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| | Must 1992 be postponed? 239
The European Community, perpetually in crisis, is about to make a series of crucial decisions as well as to elect a parliament. It would be well advised to pay more attention to the second task than is its habit.
doi:10.1038/339239a0
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| | Daunting costs for clean-up at Hanford 241
Seth Shulman
doi:10.1038/339241a0
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| | NERC plans to double its expenditure 241
Christine McGourty
doi:10.1038/339241b0
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| | Bandwagon heads east 242
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/339242a0
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| | Midsummer days and tropical nights in Tokyo 242
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/339242b0
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| | Hubble telescope faces further delay 242
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/339242c0
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| | Support ends at Yale for mapping library 242
Carol Ezzell
doi:10.1038/339242d0
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| | Lukewarm praise for effort 243
David Lindley
doi:10.1038/339243a0
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| | Go-ahead for gene transfer experiment 243
Joe Palca
doi:10.1038/339243b0
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| | Two-month moratorium 243
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/339243c0
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| | Is France going green? 244
Peter Coles
doi:10.1038/339244a0
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| | Money promised for science 244
Christine McGourty
doi:10.1038/339244b0
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| | Hopes for planetary boost 245
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/339245a0
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| | EUREKA train drives collaboration 245
Peter Coles
doi:10.1038/339245b0
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| | Dispute enters new round 245
Ricardo Bonalume Neto
doi:10.1038/339245c0
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| | More to come but who pays? 246
Joseph Palca
doi:10.1038/339246a0
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| | NEL privatization delayed 246
Christine Mc Gourty
doi:10.1038/339246b0
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| | New network raises anxiety 247
Steven Dickman
doi:10.1038/339247a0
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| | Lower prices wanted 247
Steven Dickman
doi:10.1038/339247b0
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| | Search off Norway for Komsomolets 247
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/339247c0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Student demand in Australia 248
T. W. HEALY & J. A. MCKENZIE
doi:10.1038/339248a0
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| | Animal experiments 248
CLIVE HOLLANDS
doi:10.1038/339248b0
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ISTVÁN FEJES
doi:10.1038/339248c0
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| | A cost of progress 248
LEIGHM. VANVALEN
doi:10.1038/339248d0
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| | Attendant problem 248
DAVID A. PYKE
doi:10.1038/339248e0
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| | Mental illness — who cares? 249
Public policies on psychiatric disability have increasingly centred on community care as an alternative to hospital-ization. In the process, those most in need are being neglected.
Malcolm. P. I. Waller
doi:10.1038/339249a0
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| | Another red herring leads nowhere 253
Why, these days, are so many brave new ideas destined to bite the dust? And why are so many of them in the physical sciences, supposedly the more exact, rather than in biology?
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/339253a0
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| | Retrons in bacteria 254
Howard M. Temin
doi:10.1038/339254a0
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| | Emilio Segrè (1905—1989) 255
Edoardo Amaldi
doi:10.1038/339255a0
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| | The dark cloud revisited 256
Cedric Lacey & Joseph Silk
doi:10.1038/339256a0
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| | Humpty Dumpty to Moslem art 257
W. Schleich & P. V. E. McClintock
doi:10.1038/339257a0
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| | Hot sex in voodoo lilies 258
Jared M. Diamond
doi:10.1038/339258a0
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| | Doppler views of photofragments 259
lan. W. M. Smith
doi:10.1038/339259a0
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| | A new reason for having sex 260
James J. Bull & Paul H. Harvey
doi:10.1038/339260a0
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| | Confirmations and limitations 261
Joël Janin
doi:10.1038/339261a0
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| | Sky snatcher 262
David Jones
doi:10.1038/339262a0
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| | New 3-set Venn diagram 263
A. W. F. EDWARDS & C. A. B. SMITH
doi:10.1038/339263a0
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J. I. KATZ
doi:10.1038/339263b0
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V. W. J. H. KIRCHHOFF, E. V. A. MARINHO, P. L. S. DIAS, R. CALHEIROS, R. ANDRE & C. VOLPE
doi:10.1038/339264a0
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| | Chaotic names 264
MICHAEL ASHBURNER & DAVID GUBB
doi:10.1038/339264b0
