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| | Chip war about to break out again? 381
The 1986 agreement between the United States and Japan on the supply of microchips seems to violate the rules of free trade. They should look to a more lasting solution of the problem
doi:10.1038/332381a0
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| | Crypto-proliferation 382
The powers might agree on strategic weapons, but what of nuclear proliferation?
doi:10.1038/332382a0
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| | Fighting wrong battles 382
The US science community risks blaming the messenger for bad news about the NSF budget.
doi:10.1038/332382b0
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| | ESA's science programme will fail without Britain 383
Peter Coles
doi:10.1038/332383a0
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| | Pan American satellite gains access to UK 383
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/332383b0
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| | Cluster and Soho go-ahead 383
Peter Coles
doi:10.1038/332383c0
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| | UK nuclear power research squeezed by market forces 384
Simon Hadlington
doi:10.1038/332384a0
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| | Superphénix reactor set to rise again? 384
Peter Coles
doi:10.1038/332384b0
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| | German centre for California 384
Marcia Barinaga
doi:10.1038/332384c0
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| | Trade union reform in the offing for Hungary's scientists 385
Vera Ricj
doi:10.1038/332385a0
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| | Thin-film method 385
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/332385b0
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| | CFCs phased out 385
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/332385c0
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Alun Anderson
doi:10.1038/332385d0
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Simon Hadlington
doi:10.1038/332385e0
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| | No to academic freedom clause 386
Simon Hadlington
doi:10.1038/332386a0
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| | South Africa uses deportation in the battle against AIDS 386
Michael Cherry
doi:10.1038/332386b0
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| | HIV testing for NIH laboratory workers gets under way 386
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/332386c0
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| | Funding needed for private enterprise in genome sequencing 387
Seth Shulman
doi:10.1038/332387a0
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| | Genentech's boom is boosted by new clinical trial data 387
Marcia Barinaga
doi:10.1038/332387b0
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| | Canada makes plans for defence of its Arctic territories 388
Alun Anderson
doi:10.1038/332388a0
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| | French plans to revise doctorate 388
Peter Coles
doi:10.1038/332388b0
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| | Act limiting nuclear liability heads for home strait 389
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/332389a0
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| | Trees to benefit from Third World debt 389
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/332389b0
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| | France set to lead Europe? 389
Peter Coles
doi:10.1038/332389c0
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| | Szent-Györgyi and vitamin C 390
THOMAS H. JUKES
doi:10.1038/332390a0
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| | Szent-Györgyi and vitamin C 390
RONALD PETHIG
doi:10.1038/332390b0
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| | India and China 390
UPINDER FOTADAR
doi:10.1038/332390c0
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| | How not to catch attention 391
Scientists as authors seem to reject the convention followed by writers in other fields that the first sentence is important. Why are platitudes preferred?
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/332391a0
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| | Control of feline delinquency 392
Robert M. May
doi:10.1038/332392a0
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| | Self-assembling surfaces 393
R. J. P. Williams
doi:10.1038/332393a0
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| | Driving genes and chromosomes 394
Brian Charlesworth
doi:10.1038/332394a0
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| | Put out to contract 395
John Gordon
doi:10.1038/332395a0
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| | Whither organic carbon? 396
W. G. Deuser
doi:10.1038/332396a0
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| | London's Roman amphitheatre 397
John Wilkes
doi:10.1038/332397a0
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| | New pterosaurs from Brazil 398
David M. Unwin
doi:10.1038/332398a0
References | PDF (251K)
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| | Charles Glen King (1896−1988) 398
Fredrick J. Stare
doi:10.1038/332398b0
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| | Local effects of greenhouse gases 399
J. F. B. Mitchell
doi:10.1038/332399a0
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| | Stopping the rot 400
David Jones
doi:10.1038/332400a0
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| | Dating of the Santorini eruption 401
STURT MANNING
doi:10.1038/332401a0
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C. U. HAMMER, H. B. CLAUSEN, W. L. FRIEDRICH & H. TAUBER
doi:10.1038/332401b0
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GERALD CADOGAN
doi:10.1038/332401c0
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| | Evolution of the third kind 402
GABRIEL A. DOVER
doi:10.1038/332402a0
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| | Echoes of the ancestors 403
Mark Ridley reviews The Evolution of Individuality
By
Leo W. Buss
doi:10.1038/332403a0
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| | Enlightenment in polymer science 403
Christian Decker reviews Mechanisms of Photophysical Processes and Photochemical Reactions in Polymers: Theory and Applications
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Jan F.
