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| | Dangers of disappointment at Rio 265
Global environmental problems have dictated the need that next week's
conference at Rio should be as much concerned with development as with global warming.
Both deserve more than a couple of weeks.
doi:10.1038/357265a0
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| | Congress compromises on rules governing NIH policies 267
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/357267a0
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| | Researchers reject fetal tissue banks 267
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/357267b0
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| | Max Planck supports research in east as cost of reunification climbs 268
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/357268a0
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| | Social sciences found worth funding 268
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/357268b0
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| | Max Planck funds small projects 269
Alun Anderson
doi:10.1038/357269a0
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| | Researchers look beyond UNCED 269
Ian Mundell
doi:10.1038/357269b0
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| | NIH defends gene patents as filing deadline approaches 270
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/357270a0
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| | British JET staff to strike over pay and prospects 270
Ian Mundell
doi:10.1038/357270b0
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| | Canada's medical council wants larger role 271
David Spurgeon
doi:10.1038/357271a0
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| | Congress slashes "silly titles" 271
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/357271b0
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| | India claims market drives US ban on space contracts 271
K.S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/357271c0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | CFCs active 272
John Gribbin
doi:10.1038/357272a0
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| | Running in the family 272
E. Crawford, D. Gilmore & W. H. James
doi:10.1038/357272b0
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| | Running in the family 272
R. C. Connolly
doi:10.1038/357272c0
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| | British science 272
Terence Kealey
doi:10.1038/357272d0
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| | Italian university structure 273
David Burr
doi:10.1038/357273a0
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| | Endangered species and the law 274
Taxonomy does not deserve its reputation as an arcane science. As the
following examples from ungulate taxonomy show, classification has important
implications for conservation legislation.
Valerius Geist
doi:10.1038/357274a0
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| | 'alala live on in Hawaiian forest 277
Contention over the fate of a dozen endangered crows in Hawaii seems
to have been dispelled (for the time being) by sweep reason and a US National
Academy of Sciences inquiry.
Barbara J. Culliton
doi:10.1038/357277a0
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| | Bottoms up for the oceans 278
Robert M. May
doi:10.1038/357278a0
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| | Stepping up the pressure 279
Mohammed Sharif & Michael R. Hanley
doi:10.1038/357279a0
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| | Clarity in ion traps 280
Daniel Segal & Richard Thompson
doi:10.1038/357280a0
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| | HMG has DNA wrapped up 282
David M. J. Lilley
doi:10.1038/357282a0
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| | The deep-six fix again 283
James C. Orr
doi:10.1038/357283a0
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| | Fast forward in the MHC 284
Jonathan Howard
doi:10.1038/357284a0
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| | Casting more light on light 285
David J. Miller
doi:10.1038/357285a0
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| | Erotic quality 286
David Jones
doi:10.1038/357286a0
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| | Geminga: new period, old  -rays 287
G. F. Blgnami & P. A. Caraveo
doi:10.1038/357287a0
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| | Big Bang contd.. . 287
H. C. Arp, G. Burbidge, F. Hoyle & J. V. Narilkar
doi:10.1038/357287b0
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| | Big Bang contd.. . 288
P. J. E. Peebles, E. C. Turner, D. N. Schramm & R. G. Kron
doi:10.1038/357288a0
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| | Much ado about species 289
Jerry A. Coyne reviews The Units of Selection: Essays on the Nature of
Species
Edited by
Mark Ereshefsky
doi:10.1038/357289a0
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| | Industrious Inventor 289
doi:10.1038/357289b0
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| | The making of the atom bomb 290
Rudolf Peierls reviews British Scientists and the Manhattan Project: The Los Alamos Years
By
Ferenc Morton Szasz and The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures on How to Build an
Atom Bomb
By
Robert Serber
doi:10.1038/357290a0
