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| | Formative turbulent months ahead 745
The British research community appears to be awakening to the radicalism of its government's new plans. Prudence requires that the outlines should be accepted, but the details cry out for argument.
doi:10.1038/328745a0
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| | Professional fraud 746
The US Congress, making heavy weather of rules to outlaw insider trading, can learn from science.
doi:10.1038/328746a0
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| | Trials of vaccine against AIDS to begin in humans 747
Carol Ezzell
doi:10.1038/328747a0
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| | Surprise money for UK space 747
Simon Hadlington
doi:10.1038/328747b0
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| | British Association adapts to its higher political profile 748
Charles Wenz
doi:10.1038/328748a0
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| | Voyager's tenth birthday 748
doi:10.1038/328748b0
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| | Fang Lizhi "no Sakharov" 748
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/328748c0
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| | Rocky road ahead in Senate for NSF budget increase 749
Alun Anderson
doi:10.1038/328749a0
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| | New AIDS control recommendations 749
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/328749b0
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| | New US position threatens to jeopardize CFC agreement 749
Kathy Johnston
doi:10.1038/328749c0
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| | Japanese media scent Nobels in superconductor race 750
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/328750a0
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| | Japan's education reformers rallying round the flag 750
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/328750b0
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| | Food irradiation legislation due despite public suspicion 751
Simon Hadlington
doi:10.1038/328751a0
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| | Extra mileage in ethanol for Chirac 751
Peter Coles
doi:10.1038/328751b0
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| | Britons beating CERN drum 751
doi:10.1038/328751c0
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| | Winds of change blowing hard in British science museums 752
Simon Hadlington
doi:10.1038/328752a0
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| | Taking stock . . . without IBM support 752
Steven Dickman
doi:10.1038/328752b0
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| | Munich: Expensive survival 753
Steven Dickman
doi:10.1038/328753a0
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| | Washington: Networks multiply 753
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/328753b0
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| | London: EARN poor relation 753
Kathy Johnston
doi:10.1038/328753c0
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| | Paris: REUNIR ready 753
Peter Coles
doi:10.1038/328753d0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Plight of UK science 754
D. A. W. GRANT
doi:10.1038/328754a0
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| | Plight of UK science 754
BRUCE CHARLTON
doi:10.1038/328754b0
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| | Easier said than done 754
C. TYLER BURT, JOHN HANCOCK & FREDERIC PEACHY
doi:10.1038/328754c0
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| | King Faisal prizes 754
BANDAR BINSAUD BIN KHALID
doi:10.1038/328754d0
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| | Correspondence not yet for closing? 755
Special relativity is the most familiar graveyard of general understanding. But can general understanding be advanced when discussion of particular points is suspended?
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/328755a0
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| | Does magnetism hold the key? 756
V. J. Emery
doi:10.1038/328756a0
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| | Satellite defences for plants 758
Giles Courtice
doi:10.1038/328758a0
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| | Real-time seeing machines? 759
Andrew Blake
doi:10.1038/328759a0
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| | Direct probing of reactions 760
Ian W. M. Smith
doi:10.1038/328760a0
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| | Keeping up with the times 761
Chris Brand
doi:10.1038/328761a0
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| | Models of quasars reappraised 762
Martin Elvis
doi:10.1038/328762a0
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| | Two receptors act sequentially 763
Peter Walter
doi:10.1038/328763a0
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| | Scientific Correspondence | |
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| | Observational constraints on interstellar diamonds 765
J. H. HECHT
doi:10.1038/328765a0
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| | Causal factors in generational IQ gains 765
JAMES R. FLYNN
doi:10.1038/328765b0
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| | Prokaryotic and eukaryotic cell-cycle proteins 766
ARTHUR C. ROBINSON, JOHN F. COLLINS & WILLIAM D. DONACHIE
doi:10.1038/328766a0
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| | Fertilization events 766
MEREDITH GOULD & JOSÉ LUIS STEPHANO
doi:10.1038/328766b0
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| | AIDS predictions 767
JOSE J. GONZALEZ & MICHAEL G. KOCH
doi:10.1038/328767a0
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| | Screwworm eradication and climate 767
J. L. READSHAW
doi:10.1038/328767b0
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| | Screwworm eradication and climate 768
E. S. KRAFSUR, W. C. BLACK, M. F. BRYAN, C. F. CURTIS, G. DAVIDSON & H. TOWNSON
doi:10.1038/328768a0
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| | The multiple star system Sk –69 202 768
S. VAN DEN BERGH
doi:10.1038/328768b0
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| | A different perspective on coral population genetics 768
R. Fitzhardinge
doi:
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| | Piecatcher! 769
John Rivers reviews The Politics of Food
By
Geoffrey Cannon
doi:10.1038/328769a0
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| | Island progress 770
Ernst Mayr reviews The Malay Archipelago
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Alfred Russel Wallace
doi:10.1038/328770a0
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| | Ghostly shadows 770
doi:10.1038/328770b0
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| | Molecules and man 771
David Weatherall reviews Molecular Biology of Homo Sapiens
doi:10.1038/328771a0
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| | Hardy perennial 772
Clive Stace reviews Flora of the British Isles, 3rd Edn.
