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Fears that reform in the former Soviet Union will be impeded by ignorance of market economics should be matched by the suspicion that the policies of experienced free market governments are undermined by ignorance of arithmetic.
doi:10.1038/355095a0
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| | Paying for research 96
The real question is whether the US government should bear the full costs of academic research.
doi:10.1038/355096a0
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Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/355097a0
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Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/355097b0
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Thomas Land
doi:10.1038/355098a0
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Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/355098b0
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David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/355099a0
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| | AFRC lays down the law 100
Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/355100a0
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Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/355100b0
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Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/355101a0
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Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/355102a0
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Peter Aldhous
doi:10.1038/355102b0
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Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/355102c0
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Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/355102d0
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R. E. GOODMAN
doi:10.1038/355103a0
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PETER SIBBALD, LENNART PHILIPSON & GRAHAM CAMERON
doi:10.1038/355103b0
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C. B. GOODHART
doi:10.1038/355103c0
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DAVID ASTON
doi:10.1038/355104a0
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MARK BLAXTER
doi:10.1038/355104b0
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Y. D. SHARMA
doi:10.1038/355104c0
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| | Sharing out NASA's spoils 105
The economic benefits of NASA's programmes are greater than generally recognized. The main beneficiaries may not even realize the source of their good fortune.
Roger H. Bezdek & Robert M. Wendling
doi:10.1038/355105a0
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| | The anthropic view of nucleosynthesis 107
Our understanding of the Universe may be shaped in part by the
circumstance that our knowledge of it derives exclusively from people like
ourselves, but what if very different forms of life exist?
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/355107a0
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| | How chloroquine works 108
Thomas E. Wellems
doi:10.1038/355108a0
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Bernhard Dobberstein
doi:10.1038/355109a0
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| | Cost of the charge 110
doi:10.1038/355110a0
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doi:10.1038/355110b0
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doi:10.1038/355110c0
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Clifford M. Will
doi:10.1038/355111a0
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Graeme Mitchison & Richard Durbin
doi:10.1038/355112a0
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David Lindley
doi:10.1038/355113a0
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| | Building blocks on shaky ground 114
Arch C. Johnston
doi:10.1038/355114a0
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Nelson Max
doi:10.1038/355115a0
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David Jones
doi:10.1038/355116a0
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JIM E. PITTS
doi:10.1038/355117a0
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M. A. WILSON, L. S. K. PANG & A. M. VASSALLO
doi:10.1038/355117b0
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DAVID BURBRIDGE
doi:10.1038/355118a0
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VICTOR SMETACEK
doi:10.1038/355118b0
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BRUCE HAMMOCK
doi:10.1038/355119a0
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A. S. BOURINBAIAR
doi:10.1038/355119b0
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DAVID BOWEN-JONES, JUDITH FANTES & RADHEY GUPTA
doi:10.1038/355119c0
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T. J. C. BEEBEE
doi:10.1038/355120a0
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KIKUO OKADA, MIWAKO IKEGAMI, OSAMU UCHINO, YOSHINOBU NIKAIDOU, YUJI ZAIZEN, YUKITOMO TSUTSUMI & YUKIO MAKINO
doi:10.1038/355120b0
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Robert M. Rosenzweig reviews The Changing University: How Increased Demand for Scientists and Technology is Transforming Academic Institutions Internationally
Edited by
