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| | Europe's recalcitrant offshore island 347
The chauvinistic response of many Britons to the events of the past two weeks would be better directed towards an understanding of the weakness of British industry — the real reason why �1 is no longer worth DM2.95.
doi:10.1038/359347a0
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| | Gene patents 348
The decision of the US Patent Office not to protect gene fragments is welcome, but questions remain.
doi:10.1038/359348a0
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| | Courts reject DNA fingerprinting, citing controversy after NAS report 349
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/359349a0
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| | Report proposes US forum to link research to needs 350
Jeffrey Mervis
doi:10.1038/359350a0
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| | Agencies told to transfer technology — or else 350
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/359350b0
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| | Don't ask for too much, industry tells Congress 350
Jeffrey Mervis
doi:10.1038/359350c0
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| | Merck promises large grant to university if Canada extends patent protection 351
David Spurgeon
doi:10.1038/359351a0
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| | Toshiba to help US students think about technology 351
Jeffrey Mervis
doi:10.1038/359351b0
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| | UK nuclear physicists wonder if there is life after Daresbury 352
Ian Mundell
doi:10.1038/359352a0
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| | British physicist to head CERN 352
Ian Mundell
doi:10.1038/359352b0
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| | Answers, but no solutions, for dispute at JET 352
Ian Mundell
doi:10.1038/359352c0
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| | Congress prepares compromise plan to save Landsat, lower costs and improve service 353
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/359353a0
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| | Canada apologizes to physicist 353
David Spurgeon
doi:10.1038/359353b0
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| | NAS to redo atomic studies found to be flawed 354
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/359354a0
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| | Japan endorses local touch 354
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/359354b0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Gas leakage in United Kingdom 355
M. K. Wallis
doi:10.1038/359355a0
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| | Serbia defended 355
Sne ana Obrenovi
doi:10.1038/359355b0
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| | Human insulin 355
Gareth Williams & Alan W. Patrick
doi:10.1038/359355c0
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| | Coastal erosion and insurance 356
Dennis Flanagan
doi:10.1038/359356a0
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| | Coastal erosion and insurance 356
A. W. Sam Smith
doi:10.1038/359356b0
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| | Mark Kac 356
Nicholas J. Cox
doi:10.1038/359356c0
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| | A mess of red pottage 357
The abundant Vicia sativa cultivar 'blanche fleur' from Australia is perceived by markets to be a cheap, protein-rich pulse, but is it suitable for human consumption?
Max E. Tate & Dirk Enneking
doi:10.1038/359357a0
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| | Forest fires, sandpiles and the like 359
An elegant argument about the behaviour of a simple model of a forest fire has now been extended to make connections with other systems that keep their original organization in spite of external disturbances.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/359359a0
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| | Finding circumstellar disks 360
Stephen E. Strom
doi:10.1038/359360a0
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| | Getting into the liver 361
F. E. G. Cox
doi:10.1038/359361a0
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| | Imprinting in leukaemia 362
Wolf Reik
doi:10.1038/359362a0
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| | Relative differences 363
doi:10.1038/359363a0
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| | Acid test 363
doi:10.1038/359363b0
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| | Smoke screen 363
doi:10.1038/359363c0
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| | Convection brought to a focus 364
David Loper
doi:10.1038/359364a0
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| | Magnets get their act together 365
Philip Stamp
doi:10.1038/359365a0
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| | Big genes and little genes and deadlines for transcription 366
Patrick H. O'Farrell
doi:10.1038/359366a0
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| | Mapping the way ahead 367
Peter Little
doi:10.1038/359367a0
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| | Soft option for pigment analysis 367
