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| | Common sense in the environment 779
A scientific panel of the US National Research Council has shown that too little of what passes for environmental clean-up meets the test of scientific rigor, while a US court overturns a ban on asbestos.
doi:10.1038/353779a0
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| | Recipe for prosperity? 780
US should convert emphasis on military technology to include commercial technology.
doi:10.1038/353780a0
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| | French blood scandal echoes across Europe 781
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/353781a0
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| | Score wars 781
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/353781b0
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| | Japan promotes nuclear power 782
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/353782a0
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| | The pursuasive power of yen 782
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/353782b0
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| | Ginga to fall soon 782
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/353782c0
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| | Nuclear science faces cuts 783
Robert Pool
doi:10.1038/353783a0
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| | New quarters for the Superconducting Super Collider 783
doi:10.1038/353783b0
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| | Ozone report puts US policy in question 783
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/353783c0
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| | Olympic row over sex testing 784
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/353784a0
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| | Ethics rule reconsidered 784
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/353784b0
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| | Plants, not pandas 784
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/353784c0
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| | Not quite so dumb 784
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/353784d0
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| | Power of the press 784
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/353784e0
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| | US biotech in good health 785
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/353785a0
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| | Mars projects still alive 785
Yuri Kanin
doi:10.1038/353785b0
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| | Tit for tat on patents? 785
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/353785c0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | France's peers overseas 786
VINCENT COURTILLOT
doi:10.1038/353786a0
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| | Reductionism 786
S. A. BARNETT
doi:10.1038/353786b0
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| | Powdered milk 786
F. X. PERROUD
doi:10.1038/353786c0
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| | Defence of diluted water 787
J. BENVENISTE
doi:10.1038/353787a0
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| | British science 787
TOM BLUNDELL
doi:10.1038/353787b0
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| | British science 787
D. A. A. FAGANDINI
doi:10.1038/353787c0
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| | Direct action? 787
STEFAN H. KON
doi:10.1038/353787d0
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| | Animals in research 788
H. J. RALSTON III & DIANE DALY RALSTON
doi:10.1038/353788a0
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| | Animals in research 788
JAMIE LOVE
doi:10.1038/353788b0
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| | Final exit 788
MAC OVERMYER
doi:10.1038/353788c0
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| | A thesis for all seasons 789
Much could be gained by a reform of the system by which doctoral degrees are awarded, not least because of the single European market, due in 1993.
Lars H. Breimer & Dimitri P. Mikhailidis
doi:10.1038/353789a0
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| | The semantics of plane-mirror inversion 791
Those who ask why mirrors "Invert right and left", but not "top" and "bottom", must not look for help in physics textbooks, but in dictionaries that define the use of words and in an understanding of reality.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/353791a0
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| | Peptides of fortune 792
Charlie Janeway
doi:10.1038/353792a0
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| | Why did Halley hiccup? 793
Paul Weissman
doi:10.1038/353793a0
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| | . . . and then there were two 794
Tania A. Baker
doi:10.1038/353794a0
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| | Swift to avoid the swallow 795
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/353795a0
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| | Greedy guts 796
doi:10.1038/353796a0
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| | Kerb crawling 796
doi:10.1038/353796b0
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| | Small wonder 796
doi:10.1038/353796c0
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| | Chaos in ocean heat transport 796
Curt Covey
doi:10.1038/353796d0
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| | Surfaces make a difference 797
Richard J. Reeder
doi:10.1038/353797a0
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| | Mapping the way forward 798
Kevin Davies
doi:10.1038/353798a0
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| | Most of the senses begin to make some sense 799
Doron Lancet
doi:10.1038/353799a0
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| | Personal vibes 800
DAVID JONES
doi:10.1038/353800a0
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| | Scientific Correspondence | |
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| | Binary precursor for planet? 801
A. C. FABIAN & Ph. PODSIADLOWSKI
doi:10.1038/353801a0
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| | CJD discrepancy 801
K. DOH-URA, T. KITAMOTO, Y. SAKAKI & J. TATEISHI
doi:10.1038/353801b0
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| | CJD discrepancy 802
JOHN COLLINGE & MARK PALMER
doi:10.1038/353802a0
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| | Isodisomy in BWS chromosomes 802
ANDREW O. M. WILKIE, SUSAN MALCOLM & MARCUS E. PEMBREY
doi:10.1038/353802b0
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| | Usage and abusage 803
Dorothy Nelkin reviews Value-Free Science? Purity and Power in Modern Knowledge
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Robert N. Proctor
doi:10.1038/353803a0
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| | An Artic route to the East 803
doi:10.1038/353803b0
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| | Sisters in arms 804