Dorothy S. Zinberg
doi:10.1038/355121a0
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doi:10.1038/355121b0
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Mark Varney reviews ECos Estuarine Contaminant Simulator
doi:10.1038/355122a0
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Ann M. Clarke & A. D. B. Clarke reviews Autism and Asperger Syndrome
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Uta Frith
doi:10.1038/355123a0
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| | Insights into setting sites 124
Peter Aldhous reviews The Fail-Safe Society: Community Defiance and the End of American Technological Optimism
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Charles Piller
doi:10.1038/355124a0
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organic molecules: an inventory for the origins of life 125
Christopher Chyba & Carl Sagan
doi:10.1038/355125a0
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| | Experimental constraints on strong-field relativistic gravity 132
J. H. Taylor, A. Wolszzan, Thibault Damour & J. M. Weisberg
doi:10.1038/355132a0
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| | Atomic structure of single-stranded DNA bacteriophage  X174 and its functional implications 137
Robert McKenna, Di Xia, Peter Willingmann, Leodevico L. IIag, S. Krishnaswamy, Michael G. Rossmann, Norman H. Olson, Timothy S. Baker & Nino L. Incardona
doi:10.1038/355137a0
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| | Spatial distribution of  -ray bursts observed by BATSE 143
C. A. Meegan, G. J. Fishman, R. B. Wilson, W. S. Paciesas, G. N. Pendleton, J. M. Horack, M. N. Brock & C. Kouveliotou
doi:10.1038/355143a0
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| | A planetary system around the millisecond pulsar PSR1257 + 12 145
A. Wolszczan & D. A. Frail
doi:10.1038/355145a0
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| | Birth of a radio supernova remnant in supernova 1987A 147
L. Staveley-Smfth, R. N. Manchester, M. J. Kesteven, D. Campbell-Wilson, D. F. Crawford, A. J. Turtle, J. E. Reynolds, A. K. Tzioumis, N. E. B. Killeen & D. L. Jauncey
doi:10.1038/355147a0
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| | Photochemical bromine production implicated in Arctic boundary-layer ozone depletion 150
J. C. McConnell, G. S. Henderson, L. Barrie, J. Bottenheim, H. Niki, C. H. Langford & E. M. J. Templeton
doi:10.1038/355150a0
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| | Liquid-hexatic phase transitions in single molecular layers of liquid-crystal films 152
R. Geer, T. Stoebe, C. C. Huang, R. Pindak, J. W. Goodby, M. Cheng, J. T. Ho & S. W. Hui
doi:10.1038/355152a0
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| | A new class of natural products revealed by 3 -alkyI steranes in
petroleum 154
Jeremy Dahl, J. Michael Moldowan, Mark A. McCaffrey & Paul A. Lipton
doi:10.1038/355154a0
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| | Control of dissolution rates of orthosilicate minerals by divalent metal−oxygen bonds 157
William H. Casey & Henry R. Westrich
doi:10.1038/355157a0
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| | Locomotion by jumping in the Mediterranean fruit-fly larva Ceratitis capitata
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David P. Maitland
doi:10.1038/355159a0
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| | Self-organizing neural network that discovers surfaces in random-dot stereograms 161
Suzanna Becker & Geoffrey E. Hinton
doi:10.1038/355161a0
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| | Rapid-time-course miniature and evoked excitatory currents at cerebellar synapses in situ
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R. Angus Silver, Stephen F. Traynelis & Stuart G. Cull-Candy
doi:10.1038/355163a0
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| | Inhibition by chloroquine of a novel haem polymerase enzyme activity in malaria trophozoites 167
A. F. G. Slater & A. Cerami
doi:10.1038/355167a0
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| | Extrathymic positive selection of  T-cell precursors in nude mice 170
Daniel E. Speiser, Ursula Stiibi & Rolf M. Zinkernagel
doi:10.1038/355170a0
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| | Immuno-isolation of Sec7p-coated transport vesicles from the yeast secretory pathway 173
Alex Franzusoff, Estefle Lauz & Kathryn E. Howell
doi:10.1038/355173a0
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| | Independent binding of the retinoblastoma protein and p107 to the transcription factor E2F 176
Liang Cao, Barbara Faha, Marlene Dembski, Li-Huei Tsai, Ed Harlow & Nicholas Dyson
doi:10.1038/355176a0
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| | New yeast actin-like gene required late in the cell cycle 179
Etienne Schwob & Robert P. Martin
doi:10.1038/355179a0
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| | Polar and lateral flagellar motors of marine Vibrio are driven by
different ion-motive forces 182
Tatsuo Atsumi, Linda McCartert & Yasuo Imae
doi:10.1038/355182a0
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| | Three-dimensional heteronuclear NMR studies of RNA 184
Edward P. Nikonowicz & Arthur Pardi
doi:10.1038/355184a0
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