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| | Where does Europe go from here? 721
Last weekend's European summit served chiefly to remind its participants that the European Community is far from being a self-consistent legal entity.
doi:10.1038/342721a0
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| | Broadcast news 722
Britain is about to destabilize a good broadcasting structure to satisfy Tory ideology and Treasury greed.
doi:10.1038/342722a0
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| | News | |
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| | Singh shifts India towards nationalism 723
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/342723a0
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| | Universities get a little help 723
Peter Coles
doi:10.1038/342723b0
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| | Squeeze provokes strike 723
Peter Coles
doi:10.1038/342723c0
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| | A new direction for HUGO 724
Christine McGourty
doi:10.1038/342724a0
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| | Japan still seeking a role 724
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/342724b0
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| | Safer structures take priority 725
Robert Buderi
doi:10.1038/342725a0
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| | Oldest reptile to leave UK? 726
Henry Gee
doi:10.1038/342726a0
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| | Japan and Taiwan refuse international ban 726
Tania Ewing
doi:10.1038/342726b0
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| | Berlin retreats in reactor row 727
Steven Dickman
doi:10.1038/342727a0
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| | Victory recorded in Mono 727
Robert Buderi
doi:10.1038/342727b0
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| | Speedy money from Volkswagen 727
Steven Dickman
doi:10.1038/342727c0
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| | Helicopter hovers for a moment 727
Robert Buderi
doi:10.1038/342727d0
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| | IBM rewards new talent 728
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/342728a0
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| | Increase softens blows 728
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/342728b0
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| | No signs of a change of heart 728
David Lindley
doi:10.1038/342728c0
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| | Crisis ... what crisis? 728
Christine McGourty
doi:10.1038/342728d0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | UK university rankings 729
D. T. ELMORE
doi:10.1038/342729a0
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| | Sri Lankan death 729
A. T. CHAMBERLAIN & B. A. WOOD
doi:10.1038/342729b0
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| | Journal reviewers 729
ALEXANDER K. C. LEUNG & W. LANE M. ROBSON
doi:10.1038/342729c0
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| | What price a carbon tax? 730
MAX K. WALLIS
doi:10.1038/342730a0
References | PDF (146K)
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| | What happened? 730
RALPH A. SLEPECKY
doi:10.1038/342730b0
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| | Carbon dating 730
M. S. BAXTER, E. M. SCOTT & D. D. HARKNESS
doi:10.1038/342730c0
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| | Hidden increases 730
IAN WINSHIP
doi:10.1038/342730d0
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| | Commentary |  |
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| | Keeping up with the Russians 731
The United States and Britain have a lot to learn from the Soviet way of doing science — not least from the system of allocating research funds.
George W. Fisher, Priscilla C. Grew & Bruce Yardley
doi:10.1038/342731a0
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| | News and Views |  |
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| | Is the salami sliced too thinly? 733
Every working scientist agrees that there is too much to read, yet most of those who make the complaint are collectively also those responsible for the common difficulty —that the literature of research is overblown.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/342733a0
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| | Limbs: a pattern emerges 734
Julian Lewis & Paul Martin
doi:10.1038/342734a0
References | PDF (305K)
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| | Low-pressure nucleation routes 735
Michael Pinneo
doi:10.1038/342735a0
References | PDF (297K)
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| | Gauging water-vapour feedback 736
Robert D. Cess
doi:10.1038/342736a0
References | PDF (285K)
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| | The turn of the quadruplex? 737
Maxim Frank-Kamenetskii
doi:10.1038/342737a0
References | PDF (153K)
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| | Four legs to stand on... 738
Henry Gee
doi:10.1038/342738a0
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| | ...for Devonian vertebrates 738
Per Erik Ahlberg
doi:10.1038/342738b0
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| | Variations on an original theme 739
C. F. Quate
doi:10.1038/342739a0
References | PDF (333K)
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| | 100 years ago: Remarkable Hailstones 739
G. J. SYMONS
doi:10.1038/342739b0
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| | Propagating rifts exposed 740
