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| | What can the Party do for science? 689
Next week's special conference of the Soviet Communist Party will probably have the wit to confirm Mr Mikhail Gorbachev as its leader. Will it have the courage to set Soviet science free?
doi:10.1038/333689a0
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| | Blinkered UK students 689
The British school examinations system is about to be modified, but not reformed.
doi:10.1038/333689b0
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| | Pity poor Texaco? 690
Proverbs such as "It never rains, but it pours!" apply to the world's unluckiest oil company.
doi:10.1038/333690a0
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| | News | |
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| | US-Japan science accord is signed at last 691
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/333691a0
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| | Canada's high hopes 691
Alun Anderson
doi:10.1038/333691b0
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| | The pros and cons of freedom of access to human genome data 692
Peter Coles
doi:10.1038/333692a0
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| | The pros and cons of freedom of access to human genome data 692
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/333692b0
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| | Early retirements in Academy's perestroika
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Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/333692c0
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| | UK research councils continue to squabble over biology resources 693
Simon Hadlington
doi:10.1038/333693a0
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| | First victory over tobacco companies 693
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/333693b0
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| | Successful test firing 693
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/333693c0
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| | Projects for Max Planck 693
Steven Dickman
doi:10.1038/333693d0
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| | New Soviet telescope 693
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/333693e0
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| | German science in danger as hope for big increase fades 694
Steven Dickman
doi:10.1038/333694a0
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| | Ariane-4 launched successfully 694
Peter Coles
doi:10.1038/333694b0
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| | Japanese students protest at plans for graduate school 695
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/333695a0
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| | Caltech graduate course will change thinking on computers 695
Jennifer Altman
doi:10.1038/333695b0
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| | Australia's Labor party looks right 695
Charles Morgan
doi:10.1038/333695c0
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| | Privatization one of the 'cures' being considered for NIH 696
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/333696a0
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| | Drug use a problem at US weapons laboratory? 696
Marcia Barinaga
doi:10.1038/333696b0
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| | Livermore clean-up 696
Marcia Barinaga
doi:10.1038/333696c0
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| | New areas in AIDS research 697
Peter Newmark
doi:10.1038/333697a0
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| | Plans for altered lymphocyte release in humans 697
Carol Ezzell
doi:10.1038/333697b0
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| | Drastic measures proposed in India 697
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/333697c0
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| | Science teaching in the UK 698
BARBARA TOMLINS
doi:10.1038/333698a0
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| | Science teaching in the UK 698
MICHAEL J. REISS
doi:10.1038/333698b0
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| | Just good friends? 698
E. A. ASH
doi:10.1038/333698c0
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| | Science teaching in the UK 698
GEOFF HAYWARD & MARTIN HOLLINS
doi:10.1038/333698d0
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| | The data explosion 698
MARK A. GILLMAN
doi:10.1038/333698e0
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| | Receding hopes of AIDS vaccines 699
Prospects that there will soon be an effective vaccine against HIV
are diminishing. In the absence of a good animal model of AIDS, direct human
trials of candidate vaccines are inevitable.
Peter Newmark
doi:10.1038/333699a0
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| | Stimulus selectivity of single neurons in the temporal lobe 700
Michael Rugg
doi:10.1038/333700a0
References | PDF (141K)
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| | Odd tectonics of a rebuilt moon 701
William B. McKinnon
doi:10.1038/333701a0
References | PDF (281K)
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| | The shape of things to come 702
F. E. G. Cox
doi:10.1038/333702a0
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| | Quark spins add up to nothing 703
C. T. Sachrajda
doi:10.1038/333703a0
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| | In search of earliest tetrapods 704
Alec L. Panchen
doi:10.1038/333704a0
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| | Casting light on the ejecta 705
Robert D. Gehrz
doi:10.1038/333705a0
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| | Essential elements from waste 706
Peter D. Moore
doi:10.1038/333706a0
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| | Eye development and short sight 707
Graham R. Martin
doi:10.1038/333707a0
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| | Spin-up changes to spin-down
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N. E. White
doi:10.1038/333708a0
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| | Psychic chaos
708
David Jones
doi:10.1038/333708b0
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| | British civil plutonium: production and fate
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K. W. J. BARNHAM, D. HART, J. NELSON & R. A. STEVENS
doi:10.1038/333709a0
References | PDF (274K)
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| | HLA antigens and insulin-dependent diabetes
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JOHN A. TODD, JOHN I. BELL & HUGH O. McDEVITT
doi:10.1038/333710a0
References | PDF (145K)
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| | Sexual selection in guppies called into question
711
A. E. HOUDE
doi:10.1038/333711a0
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| | Spot the mistake
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MARK TESTER
doi:10.1038/333711b0
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| | Cystic fibrosis and chloride-secreting diarrhoea
711
GUNNAR C. HANSSON
doi:10.1038/333711c0
References | PDF (151K)
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| | Tree-ring carbon-isotope ratios re-examined
712
R. J. FRANCEY & K. T. HUBICK
doi:10.1038/333712a0
References | PDF (149K)
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| | Tree-ring carbon-isotope ratios re-examined
712
MINZE STUIVER & THOMAS F. BRAZIUNAS
doi:10.1038/333712b0
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| | Controversial recollections
713
John Morton reviews The Invention of Memory: A New View of the Brain
By
Israel Rosenfield
doi:10.1038/333713a0
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| | Death mask 713
doi:10.1038/333713b0
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| | Solid-state success 714
Andrew Holrws-Siedle reviews The Conquest of the Microchip
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Hans Queisser
doi:10.1038/333714a0
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| | The mobilization of science 715
Willem Hackmann reviews The War of Invention: Scientific Devel-opments 1914−18
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Guy Hartcup
doi:10.1038/333715a0
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| | Acorns and geese after Darwin 716
A. J. Underwood reviews Barnacle Biology
Edited by
Alan J. Southward.
