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| | Discrimination is not cricket 85
A meeting in Paris on 17 January will decide whether to persist with the ban on South Africans at this year's archaeology congress in Southampton. The organizers should cut their losses and cancel.
doi:10.1038/319085a0
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| | Chopper politics 86
The British government seems bent on making a muddle of its policy on helicopter manufacture.
doi:10.1038/319086a0
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| | Japanese technology: First sale overseas of military equipment 87
Alun Anderson
doi:10.1038/319087a0
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| | US science adviser: McTague fills Keyworth's shoes 87
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/319087b0
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| | British computing: Cooperative research spends up 88
Maxine Clarke
doi:10.1038/319088a0
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| | Siberian river scheme: Russian party demands caution 88
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/319088b0
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| | Soviets ask for space collaboration 88
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/319088c0
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| | Synthetic fuels: US Synfuels narrowly bites dust 89
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/319089a0
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| | British biotechnology: Celltech within sight of profit 89
Karen Wright
doi:10.1038/319089b0
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| | Bell Labs: From monopoly to competition 90
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/319090a0
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| | Israeli Egyptian cooperation: Minor relic of Camp David 91
Nechemia Meyers
doi:10.1038/319091a0
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| | Comecon technology: Plans laid for collaboration 92
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/319092a0
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| | West German space: Ministers at odds about Hermes 92
Jürgen Neffe
doi:10.1038/319092b0
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| | Correspondence |  |
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| | Sakharov's scientific legacy 93
ZHORES A. MEDVEDEV
doi:10.1038/319093a0
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| | Velikovsky 93
OWEN GINGERICH
doi:10.1038/319093b0
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| | Metric system 93
ROBERT BYWATER
doi:10.1038/319093c0
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| | Nuclear weapons 93
A. J. McEVOY
doi:10.1038/319093d0
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| | Pragmatism is not enough 94
DARYL P. DOMNING
doi:10.1038/319094a0
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| | Bees in SE Asia 94
KAREN R. REEVES & WILLIAM H. ANDERSON
doi:10.1038/319094b0
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| | Leprosy vaccine 94
PHILIP DRAPER
doi:10.1038/319094c0
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| | Voyager 2 swings by Uranus 95
The US spacecraft launched towards Jupiter 8.5 years ago is about to encounter Uranus, a planet that has completed only two of its orbits since it was first discovered. The event could be exciting.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/319095a0
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| | Ocean ecology: Light and ultraphytoplankton 96
G. E. Fogg
doi:10.1038/319096a0
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| | Cell biology: Life without clathrin 96
James E. Rothman
doi:10.1038/319096b0
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| | Geology: Are komatiitic lavas voracious? 97
Robert W. Nesbitt
doi:10.1038/319097a0
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| | 100 years ago 98
doi:10.1038/319098a0
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| | Cosmic rays: A supernova for a neighbour? 99
Arnold Wolfendale
doi:10.1038/319099a0
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| | Gene regulation: Importance of helical periodicity 99
Tariq Enver & Roger Patient
doi:10.1038/319099b0
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| | Plate tectonics: Microplates in Antartica 100
A.K. Martin
doi:10.1038/319100a0
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| | Pauling's model not universally accepted 102
JOHN W. CAHN, DENIS GRATIAS & DAN SHECHTMAN
doi:10.1038/319102a0
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| | Pauling's model not universally accepted 103
ALAN L. MACKAY
doi:10.1038/319103a0
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| | Pauling's model not universally accepted 103
ALAN L. MACKAY
doi:10.1038/319103a0
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| | Pauling's model not universally accepted 104
A.A. BEREZIN
doi:10.1038/319104b0
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| | Taking culture seriously 105
Philip Kitcher reviews Culture and the Evolutionary Process.
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Robert Boyd & Peter J. Richerson
doi:10.1038/319105a0
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| | [Book Reviews 'picture story'] 106
doi:10.1038/319106a0
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| | More than perceptive 107
P.W. Hawkes reviews Pattern Recognition: Human and Mechanical.
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Satosi Watanbe
doi:10.1038/319107a0
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| | Developing concepts 107
Raymond D. Lund reviews Molecular Bases of Neural Development.
