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| | Justice unevenly spread in Paris 267
The second version of the contaminated-blood trial in the French courts leaves the suspicion that those sent to jail are a subset of those who might have been so dealt with.
doi:10.1038/364267a0
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| | Europe's water-wars 268
The European Communities need more rational ways of setting environmental standards.
doi:10.1038/364268a0
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| | 0l' man river again 268
The tragic floods in the Middle West are not biblical, but consequences of an immature drainage system.
doi:10.1038/364268b0
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| | French appeal court sends Allain to jail 269
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/364269a0
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| | Fight to relax German research curbs 269
Robert Unterhuber
doi:10.1038/364269b0
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| | Judicial reform 269
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/364269c0
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| | Clash over too demanding Euro-water standards 270
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/364270a0
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| | SSC supporters hope for a last-ditch reprieve 270
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/364270b0
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| | Earthquake exposes gaps in seismic network 271
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/364271a0
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| | No major changes in earthquake prediction 271
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/364271b0
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| | British research councils win and lose 272
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/364272a0
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| | Germany's tight budget 273
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/364273a0
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| | Hasty exit from APS 273
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/364273b0
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| | New NSF director nominated 273
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/364273c0
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| | US shows good faith on help for developing countries 274
Susan Greene
doi:10.1038/364274a0
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| | Process patent bill on track 274
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/364274b0
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| | European alarm on intellectual property 274
Arthur Rogers
doi:10.1038/364274c0
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| | World Bank espouses public health for those in poverty 275
Susan Greene
doi:10.1038/364275a0
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| | EC seeks ban on milk yield hormone 275
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/364275b0
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| | Long journey for large mirror 275
Alun Anderson
doi:10.1038/364275c0
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| | NIH, PDA seek lessons from hepatitis B drug trial deaths 275
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/364275d0
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| | Black paper for science 276
Christopher Exley
doi:10.1038/364276a0
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| | Human goodness? 276
Amo Arrak
doi:10.1038/364276b0
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| | Rustum Roy 276
Andrew G. Ewing
doi:10.1038/364276c0
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| | Lessons in reducing volcano risk 277
Since 1980, volcanologists have confronted more volcanic crises than any time since the Mont Pelee catastrophe in 1902. Good science alone will not do the job of reducing volcano risk.
Robert I. Tilling & Peter W. Lipman
doi:10.1038/364277a0
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| | Wilful public misunderstanding of genetics 281
This week's excitement over a report suggesting a genetic basis for homosexuality has been overdone, suggesting that there is a long way to go before public understanding is enlightened.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/364281a0
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| | Genes make worms behave 282
Robert K. Herman
doi:10.1038/364282a0
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| | More whirls in the whirlpool 283
Jeffrey Kenney
doi:10.1038/364283a0
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| | Making composite continents 284
William R. Dickinson
doi:10.1038/364284a0
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| | Broken hearts 285
doi:10.1038/364285a0
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| | Nanoballbearings 285
doi:10.1038/364285b0
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| | Out of Africa 285
doi:10.1038/364285c0
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| | Pressing for better results 286
Paolo G. Radaelli & James D. Jorgensen
doi:10.1038/364286a0
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| | Fast forward to fusion 287
Dan Cutler
doi:10.1038/364287a0
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| | Sexual orientation and the X 288
Mary-Claire King
doi:10.1038/364288a0
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| | Why introns-in-pieces? 289
Andrew J. Roger & W. Ford Doolittle
doi:10.1038/364289a0
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| | Mental strife 290
David Jones
doi:10.1038/364290a0
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| | Viral burden and HIV disease 291
Haynes W. Sheppard, Michael S. Ascher & John F. Krowka
doi:10.1038/364291a0
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| | Viral burden and HIV disease 291
Antony S. Fauci, Giuseppe Pantaleo, Janet Embretson & Ashley T. Haase
doi:10.1038/364291b0
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| | Large herbivores in rangelands 292
Hervé Fritz & Patrick Duncan
doi:10.1038/364292a0
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| | Large herbivores in rangelands 293
S. J. McNaughton, M. Oesterheld & O. E. Sala
doi:10.1038/364293a0
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| | Remembering landmarks 293
Andrew T. D. Bennett
doi:10.1038/364293b0
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| | Remembering landmarks 294
R. G. M. Morris
doi:10.1038/364294a0
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| | Structure near the mantle's base 294
Cedric Wright
doi:10.1038/364294b0
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| | Alzheimer's response 294
J. P. Landsberg, B. McDonald & F. Watt
doi:10.1038/364294c0
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| | Progressive knowledge 295
John Ziman reviews The Advancement of Science
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Philip Kitcher
doi:10.1038/364295a0
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| | Carolina Parakeet 295
doi:10.1038/364295b0
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| | States of the nations 296
Margaret Sharp reviews The Elusive Transformation: Science, Technology, and the Evolution of International Politics
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Eugene B. Skolnikoff
doi:10.1038/364296a0
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| | Superconductors and baseballs 297
Robert J. Cava reviews Superconductivity: The Next Revolution?