doi:10.1038/333716a0
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| | Attitudes to AIDS 716
Richard S. Tedder reviews The Search for the Virus: The Scientific Discovery of AIDS and the Quest for a Cure
By
Steve Sharon ConnorKingman
doi:10.1038/333716b0
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| | Canada's changing times 717
Canada is looking to science as part of a formula that will bring future prosperity. But researchers question whether the government understands the nature of the scientific enterprise.
doi:10.1038/333717a0
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| | Canada finds a name, but still searches for an identity 718
doi:10.1038/333718a0
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| | Organization and reorganization preoccupy Canada's scientists 724
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/333724a0
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doi:10.1038/333725a0
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| | Targeted misexpression of a Drosophila opsin gene leads to altered visual function 737
Reinhard Feiler, William A. Harris, Kuno Kirschfeld, Christian Wehrhahn & Charles S. Zuker
doi:10.1038/333737a0
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| | Tolerance in T-cell-receptor transgenic mice involves deletion of nonmature CD4+8+ thymocytes 742
Pawel Kisielow, Horst Blüthmann, Uwe D. Staerz, Michael Steinmetz & Harald von Boehmer
doi:10.1038/333742a0
Abstract & References | PDF (811K)
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| | Spin-down of the X-ray pulsar GX1 +4 during an extended low state 746
K. Makishima, T. Ohashi, T. Sakao, T. Dotani, H. Inoue, K. Koyama, F. Makino, K. Mitsuda, F. Nagase, H. D. Thomas, M. J. L. Turner, T. Kii & Y. Tawara
doi:10.1038/333746a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (467K)
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| | The extended solar activity cycle 748
P. R. Wilson, R. C. Altrocki, K. L. Harvey, S. F. Martin & H. B. Snodgrass
doi:10.1038/333748a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (514K)
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| | A measurement of the altitude variation of greenhouse radiation from CFC-12 750
W. F. J. Evans
doi:10.1038/333750a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (480K)
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| | Cosmogenic 32P and 33P used as tracers to study phosphorus recycling in the upper ocean 752
D. Lal & T. Lee
doi:10.1038/333752a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (434K)
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| | Interannual variability in climate and fisheries in Tasmania 754
G. P. Harris, P. Davies, M. Nunez & G. Meyers
doi:10.1038/333754a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (495K)
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| | Mid-Holocene rainfall in the Negev Desert from 13C of land snail shell organic matter 757
Glenn A. Goodfriend
doi:10.1038/333757a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (770K)
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| | Identification of inherited radiogenic Pb in monazite and its implications for U−Pb systematics 760
Peter Copeland, Randall R. Parrish & T. Mark Harrison
doi:10.1038/333760a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (572K)
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| | Percussion marks on bone surfaces as a new diagnostic of hominid behaviour 763
Robert J. Blumenschine & Marie M. Selvaggio
doi:10.1038/333763a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (528K)
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| | Early hominid diets from quantitative image analysis of dental microwear 765
Frederick E. Grine & Richard F. Kay
doi:10.1038/333765a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (570K)
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| | A new Lower Carboniferous tetrapod locality in Iowa 768
John R. Bolt, R. M. McKay, B. J. Witzke & M. P. McAdams
doi:10.1038/333768a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (487K)
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| | Substrate choices made by marine larvae settling in still water and in a flume flow 771
Cheryl Ann Butman, Judith P. Grassle & Christine M. Webb
doi:10.1038/333771a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (490K)
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| | Neural encoding of individual words and faces by the human hippocampus and amygdala 773
Gary Heit, Michael E. Smith & Eric Halgren
doi:10.1038/333773a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (493K)
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| | HTLV-1 transactivator induces interleukin-2 receptor expression through an NF- B-like factor 776
Kwanyee Leung & Gary J. Nabel
doi:10.1038/333776a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (408K)
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| | Transcript localization of four opsin genes in the three visual organs of Drosophila; RH2 is ocellus specific 779
John A. Pollock & Seymour Benzer
doi:10.1038/333779a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (751K)
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| | Inhibition of bacterial ice nucleators by fish antifreeze glycoproteins 782
Antonio Parody-Morreale, Kenneth P. Murphy, Enrico Di Cera, Ray Fall, Arthur L. DeVries & Stanley J. Gill
doi:10.1038/333782a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (217K)
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| | Contribution of hydrophobic interactions to protein stability 784
James T. Kellis Jr, Kerstin Nyberg, Da a S˘ail & Alan R. Fersht
doi:10.1038/333784a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (571K)
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| | Errata | |
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| | A hypothetical model of the foreign antigen binding site of Class II histocompatibility molecules
786
J. H. Brown
doi:10.1038/333786a0
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| | Palaeoenvironmental trends in the history of trace fossils
786
D. J. Bottjer, M. L. Droser & D. Jablonski
doi:10.1038/333786b0
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| | A cellular analogue of visual cortical plasticity
786
Y. Frégnac, D. Shulz, S. Thorpe & E. Bienenstock
doi:10.1038/333786c0
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