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| | Failure need not mean despair 567
The collapse of the Reykjavik pre-summit at the weekend is mystifying, explicable only if both sides stood unreasonably on principles that could not have mattered.
doi:10.1038/323567a0
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| | Underpaid and overtaxed 568
The 1986 Tax Reform Act will make the United States even more a magnet to technical people.
doi:10.1038/323568a0
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| | US nuclear safety: Hanford plutonium plants in a narrow squeak 569
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/323569a0
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| | Pharmacia takes over LKB Producter 569
Peter Newmark
doi:10.1038/323569b0
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| | US biotechnology: Congress at odds over regulation 570
Tim Beardsley
doi:10.1038/323570a0
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| | Soviet education: Central role for the universities 570
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/323570b0
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| | International space: Space year for Columbus 571
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/323571a0
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| | Japan fellows: British are reluctant travellers 571
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/323571b0
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| | UK fund for China 571
Nigel Williams
doi:10.1038/323571c0
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| | Direct broadcasting: Unravelling an encryption code 572
Bill Johnstone
doi:10.1038/323572a0
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| | Nobel prizes: Growth factors bring rewards 572
Peter Newmark
doi:10.1038/323572b0
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| | Asylum: US cancer researcher in Moscow 573
Joseph Palca & Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/323573a0
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| | "Extinct" lemurs found in Madagascar 573
doi:10.1038/323573b0
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| | British research: Better measures of decline 573
doi:10.1038/323573c0
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| | European research: Joint centres in eye of storm 574
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/323574a0
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| | Japanese astronomy: Projects wait on organization 574
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/323574b0
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| | US astronomy: Big ideas, short pockets abound 575
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/323575a0
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| | French research: Optimists and pessimists 575
Robert Walgate
doi:10.1038/323575b0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Grading of universities 576
J.F. LAMB
doi:10.1038/323576a0
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| | Defining darwinism 576
T.D. ILES
doi:10.1038/323576b0
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| | Dioxin risk 576
ALLAN M. FORD & W.J. McCARVILLE
doi:10.1038/323576c0
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| | Dioxin Risk 576
ALASTAIR HAY & ELLEN SILBERGELD
doi:10.1038/323576d0
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| | The reality of the quantum jump 577
Three-quarters of a century after the concept of quantum jump was introduced by Bohr, three independent measurements have emerged on each other's heels.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/323577a0
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| | Perception: Questions of sex and colour 578
John D. Mollon
doi:10.1038/323578a0
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| | Grand unification: Solar neutrinos may hold the key 579
Lincoln Wolfenstein
doi:10.1038/323579a0
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| | Evolution: Contentious issues in sexual selection 580
Linda Partridge & Paul Harvey
doi:10.1038/323580a0
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| | 100 years ago 580
doi:10.1038/323580b0
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| | Plate tectonics: Response to an Archaean continental collision 581
Mike Bickle
doi:10.1038/323581a0
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| | Cancer: Malignant tumours generated by recessive mutations 582
Henry Harris
doi:10.1038/323582a0
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| | First glimpse of the DMD gene? 583
Peter N. Goodfellow
doi:10.1038/323583a0
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| | Anaesthesia: Models of consciousness 584
Keith W. Miller
doi:10.1038/323584a0
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| | How do bacteria acquire plant genes? 585
A.G. BROWNLEE
doi:10.1038/323585a0
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| | Caught in a trap 585
A. ASHKIN, J.E. BJORKHOLM & STEVEN CHU
doi:10.1038/323585b0
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| | Cancer risk assessments in light of Chernobyl 585
ROBIN RUSSELL JONES
doi:10.1038/323585c0
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| | Declining support for Imanishi 586
OSAMU SAKURA, TOSHIYUKI SAWAGUCHI, HIROKO KUDO & SHIN'ICHI YOSHIKUBO
doi:10.1038/323586a0
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| | Glucagon receptor number and the MHC 586
ROBERT P. ERICKSON
doi:10.1038/323586b0
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| | Monoclonals and marrow transplants 586
HERMAN WALDMANN & S.P. COBBOLD
doi:10.1038/323586c0
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| | Conquest through biology 587
Roy Porter reviews Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900−1900.
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Alfred W. Crosby
doi:10.1038/323587a0
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| | Keeping abreast of the revolution 588
Frank Close reviews The Forces of Nature, 2nd Edn.
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P.C.W. Davies
doi:10.1038/323588a0
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| | Who's in favour? 588
M.S. Bretscher reviews Protein Secretion: A Critical Analysis of the Vesicle Model.
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Stephen S. Rothman
doi:10.1038/323588b0
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| | Cellular renewal 589
David M. Prescott reviews Molecular Cytology. Vol 1 The Cell Cycle. Vol 2 Cell Interactions.
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Jean Brachet
doi:10.1038/323589a0
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| | Fractal attractions 590
Michael Berry reviews The Beauty of Fractals: Images of Complex Dynamical Systems.
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H.-O. P.H. PeitgenRichter
doi:10.1038/323590a0
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| | Is Britain spending enough on science? 591
Britain is falling behind the major industrialized countries in its investment in academic and related research, which may explain the nation's declining contribution to world science.
