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| | Soldiers as experimental animals 479
The Institute of Medicine in the United States has described a chilling tale of how the military used service people in tests of the effectiveness of poison gases against humans.
doi:10.1038/361479a0
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| | Clinton's honeymoon 479
President Bill Clinton deserves a longer respite from his most severe critics than he is getting.
doi:10.1038/361479b0
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| | Cruel innovation 480
The plight of IBM and General Motors should be a lesson to successful technical companies everywhere.
doi:10.1038/361480b0
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| | Faraday Centres appear doomed after criticism by Lords' panel 481
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/361481a0
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| | French suspend child research pending review 481
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/361481b0
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| | Court says US law applies to Antarctic waste cleanup 482
Jeffrey Mervis
doi:10.1038/361482a0
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| | NEWS IN BRIEF 482
Jenna Roberts
doi:10.1038/361482b0
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| | News in Brief 482
Jeffrey Mervis
doi:10.1038/361482c0
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| | CERN expels four Serbs to meet UN sanctions 483
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/361483a0
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| | Monthly Nature's launch in Moscow 483
doi:10.1038/361483b0
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| | Japan begins processing data for genome programme 484
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/361484a0
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| | Researchers like US products 484
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/361484b0
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| | Trade greement backfires 484
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/361484c0
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| | Britain finds way round impact of falling pound 485
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/361485a0
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| | Russia sets up system for individual grants 485
Vladimir Pokrovsky
doi:10.1038/361485b0
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| | UK blood centres could play major role in gene therapy 486
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/361486a0
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| | Meetings on British science 486
doi:10.1038/361486b0
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| | US biotechnology groups select new executive 486
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/361486c0
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| | Chinese seize special issue of journal 486
Jeffrey Mervis
doi:10.1038/361486d0
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| | Bad times force the Swiss to reduce spending plans 487
Oliver Klaffke
doi:10.1038/361487a0
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| | Germany asked to increase spending on universities 487
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/361487b0
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| | Suppressing dissent? 488
Thomas J. Kistenmacher
doi:10.1038/361488a0
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| | Suppressing dissent? 488
J. F. Thackeray
doi:10.1038/361488b0
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| | Suppressing dissent? 488
Ram Seshadri
doi:10.1038/361488c0
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| | UK research 488
Jan Alexander
doi:10.1038/361488d0
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| | Not in our Nature 488
Juan Miguel Campanario
doi:10.1038/361488e0
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| | Alexander Bain 488
Dennis McMullan
doi:10.1038/361488f0
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| | Universal Darwinism 489
Vincent Bauchau
doi:10.1038/361489a0
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| | Universal Darwinism 489
Ralph Estling
doi:10.1038/361489b0
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| | Selling the future 489
Andrew P. Somlyo
doi:10.1038/361489c0
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| | The zootype and the phylotypic stage 490
What is it that defines an animal? The definition provided here, made on the basis of developmental biology, suggests methods for resolving phylogenetic problems.
J. M. W. Slack, P. W. H. Holland & C. F. Graham
doi:10.1038/361490a0
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| | Can quantum theory be understood? 493
Physics has a more urgent responsibility than it appreciates to make the most general tool of its trade more widely understood, to which end proofs positive are more relevant than abstractions.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/361493a0
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| | The fruits of cooperation 494
Ann Hill & Helen Chapel
doi:10.1038/361494a0
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| | A window to the core 495
Michael E. Wysession
doi:10.1038/361495a0
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| | The genetics of speciation 496
John Brookfield
doi:10.1038/361496a0
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| | Carbon reserves released? 497
Robert S. Webb & Jonathan T. Overpeck
doi:10.1038/361497a0
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| | Noggin the dorsalizer 498
J. M. W. Slack & D. Tannahill
doi:10.1038/361498a0
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| | Sir Joseph Banks at 250 499
doi:10.1038/361499a0
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| | Long shadow 500
doi:10.1038/361500a0
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| | Monster mash 500
doi:10.1038/361500b0
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| | Boring defeat 500
doi:10.1038/361500c0
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| | Theories on the brain 500
Charles F. Stevens
doi:10.1038/361500d0
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| | A shattered halo 501
P. G. Hansen
doi:10.1038/361501a0
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| | Kiss and tell 502
David Jones
doi:10.1038/361502a0
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| | Which gplGO vaccine? 503
John Moore, George K. Lewis & James Robinson
doi:10.1038/361503a0
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| | Degenerin similarities 504
Martin Chalfie, Monica Driscoll & Mingxia Huang
doi:10.1038/361504a0
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| | Sex surveys and drug users 504
David Goldberg, Martin Frischer & Stephen T. Green
doi:10.1038/361504b0
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| | Satellite ozone monitoring error 505
Forrest M. Mims III
doi:10.1038/361505a0
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| | Protein structure prediction 505
Geoffrey J. Barton & Robert B. Russell
doi:10.1038/361505b0
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| | Protein structure prediction 506
Barry Robson & Jean Gamier
doi:10.1038/361506a0
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| | Nature's semantics 507
Ian Stewart reviews Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos.
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doi:10.1038/361507a0
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| | From dock to doc 508
Len Goodwin reviews From the Greenwich Hulks to Old St Pancras: A History of Tropical Disease in London.
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G. C. Athlone Cook
doi:10.1038/361508a0
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| | Satellites in decay 509
David W. Hughes reviews A Tapestry of Orbits.
