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| | The downfall of Mikhail Gorbachev 649
Pity poor Russia, the other quondam republics of the Soviet Union, the most talented and the most deprived part of the scientific community and also Mikhail Gorbachev (who may yet recover, but not quickly).
doi:10.1038/352649a0
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| | Electoral sustainability 649
The British Liberal Democrats are risking too much in their plans to create a green economy
doi:10.1038/352649b0
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| | News | |
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| | Japan will fund major nanotechnology project 650
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/352650a0
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| | Coup catches NASA engineers in Moscow 650
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/352650b0
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| | FASEB rejects OSI rules 651
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/352651a0
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| | Before and after 651
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/352651b0
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| | Blast sets back H-II 651
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/352651c0
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| | Commercial launch 651
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/352651d0
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| | Wanted: astronauts 651
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/352651e0
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| | BTG has big plans for US 652
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/352652a0
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| | Meeting to move 652
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/352652b0
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| | BRITISH SCIENCE 652
doi:10.1038/352652c0
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| | Looking for alien life 653
Stephanie Sansom
doi:10.1038/352653a0
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| | New AIDS definition 653
Rachel Nowak
doi:10.1038/352653b0
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| | 'Hacker' to go on trial 653
Brett Wright
doi:10.1038/352653c0
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| | Australian company near to a blue rose 653
Mark Lawson
doi:10.1038/352653d0
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| | Iraq's nuclear ambitions 654
Bronwen Maddox
doi:10.1038/352654a0
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| | Faculty pay up down under 655
Mark Lawson
doi:10.1038/352655a0
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| | Deep freeze for Galileo 655
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/352655b0
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| | Playing under new rules 656
Steven Dickman
doi:10.1038/352656a0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Response to Ptashne 657
ERIK SEISING
doi:10.1038/352657a0
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PHILIPPE JARNE
doi:10.1038/352657b0
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| | More on psycho-darwinism 657
MIKE WALLER
doi:10.1038/352657c0
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| | Deterioration of our cultural heritage 658
Our cultural heritage is being destroyed faster today than at any time in the past. An undertstanding of the basic processes causing deterioration of ancient artefacts is urgently needed.
George Burns
doi:10.1038/352658a0
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| | The social return of academic research 661
A careful economic study reveals that academic research is an excellent investment but the most famous universities may not be the best to invest in.
Robert Pool
doi:10.1038/352661a0
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| | Cool and out of sight 662
Anthony Whitworth
doi:10.1038/352662a0
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| | Pathways of morphogenesis 663
Leland Hartwell
doi:10.1038/352663a0
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| | Deciding the undecidable 664
Ian Stewart
doi:10.1038/352664a0
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| | In the gap 665
doi:10.1038/352665a0
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| | Binges and bagels 665
doi:10.1038/352665b0
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| | Seeing red 665
doi:10.1038/352665c0
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| | Virus receptors as permeases 666
Richard G. Vile & Robin A. Weiss
doi:10.1038/352666a0
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| | Snap, crackle and pop 666
doi:10.1038/352666b0
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| | A sense of cell size 667
Andrew R. Cossins
doi:10.1038/352667a0
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| | A deepening, broadening trend 668
Guy P. Brasseur
doi:10.1038/352668a0
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| | Back together again 669
Terrence J. Sejnowski
doi:10.1038/352669a0
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| | Electrons on tap 670
David Jones
doi:10.1038/352670a0
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| | Chronology from plant matter 671
S. W. LEAVITT & S. R. DANZER
doi:10.1038/352671a0
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| | Sperm competition 671
JACEK RADWAN & WOJCIECH WITALI SKI
doi:10.1038/352671b0
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| | Terpenes and forest decline 672
HOWARD B. ROSS & CLAES DE SERVES
doi:10.1038/352672a0
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| | Terpenes and forest decline 672
KARL H. BECKER, KLAUS J. BROCKMANN & JOSEPH BECHARA
doi:10.1038/352672b0
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| | Beneficial ghee? 673
GOBINDA SARKAR
doi:10.1038/352673a0
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| | Spatial maps 673
JASON B. MATTINGLEY & JOHN L. BRADSHAW
doi:10.1038/352673b0
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| | Spatial maps 673
JOHN C. MARSHALL & PETER W. HALLIGAN
doi:10.1038/352673c0
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| | C60 zeolites? 674
M. O'KEEFFE
doi:10.1038/352674a0
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| | The power of invention 675
A. Rupert Hall reviews The Magic of Numbers and Motion: The Scientific Career of René Descartes
