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| | Twilight of forgotten dreams? 183
The plan to close Britain's first commercial nuclear plant should not be misread (as it has been) as a further nail in the coffin of the nuclear industry worldwide. But there is much to be done.
doi:10.1038/334183a0
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| | Keeping tabs on people 184
A call for revived interest in population registers will go unheeded unless abuses can be prevented.
doi:10.1038/334184a0
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| | IVF research may yet receive federal funding 185
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/334185a0
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| | NIH's ethics panel 185
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/334185b0
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| | New genome money 185
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/334185c0
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| | Hoechst wins battle 185
Steven Dickman
doi:10.1038/334185d0
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| | Dollars for biotech 186
Marcia Barinaga
doi:10.1038/334186a0
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| | Optoelectronics push 186
Christine McGourty
doi:10.1038/334186b0
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| | Promising artist 186
Christine McGourty
doi:10.1038/334186c0
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| | JPL enthusiastic over new slant to parallel computing 186
Marcia Barinaga
doi:10.1038/334186d0
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| | Jet simulation 186
David Lindley
doi:10.1038/334186e0
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| | Closure of Berkeley nuclear plant signals decline of the Magnox 187
Christine McGourty
doi:10.1038/334187a0
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| | Closure of Berkeley nuclear plant signals decline of the Magnox 187
Christine McGourty
doi:10.1038/334187b0
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| | Register pleases epidemiologists 187
Christine McGourty
doi:10.1038/334187c0
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| | Ridding space of flotsam 188
David Lindley
doi:10.1038/334188a0
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| | Endangered squirrel threatens Arizona observatory 188
Elizabeth Pennisi
doi:10.1038/334188b0
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| | A small step for SERC 188
Christine McGourty
doi:10.1038/334188c0
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| | Battle to save education enters critical phase in north Germany 189
Steven Dickman
doi:10.1038/334189a0
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| | Sagdeev to leave Moscow post 189
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/334189b0
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| | Recognizing good teaching 190
G. P. REDEI
doi:10.1038/334190a0
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| | Opportunities in India 190
BALBIR S. BHOGAL
doi:10.1038/334190b0
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| | Pain and the fetus 190
D. E. MARPLE-HORVAT
doi:10.1038/334190c0
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| | Waiting refusniks 190
M. D. YUDKIN
doi:10.1038/334190d0
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| | No energy 190
EDWARD DERRINGH
doi:10.1038/334190e0
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| | Does the past spell out the future? 191
Current anxieties about the prospect of climatic change, as a consequence of the carbon dioxide greenhouse or other means, raise important questions about the limitations of statistical inference.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/334191a0
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| | Flexible interpretation 192
N. J. Short
doi:10.1038/334192a0
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| | Infinite stacks of copper oxide 193
Cloin Greaves
doi:10.1038/334193a0
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| | Thick-skinned lithium isotope 194
P.G. Hansen
doi:10.1038/334194a0
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| | Rock around the clock 195
James Jackson
doi:10.1038/334195a0
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| | Plant development and ribozymes for pathogens 196
Virginia Walbot & George Bruening
doi:10.1038/334196a0
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| | Methane linked to warming 198
Ralph J. Cicerone
doi:10.1038/334198a0
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| | 100 years ago 198
doi:10.1038/334198b0
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| | Cell−cell interactions in the antibody response 199
Anthony L. DeFranco
doi:10.1038/334199a0
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| | Sounding brass 200
David Jones
doi:10.1038/334200a0
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| | Is HIV the causative factor in AIDS? 201
HARRY RUBIN
doi:10.1038/334201a0
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| | Fossil carbon sources of atmospheric methane 201
WILLIAM M. SACKETT & TIMOTHY R. BARBER
doi:10.1038/334201b0
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| | Sexual selection in guppies defended 201
FELIX BREDEN & GREGORY STONER
doi:10.1038/334201c0
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| | Mycorrhizal infection and plant species diversity 202
J. M. BERGELSON & M. J. CRAWLEY
doi:10.1038/334202a0
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J. P. GRIME, J. M. MACKEY, S. H. HILLIER & D. J. READ
doi:10.1038/334202b0
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| | Interpreters of dreams 203
J. Christian Gillin reviews The Dreaming Brain
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J. Allan Hobson
doi:10.1038/334203a0
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| | Sailing by 203
doi:10.1038/334203b0
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| | A growing field 204
Clive Stace reviews Grass Systematics and Evolution
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Thomas R. Soderstrom, Khidir W. Hilu, Christopher S. Campbell & Mary E. Barkworth
doi:10.1038/334204a0
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| | Uniting nations 204
R. V. Short reviews World Population and the United Nations: Challenge and Response
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Stanley P. Johnson
doi:10.1038/334204b0
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| | Conversations with a computer 205
L. Henry Shaffer reviews The Computer and the Mind: An Introduction to Cognitive Science
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P. N. Johnson-Laird
doi:10.1038/334205a0
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| | The spice of life 206
Anthony Hallam reviews Genetics, Paleontology, and Macroevolution
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Jeffrey Levinton
doi:10.1038/334206a0
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| | Common sensors 206
Joseph Jordan reviews Chemical Sensors
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T. E. Edmonds
doi:10.1038/334206b0
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| | Fertilizer risks in the developing countries 207
In industrialized nations nitrogen fertilizers are known to present a health hazard, and their use may be restricted. The developing countries are a different case altogether.
