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| | Clinton's true colours on trade? 681
There is a danger that President Bill Clinton, in seeking better terms of trade with Japan, will impoverish the rest of us without improving the lot of the United States.
doi:10.1038/362681a0
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| | Reactors and compromise 681
President Bill Clinton's budget compromises are sending conflicting signals about his seriousness.
doi:10.1038/362681b0
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| | Life is short 682
Eastern Germany should tolerate the temporary indignities of unifications for the sake of the better times ahead.
doi:10.1038/362682a0
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| | US fast-breeder reactor fights for survival after Clinton trims budget 683
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/362683a0
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| | France to close four observatories 683
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/362683b0
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| | Japan reviews first guidelines for gene therapy trials 684
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/362684a0
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| | AIDS patients are first in line 684
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/362684b0
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| | NIH to support embryo bank for mice and rabbits 684
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/362684c0
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| | West Germans are taking most top jobs at eastern institutes 685
Alison Abbott & Cornelia Koob
doi:10.1038/362685a0
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| | CHINA IN BRIEF 685
You Qui Li
doi:10.1038/362685b0
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| | NIH takes Stewart and Feder Off the misconduct beat 686
Jeffrey Mervis
doi:10.1038/362686a0
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| | Promega extends fight with Roche over Taq enzyme 686
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/362686b0
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| | Britain rediscovers industry−academia LINKs 687
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/362687a0
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| | Cabibbo to lead pontifical science academy 687
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/362687b0
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| | NSF search advances as budget retreats 688
Jeffrey Mervis
doi:10.1038/362688a0
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| | DNA testing helps British bring better pig to market 688
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/362688b0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Theology and science 689
Súsan Howatch
doi:10.1038/362689a0
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| | Theology and science 689
John Evans
doi:10.1038/362689b0
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| | Theology and science 689
David A. H. Taylor
doi:10.1038/362689c0
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| | Theology and science 690
C. B. Goodhart
doi:10.1038/362690a0
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| | Theology and science 690
R. J. Berry, D. C. Burke, J. N. Hawthorne, R. B. Heap, John Houghton & C. Russell
doi:10.1038/362690b0
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| | Two-way adaptors 690
Olaf Diettrich
doi:10.1038/362690c0
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| | University funding 690
Archie Howle
doi:10.1038/362690d0
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| | Sunshine for light in the night 691
People in rural regions of the developing world are hungry for electricity to meet the most rudimentary of needs. Small solar-power systems have proved themselves to be an appropriate technology.
Neville Williams, Ken Jacobson & Harold Burris
doi:10.1038/362691a0
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| | Photovoltaic-based SSPS 692
doi:10.1038/362692a0
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| | Uncertainty in quantum theory 693
Protestations to the contrary notwithstanding, people have been busy bridging the gap between deterministic wave mechanics and the notion that everything is uncertain; quantum mechanics is the better for it.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/362693a0
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| | Certainty from uncertainty 694
Charles H. Bennett
doi:10.1038/362694a0
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| | Fusion potential for vaccines 695
Joyce Taylor-Papadimitriou & Frances Balkwill
doi:10.1038/362695a0
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| | Tolerance by exhaustion 696
Harald von Boehmer
doi:10.1038/362696a0
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| | Great balls of mire 696
Mark V. Sykes
doi:10.1038/362696b0
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| | One and one make four 697
Maxim Frank-Kamenetskii
doi:10.1038/362697a0
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| | The potential to surprise 698
William Klemperer
doi:10.1038/362698a0
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| | Theory fits the bill in the Galápagos Islands 699
Jeremy J. D. Greenwood
doi:10.1038/362699a0
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| | Forming galaxies spotted? 700
Richard Ellis
doi:10.1038/362700a0
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| | Eminent Victorians and science at the grass roots 700
Thomas Lindahl
doi:10.1038/362700b0
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| | How the Earth's mantle could lie about its age 701
Richard W. Carlson
doi:10.1038/362701a0
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| | Textile topology 702
David Jones
doi:10.1038/362702a0
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| | Magnetic compass orientation 703
Kenneth J. Lohmann
doi:10.1038/362703a0
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| | Electrochemical mercury detection 703
Iva Turyan & Daniel Mandler
doi:10.1038/362703b0
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| | Conduction by mantle hydrogen 704
Steven Constable
doi:10.1038/362704a0
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| | Book Reviews | |
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| | Rewriting history 705
Michael D. Coe reviews Mesoamerican Writing Systems: Propaganda, Myth, and History in Four Ancient Civilizations
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Joyce Marcus
doi:10.1038/362705a0
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| | Science on trial 706
Lee Loevinger reviews Regulating Toxic Substances: A Philosophy of Science and the Law
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Carl F. Cranor
doi:10.1038/362706a0
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| | ECO-DRIVE 706
doi:10.1038/362706b0
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| | Caveat emptor! 707
John Postgate reviews Encyclopedia of Microbiology
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Joshua Lederberg
doi:10.1038/362707a0
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| | Childhood matters 707
Andrew Whiten reviews Beyond Modularity: A Developmental Perspective on Cognitive Science
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Annette Karmiloff-Smith
doi:10.1038/362707b0
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| | Pain relief 708
Gerald Zernig reviews Forschen auf Deutsch: der Machiavelli für Forscher — und solche die es noch werden wollen*.
