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| | Market for industrial research? 1
The British government is likely further to damage its support of industrial research by the narrow pursuit of what the markets will bear.
doi:10.1038/336001a0
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| | Powerless president 2
Next week's US election will bring long-standing money problems to a head.
doi:10.1038/336002a0
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| | Soviet free science 2
Soviet science is tackling its problems realistically, but needs luck if it is to solve them.
doi:10.1038/336002b0
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| | All collaborators held to be responsible for errors 3
Marcia Barinaga
doi:10.1038/336003a0
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| | Moscow News 3
doi:10.1038/336003b0
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| | Fusion research ends 3
Christine McGourty
doi:10.1038/336003c0
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| | Early launch for Hubble telescope 3
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/336003d0
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Volte-face on controversial French abortion pill 4
Peter Coles
doi:10.1038/336004a0
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| | Genentech loses appeal against Wellcome 4
Christine McGourty
doi:10.1038/336004b0
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| | Mexican reactor
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Seth Shulman
doi:10.1038/336004c0
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| | Small university department threatened with closure
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Christine McGourty
doi:10.1038/336005a0
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| | Soviet shuttle fails at last minute
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Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/336005b0
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| | Referendum on Massachusetts nuclear power
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Seth Shulman
doi:10.1038/336006a0
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| | New TV statellite is launched — but will anyone watch?
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Peter Coles
doi:10.1038/336006b0
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| | Union upheld against frivolous challenge
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Seth Shulman
doi:10.1038/336006c0
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| | French city heading towards Technopolis
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Peter Coles
doi:10.1038/336007a0
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| | New initiative in Japan to develop neural networks
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David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/336007b0
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| | US sea lions join casualties
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Marcia Barinaga
doi:10.1038/336008a0
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| | Paris AIDS retrovirus conference
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Peter Coles
doi:10.1038/336008b0
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| | Five years of French AIDS coverage
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Peter Coles
doi:10.1038/336008c0
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| | Franco—Australian research agreement
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Peter Coles
doi:10.1038/336008d0
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| | General meeting of Soviet academy a sensation
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Yuri Kanin
doi:10.1038/336009a0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Science policy in Australia 10
M. K. MORELL, G. D. PRICE, K. C. Woo, K. T. HUBICK & A. B. WELLINGTON
doi:10.1038/336010a0
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| | Too much secrecy 10
J. B. WRIGHT
doi:10.1038/336010b0
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| | Pulsar shapes explained at last 11
A new classification of the shapes of radio pulses from pulsating stars is a reminder that some matters remain unresolved even after two decades of energetic research.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/336011a0
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| | Magnetic fields from impacts 12
Mike Fuller
doi:10.1038/336012a0
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| | No barriers to speciation 13
N. H. Barton, J. S. Jones & J. Mallet
doi:10.1038/336013a0
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| | Cytoplasmic dynein graduates 14
Howard Stebbings
doi:10.1038/336014a0
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| | A clearer view of active galaxies 15
Martin Ward
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| | Answer in a flash 16
David Ogden
doi:10.1038/336016a0
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| | C. V. Raman on acoustics 17
J. M. Bowsher
doi:10.1038/336017a0
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| | More molecular opportunism 18
Russell F. Doolittle
doi:10.1038/336018a0
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| | Keeping dispersions fine 19
Robert W. Cahn
doi:10.1038/336019a0
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| | Regulating growth of animals 19
G. E. Lamming
doi:10.1038/336019b0
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| | Bending the bugs 20
David Jones
doi:10.1038/336020a0
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| | Scientific Correspondence | |
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| | Viral distemper now found in porpoises 21
S. KENNEDY, J. A. SMYTH, P. F. CUSH, S. J. McCuLLOUGH, G. M. ALLAN & S. MCQUAID
doi:10.1038/336021a0
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| | Did virus transfer from harp seals to common seals? 21
C. B. GOODHART
doi:10.1038/336021b0
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| | Is bacterial evolution random or selective? 21
SPENCER A. BENSON
doi:10.1038/336021c0
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| | Is bacterial evolution random or selective? 22
LINDA PARTRIDGE & MICHAEL J. MORGAN
doi:10.1038/336022a0
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| | The Challenger challenger 23
Daniel S. Greenberg reviews "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" Further Adventures of a Curious Character
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Richard P. Feynman
doi:10.1038/336023a0
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| | Windows on heaven 24
David H. DeVorkin reviews Astronomical Centers of the World
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Kevin Krisciunas
doi:10.1038/336024a0
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| | Last supper 24
doi:10.1038/336024b0
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| | A proliferation of plants 25
Peter D. Moore reviews Vegetation Mapping
Edited by
A. W. Küchler, I. S. Zonneveld, Heinz Ellenberg, Michael G. Barbour, William Dwight Billings & V. D. Aleksandrova
doi:10.1038/336025a0
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| | All in a lifetime 26
David J. Thompson reviews Reproductive Success: Studies of Individual Variation in Contrasting Breeding Systems
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T. H. Glutton-Brock
doi:10.1038/336026a0
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| | New perspectives on forest decline 27
Prophecies that 'new-type forest damage' would end in Waldsterben (forest death) have not come to pass. Greater realism now characterizes research on the subject.
