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| | Growing with environmental care 177
The World Bank's annual report on development strategy shows its full
commitment to environmental causes. When will that go so far as to link
assistance with prudent population policies?
doi:10.1038/357177a0
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| | Anti-environment Bush 177
President George Bush has sided with industry against his own
environmental chief on an air pollution issue.
doi:10.1038/357177b0
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| | Muddled carbon tax 178
The European Commission's proposals for a carbon tax are only a first
approximation to what will be needed.
doi:10.1038/357178a0
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| | Realities behind riots 179
Blacks are underrepresented among graduate students in the United
States. Why should this be?
doi:10.1038/357179a0
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| | DNA feud 179
Apparently the US EPA cannot agree with other agencies on the
regualtory status of recombinant DNA.
doi:10.1038/357179b0
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| | The great fungus 179
A killer fungus from Washington State challenges benign Armillaria
bulbosa for the title of world's largest mushroom.
doi:10.1038/357179c0
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| | News | |
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| | NIH scientists chafe under ethics rules on industry ties 180
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/357180a0
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| | French propose agency to spur European defence research 181
David Bakewell
doi:10.1038/357181a0
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| | Swiss vote for biotechnology, with controls 181
Oliver Klaffke
doi:10.1038/357181b0
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| | Germany to shift funding from physics to biology 182
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/357182a0
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| | Germany seeks new funds to meet costs 182
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/357182b0
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| | India goes to sea for research funds 183
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/357183a0
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| | Marine blasts to be regulated following UK protest 183
Ian Mundell
doi:10.1038/357183b0
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| | Cabinet shifts unlikely to help South African universities 184
Michael Cherry
doi:10.1038/357184a0
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| | Botswana needs science help to save plant and animal species 184
Ian Mundell
doi:10.1038/357184b0
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| | In brief 184
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/357184c0
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| | IN BRIEF 184
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/357184d0
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| | IN BRIEF 184
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/357184e0
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| | Choosing the limits to life 185
P. H. M. Lohman, K. Sankaranarayanan & J. Ashby
doi:10.1038/357185a0
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| | Of animals and men 187
R. A. Chapman
doi:10.1038/357187a0
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| | Of animals and men 187
Daniel N. Robinson
doi:10.1038/357187b0
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| | Of animals and men 187
P. A. Leonard
doi:10.1038/357187c0
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| | Of animals and men 187
Bernard D. Dayis
doi:10.1038/357187d0
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| | Of animals and men 187
David Jones
doi:10.1038/357187e0
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| | Rage and confusion hide role of HIV 188
Duesberg's argument that HIV is not the cause of AIDS gained no new ground
at last week's alternative AIDS conference, but his message has already been
taken up by a small army of followers.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/357188a0
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| | Yeast branches out 190
Ira Herskowitz
doi:10.1038/357190a0
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| | Geminga joins the class 191
Charles D. Bailyn
doi:10.1038/357191a0
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| | In the pink (and yellow) 192
Jeremy J. D. Greenwood
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| | In the air 192
doi:10.1038/357192b0
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| | Vampire wedding 192
doi:10.1038/357192c0
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| | Enigma variations 192
doi:10.1038/357192d0
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| | Flying the first class flag 193
Peter Parham
doi:10.1038/357193a0
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| | You can pile it only so high 194
Paul T. Delaney
doi:10.1038/357194a0
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| | A farewell to arms 196
David J. DeRosier
doi:10.1038/357196a0
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| | Stars arriving two by two 197
Cathie Clarke
doi:10.1038/357197a0
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| | Life in a test tube 198
Laurence D. Hurst & Richard Dawkins
doi:10.1038/357198a0
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| | Single atoms as transistors 199
Sean Washburn
doi:10.1038/357199a0
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| | Raising the roof 200
David Jones
doi:10.1038/357200a0
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| | Scientific Correspondence | |
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| | Original and artificial antibodies 201
Ermanno Gherardi & César Milstein
doi:10.1038/357201a0
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| | Amino acids from coal gasification? 202
Edwin S. Olson
doi:10.1038/357202a0
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| | Script handedness 202
Barry Knight
doi:10.1038/357202b0
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| | Triumph of the embryo? 203
Mark Ridley reviews The Meaning of Evolution: The Morphological Construction and Ideological Reconstruction of Darwin's Theory
By
Robert J. Richards
doi:10.1038/357203a0
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| | Investigating ancient enigmas 204
