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The British government seems to be repenting its six years of meanness towards higher education, but the decay it engendered may by now be irreparable.
doi:10.1038/323381a0
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| | Ideal undermines good 381
The Soviet Union gives the United States too little credit for a shift on arms control.
doi:10.1038/323381b0
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| | Computers by halves 382
The United States should abandon attempts to blame financial instability on computers.
doi:10.1038/323382a0
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| | British universities: More money and more trouble ahead 383
doi:10.1038/323383a0
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| | Strategic exports: High-technology export tangle 383
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/323383b0
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| | AIDS in California: Proposition causes PANIC 384
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/323384a0
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| | AIDS in Japan: Test-kit market opens up 384
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/323384b0
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| | In vitro fertilization: French scientist makes a stand 385
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/323385a0
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| | Scientific collaboration: When the East meets the West 385
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/323385b0
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| | Chernobyl: Pact for nuclear accidents 386
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/323386a0
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| | [News 'picture story'] 386
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/323386b0
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| | More for defence; less for science 386
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/323386c0
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| | Biotechnology: New regulations in dispute 387
Karen Wright
doi:10.1038/323387a0
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| | Chernobyl fallout: Pugwash's radioactive trousers 387
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/323387b0
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| | Voyager: Looking ahead to Neptune 388
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/323388a0
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| | Deltaplan defence line completed 388
Casper Schuuring
doi:10.1038/323388b0
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| | Research integration: If you go to San Francisco . . . 389
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/323389a0
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| | Mutation screening an increasing factor 389
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/323389b0
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| | Oceans and atmosphere: Advisory group sinks 389
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/323389c0
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| | In the footsteps of dinosaurs? 390
JAMES O. FARLOW
doi:10.1038/323390a0
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| | Greenhouse cure 390
T.R. VIDYASAGAR
doi:10.1038/323390b0
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| | Damadian defended 390
GILBERT N. LING
doi:10.1038/323390c0
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| | Making molecules into atoms 391
If the hydrogen molecule is two protons and one electron, how should it resemble the helium atom, which has one proton and two electrons?
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/323391a0
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| | Earth science: Deep reflections on the Moho 392
Penny Barton
doi:10.1038/323392a0
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| | Biochemistry: Evolutionary economics 393
Roger H. Pain
doi:10.1038/323393a0
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| | Neruobiology: Routes for development 394
R.W. Guillery
doi:10.1038/323394a0
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| | 100 years ago 394
doi:10.1038/323394a0
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| | Nuclear structure: Dizzily deformed dysprosium 395
J.D. Garrett
doi:10.1038/323395a0
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| | Molecular biology: Distinctions in acetylcholine receptor activity 396
Edward Hulme & Nigel Birdsall
doi:10.1038/323396a0
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| | Mathematics: Singular flying pancakes 397
Ian Stewart
doi:10.1038/323397a0
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| | Ecology: Predicting fruitfly guild sizes 398
John H. Lawton
doi:10.1038/323398a0
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| | [News & Views 'picture story'] 398
John M. Garland
doi:10.1038/323398b0
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| | Core fragments in Chernobyl fallout 399
J. VAN DER VEEN, A. VAN DER WIJK, W.G. MOOK & R.J. DE MEIJER
doi:10.1038/323399a0
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| | Microtubule assembly in the axon 400
J. R. BAMBURG, D. BRAY & K. CHAPMAN
doi:10.1038/323400a0
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| | Biochemical basis of cystic fibrosis 400
M.A. McPHERSON, R.L. DORMER, M.C. GOODCHILD & J.A. DODGE
doi:10.1038/323400b0
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| | Silver foils gravitational principles 400
MAGNUS PYKE
doi:10.1038/323400c0
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| | What's going on in the cell? 401
Joseph G. Gall reviews Molecular Cell Biology.
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James Darnell, Harvey Lodish & David Baltimore
doi:10.1038/323401a0
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| | Groundwork on the troposphere 402
Richard P. Wayne reviews Atmospheric Chemistry: Fundamentals and Experimental Techniques.
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Barabara J. Finlayson-Pitts & James N. Pitts Jr
doi:10.1038/323402a0
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| | Myths of Mars 402
James Trefil reviews To Utopia And Back: The Search for Life in the Solar System
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Norman H. Horowitz
doi:10.1038/323402b0
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| | Alimentary ideas 403
Stuart Sutherland reviews The Psychology of Eating and Drinking.
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A.W. Logue
doi:10.1038/323403a0
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| | Formal assessment 404
Kathleen K. Smith reviews Functional Vertebrate Morphology.
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Milton Hildebrand, Dennis M. Bramble, Karel F. Liem & David B. Wake
doi:10.1038/323404a0
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| | Back to the basics 404
John C. Brandt reviews Physics of Comets.
