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| | Criteria for science in the courts 481
The US Supreme Court may produce new criteria for the admissibility of scientific evidence in the courts on the basis of a suit now being heard.
doi:10.1038/362481a0
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| | An influential fellow 481
The death two weeks ago of Lord Zuckerman will leave a sad gap in public life in Britain and elsewhere.
doi:10.1038/362481b0
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| | Horse-racing hoax 482
The British, once a proud nation, have now lost even the trick of organizing horse races, preferring hoaxes instead.
doi:10.1038/362482a0
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| | AIDS administrators plan crisis meeting over future of AZT 483
David Dickson & Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/362483a0
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| | Rules eased for US field tests 483
Sally Lehrman
doi:10.1038/362483b0
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| | British aerospace industry wants more government support 484
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/362484a0
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| | ESA is wary about impact of redesigned US station 484
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/362484b0
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| | European labs begin parallel processing computer project 485
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/362485a0
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| | New, greener ethos bolsters bill to protect California desert 485
Susan Greene
doi:10.1038/362485b0
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| | Cost overruns, management problems found in British Antarctic projects 486
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/362486a0
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| | Magnetic money 486
Roland Pease
doi:10.1038/362486b0
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| | Carnegie completes review of science−government ties 487
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/362487a0
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| | South Africa tightens spending for universities 487
Michael Cherry
doi:10.1038/362487b0
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| | US court gives original owners the right to deep-sea treasure 488
Jenna Roberts
doi:10.1038/362488a0
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| | Genome project 'to be done by 1994' 488
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/362488b0
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| | Catalonia plans for synchrotron 488
Xavier Duran
doi:10.1038/362488c0
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| | Greek university law defended 489
J. G. Antonopoulos
doi:10.1038/362489a0
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| | Copyright scam 489
Alan Mackay
doi:10.1038/362489b0
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| | Tobacco code 489
Fablo Levi
doi:10.1038/362489c0
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| | Opinion and fact and UK energy 490
John G. Collier
doi:10.1038/362490a0
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| | Patent problems 490
Susan Mayer
doi:10.1038/362490b0
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| | The shadow of genetic injustice 491
The effects of the inevitable discoveries emerging from the Human Genome Project will be catastrophic for some. Now is the time for preventative action to be taken.
Benno Müller-Hill
doi:10.1038/362491a0
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| | The next step in AIDS treatment 493
The apparently well-founded discovery that AZT is not a useful drug for the treatment of people infected with HIV does not mean that it is useless in the treatment of those with AIDS.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/362493a0
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| | Orientation detectors in insects 494
T. S. Collett
doi:10.1038/362494a0
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| | Flip-flop end to last ice age 495
Richard G. Fairbanks
doi:10.1038/362495a0
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| | Yohkoh basks in sunlight 496
Len Culhane
doi:10.1038/362496a0
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| | ET touches down in Houston 497
Timothy D. Warner & John R. Vane
doi:10.1038/362497a0
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| | Chemists make it snappy 498
Ian W. M. Smith
doi:10.1038/362498a0
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| | OBITUARY: Albert B. Sabin (1906−1993) 499
Hilary Koprowski
doi:10.1038/362499a0
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| | The evolution of virulence 500
Andrew F. Read & Paul H. Harvey
doi:10.1038/362500a0
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| | Secrets of the Pit of the Bones 501
Chris Stringer
doi:10.1038/362501a0
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| | A bid for pregnancy 502
David Jones
doi:10.1038/362502a0
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| | Yttrium carbide in nanotubes 503
Supapan Seraphin, Dan Zhou, Jun Jiao, James C. Withers & Raouf Loutfy
doi:10.1038/362503a0
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| | Chicxulub — K/T melt complexities 503
Benjamin C. Schuraytz & Virgil L. Sharpton
doi:10.1038/362503b0
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| | Properties of an HIV 'Vaccine' 504
Franklin Volvovitz & Gale Smith
doi:10.1038/362504a0
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| | Properties of an HIV 'Vaccine' 505
Britta Wahren, Eric Sandström & Hans Wigzell
doi:10.1038/362505a0
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| | Properties of an HIV 'Vaccine' 505
John Moore, George K. Lewis & James Robinson
doi:10.1038/362505b0
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| | Molluscan shell growth and loss 506
William L. Downing & John A. Downing
doi:10.1038/362506a0
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| | Cyberscience 507
William H. Press reviews Supercomputing and the Transformation of Science
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William J. Kaufmann & Larry L. Smarr
