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| | Why sequence the human genome? 465
General enthusiasm for producing a sequence of the nucleotides in the whole of human DNA is well justified, but more attention should be paid to the need for an international data-gather ing network.
doi:10.1038/331465a0
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| | Can monopolies compete? 466
British plans to sell the public electricity utility deserve more thought.
doi:10.1038/331466a0
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| | Misguided perestroika
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Some Soviet engineers feel neglected, and seek an academy of their own. Are they wise?
doi:10.1038/331466b0
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| | National Research Council endorses genome project 467
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/331467a0
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| | Move to ban sex determination 467
Radhakrishna Rao
doi:10.1038/331467b0
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| | Environmentalist kangaroos for human consumption? 468
Charles Morgan
doi:10.1038/331468a0
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| | No more high-energy physics for NSF? 468
David Lindley
doi:10.1038/331468b0
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| | Sakharov work acknowledged 468
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/331468c0
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| | Ariane setback makes problems for European space plans 469
Peter Coles
doi:10.1038/331469a0
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| | Space station accord 469
Steven Dickman
doi:10.1038/331469b0
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| | New DNA guidelines 469
Kathy Johnston
doi:10.1038/331469c0
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| | No irradiation yet 469
Simon Hadlington
doi:10.1038/331469d0
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| | Turks in the Aegean 469
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/331469e0
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| | Medical merger off 469
Simon Hadlington
doi:10.1038/331469f0
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| | Row over vaccine trial 470
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/331470a0
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| | AIDS brochure mailing will go ahead in United States 470
Carol Ezzell
doi:10.1038/331470b0
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| | Moonlighting OK 470
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/331470c0
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| | AIDS research centre to be set up in India 470
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/331470d0
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| | Public relations blunders still dog UK nuclear industry 471
Simon Hadlington
doi:10.1038/331471a0
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| | A first for the Japan prize 471
doi:10.1038/331471b0
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| | Further cracks found in superphénix 471
Peter Coles
doi:10.1038/331471c0
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| | Emigrating Jewish scientists expensive for Soviet Union 472
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/331472a0
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| | New Dutch body 472
Casper Schuuring
doi:10.1038/331472b0
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| | More woes for New England's beleagured nuclear power plant 472
Seth Shulman
doi:10.1038/331472c0
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| | Government scheme encourages more collaborative research 473
Peter Newmark
doi:10.1038/331473a0
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| | New US space policy opens up the future to private industry 473
Steven Dickman & Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/331473b0
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| | Prospects revive for Japanese magnetically levitated train 474
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/331474a0
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| | Maglev train system for United States? 474
Carol Ezzell
doi:10.1038/331474b0
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| | The limits of reductionism 475
ERNST MAYR
doi:10.1038/331475a0
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| | The limits of reductionism 475
STEVEN WEINBERG
doi:10.1038/331475b0
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| | Replacing tenure 476
NORMAN R. SAUNDERS
doi:10.1038/331476a0
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| | Creationists now 476
ANDREW W. P. ROBERTS
doi:10.1038/331476b0
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| | New gas constant measurement 477
A new determination of the value of the gas constant, and thus ofBoltzmann's constant, seems to be the most accurate in the past fifteen years. But how long will it last?
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/331477a0
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| | Enter a protease inhibitor 478
Robin W. Carrell
doi:10.1038/331478a0
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| | Chromosome movement in vitro
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Roy Burns
doi:10.1038/331479a0
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| | Deep geology of the Pyrenees 480
Andrew M. McCaig
doi:10.1038/331480a0
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| | Going with the flow 481
Jeffry B. Lansman
doi:10.1038/331481a0
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| | Quarrying for extinct species 482
Peter D. Moore
doi:10.1038/331482a0
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| | Insulin found at last? 483
Alan Thorpe & Hanne Duve
doi:10.1038/331483a0
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| | Stirrings in the abyss 484
Nick McCave
doi:10.1038/331484a0
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| | What do we know about speciation? 485
J. A. Coyne & N. H. Barton
doi:10.1038/331485a0
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| | Which way for malaria? 486
F. E. G. Cox
doi:10.1038/331486a0
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| | Helium can form stable bonds 487
Nell Bartlett
doi:10.1038/331487a0
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| | Fewer and further between 488
Virginia Trimble
doi:10.1038/331488a0
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| | Absentee ratio for boost-phase ASATs 489
MYRON LECAR
doi:10.1038/331489a0
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| | Isotopically depleted rainfall and El Niño 489
MICHAEL BIRD
doi:10.1038/331489b0
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| | EDRF —a protective factor? 490
ERIC O. FEIGL
doi:10.1038/331490a0
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| | Sequence similarities in calcium-binding proteins 491
JOS. A. COX & AMOS BAIROCH
doi:10.1038/331491a0
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| | Sex and recombination 491
IAIN J. GORDON
doi:10.1038/331491b0
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| | Sex and recombination 492
H. L. FLETCHER
doi:10.1038/331492a0
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| | Protein kinase C and cyclic AMP pathways cross-talk 492
JONATHAN MILLAR & ENRIQUE ROZENGURT
doi:10.1038/331492b0
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| | The natives were friendly 493
Warwick Bray reviews The National Geographic Society: 100 Years of Adventure and Discovery
By
C. D. B. Bryan Abrams
doi:10.1038/331493a0
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| | How much do you want to know? 494
Joseph Ford reviews Hamiltonian Dynamical Systems
Compiled and introduced by
R. S. MacKay & J. D. Meiss
doi:10.1038/331494a0
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| | Firm foundations 494
David Oldroyd reviews From Mineralogy To Geology: The Foundations of a Science, 1650-1830
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Rachel Laudan
doi:10.1038/331494b0
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| | A year in the life 495
Peter Coles reviews L'Année de la Science
By
Roger Caratini
doi:10.1038/331495a0
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| | Treasure trove 495
doi:10.1038/331495b0
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| | Wild variability 496
Dolph Schluter reviews Avian Genetics: A Population and Ecological Approach
Edited by
F. Cooke & P.A. Buckley
doi:10.1038/331496a0
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| | Twinkle, twinkle 496
Robert F. Garrison reviews The Classification of Stars
By
Carlos Jaschek & Mercedes Jaschek
doi:10.1038/331496b0
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| | The thesis that won't go away 497
The PhD degree is not an end in itself but a training for research work. The system of awarding doctorates for unpublished and unpublishable theses is overdue for reform.