Ken C. Macdonald
doi:10.1038/342740a0
References | PDF (341K)
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| | Who are the drone police? 741
Jon Seger
doi:10.1038/342741a0
References | PDF (321K)
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| | A clean press 742
David Jones
doi:10.1038/342742a0
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| | Scientific Correspondence | |
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| | Sampling the lithosphere 743
N. W. ROGERS, C. J. HAWKESWORTH, D. S. ORMEROD & P. D. KEMPTON
doi:10.1038/342743a0
References | PDF (152K)
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| | Sampling the lithosphere 743
W. F. MCDONOUGH, K. P. JOCHUM, H. PALME & B. SPETTEL
doi:10.1038/342743b0
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| | Cleaning up after Chernobyl 744
K. F. BAVERSTOCK
doi:10.1038/342744a0
References | PDF (148K)
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| | Early warning for LTP 744
R. ANWYL
doi:10.1038/342744b0
References | PDF (148K)
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| | Book Reviews | |
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| | Who made the sky 745
William B. McKinnon reviews Origin and Evolution of Planetary and Satellite Atmospheres
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S. K. Atreya, J. B. Pollack & M. S. Matthews
doi:10.1038/342745a0
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| | Shaking the very foundations 746
Warwick Bray reviews Debating Archaeology
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Lewis R. Binford
doi:10.1038/342746a0
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| | Emerging from the deep 746
P. J. Butler reviews Diverse Divers: Physiology and Behavior
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G. L. Kooyman
doi:10.1038/342746b0
PDF (267K)
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| | Return to obscurity 747
H. S. Yoder Jr reviews Boninites and Related Rocks
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A. J. Crawford & Keith Bell
doi:10.1038/342747a0
PDF (271K)
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| | Hybrid mystery 748
Mark Ridley reviews Speciatlon and Its Consequences
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Daniel Otte & John A. Endler
doi:10.1038/342748a0
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| | A regulatory hierarchy for cell specialization in yeast 749
Ira Herskowitz
doi:10.1038/342749a0
Abstract & References | PDF (1,045K)
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| | Observational determination of the greenhouse effect 758
A. Raval & V. Ramanathan
doi:10.1038/342758a0
Abstract & References | PDF (483K)
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| | Primary structure and functional expression from complementary DNA of the rod photoreceptor cyclic GMP-gated channel 762
U. Benjamin Kaupp, Tetsuhiro Niidome, Tsutomu Tanabe, Shoichi Terada, Wolfgang Bönigk, Walter Stühmer, Neil J. Cook, Kenji Kangawa, Hisayuki Matsuo, Tadaaki Hirose, Takashi Miyata & Shosaku Numa
doi:10.1038/342762a0
Abstract & References | PDF (551K)
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| | Coordinate expression of the murine Hox-5 complex homoeobox-containing genes during limb pattern formation 767
Pascal Dollé, Juan-Carlos Izpisúa-Belmonte, Hildegard Falkenstein, Armand Renucci & Denis Duboule
doi:10.1038/342767a0
Abstract & References | PDF (851K)
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| | Letters | |
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| | X-ray time variations from Cygnus X-1 and implications for the accretion process 773
Sigenori Miyamoto & Shunji Kitamoto
doi:10.1038/342773a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (232K)
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| | Origin of 'normal-branch' quasiperiodic oscillations in low-mass X-ray binary systems 775
B. Fortner, F. K. Lamb & G. S. Miller
doi:10.1038/342775a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (400K)
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| | New features in Saturn's atmosphere revealed by high-resolution thermal infrared images 777
D. Y. Gezari, M. J. Mumma, F. Espenak, D. Deming, G. Bjoraker, L. Woods & W. Folz
doi:10.1038/342777a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (433K)
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| | Self-organized criticality in the 'Game of Life" 780
Per Bak, Kan Chen & Michael Creutz
doi:10.1038/342780a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (319K)
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| | Entropy of amorphous ice 782
Edward Whalley, D. D. Klug & Y. P. Handa
doi:10.1038/342782a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (232K)
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| | Optical absorption microscopy and spectroscopy with nanometre resolution 783
J. M. R. Weaver, L. M. Walpita & H. K. Wickramasinghe
doi:10.1038/342783a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (463K)
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| | Defect-induced stabilization of diamond films 786
Y. Bar-Yam & T. D. Moustakas
doi:10.1038/342786a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (272K)
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| | Reduction of stenols to stanols in particulate matter at oxic−anoxic boundaries in sea water 787
Stuart G. Wakeham
doi:10.1038/342787a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (428K)
