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| | Congress of Paris an anticlimax 267
This week's diplomatic gathering at Paris has formally confirmed that the Cold War is over, but the future of Europe remains in doubt.
doi:10.1038/348267a0
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| | Antarctic wilderness 267
Mineral exploration should be abandoned, but research should be better co-ordinated and data shared.
doi:10.1038/348267b0
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| | Election prospectus 268
With a British general election due within 19 months, British science should say now what it wants.
doi:10.1038/348268a0
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| | Chilean funeral for Antarctic minerals pact? 269
Peter Coles, Peter Aldshous, Christopher Anderson & Alun Anderson
doi:10.1038/348269a0
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| | Researchers fight for a voice 270
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/348270a0
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| | Saddam to the rescue? 270
Seth Shulman
doi:10.1038/348270b0
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| | NMR turns gold 270
Peter Coles
doi:10.1038/348270c0
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| | Back on the streets 271
Peter Coles
doi:10.1038/348271a0
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| | Last hope for Atlantic forest? 271
Peter Coles & Ricardo Bonalume
doi:10.1038/348271b0
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| | Texas votes for evolution 271
Seth Shulman
doi:10.1038/348271c0
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| | Pressure for quick release 272
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/348272a0
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| | What the journals are saying 272
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/348272b0
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| | Exiled writer refuses post 273
Michael Cherry
doi:10.1038/348273C0
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| | Betting on an inexact science 273
Elizabeth Schaefer & David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/348273a0
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| | Don't look now ... 273
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/348273b0
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| | Happy ending? 273
Henry Gee
doi:10.1038/348273d0
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| | Turning down the lights 274
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/348274a0
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| | Investigation of Indian bones legal 274
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/348274b0
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| | Lower dose limits 274
Peter Aldhous & Seth Shulman
doi:10.1038/348274c0
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| | Spending more to save ... 275
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/348275a0
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| | HERA completed 275
Steven Dickman
doi:10.1038/348275b0
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| | Database for plant species 275
Henry Gee
doi:10.1038/348275c0
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| | Sexual lifestyles under scrutiny 276
Much useful information can be obtained from a knowledge of people's sexual habits, not least information about AIDS. Such studies should be judged by scientists, not by politicians.
K. Wellings, J. Wadsworth, J. Field, A. M. Johnson, S. A. Bradshaw & R. M. Anderson
doi:10.1038/348276a0
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| | Test ban to go comprehensive? 279
DAVID LOWRY & PAUL HELLIWELL
doi:10.1038/348279a0
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| | Problems of UK universities 279
MICHAEL J. STOCK
doi:10.1038/348279b0
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| | Problems of UK universities 279
ANJAN BANERJEE
doi:10.1038/348279c0
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| | The testing of laetrile 279
THOMAS H. JUKES
doi:10.1038/348279d0
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| | Why become complicated? 280
PHILIP WOOD
doi:10.1038/348280a0
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| | Why become complicated 280
BENJAMIN LOWENHAUPT
doi:10.1038/348280b0
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| | Cohort of genes 280
MARCUS E. PEMBREY
doi:10.1038/348280c0
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CHRISTOPHER CHIPPINDALE
doi:10.1038/348280d0
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| | The new biology of immune recognition 281
A deeper undrstanding of antigen-specific immune responses is fast emerging. Last week, at Nature's conference "New Horizons in Immunology", there were reports of progress in unveiling the fundamental mechanisms, and of the latest attempts both to increase the versatility of responses and defeat them in the battle against autoimmunity.
Miranda Robertson
doi:10.1038/348281a0
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| | Order and chaos up in the air 283
Ian N. James
doi:10.1038/348283a0
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| | Motor molecules in motion 284
James A. Spudich
doi:10.1038/348284a0
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| | Sorting chickens from eggs 285
J. A. Krumhansl
doi:10.1038/348285a0
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| | Search for the missing links 286
R. M. Denton
doi:10.1038/348286a0
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| | Opening a can of wormholes 287
C. J. S. Clarke
doi:10.1038/348287a0
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| | Lunar reflections 288
doi:10.1038/348288a0
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| | Aged introns 288
doi:10.1038/348288b0
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| | Pelvic parameters 288
doi:10.1038/348288c0
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| | Living fast and dying young 288
J. S. Jones
doi:10.1038/348288d0
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| | Star formation's tangled web 289
Glenn J. White
doi:10.1038/348289a0
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| | That inward eye 290
David Jones
doi:10.1038/348290a0
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| | Handling excess nitrates 291
NICHOLAS HAYCOCK & TIM BURT
doi:10.1038/348291a0
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| | Making sense of information 291
STEPHEN P. FLEMMING
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| | Making sense of information 291
ERICK GREENE
doi:10.1038/348291c0
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| | Sea-level flips 292
CHRIS GARRETT, KEITH THOMPSON & WADE BLANCHARD
doi:10.1038/348292a0
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| | Meteoritic silicon carbide: pristine material from carbon stars 293
Roy S. Lewis, Sachiko Amari & Edward Anders
