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| | Overheads cost research dear 255
Revelations about research universities that have charged the US government for yachts and other baubles have made new rules on indirect research costs inevitable. None too soon. But will the new rules be fair and flexible?
doi:10.1038/351255a0
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| | Less class distinction 256
Plans to abolish a class difference in UK higher education is welcome; the need now is for autonomy.
doi:10.1038/351256a0
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| | Research assured 256
The new prime minister of France is likely to be even more supportive of research than her predecessors.
doi:10.1038/351256b0
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| | University/polytechnic distinction to end 257
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/351257a0
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| | Astro reborn 257
David Lindley
doi:10.1038/351257b0
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| | Science policy from abroad 257
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/351257c0
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| | FDA upgrade proposed 258
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/351258a0
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| | New detector sought 258
Robert Pool
doi:10.1038/351258b0
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| | Whaling ban versus science 259
Peter Aldhous & David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/351259a0
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| | Tokyo gears up for calamity 260
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/351260a0
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| | German proposal draws fire 261
Steven Dickman
doi:10.1038/351261a0
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| | HERA stores protons 261
Steven Dickman
doi:10.1038/351261b0
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| | New university for Frankfurt on the Oder? 261
Steven Dickman
doi:10.1038/351261c0
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| | From hillside to laboratory 262
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/351262a0
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| | Forensic reform needed now 262
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/351262b0
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| | First Briton hits orbit 262
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/351262c0
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| | IQ and vitamin supplements 263
H. J. EYSENCK
doi:10.1038/351263a0
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| | Due credit 263
HUBERT MARKL
doi:10.1038/351263b0
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| | Scientific licence 263
V. SIDDHARTHA
doi:10.1038/351263c0
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| | Selfish psycho-darwinism 264
M. J. C. WALLER
doi:10.1038/351264a0
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| | Cholera mystery 264
REBECCA C. GANTT
doi:10.1038/351264b0
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| | Cholera mystery 264
DEREK YACH
doi:10.1038/351264c0
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| | Help wanted 264
F. P. THOMSON
doi:10.1038/351264d0
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| | All over now 264
HARMON CRAIG
doi:10.1038/351264e0
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| | Keeping the ivory trade banned 265
The most effective way to stop the killing of elephants is to ban the ivory trade. All other options keep ivory in the marketplace and thereby encourage demand for ivory and its products.
Mark Pagel & Ruth Mace
doi:10.1038/351265a0
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| | Contaminated origin of AIDS viruses 267
That Gallo's AIDS virus may have been contaminated with the French strain has always been on the cards, but now it seems that even the original French virus was contaminated. Will this put an end to past squabbles?
Barbara J. Culliton
doi:10.1038/351267a0
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| | Of size and abundance 268
John Damuth
doi:10.1038/351268a0
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| | Evading the cosmic censor 269
John L. Friedman
doi:10.1038/351269a0
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| | Radon activity 270
doi:10.1038/351270a0
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| | Deep thought 270
doi:10.1038/351270b0
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| | Spit and polish 270
doi:10.1038/351270c0
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| | Half of a peptide pump 271
Peter Parham
doi:10.1038/351271a0
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| | The answer is near 272
Charles D. Dermer
doi:10.1038/351272a0
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| | When to be diploid 273
Brian Charlesworth
doi:10.1038/351273a0
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| | Marking time in the Palaeolithic 273
Tim Lincoln
doi:10.1038/351273b0
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| | The good companions 274
Lars Hernquist
doi:10.1038/351274a0
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| | The strong scent of success 275
Doron Lancet
doi:10.1038/351275a0
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| | Olfaction : molecules to network 275
Doron Lancet
doi:10.1038/351275b0
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| | Sperm warfare 276
David Jones
doi:10.1038/351276a0
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| | Degradation of C60 by light 277
