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| | Omelettes without broken eggs? 699
The British government has reacted with hysteria to the indiscretions of a junior minister and to the wishes of its voters that the genus salmonella would go away.
doi:10.1038/336699a0
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| | Bush's budget problems 700
The new US president should worry about the bills that go unpaid as well as the federal deficit.
doi:10.1038/336700a0
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| | Privatization not the answer to NIH problems 701
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/336701a0
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| | Fang stays home 701
doi:10.1038/336701b0
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| | Britain in Europe 701
Christine McGourty
doi:10.1038/336701c0
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| | US and Soviet academicians meet in Washington 702
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/336702a0
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| | New clinical trial programme for AIDS in the United States 702
Carol Ezzell
doi:10.1038/336702b0
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| | Stock market scandal shakes telecommunications executives 703
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/336703a0
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| | Medicines committees disclose links with drug companies 703
Christine McGourty
doi:10.1038/336703b0
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| | Living coelacanths 703
Henry Gee
doi:10.1038/336703c0
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| | Emergency aid voted for West German universities 704
Steven Dickman
doi:10.1038/336704a0
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| | No graduate degrees for creationists 704
Marcia Barinaga
doi:10.1038/336704b0
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| | Experts to Armenia 704
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/336704c0
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| | Commons committee criticizes information technology spending 705
Christine McGourty
doi:10.1038/336705a0
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| | Coordinated US science budget 705
Carol Ezzell
doi:10.1038/336705b0
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| | Court ruling pleases UCSF 706
Marcia Barinaga
doi:10.1038/336706a0
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| | Shortages of staff and money delay climate change predictions 706
Christine McGourty
doi:10.1038/336706b0
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| | Dingell castigates NIH over cut grants 706
Alun Anderson
doi:10.1038/336706c0
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| | Belgian Pasteur institute in "catastrophic" financial crisis 707
Peter Coles
doi:10.1038/336707a0
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| | Natural History Museum to build DNA database in London 707
Henry Gee
doi:10.1038/336707b0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Science and philosophy 708
AZIZ ISLAM
doi:10.1038/336708a0
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| | Use of animals 708
MARK WORWOOD
doi:10.1038/336708b0
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IVOR SMITH
doi:10.1038/336708c0
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| | Polio in Israel 708
S. C. ARYA
doi:10.1038/336708d0
References | PDF (142K)
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| | Sense of proportion 708
ARNDT VON HIPPEL
doi:10.1038/336708e0
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| | Using the language of science 709
The scientific literature, as literature, is much despised, and rightly. Should not the turning of another year be an occasion when its authors resolve to mend their ways?
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/336709a0
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| | Therapy by photon activation? 710
John Humm
doi:10.1038/336710a0
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| | Baby universes and making the cosmological constant zero 711
L. F. Abbott
doi:10.1038/336711a0
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| | Right gene, wrong chromosome 712
Jonathan Hodgkin
doi:10.1038/336712a0
References | PDF (154K)
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| | Why continents look too young 713
Paul Taylor
doi:10.1038/336713a0
References | PDF (183K)
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| | 100 years ago 713
W. M. FLINDERS PETRIE
doi:10.1038/336713b0
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| | Of impacts and volcanoes 714
Laura Garwin
doi:10.1038/336714a0
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| | Mobile RNA catalysts 716
Michael R. Green
doi:10.1038/336716a0
References | PDF (408K)
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| | George Eugene Uhlenbeck (1900−1988) 717
H. B. G. Casimir
doi:10.1038/336717a0
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| | Winter's icy grip 718
David Jones
doi:10.1038/336718a0
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| | Tryptophans in myb proteins 719
IAN A. ANTON & JONATHAN FRAMPTON
doi:10.1038/336719a0
References | PDF (151K)
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| | Fear of flying 719
ROBERT L. PARKER
doi:10.1038/336719b0
References | PDF (151K)
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| | Prediction of solar oscillation frequencies 720
D. O. GOUGH
doi:10.1038/336720a0
References | PDF (138K)
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| | Stephan's Quintet 720
GEOFFREY BURBIDGE
doi:10.1038/336720b0
References | PDF (138K)
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| | Heroes and villains 721
Benno Müller-Hill reviews Der Genetiker: Das Leben des Nikolai Timofejew-Ressowski, genannt Ur*.
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Daniil Granin
doi:10.1038/336721a0
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| | Where and why? 722
Clive A. Stace reviews Comparative Plant Ecology: A Functional Approach to Common British Species
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J. P. Grime, J. G. Hodgson & R. Hunt
doi:10.1038/336722a0
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| | Trying to be wise before the event 723
Alastair Hay reviews In Search of Safety: Chemicals and Cancer Risk
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John D. Graham, Laura C. Green, Marc J. Roberts, Cesare Maltoni & Irving J. Selikoff
doi:10.1038/336723a0
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| | Visionaries 723
doi:10.1038/336723b0
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| | Measured progress 724
R. M. Simmons reviews Molecular Mechanism of Muscle Contraction.
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Haruo Sugi & Gerald H. Pollack
doi:10.1038/336724a0
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| | Is the space environment at risk? 725
The huge potential of space for science, exploration and peaceful applications could be jeopardized by debris in Earth orbit, and by an extraterrestrial arms race.