L. W. Blank, T. M. Roberts & R. A. Skeffington
doi:10.1038/336027a0
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| | Modelling the evolution of globular star clusters 31
Piet Hut, Junichiro Makino & Steve McMillan
doi:10.1038/336031a0
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| | Spike—nucleocapsid interaction in Semliki Forest virus reconstructed using network antibodies 36
David J. T. Vaux, Ari Helenius & Ira Mellman
doi:10.1038/336036a0
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| | A peptide model of a protein folding intermediate 42
Terrence G. Oas & Peter S. Kim
doi:10.1038/336042a0
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| | Birth of millisecond pulsars in globular clusters 48
J. E. Grindlay & C. D. Bailyn
doi:10.1038/336048a0
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| | Laboratory observations of impact−generated magnetic fields 50
David A. Crawford & Peter H. Schultz
doi:10.1038/336050a0
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| | Limiting mechanisms of slow dilatant plastic shear deformation of granular media 52
T. Dunstan, J. R. F. Arthur, A. Dalili, O. O. Ogunbekun & R. K. S. Wong
doi:10.1038/336052a0
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| | Acoustic and microwave signatures of breaking waves 54
W. K. Melville, Mark R. Loewen, Francis C. Felizardo, Andrew T. Jessup & M. J. Buckingham
doi:10.1038/336054a0
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| | Evidence from Fram Strait (78° N) for early deglaciation 56
Glenn A. Jones & Lloyd D. Keigwin
doi:10.1038/336056a0
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| | Wave transport of deep mantle material 59
John A. Whitehead & Karl R. Helfrich
doi:10.1038/336059a0
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| | Genetic differentiation between sympatric host races of the apple maggot fly Rhagoletis pomonella
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Jeffrey L. Feder, Charles A. Chilcote & Guy L. Bush
doi:10.1038/336061a0
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| | Genetic differences between host races of Rhagoletis pomonella
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Bruce A. McPheron, D. Courtney Smith & Stewart H. Berlocher
doi:10.1038/336064a0
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| | Heritable divergence of Rhagoletis pomonella host races by seasonal asynchrony 66
D. Courtney Smith
doi:10.1038/336066a0
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| | NMDA receptors activate the arachidonic acid cascade system in striatal neurons 68
A. Dumuis, M. Sebben, L. Haynes, J. -P. Pin & J. Bockaert
doi:10.1038/336068a0
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| | B−cell memory is short-lived in the absence of antigen 70
David Gray & Helena Skarvall
doi:10.1038/336070a0
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| | Positive and negative selection of an antigen receptor on T cells in transgenic mice 73
William C. Sha, Christopher A. Nelson, Rodney D. Newberry, David M. Kranz, John H. Russell & Dennis Y. Loh
doi:10.1038/336073a0
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| | Engagement of the CD4 molecule influences cell surface expression of the T-cell receptor on thymocytes 76
Susan A. McCarthy, Ada M. Kruisbeek, Ingeborg K. Uppenkamp, Susan O. Sharrow & Alfred Singer
doi:10.1038/336076a0
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| | Cell-cell adhesion mediated by CD8 and MHC class I molecules 79
Anne M. Norment, Russell D. Salter, Peter Parham, Victor H. Engelhard & Dan R. Littman
doi:10.1038/336079a0
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| | A non−cell−autonomous mutation regulating juvenility in maize 82
Scott Poethig
doi:10.1038/336082a0
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| | The catalytic subunit of cAMP-dependent protein kinase induces expression of genes containing cAMP-responsive enhancer elements 83
Karl T. Riabowol, J. Stephen Fink, Michael Z. Oilman, Donal A. Walsh, Richard H. Goodman & James R. Feramisco
doi:10.1038/336083a0
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| | Squid major lens polypeptides are homologous to glutathione S-transferases subunits 86
Staaislav I. Tomarev & Rina D. Zinovieva
doi:10.1038/336086a0
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| | Imaging plate illuminates many fields 89
The erasable phosphor imaging plate developed for medical radiography has found new uses in the laboratory. X-ray diffraction, protein crystallography and autoradiography have all benefited from this technology transfer from the clinic.
Y. Amemiya & J. Miyahara
doi:10.1038/336089a0
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| | Japanese products 90
A host of products of Far East design are included in this week's review, including a range of affinity chromatography columns for HPLCy a super critical fluid extraction system, and an X-ray diffracto-meterfor extremely small samples.
Carol Ezzell
doi:10.1038/336090a0
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| | Employment | |
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| | Is teaching ready for the part−timer? 94
Britain's schools are struggling to come to terms with the challenge of a changing society.
Richard Pearson
doi:10.1038/336094a0
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