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| | When will the Gulf War be over? 363
The shooting may have stopped on the border between Iraq and Kuwait, but the prospects for lasting stability in the Middle East seem remote. The region needs a demonstration that hopeful developments are possible.
doi:10.1038/350363a0
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| | US plans to rescue materials research 365
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/350365a0
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| | UK medical guidelines proposed 365
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/350365b0
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| | Good news, for a change 366
Steven Dickman
doi:10.1038/350366a0
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| | 'Now it seems this whole enterprise is about to fail' 366
doi:10.1038/350366b0
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| | Where angels fear to tread... 367
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/350367a0
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| | A Bill of Rights for fruit and vegetables? 367
Diana Steele
doi:10.1038/350367b0
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| | Deforestation rate is falling 368
Ricardo Bonalume
doi:10.1038/350368a0
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| | From mine camp to laboratory 368
Ricardo Bonalume
doi:10.1038/350368b0
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| | First maternal transmission? 368
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/350368c0
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| | ICL expelled from JESSI projects 368
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/350368d0
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| | Starting again from scratch 369
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/350369a0
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| | Palestinians may be barred from courses 369
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/350369b0
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| | The growth of British science 370
TERENCE KEALEY
doi:10.1038/350370a0
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| | Bayesian reasoning in science 371
Bayesian scientific reasoning has a sound foundation in logic and provides a unified approach to the evaluation of deterministic and statistical theories, unlike its main rivals.
Colin Howson & Peter Urbach
doi:10.1038/350371a0
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| | The education of the very young 375
Nature offers itself as a clearing-house for news and information about projects aimed at the improvement of education in elementary and secondary schools, now back in fashion.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/350375a0
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| | Young Earth like Venus? 376
Stuart Ross Taylor
doi:10.1038/350376a0
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| | Telling changes of base 377
Adrian L. Harris
doi:10.1038/350377a0
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| | Microtubules get the chop 378
Peter J. Hollenbeck & William L. Dentler
doi:10.1038/350378a0
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| | Obituary: Edwin Herbert Land (1909-1991) 379
J. D. Mollon
doi:10.1038/350379a0
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| | Methane's sinks and sources 380
Paul J. Crutzen
doi:10.1038/350380a0
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| | Peeled or MASHed? 381
Rosemary Hickey-Vargas
doi:10.1038/350381a0
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| | Ancient Britons in blue 382
Paul G. Bahn
doi:10.1038/350382a0
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| | The cost of being a bat 383
Jeremy M. V. Rayner
doi:10.1038/350383a0
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| | Copying connection 383
doi:10.1038/350383b0
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| | Breathless 383
doi:10.1038/350383c0
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| | Ends and means 383
doi:10.1038/350383d0
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| | Diamond mill 384
David Jones
doi:10.1038/350384a0
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| | Warming in the Arctic 385
DETLEF QUADFASEL, ALEXANDER SY, DOUGALD WELLS & ALFRED TUNIK
doi:10.1038/350385a0
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| | Clonal defence 385
MICHEL TIBAYRENC, FINN KJELLBERG & FRANCISCO J. AYALA
doi:10.1038/350385b0
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| | Sea-level rise and earthquakes 386
ROGER BILHAM & SERGIO BARRIENTOS
doi:10.1038/350386a0
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| | Human influence on river nitrogen 386
BENJAMIN L. PEIERLS, NINA F. CARACO, MICHAEL L. PACE & JONATHAN J. COLE
doi:10.1038/350386b0
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| | DNA finger-printing in India 387
APARUP DAS
doi:10.1038/350387a0
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| | Extraterrestrial synthesis 387
STANLEY L. MILLER & JEFFREY L. BADA
doi:10.1038/350387b0
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EVERETT L. SHOCK & MITCHELL D. SCHULTE
doi:10.1038/350388a0
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| | On space conservation 389
