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| | The long shadow from Chernobyl 099
Last week's reactor accident in the Soviet Union is an historic event that will change the course of the remainder of the twentieth century. But the clouds may also have a silver lining.
doi:10.1038/321099a0
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| | Chernobyl: Anxiety about reactor accident subsides 100
doi:10.1038/321100a0
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| | Soviet nuclear reactors: Ambitious plans with red tape 100
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/321100b0
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| | Nuclear prognostications: Estimating gravity of problem 101
doi:10.1038/321101a0
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| | France in Tokyo: Two heads better than one? 102
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/321102a0
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| | ESF joins Ocean Drilling Program 102
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/321102b0
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| | Good week for Pasteur institute 102
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/321102c0
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| | US technology: Parallel computer unveiled 103
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/321103a0
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| | AIDS in India: Pool of infected women? 103
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/321103b0
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| | Archaeology congress: US to attend or stay away? 104
Sandra Ackerman
doi:10.1038/321104a0
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| | Biotechnology: DNA fingerprints go commercial 104
Peter Newmark
doi:10.1038/321104b0
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| | Research planning: UK needs a forum for decision 105
doi:10.1038/321105a0
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| | AIDS in California: State aid offered for vaccine 105
Karen Wright
doi:10.1038/321105b0
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| | Degrees by consent 105
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/321105c0
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| | Future of UK observatory 106
R. C. SMITH
doi:10.1038/321106a0
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| | Sexist ads 106
KATHLEEN WESTON, ALISON COZENS, HILLARY C. M. NELSON, LOUISE FAIRALL, LINDA AMOS, LAUREL MENGLE-GAW, FLEUR-ANGE LEFEBVRE, MELANIE J. CLARK, CYNTHIA KENYON, MARIANN BIENZ, LINDA BREEDEN, HEINKE SCHNABEL, MARGARET ROBINSON, DONNA ALBERTSON, IVA GREENWALD, MARIA LEPTIN, DANIELA RHODES, MARTINE VERHOEYEN, LYNETTE TIGHE, CLAUDIA BEREK, SANDRA SATCHWELL, C. JANE MITCHELL, CARLOS V. CABRERA, ROB WHITE, HUGH PELHAM, SEAN MUNRO, COLIN WATTS, R.J. BAER, ANDREW J.H. SMITH, ANDREW J. NEWMAN, KIYOSHI NAGAI, ALAN FORSTER, GREG WINTER, DAN BROWN, JEFFERSON FOOTE, Luis MARTIN, PETER SORGER, GARETH WILLIAMS, GRAHAM COOK, ANDREW FIRE, VICTOR TYBULEWICZ, STEPHAN BECK, RICHARD TURNER, HORACE DREW, TOBY J. GIBSON & TONY KOUZARIDES
doi:10.1038/321106b0
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| | Sexist ads 106
A. BRADBURY & F. VAN STRAATEN
doi:10.1038/321106c0
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| | MRC unit closure 106
MEMBERS OF THE UNIT
doi:10.1038/321106d0
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| | Mechanizing cellular automata 107
Whether or not it is possible to represent hydrodynamical systems by autonomous entities on the vertices of a lattice threatens to become an unreal issue.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/321107a0
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| | Protein translocation: A common mechanism for different membrane systems? 108
Gottfried Schatz
doi:10.1038/321108a0
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| | Archaeology: Late Saxon ceramic utensils 109
Richard Hodges
doi:10.1038/321109a0
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| | Macroevolution: Predation by drilling gastropods 110
Michael J. Benton
doi:10.1038/321110a0
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| | Erratum 111
doi:10.1038/321110b0
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| | Astrophysics: Unravelling fates of black holes 111
Don N. Page
doi:10.1038/321111a0
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| | Steroid receptors: Oncogenes as hormone receptors 112
J. Michael Bishop
doi:10.1038/321112a0
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| | Animal locomotion: Three kinds of flying in animals 113
R. McNeill Alexander
doi:10.1038/321113a0
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| | Circadian rhythms: Benzodiazepines set the clock 114
A. T. Winfree
doi:10.1038/321114a0
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| | Forward on fusion 114
doi:10.1038/321114b0
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| | Geophysics: Is there coherence between Earth tides and earthquakes? 115
Paul W. Burton
doi:10.1038/321115a0
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| | Immunology: Development and modification of the lymphocyte repertoire 116
Malcolm Gefter & Philippa Marrack
doi:10.1038/321116a0
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| | 100 years ago 117
doi:10.1038/321117a0
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| | First isolation of HTLV-III 119
ROBERT C. GALLO, PREM S. SARIN, BERNARD KRAMARSKY, ZAKI SALAHUDDIN, PHILIP MARKHAM & MIKULAS POPOVIC
doi:10.1038/321119a0
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| | First isolation of HTLV-III 119
J. SCHÜPBACH
doi:10.1038/321119b0
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| | Keeping supercomputers under control 120
JOHN H. CUSHMAN & FRANK J. WOBBER
doi:10.1038/321120a0
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| | Are light head loads carried free? 120
DUNCAN MITCHELL