G. B. Field, M. J. Rees & D. N. Spergel
doi:10.1038/336725a0
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| | Golden jubilee for the coelacanth Latimeria chalumnae
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Peter L. Forey
doi:10.1038/336727a0
Abstract & References | PDF (742K)
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| | Decoupled evolution of Nd and Sr isotopes in the continental crust and the mantle 733
Steven L. Goldstein
doi:10.1038/336733a0
Abstract & References | PDF (690K)
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| | Human cdc2 protein kinase is a major cell-cycle regulated tyrosine kinase substrate 738
Giulio Draetta, Helen Piwnica-Worms, Deborah Morrison, Brian Druker, Thomas Roberts & David Beach
doi:10.1038/336738a0
Abstract & References | PDF (892K)
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| | Activation and repression of transcription by homoeodomain-containing proteins that bind a common site 744
James B. Jaynes & Patrick H. O'Farrell
doi:10.1038/336744a0
Abstract & References | PDF (709K)
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| | Evidence from sub-millimetre observations for thermal dust emission in NGC4151 749
R. A. Edelson, W. K. P. Gear, M. A. Malkan & E. I. Robson
doi:10.1038/336749a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (383K)
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| | Quenching and disruption of lunar KREEP lava flows by impacts 751
Graham Ryder
doi:10.1038/336751a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (566K)
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| | The formation of rain in convective clouds 754
Anthony J. Illingworth
doi:10.1038/336754a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (349K)
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| | Deforestation alters denitrification in a lowland tropical rain forest 756
G. Philip Robertson & James M. Tiedje
doi:10.1038/336756a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (506K)
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| | Origin of Messel Oil Shale kerogen 759
K. Goth, J. W. de Leeuw, W. Püttmann & E. W. Tegelaar
doi:10.1038/336759a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (413K)
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| | The critical slip distance for seismic faulting 761
C. H. Scholz
doi:10.1038/336761a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (327K)
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| | Pre-Incan agricultural activity recorded in dust layers in two tropical ice cores 763
L. G. Thompson, M. E. Davis, E. Mosley-Thompson & K.-b. Liu
doi:10.1038/336763a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (362K)
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| | Blindsight and insight in visuo-spatial neglect 766
John C. Marshall & Peter W. Halligan
doi:10.1038/336766a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (245K)
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| | Genetic influence on general mental ability increases between infancy and middle childhood 767
D. W. Fulker, J. C. DeFries & Robert Plomin
doi:10.1038/336767a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (331K)
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| | The role of sex steroids in the acquisition and production of birdsong 770
Peter Marler, Susan Peters, Gregory F. Ball, Alfred M. Dufty Jr & John C. Wingfield
doi:10.1038/336770a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (327K)
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| | A community effect in animal development 772
J. B. Gurdon
doi:10.1038/336772a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (413K)
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| | Chemotropic guidance of developing axons in the mammalian central nervous system 775
Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Marysia Placzek, Andrew G. S. Lumsden, Jane Dodd & Thomas M. Jessell
doi:10.1038/336775a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (546K)
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| | A malaria T-cell epitope recognized in association with most mouse and human MHC class II molecules 778
F. Sinigaglia, M. Guttinger, J. Kilgus, D. M. Doran, H. Matile, H. Etlinger, A. Trzeciak, D. Gillessen & J. R. L. Pink
doi:10.1038/336778a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (346K)
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| | Sequences homologous to ZFY, a candidate human sex-determining gene, are autosomal in marsupials 780
Andrew H. Sinclair, Jamie W. Foster, James A. Spencer, David C. Page, Mark Palmer, Peter N. Goodfellow & Jennifer A. Marshall Graves
doi:10.1038/336780a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (469K)
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| | Cloning and expression of a rat D2 dopamine receptor cDNA 783
James R. Bunzow, Hubert H. M. Van Tol, David K. Grandy, Paul Albert, John Salon, MacDonald Christie, Curtis A. Machida, Kim A. Neve & Olivier Civelli
doi:10.1038/336783a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (592K)
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| | A novel cancer therapy using a Mössbauer-isotope compound 787
Randell L. Mills, Carl W. Walter, Lata Venkataraman, Kevin Pang & John J. Farrell
doi:10.1038/336787a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (334K)
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| | Correlation of DNA adduct levels in human lung with cigarette smoking 790
David H. Phillips, Alan Hewer, Carl N. Martin, R. Colin Garner & Maureen M. King
doi:10.1038/336790a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (300K)
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