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| | London Zoo crippled by misjudgement 613
London will lose its city-centre zoo in September if last week's
flaccid announcement from the London Zoological Society is to be believed. This
is a sad ending to a mostly honourable tale.
doi:10.1038/357613a0
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| | Another phoenix? 613
The SSC is not dead (yet), but the US Congress may yet force a truly
international effort in high-energy physics.
doi:10.1038/357613b0
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| | Leeds disunited 614
There Is no substitute for openness in the handling of allegations of scientific misconduct.
doi:10.1038/357614a0
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| | US company's gene therapy trial is first to bypass RAC for approval 615
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/357615a0
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OED on CD 615
Peter Tallack
doi:10.1038/357615b0
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| | House vote to kill SSC reflects squeeze that budget deficit puts on all research 616
Jeffrey Mervis & Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/357616a0
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| | Japan 'finds' money for research 616
David Swlnbanks
doi:10.1038/357616b0
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| | Clinical research damaged by UK health service reforms 617
Ian Mundell
doi:10.1038/357617a0
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| | Russian academy vote excludes Jews 617
Vladimir Pokrovsky
doi:10.1038/357617b0
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| | FBI attaches strings to its DNA database 618
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/357618a0
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| | Germany plans university reform 618
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/357618b0
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| | Without a way to measure their success, Japanese projects are very hard to
stop 619
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/357619a0
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| | Fifth generation project lives on 619
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/357619b0
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| | Research effort is preserved in plan to close London Zoo 620
Ian Mundell
doi:10.1038/357620a0
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| | Lab death blamed on gas build-up 620
David Lindley
doi:10.1038/357620b0
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| | New Zealand tries to bring science closer to industry 620
Mark Lawson
doi:10.1038/357620c0
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| | The zoo that has to close 621
London Zoo is the only major national zoo run without the benefit of substantial support from public funds. No wonder it is having to close.
Lord Zuckerman
doi:10.1038/357621a0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Virtues of small universities 622
A. W. Wolfendale
doi:10.1038/357622a0
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| | Text readability 622
Daniel L. Turner
doi:10.1038/357622b0
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| | Optimistic, independent, aggressive: Texas shoots for the top in science 623
Barbara J. Culliton
doi:10.1038/357623a0
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| | Large, oil-soaked endowment helps state universities weather current hard times 625
David Lindley
doi:10.1038/357625a0
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| | Biotechnology leads the way as state moves beyond ground-based economy 626
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/357626a0
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| | SW medical center, famous and favoured, is thriving 627
Barbara J. Culliton
doi:10.1038/357627a0
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| | Houston breeds biotechnology hot shots 629
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/357629a0
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| | New biotechnology institute at Rice promotes interdisciplinary
studies 630
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/357630a0
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| | The woods are alive with high technology 630
doi:10.1038/357630b0
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| | San Antonio fills research park by making offers that scientists cannot refuse 631
Barbara J. Culliton
doi:10.1038/357631a0
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| | Supercollider creates a field of dreams for luring high-energy physicists to Texas 632
Jeffrey Mervis
doi:10.1038/357632a0
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| | Four who have come 633
Jeffrey Mervis
doi:10.1038/357633a0
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| | Texas A&M struggles to gain the respect that its researchers have
already won 634
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/357634a0
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| | A&M's plunge into biotechnology has everything — except staff 635
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/357635a0
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| | Out, out brief candle... 635
David Lindley
doi:10.1038/357635b0
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| | Energy researchers fight for their survival 636
Kathryn Jones
doi:10.1038/357636a0
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| | Space science in Texas means basic research as well as support for manned flights 637
Alcestis Oberg
doi:10.1038/357637a0
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| | San Antonio aims for spot on high-technology map 638
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/357638a0
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| | The objective case for conservation 639
Not before time, people are beginning to wrestle with the concept of biodiversity not simply from academic inclination, but so as to forge a practical yardstick for conservation.
Henry Gee
doi:10.1038/357639a0
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| | Hard-pressed molecular clouds 640
Mark Morris
doi:10.1038/357640a0
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| | Vascular pipe dreams 641
Alan R. Hemsley
doi:10.1038/357641a0
References | PDF (271K)
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| | Gangliomodulin? 641
doi:10.1038/357641b0
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| | Down the tube 641
doi:10.1038/357641c0
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| | Model prospects 641
doi:10.1038/357641d0
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| | Raising the roof of the world 642
P. B.
doi:10.1038/357642b0
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| | Homing in on the homeobox 643
Guy Riddihough
doi:10.1038/357643a0
References | PDF (268K)
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| | Pastoral plumbing 644
Peter D. Moore
doi:10.1038/357644a0
References | PDF (143K)
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| | Metallic solid silicon 645
Robert W. Cahn
doi:10.1038/357645a0
References | PDF (278K)
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| | Water in mantle minerals 646
David R. Bell
doi:10.1038/357646a0
References | PDF (301K)
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| | Asexual deviants take over 647
Russell J. Howard
doi:10.1038/357647a0
References | PDF (301K)
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| | Hot stripping 648
David Jones
doi:10.1038/357648a0
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| | Scientific Correspondence | |
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| | Thermostat and global warming 649
V. Ramanathan & W. Collins
doi:10.1038/357649a0
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| | Network-modifying ions in glass 650
S. R. Elliott
doi:10.1038/357650a0
References | PDF (149K)
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| | What is a chaperonin? 650
Sean M. Hemmingsen
doi:10.1038/357650b0
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| | Book Reviews | |
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| | Pharmaceutical feuds 651
Charles Medawar reviews Merck v. Glaxo: The Billion-Dollar Battle
By
Matthew Lynn and The Aspirin Wars: Money, Medicine and 100 Years of Rampant
Competition
By
Charles C. Mann & Mark L. Plummer
doi:10.1038/357651a0
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G. R.