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Gerald M. Edelman, W. Einar Gall & W. Maxwell Cowan
doi:10.1038/319107b0
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| | Cycling back to the beginning 108
Michael Whitfield reviews The Carbon Cycle and Atmospheric CO2: Natural Variations Archean to Present.
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E.T. Sundquist & W.S. Broecker
doi:10.1038/319108a0
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| | Uncertain alliance 108
Charles Tanford reviews The Physical Chemistry of Membranes: An Introduction to the Structure and Dynamics of Biological Membranes.
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Brian L. Silver
doi:10.1038/319108b0
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| | Future global warming from atmospheric trace gases 109
Robert E. Dickinson & Ralph J. Cicerone
doi:10.1038/319109a0
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| | Masses of the satellites of Uranus 115
S. F. Dermott & P. D. Nicholson
doi:10.1038/319115a0
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| | Requirement of stereospecific alignments for initiation from the simian virus 40 early promoter 121
Keikichi Takahashi, Marc Vigneron, Hans Matthes, Alan Wildeman, M. Zenke & Pierre Chambon
doi:10.1038/319121a0
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| | A very high energy -ray burst from the Crab pulsar 127
P. N. Bhat, P. V. Ramanamurthy, B. V. Sreekantan & P. R. Vishwanth
doi:10.1038/319127a0
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| | Solar ellipticity fluctuations yield no evidence of g-modes 128
J. R. Kuhn, K. G. Libbrecht & R. H. Dicke
doi:10.1038/319128a0
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| | Are the Falkland Islands a rotated microplate? 131
C. Mitchell, G. K. Taylor, K. G. Cox & J. Shaw
doi:10.1038/319131a0
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| | Production of 10Be and 26Al by cosmic rays in terrestrial quartz in situ and implications for erosion rates 134
K. Nishiizumi, D. Lal, J. Klein, R. Middleton & J. R. Arnold
doi:10.1038/319134a0
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| | Thermal erosion by komatiites at Kambalda, Western Australia and the genesis of nickel ores 136
D. I. Groves, E. A. Korkiakoski, N. J. McNaughton, C. M. Lesher & A. Cowden
doi:10.1038/319136a0
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| | Estimating the error of age interpolation in sedimentary rocks 139
Catherine Badgley, Lisa Tauxe & Fred L. Bookstein
doi:10.1038/319139a0
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| | Light quality and oceanic ultraphytoplankters 142
Hilary E. Glover, Maureen D. Keller & Robert R. L. Guillard
doi:10.1038/319142a0
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| | Birds that 'cry wolf' 143
Charles A. Munn
doi:10.1038/319143a0
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| | Synapsin I is a microtubule-bundling protein 145
Anthony J. Baines & Vann Bennett
doi:10.1038/319145a0
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| | Functional corticotropin releasing factor receptors in the primate peripheral sympathetic nervous system 147
Robert Udelsman, James P. Harwood, Monica A. Millan, George P. Chrousos, David S. Goldstein, Reuven Zimlichman, Kevin J. Catt & Greti Aguilera
doi:10.1038/319147a0
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| | IgE-mediated degranulation of mast cells does not require opening of ion channels 150
M. Lindau & J. M. Fernandez
doi:10.1038/319150a0
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| | Murine cells expressing an HLA molecule are specifically lysed by HLA-restricted antiviral human T cells 153
E. Gomard, B. Begue, S. Sodoyer, J. L. Maryanski, B. R. Jordan & J. P. Levy
doi:10.1038/319153a0
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| | A nuclear factor that binds to a conserved sequence motif in transcriptional control elements of immunoglobulin genes 154
Harinder Singh, Ranjan Sen, David Baltimore & Phillip A. Sharp
doi:10.1038/319154a0
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| | Activated human monocytes express the c-sis proto-oncogene and release a mediator showing PDGF-like activity 158
Yves Martinet, Peter B. Bitterman, Jean-Francois Mornex, Gary R. Grotendorst, George R. Martin & Ronald G. Crystal
doi:10.1038/319158a0
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| | A closely linked genetic marker for cystic fibrosis 160
Ray White, Scott Woodward, Mark Leppert, Peter O'Connell, Yusuke Nakamura, Mark Hoff, John Herbst, Jean-Marc Lalouel, Michael Dean & George Vande Woude
doi:10.1038/319160a0
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| | Books Received |  |
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| | Books Received 161
doi:10.1038/319161a0
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