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| | Universities' last melting pot? 529
The British government has at last devised a plan for the future of its institutions of higher education. That is progress, at least some of it in the right direction.
doi:10.1038/326529a0
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| | Taxing what is free 530
Innovative to the last, the British government is to sell radio frequencies on the open market.
doi:10.1038/326530a0
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| | Is negotiation strength? 530
Mrs Thatcher's Moscow visit has left unanswered important questions about nuclear weapons.
doi:10.1038/326530b0
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| | Slimmer US space station, same planetary probes 531
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/326531a0
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| | British higher education in the 1990s 531
Bill Johnstone
doi:10.1038/326531b0
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| | Cautious reception for British white paper on higher education 532
Kathy Johnston
doi:10.1038/326532a0
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| | Judge confirms injunction in sandwich assay patent suit 532
Carol Ezzell
doi:10.1038/326532b0
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| | Settlement on AIDS finally reached between US and Pasteur 533
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/326533a0
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| | Superconducting ceramics race on 533
doi:10.1038/326533b0
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| | German AIDS registration row 533
Steven Dickman
doi:10.1038/326533c0
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| | Fast-breeder test reactor faces licence refusal in Germany 534
Steven Dickman
doi:10.1038/326534a0
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| | Unexpected windfall for Pasteur Institute 534
Peter Newmark
doi:10.1038/326534b0
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| | The costs of nuclear decommisioning 534
Bill Johnstone
doi:10.1038/326534c0
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| | Healthy scientific environment promoted by society in India 535
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/326535a0
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| | Another large telescope to be sited on Hawaii's Mauna Kea? 535
David Lindley
doi:10.1038/326535b0
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| | US experimental drug rule change may help biotechnology 536
Carol Ezzell
doi:10.1038/326536a0
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| | OTA gives Congress options on cell-line donor ownership 536
Carol Ezzell
doi:10.1038/326536b0
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| | UK release of four genetically manipulated organisms planned 537
Peter Newmark
doi:10.1038/326537a0
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| | Japan faces both ways on timber conservation in tropical forests 537
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/326537b0
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| | Pursuit of relevance in research 538
JOHN ASHWORTH
doi:10.1038/326538a0
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| | Plight of postdocs 538
A. PARSONS
doi:10.1038/326538b0
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| | Plight of postdocs 538
MICHAEL D. BARON
doi:10.1038/326538c0
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| | Confining AIDS 538
M. K. AGARWAL
doi:10.1038/326538d0
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| | Environment and foreign aid 539
The well-known jibe that environmental protection is a self-indulgence of the rich is particularly apposite on the international plane. But the corollary is more foreign aid.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/326539a0
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| | Synthetic polymer self-assembly 540
Paul Calvert
doi:10.1038/326540a0
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| | Temperatures rise higher still 540
M. Strongin, D. O. Welch & V. J. Emery
doi:10.1038/326540b0
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| | Surprises in the skies 541
A. A. Watson
doi:10.1038/326541a0
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| | Cyclins in meiosis and mitosis 542
Andrew W. Murray
doi:10.1038/326542a0
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| | Which star went bang? 543
Philip Campbell
doi:10.1038/326543a0
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| | Novel optical properties of liquid-crystal polymers 544
George Attard & Graham Williams
doi:10.1038/326544a0
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doi:10.1038/326544b0
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| | Tree boundaries on the move 545
Peter D. Moore
doi:10.1038/326545a0
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| | Biochemical puzzles about the cyclic-GMP-dependent channel 546
Meredithe L. Applebury
doi:10.1038/326546a0
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| | Stability of alpha-helices 547
Thomas E. Creighton
doi:10.1038/326547a0
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| | Variations of AIDS virus relatives 548
Peter Newmark
doi:10.1038/326548a0
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| | Insulin, IGF-I and growth in diabetic rats 549
I. C. A. F. ROBINSON, R. G. CLARK & L. M. S. CARLSSON
doi:10.1038/326549a0
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| | Insulin, IGF-I and growth in diabetic rats 549
E. R. FROESCH & J. ZAPF
doi:10.1038/326549b0
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ANTHONY R. M. COATES, JOHN COOKSON, GEOFFREY J. BARTON, MARKETA J. ZVELEBIL & MICHAEL J E STERNBERG
doi:10.1038/326549c0
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| | Knob-associated histidine-rich protein gene 550
YAGYA D. SHARMA
doi:10.1038/326550a0
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| | Knob-associated histidine-rich protein gene 550
LAURA G. POLOGE & JEFFREY V RAVETCH
doi:10.1038/326550b0
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| | Great stinking fogs 551
Eric Ashby reviews The Big Smoke: A History of Air Pollution in London Since Medieval Times
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Peter Brimblecombe
doi:10.1038/326551a0
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| | Antibodies in the laboratory 552
Richard Batchelor reviews Handbook of Experimental Immunology, 4th Edn
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D.M. Weir
doi:10.1038/326552a0
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| | Filling the plane 553
Roger Penrose reviews Tilings And Patterns
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Branko Grünbaum & G. C. Shephard
doi:10.1038/326553a0
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| | Ichthyologists all at sea 554
Alwyne Wheeler reviews Fishes of the North-eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean
Edited by
P. J. P. Whitehead, M.-L. Bauchot, J.-C. Hureau, J. Nielsen, E. Tortonese, M. M. Smith & P. C. Heemstra
doi:10.1038/326554a0
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| | Conducted tours 554
P. N. Butcher reviews Conduction in Non-Crystalline Materials
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Sir Nevill Mott
doi:10.1038/326554b0
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| | Physics and the riddle of life 555
Erwin Schrödinger's book What is Life?, published in 1944, drew several of the brightest physicists into molecular biology. But the book's chief merit lies in its rescue from obscurity and popularization of an earlier paper by Timoféeff, Zimmer and Delbrück.