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A. R. Clapham, T. G. Tutin & D. M. Moore
doi:10.1038/328772a0
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| | Review | |
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| | Interaction and annihilation of antiprotons and nuclei 773
T. von Egidy
doi:10.1038/328773a0
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| | Peculiar variations in the structure of the quasar 3C454.3 778
I. I. K. Pauliny-Toth, R. W. Porcas, J. A. Zensus, K. I. Kellermann, S. Y. Wu, G. D. Nicolson & F. Mantovani
doi:10.1038/328778a0
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| | Letters | |
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| | Limits on hadronic cosmic ray production by young pulsars 783
David Eichler & John R. Letaw
doi:10.1038/328783a0
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| | Statistical significance of the relationship between X-ray luminosity and variability timescale in active galactic nuclei 784
J. B. Stephen, L. Bassani, E. Caroli & G. Di Cocco
doi:10.1038/328784a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (370K)
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| | Statistical significance of the relationship between X-ray luminosity and variability timescale in active galactic nuclei 785
P. BARR & R. MUSHOTZKY
doi:10.1038/328785a0
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| | Increased transition temperatures in YBa2Cu3O
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superconducting ceramics by exposure to nitrogen 786
D. N. Matthews, A. Bailey, R. A. Vaile, G. J. Russell & K. N. R. Taylor
doi:10.1038/328786a0
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| | Relationships between concentration and deposition of nitrate and sulphate in precipitation 787
G. Farmer, R. J. Barthelmie, T. D. Davies, P. Brimblecombe & P. M. Kelly
doi:10.1038/328787a0
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| | Improving the accuracy of geomagnetic intensity measurements 789
D. Walton
doi:10.1038/328789a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (331K)
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| | Retreat velocity of the North Atlantic polar front during the last deglaciation determined by 14C accelerator mass spectrometry 791
Edouard Bard, Maurice Arnold, Pierre Maurice, Josette Duprat, Jean Moyes & Jean-Claude Duplessy
doi:10.1038/328791a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (477K)
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| | Cadmium in corals as a tracer of historical upwelling and industrial fallout 794
G. T. Shen, E. A. Boyle & D. W. Lea
doi:10.1038/328794a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (378K)
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| | A long-term increase in the fluid intelligence of English children 797
Richard Lynn, Susan L. Hampson & Judith C. Mullineux
doi:10.1038/328797a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (139K)
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| | Adaptive suicidal behaviour in pea aphids 797
Murdoch K. McAllister & Bernard D. Roitberg
doi:10.1038/328797b0
First paragraph & References | PDF (378K)
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| | Virus resistance in transgenic plants that express cucumber mosaic virus satellite RNA 799
Bryan D. Harrison, Michael A. Mayo & David C. Baulcombe
doi:10.1038/328799a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (594K)
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| | Construction of a plant disease resistance gene from the satellite RNA of tobacco ringspot virus 802
Wayne L. Gerlach, Danny Llewellyn & Jim Haseloff
doi:10.1038/328802a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (580K)
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| | The role of clonal selection and somatic mutation in autoimmunity 805
Mark J. Shlomchik, Ann Marshak-Rothstein, Claudia B. Wolfowicz, Thomas L. Rothstein & Martin G. Weigert
doi:10.1038/328805a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (694K)
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| | Chemical structure of the morphogen differentiation inducing factor from Dictyostelium discoideum
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Howard R. Morris, Graham W. Taylor, Mark S. Masento, Keith A. Jermyn & Robert R. Kay
doi:10.1038/328811a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (473K)
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| | Currents through the fusion pore that forms during exocytosis of a secretory vesicle 814
L. J. Breckenridge & W. Almers
doi:10.1038/328814a0
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| | Production and auto-induction of transforming growth factor- in human keratinocytes 817
Robert J. Coffey Jr, Rik Derynck, Josiah N. Wilcox, Timothy S. Bringman, A. Scott Goustin, Harold L. Moses & Mark R. Pittelkow
doi:10.1038/328817a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (566K)
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| | Requirement for intrinsic protein tyrosine kinase in the immediate and late actions of the EGF receptor 820
William S. Chen, Cheri S. Lazar, Martin Poenie, Roger Y. Tsien, Gordon N. Gill & Michael G. Rosenfeld
doi:10.1038/328820a0
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| | Cell-cycle regulatory sequences in a hamster histone promoter and their interactions with cellular factors 823
Alexander Artishevsky, Scott Wooden, Ajay Sharma, Elpidio Resendez Jr & Amy S. Lee
doi:10.1038/328823a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (793K)
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| | Erythroid-specific transcription of the chicken histone H5 gene is directed by a 3' enhancer 827
Cecelia D. Trainor, Susan J. Stamler & James Douglas Engel
doi:10.1038/328827a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (551K)
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| | A signal sequence receptor in the endoplasmic reticulum membrane 830
Martin Wiedmann, Teymuras V. Kurzchalia, Enno Hartmann & Tom A. Rapoport
doi:10.1038/328830a0
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| | Sulphur radicals formed by cutting  -keratin 833
Harish Chandra & Martyn C. R. Symons
doi:10.1038/328833a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (196K)
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| | The accessible surface area and stability of oligomeric proteins 834
Susan Miller, Arthur M. Lesk, Joël Janin & Cyrus Chothia
doi:10.1038/328834a0
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| | Product Reviews | |
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| | FT-IR microspectrometry advances 837
Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) microspectrometry has created a renaissance in infrared analysis, with applications from cosmic dust to the analysis of plastic laminates.
J. M. Kwiatkoski & J. A. Reffner
doi:10.1038/328837a0
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| | ACS goes to New Orleans 838
Next week, 10,000 chemists will flock to New Orleans, Louisiana, for the American Chemical Society's annual meeting. Here are some of the products they will see in the over 400 exhibit booths.
Carol Ezzell
doi:10.1038/328838a0
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