doi:10.1038/362507a0
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| | Fads and friction 508
Jacqueline Reynolds reviews The Culture of Science in France, 1700−1900
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Robert Fox
doi:10.1038/362508a0
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| | Ancients and moderns 508
doi:10.1038/362508b0
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| | Misinformation 509
Hermann Haken reviews Information Theory and Molecular Biology
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Hubert P. Yockey
doi:10.1038/362509a0
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| | Elusive concept 509
Michael E. Akam reviews Evolutionary Developmental Biology
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Brian K. Hall
doi:10.1038/362509b0
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| | Time warp 510
Oliver Penrose reviews Time's Arrow: The Origins of Thermo-dynamic Behaviour
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Michael C. Mackey
doi:10.1038/362510a0
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| | Largest subunit of Drosophila transcription factor IID directs assembly of a complex containing TBP and a coactivator 511
Robert O. J. Weinzierl, Brian David Dynlacht & Robert Tjian
doi:10.1038/362511a0
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| | Spectrally resolved eclipse maps of the accretion disk in UX Ursae Majoris 518
René G. M. Rutten, V. S. Dhillon, Keith Horne, E. Kuulkers & J. van Paradijs
doi:10.1038/362518a0
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| | Thinning and opening of carbon nanotubes by oxidation using carbon dioxide 520
S. C. Tsang, P. J. F. Harris & M. L. H. Green
doi:10.1038/362520a0
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| | Opening carbon nanotubes with oxygen and implications for filling 522
P. M. Ajayan, T. W. Ebbesen, T. Ichihashi, S. Iijima, K. Tanigaki & H. Hiura
doi:10.1038/362522a0
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| | Continuous anchoring transition in liquid crystals 525
J. S. Patel & Hiroshi Yokoyama
doi:10.1038/362525a0
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| | Abrupt increase in Greenland snow accumulation at the end of the Younger Dryas event 527
R. B. Alley, D. A. Meese, C. A. Shuman, A. J. Gow, K. C. Taylor, P. M. Grootes, J. W. C. White, M. Ram, E. D. Waddington, P. A. Mayewski & G. A. Zielinski
doi:10.1038/362527a0
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| | Separating mantle from slab signatures in arc lavas using B/Be and radiogenic isotope systematics 530
C. M. H. Edwards, J. D. Morris & M. F. Thirlwall
doi:10.1038/362530a0
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| | Three new human skulls from the Sima de los Huesos Middle Pleistocene site in Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain 534
Juan-Luis Arsuaga, Ignacio Martínez, Ana Gracia, José-Miguel Carretero & Eudald Carbonell
doi:10.1038/362534a0
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| | Heritable variation in a plumage indicator of viability in male great tits Parus major
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Ken Norris
doi:10.1038/362537a0
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| | Is pattern vision in insects mediated by 'cortical' processing? 539
M. V. Srinivasan, S. W. Zhang & B. Rolfe
doi:10.1038/362539a0
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| | Feature-detecting neurons in dragonflies 541
David O'Carroll
doi:10.1038/362541a0
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| | Neurotoxicity of a prion protein fragment 543
Gianluigi Forloni, Nadia Angeretti, Roberto Chiesa, Enrico Monzani, Mario Salmona, Orso Bugiani & Fabrizio Tagliavini
doi:10.1038/362543a0
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| | Correlation of expression of Wnt-1 in developing limbs with abnormalities in growth and skeletal patterning 546
József Zákány & Denis Duboule
doi:10.1038/362546a0
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| | Interaction between a transcriptional activator and transcription factor IIB in vivo
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John Colgan, Sharon Wampler & James L. Manley
doi:10.1038/362549a0
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| | Human lysozyme gene mutations cause hereditary systemic amyloidosis 553
M. B. Pepys, P. N. Hawkins, D. R. Booth, D. M. Vigushin, G. A. Tennent, A. K. Soutar, N. Totty, O. Nguyen, C. C. F. Blake, C. J. Terry, T. G. Feest, A. M. Zalin & J. J. Hsuan
doi:10.1038/362553a0
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Laurent Ruel, Marc Bourouis, Pascal Heitzler, Véronique Pantesco & Pat Simpson
doi:10.1038/362557a0
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| | Interactions of three domains distinguishing the Ras-related GTP-binding proteins Ypt1 and Sec4 560
Patrick Brennwald & Peter Novick
doi:10.1038/362560a0
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| | Specificity domains distinguish the Ras-related GTPases Ypt1 and Sec4 563
Barbara Dunn, Tim Stearns & David Botstein
doi:10.1038/362563a0
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| | Structure of a major immunogenic site on foot-and-mouth disease virus 566
Derek Logan, Robin Abu-Ghazaleh, Wendy Blakemore, Stephen Curry, Terry Jackson, Andrew King, Susan Lea, Richard Lewis, John Newman, Nigel Parry, David Rowlands, David Stuart & Elizabeth Fry
doi:10.1038/362566a0
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| | The Caenorhabditis elegans genome sequencing project: first steps in automation 569
Novel biochemical processes using magnetic particles have been automated to provide a robotic system to perform processes for large-scale shotgun sequencing.
Andy Watson, Nicky Smaldon, Roger Lucke & Trevor Hawkins
doi:10.1038/362569a0
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| | DNA developments to watch 571
Molecular research tools, gadgets and gismos featured this week include a new instrument for the real-time analysis of molecular interactions, an anitibody for cystic fibrosis research and a hand-held DNA sequence recorder.
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/362571a0
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