M. F. Perutz
doi:10.1038/326555a0
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| | Minimal chaos and stochastic webs 559
A. A. Chernikov, R. Z. Sagdeev, D. A. Usikov, M. Yu Zakharov & G. M. Zaslavsky
doi:10.1038/326559a0
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| | Tests of the helix dipole model for stabilization of  -helices 563
Kevin R. Shoemaker, Peter S. Kim, Eunice J. York, John M. Stewart & Robert L. Baldwin
doi:10.1038/326563a0
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| | Pulsed TeV gamma-rays from Vela X-1 567
A. R. North, B. C. Raubenheimer, O. C. De Jager, A. J. van Tonder & G. van Urk
doi:10.1038/326567a0
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| | A massive glitch in an old pulsar 569
A. G. Lyne
doi:10.1038/326569a0
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| | Ultraviolet detection of the nucleus of NGC2440 571
S. R. Heap
doi:10.1038/326571a0
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| | Rejection of a proposed 7.4-day rotation period of the comet Halley nucleus 573
B. A. Smith, S. M. Larson, K. Szegö & R. Z. Sagdeev
doi:10.1038/326573a0
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| | Oscillations in photon distribution of squeezed states and interference in phase space 574
W. Schleich & J. A. Wheeler
doi:10.1038/326574a0
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| | A model of solar-cycle effects on palaeoclimate and its implications for the Elatina Formation 577
J.-Cl. Gérard & L. M. François
doi:10.1038/326577a0
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| | Synthesis of fibres by growth-packing 580
Han Sik Yoon
doi:10.1038/326580a0
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| | Dynamic ordering of aggregated mesomorphic macromolecules 582
Ivan Cabrera & Valeri Krongauz
doi:10.1038/326582a0
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| | Obsidian provenance determination by back-scattered electron imaging 585
James H. Burton & David H. Krinsley
doi:10.1038/326585a0
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| | Liquid carbon dioxide of magmatic origin and its role in volcanic eruptions 587
Allan R. Chivas, Ivan Barnes, William C. Evans, John E. Lupton & John O. Stone
doi:10.1038/326587a0
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| | A spreading episode at the southern end of the San Andreas fault system 589
Paul G. Silver & J. N. Valette-Silver
doi:10.1038/326589a0
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| | Racemization-derived late Devensian temperature reduction in Scotland 593
G. H. Miller, A. J. T. Jull, T. Linick, D. Sutherland, H. P. Sejrup, J. K. Brigham, D. Q. Bowen & J. Mangerud
doi:10.1038/326593a0
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| | The ecological niche of an extinct group of mammals, the early Tertiary apatemyids 595
W. v. Koenigswald & H.-P. Schierning
doi:10.1038/326595a0
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| | Enigmatic changes in the hydromedusan fauna of the northern Adriatic Sea 597
Adam Benovi , Dubravko Justi & Ankica Bender
doi:10.1038/326597a0
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| | cGMP-dependent cation channel of retinal rod outer segments 600
Diane Matesic & Paul A. Liebman
doi:10.1038/326600a0
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| | Spontaneous and evoked activity of fetal primary afferents in vivo
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Maria Fitzgerald
doi:10.1038/326603a0
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| | Relationship between the nerve action potential and transmitter release from sympathetic postganglionic nerve terminals 605
James A. Brock & Thomas C. Cunnane
doi:10.1038/326605a0
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| | Fibronectin receptor structures in the VLA family of heterodimers 607
Yoshikazu Takada, Christina Huang & Martin E. Hemler
doi:10.1038/326607a0
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| | Cloning of HTLV-4 and its relation to simian and human immunodeficiency viruses 610
Hardy Kornfeld, Norbert Riedel, Gregory A. Viglianti, Vanessa Hirsch & James I. Mullins
doi:10.1038/326610a0
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| | A clue to the basic defect in cystic fibrosis from cloning the CF antigen gene 614
Julia R. Dorin, Michal Novak, Robert E. Hill, David J. H. Brock, David S. Secher & Veronica van Heyningen
doi:10.1038/326614a0
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| | Amino-acid sequence of glycoproteins encoded by three alleles of the S locus of Brassica oleracea
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J. B. Nasrallah, T.-H. Kao, C.-H. Chen, M. L. Goldberg & M. E. Nasrallah
doi:10.1038/326617a0
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| | Myristic acid is coupled to a structural protein of polyoma virus and SV40 619
Charles H. Streuli & Beverly E. Griffin
doi:10.1038/326619a0
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| | The enzyme lactate dehydrogenase as a structural protein in avian and crocodilian lenses 622
Graeme J. Wistow, John W. M. Mulders & Wilfried W. de Jong
doi:10.1038/326622a0
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| | Structure and evolution of ricin B chain 624
Earl Rutenber, Michael Ready & Jon D. Robertus
doi:10.1038/326624a0
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| | Lead concentration changes in Antarctic ice during the Wisconsin/Holocene transition 626
Claude F. Boutron & Clair C. Patterson
doi:10.1038/326626a0
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