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| | Who will regulate the bankers? 1
That financial institutions should be trustworthy is a necessary condition for their continued sponsorship of innovation. Banks, in other words, need laws.
doi:10.1038/319001a0
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| | OPEC is not yet dead 2
The oil producers will now be less powerful unless the oil consumers invite further discomfort.
doi:10.1038/319002a0
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| | Japanese public health: New campaign launched against hepatitis B 3
Alun Anderson
doi:10.1038/319003a0
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| | Australian science: Radical shakeup planned 3
doi:10.1038/319003b0
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| | Remote sensing: US agencies blamed for muddle 4
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/319004a0
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| | French science: CNRS faces political change 4
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/319004b0
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| | Japanese communications: What band-rate for psi? 5
Alun Anderson
doi:10.1038/319005a0
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| | Red greens on Yellow River? 5
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/319005b0
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| | Space science: British head for French lab 5
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/319005c0
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| | Argentine science: Slow return to openness 6
S.J. Pirt
doi:10.1038/319006a0
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| | Laboratory animals: US protection act approved 7
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/319007a0
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| | Bhopal disaster: India blames Union Carbide 7
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/319007b0
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| | AIDS in the human brain 8
CECIL. H. FOX & M. COTTLER-FOX
doi:10.1038/319008a0
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| | Homochiral creationism 8
HILTON STOWELL
doi:10.1038/319008b0
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| | Earnshaw's theorem 8
H. ASPDEN
doi:10.1038/319008c0
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| | Price of star wars 8
JOSEPH HERTZLINGER
doi:10.1038/319008d0
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| | Metric system 8
R.J. BIRD
doi:10.1038/319008e0
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| | Further anxieties about AIDS 9
AIDS has been a serious problem of public health since it was first recognized. The realization that it may affect the human nervous system gives a new twist. But the remedies are the same.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/319009a0
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| | Immunology: Approaches to AIDS therapy 10
David Klatzmann & Luc Montagnier
doi:10.1038/319010a0
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| | Weather forecasting: Storm hunting with fractals 11
A. Hollingsworth
doi:10.1038/319011a0
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| | Immunoglobulin genes: Inversion for gene construction 12
David Baltimore
doi:10.1038/319012a0
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| | Plate tectonics: Global thermal histories 13
Mike Bickle
doi:10.1038/319013a0
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| | 100 years ago 13
doi:10.1038/319013b0
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| | Protein structure: Polar pocket with nonpolar lining 14
David J. Cowley
doi:10.1038/319014a0
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| | Glynn Isaac 1937−1985 15
Bernard Wood
doi:10.1038/319015a0
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| | Endangered species: The fate of the California condor 16
David S. Wilcove & Robert M. May
doi:10.1038/319016a0
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| | Trialkyl lead in rain in the Black Forest 17
H. FAULSTICH & C. STOURNARAS
doi:10.1038/319017a0
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| | An anniversary for the lipid bilayer 17
J.A. KINT & J.G. LEROY
doi:10.1038/319017b0
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| | X chromosomes and dosage compensation 18
H. SHARAT CHANDRA
doi:10.1038/319018a0
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| | The Grand Menhir re-examined 18
ROBERT L. MERRITT
doi:10.1038/319018b0
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Nature's Guide to How Britain Runs its Science 18
doi:10.1038/319018c0
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| | Intellect in evolution 19
Douglas J. Futuyma reviews Evolution: Essays in Honour of John Maynard Smith.
Edited by
P.J. Greenwood, P.H. Harvey & M. Slatkin
doi:10.1038/319019a0
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| | Action at a distance in public affairs 20
Joseph Haberer reviews Einstein in America.
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Jamie Sayen
doi:10.1038/319020a0
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| | Close considerations 20
Jack Cohen reviews Biology of Fertilization.
Edited by
Charles B. Metz & Alberto Monroy
doi:10.1038/319020b0
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| | Products of history 21
Janet Browne reviews Seeds of Change: Five Plants that Transformed Mankind.
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Henry Hobhouse
doi:10.1038/319021a0
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| | Connecting with the invertebrates 22
Adrian Horridge reviews Model Neural Networks and Behavior.
Edited by
Allen I. Selverston
doi:10.1038/319022a0
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| | Delayed responses 22
P.F. Baker reviews Calcium in Biological Systems.