doi:10.1038/357651b0
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| | Corridors of power 652
Charles C. Gillispie reviews Science under Control: The French Academy of Sciences 1795−1914
By
Maurice Crosland
doi:10.1038/357652a0
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| | Pesticides in perspective 653
Alastair Hay reviews The British Medical Association Guide to Pesticides, Chemicals and Health
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Edward Arnold and Handbook of Pesticide Toxicology: Vol. 1, General Principles; Vol. 2, Classes
of Pesticides; Vol. 3, Classes of Pesticides
Edited by
Wayland J. Hayes Jr. & Edward R Laws Jr. and Fate of Pesticides and Chemicals In
the Environment
Edited by
J. L. Schnoor
doi:10.1038/357653a0
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| | Realm of the Senses 654
Wolfgang Marwan & Dieter Oesterhelt reviews Sensory Receptors and Signal Transduction
Edited by
John L. Spudich & Birgit H. Satir
doi:10.1038/357654a0
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Rhizobium−plant signal exchange 655
Robert F. Fisher & Sharon R. Long
doi:10.1038/357655a0
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| | Anisotropy measurements of the cosmic microwave background radiation at intermediate angular scales 660
R. A. Watson, C. M. Gutierrez de laCruz, R. D. Davies, A. N. Lasenby, R. Rebolo, J. E. Beckman & S. Hancock
doi:10.1038/357660a0
Abstract & References | PDF (663K)
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| | Letters | |
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| | Extreme gas pressures in the galactic bulge 665
David N. Spergel & Leo Blitz
doi:10.1038/357665a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (393K)
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14C activity of dissolved organic carbon fractions in the north-central Pacific and Sargasso Sea 667
James E. Bauer, Peter M. Williams & Ellen R. M. Druffel
doi:10.1038/357667a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (495K)
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| | Rapid coupling of sinking particle fluxes between surface and deep ocean waters 670
V. L. Asper, W. G. Deuser, G. A. Knauer & S. E. Lohrenz
doi:10.1038/357670a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (393K)
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| | Substantial hydrogen solubility in olivine and implications for water storage in the mantle 672
Quan D. L. BaiKohlstedt
doi:10.1038/357672a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (370K)
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| | Grain-boundary graphite in Kapuskasing gneisses and implications for lower-crustal conductivity 674
Marianne Mareschal, William S. Fyfe, John Percival & Tammy Chan
doi:10.1038/357674a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (379K)
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| | Ages of altered granites adjoining the Witwatersrand Basin with implications for the origin of gold and uranium 677
L. J. Robb, D. W. Davis, S. L. Kamo & F. M. Meyer
doi:10.1038/357677a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (402K)
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| | Causes of recent Himalayan uplift deduced from deposited patterns in the Ganges basin 680
Douglas W. Burbank
doi:10.1038/357680a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (787K)
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| | A vascular conducting strand in the early land plant Cooksonia
683
D. Edwards, K. L. Davies & L. Axe
doi:10.1038/357683a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (440K)
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| | Do simple rules apply in honey-bee nestmate discrimination? 685
Michael D. Breed & Glennis E. Julian
doi:10.1038/357685a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (251K)
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| | Developmental regulation of NMDA receptor-mediated synaptic currents at a central synapse 686
Shaul Hestrin
doi:10.1038/357686a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (465K)
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| | Rapid switching to multiple antigenic and adhesive phenotypes in malaria 689
David J. RobertsCraig, Anthony R. Berendt, Robert Pinches, Gerard Nash, Kevin Marsh & Christopher I. Newbold
doi:10.1038/357689a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (463K)
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| | FK-506- and CsA-sensitive activation of the interleukin-2 promoter by calcineurin 692
Stephen J. O'Keefe, Jun'ichi Tamura, Randall L. Kincaid, Michael J. Tocci & Edward A. O'Neill
doi:10.1038/357692a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (381K)
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| | Identification of calcineurin as a key signalling enzyme in T-lymphocyte activation 695
Neil A. Clipstone & Gerald R. Crabtree
doi:10.1038/357695a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (338K)
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| | Alterations in a yeast protein resembling HIV Tat-binding protein relieve requirement for an acidic activation domain in GAL4 698
Jonathan C. Swaffield, Jacqueline F. Bromberg & Stephen A. Johnston
doi:10.1038/357698a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (339K)
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| | New human gene encoding a positive modulator of HIV Tat-mediated transactivation 700
Hiroshi Shibuya, Kenji Irie, Jun Ninomiya-Tsuji, Mark Goebl, Tadatsugu Taniguchi & Kunihiro Matsumoto
doi:10.1038/357700a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (434K)
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| | Processing pathways for presentation of cytosolic antigen to MHC class II-restricted T cells 702
Mauro S. Malnati, Merce Marti, Timothy LaVaute, Dolores Jaraquemada, William Biddison, Robert DeMars & Eric O. Long
doi:10.1038/357702a0
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| | Erratum | |
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| | Myosin head movements are synchronous with the elementary force-generating process in muscle 704
Malcolm Irving, Vincenzo Lombardi, Gabriella P. Piazzesi & Michael A. Ferenczi
doi:10.1038/357704a0
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| | Employment Review | |
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| | Working in the chemical industry 705
Many companies are looking beyond the academic records of applicants these days, and are searching for potential managers. A few of those taken on can look forward to truly international careers.
Colleen Shannon
doi:10.1038/357705a0
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