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The British government is again brooding about its mechanism for supporting basic science. The best solution is radical change without the appearence thereof. The danger is the inverse.
doi:10.1038/341171a0
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| | Nuclear cooking-pot 171
Unless a major power (or several) intervenes, the Middle East will be a nuclear-weapons playground in ten years.
doi:10.1038/341171b0
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| | Tunnel to nowhere 172
The British government's neglect of transport's to Euro-tunnel may be a deliberate ploy.
doi:10.1038/341172a0
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| | NIH restricts university links with industry 173
Christine McGourty
doi:10.1038/341173a0
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| | Penalties — and help — for victims 173
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/341173b0
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| | Exxon cleans up, clears off 174
Robert Buderi
doi:10.1038/341174a0
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| | Sequencing bargain in India? 174
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/341174b0
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| | Making researchers manage 175
Ben Webb
doi:10.1038/341175a0
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| | CRC and MRC to shuffle the pack 175
Ben Webb
doi:10.1038/341175b0
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| | Smithsonian"s new formula 175
David Lindley
doi:10.1038/341175c0
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| | How green is Japan 176
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/341176a0
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| | Health for all by year 2000? 176
Peter Coles
doi:10.1038/341176b0
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| | Six feet on the ground 177
Steven Dickman
doi:10.1038/341177a0
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| | An unobtrusive neighbour 177
Robert Buderi
doi:10.1038/341177b0
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| | Still no taker for NIH directorship 177
Carol Ezzell
doi:10.1038/341177c0
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| | New yardstick for success 178
Carol Ezzell
doi:10.1038/341178a0
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| | No blanket approval 178
Christine McGourty
doi:10.1038/341178b0
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| | Koala researcher faces charges 178
Tania Ewing
doi:10.1038/341178c0
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| | Wings clipped by economics 179
Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/341179a0
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Vera Rich
doi:10.1038/341179b0
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David Lindley
doi:10.1038/341179c0
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| | Legacy of the Nazis 180
WILLIAM E. SEIDELMAN
doi:10.1038/341180a0
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| | Stanford maligned 180
DONALD KENNEDY
doi:10.1038/341180b0
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RICHARD F. SHAW
doi:10.1038/341180c0
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HERMAN REICHENBACH
doi:10.1038/341180d0
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| | Sexual behaviour unsurveyed 181
The British government's refusal to countenance a survey of people's sexual behaviour is demoralizing for those concerned but should not deter them from pushing ahead with the project.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/341181a0
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| | DNA forensics and the FBI 182
Rory Howlett
doi:10.1038/341182a0
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| | Aluminium-based glassy alloys 183
Robert W. Cahn
doi:10.1038/341183a0
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| | Curves with a function 184
Andrew Travers
doi:10.1038/341184a0
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| | A chip off the new technology block 185
Claire Hooper
doi:10.1038/341185a0
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| | Trying to count baryons 186
Craig J. Hogan
doi:10.1038/341186a0
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| | New Bronze Age civilization 187
Paul Bahn
doi:10.1038/341187a0
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| | Upwardly mobile roots 188
Peter D. Moore
doi:10.1038/341188a0
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| | Spreading the word 189
David Baulcombe & Roger Hull
doi:10.1038/341189a0
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H. Kallikak
doi:10.1038/341190a0
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David Jones
doi:10.1038/341190b0
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MAKHDZIR MARDAN & PETER G. KEVAN
doi:10.1038/341191a0
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JOHN GREGORY
doi:10.1038/341191b0
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K. KENDALL
doi:10.1038/341191c0
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ANDREW COULSON
doi:10.1038/341192a0
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S. INNES & D. M. LAVIGNE
doi:10.1038/341192b0
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J. F. DOWNHOWER & LAWRENCE S. BLUMER
doi:10.1038/341192c0
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| | Physicist and philanderer 193
P. W. Atkins reviews Schrödinger: Life and Thought
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Walter Moore
doi:10.1038/341193a0
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| | Light work 194
O. S. Heavens reviews The Fabry—Perot Interferometer: History, Theory, Practice and Applications
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J. M. Vaughan
doi:10.1038/341194a0
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| | Opiates for the people 194
Peter Newmark reviews Brainstorming: The Science and Politics of Opiate Research
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Solomon H. Snyder
doi:10.1038/341194b0
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Alan Holland reviews Animal Consciousness
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Daisie Radner & Michael Radner
doi:10.1038/341195a0
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John Bell reviews PCR Technology: Principles and Applications for DNA Amplification
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Henry A. Erlich
doi:10.1038/341196a0
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T. L.
