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| | When not to swim against the tide 1
Governments are habitually seeking to regulate the distribution
of electromagnetic signals within and even outside their territory, but usually
for reasons more concerned with wish-fulfilment than technological
logic.
doi:10.1038/366001a0
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| | Europe's nomenclature 1
The Maastricht Treaty has sown confusion in the names of European
institutions.
doi:10.1038/366001b0
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Structural Biology
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The appearance of another new journal linked with Nature
offers great opportunities.
doi:10.1038/366002a0
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| | News | |
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| | Science academies call for global goal of zero population growth 3
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/366003a0
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| | Why Africa said no 3
doi:10.1038/366003b0
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| | NIH awards gene centre grants 3
Sally Lehrman
doi:10.1038/366003c0
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| | Japan disappoints seekers of 'foresight' 4
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/366004a0
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| | ... and UK Labour Party is unconvinced 4
doi:10.1038/366004b0
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| | Protests greet new NSF rules on page charges 5
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/366005a0
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| | Opponents of 'earmarking' claim victory in Congress 5
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/366005b0
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| | Schwitters steps down as SSC director 5
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/366005c0
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| | 'Publication by press conference' under fire 6
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/366006a0
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| | MRC to limit patents on cDNA sequences 6
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/366006b0
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| | German stalemate on nuclear power 6
Matthew Beard
doi:10.1038/366006c0
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| | Maastricht lets parliament flex its muscles 7
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/366007a0
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| | CERN members seek better deal 7
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/366007b0
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| | Spanish laboratory backs off bid to cut research staff 8
Oscar G. Segurado
doi:10.1038/366008a0
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| | Snapshot of French science shows growing impact 8
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/366008b0
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| | Battle looms over future of Science Museum 9
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/366009a0
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| | Celltech announces public offering 9
Mike Ward
doi:10.1038/366009b0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Irish science needs a champion 10
D. J. Fegan
doi:10.1038/366010a0
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| | Words, idle words 10
S. K. Sharma
doi:10.1038/366010b0
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| | Free trade error 10
Luke Lea
doi:10.1038/366010c0
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| | Critics condemn NIH women's study 11
Nobody disputes that women have health problems that differ from those of men, but NIH may be wasting $625 million or more in pursuit of an ambition to be seen to be politically correct.
Barbara J. Culliton
doi:10.1038/366011a0
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| | Heat-proof proteins 12
Norbert Hampp
doi:10.1038/366012a0
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| | Hopes for hyperdeformation 13
W. R. Phillips
doi:10.1038/366013a0
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| | Mad Bet for Rab 14
Michael S. Brown & Joseph L. Goldstein
doi:10.1038/366014a0
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| | Spotlight on a neuronal enzyme 15
Michele Solimena & Pietro De Camilli
doi:10.1038/366015a0
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| | Drought in Greenland? 17
Kenneth C. Jezek
doi:10.1038/366017a0
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| | Indictment of pore behaviour 18
Jeffrey J. Wine
doi:10.1038/366018a0
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| | Mathematics in linguistics 19
Jared M. Diamond
doi:10.1038/366019a0
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| | Internal medicine 20
David Jones
doi:10.1038/366020a0
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| | Scientific Correspondence | |
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| | Solar asteroid diversion 21
H. J. Melosh & I. V. Nemchinov
doi:10.1038/366021a0
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| | Viral burden in AIDS 22
A. G. Dalgleish
doi:10.1038/366022a0
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| | Viral burden in AIDS 22
Simon Wain-Hobson
doi:10.1038/366022b0
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| | Skin cancer and UV radiation 23
Sasha Madronich & Frank R. de Gruijl
doi:10.1038/366023a0
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| | Fitness-related dispersal 23
Jan Komdeur
doi:10.1038/366023b0
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| | Dinosaur blood cells rediscovered 24
R. E. H. Reid
doi:10.1038/366024a0
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| | Late night thoughts 25
Jacqueline Reynolds reviews The Biological Century: Friday Evening Talks at the Marine Biological Laboratory.
Edited by
R. Barlow, J. Dowling & G. Weissmann
doi:10.1038/366025a0
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| | Gravitational breakdown 26
R. Cowsik reviews The Rise and Fall of the Fifth Force: Discovery, Pursuit, and Justification in Modern Physics.
By
Allan Franklin
doi:10.1038/366026a0
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| | Barriers to gene flow 27
R. K. Butlin reviews Species Evolution: The Role of Chromosome Change.
By
Max King
doi:10.1038/366027a0
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| | Star wars 27
Joel A. Gwinn reviews Pauper and Prince: Ritchey, Hale, and Big American Telescopes.
