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| | How governments should be run 343
The latest twist in the British government's newest political crisis is less a sign that some people have behaved badly than a proof (if one were needed) that the British constitution needs changing.
doi:10.1038/319343a0
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| | Max-Planck survives 344
The 75th anniversary of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft is a time for celebration.
doi:10.1038/319344a0
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| | Solar System: Voyager passes Uranus, Giotto rescued 345
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/319345a0
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| | Asbestos ban? 345
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/319345b0
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| | SDI: Software rows 345
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/319345c0
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| | US research costs: Government to turn screws 346
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/319346a0
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| | Panel's prescription 346
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/319346b0
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| | Poles sentenced 346
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/319346c0
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| | Japanese education: Uncertain future for reform 347
Alun Anderson
doi:10.1038/319347a0
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| | US animal drugs: FDA chastised by Congress 347
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/319347b0
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| | British universities: Academic leaders answer back 348
doi:10.1038/319348a0
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| | SFC defies Congress 348
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/319348b0
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| | IVF: Another bill bites the dust 349
Maxine Clarke
doi:10.1038/319349a0
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| | Academic redundancies: Committee retires in confusion 349
Charles Wenz
doi:10.1038/319349b0
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| | US research grants: Experiment in informality 349
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/319349c0
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| | French nuclear power: Problems of plenty and success 350
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/319350a0
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| | Nuclear power: Yugoslav plans approved 350
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/319350b0
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| | French science: New role for academy? 351
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/319351a0
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| | Hungarian dam 351
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/319351b0
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| | Marine science: Proposal for British overseer 351
Peter Gambles
doi:10.1038/319351c0
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| | Free will and determinism 352
J.H. FREMLIN
doi:10.1038/319352a0
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| | If (1986)... 352
KEITH DIXON
doi:10.1038/319352b0
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| | Free will and determinism 352
JOSEPH D. ROBINSON
doi:10.1038/319352c0
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| | Molecular biology in Tokyo 353
The widespread influence of molecular biology on the biological sciences was well illustrated at Nature's first conference in Japan on 20−22 January.
Peter Newmark
doi:10.1038/319353a0
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| | Problems of polyglot participation 354
doi:10.1038/319354a0
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| | Vision: Shortcomings of an eagle's eye 357
Graham R. Martin
doi:10.1038/319357a0
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| | Meteorites: Unexpected Antarctic chemistry 357
George W. Wetherill
doi:10.1038/319357b0
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| | Neuropharmacology: Acetylcholine and brain cells 358
David Brown
doi:10.1038/319358a0
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| | Celestial mechanics: Testing Solar System stability 359
P.J. Message
doi:10.1038/319359a0
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| | Ocean Drilling Program: Formation of the Norwegian Sea 360
Leg 104 shipboard scientific party
doi:10.1038/319360a0
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| | Prehistoric ecology: Clues from the pollen record 361
Peter D. Moore
doi:10.1038/319361a0
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| | Physics of liquids: Are diameters rectilinear? 362
J.S. Rowlinson
doi:10.1038/319362a0
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| | Thunder in the air 363
Gwyn Macfarlane reviews The Life of Ernst Chain: Penicillin and Beyond
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Ronald W. Clark
doi:10.1038/319363a0
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| | All about being an amphibian 364
Tim Halliday reviews Biology of Amphibians
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William E. Duellman & Linda Trueb
doi:10.1038/319364a0
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| | A sense of the past 365
Patrick Rabbitt reviews Neuropsychology of Memory
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Larry R. Squire & Nelson Butters
doi:10.1038/319365a0
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| | Putting the protists in their place 366
F.E.G. Cox reviews An Illustrated Guide to the Protozoa
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John J. Lee, Seymour H. Hutner & Eugene C. Bovee
doi:10.1038/319366a0
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| | Threads of insight 366
John J. O'Reilly reviews Fiber Optics: Technology and Applications
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Stewart D. Personick
doi:10.1038/319366b0
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| | The fight for science textbooks 367
Many scientists have deplored the success of creationists in expunging evolution from school science textbooks. A sustained and arduous effort is necessary for a reversal of this process.
