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| | War against famine, for nutrition 499
In Somalia, the world is fighting an unprecedented war in the name of basic nutrition. In the United States, the government has gone overboard on the matter of nutrition and health.
doi:10.1038/360499a0
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| | Japan's MITI opens domestic R & D projects to foreign participation 500
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/360500a0
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| | Very small plans 500
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/360500b0
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| | Shake-up planned for Galileo as it steals quietly past Earth and on to Jupiter 501
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/360501a0
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| | New human gene therapy institute in Pennsylvania 501
Traci Watson
doi:10.1038/360501b0
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| | The young and the restless 502
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/360502a0
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| | Running out of steam ... 502
Oscar G. Segurado
doi:10.1038/360502b0
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| | Physics centre threatened 503
Traci Watson
doi:10.1038/360503a0
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| | Proposal opens debate over US data on animals 503
Traci Watson
doi:10.1038/360503b0
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| | Physics and family values 504
David Spurgeon
doi:10.1038/360504a0
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| | Squabbling over Australian science 504
Mark Lawson
doi:10.1038/360504b0
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| | Hughes looks east for next expansion 504
Christopher Anderson
doi:10.1038/360504c0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Universal Darwinism 505
Gabriel A. Dover
doi:10.1038/360505a0
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| | Genuine genius 505
Frank J. Leavitt
doi:10.1038/360505b0
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| | More on legumes 505
Ramesh V. Bhat & T. C. Raghuram
doi:10.1038/360505c0
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| | Reply to Menger and Haim 506
R. L. Schowen
doi:10.1038/360506a0
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| | Germane reviews 506
Manfred E. Wolff
doi:10.1038/360506b0
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| | IPCC strategies unfair to the South 507
The IPCC assessment of climate change is full of assumptions unfair to the developing countries. It is essential that revisions take these problems into account if effective strategies are to ensue.
Jyoti K. Parikh
doi:10.1038/360507a0
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| | Heading into an uncertain future 509
Economic difficulties, and the challenge of entering the European Communities, are each prompting Europe's northernmost countries to reassess their approach to the organization and funding of science.
doi:10.1038/360509a0
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| | Collaboration: yes, but in which direction? 510
doi:10.1038/360510a0
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| | Sweden: The times are a-changing 511
doi:10.1038/360511a0
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| | Business-like universities 512
doi:10.1038/360512a0
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| | Support from the workers 512
doi:10.1038/360512b0
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| | Sweden's central role 513
doi:10.1038/360513a0
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| | Intellectual inward investment 513
doi:10.1038/360513b0
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| | Change at the Karolinska 514
doi:10.1038/360514a0
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| | Following ancestral footsteps 514
doi:10.1038/360514b0
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| | Merging for strength 515
doi:10.1038/360515a0
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| | Denmark: Influence beyond its size 516
doi:10.1038/360516a0
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| | Universities look forward to more autonomy 516
doi:10.1038/360516b0
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| | New name for an old friend 517
doi:10.1038/360517a0
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| | A council too many? 517
doi:10.1038/360517b0
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| | Aarhus on the accelerator 518
doi:10.1038/360518a0
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| | Fertile grounds for the growth of biotechnology 519
doi:10.1038/360519a0
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| | Norway: It's time to reorganize 520
doi:10.1038/360520a0
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| | Norway's universities challenged 521
doi:10.1038/360521a0
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| | Resisting the northern drift 521
doi:10.1038/360521b0
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| | The view from the North 522
doi:10.1038/360522a0
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| | EISCAT'S place out of the Sun 522
doi:10.1038/360522b0
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| | Alternative view on whaling 523
doi:10.1038/360523a0
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| | Finland: Faith in a European future 524
doi:10.1038/360524a0
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| | Universities tighten their belts 525
doi:10.1038/360525a0
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| | Technology dodging the cuts 526
doi:10.1038/360526a0
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| | Opposition confounds nuclear policy 526
doi:10.1038/360526b0
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| | Low-temperature gains 527
doi:10.1038/360527a0
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| | Talking to Europe 527
doi:10.1038/360527b0
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| | No biotechnology bandwagon 528
doi:10.1038/360528a0
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| | By their teeth ye shall know them 529
An argument about a fossil suggests that the decade-old lessons of cladistics have not yet been fully appreciated.
