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| | Better government for Europe? 347
The Maastricht Treaty on the constitution of Europe
from now on will probably be ratified in the coming months, but
will not give Europe the better government it needs.
doi:10.1038/357347a0
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| | The decade of the brain 348
Arguments that research support for neuroscience
should quadruple miss the point and are not
convincing.
doi:10.1038/357348a0
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| | Sandia looks for a company that will put research before
profits 349
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/357349a0
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| | Germans try to ease overcrowding 349
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/357349b0
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| | Science panel's report could end whaling ban 350
Ian Mundell & David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/357350a0
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| | France welcomes British physicists 350
Ian Mundell
doi:10.1038/357350b0
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| | Italian space scientists win round in funding 351
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/357351a0
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| | Europe decides manned space costs too much for now 351
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/357351b0
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| | Genetically engineered foods get green light 352
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/357352a0
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| | Indian missile test fizzles out 352
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/357352b0
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| | European Environment Agency still in limbo 353
Ian Mundell
doi:10.1038/357353a0
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| | Eureka welcomes first East European member 353
David Bakewell
doi:10.1038/357353b0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Is peer review unbiased? 354
Chauncey Starr
doi:10.1038/357354a0
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| | SLAC defended 354
Burton Richter
doi:10.1038/357354b0
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| | Brownian motion 354
Daniel H. Deutsch
doi:10.1038/357354c0
References | PDF (144K)
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| | FBI's case for genetics 355
John H. Hicks
doi:10.1038/357355a0
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| | Ethical problems in the genes 355
David Turner
doi:10.1038/357355b0
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| | Interest in CNR 355
Gertrud Lund
doi:10.1038/357355c0
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| | Not by numbers 355
J. R. Parker
doi:10.1038/357355d0
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| | Not by numbers 355
Brennig James
doi:10.1038/357355e0
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| | What frontiers for Frontier? 356
The Human Frontier Science Program is a bold attempt
to support the next century's biology research. Its horizons
should not be limited.
Akiyoshi Wada
doi:10.1038/357356a0
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| | Russian summer hopes dwarf doubts 357
Russian science seems to have survived the winter and
the first phase of price liberalization, but there is a long way
to go before it can compete on equal terms.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/357357a0
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| | Twenty-first century crops 358
Jim Peacock
doi:10.1038/357358a0
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| | Bacteria and the Midas touch 358
Stephen Mann
doi:10.1038/357358b0
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| | The work that muscles can do 360
R. McNeill Alexander
doi:10.1038/357360a0
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| | Fire burn and cauldron bubble 361
Leo Blitz
doi:10.1038/357361a0
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| | Diabetes running wild 362
Jared M. Diamond
doi:10.1038/357362a0
References | PDF (315K)
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| | Diabetes running wild 363
David Lindley
doi:10.1038/357363a0
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| | Dead issues 364
doi:10.1038/357364a0
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| | Molecular lightning rod 364
doi:10.1038/357364b0
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| | Cereal success 364
doi:10.1038/357364c0
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| | Transcriptional transgressions 364
Michael R. Green
doi:10.1038/357364d0
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| | Strength in disunity 365
Paul Calvert
doi:10.1038/357365a0
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| | Plastic nightmare 366
David Jones
doi:10.1038/357366a0
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| | Introns in sequence tags 367
Thomas R. Bürglin & Thomas
M. Barnes
doi:10.1038/357367a0
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| | Introns in sequence tags 367
Mark D. Adams, Chris Fields & J. Craig Venter
doi:10.1038/357367b0
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| | Misrepresenting paradise 368
John England
doi:10.1038/357368a0
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| | Mercury and gold pollution 369
Ronald Fuge, Nicholas J. G. Pearce & William
T. Perkins
doi:10.1038/357369a0
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| | Alpha-particles and leukaemia 369
R. H. Mole
doi:10.1038/357369b0
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| | Alpha-particles and leukaemia 370
K. F. Baverstock & K. Sankaranarayanan
doi:10.1038/357370a0
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| | Alpha-particles and leukaemia 370
Eric Wright
doi:10.1038/357370b0
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| | The environment as a commodity 371
This week's "Earth Summit" in Rio has precipitated the
publication of many books exploring the link between the
environment and the economy. Here is an economist's assessment
of their use to scientists.
