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| | Disappointment about test bans 561
Last week's nuclear test beneath the Nevada desert probably spells the resumption of Soviet tests but need not imply that the end of the world is at hand. But technical people must be more alert.
doi:10.1038/320561a0
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| | Perceptions of Europe 561
Europe is repeatedly offended by what it sees as US aggression in commercial matters
doi:10.1038/320561b0
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| | More apartheid ironies 562
A conference at Berkeley puts recent events in Southampton in context.
doi:10.1038/320562a0
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| | US space science: Martian base planned within forty years 563
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/320563a0
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| | AIDS research: French virus in the picture 563
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/320563b0
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| | UK medical research: Charity begins at home 564
Peter Newmark
doi:10.1038/320564a0
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| | US intellectual property: Trade reprisals against pirates 564
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/320564b0
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| | Bulgarian science: New organization for flexibility 565
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/320565a0
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| | UK computers: Sinclair eclipse 565
doi:10.1038/320565b0
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| | Japanese education: Obsession with exam results 566
Alun Anderson
doi:10.1038/320566a0
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| | US machine, UK chip 566
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/320566b0
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| | Semiconductor dealing: US and Japan near agreement 567
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/320567a0
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| | US space station: Europe's centrifugal tendencies 567
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/320567b0
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| | Deep-sea sonar: New GLORIA in record time 568
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/320568a0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Dioxin exposure at Monsanto 569
ALASTAIR HAY & ELLEN SILBERGELD
doi:10.1038/320569a0
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| | Dowsing explained 569
TOM WILLIAMSON
doi:10.1038/320569b0
References | PDF (140K)
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| | Brain death in Japan 570
KATSUNORI HONDA
doi:10.1038/320570a0
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| | Embryo research 570
ANNE MCLAREN
doi:10.1038/320570b0
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| | Justifiable risks 570
JAMES A. PITTMAN JR
doi:10.1038/320570c0
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| | More ways than one 570
PANG-CHUI SHAW
doi:10.1038/320570d0
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| | Agricultural genetics still on ice 571
The exciting prospect that biotechnology will transform the technology of agriculture must, sadly, be moderated by the certainty that progress will be unreasonably delayed.
Miranda Robertson
doi:10.1038/320571a0
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| | Astrophysics: Galaxy superclusters and cosmic strings 572
Craig Hogan
doi:10.1038/320572a0
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| | Cell Biology: Consensus in exocytosis 573
Robert H. Kretsinger & Carl E. Creutz
doi:10.1038/320573a0
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| | Planetary evolution: Banded iron formations 574
Kurt Lambeck
doi:10.1038/320574a0
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| | Fossil record: Magnetic skeletons in Davy Jones' locker 575
Richard B. Frankel
doi:10.1038/320575a0
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| | Inbreeding: Do animals avoid incest? 575
Paul H. Harvey & Katherine Ralls
doi:10.1038/320575b0
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| | Neuroanatomy: Problems in pineal physiology 576
Michael Hastings
doi:10.1038/320576a0
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| | Structures in the gas tail of comet Halley 577
doi:10.1038/320577a0
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| | Quantum mechanics: Bulletins delivered from the quantum world 578
Abner Shimony
doi:10.1038/320578a0
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| | Scientific Correspondence | |
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| | Catabolic plasmids, not dissimilatory 579
PETER A. WILLIAMS
doi:10.1038/320579a0
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| | Relationship of Blym genes to repeated sequences 579
JOHN ROGERS
doi:10.1038/320579b0
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| | Relationship of Blym genes to repeated sequences 579
GEOFFREY M. COOPER, GERARD GOUBIN, ALAN DIAMOND & PAUL NEIMAN
doi:10.1038/320579c0
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| | Imanishi and Halstead: intraspecific competition? 580
M. SINCLAIR
doi:10.1038/320580a0
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| | Taxonomy and control of Salvinia molesta
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Outside of its native South America, salvinia is one of the world's worst aquatic weeds. Conventional control is prohibitively expensive, but now biological control using a beetle has become a reality.
