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| | Confusing tale of two research budgets 495
The fashion for strategic research that stamps this year's US budget echoes Britain's passion for wealth-creation — and may similarly begin to fade as the difficulties become apparent.
doi:10.1038/367495a0
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| | Ecumenical curricula 496
Religious instruction cannot be at once equitable among religious beliefs and also evangelical.
doi:10.1038/367496a0
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| | Senators warn of changing climate for research 497
Barbara Culliton
doi:10.1038/367497a0
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| | Clinton budget proposes science funding freeze 497
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/367497b0
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| | NSF still keeps favoured agency status 497
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/367497c0
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| | NIH: better than last year 498
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/367498a0
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| | Energy: cuts for nuclear 498
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/367498b0
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| | ERA: bigger budget and more jobs 498
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/367498c0
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| | NASA: science up 498
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/367498d0
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| | 'Error of judgement' over gene safety rules 499
Fiona Gammie
doi:10.1038/367499a0
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| | Research head backs students 499
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/367499b0
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| | Rockefeller launches $1 million challenge 499
doi:10.1038/367499c0
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| | Nordic countries urged to boost internal cooperation 500
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/367500a0
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| | Launch success marks Japan's space debut 500
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/367500b0
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| | UK newspaper goes quiet on challenge to HIV/AIDS link 500
Maxine Clarke
doi:10.1038/367500c0
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| | UK councils face �7.5 million 'efficiency' cuts 501
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/367501a0
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| | Waldegrave announces new awards 501
doi:10.1038/367501b0
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| | Major: science part of 'back to basics' 501
doi:10.1038/367501c0
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| | NIH panel opens debate on ethics of embryo research 502
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/367502a0
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| | Japan sets up gene therapy panel 502
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/367502b0
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| | France seeks views on improvements in research system 502
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/367502c0
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| | Hungary's academy fights to build a new role 503
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/367503a0
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| | Howard Hughes opens up awards selection 503
doi:10.1038/367503b0
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| | AIDS in Africa: is It a myth? 504
Geoff Garnett & Roy Anderson
doi:10.1038/367504a0
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| | When to speak 504
M. F. Perutz
doi:10.1038/367504b0
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| | Biased view 504
Victor Rosenberg, Richard Niles & Earl B. Beutler
doi:10.1038/367504c0
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| | Nuclear Sweden 504
Bent Sørensen
doi:10.1038/367504d0
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| | Let's have a word 504
A. M. Hughes
doi:10.1038/367504e0
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| | Better protection of the ozone layer 505
How can we extend the Montreal Protocol to other ozone-depleting chemicals, such as fuel from the Space Shuttle and pharmaceuticals, when the life cycles of these compounds and the scales of the industries are different?
Malcolm K. W. Ko, Nien-Dak Sze & Michael J. Prather
doi:10.1038/367505a0
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| | Time machines still over horizon 509
A sixty-year old calculation by Enrico Fermi is discovered to be in error, and interatomic signalling between atoms to be potentially faster than light. But this is not a sign that time machines that defy causality can now be built.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/367509a0
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| | Looking for galaxies in all the wrong places 510
John J. Salzer
doi:10.1038/367510a0
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| | Time for a change 511
Paul G. Bahn
doi:10.1038/367511a0
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| | Properly preparing promoters 512
Ken van Holde
doi:10.1038/367512a0
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| | Shannon's theorem revisited 513
Artur Ekert
doi:10.1038/367513a0
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| | From models to reality 514
Michael F. Sheridan
doi:10.1038/367514a0
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| | Mergers make more sense 515
M. G. Edmunds
doi:10.1038/367515a0
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| | OBITUARY: G. P. S. Occhialini (1907-93) 515
Giovanni Bignami
doi:10.1038/367515b0
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| | Meticulous AP-1 factors 516
James Douglas Engel
doi:10.1038/367516a0
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| | Simply a social disease? 517
Hugh Dickinson
doi:10.1038/367517a0
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| | Elastic gas traps 518
David Jones
doi:10.1038/367518a0
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| | Scientific Correspondence | |
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| | Purification of nanotubes 519
T. W. Ebbesen, P. M. Ajayan, H. Hiura & K. Tanigaki
doi:10.1038/367519a0
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| | Diatom kills by flagellates 520
Kari Nygaard & Dag O. Hessen
doi:10.1038/367520a0
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| | Sex and longevity 520
Leonid A. Gavrilov & Natalia S. Gavrilova
doi:10.1038/367520b0
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| | Chomsky's revolution 521
Neil Smith reviews The Linguistics Wars.