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Siegfried Bär & Irena Volpi
doi:10.1038/362708a0
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| | Instability and decay of the primary structure of DNA 709
Tomas Lindahl
doi:10.1038/362709a0
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| | Young formation age of a mantle plume source 715
Cornelia Class, Steven L. Goldstein, Stephen J. G. Galer & Dominique Weis
doi:10.1038/362715a0
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| | Erythroid transcription factor NF-E2 is a haematopoietic-specific basic−leucine zipper protein 722
Nancy C. Andrews, Hediye Erdjument-Bromage, Mark B. Davidson, Paul Tempst & Stuart H. Orkin
doi:10.1038/362722a0
Abstract & References | PDF (846K)
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| | Recurrent burst activity from the soft  -ray repeater SGR 1900+14 728
C. Kouveliotou, G. J. Fishman, C. A. Meegan, W. S. Paciesas, R. B. Wilson, J. van Paradijs, R. D. Preece, M. S. Briggs, G. N. Pendleton, M. N. Brock, T. M. Koshut & J. M. Horack
doi:10.1038/362728a0
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| | Discovery of the candidate Kuiper belt object 1992 QB1
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David Jewitt & Jane Luu
doi:10.1038/362730a0
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| | Dust particle impacts during the Giotto encounter with comet Grigg−Skjellerup 732
J. A. M. McDonnell, N. McBride, R. Beard, E. Bussoletti, L. Colangeli, P. Eberhardt, J. G. Firth, R. Grard, S. F. Green, J. M. Greenberg, E. Grün, D. W. Hughes, H. U. Keller, J. Kissel, B. A. Lindblad, J.-C. Mandeville, C. H. Perry, K. Rembor, H. Rickman, G. H. Schwehm, R. F. Turner, M. K. Wallis & J. C. Zarnecki
doi:10.1038/362732a0
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| | Hydrogen bonding in the benzene−ammonia dimer 735
David A. Rodham, Sakae Suzuki, Richard D. Suenram, Frank J. Lovas, Siddharth Dasgupta, William A. Goddard III & Geoffrey A. Blake
doi:10.1038/362735a0
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| | Seasonal and diel variation in the open ocean concentration of marine snow aggregates 737
R. S. Lampitt, W. R. Hillier & P. G. Challenor
doi:10.1038/362737a0
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| | Tracing trace elements from sediment input to volcanic output at subduction zones 739
Terry Plank & Charles H. Langmuir
doi:10.1038/362739a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (506K)
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| | Learning to recognize nestlings is maladaptive for cuckoo Cuculus canorus hosts 743
Arnon Lotem
doi:10.1038/362743a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (375K)
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| | Male-driven evolution of DNA sequences 745
Lawrence C. Shimmin, Benny Hung-Junn Chang & Wen-Hsiung Li
doi:10.1038/362745a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (347K)
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| | Relaxation of imprinted genes in human cancer 747
Shirley Rainier, Laura A. Johnson, Craig J. Dobry, April J. Ping, Paul E. Grundy & Andrew P. Feinberg
doi:10.1038/362747a0
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| | Relaxation of insulin-like growth factor II gene imprinting implicated in Wilms' tumour 749
Osamu Ogawa, Michael R. Eccles, Jenny Szeto, Leslie A. McNoe, Kankatsu Yun, Marion A. Maw, Peter J. Smith & Anthony E. Reeve
doi:10.1038/362749a0
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| | Parental-origin-specific epigenetic modification of the mouse H19 gene 751
Anne C. Ferguson-Smith, Hiroyuki Sasaki, Bruce M. Cattanach & M. Azim Surani
doi:10.1038/362751a0
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| | Idiotype/granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor fusion protein as a vaccine for B-cell lymphoma 755
Mi-Hua Tao & Ronald Levy
doi:10.1038/362755a0
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| | Virus persistence in acutely infected immunocompetent mice by exhaustion of antiviral cytotoxic effector T cells 758
Demetrius Moskophidis, Franziska Lechner, Hanspeter Pircher & Rolf M. Zinkernagel
doi:10.1038/362758a0
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| | Thymic dendritic cells and T cells develop simultaneously in the thymus from a common precursor population 761
Carlos Ardavin, Li Wu, Chung-Leung Li & Ken Shortman
doi:10.1038/362761a0
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| | A new subunit of the cyclic nucleotide-gated cation channel in retinal rods 764
T.-Y. Chen, Y.-W. Peng, R. S. Dhallan, B. Ahamed, R. R. Reed & K.-W. Yau
doi:10.1038/362764a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (395K)
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| | Mouse microcytic anaemia caused by a defect in the gene encoding the globin enhancer-binding protein NF-E2 768
Luanne L. Peters, Nancy C. Andrews, Eva M. Eicher, Mark B. Davidson, Stuart H. Orkin & Samuel E. Lux
doi:10.1038/362768a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (356K)
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| | Projection structure of rhodopsin 770
Gebhard F. X. Schertler, Claudio Villa & Richard Henderson
doi:10.1038/362770a0
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