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| | What will happen now to India? 333
Will the bomb that killed Mr Rajiv Gandhi last week be the trigger that breaks the subcontinent into smaller pieces? Both India and the rest of us must hope not.
doi:10.1038/351333a0
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| | $100 billion loan 334
There would be sense in regarding seriously the Soviet Union's need of funds.
doi:10.1038/351334a0
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| | Does industry corrupt? 334
How often does a company's attempt to pervert a scientific presentation succeed?
doi:10.1038/351334b0
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| | Chernobyl effects not as bad as feared 335
Steven Dickman
doi:10.1038/351335a0
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| | Japan courts US on joint project 336
David Swinbanks & Robert Pool
doi:10.1038/351336a0
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| | The private sector offers an alternative 336
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/351336b0
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| | Polluters pay at auction 337
Robert Pool
doi:10.1038/351337a0
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| | NIH lose a legal shield 337
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/351337b0
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| | NRC proposes end to forced retirement 337
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/351337c0
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| | India to reprocess fuels 338
K.S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/351338a0
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| | Keeping cool in space 338
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/351338b0
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| | Graduate training reforms 339
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/351339a0
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| | Tough times extend even to the top 339
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/351339b0
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| | Correspondence |  |
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| | Penguins crowded out? 340
BORIS CULIK & RORY WILSON
doi:10.1038/351340a0
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| | Honest blunders 340
HANS VAN MAANEN
doi:10.1038/351340b0
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| | Secret Service 340
SUZANNE W. HADLEY
doi:10.1038/351340c0
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| | Baltimore declares O'Toole mistaken 341
Dr Margot O'Toole's comment on the OSI draft report reproduced in Nature two weeks ago, has drawn the following reply from Dr David Baltimore, one of the authors of an article alleged to include fraudulent data.
David Baltimore
doi:10.1038/351341a0
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| | Origins of MIT inquiry 343
Dr Herman N Eisen, who conducted the inquiry at MIT in 1986, denies Dr O'Toole's account of its proceedings, and other charges.
Herman N. Eisen
doi:10.1038/351343a0
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| | OSI's conclusions wrong 344
What follows is a much-abridged version of Dr Thereza Imanishi-Kari's formal response to the OS! draft report published at the end of March.
Thereza Imanishi-Kari
doi:10.1038/351344a0
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| | News and Views |  |
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| | Split decision on the mantle 346
Dion L. Heinz
doi:10.1038/351346a0
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| | Blood lines of the coelacanth 347
Peter Forey
doi:10.1038/351347a0
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| | Correspondence |  |
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| | Finding the proton drip line 348
Grant J. Mathews
doi:10.1038/351348a0
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| | The semiotics of charge 349
N. Michael Green
doi:10.1038/351349a0
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| | Do little things matter? 350
Geoffrey King & Armando Cisternas
doi:10.1038/351350a0
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| | The ring on a finger 351
Simon van Heyningen
doi:10.1038/351351a0
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| | Etna's greenhouse pump 352
Terrence Gerlach
doi:10.1038/351352a0
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| | Variations on a theme 353
Robert J. Lefkowitz
doi:10.1038/351353a0
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| | Strike one 353
doi:10.1038/351353b0
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| | Going up 353
doi:10.1038/351353c0
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| | Cancer connection 353
doi:10.1038/351353d0
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| | Safety in numbers 354
David Jones
doi:10.1038/351354a0
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| | Scientific Correspondence |  |
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| | Will we reach the greenhouse? 355
CRAIG BOND HATFIELD
doi:10.1038/351355a0
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NICHOLAS J. GAY & FIONNA J. KEITH
doi:10.1038/351355b0
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| | Diffuse bands in emission 356
P. J. SARRE
doi:10.1038/351356a0
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| | Stress and evolution 356
P. A. PARSONS
doi:10.1038/351356b0
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| | Schroedinger's quantum cat 357
IAN PERCIVAL
doi:10.1038/351357a0
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| | Whose larvae? 357
RICHARD RANDOLPH OLSON, JONATHAN A. RUNSTADLER & THOMAS D. KOCHER
doi:10.1038/351357b0
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| | Gallo's virus sequence 358
MARVIN S. REITZ JR, HOWARD Z. STREICHER & ROBERT C. GALLO
doi:10.1038/351358a0
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| | . . . and his response 358
ROBERT C. GALLO
doi:10.1038/351358b0
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| | Book Reviews |  |
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| | This strange Universe 359
John Peacock reviews Basics of Modern Cosmology
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A. D. Dolgov, M. V. Sazhin & Ya. B. Zeldovich
doi:10.1038/351359a0
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| | On the rocks 360
J. Oerlemans reviews The Growth and Decay of Ice.
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G. S. H. Lock.
doi:10.1038/351360a0
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| | Charting a revolution 360
Kevin Struhl reviews DNA Science: A First Course in Recombinant DNA Technology.
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David Micklos & Greg Freyer.
doi:10.1038/351360b0
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| | Dances with dinosaurs 361
Henry Gee reviews Dinosaurs, Spitfires, & Sea Dragons.
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Christopher McGowan.
doi:10.1038/351361a0
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| | Molecular messengers 362
Jamshed R. Tata reviews Hormones.
