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| | Ducking big problems is cowardly 175
Last week's meeting of seven industrialized governments in Munich accomplished
little, but rather is a saddening reminder that even the most powerful governments are
sometimes mesmerized by the voters' power.
doi:10.1038/358175a0
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| | Al Gore's future 175
A science-minded politician has appeared on the Demo-crats' ticket for the US
election — in the nick of time.
doi:10.1038/358175b0
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| | Patents for genomes? 176
The United States could (and should) do more to prevent the confusion caused by genome patenting.
doi:10.1038/358176a0
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| | US drops Imanishi-Kari investigation; Baltimore withdraws Cell retraction 177
Christopher Anderson & Traci Watson
doi:10.1038/358177a0
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| | Audit faults US national labs 177
Traci Watson
doi:10.1038/358177b0
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| | Researchers see obstacles in using spy data 178
Traci Watson
doi:10.1038/358178a0
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| | British military beckons environmental researchers 179
Ian Mundell
doi:10.1038/358179a0
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| | Giotta encounters second comet; ready for more 179
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/358179b0
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| | Wall Street remains bearish on value of genome project 180
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/358180a0
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| | US rules out gene patent treaty 180
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/358180b0
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| | Delaney's revenge: Court rejects US approach to assessing cancer risks in processed foods 181
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/358181a0
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| | One policy for all? 181
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/358181b0
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| | UK centres target brain drain 182
Ian Mundell
doi:10.1038/358182a0
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| | Concrete holds key to ESRF's opening 182
Ian Mundell
doi:10.1038/358182b0
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| | Chinese researchers promised more 182
You Qin Li
doi:10.1038/358182c0
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| | Correction 182
doi:10.1038/358182d0
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| | Multiplicity of migrants 183
An informed debate on the manner in which legislation on migration from food
packaging is introduced is badly needed. Until then, scientific resources are being
needlessly wasted.
L. L Katan
doi:10.1038/358183a0
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| | Cost of brain disorders 184
F. E. Bloom, A. Cowey, R. L. M. Faull, D. G. Grahame-Smith, J. A. Gray, T. Hökfelt, L. L. Iversen, R. R. Llinas, C. D. Marsden, D. P. Purpura, M. C. Raff, A. D. Smith, S. H. Snyder & P. Somogyi
doi:10.1038/358184a0
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| | Cost of brain disorders 184
Joseph T. Coyle
doi:10.1038/358184b0
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| | No access 184
John Carmody
doi:10.1038/358184c0
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| | 'Blue ostriches' captured 185
P. V. Tobias, T. A. Dowson & J. D. Lewis-Williams
doi:10.1038/358185a0
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| | Well-being and productivity 186
Thomas H. Jukes
doi:10.1038/358186a0
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| | UK science 186
Edward J. Krowitz
doi:10.1038/358186b0
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| | How to publish the unpalatable? 187
Professor Philippe Rushton from the University of Western Ontario is skating on thin ice in seeking to use an analysis of the cranial capacity of US Army soldiers to support his views on racial differences in IQ.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/358187a0
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| | A tool for transgenesis 188
Cheryll Tickle
doi:10.1038/358188a0
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| | The big accelerator in the sky 189
E. S. Phinney
doi:10.1038/358189a0
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| | Cytosolic chaperonin confirmed 191
John Ellis
doi:10.1038/358191a0
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| | Wandering across time 192
Michael J. Novacek
doi:10.1038/358192a0
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| | Natural Josephson junctions 193
Colin Pegrum
doi:10.1038/358193a0
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| | Still poles apart on reversals? 194
Andy Jackson
doi:10.1038/358194a0
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| | Down the straight and narrow 195
M. S. Dresselhaus
doi:10.1038/358195a0
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| | Space mothballs 196
David Jones
doi:10.1038/358196a0
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| | Scientific Correspondence | |
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| | Bear conservation genetics 197
Pierre Taberlet & Jean Bouvet
doi:10.1038/358197a0
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| | Deep circulation revisited 197
Scott J. Lehman & Lloyd D. Keigwin
doi:10.1038/358197b0
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| | Signal sequence identified 198
Enno Hartmann, Tom A. Rapoport & Siegfried Prehn
doi:10.1038/358198a0
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| | Diamond source 198
Ian P. Wrlght
doi:10.1038/358198b0
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| | Bred in the bones 199
Michael Neve reviews Articulating the Elephant Man: Joseph Merrick and His
Interpreters
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doi:10.1038/358199a0
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| | Plugging the gene pool 200
Norman Myers reviews Conservation of Biodiversity for Sustainable Development.
