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| | Putting a price on Maastricht 1
The failed summit meeting of the European Communities at Lisbon last weekend is another sign that Europe's most urgent need is better government.
doi:10.1038/358001a0
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| | Let the French sue 2
A lawsuit against the US over the AIDS patent would finally bring all of the hard facts into open court.
doi:10.1038/358002a0
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| | Billion bites the dust 2
Nature intends that a billion should henceforth mean what others intend.
doi:10.1038/358002b0
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| | Robert Gallo forced off NIH stage after HHS vetoes public briefing 3
Barbara J. Culliton
doi:10.1038/358003a0
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| | Italian agency questioned about first astronaut 4
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/358004a0
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| | Group asks NIH to stop growth hormone trials 4
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/358004b0
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| | NIH makes room for the unconventional after Congress mandates new programme 5
Jeffrey Mervis
doi:10.1038/358005a0
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| | Panel trims NSF budget 5
Jeffrey Mervis
doi:10.1038/358005b0
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| | Japan moves gingerly towards guidelines on gene therapy 6
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/358006a0
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| | US companies stand on the sidelines 6
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/358006b0
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| | French AIDS scandal goes to court 6
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/358006c0
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| | Ban on primate trade seen as threat to animals 7
Ian Mundell
doi:10.1038/358007a0
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| | Outlook improves for Flemish researchers 7
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/358007b0
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| | NCAR under fire, a victim of its own success 8
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/358008a0
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| | News in Brief | |
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| | NCAR under fire, a victim of its own success 8
Jeffrey Mervis
doi:10.1038/358008b0
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| | Internal politics block proposal by Russians to create foundation for basic research 9
Vladimir Pokrowsky
doi:10.1038/358009a0
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| | Indian court bans quotas that give share of science posts to outcasts 9
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/358009b0
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| | Italian peer review under pressure 9
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/358009c0
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| | Questions about AIDS 10
Geoffrey W. Hoffmann
doi:10.1038/358010a0
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| | Questions about AIDS 10
Lee Frank
doi:10.1038/358010b0
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| | Questions about AIDS 10
Peter Duesberg
doi:10.1038/358010c0
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| | Why cheat? 10
Jonathan Katz
doi:10.1038/358010d0
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| | Human insulin 10
M. R. Kiln & Amanda Sugarman
doi:10.1038/358010e0
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| | Trial and error in the Highlands 11
How should the increasing numbers of deer throughout the world be controlled? The situation in Scotland shows that an understanding of the biology of deer can provide practical guidelines.
T. H. Glutton-Brock & S. D. Albon
doi:10.1038/358011a0
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| | Media make AIDS wishes come true 13
A fuss last week about a crop of HIV infections in Birmingham (England) shows British newspapers, but notably the Sunday Times, at their most fickle.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/358013a0
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| | Beating the code breakers 14
Artur Ekert
doi:10.1038/358014a0
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| | p53, guardian of the genome 15
D. P. Lane
doi:10.1038/358015a0
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| | Continents ring the changes 16
Robert Kerrich
doi:10.1038/358016a0
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| | On to molecular mechanisms 18
Charles F. Stevens
doi:10.1038/358018a0
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| | Under the skin of Nazca 19
Warwick Bray
doi:10.1038/358019a0
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| | Melting of wet lithosphere 20
Richard W. Carlson
doi:10.1038/358020a0
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| | A sense of something missing 21
David H. Raulet
doi:10.1038/358021a0
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| | Terse comments 22
David Jones
doi:10.1038/358022a0
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| | Scientific Correspondence | |
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| | Smallest carbon nanotube 23
P. M. Ajayan & Sumio Lijima
doi:10.1038/358023a0
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| | Blood substitutes and infection 23
B. R. Otto, A. M. J. J. Verweij-van Vught & D. M. MacLaren
doi:10.1038/358023b0
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| | Pulsar's double period confirmed 24
D. Backer, S. Sallmen & R. Foster
doi:10.1038/358024a0
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| | Deep-sea amphipod swarms 25
Cindy Lee Van Dover, Stein Kaartvedt, Stephen M. Bollens, Peter H. Wiebe, Joel W. Martin & Scott C. France
doi:10.1038/358025a0
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| | Tweaking the magnetosphere 26
Bruce T. Tsurutani & Walter D. Gonzalez
doi:10.1038/358026a0
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| | Emerging cytokine family 26
Terry Farrah & Cralg A. Smith
doi:10.1038/358026b0
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| | That lonesome grail 27
Sydney Brenner reviews The Code of Codes: Scientific and Social Issues in the Human Genome Project
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Daniel J. Kevles & Leroy Hood
doi:10.1038/358027a0
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| | Making no apologies 28
Martin Gardner reviews The Art of Mathematics
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Jerry P. King
doi:10.1038/358028a0
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| | Differentiating diseases 29
Denis Mollison reviews Infectious Diseases of Humans: Dyna-mics and Control
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Roy M. Anderson & Robert M. May
doi:10.1038/358029a0
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| | Taming the oceans of the world 30
Donald S. McLusky reviews Dynamics of Marine Ecosystems: Biological-Physical Interactions in the Oceans
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K. H. Mann & J. R. N. Lazier
doi:10.1038/358030a0
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| | Quantification of the disorder in network-modified silicate glasses 31
I. Farnan, P. J. Grandinetti, J. H. Baltisberger, J. F. Stebbins, U. Werner, M. A. Eastman & A. Pines
doi:10.1038/358031a0
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| | Molecular diversity of the NMDA receptor channel 36
Tatsuya Kutsuwada, Nobuko Kashiwabuchi, Hisashi Mori, Kenji Sakimura, Etsuko Kushiya, Kazuaki Araki, Hiroyuki Meguro, Hisashi Masaki, Toshiro Kumanishi, Masaaki Arakawa & Masayoshi Mishina
doi:10.1038/358036a0
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| | Is a pyrene-like molecular ion the cause of the 4,430-Å diffuse interstellar
