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| | Simpler ways to good research degrees 169
The Royal Society has rebuffed the British government on its plan to reorganize the courses followed by graduate students, but both parties should be more concerned with undergraduate courses.
doi:10.1038/369169a0
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| | Anglo−French dispute 169
European air transport is a long way from being the free market on which the European Union has set its heart.
doi:10.1038/369169b0
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| | Back to Bretton Woods 170
A scheme for reintroducing fixed international exchange rates is unlikely to succeed in the near future.
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| | MIT observatory in last-ditch appeal over withdrawal of NSF funding 171
Steve Nadis
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| | Maths teachers 'would welcome checks' 171
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/369171b0
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| | Japan optimistic on moves to resume commercial whaling 172
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/369172a0
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| | Weather satellite decision 'epitomizes new US strategy' 172
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/369172b0
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| | HIV health workers 'need better protection' 173
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/369173a0
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| | Greeks rue the fruits of success 173
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/369173b0
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| | Mixed reaction to Mandela's appointments 174
Michael Cherry
doi:10.1038/369174a0
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| | Russia is urged to lift science spending 174
doi:10.1038/369174b0
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| | Scientists join the funding queue 174
MICHAEL CHERRY
doi:10.1038/369174c0
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| | Business professor takes post of science minister in Italy 175
doi:10.1038/369175a0
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| | US motor giants fail to quell enthusiasm for electric cars 175
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/369175b0
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| | Neuropsychologist's death sparks enquiries 176
David Spurgeon
doi:10.1038/369176a0
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| | Clementine's 'not gone forever' 176
COLIN MACILWAIN
doi:10.1038/369176b0
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| | 'User' links strengthened in NERC shake-up 177
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/369177a0
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| | Wellcome Trust warns of research 'in peril' 177
doi:10.1038/369177b0
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| | $60 million gift for neurobiology research 177
Victoria Griffith
doi:10.1038/369177c0
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| | Listening to Prozac 178
Hugh Freeman
doi:10.1038/369178a0
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| | Listening to Prozac 178
Robert Kaplan
doi:10.1038/369178b0
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| | Listening to Prozac 178
Joseph Walder
doi:10.1038/369178c0
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| | Oh Canada! 178
Leonard Krishtalka
doi:10.1038/369178d0
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| | Pandas, people and policy 179
Panda conservation in China has been plagued by controversy and cultural and political differences. But international cooperation, together with new studies identifying the main threats, offer renewed hope for the species' survival.
Stephen J. O'Brien, Pan Wenshi & Lu Zhi
doi:10.1038/369179a0
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| | Directed motion from random noise 181
Fears that biochemical ratchets as explanations of muscle contraction (among other things) would contradict the Second Law of Thermodynamics have been stilled by an interesting counter-example.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/369181a0
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| | Chance for snowballs in hell 182
David A. Paige
doi:10.1038/369182a0
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| | Matching speed and stability 183
Robert L. Baldwin
doi:10.1038/369183a0
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| | Chemical replication 184
James Ferris
doi:10.1038/369184a0
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| | Mbale impact shower 185
Lindsay Matthews
doi:10.1038/369185a0
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| | Roger W. Sperry (1913−1994) 186
David Hubel
doi:10.1038/369186a0
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| | Histidine kinases hog the limelight 187
David A. Hughes
doi:10.1038/369187a0
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| | Long-range inhibition 188
J. Boissonade
doi:10.1038/369188a0
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| | Rules for Haldane's rule 189
Jerry Coyne
doi:10.1038/369189a0
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| | Internal smoke 190
David Jones
doi:10.1038/369190a0
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| | Brain activity in chess playing 191
Paolo Nichelli, Jordan Grafman, Pietro Pietrini, David Alway, John C. Carton & Robert Miletich
doi:10.1038/369191a0
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| | Marine warning via peptide toxin 192
Michael Fainzilber, Iris Napchi, Dalia Gordon & Eliahu Zlotkin
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| | Next step for weekday warming 193
Donald H. Lenschow
