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| | Doctrinal fallacies of stewardship 179
Britain's environmental minister, Mr Christopher Patten, has taken on the no-growth lobby, somehow brought to life again by novel concerns about the global environment, but has done so more cautiously than it deserves.
doi:10.1038/344179a0
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| | Faltering steps towards European/US cooperation 181
G. Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/344181a0
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| | New panel to decide future of US programme 181
G. Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/344181b0
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| | NASA denies negligence 182
David Lindley
doi:10.1038/344182a0
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| | Japan looking for a profitable solution 182
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/344182b0
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| | Streptokinase equal to TPA 183
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/344183a0
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| | Antelopes die of "mad cow" disease 183
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/344183b0
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| | AIDS drug trial resumes 183
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/344183c0
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| | US response to Sellafield data 184
G. Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/344184a0
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| | More radiation hazards 184
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/344184b0
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| | Decline in R&D expenditure 184
Michael Cherry
doi:10.1038/344184c0
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| | Martian flotilla prepares 185
Alun Anderson
doi:10.1038/344185a0
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| | Brazil cuts red tape 185
Ricardo Bonalume
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| | Allegations of laxity 185
Radhakrishna Rao
doi:10.1038/344185d0
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| | Take your partners... 186
G. Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/344186a0
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| | Modified yeast fine for food 186
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/344186b0
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| | Gupta takes to the hills 187
doi:10.1038/344187a0
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| | Accusations of "paper recycling" 187
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/344187b0
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| | New Zealand shifts ground 187
Tania Ewing
doi:10.1038/344187c0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | World institute for astronomy 188
ANTOINE LABEYRIE & PIERRE LÉNA
doi:10.1038/344188a0
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| | SSC poor value 188
ROBERT J. YAES
doi:10.1038/344188b0
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| | Soviet science 188
RENAT ZHDANOV
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| | The case for scientific whaling 189
Commercial whaling by Japan, the Soviet Union and Iceland has been widely condemned. But until scientific studies of whale populations are carried out, an informed decision about commercial whaling cannot be made.
Fukuzo Nagasaki
doi:10.1038/344189a0
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| | Have good manners gone for good? 191
The tendency towards immodesty by the authors of research reports, usually excused as an unavoidable consequence of the competition for research grants, sets a poor example to the young.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/344191a0
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| | Turbulence and the tube 192
Katepalli R. Sreenivasan
doi:10.1038/344192a0
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| | Chromatin contract to silence 193
Bruce Alberts & Rolf Sternglanz
doi:10.1038/344193a0
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| | When two's company and three's a correlation 194
Keith Codling
doi:10.1038/344194a0
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| | Synthetases gain recognition 195
Dino Moras
doi:10.1038/344195a0
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| | Brighter days ahead for Comet Austin 196
David Lindley
doi:10.1038/344196a0
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| | Deep resonance of CP violation 197
John Ellis
doi:10.1038/344197a0
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| | Shuffling on this mortal coil 198
Roger H. Pain
doi:10.1038/344198a0
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| | Reassessing relationships 199
Colin Patterson
doi:10.1038/344199a0
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| | Catching the eye 200
David Jones
doi:10.1038/344200a0
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| | Avoidance of false positives 201
P. A. KITCHIN, Z. SZOTYORI, C. FROMHOLC & N. ALMOND
doi:10.1038/344201a0
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| | Scaling of sexual activity 202
STEPHEN P. BLYTHE & CARLOS CASTILLO-CHAVEZ
doi:10.1038/344202a0
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| | Irradiation detection 202
M. H. STEVENSON, A. V. J. CRONE & J. T. G. HAMILTON
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| | Filters for cell culture 203
R. W. PHILPOTT & W. R. RIGBY
doi:10.1038/344203a0
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| | Tropical leaf-litter nutrients 203
D. K. KUNDU
doi:10.1038/344203b0
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| | The name game 203
J. A. BARNETT
doi:10.1038/344203c0
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| | Direct repeats in HSF binding sites 204
OLIVIER RAIBAUD
doi:10.1038/344204a0
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| | A more balanced view 204
DAVID J. FISHER
doi:10.1038/344204b0
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| | Gorillas in the midst 205
Jonathan Marks reviews Primate Origins and Evolution: A Phylogenetic Reconstruction
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R. D. Martin
doi:10.1038/344205a0
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| | The future perfect 206