doi:10.1038/348293a0
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| | On the astrophysical interpretation of isotope anomalies in meteoritic SiC grains 298
R. Gallino, M. Busso, G. Picchio & C. M. Raiteri
doi:10.1038/348298a0
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| | The molecular mechanism by which insulin stimulates glycogen synthesis in mammalian skeletal muscle 302
Paul Dent, Alain Lavoinne, Sara Nakielny, F. Barry Caudwell, Peter Watt & Philip Cohen
doi:10.1038/348302a0
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| | Targets of homeotic gene control in Drosophila
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Alex P. Gould, Jenny J. Brookman, David I. Strutt & Robert A. H. White
doi:10.1038/348308a0
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| | The extended sodium nebula of Jupiter 312
Michael Mendillo, Jeffrey Baumgardner, Brian Flynn & W. Jeffrey Hughes
doi:10.1038/348312a0
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| | Evidence of very-large-amplitude solitary waves in the atmosphere 314
Mohan K. Ramamurthy, Brian P. Collins, Robert M. Rauber & Patrick C. Kennedy
doi:10.1038/348314a0
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| | Geometric effects of deuteration on hydrogen-ordering phase transitions 317
M. I. McMahon, R. J. Nelmes, W. F. Kuhst, R. Dorwarth, R. O. Piltz & Z. Tun
doi:10.1038/348317a0
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| | Deep-water renewal by turbidity currents in the Sulu Sea 320
Detlef Quadfasel, Hermann Kudrass & Andrea Frische
doi:10.1038/348320a0
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| | Dissolved titanium in the open ocean 322
Kristin J. Orians, Edward A. Boyle & Kenneth W. Bruland
doi:10.1038/348322a0
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| | Spreading rate dependence of three-dimensional structure in oceanic spreading centres 325
E. M. Parmentier & Jason Phipps Morgant
doi:10.1038/348325a0
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| | Influence of colour on the perception of coherent motion 328
John Krauskopf & Bart Farell
doi:10.1038/348328a0
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Andreas Strasser, Alan W. Harris, Mary L. Bath & Suzanne Cory
doi:10.1038/348331a0
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| | Bcl-2 is an inner mitochondrial membrane protein that blocks programmed cell death 334
David Hockenbery, Gabriel Nuñez, Curt Milliman, Robert D. Schreiber & Stanley J. Korsmeyer
doi:10.1038/348334a0
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| | Loss of photosynthetic and chlororespiratory genes from the plastid genome of a parasitic flowering plant 337
Claude W. dePamphilis & Jeffrey D. Palmer
doi:10.1038/348337a0
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| | (Mg−ATP)-dependent self-assembly of molecular chaperone GroEL 339
N. M. Lissin, S. Yu. Venyaminov & A. S. Girshovich
doi:10.1038/348339a0
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| | Induction of RNA-stabilized DMA conformers by transcription of an immunoglobulin switch region 342
Mary E. Reaban & Johanna A. Griffin
doi:10.1038/348342a0
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Andrew Baird, Robert Z. Florkiewicz, Pamela A. Maher, Robert J. Kaner & David P. Hajjar
doi:10.1038/348344a0
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| | Force generation of organelle transport measured in vivo by an infrared laser trap 346
A. Ashkin, Karin Schütze, J. M. Dziedzic, Ursula Euteneuer & Manfred Schliwa
doi:10.1038/348346a0
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Steven M. Block, Lawrence S. B. Goldstein & Bruce J. Schnapp
doi:10.1038/348348a0
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| | Light-emitting diodes based on conjugated polymers 352
J. H. Burroughes, D. D. C. Bradley, A. R. Brown, R. N. Marks, K. Mackay, R. H. Friend, P. L. Burn & A. B. Holmes
doi:10.1038/348352a0
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| | Birth of the Gods 353
Fred Hoyle
doi:10.1038/348353a0
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| | A passage from India 354
David Lindley
doi:10.1038/348354a0
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| | Astro aesthetics 355
David W. Hughes
doi:10.1038/348355a0
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| | Past and future 356
Huw Price
doi:10.1038/348356a0
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| | View from the north 357
Walter Gratzer
doi:10.1038/348357a0
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| | Sea Turtle Products 357
doi:10.1038/348357b0
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| | Remember then 358
Peter Harman
doi:10.1038/348358a0
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| | Holy grail or snark? 359
J. Ellis
doi:10.1038/348359a0
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| | Lucky dip 359
Stuart Sutherland
doi:10.1038/348359b0
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| | Pretty pictures 360
P. T. Saunders
doi:10.1038/348360a0
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| | Conflict and concern 361
David Enerback
doi:10.1038/348361a0
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| | Double Greeting 361
doi:10.1038/348361b0
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| | Portrait of a dinosaur 362
Seth Shulman
doi:10.1038/348362a0
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| | Man on the Moon 362
doi:10.1038/348362b0
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| | Indigestible science? 363
Ken Ducatel
doi:10.1038/348363a0
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| | Hidden message 364
John Galloway
doi:10.1038/348364a0
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| | Moral dilemma 365
Philip Kitcher
doi:10.1038/348365a0
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| | Flies from all angles 366
Gerald M. Rubin
doi:10.1038/348366a0
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| | Hart of the matter 367
W. F. Bynum
doi:10.1038/348367a0
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| | Hypocrisies and half-truths 368
Roy Porter
doi:10.1038/348368a0
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| | Hominid whodunnit 369
G. Ainsworth Harrison
doi:10.1038/348369a0
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| | Integrity on trial 370
Ralph A. Lewin
doi:10.1038/348370a0
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| | Semidetached observation 371
W. C. McGrew
doi:10.1038/348371a0
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| | It's a jungle 372
Tim Lincoln
doi:10.1038/348372a0
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| | Original lingo? 372
John C. Marshall
doi:10.1038/348372b0
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| | Purplish prose 373
Henry Gee
doi:10.1038/348373a0
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| | The smallest continent 374
Jared Diamond
doi:10.1038/348374a0
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