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| | Academic suicide in South Africa? 95
The outspoken universities of South Africa are under new threat from the government that supports them. Academics elsewhere must rally round, in their own interests if not South Africa's.
doi:10.1038/330095a0
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| | Next step on arms 96
What should happen now that the treaty on intermediate missiles seems within reach?
doi:10.1038/330096a0
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| | Patent Office decision puts Genentech out in front 97
Carol Ezzell
doi:10.1038/330097a0
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| | New radiotelescopes 97
Marcia Barinaga
doi:10.1038/330097b0
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| | Einstein for sale 97
Simon Hadlington
doi:10.1038/330097c0
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| | Biotech expansion 97
Bernard Conlon
doi:10.1038/330097d0
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| | UNESCO's new head 97
Simon Hadlington
doi:10.1038/330097e0
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| | Castration pleases bulls? 98
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/330098a0
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| | Soviet space agency seeks first foothold in tough Western market 98
Simon Hadlington
doi:10.1038/330098b0
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| | New effort starts up to evaluate AIDS education in United States 99
Marcia Barinaga
doi:10.1038/330099a0
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| | First images from European telescope 99
doi:10.1038/330099b0
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| | Fewer projects funded in West Germany 99
Steven Dickman
doi:10.1038/330099c0
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| | Patience pays laser inventor in lifetime battle over patents? 100
Alun Anderson
doi:10.1038/330100a0
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| | Pending patent law good news for some 100
Simon Hadlington
doi:10.1038/330100b0
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| | Extra money for British science insufficient to reverse decline 101
Simon Hadlington
doi:10.1038/330101a0
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| | Flying cockroach walks to victory 101
Charles Morgan
doi:10.1038/330101b0
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| | United States and Japan sign agreement on nuclear reprocessing 102
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/330102a0
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| | Axe falls on Irish agricultural researchers 102
Mary Mulvihill
doi:10.1038/330102b0
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| | University of California will stay in charge at weapons labs 103
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/330103a0
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| | Huge iceberg adrift in Antarctic seas 103
David Lindley
doi:10.1038/330103b0
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| | Efficiency bid by research commission 103
Bernard Conlon
doi:10.1038/330103c0
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| | Problems of university of Chile 104
ALEXANDER MAURO & HERSCH M. GERSCHENFELD
doi:10.1038/330104a0
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| | Refereeing reforms 104
ALEXANDER A. BEREZIN
doi:10.1038/330104b0
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| | Vatican and IVF 104
E. J. BONESCHANSCHER
doi:10.1038/330104c0
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| | Genome sequencing 104
MARTIN LUCK
doi:10.1038/330104d0
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| | A dim star with bright prospects 105
A single, almost invisible star can teach us a great deal about the Solar System, other stars and the rest of our Galaxy.
