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| | Intellectual property under GATT 597
This week's GATT agreement (if signed) leaves doubts about the protection of intellectual property unresolved. With UNESCO absent from the scene, the world's academies should take up the issue
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| | Decriminalizing drugs? 598
The US Surgeon-General has revived a long-simmering debate about existing legal restraints on drug abuse.
doi:10.1038/366598a0
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| | Delors white paper puts research firmly on Europe's political map 599
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/366599a0
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| | Deadlock broken on Framework funding 599
doi:10.1038/366599b0
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| | Newspaper ducks criticism of AIDS coverage 599
Maxine Clarke
doi:10.1038/366599c0
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| | Fusion experiments give lift to future funding prospects 600
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/366600a0
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| | NSF opens network to Russian scientists 600
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/366600b0
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| | Lobbyists prompt US breast cancer campaign 601
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/366601a0
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| | High bids for second-hand space suits 601
doi:10.1038/366601b0
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| | Rival Boston hospitals set to merge 601
Barbara J. Culliton
doi:10.1038/366601c0
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| | Physicists want 1996 link-up with LHC 602
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/366602a0
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| | CERN views a suitor with caution 602
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/366602b0
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| | Congressmen in last-ditch THORP appeal 603
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/366603a0
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| | UCSF goes solo with venture fund 603
Sally Lehrman
doi:10.1038/366603b0
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| | Pilot scheme gets go ahead for southern Europe 604
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/366604a0
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| | Russian foundations under pressure to cooperate 604
Vladimir Pokrovsky
doi:10.1038/366604b0
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| | Hong Kong scientists forge links with China 605
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/366605a0
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| | UK urged to back electronic publishers 605
Fiona Gammie
doi:10.1038/366605b0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | On changing water into wine 606
R. A. Savidge
doi:10.1038/366606a0
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| | On changing water into wine 606
Richard S. Courtney
doi:10.1038/366606b0
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| | Tools, not laws 606
Ottar Brox
doi:10.1038/366606c0
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| | Demise of the Texas supercollider 607
Two months ago, the superconducting supercollider was killed by the US Congress. Here, a particle physicist provides a post mortem and asks whether Europe should build its own collider.
David Ritson
doi:10.1038/366607a0
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| | India's great ambition to succeed 611
Never can there have been such a determination to attain improvement by science and technology as there has been in India since 1947, but success is sadly still a long way off.
doi:10.1038/366611a0
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| | Water and employment for all? 613
doi:10.1038/366613a0
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| | How India runs its science 615
doi:10.1038/366615a0
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| | Palaeontology under a Himalayan shadow 616
doi:10.1038/366616a0
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| | Higher education with lower budgets 617
doi:10.1038/366617a0
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| | An unwelcome export success 618
K. S. J.
doi:10.1038/366618a0
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| | A gold mine of information 618
K. S. J.
doi:10.1038/366618b0
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| | A model institution on trial 619
doi:10.1038/366619a0
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| | A valve that could do good 620
doi:10.1038/366620a0
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| | Telecoms and watches sustain chips 621
doi:10.1038/366621a0
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| | Bangalore central to electronics 621
doi:10.1038/366621b0
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| | Data delivery to the people 622
K. S. J.
doi:10.1038/366622a0
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| | An energetic company 623
doi:10.1038/366623a0
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| | A future in bamboo 623
doi:10.1038/366623b0
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| | Space — more a question of pride 624
doi:10.1038/366624a0
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| | GATT adds fuel to patents controversy 625
K. S. J.
doi:10.1038/366625a0
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| | India pushed about? 625
doi:10.1038/366625b0
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| | Branching out in chemical systems 626
doi:10.1038/366626a0
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| | Thirty-dish array aiming to see further than VLA 626
doi:10.1038/366626b0
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| | Science and the developing world 627
Science and technology have a recently developed affinity with the development of the poor countries of the world, but have few effective ways of winning benefit for either partner in the relationship.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/366627a0
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| | A turn-on and a surprise 628
Henry R. Bourne
doi:10.1038/366628a0
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| | Core models ring true 629
T. Guy Masters
doi:10.1038/366629a0
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| | Mucins in the mainstream 630
Yoji Shimizu & Stephen Shaw
doi:10.1038/366630a0
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| | Time for the angiosperms 631
Peter R. Crane
doi:10.1038/366631a0
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| | Atomic trampolining 632
C. J. Foot
doi:10.1038/366632a0
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| | Chaos in interstellar clouds 633
Stephen Lepp
doi:10.1038/366633a0
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| | Dams and sluices 634
Kim Nasmyth & Tim Hunt
doi:10.1038/366634a0
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| | Upwelling beneath ocean ridges 635
Norman H. Sleep
doi:10.1038/366635a0
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| | Home brewing 636
David Jones
doi:10.1038/366636a0
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| | Scientific Correspondence | |
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| | Radial single-layer nanotubes 637
Shekhar Subramoney, Rodney S. Ruoff, Donald C. Lorents & Ripudman Malhotra
doi:10.1038/366637a0
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| | Waxy tea 637
Ralph A. Lewin
doi:10.1038/366637b0
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| | Plastids better red than dead 638
Iain Wilson
doi:10.1038/366638a0
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| | Protein surface area defined 638
Richard M. Jackson & Michael J. E. Sternberg
doi:10.1038/366638b0
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| | Book Reviews | |
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| | "Labour of the decypherer" 639
R. V. Jones reviews Codebreakers: The Inside Story of Bletchley Park.
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F. H. Hinsley & Alan Stripp
doi:10.1038/366639a0
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| | A galactic astronomer 640
David W. Hughes reviews The Man Who Sold the Milky Way: A Biography of Bart Bok.
