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| | Iraq puts cat among pigeons 475
The arrest ten days ago of four would-be smugglers of bomb-making equipment, allegedly to Iraq, may mean more or less than is supposed, or is put about by interested parties. Yet nuclear proliferation deserves more worry than it gets.
doi:10.1038/344475a0
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| | Abortion from a hat 476
The British government is making a quick stab at abortion legislation in what may be the worst possible way.
doi:10.1038/344476a0
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| | US takes the offensive on animal research 477
G. Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/344477a0
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| | New science institute gets director 477
Simon Wallis & David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/344477b0
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| | Juno's coffers bare 478
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/344478a0
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| | Hipparcos in the dark 478
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/344478b0
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| | War is unhealthy, US finds 478
G. Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/344478c0
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| | Plunging yen hits grants 479
David Swinbanks & Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/344479a0
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| | Judge halts construction 479
G. Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/344479b0
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| | Plunging stock market halts break-up 480
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/344480a0
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| | Science and social renewal 480
Yurl Kanin
doi:10.1038/344480b0
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| | Agreement questioned 481
G. Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/344481a0
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| | Leading biotechnology companies quit the IBA 481
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/344481b0
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| | Chemical companies rebel 482
Seth Shulman
doi:10.1038/344482a0
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| | Europe to close gap? 482
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/344482b0
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| | Radiation research revamped 482
G. Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/344482c0
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| | Transfer study expands 483
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/344483a0
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| | Polytechnics still persecuted? 483
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/344483b0
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| | Indians say give us Nature ! 483
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/344483c0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Being black in South Africa 484
WILLIAM BARENDSE
doi:10.1038/344484a0
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| | Being black in South Africa 484
JOHN GILLARD WATSON
doi:10.1038/344484b0
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| | Letters from America 484
P. J. BARNARD
doi:10.1038/344484c0
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| | Schrödinger 484
FRIEDRICH KATSCHER
doi:10.1038/344484d0
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| | Towards explaining superconductivity 485
The high-T
c superconductors contain planar sheets of copper atoms, structures on which much attention is being lavished — with some success.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/344485a0
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| | Switching arrays make light work in a simple processor 486
David Brady
doi:10.1038/344486a0
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| | Stress on the renin gene 487
Brenda Leckie
doi:10.1038/344487a0
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| | Better reception for urokinase 488
Walter F. Mangel
doi:10.1038/344488a0
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| | Removing the seventh veil? 489
A. P. Whitworth
doi:10.1038/344489a0
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| | Laser-cooled atoms cooperate 490
Christopher Foot & Andrew Steane
doi:10.1038/344490a0
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| | Unconventional aerodynamics 491
Roland Ennos
doi:10.1038/344491a0
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| | Grass root destruction 492
Peter D. Moore
doi:10.1038/344492a0
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| | Effects of CFC substitutes 492
Keith Shine
doi:10.1038/344492b0
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| | Watching a laser hot-pot 493
Peter Knight
doi:10.1038/344493a0
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| | Play it again, Sam 494
David Jones
doi:10.1038/344494a0
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| | lnsP3 receptor turnaround 495
PIETRO DE CAMILLI, KOJI TAKEI, GREGORY A. MIGNERY & THOMAS C. SÜDHOF
doi:10.1038/344495a0
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| | Mating calls 495
RUSSELL GARDNER
doi:10.1038/344495b0
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| | Mating calls 495
ANDREW POMIANKOWSKI & TIM GUILFORD
doi:10.1038/344495c0
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| | Superficial microwave heating 496
STEPHEN F. DEALLER & RICHARD W. LACEY
doi:10.1038/344496a0
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E. I. HAMILTON
doi:10.1038/344496b0
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| | Cortical  -amyloid 497
N. BEHROUZ, A. DEFOSSEZ, A. DELACOURTE & M. MAZZUCA
doi:10.1038/344497a0
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| | Collagenous proteins multiply 497
D. H. BAMFORD & J. K. H. BAMFORD
doi:10.1038/344497b0
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| | Thaumatin not proteolytic 498
R. BEYNON & M. CUSACK
doi:10.1038/344498a0
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| | Immoral wasps? 498
RAYMOND RASMONT
doi:10.1038/344498b0
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| | Working towards one world 499