doi:10.1038/321120b0
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| | Are light head loads carried free? 120
D.A.H. TAYLOR
doi:10.1038/321120c0
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| | State of preservation of the Dead Sea Scrolls 121
T. B. KAHLE & NICCOLO CALDARARO
doi:10.1038/321121a0
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| | State of preservation of the Dead Sea Scrolls (reply) 121
STEPHEN WEINER, ZINA KUSTANOVICH, EMANUEL GIL-AV & WOLFIE TRAUB
doi:10.1038/321121b0
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| | Nuclear winter and the greenhouse effect 122
S.B. IDSO
doi:10.1038/321122a0
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| | Competition amongst desert perennials 122
T.J. KING & S.R.J. WOODELL
doi:10.1038/321122b0
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| | Growth into smallness 123
Nicholas Kemmer reviews Inward Bound: Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World
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Abraham Pais
doi:10.1038/321123a0
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| | Membrane steps 124
Miles Houslay reviews Reconstitutions of Transporters, Receptors, and Pathological States
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Efraim Racker
doi:10.1038/321124a0
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| | Illusion in ascent 125
Peter J. Bowler reviews Taking Darwin Seriously: A Naturalistic Approach to Philosophy
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Michael Ruse
doi:10.1038/321125a0
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| | Book Review 'picture story' 125
doi:10.1038/321125b0
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| | Parallel promises in computing 126
Igor Aleksander reviews The Connection Machine
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W. Daniel Hillis
doi:10.1038/321126a0
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| | Muon-catalysed fusion revisited 127
Steven Earl Jones
doi:10.1038/321127a0
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| | Splice-site selection by a self-splicing RNA of Tetrahymena
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Richard B. Waring, Paul Towner, Stephen J. Minter & R. Wayne Davies
doi:10.1038/321133a0
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| | High-resolution imaging from Mauna Kea: the triple quasar in 0.3-arc s seeing 139
J. Patrick Henry & J. N. Heasley
doi:10.1038/321139a0
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| | An apparent gravitational lens with an image separation of 2.6 arc min 142
Edwin L. Turner, Donald P. Schneider, Bernard F. Burke, Jacqueline N. Hewitt, Glen I. Langston, James E. Gunn, Charles R. Lawrence & Maarten Schmidt
doi:10.1038/321142a0
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| | Structures in the coma of comet Halley 144
E. Grün, U. Graser, L. Kohoutek, U. Thiele, L. Massonne & G. Schwehm
doi:10.1038/321144a0
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| | Nitrogen dioxide emitted from space shuttle surfaces and shuttle glow 147
Ulf von Zahn & Edmond Murad
doi:10.1038/321147a0
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| | Atmospheric CH4, CO and OH from 1860 to 1985 148
Anne M. Thompson & Ralph J. Cicerone
doi:10.1038/321148a0
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| | Spreading direction in the central South China Sea 150
Guy Pautot, Claude Rangin, Anne Briais, Paul Tapponnier, Paul Beuzart, Gilles Lericolais, Xavier Mathieu, Jinlong Wu, Shuqiao Han, Hengxiu Li, Yingxian Lu & Jicheng Zhao
doi:10.1038/321150a0
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| | Propagation of internal tides from the upper slopes of the Bay of Biscay 154
R. D. Pingree, G. T. Mardell & A. L. New
doi:10.1038/321154a0
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| | Carbonate recrystallization in basal sediments: evidence for convective fluid flow on a ridge flank 158
Miriam Kastner, Joris M. Gieskes & Jine-Yu Hu
doi:10.1038/321158a0
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| | Mutual diffusion in a miscible polymer blend 161
R. A. L. Jones, J. Klein & A. M. Donald
doi:10.1038/321161a0
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| | Vortex flow visualizations reveal change in upstroke function with flight speed in bats 162
Jeremy M. V. Rayner, Gareth Jones & Adrian Thomas
doi:10.1038/321162a0
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| | Genetics and evolution of female choice 164
M. E. N. Majerus, P. O'Donald, P. W. E. Kearns & H. Ireland
doi:10.1038/321164a0
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| | A benzodiazepine used in the treatment of insomnia phase-shifts the mammalian circadian clock 167
Fred W. Turek & Susan Losee-Olson
doi:10.1038/321167a0
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| | Replication of the neurochemical characteristics of Huntington's disease by quinolinic acid 168
M. Flint Beal, Neil W. Kowall, David W. Ellison, Michael F. Mazurek, Kenton J. Swartz & Joseph B. Martin
doi:10.1038/321168a0
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| | Channel properties of an insect neuronal acetylcholine receptor protein reconstituted in planar lipid bilayers 171
W. Hanke & H. Breer
doi:10.1038/321171a0
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| | Potentiation of synaptic transmission in the hippocampus by phorbol esters 175
Robert C. Malenka, Daniel V. Madison & Roger A. Nicoll
doi:10.1038/321175a0
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| | Platelet activation—a role for a 40K anti-phospholipase A2 protein indistinguishable from lipocortin 177
Lhousseine Touqui, Bernard Rothhut, Angus M. Shaw, Armel Fradin, B. Boris Vargaftig & Françoise Russo-Marie
doi:10.1038/321177a0
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| | Equivalence of intracellular pH of differentiating Dictyostelium cell types 180
David I. Ratner
doi:10.1038/321180a0
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