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| | Transatlantic tax dilemmas 643
The British government has too much tax revenue for comfort, and the US government too little. The former needs reform, the latter needs higher
taxes.
doi:10.1038/331643a0
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| | An unfound problem 644
For more than two years, Japan has been working on an imaginative
idea. It needs more help.
doi:10.1038/331644a0
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| | Graduate submission 644
A study of British graduate education casts doubt on politicians' understanding of universities.
doi:10.1038/331644b0
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| | UK government concedes to critics of education bill 645
Simon Hadlington
doi:10.1038/331645a0
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| | Livermore lab head 645
Marcia Barinaga
doi:10.1038/331645b0
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| | TV satellite failure 645
Peter Coles
doi:10.1038/331645c0
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| | US budget does well by big science in 1989 proposal to Congress 646
doi:10.1038/331646a0
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| | Polish physicist gets a job at last 646
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/331646b0
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| | Army renews controversial plans for biological warfare laboratory 647
Seth Shulman
doi:10.1038/331647a0
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| | NIH conclude misconduct investigation 647
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/331647b0
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| | Do research centres herald a new era in UK academic science? 648
Simon Hadlington
doi:10.1038/331648a0
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| | New reform of Soviet education endorsed by Mikhail Gorbachev 648
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/331648b0
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| | Australia chooses spaceport consortium at Queensland site 649
Charles Morgan
doi:10.1038/331649a0
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| | Change for British Civil Service labs 649
doi:10.1038/331649b0
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| | AIDS envelope protein patent 649
Carol Ezzell
doi:10.1038/331649c0
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| | New rules for carcinogens 650
Marcia Barinaga
doi:10.1038/331650a0
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| | Appeal for computer facilities in West German universities 650
Steven Dickman
doi:10.1038/331650b0
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| | Ministers act to reduce industrial accidents 650
Peter Coles
doi:10.1038/331650c0
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| | South African university politics still hanging in the balance 651
Michael Cherry
doi:10.1038/331651a0
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| | Royalties to be paid on animal patents 651
Carol Ezzell
doi:10.1038/331651b0
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| | Rehabilitator for Vavilov comes to light 651
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/331651c0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Advising the government 652
SIDNEY D. DRELL
doi:10.1038/331652a0
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| | Directing science 652
R. F. CHURCHHOUSE
doi:10.1038/331652b0
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| | Time for secrecy 652
PETER WILLIS
doi:10.1038/331652c0
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| | The death of Richard Feynman 653
Richard Feynman was rightly an heroic figure in physics for the best of reasons: he had the flair to make up the rules as he went along. Will young people have heard the message?
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/331653a0
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| | Models of jovian vortices 654
Andrew P. Ingersoll
doi:10.1038/331654a0
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| | HIV infection in heterosexuals 655
Robert M. May
doi:10.1038/331655a0
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| | Learning from a computer cat 657
Alun Anderson
doi:10.1038/331657a0
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| | Anyone for Tanis? 658
Paul G. Bahn
doi:10.1038/331658a0
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| | Stellar ejecta from black holes 659
M.E. Bailey
doi:10.1038/331659a0
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| | Real-time images of surface diffusion 659
doi:10.1038/331659b0
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| | Several steps forward for Eocene primates 660
R.D. Martin
doi:10.1038/331660a0
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| | Enter a new amino acid 662
Dieter Söil
doi:10.1038/331662a0
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| | Tay-Sachs carriers and tuberculosis resistance 662
doi:10.1038/331662b0
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| | Milankovitch and monsoons 663
doi:10.1038/331663a0
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| | Inner cleanliness 664
David Jones
doi:10.1038/331664a0
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| | Scientific Correspondence | |
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| | Blood transfusions and HIV vaccinations 665
JACK W. SHIELDS
doi:10.1038/331665a0
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| | Antarctic earthquakes 665
R.D. ADAMS
doi:10.1038/331665b0
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| | Not just cachectin involved in toxic shock 665
A. BILLIAU
doi:10.1038/331665c0
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| | Tay-Sachs carriers and tuberculosis resistance 666
B. SPYROPOULOS
doi:10.1038/331666a0
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JARED M. DIAMOND
doi:10.1038/331666b0
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| | Cometary organics 666
F. HOYLE & N.C. WICKRAMASINGHE
doi:10.1038/331666c0
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| | Book Reviews |  |
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| | Thinking of Bell and Bohr 667
Michael Redhead reviews Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics
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J.S. Bell. & Dugald Murdoch.
doi:10.1038/331667a0
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| | The good, the bad and the ugly 668
Hermann Bondi reviews Truth and Beauty: Aesthetics and Motivations in Science
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S. Chandrasekhar
doi:10.1038/331668a0
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| | Buzz-words 668
Wayne M. Getz reviews The Biology of the Honey Bee
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Mark Winston
doi:10.1038/331668b0
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| | Back in Athens 669
Ivor Grattan-Guinness reviews The Mathematics of Plato's Academy: A New Reconstruction
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D.H. Fowler
doi:10.1038/331669a0
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| | Solar energy 669
doi:10.1038/331669b0
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| | Dr Boyden at the bedside 670
Vernon Reynolds reviews Western Civilization in Biological Perspective: Patterns in Biohistory
By
Stephen Boyden
doi:10.1038/331670a0
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| | Commentaries | |
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| | A man of universal interests 671
The death of Ya. B. Zel'dovich robs physics of one of its guiding lights of the twentieth century. Here Andrei Sakharov reflects on his life and his science, while on p. 673 appears a report of two meetings written by ZeVdovich, in collaboration with A. A. Starobinskii, shortly before his death.
