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| | Mikhail Gorbachev's tightest corner 639
This week and those immediately ahead should see at least some decisions made, or alternatively taken by default, about the future of the Soviet Union and its leader, Mr Mikhail Gorbachev.
doi:10.1038/350639a0
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| | Soft on software 640
Europe, which plans to protect software against piracy, should now give some thought to those who buy it.
doi:10.1038/350640a0
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| | Cholera marches on 640
The outbreak of cholera in northwestern South America could cast a long shadow on the world.
doi:10.1038/350640b0
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| | Compromise averts Framework fiasco 641
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/350641a0
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| | Setting up shop in Brussels 641
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/350641b0
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| | Nuffield takes the lead on bioethics 641
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/350641c0
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| | Cuts coming on overheads 642
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/350642a0
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| | Court puts rules in question 642
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/350642b0
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| | Italy looks to next supernova 643
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/350643a0
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| | Europe in the vanguard? 643
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/350643b0
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| | A foray into red tape 644
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/350644a0
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| | Questions on drug pact 645
Seth Shulman
doi:10.1038/350645a0
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| | EC row looms over patents 645
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/350645b0
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| | Census sex puzzle 645
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/350645c0
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| | Saving the shark 645
Michael Cherry
doi:10.1038/350645d0
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| | Computerized grants project is unveiled 646
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/350646a0
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| | Electronic review: mixed messages 646
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/350646b0
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| | Satellite aids sore fingers 647
Steven Dickman
doi:10.1038/350647a0
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| | Gaussian curve graces banknote 647
Steven Dickman
doi:10.1038/350647b0
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| | Two views of the new Germany 648
FALK KOENEMANN
doi:10.1038/350648a0
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| | Two views of the new Germany 648
RUDOLF VRBA
doi:10.1038/350648b0
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| | Does climate still matter? 649
We may be discovering climate as it becomes less important to well-being. A range of technologies appears to have lessened the vulnerability of human societies to climate variation.
Jesse H. Ausubel
doi:10.1038/350649a0
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| | Is Darwinism a thermodynamic necessity? 653
The concept of fitness has helped evolutionists avoid the accusation of tautology, but there is a case for asking that the notion should be defined in operational terms as well as by its consequences.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/350653a0
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| | Running rings around supernova 1987A 654
Ph. Podsiadlowski
doi:10.1038/350654a0
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| | Bermuda stretches a point 655
Randall M. Richardson
doi:10.1038/350655a0
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| | Notes from underground 656
doi:10.1038/350656a0
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| | Tail tales 656
doi:10.1038/350656b0
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| | Gender gap 656
doi:10.1038/350656c0
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| | Light on molecular recognition 656
Robert Kaiser, Tim Hunkapiller & Leroy Hood
doi:10.1038/350656d0
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| | Tampering with transcription 658
Gary J. Nabel
doi:10.1038/350658a0
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| | Glasses come to order 659
Raymond Jeanloz & Quentin Williams
doi:10.1038/350659a0
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trking neurotrophic receptors 660
Cliff Ragsdale & Jim Woodgett
doi:10.1038/350660a0
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| | The moment of truth nears 661
Richard D. Petrasso
doi:10.1038/350661a0
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| | Dead Heat 662
David Jones
doi:10.1038/350662a0
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| | Underflying Brilliant Pebbles 663
DAVID C. WRIGHT & LISBETH GRONLUND
doi:10.1038/350663a0
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| | Is C60 stiffer than diamond? 663
RODNEY S. RUOFF & ARTHUR L. RUOFF
doi:10.1038/350663b0
