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| | How to tackle global calamity 191
The Pugwash organization prefaces this year's statement on arms control with a declaration on the threat of global catastrophe by other means. It should now apply its traditional methods to this new field.
doi:10.1038/335191a0
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| | Everything is money 192
Finance ministers should not be surprised that their economies seem uncontrollable.
doi:10.1038/335192a0
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| | Tricks to order 192
US regulators offer sensible guidelines for investigating fraud, but should keep their distance.
doi:10.1038/335192b0
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| | News |  |
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| | James Watson to head NIH human genome project 193
Congress wants independent advisory body
International coordinating group set up
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/335193a0
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| | Uranium restrictions accepted by India 193
Radhakrishna Rao
doi:10.1038/335193b0
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| | Britain wasting time 193
Christine McGourty
doi:10.1038/335193c0
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| | Japan's budget request up by 13 per cent on this year 194
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/335194a0
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| | Titan launches 194
David Lindley
doi:10.1038/335194b0
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| | US proposes new rules for dealing with misconduct 195
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/335195a0
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| | International dispute at the BA 195
Christine McGourty
doi:10.1038/335195b0
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| | Neuroscience in Europe 196
Jennifer Altman
doi:10.1038/335196a0
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| | Superconductivity in UK suffers from apathy in industry 196
Christine McGourty
doi:10.1038/335196b0
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| | Drug testing at Seoul 196
Christine McGourty
doi:10.1038/335196c0
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| | US scientists slow in grasping potential of supercomputers 197
David Lindley
doi:10.1038/335197a0
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| | Row over White House moves to ban fetal tissue research 197
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/335197b0
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| | Who leads the drugs league? 198
Christine McGourty
doi:10.1038/335198a0
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| | Computer software in India 198
K.S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/335198b0
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| | Air pollution takes its toll in the US 198
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/335198c0
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| | Troubled Soviet space effort 199
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/335199a0
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| | Next round in West Germany's biotechnology licensing struggle 199
Steven Dickman
doi:10.1038/335199b0
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| | Accelerator for art's sake at the Louvre 199
Peter Coles
doi:10.1038/335199c0
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| | Correspondence |  |
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| | Controversy continues 200
ROBIN G. GIBSON & SHEILA L.M. GIBSON
doi:10.1038/335200a0
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| | Controversy continues 200
MORRIS DOUBLET-STEWART & CHRISTINE DOUBLET-STEWART
doi:10.1038/335200b0
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| | Controversy continues 200
G.J. NEVILLE
doi:10.1038/335200c0
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| | Controversy continues 200
PETER TAYLOR
doi:10.1038/335200d0
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| | World of guesses 200
R. E. SPIER
doi:10.1038/335200e0
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| | Crystals from first principles 201
A new calculation of the polymorphs of silica appears to have broken new ground in deriving crystal structure from chemical composition. But X-ray crystallographers need not worry yet.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/335201a0
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| | Whirlpool traced by granulation 202
Juri Toomre
doi:10.1038/335202a0
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| | Fungi not fire damaged Aleppo Codex 203
doi:10.1038/335203a0
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| | Contrasts in critical current 204
David Caplin
doi:10.1038/335204a0
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| | Ocean productivity from space 205
Paul Falkowski
doi:10.1038/335205a0
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| | Interior and origin of Pluto 205
David W. Hughes
doi:10.1038/335205b0
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| | Pellets feel the pressure 206
R. S. Pease
doi:10.1038/335206a0
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| | A mitotic inducer matures 207
Andrew W. Murray
doi:10.1038/335207a0
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| | Accessories or coreceptors? 208
Charles A. Janeway Jr
doi:10.1038/335208a0
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| | Jogging on the spot 210
David Jones
doi:10.1038/335210a0
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| | Scientific Correspondence |  |
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| | Accounting for cystic fibrosis 211
P.S. BAXTER, J. GOLDHILL, J. HARDCASTLE, P.T. HARDCASTLE & C. J. TAYLOR
doi:10.1038/335211a0
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| | Ice-layer dating of eruption at Santorini 211
MALCOLM K. HUGHES
doi:10.1038/335211b0
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| | Less sinister statistics from baseball records 212
E. K. WOOD
doi:10.1038/335212a0
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| | AIDS and common sense 212
GEORGE E. MOORE
doi:10.1038/335212b0
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| | Book Reviews |  |
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| | The computational options 213
Christof Koch reviews Neural and Brain Modeling
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Ronald J. MacGregor
doi:10.1038/335213a0
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| | 213
doi:10.1038/335213b0