Norman Myers reviews International Resource Management
Edited By
S. Anderson, W. Ostreng, Paul Taylor, A. J. R. Groom & Edith Brown Weiss
doi:10.1038/344499a0
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| | Times of change 500
John Bancroft reviews Menopause: Evaluation, Treatment and Health Concerns
Edited By
Charles B. Hammond, Florence P. Haseltine & Isaac Schiff
doi:10.1038/344500a0
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| | Sticking to the facts 500
Martin J. Humphries reviews Fibronectins
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Richard O. Hynes
doi:10.1038/344500b0
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| | Light show 501
Peter Knight reviews Laser Science and Technology: An International Handbook. Volumes 1-6*
Series editors
V. S. Letokhov, C. V. Shank, Y. R. Shen & H. Walther
doi:10.1038/344501a0
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| | Into the shadows 502
Robert N. Proctor reviews Health, Race and German Politics between National Unification and Nazism 1870–1945
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Paul Weindling
doi:10.1038/344502a0
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| | Universal control mechanism regulating onset of M-phase 503
Paul Nurse
doi:10.1038/344503a0
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| | Model calculations of the relative effects of CFCs and their replacements on stratospheric ozone 508
Donald A. Fisher, Charles H. Hales, David L. Filkin, Malcolm K. W. Ko, N. Dak Sze, Peter S. Connell, Donald J. Wuebbles, Ivar S. A. Isaksen & Frode Stordal
doi:10.1038/344508a0
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| | Model calculations of the relative effects of CFCs and their replacements on global warming 513
Donald A. Fisher, Charles H. Hales, Wei-Chyung Wang, Malcolm K. W. Ko & N. Dak Sze
doi:10.1038/344513a0
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| | Myb DNA binding inhibited by phosphorylation at a site deleted during oncogenic activation 517
Bernhard Lüscher, Erik Christenson, David W. Litchfield, Edwin G. Krebs & Robert N. Eisenman
doi:10.1038/344517a0
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| | OH–IR sources as precursors to protoplanetary nebulae 522
M. C. Shepherd, R. J. Cohen, M. J. Gaylard & M. E. West
doi:10.1038/344522a0
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| | Positioning single atoms with a scanning tunnelling microscope 524
D. M. Eigler & E. K. Schweizer
doi:10.1038/344524a0
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| | A tri-platinum complex containing a coordinatively naked platinum atom 526
T. Tanase, Y. Kudo, M. Ohno, K. Kobayashi & Y. Yamamoto
doi:10.1038/344526a0
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| | Relative contributions of greenhouse gas emissions to global warming 529
Daniel A. Lashof & Dilip R. Ahuja
doi:10.1038/344529a0
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| | Microatolls and recent sea level change on coral atolls 531
Colin Woodroffe & Roger McLean
doi:10.1038/344531a0
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| | Vesuvius/Avellino, one possible source of seventeenth century BC climatic disturbances 534
J. S. Vogel, W. Cornell, D. E. Nelson & J. R. Southon
doi:10.1038/344534a0
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| | ESR dating evidence for early modern humans at Border Cave in South Africa 537
Rainer Grün, Peter B. Beaumont & Christopher B. Stringer
doi:10.1038/344537a0
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| | Genetic mapping of chronic childhood-onset spinal muscular atrophy to chromosome 5q1 1.2–13.3 540
L. M. Brzustowicz, T. Lehner, L. H. Castilla, G. K. Penchaszadeh, K. C. Wilhelmsen, R. Daniels, K. E. Davies, M. Leppert, F. Ziter, D. Wood, V. Dubowitz, K. Zerres, I. Hausmanowa-Petrusewicz, J. Ott, T. L. Munsat & T. C. Gilliam
doi:10.1038/344540a0
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| | Fulminant hypertension in transgenic rats harbouring the mouse Ren-2 gene 541
J. J. Mullins, J. Peters & D. Ganten
doi:10.1038/344541a0
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| | Imprinting of acetylcholine receptor messenger RNA accumulation in mammalian neuromuscular synapses 544
H. R. Brenner, V. Witzemann & B. Sakmann
doi:10.1038/344544a0
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| | Sexual development in the pea is presaged by altered expression of arabinogalactan protein 547
Roger I. Pennell & Keith Roberts
doi:10.1038/344547a0
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mitotic inducer in fission yeast 549
Sergio Moreno, Paul Nurse & Paul Russell
doi:10.1038/344549a0
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| | Polymerase gene products of hepatitis B viruses are required for genomic RNA packaging as well as for reverse transcription 552
Russell C. Hirsch, Joel E. Lavine, Lung-ji Chang, Harold E. Varmus & Don Ganem
doi:10.1038/344552a0
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| | Sequencing and expression of complementary DNA for the general transcription factor BTF3 556
X. M. Zheng, D. Black, P. Chambon & J. M. Egly
doi:10.1038/344556a0
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| | Specific interaction of the murine transcription termination factor TTF I with class-I RNA polymerases 559
Anne Kuhn, Ingrid Bartsch & Ingrid Grummt
doi:10.1038/344559a0
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| | The heptad repeat in the largest subunit of RNA polymerase II binds by intercalating into DNA 562
Masashi Suzuki
doi:10.1038/344562a0
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| | Mixed deoxyribo- and ribo-oligonucleotides with catalytic activity 565
Jean-Pierre Perreault, Taifeng Wu, Benoit Cousineau, Kelvin K. Ogilvie & Robert Cedergren
doi:10.1038/344565a0
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| | Protection against UV-induced pyrimidine dimerization in DNA by triplex formation 568
Victor I. Lyamichev, Maxim D. Frank-Kamenetskii & Valery N. Soyfer
doi:10.1038/344568a0
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| | A look inside the laboratory 571
With a host of products that are new on the market, this week's selection includes a '386' laptop computer, a multifunction calculator, a DNA phosphatase that can be heat-killed, and a 'dry' benchtop sterilizer.
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/344571a0
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