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| | Many catastrophes too many 171
The concatenation of human catastrophes in the past few months has found the world unable or unwilling to deal with them: does realism suggest they are beyond aid?
doi:10.1038/351171a0
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| | US getting little help in funding the SSC 173
Robert Pool
doi:10.1038/351173a0
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| | Flowers, opera and art 173
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/351173b0
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| | Spat over Gulf War windfall 174
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/351174a0
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| | Magellan gets set to fill in Venus's gaps 174
Roland Pease
doi:10.1038/351174b0
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| | Door opens for national labs 175
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/351175a0
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| | National lab researchers dissatisfied 175
D. S.
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| | An economic case for environmental cooperation
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Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/351175c0
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| | Hazards of risk assessment 176
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/351176a0
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| | Europe woos Japan 177
Peter Aldhous & David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/351177a0
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| | Early flight pioneer commemorated 177
Steven Dickman
doi:10.1038/351177b0
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| | Alvey lessons unheeded 178
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/351178a0
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| | Bones go home 178
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/351178b0
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| | Correspondence |  |
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| | A universal Hamlet? 179
E. ELOMAA
doi:10.1038/351179a0
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| | A universal Hamlet? 179
EMMANUEL T. RAKITZIS
doi:10.1038/351179b0
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| | Origin of AIDS 179
G. LECATSAS
doi:10.1038/351179c0
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| | Misuse of words 179
FRIEDRICH KATSCHER
doi:10.1038/351179d0
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| | News and Views |  |
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| | Margot O'Toole's record of events 180
The Baltimore saga continues. These excerpts from Dr Margot OToole's comments on the recent draft report by the US NIH's Office of Scientific Integrity contradict at several points last week's statement by Dr David Baltimore.
Margot O'Toole
doi:10.1038/351180a0
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| | Oddballs from the Cambrian start to get even 184
Stefan Bengtson
doi:10.1038/351184a0
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| | Binding by design 185
Dagmar Ringe
doi:10.1038/351185a0
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| | No change down under 186
W. H. Berger
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| | Movement on two fronts 187
Richard Vallee
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| | Consider the coiled coil 188
Henry R. Bourne
doi:10.1038/351188a0
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| | Seeing through the fruits of deception 189
Peter D. Moore
doi:10.1038/351189a0
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| | Dead right 190
doi:10.1038/351190a0
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| | Size is important 190
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| | Ring ratings 190
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| | Slow-motion galactic birth 191
Joseph Silk
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| | Iceland melting dynamics 191
Rob Ellam
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| | Desert shield 192
David Jones
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| | Scientific Correspondence |  |
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| | Dispersal via whale bones 193
D. M. MARTILL, A. R. I. CRUICKSHANK & M. A. TAYLOR
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| | Human circadian rhythms 193
RICHARD E. KRONAUER, MEGAN E. JEWETT & CHARLES A. CZEISLER
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| | The right way 193
Z. F. LIU, K. HASHIMOTO & A. FUJISHIMA
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| | Mitochondrial base prediction 194
ABDELLATIF EL MEZIANE & HOWARD T. JACOBS
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| | Clues to action of cdc25 protein 194
SERGIO MORENO & PAUL NURSE
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| | Conscious or unconscious? 194
BENJAMIN LIBET
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| | FK506 and protein kinase C 195
MAXIMILIAN TROPSCHUG & RENATE HOFMANN
doi:10.1038/351195a0
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| | Lake Nyos dam threat 195
JOHN P. LOCKWOOD & ROBERT L SCHUSTER
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| | Hominid dental development 196
A. D. BEYNON & M. C. DEAN
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| | Book Reviews |  |
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| | Telling tails 197
