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| | Independence of forensic science 95
The third appeal of six people against life sentences imposed 15 years ago raises sombre questions about the management of forensic services, not to mention the quality of British justice.
doi:10.1038/350095a0
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| | Technology untied? 95
Plans to liberalize British telecommunications would be more commendable if they were more radical.
doi:10.1038/350095b0
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| | Women without men 96
A row about the insemination of unmarried women scorns human nature and undervalues human ingenuity.
doi:10.1038/350096a0
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| | Human Frontier effort gets promise from NIH 97
David Swinbanks & Robert Pool
doi:10.1038/350097a0
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| | Does Europe need the LHC? 98
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/350098a0
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| | Smog alert in Kuwait City 98
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/350098b0
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| | Amgen scores a knockout 99
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/350099a0
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| | Innovative ecology exhibits 99
Henry Gee
doi:10.1038/350099b0
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| | Back to the drawing board 100
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/350100a0
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| | Black eye for NIH 100
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/350100b0
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| | Commission bids for power 101
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/350101a0
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| | New CVCP chairman 101
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/350101b0
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| | MITI moves to open patents 102
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/350102a0
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| | Euro-laser plans on ice 102
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/350102b0
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| | AIDS control through cultural heritage 102
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/350102c0
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| | Predicting earthquake risks 103
Elizabeth Schaefer
doi:10.1038/350103a0
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| | Reforms sought from UK Treasury 103
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/350103b0
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| | New building defies the metro 103
Peter Coles
doi:10.1038/350103c0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Complexity still running 104
PETER R. SHELDON
doi:10.1038/350104a0
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| | Origins of AIDS 104
JOHNJOE
McFADDEN
doi:10.1038/350104b0
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| | Genome project 104
S. JOHN
PIRT
doi:10.1038/350104c0
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| | Grants as status 104
NEVILLE W. GOODMAN
doi:10.1038/350104d0
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| | Ordered layers 104
R. BONNETT
doi:10.1038/350104e0
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| | Classical liquid in a box 105
A simulation of a fluid of interacting particles in a box much narrower in one dimension than the other two reveals a curious bimodal density distribution along the short dimension — and provides a telling example of Poisson statistics.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/350105a0
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| | Seeds of a universal tree 106
David Penny & Charles J. O'Kelly
doi:10.1038/350106a0
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| | The resistance movement 107
J. F. Y. Brookfield
doi:10.1038/350107a0
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| | Great balls of fire 108
Stanley Singer
doi:10.1038/350108a0
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| | Absorbing developments 109
M. C. W. Evans & J. H. A. Nugent
doi:10.1038/350109a0
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| | Not with a whimper 110
Leo Blitz
doi:10.1038/350110a0
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| | Making just the right match 111
Peter Parham
doi:10.1038/350111a0
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| | Solvent solution 112
doi:10.1038/350112a0
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| | Bated breath 112
doi:10.1038/350112b0
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| | Sweet success 112
doi:10.1038/350112c0
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| | Fashioning wet-look latex 112
Philip Ball
doi:10.1038/350112d0
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| | Salvador E. Luria (1912−1991) 113
JAMES D. WATSON
doi:10.1038/350113a0
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| | As quick as a flash 114
Paul Calvert
doi:10.1038/350114a0
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| | Food on the hop 114
David Jones
doi:10.1038/350114b0
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| | Deficiency in red blood cells 115
DONALD
MACDONALD
, MARGARET
TOWN
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MASON
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VULLIAMY
, Lucio
LUZZATTO
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doi:10.1038/350115a0
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KURT
LAMBECK
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NAKADA
doi:10.1038/350115b0
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| | Another recipe for bomb 14C dilution 116
GREG H. RAU
doi:10.1038/350116a0