Robert Temple reviews Natural Knowledge in Preclassical Antiquity
By
Mott T. Greene
doi:10.1038/357204a0
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| | Celestial beams 204
R. J. Cohen reviews Astronomical Masers
By
Moshe Elitzur
doi:10.1038/357204b0
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| | Crab canon 205
F. A. Huntingford reviews Assessments and Decisions: A Study of Information Gathering
by Hermit Crabs
By
R. W. Elwood & S.
J. Neil.
doi:10.1038/357205a0
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| | Yeast roll 206
David Wilkie reviews The Molecular and Cellular Biology of the Yeast
Saccharomyces. Volume 1: Genome Dynamics, Protein Synthesis and
Energetics
Edited by
James R. Broach, John R. Pringle & Elizabeth R. Jones
doi:10.1038/357206a0
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| | A compositional classification scheme for meteoritic chondrules 207
Derek W. G. Sears, Lu Jie, Paul H. Benoit, John M. DeHart & Gary E. Lofgren
doi:10.1038/357207a0
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| | Effect of polymorphism of an MHC-linked transporter on the peptides
assembled in a class I molecule 211
Simon J. Powis, Edward V. Deverson, W. John Coadweil, Antonio Ciruela, Neville S. Huskisson, Howard Smith, Geoffrey W. Butcher & Jonathan C. Howard
doi:10.1038/357211a0
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| | The crystal structure of diphtheria toxin 216
Seunghyon Choe, Melanie J. Bennett, Gary Fujii, Paul M. G. Curmi, Katherine A. Kantardjieff, R. John Collier & David Eisenberg
doi:10.1038/357216a0
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| | Discovery of soft X-ray pulsations from the  -ray source Geminga 222
J. P. Halpern & S. S. Holt
doi:10.1038/357222a0
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| | Instability and reconnection in the head-on collision of two vortex
rings 225
T. T. Lim & T. B. Nickels
doi:10.1038/357225a0
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| | Coherence of the superconducting wavefunction between the heavy-fermion
superconductor UPd2AI3 and niobium 227
Y. He, C. Muirhead, A. Bradshaw, J. Abell, C. Schank, G. Geibel & F. Steglich
doi:10.1038/357227a0
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| | Effect of deep convection on the regulation of tropical sea surface
temperature 230
John M. Wallace
doi:10.1038/357230a0
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| | Importance of gravitational spreading in the tectonic and volcanic
evolution of Mount Etna 231
A. Borgia, L. Ferrari & G. Pasquarè
doi:10.1038/357231a0
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| | Female swallow preference for symmetrical male sexual ornaments 238
Anders Pape Møller
doi:10.1038/357238a0
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| | Long-term potentiation is associated with increases in quantal content and
quantal amplitude 240
Dimitri M. Kullmann & Roger A. Nicoll
doi:10.1038/357240a0
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| | The spread of Na+ spikes determines the pattern of dendritic Ca2+ entry
into hippocampal neurons 244
David B. Jaffe, Daniel Johnston, Nechama Lasser-Ross, John E. Lisman, Hiroyoshi Miyakawa & William N. Ross
doi:10.1038/357244a0
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| | An immunological role for the CD8  -chain 247
Christopher J. Wheeler, Paul von Hoegen & Jane R. Parnes
doi:10.1038/357247a0
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| | Irreversible association of peptides with class II MHC molecules in living
cells 249
Antonio Lanzavecchia, Pamela A. Reid & Colin Watts
doi:10.1038/357249a0
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| | Involvement of p21
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in Xenopus mesoderm induction 252
Malcolm Whitman & D. A. Melton
doi:10.1038/357252a0
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| | Induction of gut in Caenorhabditis elegans embryos 255
Bob Goldstein
doi:10.1038/357255a0
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| | The rate of actin-based motility of intracellular Listeria monocytogenes
equals the rate of actin polymerization 257
Julie A. Theriot, Timothy J. Mitchison, Lewis G. Tilney & Daniel A. Portnoy
doi:10.1038/357257a0
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| | DNA fingerprinting transforms the art of cell authentication 261
The increasing diversity of new cell cultures is seriously stretching
the capabilities of traditional methods of identification. DNA fingerprinting
is set to play an important role in increasing confidence in the authenticity
of cultures in research and industry.
Glyn N. Stacey, Bryan J. Bolton & Alan Doyle
doi:10.1038/357261a0
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| | Microbes and man 263
Featured this week— new Microbial Strain Data Network developments,
an artificial capillary cell culture system that is designed to simulate in
vivo growth conditions and an anti-mycoplasmal antibiotic to add to your
armoury.
doi:10.1038/357263a0
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