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| | A comprehensive test-ban now, please 381
The case for a comprehensive test-ban treaty, necessary for global security and civility, is made more pointed by worries about proliferation. But now the British seem to be dragging their feet.
doi:10.1038/361381a0
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| | Europe's research 381
A meeting of research council heads will put pressure on Brussels and may give Strasbourg a bigger role.
doi:10.1038/361381b0
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| | Watching watchdogs 382
The Chemical Weapons Convention will work only if verification procedures are sensitive to public scrutiny.
doi:10.1038/361382a0
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| | Cambridge and Heidelberg compete for new European gene database 383
David Dickson & Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/361383a0
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| | Massey will leave NSF amid controversy over its future 384
Jeffrey Mervis
doi:10.1038/361384a0
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| | Italians criticize selection process 384
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/361384b0
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| | Gibbons sees Gore links as asset for science 385
Jeffrey Mervis
doi:10.1038/361385a0
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| | Grace period urged for patents 385
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/361385b0
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| | IBM research to stress products and results 386
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/361386a0
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| | Cray's Rollwagen gets Commerce job 386
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/361386b0
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| | Britain plans broad strategy on genome, approves therapy 387
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/361387a0
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| | INDIA IN BRIEF 387
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/361387b0
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| | British VAT blocks loan of Japanese computers 388
David Swinbanks & David Dickson
doi:10.1038/361388a0
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| | Meetings on British science 388
doi:10.1038/361388b0
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| | UK muon source given exemption 388
David Swinbanks & David Dickson
doi:10.1038/361388c0
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| | US panel disagrees on cancer testing method 389
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/361389a0
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| | William Petty papers purchased for £1 million 389
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/361389b0
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| | Long-term national databases 390
Peter J. Cook
doi:10.1038/361390a0
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| | Diet and cancer 390
H. Leon Bradlow & Jack Fishman
doi:10.1038/361390b0
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| | Columbus a Jew? 390
Umberto Bartocci
doi:10.1038/361390c0
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| | Harvesting of whales 391
Sidney J. Holt
doi:10.1038/361391a0
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| | Harvesting of whales 391
Vassili Papastavrou
doi:10.1038/361391b0
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| | Culture deposits 391
J. A. Barnett
doi:10.1038/361391c0
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| | Prospects for a comprehensive test ban 392
Progress towards an international moratorium on the testing and development of nuclear weapons has been slow and tortuous. The time is now ripe for a treaty to be agreed.
Lord Zuckerman
doi:10.1038/361392a0
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| | Sonoluminescence in from the dark 397
The idea that a sufficiently intense sound wave might make a liquid glow with light is almost an exercise in magic; but the facts are verifiable, the understanding lags behind.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/361397a0
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| | Beauty on the brain 398
Rory Howlett
doi:10.1038/361398a0
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| | Worlds in collision 399
Gerry Gilmore
doi:10.1038/361399a0
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| | The long and the short of it 400
Vernon French
doi:10.1038/361400a0
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| | Cap that 402
doi:10.1038/361402a0
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| | True grit 402
doi:10.1038/361402b0
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| | Three from one 402
doi:10.1038/361402c0
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| | Learning from the past 402
Vic Baker
doi:10.1038/361402d0
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| | Genes-in-pieces revisited 403
W. Ford Doolittle & Arlin Stoltzfus
doi:10.1038/361403a0
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| | Flickers within cycles 404
Scott Lehman
doi:10.1038/361404a0
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| | Fetal implants put to the test 405
Fred H. Gage
doi:10.1038/361405a0
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| | Bristling with potential 406
doi:10.1038/361406a0
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| | Merging at the magnetopause 407
Alan Rodger & John Dudeney
doi:10.1038/361407a0
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| | Save the Earth! 408
David Jones
doi:10.1038/361408a0
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| | Radioactivity of snake venom 409
Andrey A. Nedospasov & Alexandr V. Cherkasov
doi:10.1038/361409a0
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| | Fluctuating asymmetry measurement 409
Matthew S. Sullivan, Peter A. Robertson & Nicholas A. Aebischer
doi:10.1038/361409b0
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| | Pain pathways and plasticity 410
John C. Marshall & Peter W. Halligan
doi:10.1038/361410a0
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| | A thermostat in the tropics? 410
V. Ramanathan & W. Collins
doi:10.1038/361410b0
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| | A thermostat in the tropics? 412
Rong Fu, W. Timothy Liu, Anthony D. Del Genio & William B. Rossow
doi:10.1038/361412a0
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| | Mr Science, warts and all 413
Roy Porter reviews The Invisible Man: The Life and Liberties of H. G. Wells.
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doi:10.1038/361413a0
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| | One world 414
Timothy O'Riordan reviews The Environment in International Relations.
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Caroline Thomas, Ian Rowlands, Malory Greene, Andrew Hurrell, Benedict Kingsbury, Neils P. Gleditsch, J. B. Poole, R. Guthrie, Ruben A. M. Natsakania & Duncan Fisher
doi:10.1038/361414a0
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| | Of two minds 415
H. J. Eysenck reviews Wolfgang Pauli und C. G. Jung: Ein Briefwechsel, 1932-1958.
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doi:10.1038/361415a0
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| | Big blunder 416
Brian J. Ford reviews Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology.
