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| | Should spycatchers write books? 655
Last week's decision by the House of Lords that British newspapers can now refer to Peter Wright's infamous book is not a victory for press freedom but a pointer to illiberal restraints ahead.
doi:10.1038/335655a0
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| | Nuclear options ahead 656
Safe nuclear reactors should be the goal. Abolition would be shortsighted.
doi:10.1038/335656a0
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| | Surprising new ozone data from NASA satellite 657
David Lindley
doi:10.1038/335657a0
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| | Britain's ozone research lags a long way behind the rest 657
Christine McGourty
doi:10.1038/335657b0
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| | Congress passes bill to fight AIDS 657
Alun Anderson
doi:10.1038/335657c0
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| | Pharmaceuticals trio a popular choice for Nobel awards 658
Peter Newmark
doi:10.1038/335658a0
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| | Numbers game is of prime importance to spies 658
Marcia Barinaga
doi:10.1038/335658b0
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| | Curien advocates a long-term strategy for civil research 659
Peter Coles
doi:10.1038/335659a0
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| | Competition for Soviet research funds 659
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/335659b0
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| | New Hungarian union 659
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/335659c0
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| | Mutual friends 659
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/335659d0
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| | Polio outbreak 659
L. P.
doi:10.1038/335659e0
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| | Banking on commerce 659
Christine McGourty
doi:10.1038/335659f0
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| | Secret weapons labs 659
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/335659g0
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| | British export 659
Christine McGourty
doi:10.1038/335659h0
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| | Nuclear enrichment for Japan despite growing worries 660
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/335660a0
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| | Sea transport of plutonium approved despite Congress 660
Alun Anderson & David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/335660b0
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| | Battle of the research councils shows no sign of abating 661
Peter Newmark
doi:10.1038/335661a0
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| | Mill Hill centre promotes innovation 661
Peter Newmark
doi:10.1038/335661b0
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| | Endangered species 661
Elizabeth Berendt
doi:10.1038/335661c0
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| | Nuclear start-up procedures revised in wake of failures 662
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/335662a0
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| | Peaceful approach to Northwest Passage 662
Alun Anderson
doi:10.1038/335662b0
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| | Polish government allows tentative steps towards academic autonomy 663
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/335663a0
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| | Leicester makes bid for space eminence 663
Christine McGourty
doi:10.1038/335663b0
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| | Shroud a good forgery 663
Steven Dickman
doi:10.1038/335663c0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | The debate continues 664
FAROUK SHAKIB
doi:10.1038/335664a0
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| | The debate continues 664
H. P. VON HAHN
doi:10.1038/335664b0
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| | The debate continues 664
JACK P. SHOUP
doi:10.1038/335664c0
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| | The debate continues 664
DAVID DUNTHORN
doi:10.1038/335664d0
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| | The debate continues 664
LEIGH M. VAN VALEN
doi:10.1038/335664e0
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| | Availability of theses 664
D.N. WOOD & GARTH FRANKLAND
doi:10.1038/335664f0
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| | Is the literature about to be readable? 665
Dissatisfaction with the standard of today's scientific literature is rife. It does not follow that change will happen, but only that it might.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/335665a0
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| | Trapping folding intermediates 666
Christopher M. Dobson & Philip A. Evans
doi:10.1038/335666a0
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| | Astrophysical effects of planets 667
Charles Alcock
doi:10.1038/335667a0
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| | 100 years ago 668
doi:10.1038/335668a0
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| | Tampering with territories 668
Robert M. May & Paul H. Harvey
doi:10.1038/335668b0
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| | Quisqualate receptor antagonists 669
Alan C. Foster
doi:10.1038/335669a0
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| | The pulsar remains hidden 670
Paul Murdin
doi:10.1038/335670a0
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| | Deep geology out in the open 671
John Percival
doi:10.1038/335671a0
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| | Character dissection 672
Richard W. Michelmore & Douglas V. Shaw
doi:10.1038/335672a0
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| | Photons reveal magnetic effects 673
Stephen Lovesey
doi:10.1038/335673a0
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| | Attacking the vapours 674
David Jones
doi:10.1038/335674a0
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| | Scientific Correspondence | |
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| | Relationships among isolates of HIV 675
ANDREW LEIGH BROWN & PETER BALFE
doi:10.1038/335675a0
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| | Calculating just how small a whale can be 675
JERRY F. DOWNHOWER & LAWRENCE S. BLUMER
doi:10.1038/335675b0
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| | Pollution by toxic metals on agricultural soils 676
KEN E. GILLER & STEVE P. MCGRATH
doi:10.1038/335676a0
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| | Estimating the Maunder minimum from auroral data 676
W. SCHRÖDER
doi:10.1038/335676b0
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| | Hot from the laboratory 677
Publishers of newsletters have reacted swiftly to meet the demand for information on developments in high-temperature superconductivity. What have these publications got to offer?
Robert M. Hazen
doi:10.1038/335677a0
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| | Breast feeding, birth spacing and their effects on child survival 679
It has long been known that breastfeeding inhibits female fertility and that it is a factor in restricting population growth. But just how important is it?
