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| | Infectious diseases are not banished 657
The US Institute of Medicine has just produced a document that is either scary or a spur that will persuade governments to pay more attention to old-fashioned public health.
doi:10.1038/359657a0
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| | Market ideology 658
The British government seems to believe that a market in energy absolves it from responsibility.
doi:10.1038/359658a0
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| | Drastic changes called for in French space programme 659
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/359659a0
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| | NASA carves up science programme 659
Andrew Lawler
doi:10.1038/359659b0
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| | Racial tensions entangle NIH in dispute over AIDS drug 660
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/359660a0
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| | NHS opens meta-analysis centre 660
Ian Mundell
doi:10.1038/359660b0
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| | NSF drops flat-rate plan for grants in mathematics 661
Jeffrey Mervis
doi:10.1038/359661a0
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| | Clinton emphasizes technology over science in choosing advisers for presidential campaign 662
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/359662a0
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| | Japan modifies plans for plutonium in wake of protests over shipments 663
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/359663a0
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| | How to handle hot plutonium 663
D. S.
doi:10.1038/359663b0
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| | Mail-order notification would replace permits for US field tests 663
Sally Lehrman
doi:10.1038/359663c0
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| | Nobel Prizes go to Caltech chemist, CERN physicist 664
Robert Finn
doi:10.1038/359664a0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Talking telephone numbers 665
John Littler
doi:10.1038/359665a0
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| | Talking telephone numbers 665
Michael Blechner
doi:10.1038/359665b0
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| | Consciousness 665
Hugh L. Fletcher
doi:10.1038/359665c0
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| | True or false? 665
Richard Milton
doi:10.1038/359665d0
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| | Struggles to correct published errors 666
The following is an account of what happened when two researchers independently tried to correct errors in articles published in the leading US chemical journa1.
Fredric M. Menger & Albert Haim
doi:10.1038/359666a0
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| | The model for almost all seasons? 669
The solution by Onsager, almost exactly half a century ago, of a simple-minded two-dimensional model of a ferromagnet has been a powerful stimulus in theoretical physics.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/359669a0
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| | Carbon onions introduce new flavour to fullerene studies 670
H. W. Kroto
doi:10.1038/359670a0
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R. P.
doi:10.1038/359670b0
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| | Visual differences 671
Patrick Casey
doi:10.1038/359671a0
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| | Memory logs 672
doi:10.1038/359672a0
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| | Dominant domain 672
doi:10.1038/359672b0
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| | New for old 672
doi:10.1038/359672c0
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| | Long time series reveal density dependence 673
H. C. J. Godfray & M. P. Hassell
doi:10.1038/359673a0
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| | A long shot at the Kuiper belt 673
R. P.
doi:10.1038/359673b0
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| | Drug ring bust 674
G. R.
doi:10.1038/359674a0
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| | A brief history of pulsar time 675
R. D. Blandford
doi:10.1038/359675a0
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| | Second gorilla or third chimp? 676
David Dean & Eric Delson
doi:10.1038/359676a0
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| | Weakness amidst strength 677
Christopher H. Scholz
doi:10.1038/359677a0
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| | Past fears 678
David Jones
doi:10.1038/359678a0
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| | Scientific Correspondence | |
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| | Clams before Columbus? 679
K. S. Petersen, K. L. Rasmussen, J. Heinemeier & N. Rud
doi:10.1038/359679a0
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| | Temperature oscillations 679
Myles R. Allen, Peter L. Read & Leonard A. Smith
doi:10.1038/359679b0
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| | A rete in the right whale 680
T. J. Ford Jr & S. D. Kraus
doi:10.1038/359680a0
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| | Childhood thyroid cancer in Belarus 680
Valerie Beral & Gillian Reeves
doi:10.1038/359680b0
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| | Childhood thyroid cancer in Belarus 681
I. Shigematsu & J. W. Thiessen
doi:10.1038/359681a0
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| | DNA fingerprints of cell lines 681
Roderick A. F. MacLeod
doi:10.1038/359681b0
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| | DNA fingerprints of cell lines 681
Glyn N. Stacey, Bryan J. Bolton & Alan Doyle
doi:10.1038/359681c0
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| | Winged Late Devonian seeds 682
N. P. Rowe
doi:10.1038/359682a0
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| | Intricacies of nature 683
Colin Tudge reviews Conservation Biology: The Theory and Practice of Nature Conservation, Preservation and Management