Gordon R. Conway & Jules N. Pretty
doi:10.1038/334207a0
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| | Origin of the Hubble constant controversy 209
R. Brent Tully
doi:10.1038/334209a0
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| | Spliceosomal RNA U6 is remarkably conserved from yeast to mammals 213
David A. Brow & Christine Guthrie
doi:10.1038/334213a0
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| | A family of human CCAAT-box-binding proteins active in transcription and DNA replication: cloning and expression of multiple cDNAs 218
Claudio Santoro, Nicolas Mermod, Philip C. Andrews & Robert Tjian
doi:10.1038/334218a0
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| | Nature and evolution of the eclipsing millisecond binary pulsar PSR1957 + 20 225
W. Klu niak, M. Ruderman, J. Shaham & M. Tavani
doi:10.1038/334225a0
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| | Fate of the companion stars of ultra-rapid pulsars 227
E. P. J. van den Heuvel & J. van Paradijs
doi:10.1038/334227a0
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| | Interaction between high-velocity pulsar in CTB80 and an infrared emission shell 229
Robert A. Fesen, J. Michael Shull & Jon M. Saken
doi:10.1038/334229a0
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| | The parent structure of the layered high-temperature superconductors 231
T. Siegrist, S. M. Zahurak, D. W. Murphy & R. S. Roth
doi:10.1038/334231a0
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| | Effect of climate change on fire regimes in northwestern Minnesota 233
James S. Clark
doi:10.1038/334233a0
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| | Collapse of a Hercynian Tibetan Plateau into a late Palaeozoic European Basin and Range province 235
Gilles Ménard & Peter Molnar
doi:10.1038/334235a0
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| | Numerical simulations of thermal-chemical instabilities at the core−mantle boundary 237
Ulrich Hansen & David A. Yuen
doi:10.1038/334237a0
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| | Effects of long-term variation on the frequency spectrum of the geomagnetic reversal record 240
Timothy M. Lutz & Geoffrey S. Watson
doi:10.1038/334240a0
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| | A comparative approach to predicting competitive ability from plant traits 242
Connie L. Gaudet & Paul A. Keddy
doi:10.1038/334242a0
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| | Female visual displays affect the development of male song in the cowbird 244
Meredith J. West & Andrew P. King
doi:10.1038/334244a0
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| | Acetylcholine inhibits identified interneurons in the cat lateral geniculate nucleus 246
David A. McCormick & Hans-Christian Pape
doi:10.1038/334246a0
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| | Mapping of mutation causing Friedreich's ataxia to human chromosome 9 248
Susan Chamberlain, Jacqui Shaw, Alison Rowland, Julie Wallis, Sally South, Yusuke Nakamura, Alexander von Gabain, Martin Farrall & Robert Williamson
doi:10.1038/334248a0
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| | NMDA application potentiates synaptic transmission in the hippocampus 250
Julie A. Kauer, Robert C. Malenka & Roger A. Nicoll
doi:10.1038/334250a0
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| | Can B cells turn on virgin T cells? 253
Olli Lassila, Olli Vainio & Polly Matzinger
doi:10.1038/334253a0
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| | Regulation of antibody isotype secretion by subsets of antigen-specific helper T cells 255
Tracy L. Stevens, Alexis Bossie, Virginia M. Sanders, Rafael Fernandez-Botran, Robert L. Coffman, Timothy R. Mosmann & Ellen S. Vitetta
doi:10.1038/334255a0
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Sanjai Kumar, Louis H. Miller, Isabella A. Quakyi, David B. Keister, Richard A. Houghten, W. Lee Maloy, Bernard Moss, Jay A. Berzofsky & Michael F. Good
doi:10.1038/334258a0
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| | Deactivation of macrophages by transforming growth factor- 260
Shohko Tsunawaki, Michael Sporn, Aihao Ding & Carl Nathan
doi:10.1038/334260a0
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| | A gene induced by the plant hormone abscisic acid in response to water stress encodes a glycine-rich protein 262
Jordi Gómez, Demetrio Sánchez-Martínez, Virginia Stiefel, Joan Rigau, Pere Puigdomènech & Montserrat Pagès
doi:10.1038/334262a0
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| | Self-cleaving viroid and newt RNAs may only be active as dimers 265
Anthony C. Forster, Christopher Davies, Candice C. Sheldon, Alex C. Jeffries & Robert H. Symons
doi:10.1038/334265a0
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| | Molecular cloning and complete amino-acid sequence of form-I phosphoinositide-specific phospholipase C 268
C. Frank Bennett, Joanna M. Balcarek, Angela Varrichio & Stanley T. Crooke
doi:10.1038/334268a0
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| | Why ion pair reversal by protein engineering is unlikely to succeed 270
Jenn-Kang Hwang & Arieh Warshel
doi:10.1038/334270a0
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| | Solid phase extraction fundamentals 273
B. Tippins
doi:10.1038/334273a0
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| | Analytical techniques 274
Carol Ezzell
doi:10.1038/334274a0
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