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| | Lessons of the hundred-hour war 1
The ground phase of the Gulf War began and ended in less than one turbulent week, leaving a crop of loose ends that need urgently to be sewn together.
doi:10.1038/350001a0
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| | Vitamin quotient 2
The claim that vitamin supplements increase the IQ of growing children is arresting, but unproven.
doi:10.1038/350002a0
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| | Education in science 3
Academic scientists keen to help with the school curriculum should look closer to home.
doi:10.1038/350003a0
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| | US students not taking the Japanese bait 4
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/350004a0
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| | First vache folle
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Peter Coles
doi:10.1038/350004b0
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| | Moratorium in South Africa 4
Michael Cherry
doi:10.1038/350004c0
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| | IQ data controversy 5
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/350005a0
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| | Stanford initiative 5
Robert Pool
doi:10.1038/350005b0
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| | Cetus retains PCR patents 6
Elizabeth Schaefer
doi:10.1038/350006a0
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| | US science OK 6
doi:10.1038/350006b0
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| | Education under threat 6
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/350006c0
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| | Get academics into the boardroom 7
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/350007a0
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| | What's in it for science? 7
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/350007b0
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| | Lords look for culprits 8
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/350008a0
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| | World's first MS unit 8
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/350008b0
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| | Moneysaving measures 8
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/350008c0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Wittgenstein's paranoia 9
J. R. SMYTHIES
doi:10.1038/350009a0
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| | So what's new? 9
STEVEN HENIKOFF & ROBERT LEVIS
doi:10.1038/350009b0
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| | New money 9
ROBERT J. YAES
doi:10.1038/350009c0
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| | Duesberg on AIDS and HIV 10
PETER H. DUESBERG
doi:10.1038/350010a0
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| | Apart from that... 10
WILLIAM A. HASELTINE
doi:10.1038/350010b0
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| | Feel the draft 10
J.-F. FONCIN
doi:10.1038/350010c0
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| | Radiation doses 10
J. H. FREMLIN
doi:10.1038/350010d0
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| | Environmental impact of fires in Kuwait 11
The deliberate firing of the Kuwaiti oil wells by the Iraqis is an act of gross environmental vandalism. But the likely impacts on the climate have been exaggerated.
Richard D. Small
doi:10.1038/350011a0
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| | A dose of vitamins and a pinch of salt 13
The study, published last week, purporting to show that children's IQ can be increased by dietary supplements, is an unhappy piece of work. The association could well be due to chance.
Steve Blinkhorn
doi:10.1038/350013a0
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| | Flux lines on video holograms 14
David Caplin
doi:10.1038/350014a0
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| | We may not have a morphogen 15
Jeremy Brockes
doi:10.1038/350015a0
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| | Turning on and turning off the sense of smell 16
Brian Burchell
doi:10.1038/350016a0
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| | Action replay for fracture 17
Teng-fong Wong
doi:10.1038/350017a0
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| | Resetting the human clock 18
A. T. Win free
doi:10.1038/350018a0
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| | Iron determinations 19
Philippa Lloyd
doi:10.1038/350019a0
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| | Aromaticity revisited 20
Patrick Fowler
doi:10.1038/350020a0
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| | Light at the end of the tunnel 21
M. R. Beasley
doi:10.1038/350021a0
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| | Colour coding 21
doi:10.1038/350021b0
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| | Cool for clouds 21
doi:10.1038/350021c0
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| | Out of sequence 21
doi:10.1038/350021d0
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| | Radical copper in oxidases 22
A. J. Thomson
doi:10.1038/350022a0
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| | How to live like a mammal 23
Paul H. Harvey & Sean Nee
doi:10.1038/350023a0
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| | Safe houses 24
David Jones
doi:10.1038/350024a0
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| | Scientific Correspondence | |
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| | Pollution and the Persian Gulf 25
MARTIN BOHLE-CARBONELL
doi:10.1038/350025a0
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| | Radiation doses and cancer 25
ALEXANDER SHLYAKHTER & RICHARD WILSON
doi:10.1038/350025b0
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| | Current record in superconductors 26
J. W. EKIN, K. SALAMA & V. SELVAMANICKAM
doi:10.1038/350026a0
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| | Gas hazard on Vulcano Island 26
B. BADALAMENTI, S. GURRIERI, P.M. Nuccio & M. VELENZA
doi:10.1038/350026b0
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| | Gas hazard on Vulcano Island 27
J. C. BAUBRON, P. ALLARD & J.-P. TOUTAIN
doi:10.1038/350027a0
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| | Fetal clues to handedness 27
RICHARD DRYDEN
doi:10.1038/350027b0
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| | Delayed density-dependence 28
ILKKA HANSKI & IAN W.OIWOD
doi:10.1038/350028a0
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| | DNA damage in the Antarctic 28
SENEB KARENTZ, JAMES E. CLEAVER & DAVID L. MITCHELL
doi:10.1038/350028b0
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| | Footnote to history 29
Brian Pippard reviews Too Hot to Handle: The Race for Cold Fusion
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Frank Close
doi:10.1038/350029a0
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| | Quantum leap? 30
A. Rupert Hall reviews Science, Optics and Music in Medieval and Early Modern Thought.
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A. C. Crombie
doi:10.1038/350030a0
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| | Just words 30
J. R. Ravetz reviews The Rhetoric of Science.
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Alan G. Gross
doi:10.1038/350030b0
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| | Man of courage 31
Nevill Mott reviews Kapitza in Cambridge and Moscow.
