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| | Good news for the year ahead 1
The traditional sport of guessing what will happen in the next twelve months is more cheerful this year than in the recent past. But anything could go wrong.
doi:10.1038/325001a0
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| | Selling off the silver 2
The fashion for selling public assets is spreading, but governments need rules for doing so.
doi:10.1038/325002a0
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| | Circumnavigation again 2
The successful flight around the Earth of the Voyager aircraft deserves even more attention.
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| | News | |
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| | Sakharov — a wind of change? 3
Vera Rich
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| | Third-stage management 3
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| | Supek denies charges 3
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| | Creationists back in court 3
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| | Polish fallout corrected 3
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| | US – Soviet collaboration on stratospheric ozone depletion 4
Joseph Palca
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| | Pentagon move slows space station progress 4
Joseph Palca
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| | Testing-time for British industry both at home and abroad 5
Bill Johnstone
doi:10.1038/325005a0
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| | Health spending still increasing but space science stalled 6
Tim Beardsley & Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/325006a0
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| | Nakasone to tackle Japan's research funding in last year 7
David Swinbanks
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| | Australia primes research pump 7
Charles Morgan
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| | Year ends with Europe still divided by nationalism 8
Robert Walgate
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| | More open government — but nuclear testing on the cards 9
Vera Rich
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Gulbenkian Institute flourishes 10
JOEL SERRÃO, HORÁCIO MENANO, J. DAVID-FERREIRA & N. VAN UDEN
doi:10.1038/325010a0
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| | Antarctic research 10
EDITH L. SMOOT & THOMAS N. TAYLOR
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| | Sexist advertising 10
THORU PEDERSON
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| | Sexist advertising 10
GILLIAN E. WU, SUSAN CARSON, UNA CHEN, ELLEN HSU, POLLY MATZINGER, SUSAN McCLURE, GITTA STOCKINGER, AKIKO TAKEDA & JUDY P. WAYS
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| | Mais plus ça change... 10
A. L. MACKAY
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| | Simulating memory by numbers 11
The difficulties of making progress in neuroscience stem from the difficulty of formulating interesting (and answerable) questions. Should not associative networks be given more attention?
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/325011a0
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| | A classical finite state machine 12
Alan Miller
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| | Out of the garden of Eden 13
Jim Wainscoat
doi:10.1038/325013a0
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| | Feeling for the bumps 14
Robert Schlief
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| | Making money from alkanes 15
P. G. Harrison
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| | Will grebes provide the answer? 16
Jared M. Diamond
doi:10.1038/325016a0
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| | Diamonds at low pressure 17
Rustum Roy
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| | New approaches to vitamin D 18
Ian Dickson
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| | A beginning or an end? 19
Joseph Ford
doi:10.1038/325019a0
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| | 100 years ago 19
doi:10.1038/325019b0
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| | Counting molecules one by one 20
Keith Boyer
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| | Scientific Correspondence | |
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| | Chronic granulomatous disease 21
DOUGLAS R. CAVENER
doi:10.1038/325021a0
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| | Nomenclature for homoeobox-containing genes 21
GAIL R. MARTIN
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| | Nomenclature for homoeobox-containing genes 22
MARY F. LYON
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| | Micro megafaunal mounds 22
C. S. CHURCHER
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| | Plant leaves may not be excreting 22
GEORGE HENDRY
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| | Book Reviews |  |
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| | Time to leave the palace? 23
Duncan Davies reviews ICI: The Company That Changed Our Lives
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Carol Kennedy
doi:10.1038/325023a0
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| | Two minds on the solid surface 24
Michael C. Burrell & Eric Lifshin reviews Modern Techniques of Surface Science
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D. P. Woodruff & T. A. Delchar
doi:10.1038/325024a0
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| | All about Isaac 24
A. Rupert Hall reviews The Newton Handbook
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Derek Gjertsen
doi:10.1038/325024b0
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| | Players in policy 25
Alastair Hay reviews Pesticides in World Agriculture: The Politics of International Regulation
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Robert Boardman
doi:10.1038/325025a0
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| | Embryonic events 26
Jonathan Cooke reviews Developmental Biology: A Comprehensive Synthesis. Vol. 2 The Cellular Basis of Morphogenesis
Edited by
Leon W. Browder
