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| | US science policy still in limbo 399
Last week has sharpened the difficulty in the United States of striking a balance between the needs of basic research and of the wider community.
doi:10.1038/370399a0
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| | The use of French 399
The French government's language bill is back in the melting pot and should remain there.
doi:10.1038/370399b0
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| | More bad news on AIDS 400
Japan is the site of the 10th International AIDS conference and the news seems more depressing than ever.
doi:10.1038/370400a0
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| | Congress and administration differ over views of threats to science 401
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/370401a0
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| | Fast reactors 'could rise from ashes' 401
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/370401b0
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| | Search launched for lowest 'addictive' nicotine level 402
Helen Gavaghan
doi:10.1038/370402a0
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| | Pay-by-results leads to funding shift in Australian universities 402
Mark Lawson
doi:10.1038/370402b0
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| | Fusion meets the realities of global politics 403
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/370403a0
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| | US reduces options on disposal of plutonium 404
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/370404a0
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| | Allain freed -to face new charges 404
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/370404b0
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| | Energy moves 'still insufficient to meet carbon goals' 405
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/370405a0
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| | Japan shifts space emphasis towards unmanned missions 405
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/370405b0
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| | Olympic science gets $¼ million prize 405
doi:10.1038/370405c0
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| | 'Cheap option' UK science courses under fire 406
Maggie Verrall
doi:10.1038/370406a0
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| | Zeneca cuts seeds but enters genome technologies 406
doi:10.1038/370406b0
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| | Astronomers and squirrels in new clash over telescope 407
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/370407a0
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| | Congress directs NASA to plan an asteroid hunt 407
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/370407b0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | The far Barcoo where they eat nardoo 408
John Hayman
doi:10.1038/370408a0
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| | No treason 408
Curt Covey
doi:10.1038/370408b0
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| | Return of the native 408
Patricia Joseph-Brayo
doi:10.1038/370408c0
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| | Animal research 408
Les Ward
doi:10.1038/370408d0
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| | Preparing for emerging infections 409
New infectious diseases continue to emerge, yet there is no clear strategy for managing them. A model response should be devised in the light of past events such as the recent US outbreak of a previously unknown hantavirus.
George A. Gellert
doi:10.1038/370409a0
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| | Plasma dust as model crystals 411
Dust particles embedded in ionized plasma can be made to assemble into crystals of a kind, offering new routes with possible astrophysical implications to the study of the crystalline state.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/370411a0
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| | Moving forward noisily 412
S. Leibler
doi:10.1038/370412a0
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| | Radical solution 413
doi:10.1038/370413a0
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| | Old crocs 413
doi:10.1038/370413b0
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| | High charges 413
doi:10.1038/370413c0
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| | Exploring signalling pathways 414
N. H. Brown & D. A. Hartley
doi:10.1038/370414a0
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| | Chill over the Cretaceous 415
Eric J. Barron
doi:10.1038/370415a0
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| | Shutting down HIV 416
Richard A. Koup & David D. Ho
doi:10.1038/370416a0
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| | A way into the packaging 417
Hélène Richard-Foy
doi:10.1038/370417a0
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| | How to sugar the pill 418
John M. Brown & Stephen G. Davies
doi:10.1038/370418a0
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| | Catching the culprit prion 419
Konrad Beyreuther & Colin L. Masters
doi:10.1038/370419a0
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| | Dirty clouds and global cooling 420
Graeme L. Stephens
doi:10.1038/370420a0
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| | Cradle at the ribosome 421
Walter Neupert & Roland Lill
doi:10.1038/370421a0
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| | Sex or violence 422
David Jones
doi:10.1038/370422a0
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| | Scientific Correspondence | |
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| | Legibility in lecture theatres 423
E. W. Dearden
doi:10.1038/370423a0