D. E Brownlee reviews Physics and Chemistry of Comets
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W. F. Heubner
doi:10.1038/351197a0
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| | Growing old gracefully 198
Linda Partridge reviews Longevity, Senescence and the Genome
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Caleb E. Finch
doi:10.1038/351198a0
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| | A hero's fight 199
Barbara J. Culliton reviews Beyond Love
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Dominique Lapierre
doi:10.1038/351199a0
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| | Sketches of science 199
James C. G. Walker reviews Chemical Evolution: Origin of the Elements, Molecules and Living Systems
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Stephen F. Mason
doi:10.1038/351199b0
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| | Memory's Holy Grail 200
Stuart Sutherland reviews
doi:10.1038/351200a0
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| | Articles |  |
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| | Dynamic melting of the Iceland plume 201
T. R. Elliott, C. J. Hawkesworth & K. Grönvold
doi:10.1038/351201a0
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| | Two different microtubule-based motor activities with opposite polarities in kinetochores 206
Anthony A. Hyman & Timothy J. Mitchison
doi:10.1038/351206a0
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| | Letters |  |
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| | Evidence from stellar abundances for a large age difference between two globular clusters 212
R. J. Dickens, B. F. W. Croke, R. D. Cannon & R. A. Bell
doi:10.1038/351212a0
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| | A hot gas model for iron-line X-ray emission from the rapidly varying Seyfert galaxy NGC6814 214
Satio Hayakawa
doi:10.1038/351214a0
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| | Observation of surface reconstruction on silicon above 800 °C using the STM 215
Shin-ichi Kitamura, Tomoshige Sato & Masashi Iwatsuki
doi:10.1038/351215a0
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| | Highly vibrationally excited oxygen as a potential source of ozone in the upper stratosphere and mesosphere 217
R. Toumi, B. J. Kerridge & J. A. Pyle
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| | Evidence for lower productivity in the Antarctic Ocean during the last glaciation 220
R. A. Mortlock, C. D. Charles, P. N. Froelich, M. A. Zibello, J. Saltzman, J. D. Hays & L. H. Burckle
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| | Reversal records in marine marls and delayed acquisition of remanent magnetization 223
A. A. M. van Hoof & C. G. Langereis
doi:10.1038/351223a0
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| | New early Cambrian animal and onychophoran affinities of enigmatic metazoans 225
L. Ramsköld & Hou Xianguang
doi:10.1038/351225a0
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| | Apparent surface curvature affects lightness perception 228
David C. Knill & Daniel Kersten
doi:10.1038/351228a0
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| | Cloning and expression of a complementary DNA encoding a bovine adrenal angiotensin II type-1 receptor 230
Katsutoshi Sasaki, Yoshiaki Yamano, Smriti Bardhan, Naoharu Iwai, John J. Murray, Mamoru Hasegawa, Yuzuru Matsudat & Tadashi lnagami
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| | Isolation of a cDNA encoding the vascular type-1 angiotensin II receptor 233
T. J. Murphy, R. Wayne Alexander, Kathy K. Griendling, Marschall S. Runge & Kenneth E. Bernstein
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Impairment of mitochondrial transcription termination by a point mutation associated with the MELAS subgroup of mitochondrial encephalomyopathies
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John F. Hess, Melissa A. Parisi, Jeffrey L. Bennett & David A. Clayton
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| | Demethylation of CpG islands in embryonic cells 239
Dale Frank, Ilana Keshet, Moshe Shani, Alex Levine, Aharon Razin & Howard Cedar
doi:10.1038/351239a0
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| | Dephosphorylation and activation of a p34cdc2/cyclin B complex in vitro by human CDC25 protein 242
U. Strausfeld, J. C. Labbé, D. Fesquet, J. C. Cavadore, A. Picard, K. Sadhu, P. Russell & M. Dorée
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| | Identification of a Gl-type cyclin puc1
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Susan L. Forsburg & Paul Nurse
doi:10.1038/351245a0
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| | Solution structure of the major binding protein for the immunosuppressant FK506 248
Jonathan M. Moore, Debra A. Peattie, Matthew J. Fitzgibbon & John A. Thomson
doi:10.1038/351248a0
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| | Product Reviews |  |
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| | Displacement chromatography 251
Displacement chromatography is a multicomponent preparative chromatographic technique that enables simultaneous concentration and purification of biomolecules.
S. M. Cramer
doi:10.1038/351251a0
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| | Tools for separation 252
This week's look at what's new for the chromatographer features software that is designed to take the guesswork out of HPLC methods development and a high-capacity autosampler with refrigeration option for thermally-sensitive samples.
doi:10.1038/351252a0
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