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| | Three down 214
C. M. Perrins reviews The Birds of Africa, Vol. III
Edited by
C. Hilary Fry, Stuart Keith & Emil K. Urban
doi:10.1038/335214a0
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| | Civilized origins 215
Nick Saunders reviews Peruvian Prehistory
Edited by
Richard W. Keatinge
doi:10.1038/335215a0
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| | Chance encounter 215
George Greenstein reviews Not by Design: The Origin of the Universe
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Victor J. Stenger
doi:10.1038/335215b0
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| | Green genes 216
Ian D. Small & C. J. Leaver reviews Plant Genetic Transformation and Gene Expression: A Laboratory Manual
Edited by
John Draper, Roderick Scott, Philip Armitage, Richard Walden, Stanton B. Gelvin & Robert A. Schilperoort
doi:10.1038/335216a0
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| | Review Article |  |
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| | A new view of the mid-ocean ridge from the behaviour of ridge-axis discontinuities 217
Ken C. Macdonald, P. J. Fox, L. J. Perram, M. F. Eisen, R. M. Haymon, S. P. Miller, S. M. Carbotte, M.-H. Cormier & A. N. Shor
doi:10.1038/335217a0
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| | Articles |  |
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| | Laser-driven implosion of thermonuclear fuel to 20 to 40 g cm−3
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R. L. McCrory, J. M. Soures, C. P. Verdon, F. J. Marshall, S. A. Letzring, S. Skupsky, T. J. Kessler, R. L. Kremens, J. P. Knauer, H. Kim, J. Delettrez, R. L. Keck & D. K. Bradley
doi:10.1038/335225a0
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| | Thymic major histocompatibility complex antigens and the  T-cell receptor determine the CD4/CD8 phenotype of T cells 229
Hung Sia Teh, Pawel Kisielow, Bernadette Scott, Hiroyuki Kishi, Yasushi Uematsu, Horst Blüthmann & Harald von Boehmer
doi:10.1038/335229a0
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| | Letters |  |
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| | Evidence for cyclotron absorption from spectral features in gamma-ray bursts seen with Ginga 234
T. Murakami, M. Fujii, K. Hayashida, M. Itoh, J. Nishimura, T. Yamagami, J. P. Conner, W. D. Evans, E. E. Fenimore, R. W. Klebesadel, A. Yoshida, I. Kondo & N. Kawai
doi:10.1038/335234a0
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| | Radio images of the expanding ejecta of nova QU Vulpeculae 1984 235
A. R. Taylor, R. M. Hjellming, E. R. Seaquist & R. D. Gehrz
doi:10.1038/335235a0
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| | Vortex flow in the solar photosphere 238
P. N. Brandt, G. B. Scharmert, S. Ferguson, R. A. Shine, T. D. Tarbell & A. M. Title
doi:10.1038/335238a0
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| | Pluto's structure and composition suggest origin in the solar, not a planetary, nebula 240
William B. McKinnon & Steve Mueller
doi:10.1038/335240a0
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| | The effect of hydrogen on oxygen diffusion in quartz: evidence for fast proton transients? 243
S. C. Elphick & C. M. Graham
doi:10.1038/335243a0
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| | Satellite detection of transient enhanced primary production in the western Mediterranean Sea 245
Steven E. Lohrenz, Robert A. Arnone, Denis A. Wiesenburg & Irene P. DePalma
doi:10.1038/335245a0
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| | Quantitative analysis of radiocaesium retention in soils 247
A. Cremers, A. Elsen, P. De Preter & A. Maes
doi:10.1038/335247a0
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| | Effects of protein kinase C activators on cardiac Ca2+ channels 249
Antonio E. Lacerda, David Rampe & Arthur M. Brown
doi:10.1038/335249a0
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| | Activation at M-phase of a protein kinase encoded by a starfish homologue of the cell cycle control gene cdc2
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J. C. Labbe, M. G. Lee, P. Nurse, A. Picard & M. Doree
doi:10.1038/335251a0
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| | Serotonin stimulates DNA synthesis in fibroblasts acting through 5−HT1B receptors coupled to a Gi-protein 254
Klaus Seuwen, Isabelle Magnaldo & Jacques Pouysségur
doi:10.1038/335254a0
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| | Transfer of a functional human immune system to mice with severe combined immunodeficiency 256
Donald E. Mosier, Richard J. Gulizia, Stephen M. Baird & Darcy B. Wilson
doi:10.1038/335256a0
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| | Successful vaccination with a polyvalent live vector despite existing immunity to an expressed antigen 259
Charles Flexner, Brian R. Murphy, James F. Rooney, Charles Wohlenberg, Vadim Yuferov, Abner L. Notkins & Bernard Moss
doi:10.1038/335259a0
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| | A naturally immunogenic virion-associated protein specific for HIV-2 and SIV 262
Xiao-Fang Yu, Susumu Ito, Max Essex & Tun-Hou Lee
doi:10.1038/335262a0
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| | MHC polymorphism pre-dating speciation 265
Felipe Figueroa, Eberhardt Gúnther & Jan Klein
doi:10.1038/335265a0
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HLA-A and B polymorphisms predate the divergence of humans and chimpanzees 268
David A. Lawlor, Frances E. Ward, Peter D. Ennis, Antony P. Jackson & Peter Parham
doi:10.1038/335268a0
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| | Selective expression of an antigen receptor on CD8-bearing T lymphocytes in transgenic mice
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William C. Sha, Christopher A. Nelson, Rodney D. Newberry, David M. Kranzt, John H. Russell & Dennis Y. Loh
doi:10.1038/335271a0
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| | Function of torso in determining the terminal anlagen of the Drosophila embryo
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Martin Klingler, Miklos Erdélyi, János Szabad & Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
doi:10.1038/335275a0
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doi:10.1038/335278a0
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| | Product Reviews |  |
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| | A guide to ion-selective electrodes
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D. C. Hixon
doi:10.1038/335279a0
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| | Measures for measurement 280
Carol Ezzell
doi:10.1038/335280a0
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