Thomas H. Jukes
doi:10.1038/319367a0
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| | Isolation of a cDNA clone coding for a possible neural nicotinic acetylcholine receptor  -subunit 368
Jim Boulter, Karen Evans, Dan Goldman, Gary Martin, Doug Treco, Steve Heinemann & Jim Patrick
doi:10.1038/319368a0
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| | Expression of the c-myb proto-oncogene during cellular proliferation 374
Craig B. Thompson, Peter B. Challoner, Paul E. Neiman & Mark Groudine
doi:10.1038/319374a0
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| | Origin of ultra-high-energy  -rays from Cygnus X-3 and related sources 380
Demosthenes Kazanas & Donald C. Ellison
doi:10.1038/319380a0
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| | Period derivative and orbital eccentricity of binary pulsar 1953+29 383
L. A. Rawley, J. H. Taylor & M. M. Davis
doi:10.1038/319383a0
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| | Feasibility of a low-mass binary source progenitor for PSR1937+214 384
L. C. Jeffrey
doi:10.1038/319384a0
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| | Long-term changes in the semimajor axes of the outer planets 386
A. Milani, A. M. Nobili, K. Fox & M. Carpino
doi:10.1038/319386a0
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| | D to H ratio and the origin and evolution of Titan's atmosphere 388
Joseph P. Pinto, Jonathan I. Lunine, Sang-Joon Kim & Yuk L. Yung
doi:10.1038/319388a0
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| | Antarctic and non-Antarctic meteorites form different populations 390
Jane E. Dennison, David W. Lingner & Michael E. Lipschutz
doi:10.1038/319390a0
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| | A new optical photochemical memory device in a light-sensitive chemical active medium 393
L. Kuhnert
doi:10.1038/319393a0
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| | A plate tectonic model of the eastern Indonesia collision zone 394
T. R. Charlton
doi:10.1038/319394a0
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| | Tectonics of the westernmost Gulf of Aden and the Gulf of Tadjoura from submersible observations 396
Cyaden Scientific Team: P. Choukroune, B. Auvray, J. Francheteau, J. C. Lepine, F. Arthaud, J. P. Brun, J. M. Auzende, B. Sichler & Y. Khobar
doi:10.1038/319396a0
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| | Formation of cubic structures in microemulsions containing equal volumes of oil and water 400
J. Tabony
doi:10.1038/319400a0
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| | Electroreception and electrolocation in platypus 401
Henning Scheich, Gerald Langner, Chris Tidemann, Roger B. Coles & Anna Guppy
doi:10.1038/319401a0
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| | Acetylcholine induces burst firing in thalamic reticular neurones by activating a potassium conductance 402
David A. McCormick & David A. Prince
doi:10.1038/319402a0
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| | Acetylcholine hyperpolarizes central neurones by acting on an M2 muscarinic receptor 405
Terry M. Egan & R. Alan North
doi:10.1038/319405a0
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| | Primary structure of Torpedo californica acetylcholinesterase deduced from its cDNA sequence 407
Mark Schumacher, Shelley Camp, Yves Maulet, Michael Newton, Kathleen MacPhee-Quigley, Susan S. Taylor, Theodore Friedmann & Palmer Taylor
doi:10.1038/319407a0
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| | Single channels and ionic currents in peptidergic nerve terminals 410
José R. Lemos, Jean J. Nordmann, Ian M. Cooke & Edward L. Stuenkel
doi:10.1038/319410a0
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| | Neonatal T-cell tolerance to minimal immunogenic peptides is caused by clonal inactivation 413
Guy Gammon, Karen Dunn, Nilabh Shastri, Alan Oki, Stanley Wilbur & Eli E. Sercarz
doi:10.1038/319413a0
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| | Molecular cloning and expression of cDNA for human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor 415
Shigekazu Nagata, Masayuki Tsuchiya, Shigetaka Asano, Yoshito Kaziro, Tatsumi Yamazaki, Osami Yamamoto, Yuichi Hirata, Naoki Kubota, Masayoshi Oheda, Hitoshi Nomura & Masayoshi Ono
doi:10.1038/319415a0
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| | 'Brain-specific' transcription and evolution of the identifier sequence 418
Carmen Sapienza & Benoit St-Jacques
doi:10.1038/319418a0
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| | Rearrangement of two distinct T-cell -chain variable-region genes in human DNA 420
M.-P. Lefranc, A. Forster & T. H. Rabbitts
doi:10.1038/319420a0
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Ian J. Furner, Gary A. Huffman, Richard M. Amasino, David J. Garfinkel, Milton P. Gordon & Eugene W. Nester
doi:10.1038/319422a0
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Mycobacterium leprae-specific protein antigens defined by cloned human helper T cells 427
T. H. M. Ottenhoff, P. R. Klatser, J. Ivani, D. G. Elferink, M. Y. L. de Wit & R. R. P. de Vries
doi:10.1038/319427a0
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| | Efficiency of petroleum expulsion from shale source rocks 427
D. Leythaeuser, M. Radke & R. G. Schaefer
doi:10.1038/319427b0
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| | Matters Arising | |
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| | Palaeontological and molecular views of panda phylogeny 428
LEIGH M. VAN VALEN
doi:10.1038/319428a0
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| | Palaeontological and molecular views of panda phylogeny 428
STEPHEN J. O'BRIEN, WILLIAM G. NASH, RAOUL E. BENVENISTE, DAVID E. WILDT & MITCH E. BUSH
doi:10.1038/319428b0
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| | Oncofetal antigens 428
JOSEPH H. COGGIN JR
doi:10.1038/319428c0
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TEN FEIZI
doi:10.1038/319428d0
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| | Automated continuous flow peptide synthesis 429
As peptide-based drugs and reagents become a reality, a new method of peptide synthesis is beginning to come into its own.
R.P. Andrews
doi:10.1038/319429a0
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| | A separation sampler 430
doi:10.1038/319430a0
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| | Books Received 434
doi:10.1038/319434a0
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