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| | Bologna, Britain and academic freedom 283
The British government is in difficulties in devising a form of words for the
definition of academic freedom, which is part of the cost of seeking too much central
control.
doi:10.1038/333283a0
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| | Too much for food 284
An international comparison shows that all industrial nations spend too much on
subsidizing food.
doi:10.1038/333284a0
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| | Delayed START 284
A superpower deal on strategic missiles will not now come next week, but that
does not spell tragedy.
doi:10.1038/333284b0
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| | Legasov's indictment of Chernobyl management 285
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/333285a0
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| | IAEA's verdict on Chernobyl 285
Steven Dickman
doi:10.1038/333285b0
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| | Met. Office and defence research lose out in spending proposals 286
Simon Hadlington
doi:10.1038/333286a0
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| | North Sea project lacks the cash 286
Simon Hadlington
doi:10.1038/333286b0
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| | SDI simulations under fire 286
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/333286c0
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| | New Hungarian science union to face post-Kadar era 287
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/333287a0
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| | Labour outlines policy for more industry-led research 287
Simon Hadlington
doi:10.1038/333287b0
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| | Arizona backs insects 287
E. P.
doi:10.1038/333287c0
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| | Nicotine addiction 287
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/333287d0
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| | Demolition halted 287
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/333287e0
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| | Developing countries plan to displace Blix at IAEA 288
Steven Dickman
doi:10.1038/333288a0
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| | Where does India find heavy water for Candu reactors? 288
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/333288b0
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| | Lords defeat for government on academic freedom clause 289
Simon Hadlington
doi:10.1038/333289a0
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| | More ECUs to spend 289
Peter Coles
doi:10.1038/333289b0
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| | Quick is beautiful 289
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/333289c0
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| | Natural History Museum in a decline? 289
Simon Hadlington
doi:10.1038/333289d0
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| | Graduate university aimed at research flexibility 290
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/333290a0
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| | US plan for the protection of African elephants 290
Carol Ezzell
doi:10.1038/333290b0
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| | New tests for spotting AIDS 291
Marcia Barinaga
doi:10.1038/333291a0
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| | Attendance low puts future of ANZAAS in grave danger 291
Peter Pockley
doi:10.1038/333291b0
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| | Kangaroo aid 291
Tania Ewing
doi:10.1038/333291c0
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| | Dengue fever threat 291
Tania Ewing
doi:10.1038/333291d0
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| | Cuts at British Museum (NH) 292
W. R. P. BOURNE
doi:10.1038/333292a0
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| | Cuts at British Museum (NH) 292
GARETH J. NELSON, NILES ELDRIDGE & GEORGE
E. HARLOW
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| | India and China 292
M. K. AGARWAL
doi:10.1038/333292c0
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| | India and China 293
V. VERMA
doi:10.1038/333293a0
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| | Unjust Congress 293
HENRY H. WORTIS, BRIGITTE T. HUBER & ROBERT
T. WOODLAND
doi:10.1038/333293b0
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| | Life begins at... 293
A. J. McEVOY
doi:10.1038/333293c0
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| | PhD theses 294
D. S. PARASNIS
doi:10.1038/333294a0
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ANTHONY P. HOLLANDER & BUBBLY DULARAY
doi:10.1038/333294b0
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| | PhD theses 294
S. J. SHEPHERD
doi:10.1038/333294c0
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| | Reticence and the upper limit 295
People who have nothing much to say, but that they have failed to substantiate
another other fellow's claims, seem to follow those with great boasts to make by
concealing their messages.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/333295a0
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| | Conducting rubber bounces back 296
Paul Calvert
doi:10.1038/333296a0
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| | The light that never was 296
Roger G. Evans
doi:10.1038/333296b0
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| | Dos and don'ts of genetic release 297
Stuart Glover
doi:10.1038/333297a0
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| | Genetics and labour in bees 299
Michael D. Breed
doi:10.1038/333299a0
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| | 100 years ago 299
doi:10.1038/333299b0
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| | Patterns before process 300
Chris Humphries
doi:10.1038/333300a0
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| | Supernovae leave their mark 301
John N. Bahcall
doi:10.1038/333301a0
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| | Features and spatial filters 302
Bela Julesz & Ben Kröse
doi:10.1038/333302a0
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| | Early glaciation of Antarctica 303
doi:10.1038/333303a0
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| | Reagan's crystal 304
David Jones
doi:10.1038/333304a0
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| | DNA fingerprinting and 'scientific' whaling 305
A. RUS HOELZEL & WILLIAM AMOS
doi:10.1038/333305a0
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| | Supernova 1909A: a precedent for SN1987A? 305
TIMOTHY R. YOUNG & DAVID BRANCH
doi:10.1038/333305b0
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| | Import receptor in chloroplast envelope 306
