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| | Era of disappointment ends 375
Mrs Margaret Thatcher's remarkable eleven years as British Prime Minister, which end this week, may have enhanced Britain's reputation in many fields, but not in research. A spell of unconviction politics would be welcome.
doi:10.1038/348375a0
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| | SERC cuts hard to avert �40 million cash crisis 377
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/348377a0
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| | Methyl chloride gas implicated 377
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/348377b0
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| | First European experiment 378
Steven Dickman
doi:10.1038/348378a0
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| | Eastern Europe comes online 378
Steven Dickman
doi:10.1038/348378b0
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| | CERN staff in pay dispute 379
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/348379a0
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| | European society seeks a role 379
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/348379b0
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| | Hubble spotlight on Saturn's storms 379
doi:10.1038/348379c0
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| | Ape import cuts hit research 380
Elizabeth Schaefer
doi:10.1038/348380a0
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| | Maternal transmission at the zoo? 380
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/348380b0
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| | Soviet television to raise AIDS funds 380
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/348380c0
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| | MITI yens for regional aid 381
David Swinbacks
doi:10.1038/348381a0
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| | Controlling the tides 381
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/348381b0
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| | Drug debate expands 382
Christopher Anderson & Peter Coles
doi:10.1038/348382a0
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| | AFRC looks overseas 382
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/348382b0
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| | Coping with copyright 382
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/348382c0
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| | Alar study triggers lawsuit 383
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/348383a0
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| | Freedom for council 383
Tania Ewing
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| | Mum's the word . . . 383
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/348383c0
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| | Students hit jackpot 383
Peter Coles
doi:10.1038/348383d0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | The meaning of Wittgenstein 384
A. J. GREENFIELD
doi:10.1038/348384a0
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| | The meaning of Wittgenstein 384
JOHN C. MARSHALL
doi:10.1038/348384b0
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| | Nowhere for the waste? 384
LASZLO BERES
doi:10.1038/348384c0
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| | Specie not species 384
P. J. SMART
doi:10.1038/348384d0
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| | Cooking in the sunshine 385
'Appropriate technology' is touted as a solution to many of the energy needs of developing countries. A pi lot project to introduce solar ovens in Central America shows one way forward.
Daniel M. Kammen & William F. Lankford
doi:10.1038/348385a0
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| | Cluster arithmetic made simpler 387
Clusters of small numbers of identical atoms are all the rage, but the calculation of their properties taxes even large computers. That is why a simpler method deserves a welcome, but it also has heuristic value.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/348387a0
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| | Why the long latent period? 388
Charles R. M. Bangham & Andrew J. McMichael
doi:10.1038/348388a0
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| | Nanostructured materials 389
Robert W. Cahn
doi:10.1038/348389a0
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| | To the point 390
doi:10.1038/348390a0
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| | Quasi-stable 390
doi:10.1038/348390b0
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| | Face to face 390
doi:10.1038/348390c0
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| | Clicking into decline? 391
John Maynard Smith & Sean Nee
doi:10.1038/348391a0
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| | A fresh start for Mount St Helens 391
R. P.
doi:10.1038/348391b0
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| | How to fuel a hummingbird 392
Jared M. Diamond
doi:10.1038/348392a0
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| | One hand clapping 393
Paul Travers
doi:10.1038/348393a0
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| | Reducing mantle redox options 394
Simon L. Harley & Nicholas W. A. Odling
doi:10.1038/348394a0
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| | Eating people is wrong 395
Paul G. Bahn
doi:10.1038/348395a0
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| | The Galaxy's turbulent youth 395
M. G. Edmunds
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| | Firefighting foam 396
David Jones
doi:10.1038/348396a0
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| | Land use in the Amazon 397
MlGUEL PlNEDO-VASQUEZ, DANIEL ZARIN & PETER JIPP
doi:10.1038/348397a0
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| | Surface areas of unfolded proteins 397
ANDREW J. DOIG, DUDLEY H. WILLIAMS & ROBERT T. SAUER
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| | Population size bottleneck 398
CHRISTOPHER WILLS
doi:10.1038/348398a0
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| | Trouton's rule 398
J. J. ROONEY
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| | More pebbles 398
TOHRU YAZAWA
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| | Machine dilemma 399
Igor Aleksander reviews The Age of Intelligent Machines.