Jon Seger reviews The Social Biology of Wasps
Edited by
Kenneth G. Ross & Robert W Mathhews
doi:10.1038/353804a0
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| | Considering cosmology 804
David W. Hughes reviews Our Universes
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Denys Wilkinson
doi:10.1038/353804b0
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| | From candles to chemistry 805
J. P. Simons reviews Atoms, Electrons and Change
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P. W. Atkins
doi:10.1038/353805a0
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| | Touching on the future 806
Claes G. H. Rooth reviews Global Changes of the Past
Edited by
Ray Bradley, Thomas J. Crowley & Gerald R. North
doi:10.1038/353806a0
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| | Gamma rays and energetic particles from primordial black holes 807
F. Halzen, E. Zas, J. H. MacGibbon & T. C. Weekes
doi:10.1038/353807a0
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| | Crystal structure of insecticidal  -endotoxin from Bacillus thuringiensis at 2.5 Å resolution 815
Jade Li, Joe Carroll & David J. Ellar
doi:10.1038/353815a0
Abstract & References | PDF (1,110K)
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| | Stress-induced oligomerization and chromosomal relocalization of heat-shock factor 822
J. Timothy Westwood, Joachim Clos & Carl Wu
doi:10.1038/353822a0
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| | Formation of a planet orbiting pulsar 1829−10 from the debris of a supernova explosion 827
D. N. C. Lin, S. E. Woosley & P. H. Bodenheimer
doi:10.1038/353827a0
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| | Creation by stellar ablation of the low-mass companion to pulsar 1829−10 829
Julian H. Krolik
doi:10.1038/353829a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (352K)
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| | Holographic images of iodine atoms on a silver surface from electron emission patterns 831
Peijun Hu & D. A. King
doi:10.1038/353831a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (389K)
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| | Seasonal relationship between cloud condensation nuclei and aerosol methanesulphonate in marine air 834
G. P. Ayers & J. L. Gras
doi:10.1038/353834a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (205K)
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| | Freshwater flux forcing of decadal and interdecadal oceanic variability 836
Andrew J. Weaver, E. S. Sarachik & Jochem Marotze
doi:10.1038/353836a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (314K)
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| | Geochemical constraints on source region of Cretaceous/Tertiary impact glasses 839
H. Sigurdsson, Ph. Bonté, L. Turpin, M. Chaussidon, N. Metrich, M. Steinberg, Ph. Pradel & S. D'Hondt
doi:10.1038/353839a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (416K)
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| | Disequilibrium carbon and oxygen isotope variations in natural calcite 842
J. A. D. Dickson
doi:10.1038/353842a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (297K)
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| | Early-onset Alzheimer's disease caused by mutations at codon 717 of the  -amyloid precursor protein gene 844
Marie-Christine Chartier-Harlin, Fiona Crawford, Henry Houlden, Andrew Warren, David Hughes, Liana Fidani, Alison Goate, Martin Rossor, Penelope Roques, John Hardy & Mike Mullan
doi:10.1038/353844a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (335K)
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| | Mutations in the channel domain alter desensitization of a neuronal nicotinic receptor 846
F. Revah, D. Bertrand, J.-L Galzi, A. Devillers-Thiéry, C. Mulle, N. Hussy, S. Bertrand, M. Ballivet & J.-P. Changeux
doi:10.1038/353846a0
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| | Inositol trisphosphate-dependent periodic activation of a Ca2+-activated K+ conductance in glucose-stimulated pancreatic -cells 849
Carina Ämmälä, Olof Larsson, Per-Olof Berggren, Krister Bokvist, Lisa Juntti-Berggren, Henrik Kindmark & Patrik Rorsman
doi:10.1038/353849a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (425K)
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| | Precise prediction of a dominant class I MHC-restricted epitope of Listeria monocytogenes
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Eric G. Pamer, John T. Harty & Michael J. Bevan
doi:10.1038/353852a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (452K)
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| | Phosphorylation and dephosphorylation of the high-affinity receptor for immunoglobulin E immediately after receptor engagement and disengagement 855
Rossella Paolini, Marie-Hélène Jouvin & Jean-Pierre Kinet
doi:10.1038/353855a0
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| | lnterleukin-2 programs mouse  T lymphocytes for apoptosis 858
Michael J. Lenardo
doi:10.1038/353858a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (495K)
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| | A distinct Hox code for the branchial region of the vertebrate head 861
Paul Hunt, Massimo Gulisano, Martyn Cook, Mai-Har Sham, Antonio Faiella, David Wilkinson, Edoardo Boncinelli & Robb Krumlauf
doi:10.1038/353861a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (657K)
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| | A de novo Alu insertion results in neurofibromatosis type 1 864
Margaret R. Wallace, Lone B. Andersen, Ann M. Saulino, Paula E. Gregory, Thomas W. Glover & Francis S. Collins
doi:10.1038/353864a0
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| | Complementation of transforming domains in E1a/myc chimaeras 866
Robert Ralston
doi:10.1038/353866a0
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| | Corrections | |
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| | Plasma fireballs formed by microwave interference in air 868
Y. H. Ohtsuki & H. Ofuruton
doi:10.1038/353868a0
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| | A protein-tyrosine phosphatase with sequence similarity to the SH2 domain of the protein-tyrosine kinases 868
Shi-Hsiang Shen, Lison Bastien, Barry I. Posner & Pierre Chrétien
doi:10.1038/353868b0
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| | Erratum | |
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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:10.1038/353868c0
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| | Product Review | |
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| | Instrumentation market focus 869
doi:10.1038/353869a0
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| | Recruitment | |
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| | Prescriptions for pharmaceutical research 873
In a time of recession, pharmaceutical companies remain committed to research and development. But the commercial pressures they face mean recruits fresh from their PhDs may be in for a culture shock.
Nuala Moran
doi:10.1038/353873a0
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