absorption band? 42
F. Salama & L.
J. Allamandola
doi:10.1038/358042a0
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| | Possible cometary origin of heavy noble gases in the atmospheres of Venus, Earth and Mars 43
Tobias Owen, Akiva Bar-Nun & Idit Kleinfeld
doi:10.1038/358043a0
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| | A high-pressure van der Waals compound in solid nitrogen-helium mixtures 46
W. L. Vos, L. W. Finger, R. J. Hemley, J. Z. Hu, H. K. Mao & J. A. Schouten
doi:10.1038/358046a0
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| | Densification of nanostructured titania assisted by a phase transformation 48
Krishnankutty-Nair P. Kumar, K. Keizer, A. J. Burggraaf, Tatsuya Okubo, Hidetoshi Nagamoto & Shigeharu Morooka
doi:10.1038/358048a0
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| | Possible connection between surface winds, solar activity and the Earth's magnetic field 51
Roger Y. Anderson
doi:10.1038/358051a0
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| | Evidence from Cd/Ca ratios in foraminifera for greater upwelling off California 4,000 years ago 54
A. van Geen, S. N. Luoma, C. C. Fuller, R. Anima, H. E. Clifton & S. Trumbore
doi:10.1038/358054a0
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| | Dehydration melting and the generation of continental flood basalts 57
Kerry Gallagher & Chris Hawkesworth
doi:10.1038/358057a0
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| | Marine transgressions and the evolution of Cretaceous dinosaurs 59
John R. Horner, David J. Varricchio & Mark B. Goodwin
doi:10.1038/358059a0
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| | Quantification of role reversal in relative parental investment in a bush cricket 61
L. W. Simmons
doi:10.1038/358061a0
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| | Voltage-dependent phosphorylation may recruit Ca2+ current
facilitation in chromaff in cells 63
Cristina R. Artalejo, Sandra Rossie, Robert L. Perlman & Aaron P. Fox
doi:10.1038/358063a0
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| | MHC class I alloantigen specificity of Ly-49+ IL-2-activated natural killer cells 66
Franz M. Karlhofer, Randall K. Ribaudo & Wayne M. Yokoyama
doi:10.1038/358066a0
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| | Rapamycin selectively inhibits interleukin-2 activation of p70 S6 kinase 70
Calvin J. Kuo, Jongkyeong Chung, David F. Fiorentino, W. Michael Flanagan, John Blenis & Gerald R. Crabtree
doi:10.1038/358070a0
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| | Phosducin is a protein kinase A-regulated G-protein regulator 73
Petra H. Bauer, Stefan Müller, Mechthild Puzicha, Susanne Pippig, Brigitte Obermaier, Ernst J. M. Helmreich & Martin J. Lohse
doi:10.1038/358073a0
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| | Antibody and HIV-1 gpl20 recognition of CD4 undermines the concept of mimicry between antibodies and receptors 76
Simon J. Davis, Gérard A. Schockmel, Chamorro Somoza, David W. Buck, Don G. Healey, E. Peter Rieber, Christian Reiter & Alan F. Williams
doi:10.1038/358076a0
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| | Amplification of a gene encoding a p53-associated protein in human sarcomas 80
J. D. Oliner, K. W. Kinzler, P. S. Meltzer, D. L. George & B. Vogelstein
doi:10.1038/358080a0
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| | Wild-type p53 activates transcription in vitro
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George Farmer, Jill Bargonetti, Hua Zhu, Paula Friedman, Ron Prywes & Carol Prives
doi:10.1038/358083a0
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| | A new approach to protein fold recognition 86
D. T. Jones, W. R. Taylort & J. M. Thornton
doi:10.1038/358086a0
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| | Summertime specials 90
Featured this week - a hand-held laboratory computer that makes light work of calculating solutions, an extracellular matrix preparation for anchorage-dependent cells and software that simulates objects in real motion.
doi:10.1038/358090a0
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