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| | Decline of European forests 265
M. HAUHS & B. ULRICH
doi:10.1038/339265a0
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| | Blank et al. reply 265
L. W. BLANK, R. A. SKEFFINGTON & T. M. ROBERTS
doi:10.1038/339265b0
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YE. V. LIKHOSHWAY, M. A. GRACHEV, V. P. KUMAREV, YU. V. SOLODUN, O. A. GOLDBERG, O. I. BELYKH, F. G. NAGIEVA, V. G. NIKULINA & B. S. KOLESNIk
doi:10.1038/339266a0
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| | Monsters on the loose 267
Euan G. Nisbet reviews Anti-Evolution: An Annotated Bibliography
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Tom Mclver
doi:10.1038/339267a0
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| | Taking stock 268
Norman Myers reviews Floristic Inventory of Tropical Countries: The Status of
Plant Systematics, Collections, and Vegetation, plus Recommendations for the Future
Edited by
David G. Campbell & H. David Hammond
doi:10.1038/339268a0
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| | Polymers in series 268
David R. Rosseinsky reviews Comprehensive Polymer Science: The Synthesis,
Characterization, Reactions and Applications of
Polymers
Chairman of the editoral board,
Geoffrey Alien & J. I. Kroschwitz
doi:10.1038/339268b0
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| | Inside the black box 270
Werner Israel reviews Kinetic Theory in the Expanding Universe
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Jeremy Bernstein
doi:10.1038/339270a0
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| | Bedtime reading 270
Ian Oswald reviews Sleep and Dreaming
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Jacob Empson
doi:10.1038/339270b0
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| | Preservation of organic matter during salinity excursions 271
G. P. Klinkhammer & C. E. Lambert
doi:10.1038/339271a0
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| | Cyclin synthesis drives the early embryonic cell cycle 275
Andrew W. Murray & Marc W. Kirschner
doi:10.1038/339275a0
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| | The role of cyclin synthesis and degradation in the control of maturation promoting factor activity 280
Andrew W. Murray, Mark J. Solomon & Marc W. Kirschner
doi:10.1038/339280a0
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| | A new class of extragalactic radio sources with one-sided structure? 286
D. J. Saikia, W. Junor, T. W. B. Muxlow & A. K. Tzioumis
doi:10.1038/339286a0
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| | Evidence for a molecule heavier than methane in the atmosphere of
Pluto 288
Roger V. Yelle & Jonathan I. Lunine
doi:10.1038/339288a0
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| | Superconductivity at 3.5 K in BaPb0.75Sb0.25O3: why is Tc
so low? 291
R. J. Cava, B. Batlogg, G. P. Espinosa, A. P. Ramirez, J. J. Krajewski, W. F. Peck Jr, L. W. Rupp Jr & A. S. Cooper
doi:10.1038/339291a0
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| | Anomalous absence of pressure effect on transition temperature in the electron-doped superconductor Nd1.85Ce0.15CuO4−
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C. Murayama, N. Môri, S. Yomo, H. Takagi, S. Uchida & Y. Tokura
doi:10.1038/339293a0
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| | Determination of absolute palaeointensity using a multi-specimen
procedure 295
Kenneth A. Hoffman, Verna L. Constantine & David L. Morse
doi:10.1038/339295a0
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| | Oxidation of aromatic contaminants coupled to microbial iron
reduction 297
Derek R. Lovley, Mary Jo Baedecker, Debra J. Lonergan, Isabella M. Cozzarelli, Elizabeth J. P. Phillips & Donald I. Siegel
doi:10.1038/339297a0
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| | Genetic segregation and the maintenance of sexual reproduction 300
Mark Kirkpatrick & Cheryl D. Jenkins
doi:10.1038/339300a0
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| | A potential basis for the thrombotic risks associated with
lipoprotein(a) 301
Lindsey A. Miles, Gunther M. Fless, Eugene G. Levin, Angelo M. Scanu & Edward F. Plow
doi:10.1038/339301a0
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| | Lipoprotein(a) modulation of endothelial cell surface fibrinolysis and its
potential role in atherosclerosis 303
Katherine A. Hajjar, Dov Gavishi, Jan L. Breslow & Ralph L. Nachman
doi:10.1038/339303a0
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David St. Clair, Douglas Blackwood, Walter Muir, David Baillie, Alexandra Hubbard, Alan Wright & H. John Evans
doi:10.1038/339305a0
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| | An autosomal dominant disorder with multiple deletions of mitochondrial
DNA starting at the D-loop region 309
Massimo Zeviani, Serenella Servidei, Cinzia Gellera, Enrico Bertini, Salvatore DiMauro & Stefano DiDonato
doi:10.1038/339309a0
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| | CD2-mediated adhesion facilitates T lymphocyte antigen recognition
function 312
Philippe Moingeon, Hsiu-Ching Chang, Barbara P. Wallner, Christopher Stebbins, Alexis Z. Frey & Elli L. Reinherz
doi:10.1038/339312a0
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complement fixation 314
Rory M. Marks, Robert F. Todd III & Peter A. Ward
doi:10.1038/339314a0
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| | Pulsatile intracellular calcium release does not depend on fluctuations in inositol trisphosphate concentration 317
Makoto Wakui, Barry V. L. Potter & Ole H. Petersen
doi:10.1038/339317a0
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Georgiana May & John W. Taylor
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