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Randy Alien Harris
doi:10.1038/367521a0
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| | The future of science 522
John Ziman reviews Science and Anti-Science
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Gerald Holton
doi:10.1038/367522a0
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| | Licence to kill 523
Peter Singer reviews Monkey Business: The Disturbing Case that Launched the Animal Rights Movement
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Kathy Snow Guillermo & F. Barbara Orlans
doi:10.1038/367523a0
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| | Ancient Eastern remedies 524
Leslie Crombie reviews Traditional Medicine
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Biswapati Mukherjee
doi:10.1038/367524a0
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| | ATP-dependent nucleosome disruption at a heat-shock promoter mediated by binding of GAGA transcription factor 525
Toshio Tsukiyama, Peter B. Becker & Carl Wu
doi:10.1038/367525a0
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| | Insight into E-selectin/ligand interaction from the crystal structure and mutagenesis of the lec/EGF domains 532
Bradford J. Graves, Robert L. Crowther, Chitra Chandran, John M. Rumberger, Shirley Li, Kuo-Sen Huang, David H. Presky, Philip C. Familletti, Barry A. Wolitzky & Daniel K. Burns
doi:10.1038/367532a0
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| | A possible local counterpart to the excess population of faint blue galaxies 538
Stacy S. McGaugh
doi:10.1038/367538a0
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| | Deformation-induced nanocrystal formation in shear bands of amorphous alloys 541
H. Chen, Y. He, G. J. Shiflet & S. J. Poon
doi:10.1038/367541a0
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| | Crossover from creep to inertial motion in friction dynamics 544
T. Baumberger, F. Heslot & B. Perrin
doi:10.1038/367544a0
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In situspeciation measurements of trace components in natural waters using thin-film gels 546
W. Davlson & H. Zhang
doi:10.1038/367546a0
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| | Western boundary currents in the atmosphere of Mars 548
M. M. Joshi, S. R. Lewis, P. L. Read & D. C. Catling
doi:10.1038/367548a0
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| | Assessing the pyroclastic flow hazard at Vesuvius 551
Flavio Dobran, Augusto Neri & Micol Todesco
doi:10.1038/367551a0
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| | Parasitism, mutation accumulation and the maintenance of sex 554
R. Stephen Howard & Curtis M. Lively
doi:10.1038/367554a0
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| | Long-lasting enhancement of NMDA receptor-mediated synaptic transmission by metabotropic glutamate receptor activation 557
John J. O'Connor, Michael J. Rowan & Roger Anwyl
doi:10.1038/367557a0
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| | S proteins control rejection of incompatible pollen in Petunia inflata
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Hyun-Sook Lee, Shihshieh Huang & Teh-hui Kao
doi:10.1038/367560a0
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| | S-RNase expressed in transgenic Nicotiana causes S-allele-specific pollen rejection 563
Jane Murfett, Tammy L. Atherton, Beiquan Mou, Charles S. Gassert & Bruce A. McClure
doi:10.1038/367563a0
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| | Evidence for a common origin of chloroplasts with light-harvesting complexes of different pigmentation 566
G. R. Wolfe, F. X. Cunningham, D. Durnfordt, B. R. Green & E. Gantt
doi:10.1038/367566a0
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| | Regulation of transcription by dimerization of erythroid factor NF-E2 p45 with small Maf proteins 568
Kazuhiko Igarashi, Kohsuke Kataokat, Ken Itoh, Norio Hayashi, Makoto Nishizawa & Masayuki Yamamoto
doi:10.1038/367568a0
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| | Initial events of myelination involve Fyn tyrosine kinase signalling 572
Hisashi Umemori, Shuzo Satot, Takeshi Yagi, Shinichi Aizawal & Tadashi Yamamoto
doi:10.1038/367572a0
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| | Glioblastoma growth inhibited in vivo by a dominant-negative Flk-1 mutant 576
Birgit Millauer, Laura K. Shawver, Karl H. Plate, Werner Risaui & Axel Ullrich
doi:10.1038/367576a0
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| | Dead Romanovs identified PCR 580
Apart from the usual crop of gene assignments (for hereditary haemorrhagic telanglectasia, for example) this month's issue carries further the genetics of expanding repeating elements.
doi:10.1038/367580a0
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