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| | Last high-noon for UNESCO 397
The British government seems determined to pull out of UNESCO. Here is a last-minute plea that it should change its mind. But UNESCO's problems will remain.
doi:10.1038/318397a0
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| | Changing of the guard 397
The Royal Society has a new president, but it may also need a new policy.
doi:10.1038/318397b0
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| | Broadcasting in chaos 398
The British government has encouraged a sense of being mean that now extends to the BBC.
doi:10.1038/318398a0
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| | Apartheid in science: Crunch still ahead for archaeology congress 399
doi:10.1038/318399a0
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| | Keyworth resigns as US science adviser 399
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/318399b0
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| | French research: Salomon speaks out (unpublished) 400
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/318400a0
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| | Cancer research: Ludwig branch lab to close 400
Maxine Clarke
doi:10.1038/318400b0
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| | Embryo research: West German rules proposed 401
Jürgen Neffe
doi:10.1038/318401a0
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| | UK money for AIDS 401
Maxine Clarke
doi:10.1038/318401b0
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| | Danube dams: Austria takes responsibility 401
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/318401c0
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| | Polish universities: Government launches purge 402
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/318402a0
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| | One US−Soviet pact 402
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/318402b0
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| | Max Planck Gesellschaft: More cheer for Eureka than SDI 402
Jürgen Neffe
doi:10.1038/318402c0
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| | Planetary exploration: US Mars lobby gathers strength 403
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/318403a0
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| | Parallel computers: GE aims at super-array contract 403
Bill Johnstone
doi:10.1038/318403b0
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| | Remote sensing: France puts trust in SPOT 403
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/318403c0
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| | Japanese nuclear power: Straining at the US leash 404
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/318404a0
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| | Soviet refusniks: French scholarship in absentia
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Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/318404b0
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| | Soviet seismology: Tajikstan earthquake reveals flaw 405
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/318405a0
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| | Japan in chaos: Radical attacks halt railways 405
Alun Anderson
doi:10.1038/318405b0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | British civil plutonium 406
T. BROOM
doi:10.1038/318406a0
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| | Free will 406
S.J. STARKIE
doi:10.1038/318406b0
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| | Academic tenure 406
J.M. GOLDSCHVARTZ
doi:10.1038/318406c0
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| | Competition for big time opens 407
The launching of the Hubble Space Telescope next year will provide up to 3,000 hours of the best-ever telescope time. Here is how to bid for some of it.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/318407a0
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| | Evolutionary biology: Sex ratios in wasps and aphids 408
Robert M. May & Jon Seger
doi:10.1038/318408a0
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| | Long-running experiments (II) 408
doi:10.1038/318408b0
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| | Quantum Hall effect: Dimensionality leaves its mark 409
R.J. Haug
doi:10.1038/318409a0
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| | Cell biology: Organizing the nucleolus 410
John Sommerville
doi:10.1038/318410a0
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| | Meteorites: Siderophile-enriched sediments and meteoritic debris 411
Richard A. F. Grieve
doi:10.1038/318411a0
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| | 100 years ago 411
doi:10.1038/318411b0
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| | Ecology: Nuclear DNA content as a guide to plant growth rate 412
Peter D. Moore
doi:10.1038/318412a0
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| | Astrophysics: Phase transitions in star formation 413
Alan P. Boss
doi:10.1038/318413a0
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| | Scientific Correspondence | |
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| | New strategies for AIDS therapy and prophylaxis 414
E.C.M. MARIMAN
doi:10.1038/318414a0
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| | New strategies for AIDS therapy and prophylaxis 414
RAYMOND TELLIER & JOSEPH M. WEBER
doi:10.1038/318414b0
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| | Cerebral supermanifolds and little brains 414
HILTON STOWELL
doi:10.1038/318414c0
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| | Feathered wisdom 415
Freeman J. Dyson reviews Hawks, Doves and Owls: An Agenda for Avoiding Nuclear War
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Graham T. Allison, Albert Carnesale & Joseph S. Nye Jr
doi:10.1038/318415a0
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| | Manual works 416
Graham Richards reviews A Handbook of Computational Chemistry: A Practical Guide to Chemical Structure and Energy Calculations
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Tim Clark and Semi-Empirical Methods of Quantum Chemistry
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Joanna Sadlej
doi:10.1038/318416a0
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| | Cool side of life 416
Pierre Douzou reviews Biophysics and Biochemistry at Low Temperatures
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Felix Franks
doi:10.1038/318416b0
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| | To win friends and influence people 417
Ian Stewart reviews The Elements of Graphing Data
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William S. Cleveland
doi:10.1038/318417a0
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| | A look around the kitchens 417
Alastair Hay reviews Controlling Chemicals: The Politics of Regulation in Europe and the United States
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Ronald Brickman, Sheila Jasanoff & Thomas Ilgen
doi:10.1038/318417b0
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| | Get together 418
Marie Boas Hall reviews Science Reorganized: Scientific Societies in the Eighteenth Century
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James E. McClellan III
doi:10.1038/318418a0
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| | A double-blind test of astrology 419
Two double-blind tests were made of the thesis that astrological 'natal charts' can be used to describe accurately personality traits of test subjects.