Edited by
Peggy L. Fiedler, Subodh K. Jain & R. Gerald Wright
doi:10.1038/359683a0
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doi:10.1038/359683b0
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| | Planetary perception 684
David W. Hughes reviews The Planets: Portraits of New Worlds
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Nigel Henbest & William Sheehan
doi:10.1038/359684a0
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| | Science and salvation 685
H. N. V. Temperley reviews Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives
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John Medley Brooke
doi:10.1038/359685a0
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| | Preparing for the brain decade 686
Michael R. Hanley reviews Neurons and Networks: An Introduction to Neuroscience
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John E. Dowling, Irwin B. Levitan, Leonard K. Kaczmarek & Zach W. & Hall
doi:10.1038/359686a0
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| | Creep, compaction and the weak rheology of major faults 687
Norman H. Sleep & Michael L. Blanpied
doi:10.1038/359687a0
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| | Targeted disruption of the mouse transforming growth factor- 1 gene results in multifocal inflammatory disease 693
Marcia M. Shull, Ilona Ormsby, Ann B. Kier, Sharon Pawlowski, Ronald J. Diebold, Moying Yin, Ruth Allen, Charles Sidman, Gabriele Proetzel, Dawn Calvin, Nikki Annunziata & Thomas Doetschman
doi:10.1038/359693a0
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| | Molecular structure of the acyl-enzyme intermediate in -lactam hydrolysis at 1.7 Å resolution 700
Natalie C. J. Strynadka, Hiroyuki Adachi, Susan E. Jensen, Kathy Johns, Anita Sielecki, Christian Betzel, Kazuo Sutoh & Michael N. G. James
doi:10.1038/359700a0
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| | Spin-up and recovery in the 1989 glitch of the Crab pulsar 706
A. G. Lyne, F. Graham Smith & R. S. Pritchard
doi:10.1038/359706a0
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| | Curling and closure of graphitic networks under electron-beam irradiation 707
Daniel Ugarte
doi:10.1038/359707a0
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| | Ordered mesoporous molecular sieves synthesized by a liquid-crystal template mechanism 710
C. T. Kresge, M. E. Leonowicz, W. J. Roth, J. C. Vartuli & J. S. Beck
doi:10.1038/359710a0
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| | Anthropogenic influence on the distribution of tropospheric sulphate aerosol 712
J. Langner, H. Rodhe, P. J. Crutzen & P. Zimmermann
doi:10.1038/359712a0
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| | Effects of boreal forest vegetation on global climate 716
Gordon B. Bonan, David Pollard & Starley L. Thompson
doi:10.1038/359716a0
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| | Evidence from Re−Os isotopes for plume−lithosphere mixing in Karoo flood basalt genesis 718
R. M. Ellam, R. W. Carlson & S. B. Shirey
doi:10.1038/359718a0
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| | Saharan exploitation of plants 8,000 years BP 721
Fred Wendorf, Angela E. Close, Romuald Schild, Krystyna Wasylikowa, Rupert A. Housley, Jack R. Harlan & Halina Królik
doi:10.1038/359721a0
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| | Eusociality in Australian gall thrips 724
Bernard J. Crespi
doi:10.1038/359724a0
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| | Wing bone stresses in free flying bats and the evolution of skeletal design for
flight 726
Sharon M. Swartz, Michael B. Bennett & David R. Carrier
doi:10.1038/359726a0
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| | Positive selection of T-lymphocytes induced by intrathymic injection of a thymic
epithelial cell line 729
Stanislav Vukmanovi , Andres G. Grandea III, Susan J. Faas, Barbara B. Knowles & Michael J. Bevan
doi:10.1038/359729a0
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| | Quantal transmitter secretion from myocytes loaded with acetylcholine 733
Yang Dan & Mu-ming Poo
doi:10.1038/359733a0
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| | Patterns of elevated free calcium and calmodulin activation in living cells 736
Klaus Hahn, Robbin DeBiasio & D. Lansing Taylor
doi:10.1038/359736a0
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| | Inactivation of the sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium channel by protein kinase 739
Jixin Wang & Philip M. Best
doi:10.1038/359739a0
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| | Signal-sequence recognition by an Escherichia coli ribonucleoprotein complex 741
Joen Luirink, Stephen High, Heather Wood, Angelika Giner, David Tollervey & Bernhard Dobberstein
doi:10.1038/359741a0
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| | The E. coli ffh gene is necessary for viability and efficient protein export 744
Gregory J. Phillips & Thomas J. Silhavy
doi:10.1038/359744a0
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| | Pol of gag−pol fusion protein required for encapsidation of viral RNA
of yeast L-A virus 746
Tsutomu Fujimura, Juan C. Ribas, Alexandr M. Makhov & Reed B. Wickner
doi:10.1038/359746a0
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| | Lipid modification at the N terminus of photoreceptor G-protein  -subunit 749
Koichi Kokame, Yoshitaka Fukada, Tôru Yoshizawa, Toshifumi Takao & Yasutsugu Shimonishi
doi:10.1038/359749a0
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| | Crystal structure of a streptococcal protein G domain bound to an Fab fragment 752
Jeremy P. Derrick & Dale B. Wigley
doi:10.1038/359752a0
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| | Product Review | |
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| | Neuronotes 755
Research tools for the neuroscientist featured this week include a patch-clamp analysis software package, a selection of perfusion chambers, imaging systems and an assortment of antibodies.
doi:10.1038/359755a0
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