doi:10.1038/341196b0
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Michael J. Berridge & Robin F. Irvine
doi:10.1038/341197a0
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| | A 42K outer-membrane protein is a component of the yeast mitochondrial protein import site 205
Dietmar Vestweber, Josef Brunner, Alison Baker & Gottfried Schatz
doi:10.1038/341205a0
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| | Structure of the guanine-nucleotide-binding domain of the Ha-ras oncogene product p21 in the triphosphate conformation 209
Emil F. Pai, Wolfgang Kabsch, Ute Krengel, Kenneth C. Holmes, Jacob John & Alfred Wittinghofer
doi:10.1038/341209a0
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| | Luminosity segregation as a constraint on the theory of biased galaxy formation 215
David Valls-Gabaud, Jean-Michel Alimi & Alain Blanchard
doi:10.1038/341215a0
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| | Molecular hydrogen emission from the bright quasar 3C273 217
Kimiaki Kawara, Minoru Nishida & Brooke Gregory
doi:10.1038/341217a0
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| | VLF emission bursts in the terrestrial and venusian nightside troughs 219
Kaichi Maeda & Joseph M. Grebowsky
doi:10.1038/341219a0
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| | Evidence for cleavage of polymer chains by crack propagation 221
H. R. Brown, V. R. Deline & P. F. Green
doi:10.1038/341221a0
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| | Determination of three-dimensional lattice connectivities in zeolites using natural-abundance 29Si two-dimensional NMR and the direct observation of 29Si−0−29Si couplings 223
C. A. Fyfe, H. Gies, Y. Feng & G. T. Kokotailo
doi:10.1038/341223a0
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| | An optical yield that increases with temperature in a photochemically induced enantiomeric isomerization 225
Yoshihisa Inoue, Taizo Yokoyama, Noritsugu Yamasaki & Akira Tai
doi:10.1038/341225a0
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| | Amyloid  -protein deposition in tissues other than brain in Alzheimer's disease 226
Catharine L. Joachim, Hiroshi Mori & Dennis J. Selkoe
doi:10.1038/341226a0
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John M. Bekkers & Charles F. Stevens
doi:10.1038/341230a0
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| | Glucose-inhibition of glucagon secretion involves activation of GABAA-receptor chloride channels 233
Patrik Rorsman, Per-Olof Berggren, Krister Bokvist, Hans Ericson, Hanns Möhler, Claes-Göran Östenson & Paul A. Smith
doi:10.1038/341233a0
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| | A neuromodulator of synaptic transmission acts on the secretory apparatus as well as on ion channels 237
Helen Man-Son-Hing, Mark J. Zoran, Ken Lukowiak & Philip G. Haydon
doi:10.1038/341237a0
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Caenorhabditis elegans has scores of homoeobox-containing genes 239
Thomas R. Bürglin, Michael Finney, Alan Coulson & Gary Ruvkun
doi:10.1038/341239a0
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| | A Fos protein containing the Jun leucine zipper forms a homodimer which binds to the AP1 binding site 243
Manfred Neuberg, Jürgen Adamkiewicz, John B. Hunter & Rolf Müller
doi:10.1038/341243a0
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| | Adaptive eradication of methionine and cysteine from cyanobacterial light-harvesting proteins 245
Didier Mazel & Philippe Marlière
doi:10.1038/341245a0
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| | Fitness reduction associated with the deletion of a satellite DNA array 248
Chung-I Wu, John R. True & Norman Johnson
doi:10.1038/341248a0
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| | Functional replacement of a protein-induced bend in a DNA recombination site 251
Steven D. Goodman & Howard A. Nash
doi:10.1038/341251a0
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| | Phasing of protein-induced DNA bends in a recombination complex 255
Ursula K. Snyder, John F. Thompson & Arthur Landy
doi:10.1038/341255a0
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doi:10.1038/341258a0
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| | Analytical ultracentrifugation reborn 259
Analytical ultracentrifugation is still the best method for quantitative studies of the interactions between macromolecules. There will soon be a modern alternative to the ancient Beckman Model E.
H. K. Schachman
doi:10.1038/341259a0
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| | The best of British! 260
Visitors to British Lab Week, in London, can expect to see a wide range of laboratory products: from gel documentation systems to water purifiers that keep water particle-free.
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/341260a0
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