Beverly Halstead
doi:10.1038/331497a0
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| | Polewards chromosome movement driven by microtubule depolymerization in vitro
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Douglas E. Koshland, T. J. Mitchison & Marc W. Kirschner
doi:10.1038/331499a0
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| | Nickel, argon and cobalt in the infrared spectrum of SN1987A: the core becomes visible 505
D. M. Rank, P. A. Pinto, S. E. Woosley, J. D. Bregman, F. C. Wittebornt, T. S. Axelrod & M. Cohen
doi:10.1038/331505a0
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| | The recombination wave and the hydrogen envelope mass of supernova 1987A 506
Michael A. Dopita
doi:10.1038/331506a0
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| | The ECORS deep reflection seismic survey across the Pyrenees 508
doi:10.1038/331508a0
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| | Small-scale heterogeneities in depleted mantle sources: near-ridge seamount lava geochemistry and implications for mid-ocean-ridge magmatic processes 511
Daniel J. Fornari, Michael R. Perfit, James F. Allan & Rodey Batiza
doi:10.1038/331511a0
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Michael I. Bird & Allan R. Chivas
doi:10.1038/331513a0
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| | Experimental vaporization and condensation of olivine solid solution 516
Hiroko Nagahara, Ikuo Kushiro, Bjorn O. Mysen & Hiroshi Meri
doi:10.1038/331516a0
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| | A deep-sea sediment transport storm 518
Thomas F. Gross, A. J. Williams III & A. R. M. Newell
doi:10.1038/331518a0
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| | Nitrate flux into the euphotic zone near Bermuda 521
W. J. Jenkins
doi:10.1038/331521a0
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| | A procynosuchid cynodont from central Europe 523
Hans-Dieter Sues & Jiirgen A. Boy
doi:10.1038/331523a0
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| | A new A4 amyloid mRNA contains a domain homologous to serine proteinase inhibitors 525
P. Ponte, P. Gonzalez DeWhitt, J. Schilling, J. Miller, D Hsu, B Greenberg, K. Davis, W Wallace, I Lieberburg, F Fuller & B Cordell
doi:10.1038/331525a0
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| | Protease inhibitor domain encoded by an amyloid protein precursor mRNA associated with Alzheimer's disease 528
Rudolph E. Tanzi, Andrea I. McClatchey, Edward D. Lamperti, Lydia Villa-Komaroff, James F. Gusella & Rachael L. Neve
doi:10.1038/331528a0
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| | Novel precursor of Alzheimer's disease amyloid protein shows protease inhibitory activity 530
Nobuya Kitaguchi, Yasuyuki Takahashi, Yasuo Tokushima, Satoshi Shiojiri & Hirataka Ito
doi:10.1038/331530a0
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| | Membrane currents that govern smooth muscle contraction in a ctenophore 533
A. Bilbaut, M.-L. Hernandez Nicaise, C. A. Leech & R. W. Meech
doi:10.1038/331533a0
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| | Growth-controlling molluscan neurons produce the precursor of an insulin-related peptide 535
A. B. Smit, E. Vreugdenhil, R. H. M. Ebberink, W. P. M. Geraerts, J. Klootwijk & J. Joosse
doi:10.1038/331535a0
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| | Processing of a minimal antigenic peptide alters its interaction with MHC molecules 538
Barbara S. Fox, Francis R. Carbone, Ronald N. Germain, Yvonne Paterson & Ronald H. Schwartz
doi:10.1038/331538a0
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| | Isolation of an HTLV-1-like retrovirus from patients with tropical spastic paraparesis 540
Steven Jacobson, Cedric S. Raine, Elizabeth S. Mingioli & Dale E. McFarlin
doi:10.1038/331540a0
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| | Conserved organization of the human and murine T-cell receptor  -gene families 543
Eric Lai, Patrick Concannon & Leroy Hood
doi:10.1038/331543a0
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| | Interactions of sea-urchin skeleton macromolecules with growing calcite crystals—
a study of intracrystalline proteins 546
A. Herman, L. Addadi & S. Weiner
doi:10.1038/331546a0
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Ernst Zinner, Tang Ming & Edward Anders
doi:10.1038/331548a0
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