John Irvine & Ben R. Martin
doi:10.1038/323591a0
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| | The superstring: theory of everything, or of nothing? 595
John Ellis
doi:10.1038/323595a0
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| | Non-explosive silicic volcanism 598
J. C. Eichelberger, C. R. Carrigan, H. R. Westrich & R. H. Price
doi:10.1038/323598a0
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| | Variable radio source GT0116+622 is a possible counterpart to Cas  -1 602
P. C. Gregory, N. Duric, A. Reid, J. Picha, T. Stevenson & A. R. Taylor
doi:10.1038/323602a0
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| | Magnetic field corrections to solar oscillation frequencies 603
B. Roberts & W. R. Campbell
doi:10.1038/323603a0
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| | Radio detection of uranian lightning by Voyager 2 605
P. Zarka & B. M. Pedersen
doi:10.1038/323605a0
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| | Quantum jumps and atomic cryptograms 608
P. L. Knight, R. Loudon & D. T. Pegg
doi:10.1038/323608a0
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| | Do climatic attractors exist? 609
Peter Grassberger
doi:10.1038/323609a0
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| | Surface topography of (100)-type electro-faceted platinum from scanning tunnelling microscopy and electrochemistry 612
J. Gómez, L. Vázquez, A. M. Baró, N. Garcia, C. L. Perdriel, W. E. Triaca & A. J. Arvia
doi:10.1038/323612a0
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| | Room-temperature ionic liquids as solvents for electronic absorption spectroscopy of halide complexes 614
Denise Appleby, Charles L. Hussey, Kenneth R. Seddon & Janet E. Turp
doi:10.1038/323614a0
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| | Basal reversals in layered intrusions are evidence for emplacement of compositionally stratified magma 616
J. R. Wilson & O. Engell-Sørensen
doi:10.1038/323616a0
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| | Pleistocene occupation in the south-east Queensland coastal region 618
Robert Neal & Errol Stock
doi:10.1038/323618a0
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| | Evolution of the ermine moth pheromone tetradecyl acetate 621
C. Löfstedt, W. M. Herrebout & J.-W. Du
doi:10.1038/323621a0
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| | Polymorphism of the long-wavelength cone in normal human colour vision 623
Jay Neitz & Gerald H. Jacobs
doi:10.1038/323623a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (552K)
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| | Cholinergic neuropil of the striatum observes striosomal boundaries 625
A. M. Graybiel, R. W. Baughman & F. Eckenstein
doi:10.1038/323625a0
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| | Voltage dependence of Na translocation by the Na/K pump 628
Masakazu Nakao & David C. Gadsby
doi:10.1038/323628a0
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| | Ammonia orients cell masses and speeds up aggregating cells of slime moulds 630
J. T. Bonner, H. B. Suthers & G. M. Odell
doi:10.1038/323630a0
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| | Flavones induce expression of nodulation genes in Rhizobium
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John W. Redmond, Michael Batley, Michael A. Djordjevic, Roger W. Innes, Peter L. Kuempel & Barry G. Rolfe
doi:10.1038/323632a0
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| | Transcripts of functionally rearranged gamma genes in primary T cells of adult immunocompetent mice 635
Barry Jones, Shelley Mjolsness, Charles Janeway Jr & Adrian C. Hayday
doi:10.1038/323635a0
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| | A unique T-cell receptor complex expressed on human fetal lymphocytes displaying natural-killer-like activity 638
P. Moingeon, A. Ythier, G. Goubin, F. Faure, A. Nowill, L. Delmon, M. Rainaud, F. Forestier, F. Daffos, C. Bohuon & T. Hercend
doi:10.1038/323638a0
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| | A lymphoid-specific protein binding to the octamer motif of immunoglobulin genes 640
Louis M. Staudt, Harinder Singh, Ranjan Sen, Thomas Wirth, Phillip A. Sharp & David Baltimore
doi:10.1038/323640a0
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| | A human DNA segment with properties of the gene that predisposes to retinoblastoma and osteosarcoma 643
Stephen H. Friend, Rene Bernards, Snezna Rogelj, Robert A. Weinberg, Joyce M. Rapaport, Daniel M. Albert & Thaddeus P. Dryja
doi:10.1038/323643a0
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| | Isolation of candidate cDNAs for portions of the Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene 646
Anthony P. Monaco, Rachael L. Neve, Chris Colletti-Feener, Corlee J. Bertelson, David M. Kurnit & Louis M. Kunkel
doi:10.1038/323646a0
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| | Archaeology gets graphic 651
Interactive computer graphics designed for protein crystallography has also helped visualize a 5,000-year-old excavation site in three dimensions. Tomorrow's archaeologists stand to benefit from this marriage of the very old and the very new.
B.S. Ottaway, L. Sawyer & A. Miller
doi:10.1038/323651a0
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| | Tokyo technology 652
At the end of October, over 300 companies will convene in Tokyo for the 21st scientific instrument show. Below are some of the top exhibits.
doi:10.1038/323652a0
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