Edited by
R.P. Rubin, G.B. Weiss & J.W. Putney
doi:10.1038/319022b0
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| | Rim syncline volume estimation and salt diapirism 23
Kai Sørensen
doi:10.1038/319023a0
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| | Direct evidence for chromosomal inversion during T-cell receptor  -gene rearrangements 28
Marie Malissen, Candice McCoy, Dominique Blanc, Jeannine Trucy, Christian Devaux, Anne-Marie Schmitt-Verhulst, Frank Fitch, Leroy Hood & Bernard Malissen
doi:10.1038/319028a0
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| | Molecular structure of an aspartic proteinase zymogen, porcine pepsinogen, at 1.8 Å resolution 33
Michael N. G. James & Anita R. Sielecki
doi:10.1038/319033a0
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| | A radio outburst and jet from the symbiotic star CH Cyg 38
A. R. Taylor, E. R. Seaquist & J. A. Mattei
doi:10.1038/319038a0
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| | Mechanism of stable jet formation in electrohydrodynamic atomization 41
I. Hayati, A. I. Bailey & Th. F. Tadros
doi:10.1038/319041a0
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| | Fractal characterization of inhomogeneous geophysical measuring networks 43
S. Lovejoy, D. Schertzer & P. Ladoy
doi:10.1038/319043a0
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| | Archaean magmatic sulphate 45
Keiko Hattori & Eion M. Cameron
doi:10.1038/319045a0
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| | Carbon isotope excursions in Precambrian/Cambrian boundary beds, Morocco 48
Maurice E. Tucker
doi:10.1038/319048a0
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| | Planktonic foraminiferal ontogeny and new perspectives for micropalaeontology 50
Geert-Jan A. Brummer, Christoph Hemleben & Michael Spindler
doi:10.1038/319050a0
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| | Acoustic cavitation generated by microsecond pulses of ultrasound 52
L. A. Crum & J. B. Fowlkes
doi:10.1038/319052a0
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| | Potent ulcerogenic actions of platelet-activating factor on the stomach 54
Ann-Charlotte Rosam, John L. Wallace & Brendan J. R. Whittle
doi:10.1038/319054a0
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| | 1-Methyl-4-phenylpyridine is neurotoxic to the nigrostriatal dopamine pathway 56
A. J. Bradbury, B. Costall, A. M. Domeney, P. Jenner, M. E. Kelly, C. D. Marsden & R. J. Naylor
doi:10.1038/319056a0
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| | A large anion-selective channel has seven conductance levels 58
Mauri E. Krouse, Gavan T. Schneider & Peter W. Gage
doi:10.1038/319058a0
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| | Permanent distortion of positional system of Xenopus embryo by brief early perturbation in gravity 60
Jonathan Cooke
doi:10.1038/319060a0
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| | Human T-cell clones recognize a major M. leprae protein antigen expressed in E. coli
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Abu Salim Mustafa, Harvindar Kaur Gill, Audun Nerland, Warwick J. Britton, Vijay Mehra, Barry R. Bloom, Richard A. Young & Tore Godal
doi:10.1038/319063a0
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Mycobacterium leprae-specific protein antigens defined by cloned human helper T cells 66
Tom H. M. Ottenhoff, Paul R. Klatser, Juraj Ivanyi, Diènne G. Elferink, Madeleine Y. L. de Wit & René R. P. de Vries
doi:10.1038/319066a0
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| | Identification of a secretory granule-binding protein as caldesmon 68
Robert. D. Burgoyne, Timothy. R. Cheek & Kathryn-Marie Norman
doi:10.1038/319068a0
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| | Estimation of the polarity of the protein interior by optical spectroscopy 70
Robert B. Macgregor & Gregorio Weber
doi:10.1038/319070a0
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| | Human N-myc is closely related in organization and nucleotide sequence to c-myc
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Nancy E. Kohl, Edith Legouy, Ronald A. DePinho, Perry D. Nisen, Russell K. Smith, Connie E. Gee & Frederick W. Alt
doi:10.1038/319073a0
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| | Matters Arising | |
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| | Mapping of general anaesthetic target sites 77
J. R. ELLILOTT & D. A. HAYDON
doi:10.1038/319077a0
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| | Mapping of general anaesthetic target sites (reply) 78
N. P. FRANKS & W. R. LIEB
doi:10.1038/319078a0
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| | Books Received | |
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| | Books Received 79
doi:10.1038/319079a0
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| | Western blotting kit for AIDS virus 81
The latest batch of new products includes a touch-sensitive video display from Zenith and from Bio-Rad a kit for analysis of the AIDS virus
doi:10.1038/319081a0
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| | The brain drain is here again 84
Much is made of the 'brain drain' of UK scientists to overseas posts, but little is known about the extent of the problem
Richard Pearson
doi:10.1038/319084a0
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