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Gianfrance Vidali
doi:10.1038/364297a0
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| | Horses for courses 297
doi:10.1038/364297b0
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| | Recognizing species 298
Jerry A. Coyne reviews Evolution and the Recognition Concept of Species: Collected Writings of Hugh E. H. Paterson
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Shane F. McEvey
doi:10.1038/364298a0
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| | Evolution of the Altaid tectonic collage and Palaeozoic crustal growth in Eurasia 299
A. M. C.  engör, B. A. Natal'in & V. S. Burtman
doi:10.1038/364299a0
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| | Normal and oncogenic p21ras proteins bind to the amino-terminal
regulatory domain of c-Raf-1 308
Xian-Feng Zhang, Jeffrey Settleman, John Kyriakis, Erika Takeuchi-Suzuki, Stephen J. Elledge, Mark S. Marshall, Joseph T. Bruder, Ulf R. Rapp & Joseph Avruch
doi:10.1038/364308a0
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| | Inner spiral structure of the galaxy M51 313
Dennis Zaritsky, Hans-Walter Rix & Marcia Ricke
doi:10.1038/364313a0
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| | A new family of copper oxide superconductors Sr
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Z. Hiroi, M. Takano, M. Azuma & Y. Takeda
doi:10.1038/364315a0
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| | Effect of electrolytes on bubble coalescence 317
V. S. J. Craig, B. W. Ninham & R. M. Pashley
doi:10.1038/364317a0
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| | Reconstructing sea surface temperature and salinity using  18O and
alkenone records 319
Frauke Rostek, Götz Ruhlandt, Franck C. Bassinot, Peter J. Muller, Laurent D. Labeyrie, Yves Lancelot & Edouard Bard
doi:10.1038/364319a0
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| | Century-scale events in monsoonal climate over the past 24,000 years 322
F. Sirocko, M. Sarnthein, H. Erlenkeuser, H. Lange, M. Arnold & J. C. Duplessy
doi:10.1038/364322a0
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| | Isotopic comparison of K/T boundary impact glass with melt rock from the Chicxulub and Manson impact structures 325
Joel D. Blum, C. Page Chamberlain, Michael P. Hingston, Christian Koeberl, Luis E. Marin, Benjamin C. Schuraytz & Virgil L. Sharpton
doi:10.1038/364325a0
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| | Expression of the UNC-5 guidance receptor in the touch neurons of C. elegans steers their axons dorsally 327
Michel Hamelin, Youwen Zhou, Ming-Wan Su, Ian M. Scott & Joseph G. Culotti
doi:10.1038/364327a0
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| | Extensive MHC variability in cichlid fishes of Lake Malawi 330
Dagmar Klein, Hideki Ono, Colm O'hUigin, Vladimir Vincek, Tijs Goldschmidt & Jan Klein
doi:10.1038/364330a0
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| | Genes required for GABA function in Caenorhabditis elegans
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Steven L. Mclntire, Erik Jorgensen & H. Robert Horvitz
doi:10.1038/364334a0
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| | The GABAergic nervous system of Caenorhabditis elegans
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Steven L. Mclntire, Erik Jorgensen, Joshua Kaplan & H. Robert Horvitz
doi:10.1038/364337a0
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| | Mechanosensitive channels transduce osmosensitivity in supraoptic
neurons 341
Stéphane H. R. Oliet & Charles Bourque
doi:10.1038/364341a0
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| | Divalent cation-independent macrophage adhesion inhibited by monoclonal
antibody to murine scavenger receptor 343
Iain Fraser, Derralynn Hughes & Siamon Gordon
doi:10.1038/364343a0
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| | Cellubrevin is a ubiquitous tetanus-toxin substrate homologous to a
putative synaptic vesicle fusion protein 346
Harvey T. McMahon, Yuri A. Ushkaryov, Lambert Edelmann, Egenhard Link, Thomas Binz, Heiner Niemann, Reinhard Jahn & Thomas C. Südhof
doi:10.1038/364346a0
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| | Complementation of byrl in fission yeast by mammalian MAP kinase
kinase requires coexpression of Raf kinase 349
David A. Hughes, Alan Ashworth & Christopher J. Marshall
doi:10.1038/364349a0
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| | Direct interaction of Ras and the amino-terminal region of Raf-1 in vitro
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Patricia H. Warne, Pablo Rodrigueza Vician & Julian Downward
doi:10.1038/364352a0
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| | The role of turns in the structure of an  -helical
protein 355
Adam P. Brunet, Enoch S. Huang, Mary Elizabeth Huffine, Jonathan E. Loeb, Robert J. Weltman & Michael H. Hecht
doi:10.1038/364355a0
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| | Group II self-splicing introns in bacteria 358
Jean-Luc Ferat & François Michel
doi:10.1038/364358a0
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| | The gene involved in X-linked agammaglobulinaemia is a member of the src family of protein-tyrosine kinases 362
D. Vetrie
doi:10.1038/364362a0
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| | Atomic structure and chemistry of human serum albumin 362
X. M. He & D. C. Carter
doi:10.1038/364362b0
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| | Mutations in Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase gene are associated with familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 362
Daniel Rosen
doi:10.1038/364362c0
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| | A single amino acid of the cholecystokinin-B/gastrin receptor determines
specificity for non-peptide antagonists 362
Martin Beinborn, Young-Mee Lee, Edward W. McBride, Suzanne M. Quinn & Alan S. Kopin
doi:10.1038/364362d0
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| | Breaking up is not hard to do 363
Among this week's tools for separation − a modular capillary electrophoresis system with in-built autosampler, chromatography data systems, and columns for chiral separations and the separation.
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/364363a0
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