is rare in the interstellar medium 166
Joseph A. Nuth
doi:10.1038/318166a0
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| | Formation of mesosiderites by low-velocity impacts as a natural consequence of planet formation 168
John T. Wasson & Alan E. Rubin
doi:10.1038/318168a0
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| | A large-scale meridional circulation in the convective zone 170
E. Ribes, P. Mein & A. Mangeney
doi:10.1038/318170a0
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| | Parity-violating energy differences of chiral minerals and the origin of biomolecular homochirality 172
G. E. Tranter
doi:10.1038/318172a0
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| | New higher primates from the early Miocene of Buluk, Kenya 173
R. E. F. Leakey & A. Walker
doi:10.1038/318173a0
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| | Age of hominoid-bearing sequence at Buluk, northern Kenya 175
Ian McDougall & Ronald T. Watkins
doi:10.1038/318175a0
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| | Temporal hyperacuity in the electric sense of fish 178
Gary Rose & Walter Heiligenberg
doi:10.1038/318178a0
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| | Mammalian neural crest cells participate in normal embryonic development on microinjection into post-implantation mouse embryos 181
Rudolf Jaenisch
doi:10.1038/318181a0
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| | Insulin rapidly stimulates tyrosine phosphorylation of a M
r-185,000 protein in intact cells 183
Morris F. White, Ruth Maron & C. Ronald Kahn
doi:10.1038/318183a0
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| | Aspirin causes short-lived inhibition of bradykinin-stimulated prostacyclin production in man 186
Dennis J. Heavey, Susan E. Barrow, Nicola E. Hickling & James M. Ritter
doi:10.1038/318186a0
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| | Expression of N-myc in teratocarcinoma stem cells and mouse embryos 188
Aya Jakobovits, Manfred Schwab, J. Michael Bishop & Gail R. Martin
doi:10.1038/318188a0
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| | Isolation, sequence determination and expression in Escherichia coli of the isopenicillin N synthetase gene from Cephalosporium acremonium
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S. M. Samson, R. Belagaje, D. T. Blankenship, J. L. Chapman, D. Perry, P. L. Skatrud, R. M. VanFrank, E. P. Abraham, J. E. Baldwin, S. W. Queener & T. D. Ingolia
doi:10.1038/318191a0
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