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Etienne-Emile Baulieu & Paul A. Kelly.
doi:10.1038/351362a0
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| | Environmental effects from burning oil wells in Kuwait 363
K. A. Browning, R. J. Allam, S. P. Ballard, R. T. H. Barnes, D. A. Bennetts, R. H. Maryon, P. J. Mason, D. McKenna, J. F. B. Mitchell, C. A. Senior, A. Slingo & F. B. Smith
doi:10.1038/351363a0
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| | Climate response to smoke from the burning oil wells in Kuwait 367
S. Bakan, A. Chlond, U. Cubasch, J. Feichter, H. Graf, H. Grassl, K. Hasselmann, I. Kirchner, M. Latif, E. Roeckner, R. Sausen, U. Schlese, D. Schriever, I. Schult, U. Schumann, F. Sielmann & W. Welke
doi:10.1038/351367a0
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| | Crystal structure of a cholera toxin-related heat-labile enterotoxin from E. coli
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Titia K. Sixma, Sylvia E. Pronk, Kor H. Kalk, Ellen S. Wartna, Ben A. M. van Zanten, Bernard Witholt & Wim G. J. Hoi
doi:10.1038/351371a0
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| | Letters |  |
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| | Time-resolved holography 378
A. Rebane & Jack Feinberg
doi:10.1038/351378a0
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| | Effects of pressure and stress on C60 fullerite to 20 GPa 380
Steven J. Duclos, Keith Brister, R. C. Haddon, A. R. Kortan & F. A. Thiel
doi:10.1038/351380a0
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| | Simulations of the effect of a warmer climate on atmospheric humidity 382
Anthony D. Del Genfo, Andrew A. Lacis & Reto A. Ruedy
doi:10.1038/351382a0
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| | Enhanced particle fluxes in Bay of Bengal induced by injection of fresh water 385
V. Ittekkot, R. R. Nair, S. Honjo, V. Ramaswamy, M. Bartsch, S. Manganini & B. N. Desai
doi:10.1038/351385a0
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| | Eruptive and diffuse emissions of CO2 from Mount Etna 387
P. Allard, J. Carbonnelle, D. Dajlevic, J. Le Bronec, P. Morel, M. C. Robe, J. M. Maurenas, R. Faivre-Pierret, D. Martin, J. C. Sabroux & P. Zettwoog
doi:10.1038/351387a0
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| | The importance of small-scale faulting in regional extension 391
John Walsh, Juan Watterson & Graham Yielding
doi:10.1038/351391a0
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| | Close tetrapod relationships of the coelacanth Latimeria indicated by haemoglobin sequences 394
Thomas Gorr, Traute Kleinschmidt & Hans Fricke
doi:10.1038/351394a0
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| | Relation of an array of early-differentiating cones to the photoreceptor mosaic in the primate retina 397
Kenneth C. Wikler & Pasko Rakic
doi:10.1038/351397a0
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Dagmar Diekmann, Suzanne Brill, Michelle D. Garrett, Nicholas Totty, Justin Hsuan, Clinton Monfries, Christine Hall, Louis Lim & Alan Hall
doi:10.1038/351400a0
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| | Peptide-induced conformational change of the class I heavy chain 402
Tim Elliott, Vincenzo Cerundolo, John Elvin & Alain Townsend
doi:10.1038/351402a0
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| | X-chromosome inactivation may explain the difference in viability of XO humans and mice 406
Alan Ashworth, Sohaila Rastan, Robin Lovell-Badge & Graham Kay
doi:10.1038/351406a0
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| | Pre-existent pattern in Xenopus animal pole cells revealed by induction with activin 409
S. Sokol & D. A. Melton
doi:10.1038/351409a0
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| | Dynamin-like protein encoded by the Drosophila shibire gene associated with vesicular traffic 411
Alexander M. van der Bliek & Elliot M. Meyerowrtz
doi:10.1038/351411a0
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| | Membrane protein association by potential intrarnembrane charge pairs 414
Pierre Cosson, Scott P. Lankford, Juan S. Bonifacino & Richard D. Klausner
doi:10.1038/351414a0
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| | Crystals of haemoglobin with the T quaternary structure bind oxygen noncooperatively with no Bohr effect 416
Andrea Mozzarelli, Claudio Rivetti, Gian Luigi Rossi, Eric R. Henry & William A. Eaton
doi:10.1038/351416a0
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| | Negative regulation of human c-fos expression by the retinoblastoma gene product 419
Paul D. Robbins, Jonathan M. Horowitz & Richard C. Mulligan
doi:10.1038/351419a0
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| | Action potentials must admit calcium to evoke transmitter release 419
Rosel M. Mulkey & Robert S. Zucker
doi:10.1038/351419b0
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| | Product Reviews |  |
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| | Validatable virus removal from protein solutions 420
A membrane-based filtration system, designed for use in the production of biotherapeutics, predictably removes viruses as a function of size.
Anthony J. DiLeo & Anthony E. Allegrezza Jr
doi:10.1038/351420a0
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| | On the technology trail 421
Over 3,000 exhibitors will be showing off their wares at ACHEMA 91, an international meetingon chemical engineeringand biotechnology to be held in Frankfurt, Germany, 9−5 June.
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/351421a0
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