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| | End of the European dream? 479
Europe's faltering vision of its future has been brought about by social and historical forces for which it had not bargained; the need now is for a clear statement of its goals.
doi:10.1038/363479a0
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| | Microbes ever marching 479
An outbreak of respiratory disease in the United States warns of the need for vigilance on microorganisms.
doi:10.1038/363479b0
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| | Pity poor understanding 480
Government ministers everywhere need a crash course in understanding what science is all about.
doi:10.1038/363480a0
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| | Legislation to boost US technology takes protectionist turn in House 481
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/363481a0
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| | Germany wants to modify gene laws 481
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/363481b0
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| | Germany debates proper niche for blue-list institutes 482
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/363482a0
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| | ESA approves new gamma-ray mission 482
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/363482b0
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| | Internal fight threatens future of Strangeways laboratory in Britain 483
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/363483a0
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| | Swiss loosen restrictions on foreign workers
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Oliver Klaffke
doi:10.1038/363483b0
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| | Biology in China suffers from government neglect 484
You Qin Li
doi:10.1038/363484a0
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| | Canadian drug companies fund universities 484
David Spurgeon
doi:10.1038/363484b0
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| | Storm damages largest US station in Antarctica 484
JEFFREY MERVIS
doi:10.1038/363484c0
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| | A hopeful Chile looks for ways to channel its advantages into science 485
doi:10.1038/363485a0
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| | Spending increases do not match the need for jobs and better pay 486
doi:10.1038/363486a0
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| | Unique fund targets quality 487
doi:10.1038/363487a0
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| | Astronomers hunger for more despite richness around them 488
doi:10.1038/363488a0
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| | Biotechnology looks for niche that will profit local science 489
doi:10.1038/363489a0
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| | Social status and sex 490
Ulrich Mueller
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| | Molecular deconstructivism 490
Dan Graur
doi:10.1038/363490b0
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| | Contaminated blood case nears end 491
The trial in Paris of four scientists for negligence in the protection of haemophiliacs from infection with HIV in the period 1983−85 will cast a long shadow over the links between science and the public service everywhere.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/363491a0
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| | Comet on target for Jupiter 492
Clark R. Chapman
doi:10.1038/363492a0
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| | Starting from first principles 493
Joachim Sauer
doi:10.1038/363493a0
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| | A gene for neurofibromatosis 2 495
Kenneth W. Kinzler & Bert Vogelstein
doi:10.1038/363495a0
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| | Making waves with electrons 496
A. Zettl
doi:10.1038/363496a0
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| | Secretion without full fusion 497
Erwin Neher
doi:10.1038/363497a0
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| | Blasting rocks off planets 498
H. J. Melosh
doi:10.1038/363498a0
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| | Tetrads through interdigitation 499
Dinshaw J. Patel
doi:10.1038/363499a0
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| | Cellular fabric 500
David Jones
doi:10.1038/363500a0
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| | Sound and rock art 501
Steven J. Waller
doi:10.1038/363501a0
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| | Relations of fish and tetrapods 501
S. Blair Hedges, Carla Ann Hass & Linda R. Maxson
doi:10.1038/363501b0
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| | Weak queen or social contract? 502
Joan E. Strassmann
doi:10.1038/363502a0
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| | Weak queen or social contract? 503
Hudson Kern Reeve & Peter Nonacs
doi:10.1038/363503a0
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| | K/T melt glasses 503
David A. Kring & William V. Boynton
doi:10.1038/363503b0
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| | Sex, genes and stereotypes 505
Steven Rose reviews The Sexual Brain
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Simon LeVay
doi:10.1038/363505a0