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K.S. Krishna Swamy
doi:10.1038/323404b0
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| | The structure of the nucleon from deep inelastic lepton scattering and the nature of the strong interaction 405
T. Sloan
doi:10.1038/323405a0
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| | Cloning, sequencing and expression of complementary DNA encoding the muscarinic acetylcholine receptor 411
Tai Kubo, Kazuhiko Fukuda, Atsushi Mikami, Akito Maeda, Hideo Takahashi, Masayoshi Mishina, Tatsuya Haga, Kazuko Haga, Arata Ichiyama, Kenji Kangawa, Masayasu Kojima, Hisayuki Matsuo, Tadaaki Hirose & Shosaku Numa
doi:10.1038/323411a0
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| | An emission-line object in the core of M15 417
P. A. Charles, D. C. Jones & T. Naylor
doi:10.1038/323417a0
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| | Particle acceleration in the hotspot of the jet of quasar 3C273 419
K. Meisenheimer & A. F. Heavens
doi:10.1038/323419a0
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| | Companion-star beam steering of high-energy particles from Hercules X-1 422
Peter W. Gorham & John G. Learned
doi:10.1038/323422a0
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| | Transitions of viscous fingering patterns in nematic liquid crystals 424
Agnes Buka, János Kertész & Tamás Vicsek
doi:10.1038/323424a0
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| | Radio acoustic measurement of temperature profile in the troposphere and stratosphere 426
N. Matuura, Y. Masuda, H. Inuki, S. Kato, S. Fukao, T. Sato & T. Tsuda
doi:10.1038/323426a0
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| | Atomic structure of ultrafine catalyst particles resolved with a 200-keV transmission electron microscope 428
D. A. Jefferson, J. M. Thomas, G. R. Millward, K. Tsuno, A. Harriman & R. D. Brydson
doi:10.1038/323428a0
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| | Energy conversion catalysis using semiconducting transition metal cluster compounds 431
N. Alonso Vante & H. Tributsch
doi:10.1038/323431a0
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| | Frontal surveys with a towed profiling conductivity /temperature/depth measurement package (SeaSoar) 433
Raymond Pollard
doi:10.1038/323433a0
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| | Oceanographic implications of non-newtonian properties found in phytoplankton cultures 435
Ian R. Jenkinson
doi:10.1038/323435a0
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| | Stomata and sterome in early land plants 438
D. Edwards, U. Fanning & J. B. Richardson
doi:10.1038/323438a0
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| | Two identified afferent neurones entrain a central locomotor rhythm generator 440
Keith T. Sillar, Peter Skorupski, Robert C. Elson & Brian M. H. Bush
doi:10.1038/323440a0
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Schistosoma mansoni shares a protective oligosaccharide epitope with freshwater and marine snails 443
C. Dissous, J. M. Grzych & A. Capron
doi:10.1038/323443a0
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| | Germ-line transmission of genes introduced into cultured pluripotential cells by retroviral vector 445
Elizabeth Robertson, Allan Bradley, Michael Kuehn & Martin Evans
doi:10.1038/323445a0
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| | A family of related ATP-binding subunits coupled to many distinct biological processes in bacteria 448
Christopher F. Higgins, Ian D. Hiles, George P. C. Salmond, Deborah R. Gill, J. Allan Downie, Ian J. Evans, I. Barry Holland, Lindsay Gray, Scott D. Buckel, Alexander W. Bell & Mark A. Hermodson
doi:10.1038/323448a0
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| | Domainal evolution of a prokaryotic DNA repair protein and its relationship to active-transport proteins 451
R. F. Doolittle, M. S. Johnson, I. Husain, B. Van Houten, D. C. Thomas & A. Sancar
doi:10.1038/323451a0
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| | Mapping of the class II region of the human major histocompatibility complex by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis 453
Deborah A. Hardy, John I. Bell, Eric O. Long, Tullia Lindsten & Hugh O. McDevitt
doi:10.1038/323453a0
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| | Plasma and cytoplasmic gelsolins are encoded by a single gene and contain a duplicated actin-binding domain 455
David J. Kwiatkowski, Thomas P. Stossel, Stuart H. Orkin, John E. Mole, Harvey R. Coltens & Helen L. Yin
doi:10.1038/323455a0
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| | Bending of promoter DNA on binding of heat shock transcription factor 459
David J. Shuey & Carl S. Parker
doi:10.1038/323459a0
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Lloyd D. Fricker, Chris J. Evans, Fred S. Esch & Edward Herbert
doi:10.1038/323461a0
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| | A novel selective broad-spectrum anti-DNA virus agent 464
Erik De Clercq, Antonin Holý, Ivan Rosenberg, Takashi Sakuma, Jan Balzarini & Parbhat C. Maudgal
doi:10.1038/323464a0
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Ruth M. Ruprecht, Luke G. O'Brien, Lucia D. Rossoni & Sandra Nusinoff-Lehrman
doi:10.1038/323467a0
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| | Core formation and Earth's late accretionary history 470
JOHN H. JONES & MICHAEL J. DRAKE
doi:10.1038/323470a0
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JOHN W. MORGAN
doi:10.1038/323470b0
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I.L.'s portion of the work was supported by the Industrial Associates of the Basin Modelling Group at the University of South Carolina. R.E.'s portion of the work was supported by the Office of Naval Research under contract N00014-78-C-0698.
ROBERT EHRLICH & IAN LERCHE
doi:10.1038/323471a0
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CATHERINE BADGLEY, LISA TAUXE & FRED L. BOOKSTEIN
doi:10.1038/323471b0
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| | Are enigmatic markings in Adelaidean of Flinders Ranges fossil ice-tracks? 472
RICHARD J. F. JENKINS
doi:10.1038/323472a0
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Free trials for Finnpipettes, a gauge for cell aggregation and kits for chemical clean-ups round out this week's page. There are novel approaches to all kinds of laboratory needs.
doi:10.1038/323473a0
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As women increasingly become a major force in the labour market, their absence in certain occupations becomes even more of an anachronism.
Richard Pearson
doi:10.1038/323474a0
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