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| | Environment and the public's purses 381
Japan's environment agency altruistically advocates sacrifice on behalf of the global environment, but should instead be seeking the basis of common self-interest.
doi:10.1038/333381a0
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| | Have bombs spread? 382
Crypto-nuclear powers may be as dangerous as the genuine article.
doi:10.1038/333382a0
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| | Burying von Humboldt? 382
Extra money is only a partial remedy for West Germany's universities.
doi:10.1038/333382b0
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| | First US patent on TPA for Oxford University 383
Carol Ezzell
doi:10.1038/333383a0
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| | Refusniks and glasnost
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Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/333383b0
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| | More research centres 383
Simon Hadlington
doi:10.1038/333383c0
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| | Merger mooted in UK research 384
Simon Hadlington
doi:10.1038/333384a0
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| | Norwegian heavy water makes waves to the east 384
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/333384b0
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| | Floating real estate in Tokyo Bay 384
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/333384c0
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| | Counting the environmental cost of Japan's progress 385
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/333385a0
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| | Light at end of the tunnel for Germany's universities? 385
Steven Dickman
doi:10.1038/333385b0
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| | Animal rights activists raise a storm in California 386
Marcia Barinaga
doi:10.1038/333386a0
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| | New cohesion for UK computer research 386
Simon Hadlington
doi:10.1038/333386b0
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| | Hughes Institute to benefit minorities 386
Seth Shulman
doi:10.1038/333386c0
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| | Thorny problem as Australia's coastline faces invasion 387
Tania Ewing
doi:10.1038/333387a0
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| | OECD report attacks national policies 387
Peter Coles
doi:10.1038/333387b0
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| | US in vitro fertilization in limbo according to OTA 388
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/333388a0
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| | UK nuclear waste strategists still facing public suspicion 388
Simon Hadlington
doi:10.1038/333388b0
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| | Where science has gone wrong 389
T. THEOCHARIS & M. PSIMOPOULOS
doi:10.1038/333389a0
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| | Access to journals 389
SALEEM JAHANGEER
doi:10.1038/333389b0
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| | Risks of AIDS 389
MICHAEL H. FREEDMAN
doi:10.1038/333389c0
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| | Towards a better control over science 390
doi:10.1038/333390a0
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| | Ozone depletion 390
J. C. FARMAN
doi:10.1038/333390b0
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| | Stations in space 390
IAN CRAWFORD
doi:10.1038/333390c0
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| | Looking for the unseen Universe 391
Physicists may soon be able to detect particles which cosmologists tell them constitute most of the Universe. But the experiments are both speculative and expensive.
David Lindley
doi:10.1038/333391a0
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| | Viral receptors and drug design 392
Michael G. Rossmann
doi:10.1038/333392a0
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| | Urban extinction of birds 393
Jared M. Diamond
doi:10.1038/333393a0
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| | Taking a dim view of Nereid 394
J. Veverka
doi:10.1038/333394a0
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| | Stirred but not mixed 395
S. Wiggins
doi:10.1038/333395a0
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| | Human AIDS virus not from monkeys 396
Carel Mulder
doi:10.1038/333396a0
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| | Causes of magmatic diversity 397
Bruce Marsh
doi:10.1038/333397a0
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| | 100 years ago: Half life defies measurement 398
J. Byrne
doi:10.1038/333398a0
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| | Regulation of sporulation 399
Jeffery Errington
doi:10.1038/333399a0
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| | Orderly ascent 400
David Jones
doi:10.1038/333400a0
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| | Effects of microwaves on cells and molecules 401
ROSS ADEY
doi:10.1038/333401a0
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| | Training the brain using neural-network models 401
JOHN R. SKOYLES
doi:10.1038/333401b0
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| | Similarity of nucleotide sequences at splicing sites 402
T. A. BROWN & N. J. DYSON
doi:10.1038/333402a0
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| | Incubation period of AIDS in haemophiliacs 402
T. KAMRADT, D. NIESE & B. KAMPS
doi:10.1038/333402b0
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| | Inheritance of insulin-dependent diabetes 402
WILLIAM KLITZ
doi:10.1038/333402c0
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| | Mantle and crustal Ce/Nd isotope systematics 403
ALAN DICKIN
doi:10.1038/333403a0
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| | Mantle and crustal Ce/Nd isotope systematics 404
T. TANAKA, H. SHIMIZU, Y. KAWATA & A. MASUDA
doi:10.1038/333404a0
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| | Tame thoughts on violence 405
Melvin Konner reviews Aggression: Conflict in Animals and Humans Reconsidered
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John Klama
doi:10.1038/333405a0
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| | Celestial eccentric 405
Simon Schaffer reviews The Peripatetic Astronomer: The Life of Charles Piazzi Smyth
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H. A. Brück & M. T. Brück
doi:10.1038/333405b0
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| | On to experiment 406
Stig Stenholm reviews Laser Light Pressure on Atoms
