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| | Peace dividend still in escrow 395
The welcome reduction of US military expenditure in this week's
budget will not be enough to satisfy the Congress, but more can be had only by
pushing the administration to accelerate the arms control process.
doi:10.1038/343395a0
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| | Scandal upon scandal 396
Chandigarh University has been complacent about the controversy over
Professor VJ.Gupta's Himalayan fossils.
doi:10.1038/343396a0
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| | Strong support for science in US budget 397
doi:10.1038/343397a0
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| | Sagan appeals to world religious leaders 398
Seth Shulman
doi:10.1038/343398a0
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| | Cornell hacker is convicted but free 398
G. Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/343398b0
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| | US relaxes export curbs 398
G. Christopher Anderson & Steve Dickman
doi:10.1038/343398c0
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| | 'Lizzie' set to stay at home 398
Henry Gee
doi:10.1038/343398d0
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| | IIASA regains US support 399
Steven Dickman
doi:10.1038/343399a0
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| | New drive on car pollution 399
Peter Coles
doi:10.1038/343399b0
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| | Utilities see the green light 399
Robert Buderi
doi:10.1038/343399c0
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| | Reactor plans drawn up 400
Steven Dickman
doi:10.1038/343400a0
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| | Spaceport under a cloud 400
Tania Ewing
doi:10.1038/343400b0
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| | Successful launch for Spot-2 shop-window 400
Peter Coles
doi:10.1038/343400c0
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| | Storm success came easy 401
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/343401a0
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| | New international projects planned 401
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/343401b0
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| | Towards a 2°C concensus 401
G. Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/343401c0
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| | Visa veto worries dissidents 402
G. Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/343402a0
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| | Threat from UK reforms 402
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/343402b0
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| | Japan's rocketing ambitions 403
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/343403a0
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| | Moon next stop 403
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/343403b0
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| | Working with NASA 403
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/343403c0
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| | Correspondence |  |
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| | Index of decline of British science 404
J. F. LAMB
doi:10.1038/343404a0
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| | Problems of South Africa 404
JOHN S. RUTHERFORD
doi:10.1038/343404b0
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| | Problems of South Africa 404
C. F. GARBERS
doi:10.1038/343404c0
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| | The coming ice age 404
A. J. RUTGERS
doi:10.1038/343404d0
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| | Commentary |  |
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| | The peripatetic fossils: part 5 405
Replyingto articles published in last week's Nature, Talent
re-asserts that V. J. Gupta is responsible for corrupting the palaeontological
literature on the Himalayas.
John A. Talent
doi:10.1038/343405a0
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| | News and Views |  |
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| | Two gales do not make a greenhouse 407
Northern Europe, recovering from last week's gales, is ready to
believe in a global warming caused by an excess greenhouse effect. But that is
not the reason which an international convention must be hurried
along.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/343407a0
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| | Cytoskeleton on the move 408
Peter J. Hollenbeck
doi:10.1038/343408a0
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| | Texture may seed galaxy growth 409
John L. Friedman & Michael S. Morris
doi:10.1038/343409a0
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| | Frozen smoke 410
doi:10.1038/343410a0
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| | Tackling a loopy problem 411
Janet M. Thornton
doi:10.1038/343411a0
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| | Colorectal cancer genes 412
Ellen Solomon
doi:10.1038/343412a0
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| | Finding space for granite intrusions 413
BERNARD ELGEY LEAKE
doi:10.1038/343413a0
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| | Ups and downs in the Sahel 414
Peter D. Moore
doi:10.1038/343414a0
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| | Electron optics for transistors 415
S. Washburn
doi:10.1038/343415a0
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| | Life in reverse 416
David Jones
doi:10.1038/343416a0
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| | Scientific Correspondence |  |
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| | Coral bleaching in Jamaica 417
THOMAS J. GOREAU
doi:10.1038/343417a0
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| | Cryptic initiation sequence revealed 417
JAN H. J. HOEIJUMAKERS
doi:10.1038/343417b0
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| | Cryptic initiation sequence revealed 418
KIYOSHI NAGAI
doi:10.1038/343418a0
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| | Archaebacterial or eocyte tree? 418
JAMES A. LAKE
doi:10.1038/343418b0
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| | Archaebacterial or eocyte tree? 419
MANOLO GOUY & WEN-HSIUNG LI
doi:10.1038/343419a0
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| | Blur into focus 419
CHARLES H. ANDERSON, DAVID C. VAN ESSEN & JACK L. GALLANT
doi:10.1038/343419b0
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| | Ecological power laws 420
RICHARD C. HARDWICK
doi:10.1038/343420a0
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| | Hiccups and human purpose 420
G. N. FULLER
doi:10.1038/343420b0
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| | Book Reviews |  |
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| | Shadows of the past 421
J. L. Heilbron reviews German National Socialism and the Quest for Nuclear Power 1939−49
By
Mark Walker
doi:10.1038/343421a0
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| | Fact and fantasy 422
Jeffrey A. McNeely reviews Tom Slick and the Search for the Yeti
By
Loren Coleman
doi:10.1038/343422a0
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| | Moving times 423
Theodore Friedmann reviews Center for Molecular Genetics In Diseases of Brain, Nerve and Muscle
Edited by
Lewis P. Rowland, Donald S. Wood, Eric A. Schon & Salvatore DiMauro
doi:10.1038/343423a0
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| | Fossil forays 423
Michael H. Day reviews The Human Revolution: Behavioural and Biological Perspectives on the
Origins of Modern Humans
Edited by
Paul Mellars & Chris Stringer
doi:10.1038/343423b0
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| | Out of the bag 424
Stuart Sutherland reviews Mind, Brain and the Quantum
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Michael Lockwood
doi:10.1038/343424a0
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| | Regulation of the mevalonate pathway 425
Joseph L. Goldstein & Michael S. Brown
doi:10.1038/343425a0
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| | The Ailao Shan/Red River metamorphic belt: Tertiary left-lateral shear between