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| | Strip-tease 506
Desmond King-Hele reviews Möbius and his Band: Mathematics and Astronomy in Nineteenth-Century Germany
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doi:10.1038/363506a0
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| | Air raid 506
Len Goodwin reviews Disease Transmission by Insects: Its Discovery and 90 Years of Effort to Prevent
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James R. Busvine
doi:10.1038/363506b0
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| | Seeds of Gaia 507
Bill Chaloner reviews Faith in a Seed: The Dispersion of Seeds and Other Late Natural History Writings by Henry Thoreau
Edited by
B. P. Dean
doi:10.1038/363507a0
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| | Dangerous diagnostics 508
Frank Barnaby reviews World Inventory of Plutonium and Highly Enriched Uranium 1992
David Albright, Frans Berkhout & William Walker
doi:10.1038/363508a0
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In situ measurements constraining the role of sulphate aerosols in mid-latitude ozone depletion 509
D. W. Fahey, S. R. Kawa, E. L. Woodbridge, P. Tin, J. C. Wilson, H. H. Jonsson, J. E. Dye, D. Baumgardner, S. Borrmann, D. W. Toohey, L. M. Avallone, M. H. Proffitt, J. Margitan, M. Loewenstein, J. R. Podolske, R. J. Salawitch, S. C. Wofsy, M. K. W. Ko, D. E. Anderson, M. R. Schoeber & K. R. Chan
doi:10.1038/363509a0
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| | Alteration in a new gene encoding a putative membrane-organizing protein causes neuro-fibromatosis type 2 515
Guy A. Rouleau, Philippe Merel, Mohini Lutchman, Marc Sanson, Jessica Zucman, Claude Marineau, Khé Hoang-Xuan, Suzanne Demczuk, Chantal Desmaze, Béatrice Plougastel, Stefan M. Pulst, Gilbert Lenoir, Emilia Bijlsma, Raimund Fashold, Jan Dumanski, Pieter de Jong, Dilys Parry, Roswell Eldrige, Alain Aurias, Olivier Delattre & Gilles Thomas
doi:10.1038/363515a0
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| | Observations of high-velocity, weakly shocked ejecta from experimental impacts 522
Andrew J. Gratz, William J. Nellis & Neal A. Hinsey
doi:10.1038/363522a0
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| | Imaging standing waves in a two-dimensional electron gas 524
M. F. Crommie, C. P. Lutz & D. M. Eigler
doi:10.1038/363524a0
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| | Molecular layering during evaporation of ultrathin liquid films 527
Mikel L. Forcada & C. Mathew Mate
doi:10.1038/363527a0
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| | Understanding the acid behaviour of zeolites from theory and experiment 529
G. J. Kramer, R. A. van Santen, C. A. Emeis & A. K. Nowak
doi:10.1038/363529a0
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| | Milankovitch theory viewed from Devils Hole 531
J. Imbrie, A. C. Mix & D. G. Martinson
doi:10.1038/363531a0
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| | Temperatures in the Earth's core from melting-point measurements of iron at high static pressures 534
R. Boehler
doi:10.1038/363534a0
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| | Amplification and sequencing of DNA from a 120−135-million-year-old weevil 536
Raúl J. Cano, Heridrik N. Poinar, Norman J. Pieniazek, Aftim Acra & George O. Poinar Jr
doi:10.1038/363536a0
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| | Honest signalling among gametes 539
Mark Pagel
doi:10.1038/363539a0
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| | Contour from motion processing occurs in primary visual cortex 541
Victor A. F. Lamme, Bob W. van Dijk & Henk Spekreijse
doi:10.1038/363541a0
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| | Peripheral nerve injury triggers noradrenergic sprouting within dorsal root ganglia 543
Elspeth M. McLachlan, Wilfrid Jänig, Marshall Devor & Martin Michaelis
doi:10.1038/363543a0
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| | The Nagel anomaloscope and seasonal variation of colour vision 546
G. Jordan & J. D. Mollon
doi:10.1038/363546a0
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| | Intercellular signalling in Drosophila segment formation reconstructed in vitro
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Susan Cumberledge & Mark A. Krasnow
doi:10.1038/363549a0
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| | A role for the ubiquitin-dependent proteolytic pathway in MHC class l-restricted antigen presentation 552
Michael T. Michalek, Ethan P. Grant, Colette Gramm, Alfred L. Goldberg & Kenneth L. Rock
doi:10.1038/363552a0
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| | Release of secretory products during transient vesicle fusion 554
G. Alvarez de Toledo, R. Fernández-Chacón & J. M. Fernández
doi:10.1038/363554a0
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| | Ubiquitous somatic mutations in simple repeated sequences reveal a new mechanism for colonic carcinogenesis 558
Yurij Ionov, Miguel A. Peinado, Sergei Malkhosyan, Darryl Shibata & Manuel Perucho
doi:10.1038/363558a0
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| | A tetrameric DNA structure with protonated cytosine-cytosine base pairs 561
Kalle Gehring, Jean-Louis Leroy & Maurice Guéron
doi:10.1038/363561a0
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D. J. Thiel, P. Livins, E. A. Stern & A. Lewis
doi:10.1038/363565a0
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