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| | Liquid sulphur lakes at Poás volcano 790
Clive Oppenheimer & David Stevenson
doi:10.1038/342790a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (465K)
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| | Role of methane and carbon dioxide in gold deposition 793
Jonathan Naden & Thomas J. Shepherd
doi:10.1038/342793a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (306K)
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| | Worker policing in the honeybee 796
Francis L. W. Ratnieks & P. Kirk Visscher
doi:10.1038/342796a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (209K)
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| | Expression of an insulin-regulatable glucose carrier in muscle and fat endothelial cells 798
Senen Vilaró, Manuel Palacín, Paul F. Pilch, Xavier Testar & Antonio Zorzano
doi:10.1038/342798a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (517K)
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| | Competition for antigen presentation in living cells involves exchange of peptides bound by class II MHC molecules 800
Luciano Adorini, Ettore Appella, Gino Doria, Francis Cardinaux & Zoltan A. Nagy
doi:10.1038/342800a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (478K)
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| | Co-association of CD3 with a receptor (CD16) for IgG Fc on human natural killer cells 803
Lewis L. Lanier, George Yu & Joseph H. Phillips
doi:10.1038/342803a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (416K)
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| | A single amino acid in the glycosyl phosphatidylinositol attachment domain determines the membrane topology of Fc RIII 805
Tomohiro Kurosaki & Jeffrey V. Ravetch
doi:10.1038/342805a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (420K)
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| | A mutant protein kinase C that can transform fibroblasts 807
Tamar Megidish & Nachman Mazurek
doi:10.1038/342807a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (637K)
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| | Enhancement of LFA-1-mediated cell adhesion by triggering through CD2 or CD3 on T lymphocytes 811
Y. van Kooyk, P. van de Wiel-van Kemenade, P. Weder, T. W. Kuijpers & C. G. Figdor
doi:10.1038/342811a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (386K)
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| | Sound-induced motility of isolated cochlear outer hair cells is frequency-specific 814
Lou Brundin, Åke Flock & Barbara Canlon
doi:10.1038/342814a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (423K)
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| | Specific binding of HIV-1 recombinant Rev protein to the Rev-responsive element in vitro
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Thomas J. Daly, Kathleen Sue Cook, Gary S. Gray, Theodore E. Maione & James R. Rusche
doi:10.1038/342816a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (472K)
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| | Conservation between yeast and man of a protein associated with U5 small nuclear ribonucleoprotein 819
Gordon J. Anderson, Montserrat Bach, Reinhard Lührmann & Jean D. Beggs
doi:10.1038/342819a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (426K)
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| | Identification of a widespread nuclear actin binding protein 822
Thomas Ankenbauer, Jürgen A. Kleinschmidt, Michael J. Walsh, Olaf H. Weiner & Werner W. Franke
doi:10.1038/342822a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (549K)
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| | Telomeric DNA dimerizes by formation of guanine tetrads between hairpin loops 825
Wesley I. Sundquist & Aaron Klug
doi:10.1038/342825a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (587K)
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| | The yeast SWI4 protein contains a motif present in developmental regulators and is part of a complex involved in cell-cycle-dependent transcription 830
Brenda J. Andrews & Ira Herskowitz
doi:10.1038/342830a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (531K)
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| | A novel group of abyssal methanogenic archaebacteria (Methanopyrus) growing at 110 °C 833
R. Huber, M. Kurr, H. W. Jannasch & K. O. Stetter
doi:10.1038/342833a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (261K)
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| | Massive natural occurrence of unusually large bacteria (Beggiatoa sp.) at a hydrothermal deep-sea vent site 834
Holger W. Jannasch, Douglas C. Nelson & Carl O. Wirsen
doi:10.1038/342834a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (422K)
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| | Product Reviews | |
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| | The GUS reporter gene system 837
The GUS reporter gene system is already a powerful tool for the assessment of gene activity in transgenic plants. Further developments may lead to routine in vivo analysis and fusion genetics.
R. A. Jefferson
doi:10.1038/342837a0
References | PDF (298K)
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| | DNA technology transfer 838
This week's focus on recombinant DNA technology features a protocol for the rapid separation of plasmid DNA, a baculovirus expression system and customized RNA-oligos.
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/342838a0
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