Henry Gee
doi:10.1038/360529a0
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| | Of mice and the MHC 530
Alan Grafen
doi:10.1038/360530a0
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| | Running rings round modellers 531
L. W. Esposito
doi:10.1038/360531a0
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| | New light on nitrogenase 532
R. N. F. Thorneley
doi:10.1038/360532a0
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| | Lessons from past climates 533
Eric J. Barron
doi:10.1038/360533a0
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| | A signal chain of events 534
Thomas M. Roberts
doi:10.1038/360534a0
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| | Tender morsels for microbes 535
Paul Calvert
doi:10.1038/360535a0
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| | Frosty reception 536
doi:10.1038/360536a0
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| | The mycoplasma factor 536
doi:10.1038/360536b0
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| | Weeping wine 536
doi:10.1038/360536c0
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| | Running without regulators 536
Simon M. Hughes
doi:10.1038/360536d0
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| | Just a fraction of a moment 537
Tony Stace
doi:10.1038/360537a0
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| | The iron horse 538
David Jones
doi:10.1038/360538a0
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| | Scientific Correspondence | |
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| | Oak tree mortality in Iberia 539
C. M. Brasier
doi:10.1038/360539a0
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| | Palaeocene therapsid debate 540
Richard C. Fox, Gordon P. Youzwyshyn & David W. Krause
doi:10.1038/360540a0
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| | Jury returns on structure prediction 540
Burkhard Rost & Chris Sander
doi:10.1038/360540b0
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| | Ferroelectricity in oxides 541
A. Bussmann-Holder & H. Böttner
doi:10.1038/360541a0
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| | Deviant TATA-box binding protein 541
John E. Hyde, Paul F. G. Sims, Martin Read & Michael B. McAndrew
doi:10.1038/360541b0
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| | More on motor neurons 541
Michael Sendtner, Kurt A. Stöckli, Patrick Carroll, Georg W. Kreutzberg, Hans Thoenen & Henning Schmalbruch
doi:10.1038/360541c0
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Per—no link to gap junctions 542
Lino Saez, Michael W. Young, Mary K. Baylies, Gregory Gasic, Thaddeus A. Bargiello & David C. Spray
doi:10.1038/360542a0
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| | Glimpses of the past 543
William A. S. Sarjeant reviews Scenes From Deep Time: Early Pictorial Representations of the Prehistoric World
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Martin J. S. Rudwick
doi:10.1038/360543a0
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| | Tribute to trilobites 544
Henry Gee
doi:10.1038/360544a0
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| | Successor to Weidenreich 544
Eric Delson reviews Koobi Fora Research Project. Volume 4: Hominid Cranial Remains.
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Bernard Wood
doi:10.1038/360544b0
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| | Perturbing patterns 545
Simon L. Altmann reviews Fearful Symmetry: Is God a Geometer?
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lan Stewart & Martin Golubitsky