William J. Lennarz reviews Biochemistry
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Donald Voet & Judith G. Voet
doi:10.1038/350389a0
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| | Forensic anthropology 389
M. A. Green reviews Witness from the Grave: The Stories Bones Tell
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Christopher Joyce & Eric Stover
doi:10.1038/350389b0
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| | A symbiotic relationship 390
Demosthenes Kazanas reviews Cosmic Rays and Particle Physics
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Thomas K. Gaisser
doi:10.1038/350390a0
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| | The Great Attractor: do galaxies trace the large-scale mass distribution? 391
Alan Dressler
doi:10.1038/350391a0
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| | Primary structure and functional expression from complementary DNA of a brain calcium channel 398
Yasuo Mori, Thomas Friedrich, Man-Suk Kim, Atsushi Mikami, Junichi Nakai, Peter Ruth, Eva Bosse, Franz Hofmann, Veit Flockerzi, Teiichi Furuichi, Katsuhiko Mikoshiba, Keiji Imoto, Tsutomu Tanabe & Shosaku Numa
doi:10.1038/350398a0
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| | Constraints on r-process nucleosynthesis in accretion disks 403
Liping Jin
doi:10.1038/350403a0
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| | Spectral transformation of the unusual variable star MWC560 to resemble a nova 404
Stephen P. Maran, Andrew G. Michalitsianos, Ronald J. Oliversen & George Sonneborn
doi:10.1038/350404a0
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| | New measurement of the rate coefficient for the reaction of OH with methane 406
Ghanshyam L. Vaghjiani & A. R. Ravishankara
doi:10.1038/350406a0
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| | Effects of ice coverage and ice-rafted material on sedimentation in the Fram Strait 409
Dierk Hebbeln & Gerold Wefer
doi:10.1038/350409a0
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| | Mixing-layer distortion at the confluence of channels of different depth 411
James L. Best & André G. Roy
doi:10.1038/350411a0
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| | Microbial reduction of uranium 413
Derek R. Lovley, Elizabeth J. P. Phillips, Yuri A. Gorby & Edward R. Landa
doi:10.1038/350413a0
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| | Evidence for volcanic eruption on the southern Juan de Fuca ridge between 1981 and 1987 416
William W. Chadwick Jr, Robert W. Embley & Christopher G. Fox
doi:10.1038/350416a0
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| | Late Quaternary extinct ungulates of East Africa and palaeoenvironmental implications 418
Curtis W. Marean & Diane Gifford-Gonzalez
doi:10.1038/350418a0
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| | No cost of echolocation for bats in flight 421
J. R. Speakman & P. A. Racey
doi:10.1038/350421a0
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| | A B cell-deficient mouse by targeted disruption of the membrane exon of the immunoglobulin  chain gene 423
Daisuke Kitamura, Jürgen Roes, Ralf Kühn & Klaus Rajewsky
doi:10.1038/350423a0
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| | Mutational hot spot in the p53 gene in human hepatocellular carcinomas 427
I. C. Hsu, R. A. Metcalf, T. Sun, J. A. Welsh, N. J. Wang & C. C. Harris
doi:10.1038/350427a0
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| | Selective G to T mutations of p53 gene in hepatocellular carcinoma from southern Africa 429
Brigitte Bressac, Michael Kew, Jack Wands & Mehmet Ozturk
doi:10.1038/350429a0
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with polyoma virus middle-T antigen abrogating mitosis-specific activation 431
Stefanie Kaech, Lidija Covic, Adrian Wyss & Kurt Ballmer-Hofer
doi:10.1038/350431a0
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| | A pseudoknot-like structure required for efficient self-cleavage of hepatitis delta virus RNA 434
Anne T. Perrotta & Michael D. Been
doi:10.1038/350434a0
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| | A mediator required for activation of RNA polymerase II transcription in vitro
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Peter M. Flanagan, Raymond J. Kelleher III, Michael H. Sayre, Herbert Tschochner & Roger D. Kornberg
doi:10.1038/350436a0
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| | Blocking of Tat-dependent HIV-1 RNA modification by an inhibitor of RNA polymerase II processivity 439
Martin Braddock, Andrew M. Thorburn, Alan J. Kingsman & Susan M. Kingsman
doi:10.1038/350439a0
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| | Oligonucleotide-based therapeutics 442
Oligonucleotide analogues offer several mechanisms for potential therapeutic action; triple helix agents that inhibit disease-causing genes at the DNA level show particular promise.
Michael L. Riordan & John C. Martin
doi:10.1038/350442a0
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| | Nucleotides and peptides 443
A new reagent for on-column biotinylation of oligonucleotides, a neurotoxic peptide antagonist at brain NMDA receptors and systems for multiple peptide synthesis are included in this week's review.
doi:10.1038/350443a0
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