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| | Assessing Waldegrave's big test 193
Expectations are high for the British government's promised White Paper on science, now due to appear next week. Here are some criteria by which its recommendations should be judged.
doi:10.1038/363193a0
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| | Basic research revisited 194
Although the US National Science Board knows what it wants to say, it has trouble making itself clear.
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| | US Army to use peer review in breast cancer programme 195
Jeffrey Mervis
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| | Russian budget allows for more grants 195
Vladimir Pokrovsky
doi:10.1038/363195b0
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| | UK national laboratories face new threat of privatization 196
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/363196a0
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| | US companies settle EPO patent suit 196
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/363196b0
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| | Market for superconductors is expected to soar by 2020 197
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/363197a0
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| | China struggles with home-grown 'Gordon conference' 197
You Qin Li
doi:10.1038/363197b0
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| | Berlin universities jockey for position after reunification 198
Cornelia Koob
doi:10.1038/363198a0
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| | Deep divisions complicate global environment meeting 199
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/363199a0
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| | Australia rethinks technology transfer 199
Mark Lawson
doi:10.1038/363199b0
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| | US bill supports research in marine biotechnology 200
Jeffrey Mervis
doi:10.1038/363200a0
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| | French science survives cuts by new government 200
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/363200b0
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| | US military to sponsor lunar science mission 201
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/363201a0
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| | News in Brief 201
doi:10.1038/363201b0
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| | Differential salary scales 202
D. Ross Boswell
doi:10.1038/363202a0
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| | Differential salary scales 202
Jack A. Heinemann
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| | Stifling the media 202
Brian Martin
doi:10.1038/363202c0
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| | Beating fraud 202
Robert D. Nicholls
doi:10.1038/363202d0
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| | Time for scientists to pay their dues 203
On the eve of the announcement by the British government of its plan to reorganize the country's scientific enterprise, how should scientists see themselves in relation to the world in which they live?
D. A. Rees
doi:10.1038/363203a0
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| | How and why of vesicle formation 205
Much has been done in the past few years to throw light on the energetics of vesicle formation in monolayer and bilayer membranes. The physics of the process is becoming clear, but the chemistry remains obscure.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/363205a0
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| | Getting beyond numerology 206
William L. Ellsworth
doi:10.1038/363206a0
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| | The power of clonal selection 208
Klaus Rajewsky
doi:10.1038/363208a0
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| | Process and production 209
I. Colin Prentice
doi:10.1038/363209a0
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| | Carbon overconsumption 210
J. R. Toggweiler
doi:10.1038/363210a0
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| | Vestal voyagers unveiled 211
William B. McKinnon
doi:10.1038/363211a0
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| | Motor neurons find their factors 213
Anne W. Mudge
doi:10.1038/363213a0
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| | ESR on a single molecule 214
Robert J. Silbey
doi:10.1038/363214a0
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| | A right mess 214
David Jones
doi:10.1038/363214b0
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| | Early medical use of cannabis 215
Joe Zlas, Harley Stark, Jon Seligman, Rina Levy, Ella Werker, Aviva Breuer & Raphael Mechoulam
doi:10.1038/363215a0
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| | World population forecasts 215
John M. Monro
doi:10.1038/363215b0
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| | A plate-tectonic speed limit? 216
Joseph G. Meert, Rob Van der Voo, Chris McA. Powell, Zheng-Xiang Li, Michael W. McElhinny, Zhong Chen & D. T. A. Symons
doi:10.1038/363216a0
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| | Fluctuating asymmetry 217
A. P. Møller
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| | Fluctuating asymmetry 217
Paul H. Harvey, Sean Nee & Andrew F. Read
doi:10.1038/363217b0
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| | Fluctuating asymmetry 217
Innes C. Cuthill, John P. Swaddle & Mark S. Witter
doi:10.1038/363217c0
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| | Predicting Earth's lifespan 218
Andrei Lapenis & Michael R. Rampino
doi:10.1038/363218a0
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| | Prisoners of fate 219
Brian Bertram reviews The Last Panda
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George B. Schaller
doi:10.1038/363219a0