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William R. Shea
doi:10.1038/352675a0
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| | Humans in the balance 676
Robert Attenborough reviews The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee
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Jared Diamond
doi:10.1038/352676a0
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| | In the beginning 677
Michael Rowan-Robinson reviews The Shadows of Creation: Dark Matter and the Structure of the Universe
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Michael Riordan & David N. Schramm
doi:10.1038/352677a0
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| | Chinks of light 678
Rodney Loudon reviews Atoms and Light: Interactions
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John N. Dodd
doi:10.1038/352678a0
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| | Body building 678
Susan E. Evans reviews Functional Chordate Anatomy
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Ronald G. Wolff
doi:10.1038/352678b0
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| | A 'unified theory' of prion propagation 679
C. Weissmann
doi:10.1038/352679a0
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| | Deep structure of the northeastern Japan arc and its relationship to seismic and volcanic activity 683
Akira Hasegawa, Dapeng Zhao, Shuichiro Hori, Akira Yamamoto & Shigeki Horiuchi
doi:10.1038/352683a0
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| | Cloning of a human gene encoding the general transcription initiation factor IIB 689
Ilho Ha, William S. Lane & Danny Reinberg
doi:10.1038/352689a0
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| | Gamma-ray emission from millisecond pulsars in globular clusters 695
Kaiyou Chen
doi:10.1038/352695a0
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| | Early outgassing of Mars supported by differential water solubility of iodine and xenon 697
Donald S. Musselwhite, Michael J. Drake & Timothy D. Swindle
doi:10.1038/352697a0
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| | Paradoxical behaviour of mechanical and electrical networks 699
Joel E. Cohen & Paul Horowitz
doi:10.1038/352699a0
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| | Preparation and structure of the alkali-metal fulleride A4C60
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R. M. Fleming, M. J. Rosseinsky, A. P. Ramirez, D. W. Murphy, J. C. Tully, R. C. Haddon, T. Siegrist, R. Tycko, S. H. Glarum, P. Marsh, G. Dabbagh, S. M. Zahurak, A. V. Makhija & C. Hampton
doi:10.1038/352701a0
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| | Off-axis orientation of the electronic transition moment for a linear conjugated polyene 703
Quan-yuan Shang, Xiumei Dou & Bruce S. Hudson
doi:10.1038/352703a0
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| | Reconstruction of past changes in salinity and climate using a diatom-based transfer function 706
S. C. Fritz, S. Juggins, R. W. Battarbee & D. R. Engstrom
doi:10.1038/352706a0
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| | Nanometre-size diamonds in the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary clay of Alberta 708
David Brez Carlisle & Dennis R. Braman
doi:10.1038/352708a0
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| | Evolutionary distinctiveness of the endangered Kemp's ridley sea turtle 709
Brian W. Bowen, Anne B. Meylan & John C. Avise
doi:10.1038/352709a0
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| | Regulation of fast inactivation of cloned mammalian IK(A) channels by cysteine oxidation 711
J. Peter Ruppersberg, Martin Stacker, Olaf Pongs, Stefan H. Heinemann, Rainer Frank & Michael Koenen
doi:10.1038/352711a0
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| | Charge movement during Na+ translocation by native and cloned cardiac Na+/Ca2+ exchanger 715
Donald W. Hilgemann, Debora A. Nicoll & Kenneth D. Philipson
doi:10.1038/352715a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (571K)
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| | Negative and positive selection of antigen-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes affected by the  3 domain of MHC I molecules 718
Carla J. Aldrich, Robert E. Hammer, Sharon Jones-Youngblood, Ulrich Koszinowski, Lee Hood, Iwona Stroynowski & James Forman
doi:10.1038/352718a0
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| | Co-engagement of CD8 with the T cell receptor is required for negative selection 721
Amie L. Ingold, Carlisle Landel, Cindy Knall, Glen A. Evans & Terry A. Potter
doi:10.1038/352721a0
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| | High risk of squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix for women with HLA-DQw3 723
Rudolf Wank & Christoph Thomssen
doi:10.1038/352723a0
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| | Transport of cationic amino acids by the mouse ecotropic retrovirus receptor 725
Jung Woo Kim, Ellen I. Closs, Lorraine M. Albritton & James M. Cunningham
doi:10.1038/352725a0
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| | Cell-surface receptor for ecotropic murine retroviruses is a basic amino-acid transporter 729
Hao Wang, Michael P. Kavanaugh, R. Alan North & David Kabat
doi:10.1038/352729a0
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| | Basal body movements as a mechanism for mitochondrial genome segregation in the trypanosome cell cycle 731
Derrick R. Robinson & Keith Gull
doi:10.1038/352731a0
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| | Cloning of an NF- B subunit which stimulates HIV transcription in synergy with p65 733
Roland M. Schmid, Neil D. Perkins, Colin S. Duckett, Philip C. Andrews & Gary J. Nabel
doi:10.1038/352733a0
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| | A protein-tyrosine phosphatase with sequence similarity to the SH2 domain of the protein-tyrosine kinases 736
Shi-Hsiang Shen, Lison Bastien, Barry I. Posner & Pierre Chrétien
doi:10.1038/352736a0
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| | ACS in the Big Apple 740
Next week's American Chemical Society meeting to be held in New York City will feature an automated peptide synthesizer based on a proprietary dry-activation FMOC chemistry, a mass analyser for molecular weight determination from picomole amounts, and an NMR software module.
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/352740a0
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