Shyam Thapa, Roger V. Short & Malcolm Potts
doi:10.1038/335679a0
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| | How eukaryotic transcriptional activators work 683
Mark Ptashne
doi:10.1038/335683a0
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| | Intermediate-term prediction of occurrence times of strong earthquakes 690
V. I. Keilis-Borok, L. Knopoff, I. M. Rotwain & C. R. Allen
doi:10.1038/335690a0
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| | NMR evidence for an early framework intermediate on the folding pathway of ribonuclease A 694
Jayant B. Udgaonkar & Robert L. Baldwin
doi:10.1038/335694a0
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| | Structural characterization of folding intermediates in cytochrome c by H-exchange labelling and proton NMR 700
Heinrich Roder, Gülnur A. Elöve & S. Walter Englander
doi:10.1038/335700a0
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| | Counter-rotation in dust-lane ellipticals and the implications for accretion events in galaxies 705
F. Bertola, L. M. Buson & W. W. Zeilinger
doi:10.1038/335705a0
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| | Evidence from mesocosm studies for biological removal of dissolved aluminium from sea water 706
S. Bradley Moran & Robert M. Moore
doi:10.1038/335706a0
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| | Radiocarbon age of last glacial Pacific deep water 708
N. J. Shackleton, J.-C. Duplessy, M. Arnold, P. Maurice, M. A. Hall & J. Cartlidge
doi:10.1038/335708a0
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| | Seismic delineation of upthrust Archaean crust in Kapuskasing, Northern Ontario 711
A. V. Boland, R. M. Ellis, D. J. Northey, G. F. West, A. G. Green, D. A. Forsyth, R. F. Mereu, R. P. Meyer, P. Morel-à-I'Huissier, G. G. R. Buchbinder, I. Asudeh & R. A. W. Haddon
doi:10.1038/335711a0
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| | Geochemical and climatic effects of increased marine organic carbon burial at the Cenomanian/Turonian boundary 714
Michael A. Arthur, Walter E. Dean & Lisa M. Pratt
doi:10.1038/335714a0
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| | Extracting environmental information from planktonic foraminiferal  13C data 717
Howard J. Spero & Douglas F. Williams
doi:10.1038/335717a0
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| | Traditionality of mating-site preferences in a coral reef fish 719
Robert R. Warner
doi:10.1038/335719a0
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| | Resolution of quantitative traits into Mendelian factors by using a complete linkage map of restriction fragment length polymorphisms 721
Andrew H. Paterson, Eric S. Lander, John D. Hewitt, Susan Peterson, Stephen E. Lincoln & Steven D. Tanksley
doi:10.1038/335721a0
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| | Novel anti-inflammatory peptides from the region of highest similarity between uteroglobin and lipocortin I 726
Lucio Miele, Eleonora Cordella-Miele, Antonio Facchiano & Anil B. Mukherjee
doi:10.1038/335726a0
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| | Positive selection of antigen-specific T cells in thymus by restricting MHC molecules 730
Pawel Kisielow, Hung Sia Teh, Horst Blüthmann & Harald von Boehmer
doi:10.1038/335730a0
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| | Spatial distribution of cellular protein binding to retinoic acid in the chick limb bud 733
M. Maden, D. E. Ong, D. Summerbell & F. Chytil
doi:10.1038/335733a0
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| | Increased protein degradation results from elevated free calcium levels found in muscle from mdx mice 735
Paul R. Turner, Tim Westwood, Chester M. Regen & Richard A. Steinhardt
doi:10.1038/335735a0
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| | Functional replacement of the HIV-1 rev protein by the HTLV-1 rex protein 738
Laurence Rimsky, Joachim Hauber, Mitchell Dukovich, Michael H. Malim, Alphonse Langlois, Bryan R. Cullen & Warner C. Greene
doi:10.1038/335738a0
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| | Stabilization of protein structure by interaction of  -helix dipole with a charged side chain 740
Da a S˘ali, Mark Bycroft & Alan R. Fersht
doi:10.1038/335740a0
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| | Thyroid hormone receptor isoforms generated by alternative splicing differentially activate myosin HC gene transcription 744
Seigo Izumo & Vijak Mahdavi
doi:10.1038/335744a0
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| | T-cell antigen receptor genes and T-cell recognition 744
Mark M. Davis & Pamela J. Bjorkman
doi:10.1038/335744b0
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| | The molecular genetics of embryonic pattern formation in Drosophila
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P. W. Ingham
doi:10.1038/335744c0
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| | Sensory transmitters regulate intracellular calcium in dorsal horn neurons 744
M. D. Womack, A. B. MacDermott & T. M. Jessell
doi:10.1038/335744d0
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| | Global fire at the Cretaceous−Tertiary boundary 744
W. S. Wolbach, I. Gilmour, E. Anders, C. J. Orth & R. R. Brooks
doi:10.1038/335744e0
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| | A protein sequence/structure database 745
doi:10.1038/335745a0
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| | Computing science 746
Over 90 companies will be represented at the Scientific Computing and Automation Conference next week in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, exhibiting everything from hardware boards to a program for building a CD-ROM database.
Carol Ezzell
doi:10.1038/335746a0
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