P. A. Thomas & P. M. Room
doi:10.1038/320581a0
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| | Review Article | |
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| | Cachectin and tumour necrosis factor as two sides of the same biological coin 584
Bruce Beutler & Anthony Cerami
doi:10.1038/320584a0
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| | Tropical convection, ionospheric potentials and global circuit variation 588
Ralph Markson
doi:10.1038/320588a0
Abstract & References | PDF (1,164K)
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| | Letters | |
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| | Closure phase in high-resolution optical imaging 595
J. E. Baldwin, C. A. Haniff, C. D. Mackay & P. J. Warner
doi:10.1038/320595a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (361K)
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| | Properties of discrete electrostatic systems 597
Hector A. Munera
doi:10.1038/320597a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (384K)
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| | Lunar nodal tide and distance to the Moon during the Precambrian 600
James C. G. Walker & Kevin J. Zahnle
doi:10.1038/320600a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (303K)
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| | Sahel rainfall and worldwide sea temperatures, 1901−85 602
C. K. Folland, T. N. Palmer & D. E. Parker
doi:10.1038/320602a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (593K)
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| | Glaciers as indicators of a carbon dioxide warming 607
J. Oerlemans
doi:10.1038/320607a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (323K)
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| | Iron-silica crystallite nucleation by bacteria in a geothermal sediment 609
F. G. Ferris, T. J. Beveridge & W. S. Fyfe
doi:10.1038/320609a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (406K)
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| | Fossil bacterial magnetite in deep-sea sediments from the South Atlantic Ocean 611
Nikolai Petersen, Tilo von Dobeneck & Hojatollah Vali
doi:10.1038/320611a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (766K)
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| | Light-induced giant dipoles in simple model compounds for photosynthesis 615
John M. Warman, Matthijs P. de Haas, M. N. Paddon-Row, E. Cotsaris, N. S. Hush, H. Oevering & J. W. Verhoeven
doi:10.1038/320615a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (221K)
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| | Orientation-specific cortical responses develop in early infancy 617
O. J. Braddick, J. Wattam-Bell & J. Atkinson
doi:10.1038/320617a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (365K)
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| | Visual discrimination of target displacement remains after damage to the striate cortex in humans 619
Isobel M. Blythe, Jane M. Bromley, C. Kennard & K. H. Ruddock
doi:10.1038/320619a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (354K)
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| | Analysis of genetic mosaics shows that the extra epidermal cell divisions in Knotted mutant maize plants are induced by adjacent mesophyll cells 621
Sarah Hake & Michael Freeling
doi:10.1038/320621a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (376K)
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| | A gradient of cytoplasmic free calcium a in growing rhizoid cells of Fucus serratus
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C. Brownlee & J. W. Wood
doi:10.1038/320624a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (324K)
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| | Minor but not major histocompatibility antigens of thymus epithelium tolerize precursors of cytolytic T cells 626
Harald von Boehmer & Katrin Hafen
doi:10.1038/320626a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (308K)
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| | Concerted activation of two potential proto-oncogenes in carcinomas induced by mouse mammary tumour virus 628
Gordon Peters, Audrey E. Lee & Clive Dickson
doi:10.1038/320628a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (482K)
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| | The inositol tris/tetrakisphosphate pathway—demonstration of Ins(l,4,5)P3 3-kinase activity in animal tissues 631
R. F. Irvine, A. J. Letcher, J. P. Heslop & M. J. Berridge
doi:10.1038/320631a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (453K)
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| | The signal sequence of nascent preprolactin interacts with the 54K polypeptide of the signal recognition particle 634
T. V. Kurzchalia, M. Wiedmann, A. S. Girshovich, E. S. Bochkareva, H. Bielka & T. A. Rapoport
doi:10.1038/320634a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (370K)
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| | A consensus amino-acid sequence repeat in Torpedo and mammalian Ca2+-dependent membrane-binding proteins 636
Michael J. Geisow, Ulrich Fritsche, J. Mark Hexham, Bret Dash & Tolu Johnson
doi:10.1038/320636a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (355K)
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| | Danish Basin subsidence by Triassic rifting on a lithospheric cooling background 638
K. Sørensen
doi:10.1038/320638a0
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| | Electron microscopy of frozen-hydrated biological material 638
M. Stewart & G. Vigers
doi:10.1038/320638b0
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| | Founder of phage genetics 639
Max Perutz reviews Licht und Leben: Ein Bericht über Max Delbrück, den Wegbereiterder Molekularbiologie
By
Peter Fischer
doi:10.1038/320639a0
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| | Explanation for the amiable physicist 640
Horace Freeland Judson reviews The Problems of Biology
By
John Maynard Smith
doi:10.1038/320640a0
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| | Taking the tablets 641
Michael Nelson reviews How to Live Longer and Feel Better
By
Linus Pauling
doi:10.1038/320641a0
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| | Developing a sense of the past 642