R. P.
doi:10.1038/359367b0
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| | Light fantastic 368
David Jones
doi:10.1038/359368a0
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| | Actin in cell attachment 369
Stuart Knutton, Tom Baldwin & Peter Williams
doi:10.1038/359369a0
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J. Sanger & J. Sanger
doi:10.1038/359369b0
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| | Early nanotubes? 369
J. A. E. Gibson
doi:10.1038/359369c0
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| | Atmospheric cellular convection 370
R. S. Scorer
doi:10.1038/359370a0
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| | Atmospheric cellular convection 370
R. David Baker II & Gerald Schubert
doi:10.1038/359370b0
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| | Allelic exclusion model questioned 370
Matthias Wabl & Charles Steinberg
doi:10.1038/359370c0
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| | Allelic exclusion model questioned 371
Adriana Oancea & Marc J. Shulman
doi:10.1038/359371a0
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| | Allelic exclusion model questioned 371
K. Rajewsky, A. Ehlich, W. Müller, S. Taki & D. Kitamura
doi:10.1038/359371b0
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| | The hydrological cycle and its influence on climate 373
Moustafa T. Chahine
doi:10.1038/359373a0
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| | Continuum of overlapping clones spanning the entire human chromosome 21q 380
Ilya Chumakov, Philippe Rigault, Sophie Guillou, Pierre Ougen, Alain Billaut, Ghislaine Guasconi, Patricia Gervy, Isabelle LeGall, Pascal Soularue, Laurent Grinas, Lydie Bougueleret, Christine Bellanné-Chantelot, Bruno Lacroix, Emmanuel Barillot, Philippe Gesnouin, Stuart Pook, Guy Vaysseix, Gerard Frelat, Annette Schmitz, Jean-Luc Sambucy, Assumpcio Bosch, Xavier Estivill, Jean Weissenbach, Alain Vignal, Harold Riethman, David Cox, David Patterson, Kathleen Gardiner, Masahira Hattori, Yoshiyuki Sakaki, Hitoshi Ichikawa, Misao Ohki, Denis Le Paslier, Roland Heilig, Stylianos Antonarakis & Daniel Cohen
doi:10.1038/359380a0
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| | Crystal structure of the met represser−operator complex at 2.8 Å resolution reveals DNA recognition by  -strands 387
William S. Somers & Simon E. V. Phillips
doi:10.1038/359387a0
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| | Large-scale structure in a universe with mixed hot and cold dark matter 393
Marc Davis, F. J. Summers & David Schlegel
doi:10.1038/359393a0
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| | The spectrum of cosmological density fluctuations and nature of dark matter 396
A. N. Taylor & M. Rowan-Robinson
doi:10.1038/359396a0
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| | Circumstellar disks deduced from sub-arcsecond polarization observations of two young stars 399
V. Piirola, F. Scaltriti & G. V. Coyne
doi:10.1038/359399a0
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| | Large anisotropic thermal conductivity in synthetic diamond films 401
J. E. Graebner, S. Jin, G. W. Kammlott, J. A. Herb & C. F. Gardinier
doi:10.1038/359401a0
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| | A decrease in the growth rates of atmospheric halon concentrations 403
J. H. Butler, J. W. Elkins, B. D. Hall, S. O. Cummings & S. A. Montzka
doi:10.1038/359403a0
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| | The planform of compositional convection and chimney formation in a mushy layer 406
Stephen Tait, Katia Jahrling & Claude Jaupart
doi:10.1038/359406a0
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| | Parents suppress reproduction and stimulate dispersal in opposite-sex juvenile white-footed mice 409
Jerry O. Wolff
doi:10.1038/359409a0
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| | No evidence for variable duration of sympatry between the great spotted cuckoo and its magpie host 410
Jesus M. Zuñiga & Tomas Redondo
doi:10.1038/359410a0
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| | Direct evidence for extensive paternal mitochondrial DNA inheritance in the marine mussel Mytilus
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Eleftherios Zouros, Kenneth R. Freeman, Amy Oberhauser Ball & Grant H. Pogson
doi:10.1038/359412a0
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| | Parental origin of chromosomes involved in the translocation t(9;22) 414
Oskar A. Haas, Anthi Argyriou-Tirita & Thomas Lion
doi:10.1038/359414a0
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| | Synaptic vesicle-associated Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II is a binding protein for synapsin I 417
Fabio Benfenati, Flavia Valtorta, James L. Rubenstein, Fred S. Gorelick, Paul Greengard & Andrew J. Czernik
doi:10.1038/359417a0
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| | Evidence for cooperative interactions in potassium channel gating 420
Jan Tytgat & Peter Hess
doi:10.1038/359420a0
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| | Transcriptional activation by the human c-Myc oncoprotein in yeast requires interaction with Max 423
Bruno Amati, Stephen Dalton, Mary W. Brooks, Trevor D. Littlewood, Gerard I. Evan & Hartmut Land
doi:10.1038/359423a0
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| | Myc and Max proteins possess distinct transcriptional activities 426
Leo Kretzner, Elizabeth M. Blackwood & Robert N. Eisenman
doi:10.1038/359426a0
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| | Truncation variants of peptides isolated from MHC class II molecules suggest sequence motifs 429
Alexander Yu. Rudensky, Paula Preston-Hurlburt,, Basel K. Al-Ramadi, Jonathan Rothbard & Charles A. Janeway
doi:10.1038/359429a0
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| | Probing met represser−operator recognition in solution 431
Yi-Yuan He, Teresa McNally, Iain Manfield, Oldrich Navratil, Iain G. Old, Simon E. V. Phillips, Isabelle Saint-Girons & Peter G. Stockley
doi:10.1038/359431a0
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| | Diabetes defect defined 434
Mcllraith would be pleased — one hundred years after his documentation of nephrogenic diabetes insipidus, the pursuit of the molecular pathology behind this condition has finally succeeded.