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| | Interstellar detection of C60
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John P. Maier
doi:10.1038/370423b0
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| | The early life of the European eel 424
Raymonde Lecomte-Finiger
doi:10.1038/370424a0
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| | Reaching for the stars 425
Donald D. Clayton reviews Home is Where the Wind Blows: Chapters from a Cosmologist's Life
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Fred Hoyle
doi:10.1038/370425a0
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| | A misanthropic philanthropist 426
John L. Heilbron reviews Alfred Nobel: A Biography
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Kenne Fant
doi:10.1038/370426a0
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| | The story of e
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Jerry P. King reviews e: The Story of a Number
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Eli Maor
doi:10.1038/370427a0
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| | The Sun and its variability 427
David W. Hughes reviews Discovering the Secrets of the Sun
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Rudolf Kippenhahn & Peter R. Wilson
doi:10.1038/370427b0
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| | Nature's chemicals 428
Leslie Crombie reviews Scent and Fragrances
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Günther Ohloff, J. Mann, R. S. Davidson, J. B. Hobbs, D. V. Banthorpe & J. B. Harborne
doi:10.1038/370428a0
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| | Chemical depletion of ozone in the Arctic lower stratosphere during winter 1992−93 429
G. L. Manney, L. Froidevaux, J. W. Waters, R. W. Zurek, W. G. Read, L. S. Elson, J. B. Kumer, J. L. Mergenthaler, A. E. Roche, A. O'Neill, R. S. Harwood, I. Mackenzie & R. Swinbank
doi:10.1038/370429a0
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| | A protein complex required for signal-sequence-specific sorting and translocation 434
Brigitte Wiedmann, Hideaki Sakai, Terri A. Davis & Martin Wiedmann
doi:10.1038/370434a0
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| | A faint luminous halo that may trace the dark matter around spiral galaxy NGC5907 441
Penny D. Sackett, Heather L. Morrisoni, Paul Harding & Todd A. Boroson
doi:10.1038/370441a0
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| | Interstellar oxide grains from the Tieschitz ordinary chondrite 443
L. R. Nittler, C. M. O'D Alexander, X. Gao, R. M. Walker & E. K. Zinner
doi:10.1038/370443a0
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| | Directional motion of brownian particles induced by a periodic asymmetric potential 446
Juliette Rousselet, Laurence Salome, Armand Ajdari & Jacques Prostt
doi:10.1038/370446a0
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| | Design and synthesis of a heterogeneous asymmetric catalyst 449
Kam T. Wan & Mark E. Davis
doi:10.1038/370449a0
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| | A climate model study of indirect radiative forcing by anthropogenic sulphate aerosols 450
A. Jones, D. L. Roberts & A. Slingo
doi:10.1038/370450a0
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| | Cooler estimates of Cretaceous temperatures 453
Bruce W. Sellwood, Greg. D. Price & Paul J. Valdest
doi:10.1038/370453a0
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| | Cloning and functional expression of a rat heart KATP channel 456
M. L. J. Ashford, C. T. Bond, T. A. Blair & J. P. Adelmair
doi:10.1038/370456a0
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| | Activation of transforming growth factor- is inhibited in transgenic apolipoprotein(a) mice 460
David J. Grainger, Paul R. Kemp, Alexander C. Liu, Richard M. Lawn & James C. Metcalfe
doi:10.1038/370460a0
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| | Major expansion of CD8+ T cells with a predominant V usage during the primary immune response to HIV 463
Giuseppe Pantaleo, James F. Demarest, Hugo Soudeyns, Cecilia Graziosi, François Denis, Joseph W. Adelsberger, Persephone Borrow, Michael S. Saag, George M. Shaw, Rafick P. Sekalytt & Anthony S. Fauci
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| | Implications for dorsoventral axis determination from the zebrafish mutation janus
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Salim Abdelilah, Lilianna Solnica-Krezel, Didier Y. R. Stainier & Wolfgang Driever
doi:10.1038/370468a0
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| | Cell-free formation of protease-resistant prion protein 471
David A. Kocisko, Jon H. Come, Suzette A. Priola, Bruce Chesebro, Gregory J. Raymond, Peter T. Lansbury & Byron Caughey
doi:10.1038/370471a0
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| | The inositol trisphosphate calcium channel is inactivated by inositol trisphosphate 474
György Hajnóczky & Andrew P. Thomas
doi:10.1038/370474a0
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| | Nucleosome disruption and enhancement of activator binding by a human SW1/SNF complex 477
Hyockman Kwon, Anthony N. Imbalzano, Paul A. Khavari, Robert E. Kingston & Michael R. Green
doi:10.1038/370477a0
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| | Facilitated binding of TATA-binding protein to nucleosomal DNA 481
Anthony N. Imbalzano, Hyockman Kwon, Michael R. Green & Robert E. Kingston
doi:10.1038/370481a0
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| | Let's get physical 486
A complete physical map of the region encompassing the locus for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer should assist the long-awaited cloning of this important gene.
Kevin Davies
doi:10.1038/370486a0
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| | Peptide and oligo primer 487
doi:10.1038/370487a0
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