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| | Disease of war 117
Alastair Hay reviews Preventing a Biological Arms Race
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Susan Wright
doi:10.1038/350117a0
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| | Mostly about aluminium 118
Robert W. Cahn reviews R&D for Industry − A Century of Technical Innovation at Alcoa
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Margaret B. W. Graham & Bettye H. Pruitt
doi:10.1038/350118a0
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| | Multiple scanning probes 118
Graham Dunn reviews Confocal Microscopy
Edited by
T. Wilson
doi:10.1038/350118b0
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| | Inscrutable matter 119
John L. Friedman reviews Black Holes and the Universe
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Igor Novikov
doi:10.1038/350119a0
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| | Growing pains 120
Stuart Sutherland reviews Human Change Processes: The Scientific Foundations of Psychotherapy
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Michael J. Mahoney
doi:10.1038/350120a0
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| | Enzyme catalysis: not different, just better 121
Jeremy R. Knowles
doi:10.1038/350121a0
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| | Geodetic determination of tectonic deformation in central Greece from 1900 to 1988 124
H. Billiris, D. Paradissis, G. Veis, P. England, W. Featherstone, B. Parsons, P. Cross, P. Rands, M. Rayson, P. Sellers, V. Ashkenazi, M. Davison, J. Jackson & N. Ambraseys
doi:10.1038/350124a0
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| | Three-dimensional structure of plant light-harvesting complex determined by electron crystallography 130
Werner K¨hlbrandt & Da Neng Wang
doi:10.1038/350130a0
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| | Iron distribution in the intracluster gas of the Virgo cluster of galaxies 135
Katsuji Koyama, Shiro Takano & Yuzuru Tawara
doi:10.1038/350135a0
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| | Irradiation-driven mass transfer in low-mass X-ray binaries 136
Ph. Podsiadlowski
doi:10.1038/350136a0
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| | Plasma fireballs formed by microwave interference in air 139
Y. H. Ohtsuki & H. Ofuruton
doi:10.1038/350139a0
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| | The 154-day and related periodicities of solar activity as subharmonics of a fundamental period 141
T. Bai & P. A. Sturrock
doi:10.1038/350141a0
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| | Latex elastomer with a permanently hydrophilic surface 143
Isao Noda
doi:10.1038/350143a0
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| | Ice-core record of oceanic emissions of dimethylsulphide during the last climate cycle 144
M. Legrand, C. Feniet-Saigne, E. S. Sattzman, C. Germain, N. I. Barkov & V. N. Petrov
doi:10.1038/350144a0
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| | Amelioration of subsoil acidity by application of a coal-derived calcium fulvate to the soil surface 146
H. v. H. van der Watt, R. O. Barnard, I. J. Cronje, J. Dekker, G. J. B. Croft & Maria M. van der Walt
doi:10.1038/350146a0
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| | Cryptomonad algae are evolutionary chimaeras of two phylogenetically distinct unicellular eukaryotes 148
Susan E. Douglas, Colleen A. Murphy, David F. Spencer & Michael W. Gray
doi:10.1038/350148a0
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| | Worldwide migration of amplified insecticide resistance genes in mosquitoes 151
Michel Raymond, Amanda Callaghan, Philippe Fort & Nicole Pasteur
doi:10.1038/350151a0
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| | Action potentials must admit calcium to evoke transmitter release 153
Rosel M. Mulkey & Robert S. Zucker
doi:10.1038/350153a0
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| | Nature of the motor element in electrokinetic shape changes of cochlear outer hair cells 155
Peter Dallos, Burt N. Evans & Richard Hallworth
doi:10.1038/350155a0
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| | Tyrosine phosphorylation and tyrosine kinase activity of the trk proto-oncogene product induced by NGF 158
David R. Kaplan, Dionisio Martin-Zanca & Luis F. Parada
doi:10.1038/350158a0
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| | A cellular protein that competes with SV40 T antigen for binding to the retinoblastoma gene product 160
Shi Huang, Wen-Hwa Lee & Eva Y.-H. P. Lee
doi:10.1038/350160a0
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| | Alternative temporal control systems for hypodermal cell differentiation in Caenorhabditis elegans
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Zhongchi Liu & Victor Ambros
doi:10.1038/350162a0
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| | Function of DnaJ and DnaK as chaperones in origin-specific DNA binding by RepA 165
Sue Wickner, Joel Hoskins & Keith McKenney
doi:10.1038/350165a0
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| | Structural architecture of an outer membrane channel as determined by electron crystallography 167
B. K. Jap, P. J. Walian & K. Gehring
doi:10.1038/350167a0
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| | A haemoprotein with kinase activity encoded by the oxygen sensor of Rhizobium meliloti
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Marie A. Gilles-Gonzalez, Gary S. Ditta & Donald R. Helinski
doi:10.1038/350170a0
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| | Single-site enzymatic cleavage of yeast genomic DNA mediated by triple helix formation 172
Scott A. Strobel & Peter B. Dervan
doi:10.1038/350172a0
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| | Meteoritic silicon carbide: pristine material from carbon stars 174
Roy S. Lewis, Sachiko Amari & Edward Anders
doi:10.1038/350174a0
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