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Raymond Kurzweil
doi:10.1038/348399a0
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| | Escalators to glory 400
Simon Conway Morris reviews Evolutionary Trends
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Kenneth J. McNamara
doi:10.1038/348400a0
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| | Crystals on the map 400
Moreton Moore reviews Historical Atlas of Crystallography
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J. Lima-de-Faria
doi:10.1038/348400b0
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| | Cultural exchange 401
Robert M. Macnab reviews Physiology of the Bacterial Cell: A Molecular Approach
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Frederick C. John L Moselio NeidhartIngrahamSchaechter
doi:10.1038/348401a0
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| | At home on the farm 402
D. M. Broom reviews Domestication: The Decline of Environmental Appreciation
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Helmut Hemmer
doi:10.1038/348402a0
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| | Correlation of solar neutrino modulation with solar cycle variation in p-mode acoustic spectra 403
Lawrence M. Krauss
doi:10.1038/348403a0
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| | Variation of the solar neutrino flux with the Sun's activity 407
J. W. Bieber, D. Seckel, Todor Stanev & G. Steigman
doi:10.1038/348407a0
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| | Atomic structure of a fragment of human CD4 containing two immunoglobulin-like domains 411
Jiahuai Wang, Youwei Yan, Thomas P. J. Garrett, Jinhuan Liu, David W. Rodgers, Robert L. Garlick, George E. Tarr, Yasmin Husain, Ellis L. Reinherz & Stephen C. Harrison
doi:10.1038/348411a0
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| | Crystal structure of an HIV-binding recombinant fragment of human CD4 419
Seong-Eon Ryu, Peter D. Kwong, Alemseged Truneh, Terence G. Porter, James Arthos, Martin Rosenberg, Xiaoping Dai, Nguyen-huu Xuong, Richard Axel, Raymond W. Sweet & Wayne A. Hendrickson
doi:10.1038/348419a0
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| | Entropy production as the selection rule between different growth morphologies 426
Adrian Hill
doi:10.1038/348426a0
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| | Control of product selectivity in the partial oxidation of methane 428
Justin S. J. Hargreaves, Graham J. Hutchings & Richard W. Joyner
doi:10.1038/348428a0
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| | Bulk diffusion of metal particles on ceramic substrates 430
P. L. Gal, B. C. Smith & G. Owen
doi:10.1038/348430a0
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| | Characterization of dissolved organic matter in the Black Sea by fluorescence spectroscopy 432
Paula G. Coble, Sarah A. Green, Neil V. Blough & Robert B. Gagosian
doi:10.1038/348432a0
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| | Intrusive and extrusive growth of the Mount St Helens lava dome 435
Jonathan H. Fink, Michael C. Malin & Steven W. Anderson
doi:10.1038/348435a0
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| | Oxygen fugacity controls in the Earth's upper mantle 437
C. Ballhaus, R. F. Berry & D. H. Green
doi:10.1038/348437a0
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| | Alteration in crossbridge kinetics caused by mutations in actin 440
Douglas R. Drummond, Michelle Peckham, John C. Sparrow & David C. S. White
doi:10.1038/348440a0
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| | Non-vesicular release of glutamate from glial cells by reversed electrogenic glutamate uptake 443
Marek Szatkowski, Boris Barbour & David Attwell
doi:10.1038/348443a0
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| | A nucleoprotein peptide of influenza A virus stimulates assembly of HLA-B27 class I heavy chains and  2-micro-globulin translated in vitro 446
Sune Kvist & Ute Hamann
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| | Genetic evidence equating SRY and the testis-determining factor 448
Philippe Berta, J. Boss Hawkins, Andrew H. Sinclair, Anne Taylor, Beatrice L. Griffiths, Peter N. Goodfellow & Marc Fellous
doi:10.1038/348448a0
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| | Expression of a candidate sex-determining gene during mouse testis differentiation 450
Peter Koopman, Andrea Münsterberg, Blanche Capel, Nigel Vivian & Robin Lovell-Badge
doi:10.1038/348450a0
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| | A human XY female with a frame shift mutation in the candidate testis-determining gene SRY
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Ralf J. Jäger, Maria Anvret, Kerstin Hall & Gerd Scherer
doi:10.1038/348452a0
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| | Fitness of RNA virus decreased by Muller's ratchet 454
Lin Chao
doi:10.1038/348454a0
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| | The mitochondrial chaperonin hsp60 is required for its own assembly 455
Ming Y. Cheng, F.-Ulrich Hartl & Arthur L. Norwich
doi:10.1038/348455a0
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| | Solution structure of the DMA-binding domain of the oestrogen receptor 458
John W. R. Schwabe, David Neuhaus & Daniela Rhodes
doi:10.1038/348458a0
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| | Micropreparative LC of proteins 462
The use of short microbore HPLC columns with different selectivity for the purification of proteins and peptides at the picomole level is discussed.
E. C. Nice
doi:10.1038/348462a0
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| | Separation technology sources 464
DNA extraction cartridges, a dual-purpose electrophoresis/electroblotter unit, and a cytocentrifuge that makes light work of preparing cell monolayers on microscope slides — innovative ideas for separation devices.
doi:10.1038/348464a0
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