JACQUES JOYARD & ROLAND DOUCE
doi:10.1038/333306a0
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| | Import receptor in chloroplast envelope 307
DEBKUMAR PAIN & GUNTER BLOBEL
doi:10.1038/333307a0
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| | How to avoid 'useless' radiocarbon dating 307
ULRICH RADTKE
doi:10.1038/333307b0
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| | Identification of protein kinases by computer 308
DAVID P. LEADER
doi:10.1038/333308a0
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| | Lod score or log-likelihood? 308
A. W. F. EDWARDS
doi:10.1038/333308b0
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| | Too many books spoil the cook 309
Frank Cannon, John Neilan & Richard Powell reviews Guide to Molecular Cloning Techniques
Edited by
Shelby L. Berger, Alan R. Kimmel, Frederick M. Ausubel, Leonard G. Davis, Mark D. Dibner, James
F. Battey, G. J. Boulnois & D.M. Glover
doi:10.1038/333309a0
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| | Material change 310
John R. Barker reviews GaAs Devices and Circuits
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Michael Shur
doi:10.1038/333310a0
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| | Diet, brain and behaviour 311
Kevin Connolly reviews The Effects of Undernutrition on Children's Behavior
By
David E. Barrett & Deborah A. Frank
doi:10.1038/333311a0
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| | Good vibrations 311
doi:10.1038/333311b0
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| | Neutrality and acidity 312
Peter Brimblecombe reviews Acid Rain: Rhetoric and Reality
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Chris C. Park
doi:10.1038/333312a0
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| | Fooling predators 312
J. L. Cloudsley-Thompson reviews The Biology of the Reptilia, Vol. 16 Ecology B: Defense and Life History
Edited by
Carl Gans & Raymond B. Huey
doi:10.1038/333312b0
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| | A 3,800-million-year isotopic record of life from carbon in sedimentary rocks 313
Manfred Schidlowski
doi:10.1038/333313a0
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| | Evolution of radio structure in quasars: a new probe of protogalaxies? 319
P. D. Barthel & G. K. Miley
doi:10.1038/333319a0
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| | Geochemical integrations of the neutrino flux from stellar collapses 325
W. C. Haxton & Calvin W. Johnson
doi:10.1038/333325a0
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| | Homologous plant and bacterial proteins chaperone oligomeric protein assembly 330
Sean M. Hemmingsen, Carol Woolford, Saskia M. van der Vies, Kit Tilly, David T. Dennis, Costa P. Georgopoulos, Roger W. Hendrix & R. John Ellis
doi:10.1038/333330a0
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| | The fate of cluster gas in neutrino-dominated cosmologies 335
August E. Evrard & Marc Davis
doi:10.1038/333335a0
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| | Particle acceleration by superposition of frequency-controlled laser pulses 337
Heinrich Hora
doi:10.1038/333337a0
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| | Geomagnetic activity during the passage of the Earth through Halley's tail in 1910 338
C. T. Russell, M. von Dornum, R. L. McPherron, J. H. Allen & L. Morris
doi:10.1038/333338a0
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B. P. Neary & P. J. Dillon
doi:10.1038/333340a0
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| | Detection of phosphine: new aspects of the phosphorus cycle in the hydrosphere 343
István Dévai, Lajos Felföldy, Ilona Wittner & Sándor Plósz
doi:10.1038/333343a0
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| | Attenuating organic contaminant mobility by soil modification 345
Stephen A. Boyd, Jiunn-Fwu Lee & Max M. Mortland
doi:10.1038/333345a0
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| | A numerical model of landform development by glacial erosion 347
Jonathan M. Harbor, Bernard Hallet & Charles F. Raymond
doi:10.1038/333347a0
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| | Tectonic and magmatic transitions in the Western Great Basin, USA 349
David S. Ormerod, Christopher J. Hawkesworth, Nicholas W. Rogers, William P. Leeman & Martin A. Menzies
doi:10.1038/333349a0
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| | Westward drift, core motions and exchanges of angular momentum between core and mantle 353
D. Jault, C. Gire & J. L. Le Mouel
doi:10.1038/333353a0
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| | Genetic determination of guarding and undertaking in honey-bee colonies 356
Gene E. Robinson & Robert E. Page Jr
doi:10.1038/333356a0
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| | A genetic component to division of labour within honey bee colonies 358
Peter C. Frumhoff & Jayne Baker
doi:10.1038/333358a0
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| | Clutch size adjustment by a swallowtail butterfly 361
Diana Pilson & Mark D. Rausher
doi:10.1038/333361a0
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| | Early vision and texture perception 363
James R. Bergen & Edward H. Adelson
doi:10.1038/333363a0
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Harry Voorhees & Tomaso Poggio
doi:10.1038/333364a0
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| | A cellular analogue of visual cortical plasticity 367
Yves Frégnac, Daniel Shulz, Simon Thorpe & Elie Bienenstock
doi:10.1038/333367a0
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| | Removal of phosphorylation sites from the  2-adrenergic receptor delays onset of agonist-promoted desensitization 370
Michel Bouvier, William P. Hausdorff, Antonio De Blasi, Brian F. O'Dowd, Brian K. Kobilka, Marc G. Caron & Robert J. Lefkowitz
doi:10.1038/333370a0
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| | Conformational changes associated with ion permeation in L-type calcium channels 373
Daniela Pietrobon, Blaise Prod'hom & Peter Hess
doi:10.1038/333373a0
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Chris Q. Doe, David Smouse & Corey S. Goodman
doi:10.1038/333376a0
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| | Computer-based tutorials take off 379
Computers have come to the science classroom with the increasing popularity of
tutorial programs, video simulations and interactive video discs.
S. Smith
doi:10.1038/333379a0
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| | Tools for teaching science 380
Video disc programmes, slide presentations and teaching microscopes are all part of this week's review of science teaching aids.
Carol Ezzell
doi:10.1038/333380a0
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