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| | Plastid genes and parasitic plants 664
ROGER M. WALLSGROVE
doi:10.1038/350664a0
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| | Muscle damage in mdx mice 664
M. J. JACKSON, A. McARDLE, R. H. T. EDWARDS & D. A. JONES
doi:10.1038/350664b0
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| | They also serve 665
William H. Press reviews The Joy of Insight: Passions of a Physicist
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Victor Weisskopf
doi:10.1038/350665a0
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| | Molecular oncology 666
Antony J. Michalski reviews Genes and Cancer
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Desmond Carney, Karol Sikora & Jeffrey Crossman
doi:10.1038/350666a0
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| | Awaiting tests 666
Neil Turok reviews Particle Physics and Inflationary Cosmology
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Andrei D. Linde
doi:10.1038/350666b0
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| | Central player 667
Richard I. Gumport reviews Nucleic Acids in Chemistry and Biology
Edited by
G. Michael Blackburn & Michael J. Gait
doi:10.1038/350667a0
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| | Falling victim to politics 668
Stuart L. Pimm reviews The Expendable Future: US Politics and the Protection of Biological Diversity
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Richard Tobin
doi:10.1038/350668a0
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| | Food web patterns and their consequences 669
Stuart L. Pimm, John H. Lawton & Joel E. Cohen
doi:10.1038/350669a0
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| | Medium-range order in the cation distribution of a calcium silicate glass 675
P. H. Gaskell, M. C. Eckersley, A. C. Barnes & P. Chieux
doi:10.1038/350675a0
Abstract & References | PDF (347K)
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| | High-affinity NGF binding requires coexpression of the trk proto-oncogene and the low-affinity NGF receptor 678
Barbara L. Hempstead, Dionisio Martin-Zanca, David R. Kaplan, Luis F. Parada & Moses V. Chao
doi:10.1038/350678a0
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| | Velocity structure of the ring nebula around supernova 1987A 683
Arlin P. S. Crotts & Stephen R. Heathcote
doi:10.1038/350683a0
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| | The physical state of the intergalactic medium 685
X. Barcons, A. C. Fabian & M. J. Rees
doi:10.1038/350685a0
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| | A nearby 37.9-ms radio pulsar in a relativistic binary system 688
A. Wolszczan
doi:10.1038/350688a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (329K)
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| | Anomalous neutron scattering near the superconducting phase transition 690
N. R. Bernhoeft, P. J. Allen, D. McK. Paul, S. M. Hayden, P. A. Timmins & G. G. Lonzarich
doi:10.1038/350690a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (380K)
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| | Low organic carbon accumulation rates in Black Sea sediments 692
S. E. Calvert, R. E. Karlin, L. J. Toolin, D. J. Donahue, J. R. Southon & J. S. Vogel
doi:10.1038/350692a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (406K)
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| | Prospects for eruption prediction in near real-time 695
Barry Voight & Reinold R. Cornelius
doi:10.1038/350695a0
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| | A fossil smut fungus from the anthers of an Eocene angiosperm 698
R. S. Currah & R. A. Stockey
doi:10.1038/350698a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (465K)
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| | Perceptual filling in of artificially induced scotomas in human vision 699
V. S. Ramachandran & R. L. Gregory
doi:10.1038/350699a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (1,156K)
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| | Peptide selection by MHC class I molecules 703
Ton N. M. Schumacher, Marloes L. H. De Bruijn, Leen N. Vernie, W. Martin Kast, Cornelis J. M. Melief, Jacques J. Neefjes & Hidde L. Ploegh
doi:10.1038/350703a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (771K)
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| | Enhancement of T-cell activation by the CD43 molecule whose expression is defective in Wiskott−Aldrich syndrome 706
John K. Park, Yvonne J. Rosenstein, Eileen Remold-O'Donnell, Barbara E. Bierer, Fred S. Rosen & Steven J. Burakoff
doi:10.1038/350706a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (600K)
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| | HIV enhancer activity perpetuated by NF- B induction on infection of monocytes 709
F. Bachelerie, J. Alcami, F. Arenzana-Seisdedos & J-L. Virelizier
doi:10.1038/350709a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (591K)
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| | Regulation of cellular responsiveness to inductive signals in the developing C. elegans nervous system 712
David A. Waring & Cynthia Kenyon
doi:10.1038/350712a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (496K)
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Eric Bailly, Mary McCaffrey, Nicolas Touchot, Ahmed Zahraoui, Bruno Goud & Michel Bornens
doi:10.1038/350715a0
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| | Inhibition of telomerase by G-quartet DMA structures 718
Alan M. Zahler, James R. Williamson, Thomas R. Cech & David M. Prescott
doi:10.1038/350718a0
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