By
Donald E. Osterbrock
doi:10.1038/366027b0
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| | Progress | |
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| | The rise and fall of the 17-keV neutrino 29
Douglas R. O. Morrison
doi:10.1038/366029a0
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| | The DNA replication fork can pass RNA polymerase without displacing the nascent transcript 33
Bin Liu, Mei Lie Wong, Rachel L. Tinker, E. Peter Geiduschek & Bruce M. Alberts
doi:10.1038/366033a0
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| | Letters | |
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| | The intrinsic luminosity of  -ray bursts and their host galaxies 40
E. E. Fenimore, R. I. Epstein, C. Ho, R. W. Klebesadel, C. Lacey, J. G. Laros, M. Meier, T. Strohmayer, G. Pendleton, G. Fishman, C. Kouveliotou & C. Meegan
doi:10.1038/366040a0
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| | Raman spectra of size-selected silicon clusters and comparison with calculated structures 42
E. C. Honea, A. Ogura, C. A. Murray, Krishnan Raghavachari, W. O. Sprenger, M. F. Jarrold & W. L. Brown
doi:10.1038/366042a0
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| | Enhancement of axial resolution in fluorescence microscopy by standing-wave excitation 44
Brent Bailey, Daniel L. Farkas, D. Lansing Taylor & Frederick Lanni
doi:10.1038/366044a0
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| | Stabilization of the membrane protein bacteriorhodopsin to 140 °C in two-dimensional films 48
Yi Shen, Cyrus R. Safinya, Keng S. Liang, A. F. Ruppert & Kenneth J. Rothschild
doi:10.1038/366048a0
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| | Effect of a lowered water table on nitrous oxide fluxes from northern peatlands 51
Pertti J. Martikainen, Hannu Nykänen, Patrick Crill & Jouko Silvola
doi:10.1038/366051a0
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| | Absence of preferred longitude sectors for poles from volcanic records of geomagnetic reversals 53
Michel Prévot & Pierre Camps
doi:10.1038/366053a0
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| | Oldest known amphisbaenian from the Upper Cretaceous of Chinese Inner Mongolia 57
Xiao-chun Wu, Donald B. Brinkman, Anthony P. Russell, Zhi-ming Dong, Philip J. Currie, Lian-hai Hou & Guf-hai Cui
doi:10.1038/366057a0
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| | An identified neuron mediates the unconditioned stimulus in associative olfactory learning in honeybees 59
Martin Hammer
doi:10.1038/366059a0
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| | On the molecular origin of photoreceptor noise 64
Robert B. Barlow, Robert
R. Birge, Ehud Kaplan & Jack
R. Tallent
doi:10.1038/366064a0
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| | Fast axonal transport is required for growth cone advance 66
Chris Martenson, Kimberly Stone, Mary Reedy & Michael Sheetz
doi:10.1038/366066a0
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| | Spontaneous loss of T-cell tolerance to glutamic acid decarboxylase in murine insulin-dependent diabetes 69
Daniel L. Kaufman, Michael Clare-Salzler, Jide Tian, Thomas Forsthuber, Grace S. P. Ting, Paul Robinson, Mark A. Atkinson, Eli E. Sercarz, Allan J. Tobin & Paul V. Lehmann
doi:10.1038/366069a0
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| | Immune response to glutamic acid decarboxylase correlates with insulitis in non-obese diabetic mice 72
Roland Tisch, Xiao-Dong Yang, Steven M. Singer, Roland S. Liblau, Lars Fugger & Hugh O. McDevitt
doi:10.1038/366072a0
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| | B70 antigen is a second ligand for CTLA-4 and CD28 76
Miyuki Azuma, Daisuke Ito, Hideo Yagita, Ko Okumura, Joseph H. Phillips, Lewis L. Lanier & Chamorro Somoza
doi:10.1038/366076a0
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| | Multi-ion pore behaviour in the CFTR chloride channel 79
Joseph A. Tabcharani, Johanna M. Rommens, Yue-Xian Hou, Xiu-Bao Chang, Lap-Chee Tsui, John R. Riordan & John W. Hanrahan
doi:10.1038/366079a0
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| | The mitotic feedback control gene MAD2 encodes the  -subunit of a prenyltransferase 82
Rong Li, Christopher Havel, John A. Watson & Andrew W. Murray
doi:10.1038/366082a0
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| | Bet2p and Mad2p are components of a prenyltransferase that adds geranylgeranyl onto Ypt1p and Sec4p 84
Yu Jiang, Guendalina Rossi & Susan Ferro-Novick
doi:10.1038/366084a0
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| | Yeast origin recognition complex is involved in DNA replication and transcriptional silencing 87
Gos Micklem, Adele Rowley, Janet Harwood, Kim Nasmyth & John F. X. Diffley
doi:10.1038/366087a0
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| | Huntington's is still holding out 90
In situ expression studies show that the selective pathology of Huntington's disease is not explained by a simple pattern of gene expression in the brain.
Adrian J. Ivinson
doi:10.1038/366090a0
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| | New tools for neuroscientists 91
News from the marketplace this week features a fluorescence imaging system for recording intracellular ion concentrations, a multichannel tissue bath stimulation system and flow-through sensors for organ perfusion studies.
doi:10.1038/366091a0
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