doi:10.1038/360545a0
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| | Neighbours 546
M. G. Edmunds reviews The Andromeda Galaxy.
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Paul Hodge
doi:10.1038/360546a0
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| | Single-electron transfer in metallic nanostructures 547
Michel H. Devoret, Daniel Esteve & Cristian Urbina
doi:10.1038/360547a0
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| | Crystallographic structure and functional implications of the nitrogenase molybdenum−iron protein from Azotobacter vinelandii
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Jongsun Kirn & D. C. Rees
doi:10.1038/360553a0
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| | The O/C abundance ratio in absorbing gas clouds at high redshift 561
D. Reimers, S. Vogel, H.-J. Hagen, D. Engels, D. Groote, W. Wamsteker, J. Clavel & M. R. Rosa
doi:10.1038/360561a0
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| | Mechanical detection of magnetic resonance 563
D. Rugar, C. S. Yannoni & J. A. Sidles
doi:10.1038/360563a0
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| | Superconductivity in barium fulleride 566
A. R. Kortan, N. Kopylov, S. Glarum, E. M. Gyorgy, A. P. Ramirez, R. M. Fleming, O. Zhou, F. A. Thiel, P. L. Trevor & R. C. Haddon
doi:10.1038/360566a0
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| | Intercalation of sodium heteroclusters into the C60 lattice 568
T. Yildirim, O. Zhou, J. E. Fischer, N. Bykovetz, R. A. Strongin, M. A. Cichy, A. B. Smith III, C. L. Lin & R. Jelinek
doi:10.1038/360568a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (470K)
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| | Removal of sulphur from the marine boundary layer by ozone oxidation in sea-salt aerosols 571
H. Sievering, J. Boatman, E. Gorman, Y. Kim, L. Anderson, G. Ennis, M. Luria & S. Pandis
doi:10.1038/360571a0
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| | Deriving global climate sensitivity from palaeoclimate reconstructions 573
Martin I. Hoffert & Curt Covey
doi:10.1038/360573a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (450K)
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| | Patterns of species diversity in the deep sea as a function of sediment particle size diversity 576
Ron J. Etter & J. Frederick Grassle
doi:10.1038/360576a0
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| | Dispersal of juveniles and variable recruitment in sessile marine species 579
Steven D. Gaines & Mark D. Bertness
doi:10.1038/360579a0
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| | Communal nesting patterns in mice implicate MHC genes in kin recognition 581
C. Jo Manning, Edward K. Wakeland & Wayne K. Potts
doi:10.1038/360581a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (353K)
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| | The perception of heading during eye movements 583
Constance S. Royden, Martin S. Banks & James A. Crowell
doi:10.1038/360583a0
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| | Three-dimensional illusory contours and surfaces 585
George J. Carman & Leslie Welch
doi:10.1038/360585a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (360K)
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| | Association of dystrophin-related protein with dystrophin-associated proteins in mdx mouse muscle 588
Kiichiro Matsumura, James M. Ervasti, Kay Ohlendieck, Steven D. Kahl & Kevin P. Campbell
doi:10.1038/360588a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (695K)
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| | Primary structure of dystrophin-related protein 591
J. M. Tinsley, D. J. Blake, A. Roche, U. Fairbrother, J. Riss, B. C. Byth, A. E. Knight, J. Kendrick-Jones;, G. K. Suthers, D. R. Love, Y. H. Edwards & K. E. Davies
doi:10.1038/360591a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (345K)
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| | CDlb restricts the response of human CD4-8-T lymphocytes to a microbial antigen 593
Steven Porcelli, Craig T. Morita & Michael B. Brenner
doi:10.1038/360593a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (489K)
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| | Ornithine decarboxylase is degraded by the 26S proteasome without ubiquitination 597
Yasuko Murakami, Senya Matsufuji, Takaaki Kameji, Shin-ichi Hayashi, Kazuei Igarashi, Tomohiro Tamura, Keiji Tanaka & Akira Ichihara
doi:10.1038/360597a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (452K)
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| | Raf functions downstream of Rasl in the Sevenless signal transduction pathway 600
Barry Dickson, Frank Sprenger, Deborah Morrison & Ernst Hafen
doi:10.1038/360600a0
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SEC21 is a gene required for ER to Golgi protein transport that encodes a subunit of a yeast coatomer 603
Midori Hosobuchi, Thomas Kreis & Randy Schekman
doi:10.1038/360603a0
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Ming X. Wang & George M. Church
doi:10.1038/360606a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (614K)
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| | The Drosophila clock gene per affects intercellular junctional communication 610
T. A. Bargiello, L. Saez, M. K. Baylies, G. Gasic, M. W. Young & D. C. Spray
doi:10.1038/360610a0
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| | Expression cloning of a human DNA repair gene involved in xeroderma pigmentosum group C 610
Randy Legerski & Carolyn Peterson
doi:10.1038/360610b0
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| | Scandinavian sourcebook 611
Products featured this week from companies based in Scandinavia include an RNA/DNA calculator, an automatic peptide synthesizer optimized for Fmoc polyamide chemistry and an ATP biomass kit.
doi:10.1038/360611a0
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