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Christopher Morris
doi:10.1038/361416a0
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| | Building on firm foundations 416
J. P. Platt reviews Structural Geology
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Robert J. Twiss & Eldridge M. Moores
doi:10.1038/361416b0
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| | The centre of the Milky Way 417
Leo Blitz, James Binney, K. Y. Lo, John Bally & Paul T. P. Ho
doi:10.1038/361417a0
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| | Ionospheric signatures of pulsed reconnection at the Earth's magnetopause 424
M. Lockwood, W. F. Denig, A. D. Farmer, V. N. Davda, S. W. H. Cowley & H. Lühr
doi:10.1038/361424a0
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| | Photochemical switching of polarization in ferroelectric liquid-crystal films 428
Tomiki Ikeda, Takeo Sasaki & Kunihiro Ichimura
doi:10.1038/361428a0
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| | Large increases in flood magnitude in response to modest changes in climate 430
James C. Knox
doi:10.1038/361430a0
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| | The 'flickering switch' of late Pleistocene climate change 432
K. C. Taylor, G. W. Lamorey, G. A. Doyle, R. B. Alley, P. M. Grootes, P. A. Mayewski, J. W. C. White & L. K. Barlow
doi:10.1038/361432a0
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| | Reduction of Fe(III) in sediments by sulphate-reducing bacteria 436
Max L. Coleman, David B. Hedrick, Derek R. Lovley, David C. White & Kenneth Pye
doi:10.1038/361436a0
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| | Mechanisms of magma eruption and emplacement at Mt Etna between 1989 and 1992 439
Hazel Rymer, John B. Murray, Geoff C. Brown, Fabrizio Ferrucci & William J. McGuire
doi:10.1038/361439a0
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| | New Silurian and Devonian fork-tailed 'thelodonts' are jawless vertebrates with stomachs and deep bodies 442
Mark V. H. Wilson & Michael W. Caldwell
doi:10.1038/361442a0
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| | Origin of underwater hearing in whales 444
J. G. M. Thewissen & S. T. Hussain
doi:10.1038/361444a0
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| | Selection of exaggerated male traits by female aesthetic senses 446
Magnus Enquist & Anthony Arak
doi:10.1038/361446a0
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| | Involvement of an orthologue of the Drosophila pair-rule gene hairy in segment formation of the short germ-band embryo of Tribolium (Coleoptera) 448
Ralf J. Sommer & Diethard Tautz
doi:10.1038/361448a0
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| | A fate map for the first cleavages of the zebrafish 451
David Strehlow & Walter Gilbert
doi:10.1038/361451a0
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| | Tissue-plasminogen activator is induced as an immediate–early gene during seizure, kindling and long-term potentiation 453
Zhuo Qian, Mary E. Gilbert, Michael A. Colicos, Eric R. Kandel & Dietmar Kuhl
doi:10.1038/361453a0
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| | Assembly of GABAA receptor subunits determines sorting and localization in polarized cells 457
Jose L. Perez-Velazquez & Kimon J. Angelides
doi:10.1038/361457a0
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DSS4-1 is a dominant suppressor of sec4-8 that encodes a nucleotide exchange protein that aids Sec4p function 460
Mary Moya, Denise Roberts & Peter Novick
doi:10.1038/361460a0
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| | A mammalian guanine-nucleotide-releasing protein enhances function of yeast secretory protein Sec4 464
Janet Burton, Denise Roberts, Maribeth Montaldi, Peter Novick & Pietro De Camilli
doi:10.1038/361464a0
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| | Epithelial sodium channel related to proteins involved in neurodegeneration 467
Cecilia M. Canessa, Jean-Daniel Horisberger & Bernard C. Rossier
doi:10.1038/361467a0
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| | A novel intron site in the triosephosphate isomerase gene from the mosquito Culex tarsalis
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Claus Tittiger, Steve Whyard & Virginia K. Walker
doi:10.1038/361470a0
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| | Inhibition of HIV-1 infectivity by zinc-ejecting aromatic C-nitroso compounds 473
William G. Rice, Catherine A. Schaeffer, Brad Harten, Francois Villinger, Terri L. South, Michael F. Summers, Louis E. Henderson, Julian W. Bess Jr, Larry O. Arthur, J. Steven McDougal, Sherry L. Orloff, Jerome Mendeleyev & Ernest Kun
doi:10.1038/361473a0
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| | Structure of a molecular chaperone from a thermophilic archaebacterium 475
Barry M. Phipps, Dieter Typke, Reiner Hegerl, Susanne Volker, Angelika Hoffmann, Karl O. Stetter & Wolfgang Baumeister
doi:10.1038/361475a0
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| | Of mice and men (and cows and cats) 478
A compendium of the chromosomal locations of more than 300 human genes and their homologues in three mammalian species will be a boon In comparative mapping studies.
Kevin Davies
doi:10.1038/361478a0
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