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| | The Cold War's unwanted monument 567
The US project to build a space station is once again in trouble. The best solution is none of the alternatives presented last week to President Clinton, but a mechanism for true international participation.
doi:10.1038/363567a0
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| | Universities' own feet 567
Safeguards are needed if students are to pay a greater share of the costs of their education.
doi:10.1038/363567b0
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| | Half-tax on US energy 568
President Clinton is heading for a fudge on his planned tax on fuels, likely to finish as a tax on gasoline only.
doi:10.1038/363568a0
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| | Fate of space station hangs on nominations of US Congress 569
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/363569a0
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| | Japan flirts modestly with international review 570
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/363570a0
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| | China's science budget outgrows economy 570
You Qin Li
doi:10.1038/363570b0
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| | UK rejects call for more systematic biology cash 571
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/363571a0
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| | Hillary Clinton lobbies at Hopkins for health 571
Barbara. J. Culliton
doi:10.1038/363571b0
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| | Lack of vision weakens links between industry and finance 572
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/363572a0
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| | No easy route of evolution for weapons labs, says OTA 573
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/363573a0
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| | UK to close environmental research lab 573
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/363573b0
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| | Profits of British science-based companies boom 574
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/363574a0
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| | Stanford seeks life after Cohen—Boyer patent expires 574
Sally Lehrman
doi:10.1038/363574b0
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| | Japan embarks on an academic computer network 575
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/363575a0
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| | Indo-US plutonium dispute flares up 575
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/363575b0
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| | Visit Russia, help science 576
Andrei D. Mirzabekov
doi:10.1038/363576a0
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| | Problem-solving 576
Simon Roman
doi:10.1038/363576b0
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| | Opposition to Oncomouse 577
Pat Murtagh
doi:10.1038/363577a0
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| | Wrath averted 577
Leslie E. Orgel
doi:10.1038/363577b0
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| | Opportunistic infection 577
Frank J. Leavitt
doi:10.1038/363577c0
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| | One too many 577
Bengt O. Bengtsson
doi:10.1038/363577d0
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| | Un morceau 577
Andrew Dale
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| | Justice is not egalitarian 578
Ron M. Kagan
doi:10.1038/363578a0
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| | NIH funding 578
Frederick Sachs
doi:10.1038/363578b0
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| | Refused entry 578
John Bratty & Robert Cedergren
doi:10.1038/363578c0
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| | Give the hunger-striker a break 579
Hunger-striking is not an honourable way of influencing events, but an expression of frustration. Walter Stewart has given up his fast. His employers (the NIH) might better now be able to be conciliatory.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/363579a0
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| | Transgenic plants on trial 580
Peter Kareiva
doi:10.1038/363580a0
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| | Old twist in a new tale 581
Michael F. Land
doi:10.1038/363581a0
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| | Light on the faint Universe 582
M. G. Edmunds
doi:10.1038/363582a0
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| | The scratchpad of the mind 583
Marcus E. Raichle
doi:10.1038/363583a0
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| | Breaking up is hard to do 584
Gabrielle Walker
doi:10.1038/363584a0
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| | Ruling in the improbable 585
Philip N. Froelich
doi:10.1038/363585a0
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| | The phosphate's tale 586
Graham Ross
doi:10.1038/363586a0
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| | Four legs good, two legs better 587
Bernard Wood
doi:10.1038/363587a0
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| | High aspirations 588
David Jones
doi:10.1038/363588a0
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| | Legacy of mercury pollution 589
Jerome O. Nriagu
doi:10.1038/363589a0
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| | Loss of kinase activity 590
Dirk Bossemeyer
doi:10.1038/363590a0
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| | No HMG-1 box signature 590