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Desmond King-Hele
doi:10.1038/361509a0
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| | Bones of contention 509
S. M. MacLaughlin-Black reviews Bones: A Forensic Detective's Case-book.
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Douglas Ubelaker, Henry Scammell, Edward Burlingame Books & Harper Collins
doi:10.1038/361509b0
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| | Leaping larvae, jumping genes 510
Jack Cohen reviews Larvae and Evolution: Toward a New Zoology. By
Donald L Chapman Hall Williamson
doi:10.1038/361510a0
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| | Inordinate fondness for insects 510
E. A. Jarzembowski reviews Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part R, Arthropoda 4, Volumes 3 and 4: Hexapoda. By F. M. Carpenter
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R. L. Kaesler
doi:10.1038/361510b0
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| | Materials with structural hierarchy 511
Roderic Lakes
doi:10.1038/361511a0
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| | A supernova remnant associated with the young gamma-ray pulsar PSR1706—44 516
W. B. McAdam, J. L. Osbornet & M. L. Parkinson
doi:10.1038/361516a0
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| | High-pressure viscosity of glycerol measured by centrifugal-force viscometry 518
Chris A. Herbst, Richard L. Cook & H. E. King Jr
doi:10.1038/361518a0
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| | Recent change of Arctic tundra ecosystems from a net carbon dioxide sink to a source 520
Walter C. Oechel, Steven J. Hastings, George Vourlrtis, Mitchell Jenkins, George Riechers & Nancy Grulke
doi:10.1038/361520a0
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| | The transient response of terrestrial carbon storage to a perturbed climate 523
T. M. Smith & H. H. Shugart
doi:10.1038/361523a0
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| | Active volcanism beneath the West Antarctic ice sheet and implications for ice-sheet stability 526
Donald D. Blankenship, Robin E. Bell, Steven M. Hodge, John M. Brozena, John C. Behrendt & Carol A. Finn
doi:10.1038/361526a0
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| | Seismological mapping of fine structure near the base of the Earth's mantle 529
John E. Vidale & Harley M. Benz
doi:10.1038/361529a0
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| | Haldane's rule has multiple genetic causes 532
H. Alien Orr
doi:10.1038/361532a0
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| | Induction of immediate spatiotemporal changes in thalamic networks by peripheral block of ascending cutaneous information 533
Miguel A. L. Nicolelis, Rick C. S. Lin, Donald J. Woodward & John K. Chapin
doi:10.1038/361533a0
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| | Cloning and expression of an adenylyl cyclase localized to the corpus striatum 536
Charles E. Glatt & Solomon H. Snyder
doi:10.1038/361536a0
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| | Defective expression of T-cell CD40 ligand causes X-linked immunodeficiency with hyper-IgM 539
Ulf Korthäuer, Daniel Graf, Hans W. Mages, Francine Brière, Munoreedevi Padayachee, Sue Malcolm, Alberto G. Ugazio, Luigi D. Notarangelo, Roland J. Levinsky & Richard A. Kroczek
doi:10.1038/361539a0
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| | CD40 ligand mutations in X-linked immunodeficiency with hyper-IgM 541
J. P. DiSanto, J. Y. Bonnefoy, J. F. Gauchatt, A. Fischer & G. de Saint Basile
doi:10.1038/361541a0
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Nodal is a novel TGF- -like gene expressed in the mouse node during gastrulation 543
Xunlei Zhou, Hiroshi Sasaki, Linda Lowe, Brigid L. M. Hogan & Michael R. Kuehn
doi:10.1038/361543a0
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| | Secreted noggin protein mimics the Spemann organizer in dorsalizing Xenopus mesoderm 547
William C. Smith, Anne K. Knecht, Mike Wu & Richard M. Harland
doi:10.1038/361547a0
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| | Cloning and expression of apical membrane water channel of rat kidney collecting tubule 549
Kiyohide Fushimi, Shinichi Uchida, Yukichi Harat, Yukio Hirata, Fumiaki Marumo & Sei Sasaki
doi:10.1038/361549a0
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| | Uncoupling of the molecular 'fence' and paracellular 'gate' functions in epithelial
tight junctions 552
Lazaro J. Mandel, Robert Bacallao & Guido Zampighi
doi:10.1038/361552a0
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| | Sulphation requirement for GlyCAM-1, an endothelial ligand for L-selectin 555
Yasuyuki lmai, Laurence A. Lasky & Steven D. Rosen
doi:10.1038/361555a0
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| | A new factor related to TATA-binding protein has highly restricted expression patterns in Drosophila 557
Thomas E. Crowley, Timothy Hoey, Jen-Kuei Liu, Yuh Nung Jan, Lily Y. Jan & Robert Tjian
doi:10.1038/361557a0
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| | How amino-acid insertions are allowed in an  -helix of T4 lysozyme 561
Dirk W. Heinz, Walter A. Baase, Frederick W. Dahlquist & Brian W. Matthews
doi:10.1038/361561a0
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| | Evolution and environment in the Hominoidea Peter Andrews 564
Peter Andrews
doi:10.1038/361564a0
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| | Molecular and genetic damage in humans from environmental pollution in Poland 564
doi:10.1038/361564b0
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| | Corrections 564
W. E. Pullman & W. F. Bodmer
doi:10.1038/361564c0
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| | Multiple-sheathflow capillary array DNA analyser 565
A sensitive, high-throughput fluorescent DNA analyser has been developed that uses sheathflows of buffer around each element in an array of gel capillaries.
Hideki Kambara & Satoshi Takahashi
doi:10.1038/361565a0
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| | New twists in DNA technology 567
Research tools for the molecular biologist featured this week include paints for the detection of human chromosomes 11 and 12, a kit for isolating differentially expressed genes, gel chambers, gels and other paraphernalia.
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/361567a0
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