Brian Bertram reviews Conservation for the Twenty-First Century
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David Western & Mary Pearl
doi:10.1038/344206a0
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| | Thought for food 207
Johannes Friedrich Diehl reviews Biology of Food Irradiation
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David R. Murray
doi:10.1038/344207a0
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| | Clashing symbols 207
Stuart Sutherland reviews Microrecognition: Philosophy, Cognitive Science and Parallel Distributed Processing
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Andy Clark
doi:10.1038/344207b0
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| | On inspection 208
Robert G. Webster reviews The Influenza Viruses
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Robert M. Krug
doi:10.1038/344208a0
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| | The large-scale structure of convection in the Earth's mantle 209
Peter Olson, Paul G. Silver & Richard W. Carlson
doi:10.1038/344209a0
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| | Unusual composition of pore waters found in the Izu–Bonin fore-arc sedimentary basin 215
P. K. Egeberg
doi:10.1038/344215a0
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| | Dependence of position-effect variegation in Drosophila on dose of a gene encoding an unusual zinc-finger protein 219
Gunter Reuter, Marianna Giarre, Joseph Farah, Janos Gausz, Anne Spierer & Pierre Spierer
doi:10.1038/344219a0
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| | A molecular gas bar fuelling starburst activity in galaxy IC342 224
Sumio Ishizuki, Ryohei Kawabe, Masato Ishiguro, Sachiko K. Okumura, Koh-Ichiro Morita, Yoshihiro Chikada & Takashi Kasuga
doi:10.1038/344224a0
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| | Intermittent vortex structures in homogeneous isotropic turbulence 226
Zhen-Su She, Eric Jackson & Steven A. Orszag
doi:10.1038/344226a0
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| | Anchoring structure of smectic liquid-crystal layers on MoS2 observed by scanning tunnelling microscopy 228
M. Hara, Y. Iwakabe, K. Tochigi, H. Sasabe, A. F. Garito & A. Yamada
doi:10.1038/344228a0
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| | A composite construction material that solidifies in water 230
Akihiro Moriyoshi, Ichiro Fukai & Mikio Takeuchi
doi:10.1038/344230a0
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| | Crystallization and emplacement chronology of the Fournier oceanic fragment, Canadian Appalachians 232
J. G. Spray, P. A. Flagler & G. R. Dunning
doi:10.1038/344232a0
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| | Decoupling of chemical and isotopic exchange during magma mixing 235
C. E. Lesher
doi:10.1038/344235a0
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| | Influence of seasonal migration on geographic distribution of mitochondrial DNA haplotypes in humpback whales 238
C. S. Baker, S. R. Palumbi, R. H. Lambertsen, M. T. Weinrich, J. Calambokidis & S. J. O'Brien
doi:10.1038/344238a0
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| | Muscarinic modulation of a transient K+ conductance in rat neostriatal neurons 240
Paul T. Akins, D. James Surmeier & S. T. Kitai
doi:10.1038/344240a0
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| | Regulation and deregulation of cardiac Na+−Ca2+ exchange in giant excised sarcolemmal membrane patches 242
Donald W. Hilgemann
doi:10.1038/344242a0
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| | Requirement of tumour necrosis factor for development of silica-induced pulmonary fibrosis 245
Pierre F. Piguet, Martine A. Collart, Georges E. Grau, André-P. Sappino & Pierre Vassalli
doi:10.1038/344245a0
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| | Novel post-translational regulation of TCR expression in CD4+CD8+ thymocytes influenced by CD4 247
Juan S. Bonifacino, Susan A. McCarthy, Jean E. Maguire, Toshinori Nakayama, Dinah S. Singer, Richard D. Klausner & Alfred Singer
doi:10.1038/344247a0
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| | Acute leukaemia in bcr/abl transgenic mice 251
Nora Heisterkamp, Guido Jenster, Joanne ten Hoeve, Daniel Zovich, Paul K. Pattengale & John Groffen
doi:10.1038/344251a0
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| | Induction of endothelial cell expression of granulocyte and macrophage colony-stimulating factors by modified low-density lipoproteins 254
T. B. Rajavashisth, A. Andalibi, M. C. Territo, J. A. Berliner, M. Navab, A. M. Fogelman & A. J. Lusis
doi:10.1038/344254a0
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| | Interference with the assembly of a virus-host transcription complex by peptide competition 257
Alison Haigh, Richard Greaves & Peter O'Hare
doi:10.1038/344257a0
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| | Functional heterogeneity of mammalian TATA-box sequences revealed by interaction with a cell-specific enhancer 260
Franklin C. Wefald, Blythe H. Devlin & R. Sanders Williams
doi:10.1038/344260a0
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| | Evolutionary transfer of the chloroplast tufA gene to the nucleus 262
Sandra L. Baldauf & Jeffrey D. Palmer
doi:10.1038/344262a0
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| | Peptide mimetics of an actin-binding site on myosin span two functional domains on actin 265
Anita M. Keane, Ian P. Trayer, Barry A. Levine, C. Zeugner & J. Caspar Ruegg
doi:10.1038/344265a0
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| | Relative helix-forming tendencies of nonpolar amino acids 268
S. Padmanabhan, Susan Marqusee, Theresa Ridgeway, Thomas M. Laue & Robert L. Baldwin
doi:10.1038/344268a0
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| | Bioassays with a microphysiometer 271
By sensitively monitoring the metabolic rates of living cells, a novel instrument detects cellular responses to stimuli as diverse as ligand-receptor binding and toxic chemicals.
J. C. Owicki & J. W. Parce
doi:10.1038/344271a0
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| | Measure for measure 272
A set of 'chopstick" electrodes for measuring membrane potential, a portable pH meter and a pulsed electrochemical detector — measuring devices for improved accuracy.
doi:10.1038/344272a0
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