D.R. Newth reviews A History of Embryology. British Society for Developmental Biology, Symposium 8
Edited by
T.J. Horder, J.A. Witkowski & C.C. Wylie
doi:10.1038/320642a0
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| | The book 642
Ralph A. Lewin
doi:10.1038/320642b0
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| | Terms of medicine 643
D.J. Weatherall reviews International Dictionary of Medicine and Biology
Editor-in-chief
Sidney Landau
doi:10.1038/320643a0
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| | View to prevention of cancer 644
John Cairns reviews Cancer: Risks and Prevention
Edited by
M.P. Vessey & Muir Gray and Cancer: An Enigma in Biology and Society
By
R. Nery
doi:10.1038/320644a0
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| | Killing creatures with kindness 645
Alan Holland reviews The Case for Animal Experimentation: An Evolutionary and Ethical Perspective
By
Michael Allen Fox
doi:10.1038/320645a0
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| | Living alternatives 646
James E. Lovelock reviews Origins of Life
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Freeman Dyson and Origins: A Skeptic's Guide to the Creation of Life on Earth
By
Robert Shapiro
doi:10.1038/320646a0
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| | Reflections from an interior world 647
Stephen Jay Gould reviews Memoir of a Thinking Radish: An Autobiography
By
Peter Medawar
doi:10.1038/320647a0
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| | Resonance through the editions 648
John Maddox reviews A New Science of Life: The Hypothesis of Formative Causation (A New Edition)
By
Rupert Sheldrake
doi:10.1038/320648a0
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| | Bewitchment of the biologist 649
Philip Kitcher reviews Unfinished Synthesis: Biological Hierarchies and Modern Evolutionary Thought
By
Niles Eldredge
doi:10.1038/320649a0
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| | Wishing on a star 650
Andrew H. Knoll reviews Nemesis: The Death-Star and Other Theories of Mass Extinction
By
Donald Goldsmith
doi:10.1038/320650a0
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| | Different sides of the sexes 651
Marian Dawkins reviews The Female Animal
By
Irene Elia and Females of the Species
By
Bettyann Kevles
doi:10.1038/320651a0
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| | Ordered thoughts on taxonomy 652
Michael T. Ghiselin reviews Evolution and Classification: The Reformation of Cladism
By
Mark Ridley
doi:10.1038/320652a0
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| | Dancing in time 653
Leonard Krishtalka reviews The Great American Biotic Interchange
Edited by
Francis G. Stehli & S. David Webb
doi:10.1038/320653a0
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| | Eastern adventures revisited 654
Eric Ashby reviews The Head-Hunters of Borneo
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Carl Bock and A Naturalist in Borneo
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Robert W. Shelford and The Field-Book of a Jungle-Wallah
By
Charles Hose
doi:10.1038/320654a0
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| | Colour impressions of history 655
J.D. Mollon reviews Jacob Christoph Le Blon 1667−1741: Inventor of Three- and Four-Colour Printing
By
Otto M. Lilien
doi:10.1038/320655a0
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| | Sold on application in France 656
Robert Fox reviews From Knowledge to Power: The Rise of the Science Empire in France 1860−1939
By
Harry W. Paul
doi:10.1038/320656a0
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| | Bits and pieces of science policy 657
Robert Walgate reviews The European Scientific Community
By
Ros Herman
doi:10.1038/320657a0
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| | Academic matters 657
Alec Merrison reviews Government and the Universities in Britain: Programme and Performance 1960−1980
By
John Carswell
doi:10.1038/320657b0
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| | Cutting changes in the mind 658
Stuart Sutherland reviews Great and Desperate Cures: The Rise and Decline of Psychosurgery and Other Radical Treatments for Mental Illness
By
Elliot S. Valenstein
doi:10.1038/320658a0
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| | Life of learning with the fortunate few 660
A.P. French reviews Bird of Passage: Recollections of a Physicist
By
Rudolf Peierls
doi:10.1038/320660a0
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| | Irreversibility and the resurrection of the dead 661
Ilya Prigogine & Yves Elskens reviews Une Incertaine Réalité: Le Monde Quantique, la Connaissance et la Durée
By
Bernard d'Espagnat
doi:10.1038/320661a0
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| | Physics in concert 661
Pedro Waloschek reviews QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
By
Richard P. Feynman
doi:10.1038/320661b0
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| | Schwinging through relativity 662
Abraham Pais reviews Einstein's Legacy: The Unity of Space and Time
By
Julian Schwinger
doi:10.1038/320662a0
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| | What's wrong with being neutral? 663
Theodore K. Rabb reviews Climate Impact Assessment. SCOPE Report 27
Edited by
Robert W. Kates, Jesse H. Ausubel & Mimi Berberian
doi:10.1038/320663a0
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| | [Spring Books 'picture story'] 663
doi:10.1038/320663b0
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| | Picture the planets 664
Michael H. Carr reviews Planetary Landscapes
By
R. Greeley
doi:10.1038/320664a0
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| | Mapping decline 664
Peter J. Smith reviews Down to Earth: One Hundred and Fifty Years of the British Geological Survey
By
H.E. Wilson
doi:10.1038/320664b0
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| | How to get heard above the noise 665
David R. Rosseinsky reviews The Chemist's English
By
Robert Schoenfeld
doi:10.1038/320665a0
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| | Chemists' conflict 666
Alastair Hay reviews The Poisonous Cloud: Chemical Warfare in the First World War
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L.F. Haber and Chemical Warfare
By
Edward M. Spiers
doi:10.1038/320666a0
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