Indochina and South China 431
P. Tapponnier, R. Lacassin, P.
H. Leloup, U. Schärer, Zhong Dalai, Wu Haiwei, Liu Xiaohan, Ji Shaocheng, Zhang Lianshang & Zhong Jiayou
doi:10.1038/343431a0
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| | Factor required for mammalian spliceosome assembly is localized to
discrete regions in the nucleus 437
Xiang-Dong Fu & Tom Maniatis
doi:10.1038/343437a0
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| | Letters |  |
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| | Upper limit set for level of lightning activity on Titan 442
M. D. Desch & M.
L. Kaiser
doi:10.1038/343442a0
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| | Direct evidence for a very large penetration depth in superconducting
Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 single crystals 444
J. R. Cooper, L. Forró & B. Keszeit
doi:10.1038/343444a0
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| | Guest-responsive structural changes in cholic acid intercalation crystals 446
Mikiji Miyata, Motonari Shibakami, Suwabun Chirachanchai, Kiichi Takemoto, Nobutami Kasai & Kunio Miki
doi:10.1038/343446a0
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| | Sedimentation of particles from a convecting fluid 447
Takehiro Koyaguchi, Mark
A. Hallworth, Herbert
E. Huppert & R. Stephen J. Sparks
doi:10.1038/343447a0
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| | Evidence from rare gases for magma-chamber degassing of highly evolved
mid-ocean-ridge basalt 450
David E. Fisher & Michael
R. Perfit
doi:10.1038/343450a0
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| | A new mechanism of granite emplacement: intrusion in active extensional shear zones 452
D. H. W. Hutton, T.
J Dempster, P.
E. Brown & S.
D. Becker
doi:10.1038/343452a0
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| | Predator−prey dynamics in environments rich and poor in nutrients 455
Edward McCauley & William
W. Murdoch
doi:10.1038/343455a0
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| | The preS2/S region of integrated hepatitis B virus DNA encodes a
transcriptional transactivator 457
Alexander S. Kekule, Ulrich Lauer, Markus Meyer, Wolfgang
H. Caselmann, Peter
Hans Hofschneider & Rajen Koshy
doi:10.1038/343457a0
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| | Inhibition of neurite polarity by tau antisense oligonucleotides in primary cerebellar neurons 461
Alfredo Caceres & Kenneth
S. Kosik
doi:10.1038/343461a0
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| | A threshold effect of the major isoforms of NCAM on neurite
outgrowth 464
Patrick Doherty, Manuel Fruns, Patricia Seaton, George Dickson, C.
Howard Barton, Thomas
A. Sears & Frank
S. Walsh
doi:10.1038/343464a0
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| | Binding of a Drosophila POU-domain protein to a sequence element
regulating gene expression in specific dopaminergic neurons 467
W. A. Johnson & J. Hirsh
doi:10.1038/343467a0
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| | Potent and selective inhibition of HIV-1 replication in vitro by a
novel series of TIBO derivatives 470
Rudi Pauwels, Koen Andries, Jan Desmyter, Dominique Schols, Michael
J. Kukla, Henry
J. Breslin, Alfons Raeymaeckers, Jozef
Van Gelder, Robert Woestenborghs, Jozef Heykants, Karel Schellekens, Marcel
A. C. Janssen, Erik
De Clercq & Paul A.
J. Janssen
doi:10.1038/343470a0
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| | Attenuation of Mengo virus through genetic engineering of the 5' noncoding
poly(C) tract 474
Gregory M. Duke, Jorge E. Osorio & Ann C. Palmenberg
doi:10.1038/343474a0
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| | Localization of VP4 neutralization sites in rotavirus by three-dimensional
cryo-electron microscopy 476
B. V. Venkataram Prasad, J. W. Burns, E. Marietta, M. K. Estes & W. Chiu
doi:10.1038/343476a0
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| | Turnover of fluorescently labelled tubulin and actin in the axon 479
Shigeo Okabe & Nobutaka Hirokawa
doi:10.1038/343479a0
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| | Uncoupling of the synthesis of edited and unedited COIII RNA
in Trypanosoma brucei
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Vladimir Volloch, Bruce Schweitzer & Sophia Rits
doi:10.1038/343482a0
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| | RNA bulges and the helical periodicity of double-stranded RNA 484
Anamitra Bhattacharyya, Alastair
I. H. Murchie & David M.
J. Lilley
doi:10.1038/343484a0
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| | Guide to authors |  |
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| | 488
doi:10.1038/343488a0
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| | New on the Market |  |
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| | Bioresearch tools in brief 489
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/343489a0
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| | Employment |  |
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| | What effect will student loans have? 492
The decision of school-leavers In the United Kingdom to go on to
higher education in the next few years will be affected by the introduction of
student loans.
Richard Pearson
doi:10.1038/343492a0
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