Kevin Davies
doi:10.1038/359434a0
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| | Making networks work 435
Electronic publishing and its twin, electronic networking, would seem to have arrived. But have they been pushed too hard, too soon?
Phil Barden
doi:10.1038/359435a0
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| | New Journals review 1992 436
doi:10.1038/359436a0
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| | Bringing it all back home 436
James Lovelock
doi:10.1038/359436b0
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| | Mentioned in dispatches 437
Sydney Brenner
doi:10.1038/359437a0
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| | Journals index 437
doi:10.1038/359437b0
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| | Old wine in new bottles 438
Christopher Wills
doi:10.1038/359438a0
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| | Botanical renaissance rag 439
Philip Rubery
doi:10.1038/359439a0
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| | Project reading 440
Neal G. Copeland
doi:10.1038/359440a0
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| | Limits of the growth business? 440
Peter Little
doi:10.1038/359440b0
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| | Cellular communication 441
John Armstrong
doi:10.1038/359441a0
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| | Identity crisis 441
P. R. Stanfield
doi:10.1038/359441b0
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| | Exponential growth 442
Herb F. Sewell
doi:10.1038/359442a0
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| | Mass media 442
J. K. Heath
doi:10.1038/359442b0
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| | Cancer forum 442
David A. Cheresh
doi:10.1038/359442c0
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| | Controversial issues 443
L. J. Kinlen
doi:10.1038/359443a0
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| | Channels of reception 443
Henry R. Bourne
doi:10.1038/359443b0
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| | Sugar daddy 444
D. A. Rees
doi:10.1038/359444a0
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| | Responses and reactions 444
Ian R. Phillips
doi:10.1038/359444b0
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| | Drugs and the brain 445
S. J. Enna
doi:10.1038/359445a0
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| | Going like a dream? 445
Eric A. Barnard
doi:10.1038/359445b0
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| | Better read than dread 446
Kenneth S. Kosik
doi:10.1038/359446a0
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| | Established newcomer 446
Larry W. Swanson
doi:10.1038/359446b0
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| | Blood relation 447
Stan Heptinstall
doi:10.1038/359447a0
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| | Beauty and the bible 447
Gobinda Sarkar
doi:10.1038/359447b0
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| | Breasting the flood 448
David Blow
doi:10.1038/359448a0
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| | Structure and function 448
J. A. Littlechild
doi:10.1038/359448b0
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| | Reading between the vines 449
Robin Goswell
doi:10.1038/359449a0
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| | Technical triumph 449
T. A. Connors
doi:10.1038/359449b0
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| | Burgeoning biocontrol 450
Keith Sunderland
doi:10.1038/359450a0
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| | Seeds of success 450
Robin Probert
doi:10.1038/359450b0
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| | Casting the net widely 451
J. H. S. Blaxter
doi:10.1038/359451a0
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| | Slippery slope 452
Ellis L. Yochelson
doi:10.1038/359452a0
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| | A dynamic quintet 453
Michael Shlesinger
doi:10.1038/359453a0
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| | Material beginnings 454
Ian Walmsley
doi:10.1038/359454a0
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| | Optical activity 454
Keith Blow
doi:10.1038/359454b0
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| | Images, signals and circuits 454
David Holburn
doi:10.1038/359454c0
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| | Thick, thin and ultra 456
Robert W. Cahn
doi:10.1038/359456a0
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| | Chemical crosslinks 457
Leslie Crombie
doi:10.1038/359457a0
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| | Drug design 458
Keith James
doi:10.1038/359458a0
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| | Transducers transformed 458
Richard Compton
doi:10.1038/359458b0
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| | War of the worlds 459
H. J. Melosh
doi:10.1038/359459a0
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| | Redressing the balance 460
Michael Rowan-Robinson
doi:10.1038/359460a0
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| | Mutual aid 460
Timothy O'Riordan
doi:10.1038/359460b0
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| | Time and space 461
A. M. Mannion
doi:10.1038/359461a0
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| | Out of focus 462
Michael Grubb
doi:10.1038/359462a0
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| | Energy plants 462
W. Bernard Betts
doi:10.1038/359462b0
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| | Thinking deep 462
John Fox
doi:10.1038/359462c0
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| | Neurocomputing 463
John A. Hertz
doi:10.1038/359463a0
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| | Beyond numeracy 463
Tony Barnard
doi:10.1038/359463b0
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| | From the horse's mouth 464
Nigel Williams
doi:10.1038/359464a0
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