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| | When will cigarettes be smoked out? 691
The restriction of tobacco smoking in the United States, already severe, is likely soon to be taken further and, in the process, to demonstrate that tobacco and cannabis cannot be dealt with differently.
doi:10.1038/369691a0
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| | Palaeontology cleanup 692
The University of Chandigarh now has a chance to shed the dubious reputation in palaeontology its has acquired.
doi:10.1038/369692a0
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| | Minority of one 692
Britain seems determined to be perpetually at odds with all its fellow-members of the European Union.
doi:10.1038/369692b0
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| | Report prompts US to enter talks on new split of AIDS patent royalties 693
Colin Macilwain & Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/369693a0
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| | Television appeal funds genetics institute 693
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/369693b0
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| | US universities face spectre of cuts in military support 694
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/369694a0
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| | Recession hits European patents 694
Alun Anderson
doi:10.1038/369694b0
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| | Allain loses appeal and faces threat of new charges 694
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/369694c0
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| | France, Switzerland 'must pay more' for LHC 695
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/369695a0
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| | Britain argues for 'firm cost control' 695
M. V.
doi:10.1038/369695b0
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| | Booster test lifts prospects for new launcher 696
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/369696a0
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| | FDA claims nicotine levels were manipulated 696
Helen Gavaghan
doi:10.1038/369696b0
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| | Chinese scientists to get Western form of recognition 697
doi:10.1038/369697a0
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| | Deaths bring clinical trials under scrutiny in Japan 697
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/369697b0
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| | Malaysia to boost pay for foreign scientists 697
doi:10.1038/369697c0
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| | Groundwater flow fans fears over UK nuclear waste store 698
Maggie Verrall
doi:10.1038/369698a0
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| | Fossil inquiry finds Indian geologist guilty of plagiarism 698
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/369698b0
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| | Rome "could host European mouse laboratory" 699
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/369699a0
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| | Future brightens up for California 699
Sally Lehrman
doi:10.1038/369699b0
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| | Prevention rather than cure 700
Robert J. Wilder
doi:10.1038/369700a0
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| | Malaria and AIDS 700
V. P. Sharma
doi:10.1038/369700b0
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| | Vatican error? 700
C. B. Goodhart
doi:10.1038/369700c0
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| | Blinkered review 700
John Polkinghorne
doi:10.1038/369700d0
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| | Wrong committees axed? 701
Henry I. Miller
doi:10.1038/369701a0
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| | ORI should stay 701
Luis A. Ruedas
doi:10.1038/369701b0
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| | Tumour diagnosis 701
Peter A. Hall, Stephanie P. Dowell & David P. Lane
doi:10.1038/369701c0
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| | Prospecting for drugs in ancient texts 702
The mass screening of plants in the search for new drugs is vastly expensive and inefficient. It would be cheaper and perhaps more productive to re-examine plant remedies described in ancient and mediaeval texts.
Bart K. Holland
doi:10.1038/369702a0
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| | Can the research university survive? 703
Budgetary and other pressures are changing the character of US universities more quickly than is comfortable, but the process has only just begun. And it is not yet clear where it will end, to judge from a conference last week.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/369703a0
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| | Water and the solid Earth 704
Charles H. Langmuir
doi:10.1038/369704a0
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| | Parasites and polymorphisms 705
Dieter Ebert & Roberto Lorenzi
doi:10.1038/369705a0
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| | The ring around us 706
Donald E. Brownlee
doi:10.1038/369706a0
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| | Glia and neurons in dialogue 707
David Attwell
doi:10.1038/369707a0
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| | Driven around the bend in Scotland 707
Charles Jennings
doi:10.1038/369707b0
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| | Flowers and funerals 708
Peter D. Moore
doi:10.1038/369708a0
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| | Outlook becoming hazier 709
Tom M. L Wigley
doi:10.1038/369709a0
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| | Snap judgement 710
David Jones
doi:10.1038/369710a0
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| | Sex hormone response to alcohol 711
C. J. Peter Eriksson, Tatsushige Fukunaga & Ralf Lindman
doi:10.1038/369711a0
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| | Heading detection from optic flow 712
Markus Lappe & Josef P. Rauschecker
doi:10.1038/369712a0
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| | Lunar crater chains 713
H. J. Melosh & E. A. Whitaker
doi:10.1038/369713a0
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| | Statue enigma 714
David E. J. Linden
doi:10.1038/369714a0