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V. G. Minogin & V. S. Letokhov
doi:10.1038/333406a0
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| | Romancing the brain 407
W. R. Albury reviews Nineteenth-Century Origins of Neuro-scientific Concepts
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Edwin Clarke, L. S. Jacyna & Anne Harrington
doi:10.1038/333407a0
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doi:10.1038/333407b0
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| | Bed-time stories 408
Ian Oswald reviews Why We Sleep: The Functions of Sleep in Humans and Other Mammals
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James Horne
doi:10.1038/333408a0
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| | The second law of thermodynamics: entropy, irreversibility and dynamics 409
Peter V. Coveney
doi:10.1038/333409a0
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| | Chemical and isotopic evidence of thermochemical sulphate reduction by light hydrocarbon gases in deep carbonate reservoirs 415
H. Roy Krouse, Christian A. Viau, Leslie S. Eliuk, Akira Ueda & Stan Halas
doi:10.1038/333415a0
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| | Morphological structures produced by mixing in chaotic flows 419
J. M. Ottino, C. W. Leong, H. Rising & P. D. Swanson
doi:10.1038/333419a0
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| | Structure of the influenza virus haemagglutinin complexed with its receptor, sialic acid 426
W. Weis, J. H. Brown, S. Cusack, J. C. Paulson, J. J. Skehel & D. C. Wiley
doi:10.1038/333426a0
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| | The intergalactic medium towards supernova 1987A 432
Paola Andreani & Alfred Vidal-Madjar
doi:10.1038/333432a0
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| | Flux ratio of C2 Swan bands in the innermost atmosphere of comet Halley 435
V. Vanysek, B. Valni k & J. Sudová
doi:10.1038/333435a0
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| | Large-amplitude photometric variations of Nereid 436
Martha W. Schaefer & Bradley E. Schaefer
doi:10.1038/333436a0
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| | Extreme ionospheric effects in the presence of high electric fields 438
S. Buchert & C. La Hoz
doi:10.1038/333438a0
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| | Diamonds in detonation soot 440
N. Roy Greiner, D. S. Phillips, J. D. Johnson & Fred Volk
doi:10.1038/333440a0
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| | Solubility of colloidal ferric hydroxide 442
Lewis E. Fox
doi:10.1038/333442a0
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| | Throughflow into the Indian Ocean through the Lombok Strait, January 1985−January 1986 444
Stephen P. Murray & Dharma Arief
doi:10.1038/333444a0
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| | Importance of crystal settling in the differentiation of Deccan Trap basaltic magmas 447
K. G. Cox & C. Mitchell
doi:10.1038/333447a0
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| | Continental rifting at pre-existing lithospheric weaknesses 450
John A. Dunbar & Dale S. Sawyer
doi:10.1038/333450a0
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| | Network model of shape-from-shading: neural function arises from both receptive and projective fields 452
Sidney R. Lehky & Terrence J. Sejnowski
doi:10.1038/333452a0
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| | Epstein-Barr virus genome-positive T lymphocytes in a boy with chronic active EBV infection associated with Kawasaki-like disease 455
Hideaki Kikuta, Yuichi Taguchi, Kazuhiro Tomizawa, Kimikazu Kojima, Nobuaki Kawamura, Akihito Ishizaka, Yukio Sakiyama, Shuzo Matsumoto, Shosuke Imai, Toshifumi Kinoshita, Shigeki Koizumi, Toyoro Osato, Ichiro Kobayashi, Isamu Hamada & Kanji Hirai
doi:10.1038/333455a0
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| | Sequence of simian immunodeficiency virus from African green monkey, a new member of the HIV/SIV group 457
Masashi Fukasawa, Tomoyuki Miura, Akira Hasegawa, Shigeru Morikawa, Hajime Tsujimoto, Keizaburo Miki, Takashi Kitamura & Masanori Hayami
doi:10.1038/333457a0
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| | Demonstration of somatic mutation and colonic crypt clonality by X-linked enzyme histochemistry 461
D. F. R. Griffiths, S. J. Davies, D. Williams, G. T. Williams & E. D. Williams
doi:10.1038/333461a0
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| | A clonal marker induced by mutation in mouse intestinal epithelium 463
D. J. Winton, M. A. Blount & B. A. J. Ponder
doi:10.1038/333463a0
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| | The Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene product is localized in sarcolemma of human skeletal muscle 466
Elizabeth E. Zubrzycka-Gaarn, Dennis E. Bulman, George Karpati, Arthur H. M. Burghes, Bonnie Belfall, Henry J. Klamut, Jim Talbot, Robert S. Hodges, Peter N. Ray & Ronald G. Worton
doi:10.1038/333466a0
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| | Molecular cloning and expression of the major protein kinase C substrate of platelets 470
Michael Tyers, Richard A. Rachubinski, Mary I. Stewart, Angela M. Varrichio, Robert G. L. Shorr, Richard J. Haslam & Calvin B. Harley
doi:10.1038/333470a0
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| | An in vivo recombinant RNA capable of autocatalytic synthesis by Q replicase 473
Alexander V. Munishkin, Leonid A. Voronin & Alexander B. Chetverin
doi:10.1038/333473a0
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| | Chemical probing of homopurine-homopyrimidine mirror repeats in supercoiled DNA 475
O. N. Voloshin, S. M. Mirkin, V. I. Lyamichev, B. P. Belotserkovskii & M. D. Frank-Kamenetskii
doi:10.1038/333475a0
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| | Battle of the DNA sequencers 477
There are now three automated DNA sequencers on the market — from Du Pont, Applied Biosystems, and EG & G Biomolecular. Below each company tells why theirs is best.
Edward Chait, Guy Page & Michael Hunkapiller
doi:10.1038/333477a0
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| | A glimpse of Achema 88 479
Achema 88 — the international meeting on chemical engineering and biotechnology — takes place next week in Frankfurt, West Germany. Here is a sampling of the exhibits.
Carol Ezzell
doi:10.1038/333479a0
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| | New skills for new materials? 482
Industrial application of recent advances in ceramics technology will require adaptable staff with first degrees in a variety of scientific subjects, rather than highly specialized personnel with higher degrees.
Richard Pearson
doi:10.1038/333482a0
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