Edited by
O. T. K. A. H. D. SandlundHinder Brown
doi:10.1038/358200a0
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| | Sensing the potential 200
Gordon Malan reviews Biosensor Principles and Applications
doi:10.1038/358200b0
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| | Moscow, physics and beyond 201
John M. Charap reviews I. E. Tamm: Selected Papers.
Edited by
B.
M. V. Ya Bolotovskii Frenkel
doi:10.1038/358201a0
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| | Listening post 202
Walter Wilczynski reviews The Evolutionary Biology of Hearing.
Edited by
Douglas B. Richard R. Arthur N. Webster Fay Popper
doi:10.1038/358202a0
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| | Molecular replication 203
Leslie E. Orgel
doi:10.1038/358203a0
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| | Atomic structure and chemistry of human serum albumin 209
Xiao Min He & Daniel C. Carter
doi:10.1038/358209a0
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| | Letters | |
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| | A double-sided radio jet from the compact Galactic Centre annihilator
1E1740.7−2942 215
I. F. Mirabel, L. F. Rodríguez, B. Cordier, J. Paul & F. Lebrun
doi:10.1038/358215a0
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| | Nonlinear prediction as a way of distinguishing chaos from random fractal
sequences 217
A. A. Tsonis & J. B. Elsner
doi:10.1038/358217a0
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| | Large-scale synthesis of carbon nanotubes 220
T. W. Ebbesen & P. M. Ajayan
doi:10.1038/358220a0
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| | Negative Poisson ratios in crystalline SiO2 from first-principles
calculations 222
Nitin R. Keskar & James R. Chelikowsky
doi:10.1038/358222a0
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| | Variability in sea-ice thickness over the North Pole from 1977 to 1990 224
A. S. McLaren, J. E. Walsh, R. H. Bourke, R. L. Weaver & W. Wrttmann
doi:10.1038/358224a0
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| | Longitudinal confinement of geomagnetic reversal paths as a possible sedimentary
artefact 226
C. G. Langereis, A. A. M. van Hoof & P. Rochette
doi:10.1038/358226a0
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| | Link between geomagnetic reversal paths and secular variation of the field over the
past 5 Myr 230
Catherine Constable
doi:10.1038/358230a0
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| | Post-Jurassic mammal-like reptile from the Palaeocene 233
Richard C. Fox, Gordon P. Youzwyshyn & David W. Krause
doi:10.1038/358233a0
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| | Targeted misexpression of Hox-4.6 in the avian limb bud causes apparent homeotic transformations 236
Bruce A. Morgan, Juan -Carlos Izpisúa-Belmonte, Denis Duboule & Clifford J. Tabin
doi:10.1038/358236a0
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| | The Lowe's oculocerebrorenal syndrome gene encodes a protein highly homologous to
inositol polyphosphate-5-phosphatase 239
Olivier Attree, Isabelle M. Olivos, Ichiro Okabe, L. Charles Bailey, David L. Nelson, Richard A. Lewis, Roderick R. Mclnnes & Robert L. Nussbaum
doi:10.1038/358239a0
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| | Nuclear localization and signalling activity of phosphoinositidase C in Swiss
3T3 cells 242
Alberto M. Martelli, R. Stewart Gilmour, Valeria Bertagnolo, Luca M. Neri, Lucia Manzoli & Lucio Cocco
doi:10.1038/358242a0
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| | TCP1 complex is a molecular chaperone in tubulin biogenesis 245
Michael B. Yaffe, George W. Farr, David Miklos, Arthur L. Horwich, Mona L. Sternlicht & Himan Sternlicht
doi:10.1038/358245a0
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| | T-complex polypeptide-1 is a subunit of a heteromeric particle in the eukaryotic
cytosol 249
Victoria A. Lewis, Gillian M. Hynes, Dong Zheng, Helen Saibil & Keith Willison
doi:10.1038/358249a0
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| | Cytotoxic T-lymphocyte activation involves a cascade of signalling and adhesion
events 253
Anne M. O'Rourke & Matthew F. Mescher
doi:10.1038/358253a0
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| | Superantigen implicated in dependence of HIV-1 replication in T cells on TCR V
expression 255
Jeffrey Laurence, Andrew S. Hodtsev & David N. Posnett
doi:10.1038/358255a0
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| | Retinoblastoma protein switches the E2F site from positive to negative element 259
Steven J. Weintraub, Cheryl A. Prater & Douglas C. Dean
doi:10.1038/358259a0
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doi:10.1038/358262a0
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