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| | As planets go by 714
Rolf Chini, Endrik Krügel, Ernst Kreysa & Robert Zylka
doi:10.1038/369714b0
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| | Nowhere to hide 715
Dorothy Nelkin reviews Who Owns Information? From Privacy to Public Access
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Anne Wells Branscomb
doi:10.1038/369715a0
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| | Chasing the shadow 716
doi:10.1038/369716a0
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| | Debris from space 716
Don Yeomans reviews The Quest for Comets: An Explosive Trail of Beauty and Danger
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David H. Levy
doi:10.1038/369716b0
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| | Growth of biological thought 716
Jane Maienschein reviews A History of the Life Sciences. Second Edition
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Lois N. Magner
doi:10.1038/369716c0
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| | The measure of the mind 717
Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic reviews Images of Mind
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Michael I. Posner & Marcus E. Raichle
doi:10.1038/369717a0
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| | Steps up the botanical spiral 718
Martin Ingrouille reviews Flora Europaea, Volume 1: Psilotacae to Platanaceae. Second Edition
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T. G. Tutin and The Families of Flowering Plants: Interactive Identification and Information Retrieval
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L. M. J. WatsonDallwitz and Phyllotaxis
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Roger V. Jean and Life Processes of Plants
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Arthur W. Galston
doi:10.1038/369718a0
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| | A circumsolar ring of asteroidal dust in resonant lock with the Earth 719
Stanley F. Dermott, Sumita Jayaraman, Y. L. Xu, B. Å. S. Gustafson & J. C. Liou
doi:10.1038/369719a0
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| | The role of non-deformable units in pressure-induced reversible amorphization of clathrasils 724
J. S. Tse, D. D. Klug, J. A. Ripmeester, S. Desgreniers & K. Lagarec
doi:10.1038/369724a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (640K)
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| | Assembly of porphyrin building blocks into network structures with large channels 727
B. F. Abrahams, B. F. Hoskins, D. M. Michail & R. Robson
doi:10.1038/369727a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (404K)
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| | Degradation of trifluoroacetate in oxic and anoxic sediments 729
Pieter T. Visscher, Charles W. Culbertson & Ronald S. Oremland
doi:10.1038/369729a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (366K)
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| | Failure of climate regulation in a geophysiological model 732
James E. Lovelock & Lee R. Kump
doi:10.1038/369732a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (400K)
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| | Response of the climate system to atmospheric aerosols and greenhouse gases 734
K. E. Taylor & J. E. Penner
doi:10.1038/369734a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (624K)
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| | Analogue model of gravitational collapse and surface extension during continental convergence 737
W. Roger Buck & Dimitrios Sokoutis
doi:10.1038/369737a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (674K)
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| | Zinc and carbon co-limitation of marine phytoplankton 740
F. M. M. Morel, J. R. Reinfelder, S. B. Roberts, C. P. Chamberlain, J. G. Lee & D. Yee
doi:10.1038/369740a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (345K)
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| | Where we look when we steer 742
M. F. Land & D. N. Lee
doi:10.1038/369742a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (316K)
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| | Glutamate-mediated astrocyte−neuron signalling 744
Vladimir Parpura, Trent A. Basarsky, Fang Liu, Ksenija Jeftinija, Srdija Jeftinija & Philip G. Haydon
doi:10.1038/369744a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (563K)
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| | Myelination in the absence of myelin-associated glycoprotein 747
Chumei Li, Michael B. Tropak, Robert Gerlai, Susan Clapoff, Wanda Abramow-Newerly, Bruce Trapp, Alan Peterson & John Roder
doi:10.1038/369747a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (700K)
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| | Specificity and flexibility in thymic selection 750
Stephen C. Jameson, Kristin A. Hogquist & Michael J. Bevan
doi:10.1038/369750a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (344K)
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| | Negative feedback regulation of IgE synthesis by murine CD23 753
Philipp Yu, Marie Kosco-Vilbois, Mark Richards, Georges Köhler & Marinus C. Lamers
doi:10.1038/369753a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (485K)
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| | A mammalian protein targeted by G1-arresting rapamycin−receptor complex 756
Eric J. Brown, Mark W. Albers, Tae Bum Shin, Kazuo ichikawa, Curtis T. Keith, William S. Lane & Stuart L. Schreiber
doi:10.1038/369756a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (469K)
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| | Functional dissection of the yeast Cyc8−Tupl transcriptional co-repressor complex 758
Dimitris Tzamarias & Kevin Struhl
doi:10.1038/369758a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (513K)
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| | Three-dimensional structure of  -galactosidase from E. coli. 761
R. H. Jacobson, X.-J. Zhang, R. F. DuBose & B. W. Matthews
doi:10.1038/369761a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (1,014K)
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| | A map of a collisionally evolving dust disk around Fomalhaut 766
S. Alan Stern, Michel C. Festou & David A. Weintraub
doi:10.1038/369766a0
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