Rabek
doi:10.1038/332403b0
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| | Southern pedology 404
Fiorenzo C. Ugolini reviews Antarctica: Soils, Weathering Processes and Environment
By
I. B. G.G.C. CampbellClaridge
doi:10.1038/332404a0
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doi:10.1038/332404b0
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I. J. Good reviews The Probabilistic Revolution. Vol.1 Ideas in History
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Lorenz Lorraine J. Michael KrügerDastonHeidel-berger & Lorenz & Gerd & Mary S. KrügerGigerenzerMorgan
doi:10.1038/332405a0
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| | Chaos illumined 406
Graham Dunn reviews Chaos in Biological Systems
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H. A. V. L. F. DegnHoldenOlsen
doi:10.1038/332406a0
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| | The influence of supernovae and passing stars on comets in the Oort cloud 407
S. Alan Stern & J. Michael Shull
doi:10.1038/332407a0
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| | A novel potent vasoconstrictor peptide produced by vascular endothelial cells 411
Masashi Yanagisawa, Hiroki Kurihara, Sadao Kimura, Yoko Tomobe, Mieko Kobayashi, Youji Mitsui, Yoshio Yazaki, Katsutoshi Goto & Tomoh Masaki
doi:10.1038/332411a0
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| | The spin histories of PSR1821 –24 in M28 and PSR1951 + 32 in CTB80 416
N. E. White & L. Stella
doi:10.1038/332416a0
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| | A synchrotron model for the X-ray emission from supernova 1987A 418
R. Bandiera, F. Pacini & M. Salvati
doi:10.1038/332418a0
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| | Crystal structure of the high-temperature superconductor TI2Ba2CaCu2O8
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M. A. Subramanian, J. C. Calabrese, C. C. Torardi, J. Gopalakrishnan, T. R. Askew, R. B. Flippen, K. J. Morrissey, U. Chowdhry & A. W. Sleight
doi:10.1038/332420a0
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| | Growth of superconducting single crystals in the Bi–Sr–Ca–Cu–O
system from alkali chloride fluxes
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L. F. Schneemeyer, R. B. van Dover, S. H. Glarum, S. A. Sunshine, R. M. Fleming, B. Batlogg, T. Siegrist, J. H. Marshall, J. V. Waszczak & L. W. Rupp
doi:10.1038/332422a0
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| | The transient detection microscope 424
R. S. Cudney, R. M. Pierce & Jack Feinberg
doi:10.1038/332424a0
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| | Ionic recognition and selective response in self-assembling monolayer membranes on electrodes 426
Israel Rubinstein, Suzi Steinberg, Yitzhak Tor, Abraham Shanzer & Jacob Sagiv
doi:10.1038/332426a0
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| | Pb–Pb dating of young marbles from Taiwan 429
Bor-ming Jahn
doi:10.1038/332429a0
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| | Chemical and isotopic evidence for lithospheric thinning beneath the Rio Grande rift 432
Frank V. Perry, W. Scott Baldridge & Donald J. DePaolo
doi:10.1038/332432a0
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| | Preparation of hydrogen and lithium feldspars by ion exchange 435
Gerd Müller
doi:10.1038/332435a0
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| | Global trends in the nature of organic matter in river suspensions 436
Venugopalan Ittekkot
doi:10.1038/332436a0
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| | Downward flux of particulate organic matter in the ocean: a particle decomposition paradox 438
David M. Karl, George A. Knauer & John H. Martin
doi:10.1038/332438a0
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| | Major role of bacteria in biogeochemical fluxes in the ocean's interior 441
Byung C. Cho & Farooq Azam
doi:10.1038/332441a0
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| | Receptive fields in the body-surface map in adult cortex defined by temporally correlated inputs 444
Sharon A. Clark, Terry Allard, William M. Jenkins & Michael M. Merzenich
doi:10.1038/332444a0
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| | Immediate and chronic changes in responses of somatosensory cortex in adult flying-fox after digit amputation 446
Michael B. Calford & Rowan Tweedale
doi:10.1038/332446a0
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| | Cholinergic-rich brain transplants reverse alcohol-induced memory deficits 448
Thomas Arendt, Yvonne Allen, John Sinden, Markus M. Schugens, R. M. Marchbanks, P. L. Lantos & Jeffrey A. Gray
doi:10.1038/332448a0
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| | A presynaptic action of glutamate at the cone output synapse 451
Monique Sarantis, Karen Everett & David Attwell
doi:10.1038/332451a0
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| | The neurotrophic factor neuroleukin is 90% homologous with phosphohexose isomerase 454
Mariella Chaput, Victor Claes, Daniel Portetelle, Isabelle Cludts, Alfredo Cravador, Arsène Burny, Hélène Gras & André Tartar
doi:10.1038/332454a0
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Pelin Faik, James I. H. Walker, Alison A. M. Redmill & Michael J. Morgan
doi:10.1038/332455a0
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| | Mouse glucose-6-phosphate isomerase and neuroleukin have identical 3' sequences 456
MARK E. GURNEY
doi:10.1038/332456a0
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| | Induction of the proteolytic activity of a membrane protein in Plasmodium falciparum by phosphatidyl inositol-specific phospholipase C 457
Catherine Braun-Breton, Terrone L. Rosenberry & Luiz Pereira da Silva
doi:10.1038/332457a0
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| | Human gene expression first occurs between the four- and eight-cell stages of preimplantation development 459
Peter Braude, Virginia Bolton & Stephen Moore
doi:10.1038/332459a0
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| | The presence of malfolded proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum signals the induction of glucose-regulated proteins 462
Yasunori Kozutsumi, Mark Segal, Karl Normington, Mary-Jane Gething & Joe Sambrook
doi:10.1038/332462a0
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| | Structure refined to 2Å of a nicked DNA octanucleotide complex with DNase I 464
Dietrich Suck, Armin Lahm & Christian Oefner
doi:10.1038/332464a0
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| | Spatial heterogeneity: evolved behaviour or mathematical artefact? 468
John A. Downing
doi:10.1038/332468a0
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| | Synthesis and structure of (cis )-[l-ferrocenyl-2-(4-nitrophenyl)ethylene],
an organotransition metal compound
with a large second-order optical nonlinearity 468
Malcolm L. H. Green, Seth R. Marder, Mark E. Thompson, Judith A. Bandy, David Bloor, P. V. Kolinsky & R. J. Jones
doi:10.1038/332468b0
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| | Quantitative infectivity assay for HIV-1 and -2 469
The development of a cytomorphologic infectivity microbioassay for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) allows rapid, sensitive, and specific characterization of neutralizing antibodies or antiviral agents.
P. L. Nara & P. J. Fischinger
doi:10.1038/332469a0
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| | Latest products for AIDS research 471
The study of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) crosses the boundaries between immunology, virology and molecular biology. Several products for AIDS research are described below.
Carol Ezzell
doi:10.1038/332471a0
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