David Landsman
doi:10.1038/363590b0
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| | Neanderthals rehabilitated 591
Ian Tattersall reviews In Search of the Neanderthals: Solving the Puzzle of Human Origins
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Christopher Stringer & Clive Gamble and The Neandertals: Changing the Image of Mankind
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Erik Trinkaus & Pat Shipman
doi:10.1038/363591a0
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| | Tesla's sparks of imagination 592
Willem Hackmann
doi:10.1038/363592a0
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| | Techno-bonds 592
Jack Ruina reviews The Cold War and American Science: The Military—Industrial—Academic Complex at MIT and Stanford
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Stuart W. Leslie
doi:10.1038/363592b0
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| | Dreaming on 593
Graham Ross reviews The End of Physics: The Myth of a Unified Theory
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David Lindley
doi:10.1038/363593b0
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| | Psycho-analysis 594
Solomon H. Snyder reviews Molecules and Mental Illness
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Samuel H. Barondes
doi:10.1038/363594a0
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| | Crystal structure of cyclin-dependent kinase 2 595
Hendrik L. De Bondt, Jody Rosenblatt, Jarmila Jancarik, Heather D. Jones, David O. Morgant & Sung-Hou Kim
doi:10.1038/363595a0
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| | Single-shell carbon nanotubes of 1-nm diameter 603
Sumio Iijima & Toshinari Ichihashi
doi:10.1038/363603a0
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| | Cobalt-catalysed growth of carbon nanotubes with single-atomic-layer walls 605
D. S. Bethune, C. H. Klang, M. S. de Vries, G. Gorman, R. Savoy, J. Vazquez & R. Beyers
doi:10.1038/363605a0
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| | Synchronous changes in seawater strontium isotope composition and global climate 607
Steven C. Clemens, John W. Farrell & L. Peter Gromet
doi:10.1038/363607a0
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| | Tephra from the Minoan eruption of Santorini in sediments of the Black Sea 610
F. Guichard, S. Carey, M. A. Arthur, H. Sigurdsson & M. Arnold
doi:10.1038/363610a0
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| | Estimate of pyroclastic flow velocities resulting from explosive decompression of lava domes 612
Jonathan H. Fink & Susan W. Kieffer
doi:10.1038/363612a0
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| | Evidence for a K/T impact event in the Pacific Ocean 615
E. Robin, L. Froget, C. Jéhanno & R. Rocchia
doi:10.1038/363615a0
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| | Disruptive selection and the genetic basis of bill size polymorphism in the African finch Pyrenestes
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Thomas Bates Smith
doi:10.1038/363618a0
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| | Ecology of transgenic oilseed rape in natural habitats 620
M. J. Crawley, R. S. Hails, M. Rees, D. Kohn & J. Buxton
doi:10.1038/363620a0
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| | Spatial working memory in humans as revealed by PET 623
John Jonides, Edward E. Smith, Robert A. Koeppe, Edward Awh, Satoshi Minoshima & Mark A. Mintun
doi:10.1038/363623a0
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| | Extent to which homology can constrain coding exon junctional diversity in V(D)J recombination 625
Rachel M. Gerstein & Michael R. Lieber
doi:10.1038/363625a0
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| | Activation of complement by an IgG molecule without a genetic hinge 628
Ole Henrik Brekke, Terje E. Michaelsen, Randi Sandin & Inger Sandlie
doi:10.1038/363628a0
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| | Segmental organization of embryonic diencephalon 630
Michael C. Figdor & Claudio D. Stern
doi:10.1038/363630a0
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| | Protein kinase C is required for light adaptation in Drosophila photoreceptors 634
R. C. Hardie, A. Peretz, E. Suss-Toby, A. Rom-Glas, S. A. Bishop, Z. Selinger & B. Minke
doi:10.1038/363634a0
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| | A conserved mitotic kinase active at late anaphase—telophase in syncytial Drosophila embryos 637
Brian Fenton & David M. Glover
doi:10.1038/363637a0
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| | Fusion of CHOP to a novel RNA-binding protein in human myxoid liposarcoma 640
Anne Crozat, Pierre Åman, Nils Mandahl & David Ron
doi:10.1038/363640a0
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| | ATCPl-related molecular chaperone from plants refolds phytochrome to its photoreversible form 644
Eckart Mummert, Rudolf Grimm, Volker Speth, Christoph Eckerskorn, Emile Schiltz, Anthony A. Gatenby & Eberhard Schäfer
doi:10.1038/363644a0
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| | New eukaryotic transcriptional repressers 648
Shamol Saha, Joshua M. Brickman, Norbert Lehming & Mark Ptashne
doi:10.1038/363648a0
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| | Immunological toolkits 653
New products in the field of immunology include an interleukin-1 drug screening assay system, microplate washers and readers, radiolabelled interleukin-4, and a selection of monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies.
doi:10.1038/363653a0
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