ROGER TAYLOR, JONATHAN P. PARSONS, ANTHONY G. AVENT, STEVEN P. RANNARD, T. JOHN DENNIS, JONATHAN P. HARE, HAROLD W. KROTO & DAVID R. M. WALTON
doi:10.1038/351277a0
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| | Discrepancies in AIDS virus data 277
JEAN-CLAUDE CHERMANN, GHISLAINE DONKER, NOUARA YAHI, DANIELLE SALAUN, NADIA GUETTARI, ODILE GAYET & IVAN HIRSH
doi:10.1038/351277b0
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| | Hope for photonic bandgaps 278
E. YABLONOVITCH & K. M. LEUNG
doi:10.1038/351278a0
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| | More English than most 279
Alan Mackay reviews Selections and Reflections: The Legacy of Sir Lawrence Bragg
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John M. Thomas & David Phillips
doi:10.1038/351279a0
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| | Big science biology 280
Kevin Davies reviews Mapping the Code
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Joel Davis
doi:10.1038/351280a0
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| | High lights 281
Mark Saunders reviews Physics of Space Plasmas: An Introduction
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George K. Parks
doi:10.1038/351281a0
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| | Modelling the mind 281
L. H. Shaffer reviews Foundations of Cognitive Science
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Michael Posner
doi:10.1038/351281b0
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| | Sacred cows 282
C. Bailyn reviews Theory of Neutron Star Magnetospheres
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F. Curtis Michel
doi:10.1038/351282a0
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| | The early development of terrestrial ecosystems 283
William A. Shear
doi:10.1038/351283a0
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| | Allele-specific motifs revealed by sequencing of self-peptides eluted from MHC molecules 290
Kirsten Falk, Olaf Rötzschke, Stefan Stevanovié, Günther Jung & Hans-Georg Rammensee
doi:10.1038/351290a0
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| | Statistical evidence for a galactic origin of gamma-ray bursts 296
J. L. Atteia, C. Barat, E. Jourdain, M. Niel, G. Vedrenne, N. Blinov, A. Chernenko, V. Dolidze, A. Kozlenkov, A. Kuznetsov, I. G. Mitrofanov, A. Pozanenko, R. Sunyaev & O. Terekhov
doi:10.1038/351296a0
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| | Formation of hierarchical multiple protostellar cores 298
Alan P. Boss
doi:10.1038/351298a0
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| | Use of a neural network to control an adaptive optics system for an astronomical telescope 300
D. G. Sandler, T. K. Barrett, D. A. Palmer, R. Q. Fugate & W. J. Wild
doi:10.1038/351300a0
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| | Saccharide-sensitive phase transition of a lectin-loaded gel 302
Etsuo Kokufata, Yong-Qing Zhang & Toyoichi Tanaka
doi:10.1038/351302a0
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| | Model estimates of CO2 emissions from soil in response to global warming 304
D. S. Jenkinson, D. E. Adams & A. Wild
doi:10.1038/351304a0
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| | Water diffusion in a basaltic melt 306
Youxue Zhang & E. M. Stolper
doi:10.1038/351306a0
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| | High-temperature electrical conductivity of the lower-mantle phase (Mg, Fe)O 309
B. J. Wood & J. Nell
doi:10.1038/351309a0
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| | The relationship between abundance and body size in British birds 312
Sean Nee, Andrew F. Read, Jeremy J. D. Greenwood & Paul H. Harvey
doi:10.1038/351312a0
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| | Haploidy or diploidy: which is better? 314
Alexey S. Kondrashov & James F. Crow
doi:10.1038/351314a0
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| | Transition from haploidy to diploidy 315
Véronique Perrot, Sophie Richerd & Myriam Valéro
doi:10.1038/351315a0
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HBx gene of hepatitis B virus induces liver cancer in transgenic mice 317
Chang-Min Kim, Kazuhiko Koike, Izumu Saito, Tatsuo Miyamura & Gilbert Jay
doi:10.1038/351317a0
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| | Regulation by phosphorylation of reversible association of a myristoylated protein kinase C substrate with the plasma membrane 320
Marcus Thelen, Antony Rosen, Angus C. Nairn & Alan Aderem
doi:10.1038/351320a0
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| | Restored expression of major histocompatibility class I molecules by gene transfer of a putative peptide transporter 323
Thomas Spies & Robert DeMars
doi:10.1038/351323a0
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| | Characterization of a murine gene expressed from the inactive X chromosome 325
Giuseppe Borsani, Rossana Tonlorenzi, M. Christine Simmler, Luisa Dandolo, Danielle Arnaud, Valeria Capra, Markus Grompe, Antonio Pizzuti, Donna Muzny, Charles Lawrence, Huntington F. Willard, Philip Avner & Andrea Ballabio
doi:10.1038/351325a0
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| | Conservation of position and exclusive expression of mouse Xist from the inactive X chromosome 329
Neil Brockdorff, Alan Ashworth, Graham F. Kay, Penny Cooper, Sandy Smith, Veronica M. McCabe, Dominic P. Norris, Graeme D. Penny, Dipika Patel & Sohaila Rastan
doi:10.1038/351329a0
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| | Tetramerization of an RNA oligonucleotide containing a GGGG sequence 331
Joseph Kim, Chaejoon Cheong & Peter B. Moore
doi:10.1038/351331a0
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