Andrei Sakharov
doi:10.1038/331671a0
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| | Quantum effects in cosmology 673
A.A. Starobinskii & Ya.B. Zel,dovich
doi:10.1038/331673a0
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| | Information on past solar activity and geomagnetism from 10Be in the Camp Century ice core 675
J. Beer, U. Siegenthaler, G. Bonani, R.C. Finkel, H. Oeschger, M. Suter & W. Wölfli
doi:10.1038/331675a0
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| | A back-propagation programmed network that simulates response properties of a subset of posterior parietal neurons 679
David Zipser & Richard A. Andersen
doi:10.1038/331679a0
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| | Spectrophotometry and polarimetry of the giant luminous arcs in the clusters 2244−02 and Abell 370
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J. S. Miller & R. W. Goodrich
doi:10.1038/331685a0
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| | Hyper-velocity and tidal stars from binaries disrupted by a massive Galactic black hole 687
J. G. Hills
doi:10.1038/331687a0
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| | Laboratory simulation of Jupiter's Great Red Spot 689
Jöel Sommeria, Steven D. Meyers & Harry L. Swinney
doi:10.1038/331689a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (715K)
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| | Numerical simulation of Jupiter's Great Red Spot 693
Philip S. Marcus
doi:10.1038/331693a0
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| | Direct identification of superconducting regions in an inhomogeneous specimen by electron shadow microscopy
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Yang Cui-Ying & J. W. Steeds
doi:10.1038/331696a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (390K)
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| | A molecular sieve with eighteen-membered rings 698
Mark E. Davis, Carlos Saldarriaga, Consuelo Montes, Juan Garces & Cyrus Crowdert
doi:10.1038/331698a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (229K)
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| | Evidence from 29Si NMR for the structure of mixed-layer illite/smectite clay minerals
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Stephen P. Altaner, Charles A. Weiss Jr & R. James Kirkpatrick
doi:10.1038/331699a0
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| | Long-term polarity stability and strength of the geomagnetic dipole 702
Poorna C. Pal & Paul H. Roberts
doi:10.1038/331702a0
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| | Granulite fades Nd-isotopic homogenization in the Lewisian complex of northwest Scotland 705
M. J. Whitehouse
doi:10.1038/331705a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (358K)
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| | Pleistocene dates for the human occupation of New Ireland, northern Melanesia 707
Jim Allen, Chris Gosden, Rhys Jones & J. Peter White
doi:10.1038/331707a0
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| | Patterns in the distribution and abundance of insect populations 709
Kevin J. Gaston & John H. Lawton
doi:10.1038/331709a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (445K)
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| | Interrelationships among primate higher taxa 712
K. Christopher Beard, Marian Dagosto, Daniel L. Gebo & Marc Godinot
doi:10.1038/331712a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (382K)
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| | A test of the short-term advantage of sexual reproduction 714
Steven E. Kelley, Janis Antonovics & Johanna Schmitt
doi:10.1038/331714a0
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| | Primary genetic control of somatic sexual differentiation in a mammal 716
Wai-Sum O., R. V. Short, Marilyn B. Renfree & G. Shaw
doi:10.1038/331716a0
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| | Deletions of muscle mitochondrial DNA in patients with mitochondrial myopathies 717
I. J. Holt, A. E. Harding & J. A. Morgan-Hughes
doi:10.1038/331717a0
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| | Cytotoxic T-cell clones discriminate between A- and B-type Epstein-Barr virus transformants 719
D. J. Moss, I. S. Misko, S. R. Burrows, K. Burman, R. McCarthy & T. B. Sculley
doi:10.1038/331719a0
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| | Homologies between gap junction proteins in lens, heart and liver 721
Joerg Kistler, David Christie & Stanley Bullivant
doi:10.1038/331721a0
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| | Gene for a novel tRNA species that accepts L-serine and cotranslationally inserts selenocysteine 723
Walfred Leinfelder, Eva Zehelein, MarieAndree MandrandBerthelot & August Bock
doi:10.1038/331723a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (368K)
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| | Structure of the liganded T state of haemoglobin identifies the origin of cooperative oxygen binding 725
Robert Liddington, Zygmunt Derewenda, Guy Dodson & Deborah Harris
doi:10.1038/331725a0
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| | Fluorometric calcium measurement 729
Measuring the fluorescence of dyes specific for calcium and other cations allows the elucidation of cellular mechanisms such as neurotransmission, muscle contraction and cardiovascular regulation.
J.S. Hall, K.A. Korkidis & D.L. Maskevich
doi:10.1038/331729a0
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| | Laboratory measurement notes 730
A range of instruments for laboratory measurement are described this week, including balances, pipettes, and electrodes for measuring ions and neurotransmitters.
Carol Ezzell
doi:10.1038/331730a0
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