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| | But today, there is naming of parts 220
J. S. Jones reviews Keywords in Evolutionary Biology
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Evelyn Fox Keller & Elizabeth A. Lloyd
doi:10.1038/363220a0
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| | Circular arguments 221
H. Hopf reviews The Kekulé Riddle: A Challenge to Chemists and Psychologists
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John H. Wotiz
doi:10.1038/363221a0
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| | Nature's way 222
Antonia J. Jones reviews Genetic Programming: On the Programming of Computers by Means of Natural Selection
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John R. Koza
doi:10.1038/363222a0
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| | Aqueous surface reactions 222
William H. Casey reviews Chemistry of the Solid−Water Interface: Processes at the Mineral−Water and Particle−Water Interface in Natural Systems
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Werner Stumm
doi:10.1038/363222b0
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| | Primate origins: plugging the gaps 223
Robert D. Martin
doi:10.1038/363223a0
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| | Global climate change and terrestrial net primary production 234
Jerry M. Melillo, A. David McGuire, David W. Kicklighter, Berrien Moore, Charles J. Vorosmarty & Annette L. Schloss
doi:10.1038/363234a0
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| | A measurement of the optical depth through a galaxy disk 240
P. A. James & P. J. Puxley
doi:10.1038/363240a0
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| | Magnetic resonance of a single molecular spin 242
J. Köhler, J. A. J. M. Disselhorst, M. C. J. M. Donckers, E. J. J. Groenen, J. Schmidt & W. E. Moerner
doi:10.1038/363242a0
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| | Optical detection of magnetic resonance in a single molecule 244
J. Wrachtrup, C. von Borczyskowski, J. Bernard, M. Orritt & R. Brown
doi:10.1038/363244a0
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| | Increased chlorine dioxide over Antarctica caused by volcanic aerosols from Mount Pinatubo 245
S. Solomon, R. W. Sanders, R. R. Garcia & J. G. Keys
doi:10.1038/363245a0
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| | Elevated consumption of carbon relative to nitrogen in the surface ocean 248
Raymond N. Sambrotto, Graham Savidge, Carol Robinson, Philip Boyd, Taro Takahashi, David M. Karl, Chris Langdon, David Chipman, John Marra & Louis Codispoti
doi:10.1038/363248a0
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| | How geometrical constraints contribute to the weakness of mature faults 250
David A. Lockner & James D. Byerlee
doi:10.1038/363250a0
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| | Mass-spectrometric U-series dates for Israeli Neanderthal/early modern hominid sites 252
F. McDermott, R. Grün, C. B. Stringer & C. J. Hawkesworth
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| | Positive genetic correlation between female preference and preferred male ornament in sticklebacks 255
Theo C. M. Bakker
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| | African-European honeybee hybrids have low nonintermediate metabolic capacities 258
Jon F. Harrison & H. Glenn Hall
doi:10.1038/363258a0
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| | Antisense oligodeoxynucleotides to NMDA-R1 receptor channel protect cortical neurons from excitotoxicity and reduce focal ischaemic infarctions 260
C. Wahlestedt, E. Golanov, S. Yamamoto, F. Yee, H. Ericson, H. Yoo, C. E. Inturrisi & D. J. Reis
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| | CFTR and outward rectifying chloride channels are distinct proteins with a regulatory relationship 263
Sherif E. Gabriel, Lane L. Clarke, Richard C. Boucher & M. Jackson Stutts
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| | Neurotrophins promote motor neuron survival and are present in embryonic limb bud 266
Christopher E. Henderson, William Camu, Clément Mettling, Annie Gouin, Kristian Poulsen, Mona Karihaloo, Janette Ruilamas, Tony Evans, Stephen B. McMahon, Mark P. Armanini, Lucy Berkemeier, Heidi S. Phillips & Arnon Rosenthal
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| | Affinity maturation leads to differential expression of multiple copies of a  light-chain transgene 271
Francisco Lozano, Cristina Rada, John M. Jarvis & César Milstein
doi:10.1038/363271a0
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| | Substitution of three amino acids switches receptor specificity of Gq to that of Gi 274
Bruce R. Conklin, Zvi Farfel, Kevin D. Lustig, David Julius & Henry R. Bourne
doi:10.1038/363274a0
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| | NMR structure of a receptor-bound G-protein peptide 276
Edward A. Dratz, Julie E. Furstenau, Christophe G. Lambert, Dennis L. Thireault, Helen Rarick, Theresa Schepers, Sergei Pakhlevaniants & Heidi E. Hamm
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| | Specific repression of TATA-mediated but not initiator-mediated transcription by wild-type p53 281
David H. Mack, Jai Vartikar, James M. Pipas & Laimonis A. Laimins
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| | Thiophosphorylation of U1-70K protein inhibits pre-mRNA splicing 283
Jamal Tazi, Ute Kornstädt, Ferdinand Rossi, Philippe Jeanteur, Guy Cathala, Claude Brunel & Reinhard Lührmann
doi:10.1038/363283a0
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| | Three-dimensional cryo-electron microscopy of the calcium ion pump in the sarcoplasmic reticulum membrane 286
Chikashi Toyoshima, Hiroyuki Sasabe & David L. Stokes
doi:10.1038/363286a0
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| | Dispersion of neural progenitors within the germinal zones of the forebrain 286
Gord Fishell, Carol A. Mason & Mary E. Hatten
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