doi:10.1038/325026a0
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| | Observing life 26
A. J. Meadows reviews Of Stars and Men: Reminiscences of an Astronomer
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Zdenek Kopal
doi:10.1038/325026b0
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| | The demonstration of restoring digital optical logic 27
S. D. Smith, A. C. Walker, F. A. P. Tooley & B. S. Wherrett
doi:10.1038/325027a0
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| | Mitochondrial DNA and human evolution 31
Rebecca L. Cann, Mark Stoneking & Allan C. Wilson
doi:10.1038/325031a0
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| | Superluminal motion in
the double-lobed quasar 3C263
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J. A. Zensus, D. H. Hough & R. W. Porcas
doi:10.1038/325036a0
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| | Activation of the C–C bond provides
a molecular basis for
structure sensitivity in metal catalysis 38
P. S. Kirlin & B. C. Gates
doi:10.1038/325038a0
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| | Acoustic emission
during polymer crystallization
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A. Galeski, L. Koenczoel, E. Piorkowska & E. Baer
doi:10.1038/325040a0
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| | Fractal patterns
from chemical dissolution 41
Gérard Daccord & Roland Lenormand
doi:10.1038/325041a0
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| | Divergence of imaginary part of dielectric permittivity at the melting point in KC1 43
Jun Tateno
doi:10.1038/325043a0
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| | Evidence from mantle xenoliths for an enriched lithospheric keel under the Outer Hebrides 44
Martin A. Menzies, Alexander N. Halliday, Zenon Palacz, Robert H. Hunter, Brian G. J. Upton, Pedre Aspen & Christopher J. Hawkesworth
doi:10.1038/325044a0
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| | Link between Archaean continent
formation and
anomalous sub-continental mantle 47
J. D. Kramers
doi:10.1038/325047a0
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| | Provenance of Carboniferous
sandstones from
U–Pb dating of detrital zircons 50
Sarah Drewery, R. A. Cliff & M. R. Leeder
doi:10.1038/325050a0
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| | Vocal tract resonances in oscine bird sound production: evidence from birdsongs in a helium atmosphere 53
Stephen Nowicki
doi:10.1038/325053a0
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| | Multiple classes of glutamate
receptor on
depolarizing bipolar cells in retina
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S. Nawy & D. R. Copenhagen
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| | Activation of protein kinase C augments evoked transmitter release 58
Roy Shapira, Shai D. Silberberg, Simona Ginsburg & Rami Rahamimoff
doi:10.1038/325058a0
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| | Activation of a calcium-dependent photoprotein by chemical signalling through gap junctions 60
K. Dunlap, K. Takeda & P. Brehm
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| | A new mechanism for
induced vitamin D
deficiency in calcium deprivation
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M. R. Clements, L. Johnson & D. R. Fraser
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| | Characterization of murine cytolytic-helper hybrid T cell clones 65
Wendy L. Havran & Frank W. Fitch
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| | Herpes simplex virus type-1 can
reactivate transcription of
latent human immunodeficiency virus 67
J. D. Mosca, D. P. Bednarik, N. B. K. Raj, C. A. Rosen, J. G. Sodroski, W. A. Haseltine & P. M. Pitha
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| | Bovine papillomavirus E2 trans-activating
gene product binds to
specific sites in papillomavirus DNA
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Elliot J. Androphy, Douglas R. Lowy & John T. Schiller
doi:10.1038/325070a0
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| | Evidence against Ha-ras-1 involvement in sporadic and familial melanoma 73
Daniela S. Gerhard, Nicholas C. Dracopoli, Sherri J. Bale, Alan N. Houghton, Paul Watkins, Christine E. Payne, Mark H. Greene & David E. Housman
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| | Oestradiol induction of a glucocorticoid-responsive gene by a chimaeric receptor 75
Stephen Green & Pierre Chambon
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| | Blebbing, free Ca2+ and mitochondrial
membrane potential
preceding cell death in hepatocytes
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John J. Lemasters, James DiGuiseppi, Anna-Liisa Nieminen & Brian Herman
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| | A transcript from a Drosophila pattern gene predicts a protein homologous to the transforming growth factor-
family 81
Richard W. Padgett, R. Daniel St. Johnston & William M. Gelbart
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| | Two variant surface glycoproteins of Trypanosoma Brucei of different sequence classes have similar 6 Å resolution X-ray structures 84
P. Metcalf, M. Blum, D. Freymann, M. Turner & D. C. Wiley
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| | Matters
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| | The colour of Sirius in the sixth century 87
STEPHEN C. McCLUSKEY
doi:10.1038/325087a0
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| | The colour of Sirius in the sixth century 87
R. H. VAN GENT
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| | The colour
of Sirius in the sixth century 89
W. SCHLOSSER & W. BERGMANN
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| | Early forest clearance and the environment in south-west Uganda 89
R. ALAN PERROTT
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| | Early forest clearance and the environment in south-west Uganda 90
D. TAYLOR & A. HAMILTON
doi:10.1038/325090a0
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| | Products to watch for in the new year 91
Convenience is the watchword for this first week of 1987, with everything from gels to cells.
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