David Lindley
doi:10.1038/330105a0
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| | Retrograde step for microtubules 106
Jeremy S. Hyams
doi:10.1038/330106a0
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| | Synthetic peptides as vaccines 106
Jonathan Rothbard
doi:10.1038/330106b0
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| | 100 years ago 107
doi:10.1038/330107a0
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| | Acid rain at the K/T boundary 108
Paul J. Crutzen
doi:10.1038/330108a0
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doi:10.1038/330109a0
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| | Modulation in three dimensions 109
J. R. Jokipii
doi:10.1038/330109b0
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| | Inhibition by acidification? 110
Roger Thomas
doi:10.1038/330110a0
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| | Near-harmonic vibrations found 111
Kris Heyde
doi:10.1038/330111a0
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| | Sir Peter Medawar (1915 − 1987) 112
N.A. Mitchison
doi:10.1038/330112a0
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| | Teaching old dogmas new tricks 113
Michael S. Brown & Joseph L. Goldstein
doi:10.1038/330113a0
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c superconducters doped Mott insulators? 115
M. CYROT
doi:10.1038/330115a0
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| | Synapsin or protein 4.1 in chromaffin cells 115
ROBERT D. BURGOYNE & ANTHONY J. BAINES
doi:10.1038/330115b0
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| | Artificial guide stars for adaptive imaging 116
J.D.H. PILKINGTON
doi:10.1038/330116a0
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| | Artificial guide stars for adaptive imaging 116
LAIRD THOMPSON & CHET GARDNER
doi:10.1038/330116b0
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| | Red Queen versus Tangled Bank models 116
BRIAN CHARLESWORTH
doi:10.1038/330116c0
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| | Red Queen versus Tangled Bank models 117
JEREMY J. D. GREENWOOD
doi:10.1038/330117a0
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| | Red Queen versus Tangled Bank models 117
JACOB C. KOELLA
doi:10.1038/330117b0
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| | Red Queen versus Tangled Bank models 118
AUSTIN BURT & GRAHAM BELL
doi:10.1038/330118a0
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| | Different interpretations 119
Bernard Wood reviews Fossils, Teeth and Sex: Perspectives on Human Evolution
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Charles E. Oxnard
doi:10.1038/330119a0
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| | Simulating life's work 120
Michael Levitt reviews Dynamics of Proteins and Nucleic Acids
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J. Andrew McCammon & Stephen C. Harvey
doi:10.1038/330120a0
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| | Personal approaches 121
Peter J. Bowler reviews Scientific Genius and Creativity: Readings from Scientific American
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Owen Gingerich & Roy Porter
doi:10.1038/330121a0
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doi:10.1038/330121b0
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| | Mutual aid society 121
Gordon H. Orians reviews Helping and Communal Breeding in Birds: Ecology and Evolution
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Jerram L. Brown
doi:10.1038/330121c0
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| | Models and games 122
Kendall Preston Jr reviews Cellular Automata Machines: A New Environment for Modeling
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Tommaso Toffoli & Norman Margolus
doi:10.1038/330122a0
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| | The continuing decline of British science 123
New and more methodologically advanced publication and citation data for the period up to 1984 indicate that the relative decline of British science is continuing, albeit at a slower rate than in the 1970s.
Ben R. Martin, John Irvine, Francis Narin & Chris Sterritt
doi:10.1038/330123a0
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| | Thermal expansion of sea water associated with global warming 127
T. M. L. Wigley & S. C. B. Raper
doi:10.1038/330127a0
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| | cDNA sequence of human apolipoprotein(a) is homologous to plasminogen 132
John W. McLean, James E. Tomlinson, Wun-Jing Kuang, Dan L. Eaton, Ellson Y. Chen, Gunther M. Fless, Angelo M. Scanu & Richard M. Lawn
doi:10.1038/330132a0
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| | Excess infrared radiation from a white dwarf—an orbiting brown
dwarf? 138
B. Zuckerman & E. E. Becklin
doi:10.1038/330138a0
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| | A giant intergalactic H I bubble near Arpl43 140
P. N. Appleton, F. D. Ghigo, J. H. van Gorkom, James M. Schombert & Curtis Struck-Marcell
doi:10.1038/330140a0