Edited by
J. W. Boag, P. E. Rubinin & D. Schoenberg
doi:10.1038/350031a0
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| | A latter day green Penguin 32
John A. Campbell reviews Hermes and the Golden Thinking Machine.
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Alexander Tzonis
doi:10.1038/350032a0
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| | Long-term study 32
T.C. Whitmore reviews Four Neotropical Rain Forests
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Alwyn H. Gentry
doi:10.1038/350032b0
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| | The evolution of mating preferences and the paradox of the lek 33
Mark Kirkpatrick & Michael J. Ryan
doi:10.1038/350033a0
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| | Quasi-static fault growth and shear fracture energy in granite 39
D. A. Lockner, J. D. Byerlee, V. Kuksenko, A. Ponomarev & A. Sidorin
doi:10.1038/350039a0
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| | Letters | |
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| | Black holes and structure in an oscillating universe 43
William C. Saslaw
doi:10.1038/350043a0
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| | Radial filamentary structure in a sunspot umbra 45
W. Livingston
doi:10.1038/350045a0
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| | Experimental and theoretical determination of the magnetic susceptibility of C60 and C70
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R. C. Haddon, L. F. Schneemeyer, J. V. Waszczak, S. H. Glarum, R. Tycko, G. Dabbagh, A. R. Kortan, A. J. Muller, A. M. Mujsce, M. J. Rosseinsky, S. M. Zahurak, A. V. Makhija, F. A. Thiel, K. Raghavachari, E. Cockayne & V. Elser
doi:10.1038/350046a0
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| | Structure of the upper ocean in the western equatorial Pacific 48
K. J. Richards & R. T. Pollard
doi:10.1038/350048a0
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| | Spatial variability in the sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide in the North Atlantic 50
Andrew J. Watson, C. Robinson, J. E. Robinson, P. J. le B. Williams & M. J. R. Fasham
doi:10.1038/350050a0
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| | Importance of continental margins in the marine biogeochemical cycling of carbon and nitrogen 53
John J. Walsh
doi:10.1038/350053a0
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| | Intermittent layered convection in a model mantle with an endothermic phase change at 670 km 55
Philippe Machetel & Patrice Weber
doi:10.1038/350055a0
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| | What does it cost a plant to produce floral nectar? 58
Graham H. Pyke
doi:10.1038/350058a0
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| | Light-induced suppression of endogenous circadian amplitude in humans 59
Megan E. Jewett, Richard E. Kronauer & Charles A. Czeisler
doi:10.1038/350059a0
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| | Enhancement of T-cell responsiveness by the lymphocyte-specific tyrosine protein kinase p56
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Ninan Abraham, M. Carrie Miceli, Jane R. Parnes & André Veillette
doi:10.1038/350062a0
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| | A discrete sequence in a platelet integrin is involved in ligand recognition 66
Stanley E. D'Souza, Mark H. Ginsberg, Gary R. Matsueda & Edward F. Plow
doi:10.1038/350066a0
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1-integrin activity on developing retinal neurons 68
K. M. Neugebauer & L. F. Rekhardt
doi:10.1038/350068a0
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| | A deficiency of the homeotic complex of the beetle Tribolium
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Jeffrey J. Stuart, Susan J. Brown, Richard W. Beeman & Robin E. Denell
doi:10.1038/350072a0
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| | Pituitary hyperplasia and gigantism in mice caused by a cholera toxin transgene 74
Frank H. Burton, Karl W. Hasel, Floyd E. Bloom & J. Gregor Sutcliffe
doi:10.1038/350074a0
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| | Restoration by a 35K membrane protein of peroxisome assembly in a peroxisome-deficient mammalian cell mutant 77
Toshiro Tsukamoto, Satoshi Miura & Yukio Fujiki
doi:10.1038/350077a0
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| | Conversion by retinoic acid of anterior cells into ZPA cells in the chick wing bud 81
N. Wanek, D. M. Gardiner, K. Muneoka & S. V. Bryant
doi:10.1038/350081a0
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| | Retinoic acid induces polarizing activity but is unlikely to be a morphogen in the chick limb bud 83
Sumihare Noji, Tsutomu Nohno, Eiki Koyama, Kohki Muto, Kazuhiko Ohyama, Yoshinobu Aoki, Koji Tamura, Kojune Ohsugi, Hiroyuki Ide, Shigehiko Taniguchi & Taiichi Saito
doi:10.1038/350083a0
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| | Novel thioether bond revealed by a 1.7 Å crystal structure of galactose oxidase 87
Nobutoshi Ito, Simon E. V. Phillips, Conrad Stevens, Zumrut B. Ogel, Michael J. McPherson, Jeffery N. Keen, Kapil D. S. Yadav & Peter F. Knowles
doi:10.1038/350087a0
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| | Orbits of shepherd satellites deduced from the structure of the rings of Uranus 90
Carl D. Murray & Robert P. Thompson
doi:10.1038/350090a0
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| | Nucleic acid sequence-based amplification 91
Nucleic acid sequence-based amplification (NASBA) is a primer-dependent technology that can be used for the continuous amplification of nucleic acids in a single mixture at one temperature.
J. Compton
doi:10.1038/350091a0
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A mouse mutagenesis assay system, a gel-digesting enzyme for DNA/RNA recovery and a handy electroporation device are a selection of this week's supplies and equipment for the molecular biologist.
doi:10.1038/350092a0
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