Wilfred Beckerman
doi:10.1038/357371a0
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| | Ground rules 373
N. W. Pirie reviews Out of the Earth: Civilization and the Life of
the Soil
By
Daniel Hille
doi:10.1038/357373a0
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| | Bad behaviour 374
Jeffrey Mervis reviews Impure Science: Fraud, Compromise and
Political Influence in Scientific Research
By
Robert Bell
doi:10.1038/357374a0
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| | Proteolysis, proteasomes and antigen presentation 375
Alfred L. Goldberg & Kenneth
L. Rock
doi:10.1038/357375a0
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| | Is beryllium in metal-poor stars of galactic or
cosmological origin? 379
Gerard Gilmore, Bengt Gustafsson, Bengt Edvardsson & Poul E. Nissen
doi:10.1038/357379a0
Abstract & References | PDF (654K)
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| | A chimaeric ribonuclease-inhibitor gene restores fertility
to male sterile plants 384
Celestina Mariani, Veronique Gossele, Marc De Beuckeleer, Marc De Block, Robert B. Goldberg, Willy De Greef & Jan Leemans
doi:10.1038/357384a0
Abstract & References | PDF (605K)
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| | Can accretion onto isolated neutron stars produce
 -ray bursts? 388
Alice K. Harding & Marvin Leventhal
doi:10.1038/357388a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (234K)
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| | A neutron lens 390
M. A. Kumakhov & V. A. Sharov
doi:10.1038/357390a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (348K)
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| | Guiding and focusing neutron beams using capillary
optics 391
H. Chen, R. G. DowningMildner, W. M. Gibson, M. A. Kumakhov, I. Yu. Ponomarev & M. V. Gubarev
doi:10.1038/357391a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (422K)
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| | Improved second-harmonic generation from Langmuir−Blodgett
films of hemicyanine dyes 393
G. J. Ashwell, R. C. Hargreaves, C. E. Baldwin, G. S. Bahra & C. R. Brown
doi:10.1038/357393a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (345K)
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| | An electrochemical route to pre-shaped ceramic bodies 395
P. J. Mitchell & G. D. Wilcox
doi:10.1038/357395a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (344K)
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| | Episodic atmospheric nitrogen deposition to oligotrophic
oceans 397
N. J. P. Owens, J. N. GallowayDuce
doi:10.1038/357397a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (353K)
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| | Rapid racemization of aspartic acid in mollusc shells and
potential for dating over recent centuries 399
Glenn A. Goodfriend
doi:10.1038/357399a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (450K)
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| | Linking short-timescale deformation to long-timescale
tectonics 401
Didier Sornette & Jean Virieux
doi:10.1038/357401a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (585K)
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| | New Middle Pleistocene hominid crania from Yunxian in
China 404
Li Tianyuan & Dennis A. Etler
doi:10.1038/357404a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (516K)
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| | Animal model of Gaucher's disease from targeted disruption of
the mouse glucocerebrosidase gene 407
V. L. J. Tybulewicz, M. L. TremblayLaMarca, R. Willemsen, B. K. Stubblefield, S. Winfield, B. Zablocka, E. Sidransky, B. M. Martin, S. P. Huang, K. A. Mintzer, H. Westphal, R. C. Mulligan & E. I. Ginns
doi:10.1038/357407a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (643K)
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| | Mechanical performance of scallop adductor muscle during
swimming 411
Richard L. Marsh, John M. Olson & Sharon K. Guzik
doi:10.1038/357411a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (331K)
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| | Function of maternal cytokeratin in Xenopus
development 413
N. Torpey, C. C. Wylie & J. Heasman
doi:10.1038/357413a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (416K)
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| | Regulation of deactivation of photoreceptor G protein by its
target enzyme and cGMP 416
Vadim Yu. Arshavsky & M. Deric Bownds
doi:10.1038/357416a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (262K)
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| | Aminopeptidase N is a major receptor for the enteropathogenic
coronavirus TGEV 417
Bernard Delmas, Jacqueline Gelfi, René L'HaridonVogel, Hans SjöströmNorén & Hubert Laude
doi:10.1038/357417a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (497K)
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| | Human aminopeptidase N is a receptor for human coronavirus
229E 420
Curtis L. Yeager, Richard A. Ashmun, Richard K. Williams, Christine B. Cardellichio, Linda H. Shapiro, A. Thomas Look & Kathryn V. Holmes
doi:10.1038/357420a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (357K)
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| | Crystalline ribonuclease A loses function below the dynamical
transition at 220 K 423
Bjarne F. Rasmussen, Ann M. Stock, Dagmar Ringe & Gregory A. Petsko
doi:10.1038/357423a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (322K)
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