Shawn Carlson
doi:10.1038/318419a0
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| | Direct observation of He+ pick-up ions of interstellar origin in the solar wind 426
E. Möbius, D. Hovestadt, B. Klecker, M. Scholer, G. Gloeckler & F. M. Ipavich
doi:10.1038/318426a0
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| | Axial processes along a segment of the East Pacific Rise, 10°−12° N 429
G. Thompson, W. B. Bryan, R. Ballard, K. Hamuro & W. G. Melson
doi:10.1038/318429a0
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| | Patterns of engrailed and fushi tarazu transcripts reveal novel intermediate stages in Drosophila segmentation 433
Michael P. Weir & Thomas Kornberg
doi:10.1038/318433a0
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| | Transcription pattern of the Drosophila segmentation gene hairy
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P. W. Ingham, K. R. Howard & D. Ish-Horowicz
doi:10.1038/318439a0
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| | Are some BL Lac objects artefacts of gravitational lensing? 446
Jeremiah P. Ostriker & Mario Vietri
doi:10.1038/318446a0
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| | GB841215, the fastest  -ray burst? 448
J. G. Laros, E. E. Fenimore, M. M. Fikani, R. W. Klebesadel, M. van der Klis & M. Gottwald
doi:10.1038/318448a0
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| | Change of solar oscillation eigenfrequencies with the solar cycle 449
Martin F. Woodard & Robert W. Noyes
doi:10.1038/318449a0
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| | Ionospheric response to changes in the interplanetary magnetic field observed by EISCAT and AMPTE−UKS 451
H. Rishbeth, P. R. Smith, S. W. H. Cowley, D. M. Willis, A. P. van Eyken, B. J. I. Bromage & S. R. Crothers
doi:10.1038/318451a0
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| | Geomagnetic secular variation in Sicily and revised ages of historic lavas from Mount Etna 453
J. C. Tanguy, I. Bucur & J. F. C. Thompson
doi:10.1038/318453a0
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| | A dynamic model of the curvature of the Mariana Trench 455
Albert T. Hsui & Sarah Youngquist
doi:10.1038/318455a0
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| | Palaeobiological and sedimentological implications of fossil concentrations 457
Susan M. Kidwell
doi:10.1038/318457a0
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| | Sex ratios of an aphid subject to local mate competition with variable maternal condition 460
Youko Yamaguchi
doi:10.1038/318460a0
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| | Age-impaired impulse flow from nucleus basalis to cortex 462
Gary Aston-Jones, Joseph Rogers, Robert D. Shaver, Timothy G. Dinan & Donald E. Moss
doi:10.1038/318462a0
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| | A late-differentiation antigen associated with the helper inducer function of human T cells 465
Nicole Suciu-Foca, Elaine Reed, Pablo Rubinstein, Wilma MacKenzie, Ah-kau Ng & Donald W. King
doi:10.1038/318465a0
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| | Reconstitution of functional receptor for human interleukin-2 in mouse cells 467
Masanori Hatakeyama, Seijiro Minamoto, Takashi Uchiyama, Richard R. Hardy, Gen Yamada & Tadatsugu Taniguchi
doi:10.1038/318467a0
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| | Human blood platelets showing no response to collagen fail to express surface glycoprotein Ia 470
H. Karel Nieuwenhuis, Jan Willem N. Akkerman, Wim P. M. Houdijk & Jan J. Sixma
doi:10.1038/318470a0
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| | Specific growth response of ras-transformed embryo fibroblasts to tumour promoters 472
Gian Paolo Dotto, Luis F. Parada & Robert A. Weinberg
doi:10.1038/318472a0
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-containing transcripts initiate heterogeneously within the IgH enhancer region and contain a novel 5'-nontranslatable exon 475
Gregory G. Lennon & Robert P. Perry
doi:10.1038/318475a0
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| | Resistance to  -lactam antibiotics by re-modelling the active site of an E. coli penicillin-binding protein 478
Philip J. Hedge & Brian G. Spratt
doi:10.1038/318478a0
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| | The immunodominant site of a synthetic immunogen has a conformational preference in water for a type-II reverse turn 480
H. Jane Dyson, Keith J. Cross, Richard A. Houghten, Ian A. Wilson, Peter E. Wright & Richard A. Lerner
doi:10.1038/318480a0
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| | Identification of kinesin in sea urchin eggs, and evidence for its localization in the mitotic spindle 483
J. M. Scholey, M. E. Porter, P. M. Grissom & J. R. McIntosh
doi:10.1038/318483a0
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| | A molecular solution to the riddle of the giant panda's phylogeny 487
BJÖRN KURTÉN
doi:10.1038/318487a0
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| | Steens Mountain geomagnetic polarity transition is a single phenomenon 487
C. S. GROMMÉ, E. A. MANKINEN, M. PRÉVOT & R. S. COE
doi:10.1038/318487b0
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| | Steens Mountain geomagnetic polarity transition is a single phenomenon (reply) 487
JEAN-PIERRE VALET, CARLO LAJ & PIOTR TUCHOLKA
doi:10.1038/318487c0
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| | Dust production in the Sahel 488
M. HULME
doi:10.1038/318488a0
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| | Dust production in the Sahel (reply) 488
N. J. MIDDLETON
doi:10.1038/318488b0
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| | New looks at spectroscopy 489
More spectroscopic equipment is becoming interfaceable with desktop computers — and even the Bunsen burner is going high-tech.
doi:10.1038/318489a0
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| | Graduate mobility in the United Kingdom 494
Increasing interest is being paid in the United Kingdom to longer-term graduate careers; several cohort studies following graduates from 1980 and later y ears are now under way or are being planned.
Richard Pearson
doi:10.1038/318494a0
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