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David H. Levy.
doi:10.1038/366640a0
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| | Propaganda of symbiogenesis 641
T. Cavalier-Smith reviews Concepts of Symbiogenesis: A Historical and Critical Study of the Research of Russian Botanists.
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L. N. Khakhina, L. Margulis, M. McMenamin, S. Merkel & R. Coalson
doi:10.1038/366641a0
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| | The Book of Apples 641
Joan Morgan & Alison Richards
doi:10.1038/366641b0
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La dolce vita?
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Giovanni F. Bignami reviews L'università dei Tre Tradimenti.
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Raffaele Simone
doi:10.1038/366642a0
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| | Review Article | |
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| | Proteins regulating Ras and its relatives 643
Mark S. Boguski & Frank McCormick
doi:10.1038/366643a0
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| | The 2.2 Å crystal structure of transducin- complexed with GTP S 654
Joseph P. Noel, Heidi E. Hamm & Paul B. Sigler
doi:10.1038/366654a0
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| | Letters | |
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| | Pulsar motion effect and Geminga's high braking index 663
G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan & K. A. Postnov
doi:10.1038/366663a0
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| | Role of sp
3 carbon and 7-membered rings in fullerene annealing and fragmentation 665
Robert L. Murry, Douglas L. Strout, Gregory K. Odom & Gustavo E. Scuseria
doi:10.1038/366665a0
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| | The interatomic structure of water at supercritical temperatures 668
P. Postorino, R. H. Tromp, M-A. Ricci, A. K. Soper & G. W. Neilson
doi:10.1038/366668a0
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| | Potential effects of cloud optical thickness on climate warming 670
George Tselioudis, Andrew A. Lacis, David Rind & William B. Rossow
doi:10.1038/366670a0
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| | Evidence from the Oman ophiolite for sudden stress changes during melt injection at oceanic spreading centres 673
Benoît IIdefonse, Adolphe Nicolas & Françoise Boudier
doi:10.1038/366673a0
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| | Seismic anisotropy in the mantle beneath an oceanic spreading centre 675
Donna K. Blackman, John A. Orcutt, Donald W. Forsyth & J-Michael Kendall
doi:10.1038/366675a0
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| | Support for anisotropy of the Earth's inner core from free oscillations 678
Jeroen Tromp
doi:10.1038/366678a0
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| | Rapid human-induced evolution of insect−host associations 681
Michael C. Singer, Chris D. Thomas & Camille Parmesan
doi:10.1038/366681a0
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| | Hippocampal pyramidal cells excite inhibitory neurons through a single release site 683
A. I. Gulyás, R. Miles, A. Sik, K. Tóth, N. Tamamaki & T. F. Freund
doi:10.1038/366683a0
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| | Role of a metabotropic glutamate receptor in synaptic modulation in the accessory olfactory bulb 687
Yasunori Hayashi, Akiko Momiyama, Tomoyuki Takahashi, Hitoshi Ohishi, Reiko Ogawa-Meguro, Ryuichi Shigemoto, Noboru Mizuno & Shigetada Nakanishi
doi:10.1038/366687a0
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| | A Drosophila homologue of human Sp1 is a head-specific segmentation gene 690
Ernst A. Wimmer, Herbert Jäckle, Christine Pfeifle & Stephen M. Cohen
doi:10.1038/366690a0
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| | L-selectin-mediated lymphocyte rolling on MAdCAM-1 695
E. L. Berg, L. M. McEvoy, C. Berlin, R. F. Bargatze & E. C. Butcher
doi:10.1038/366695a0
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| | A first-generation physical map of the human genome 698
D. Cohen, I. Chumakov & J. Weissenbach
doi:10.1038/366698a0
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| | p21 is a universal inhibitor of cyclin kinases 701
Yue Xiong, Gregory J. Hannon, Hui Zhang, David Casso, Ryuji Kobayashi & David Beach
doi:10.1038/366701a0
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| | A new regulatory motif in cell-cycle control causing specific inhibition of cyclin D/CDK4 704
Manual Serrano, Gregory J. Hannon & David Beach
doi:10.1038/366704a0
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| | Inhibition of CDK2 activity in vivo by an associated 20K regulatory subunit 707
Yong Gu, Christoph W. Turck & David O. Morgan
doi:10.1038/366707a0
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