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| | Ape and hominid limb length 194
William L. Jungers
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| | Ape and hominid limb length 194
Tim D. White
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| | 21st century read 194
Jonathan Cowie
doi:10.1038/369194c0
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| | A mind in motion 195
Owen Gingerich reviews Galileo: Decisive Innovator
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Michael Sharratt
doi:10.1038/369195a0
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| | Young Marabou storks 195
doi:10.1038/369195b0
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| | Silent upon a peak in Darien 196
Stuart Ross Taylor reviews Exploring Planetary Worlds
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David Morrison and Planetary Landscapes. 2nd edn
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Ronald Greeley and Venus: The Geological Story
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Peter Cattermole
doi:10.1038/369196a0
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| | Knowing the technological future 197
David Edgerton reviews Exploring the Black Box: Technology, Economics and History
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Nathan Rosenberg
doi:10.1038/369197a0
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| | A satirical Egyptian papyrus 198
doi:10.1038/369198a0
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| | Sophistry and illusion 198
Frank J. Tipler reviews The Fire in the Equations: Science, Religion and the Search for God
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Kitty Ferguson
doi:10.1038/369198b0
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| | Carbon scaffolding: building acetylenic all-carbon and carbon-rich compounds 199
François Diederich
doi:10.1038/369199a0
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| | Anatomy of a DNA replication fork revealed by reconstitution of SV40 DNA replication in vitro
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Shou Waga & Bruce Stillman
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| | Radar mapping of Mercury's polar anomalies 213
J. K. Harmon, M. A. Slade, R. A. Vélez, A. Crespo, M. J. Dryer & J. M. Johnson
doi:10.1038/369213a0
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| | Experimental observation of self-replicating spots in a reaction−diffusion system 215
Kyoung-Jin Lee, William D. McCormick, John E. Pearson & Harry L. Swinney
doi:10.1038/369215a0
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| | Chemical self-replication of palindromic duplex DNA 218
T. Li & K. C. Nicolaou
doi:10.1038/369218a0
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| | Self-replication of complementary nucleotide-based oligomers 221
D. Sievers & G. von Kiedrowski
doi:10.1038/369221a0
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| | Evidence for only minor contributions from bacteria to sedimentary organic carbon 224
Walter A. Hartgers, Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté, A. G. Requejo, J. Allan, J. M. Hayes & Jan W. de Leeuw
doi:10.1038/369224a0
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| | Radar interferometric mapping of deformation in the year after the Landers earthquake 227
Didier Massonnet, Kurt Feigl, Marc Rossi & Frédéric Adragna
doi:10.1038/369227a0
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| | Regulation of NMDA receptors in cultured hippocampal neurons by protein phosphatases 1 and 2A 230
Lu-Yang Wang, Bev A. Orser, David L. Brautigan & John F. MacDonald
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| | Regulation of NMDA receptors by tyrosine kinases and phosphatases 233
Yu Tian Wang & Michael W. Salter
doi:10.1038/369233a0
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| | Regulation of NMDA channel function by endogenous Ca2+-dependent phosphatase 235
David N. Lieberman & Istvan Mody
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| | Cyclosporin A inhibits growth of autocrine tumour cell lines by destabilizing interleukin-3 mRNA 239
Asha P. K. Nair, Sinuhe Hahn, Rolf Banholzer, Hans H. Hirsch & Christoph Moroni
doi:10.1038/369239a0
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| | A two-component system that regulates an osmosensing MAP kinase cascade in yeast 242
Tatsuya Maeda, Susannah M. Wurgler-Murphy & Haruo Saito
doi:10.1038/369242a0
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| | Histone H3 amino terminus is required for telomeric and silent mating locus repression in yeast 245
Jeffrey S. Thompson, Xuefeng Ling & Michael Grunstein
doi:10.1038/369245a0
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| | How does a protein fold? 248
Andrej S˘ali, Eugene Shakhnovich & Martin Karplus
doi:10.1038/369248a0
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| | Effects of activation-defective TBP mutations on transcription initiation in yeast 252
Tae Kook Kim, Shigeru Hashimoto, Raymond J. Kelleher III, Peter M. Flanagan, Roger D. Kornberg, Masami Horikoshi & Robert G. Roeder
doi:10.1038/369252a0
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Highlighted this week — a handy device for replica plating microbial colonies on solid growth media, a kit for the direct colorimetric detection of hepatitis B DNA and a nonradioactive reverse transcriptase assay for the detection of HIV-1.
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/369256a0
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Multinationals are investing increasingly in local operations, with indigenous rather than expatriate managements. Scientific jobs are mainly filled by Australian graduates, many with overseas experience.
Jeremy Wurm
doi:10.1038/369259a0
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