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| | Completing the equations 291
Andrew Warwick reviews The Maxwellians
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Bruce J. Hunt
doi:10.1038/357291a0
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| | Chemical cookbook 292
Philip Ball reviews Comprehensive
Organic Synthesis: Selectivity, Strategy and Efficiency in Modern Organic
Chemistry
doi:10.1038/357292a0
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| | Thinly spread 292
Carl V. Thompson reviews The Materials Science of Thin Films
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Milton Ohring
doi:10.1038/357292b0
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| | Implications for climate and sea level of revised IPCC emissions
scenarios 293
T. M. L. Wigley & S. C. B. Raper
doi:10.1038/357293a0
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| | Homing of a DNA endonuclease gene by meiotic gene conversion in
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
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Frederick S. Gimble & Jeremy Thorner
doi:10.1038/357301a0
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| | Letters | |
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| | Pulsed high-energy -radiation from Geminga (1E0630+178) 306
D. L. Bertsch, K. T. S. Brazier, C. E. Fichtel, R. C. Hartman, S. D. Hunter, G. Kanbach, D. A. Kniffen, P. W. Kwok, Y. C. Lin, J. R. Mattox, H. A. Mayer−Hasselwander, C. v. Montigny, P. F. Michelson, P. L. Nolan, K. Pinkau, H. Rothermel, E. J. Schneid, M. Sommer, P. Sreekumar & D. J. Thompson
doi:10.1038/357306a0
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| | Origin of the hot gas and radio blobs at the Galactic Centre 308
Mark Wardle & Farhad Yusef-Zadeh
doi:10.1038/357308a0
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| | Multiple-shell structures of laser-cooled 24Mg+ ions in a quadrupole
storage ring 310
G. Birkl, S. Kassner & H. Walther
doi:10.1038/357310a0
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| | A new copper oxide superconductor containing carbon 313
K. Kinoshita & T. Yamada
doi:10.1038/357313a0
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| | A sequential-decision strategy for abating climate change 315
James K. Hammitt, Robert J. Lempert & Michael E. Schlesinger
doi:10.1038/357315a0
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| | Sequestration of C02 in the deep ocean by shallow injection 318
Peter M. Haugan & Helge Drange
doi:10.1038/357318a0
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| | Possible methane-induced polar warming in the early Eocene 320
L. Cirbus Sloan, James C. G. Walker, T. C. Moore Jr, David K. Rea & James C. Zachos
doi:10.1038/357320a0
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| | Productivity and compensatory responses of yellow-poplar trees in elevated
C02
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Richard J. Norby, Carla A. Gunderson, Stan D. Wullschleger, E. G. O'Neill & Mary K. McCracken
doi:10.1038/357322a0
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| | Earliest known simian primate found in Algeria 324
Marc Godinot & Mohamed Mahboubi
doi:10.1038/357324a0
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| | Unusual HLA-B alleles in two tribes of Brazilian Indians 326
Mônica P. Belich, J. Alejandro Madrigal, William H. Hildebrand, Jacqueline Zemmour, Robert C. Williams, Roberta Luz, Maria Luiza Petzl-Erler & Peter Parham
doi:10.1038/357326a0
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| | New recombinant HLA-B alleles in a tribe of South American Amerindians
indicate rapid evolution of MHC class I loci 329
David I. Watkins, Stephen N. McAdam, Xiaomin Liu, Clarice R. Strang, Edgar L. Milford, Cindy G. Levine, Theodore L. Garber, Alex L. Dogon, Carol I. Lord, Steven H. Ghim, Gary M. Troup, Austin L. Hughes & Norman L. Letvin
doi:10.1038/357329a0
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| | Molecular cloning of the receptor for human antidiuretic hormone 333
Mariel Birnbaumer, Anita Seibold, Stephanie Gilbert, Masami Ishido, Claude Barberis, Anaid Antaramian, Phillippe Brabet & Walter Rosenthal
doi:10.1038/357333a0
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| | Cloning and characterization of a vasopressin V2 receptor and possible
link to nephrogenic diabetes insipidus 336
Stephen J. Lolait, Anne-Marie O'Carroll, O. Wesley McBride, Monica Konig, Alain Morel & Michael J. Brownstein
doi:10.1038/357336a0
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| | Changing role of even-skipped during the evolution of insect pattern
formation 339
Nipam H. Patel, Eldon E. Ball & Corey S. Goodman
doi:10.1038/357339a0
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| | Location of MHC-encoded transporters in the endoplasmic reticulum and
cis-Golgi 342
Monique J. Kleijmeer, Adrian Kelly, Hans J. Geuze, Jan W. Slot, Alain Townsend & John Trowsdale
doi:10.1038/357342a0
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| | Spectroscopic methods 345
New products in the spectroscopic arena include an advanced spectral
library system for infrared spectroscopy and a fast-scanning UV/visible
spectrophotometer that features reverse optics.
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/357345a0
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