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| | The neutrino emission of SN1987A 142
R. Schaeffer, Y. Declais & S. Jullian
doi:10.1038/330142a0
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| | Rapid changes and near-stationarity of the geomagnetic field during a
polarity reversal 145
Carlo Laj, Sylvie Guitton & Catherine Kissel
doi:10.1038/330145a0
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| | A description of energy conversion in photoelectrochemical solar
cells 148
Stuart Licht
doi:10.1038/330148a0
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| | Mössbauer imaging 151
Stephen J. Norton
doi:10.1038/330151a0
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| | Mössbauer imaging: experimental result 153
U. Atzmony, S. J. Norton, L. J. Swartzendruber & L. H. Bennett
doi:10.1038/330153a0
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| | Stable lead isotope tracers of air mass trajectories in the Mediterranean region 154
Hal Maring, Dorothy M. Settle, Patrick Buat-Ménard, François Dulac & Clair C. Patterson
doi:10.1038/330154a0
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| | Cd/Ca in late Miocene benthic foraminifera and changes in the global organic carbon budget 156
Margaret Lois Delaney & Edward A. Boyle
doi:10.1038/330156a0
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| | Thermoluminescence dates for the Neanderthal burial site at Kebara in
Israel 159
H. Valladas, J. L. Joron, G. Valladas, B. Arensburg, O. Bar-Yosef, A. Belfer-Cohen, P. Goldberg, H. Laville, L. Meignen, Y. Rak, E. Tchernov, A. M. Tillier & B. Vandermeersch
doi:10.1038/330159a0
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| | A novel mechanism of insect resistance engineered into tobacco 160
Vaughan A. Hilder, Angharad M. R. Gatehouse, Suzanne E. Sheerman, Richard F. Barker & Donald Boulter
doi:10.1038/330160a0
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| | Postsynaptic fall in intracellular pH induced by GABA-activated
bicarbonate conductance 163
K. Kaila & J. Voipio
doi:10.1038/330163a0
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| | Centrifugal fibres synapse on dopaminergic interplexiform cells in the teleost retina 166
Charles L. Zucker & John E. Dowling
doi:10.1038/330166a0
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| | Non-responsiveness to a foot-and-mouth disease virus peptide overcome by addition of foreign helper T-cell determinants 168
Michael J. Francis, Gillian Z. Hastings, Andrew D. Syred, Brian McGinn, Fred Brown & David J. Rowlands
doi:10.1038/330168a0
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| | Expression and function of the CD3-antigen receptor on murine CD4+8+ thymocytes 170
Wendy L. Havran, Martin Poenie, John Kimura, Roger Tsien, Arthur Weiss & James P. Allison
doi:10.1038/330170a0
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| | A new immunomodulating compound (AS-101) with potential therapeutic
application 173
B. Sredni, R. R. Caspi, A. Klein, Y. Kalechman, Y. Danziger, M. BenYa'akov, T. Tamari, F. Shalit & M. Albeck
doi:10.1038/330173a0
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| | Differential expression of calmodulin-binding proteins in B, T lymphocytes and thymocytes 176
Randall L. Kincaid, Hajime Takayama, Melvin L. Billingsley & Michail V. Sitkovsky
doi:10.1038/330176a0
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| | Both immature and mature T cells mobilize Ca2+ in response to antigen receptor crosslinking 179
Terri Helman Finkel, Marcia McDuffie, John W. Kappler, Philippa Marrack & John C. Cambier
doi:10.1038/330179a0
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| | Retrograde transport by the microtubule-associated protein MAP 1C 181
Bryce M. Paschal & Richard B. Vallee
doi:10.1038/330181a0
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| | Relation of HTLV-4 to simian and human immunodeficiency-associated viruses 184
Beatrice H. Hahn, Lilly I. Kong, Shei-Wen Lee, Prasanna Kumar, Maria E. Taylor, Suresh K. Arya & George M. Shaw
doi:10.1038/330184a0
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| | Mutations of the Kirsten-ras proto-oncogene in human preleukaemia 186
Edison Liu, Brian Hjelle, Rodman Morgan, Frederick Hecht & J. Michael Bishop
doi:10.1038/330186a0
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| | Liposome techniques in cell biology 189
The potential of liposomes as drug-delivery vehicles is currently receiving much attention. But new research uses are also being developed, in areas from modulating the phosphatidylinositol cycle to modelling antigen-presenting cell functions.
C. R. Alving
doi:10.1038/330189a0
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| | Cell biologists in St Louis 190
The 27th annual meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology will be held next week in St Louis, Missouri. Roughly 210 companies have booked exhibit booths, and some of the wares they will have on display are described below.
Carol Ezzell
doi:10.1038/330190a0
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