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| | Health research and market failure 491
The British government needs to respond urgently to the charge that attempts to introduce an 'Internal market' into the operation of the health service are undermining the country's clinical research base.
doi:10.1038/370491a0
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| | Time to resist earmarks 492
A US Congressman's fight against earmarked funds needs and deserves more public support from the universities.
doi:10.1038/370492a0
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| | Germany and the bomb 492
The likelihood that a cartel is forming to sell bomb-grade Plutonium exported to Germany is a cause for alarm.
doi:10.1038/370492b0
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| | Patent fights over hepatitis C test kits reverberate around the world 493
Mark Lawson
doi:10.1038/370493a0
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| | Strasbourg goes for top potential 493
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/370493b0
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| | AIDS chief promises a shift towards basic research... 494
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/370494a0
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| | ...as Japanese taunt comes under attack 494
doi:10.1038/370494b0
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| | Work on telescope to continue in Chile as options are viewed 494
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/370494c0
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| | US energy moves signal budget fights ahead 495
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/370495a0
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| | Biosphere 2 wins growing approval 495
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/370495b0
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| | Nuclear critics set sights on French Plutonium pledge... 496
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/370496a0
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| | ...as hopes rise for German MOX factory 496
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/370496b0
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| | India's spending on R & D falls far behind promises 496
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/370496c0
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| | Bid to protect wolves from genetic pollution 497
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/370497a0
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| | Stars in the eyes 497
doi:10.1038/370497b0
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| | Italy promises appointment reforms 497
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/370497c0
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| | More funds urged for contraceptive research 498
Maggie Verrall
doi:10.1038/370498a0
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| | 'Population lab' urged for studies 498
M. V.
doi:10.1038/370498b0
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| | Cancer researchers say NHS reforms undermining trials 499
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/370499a0
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| | Conference trail can leave behind a good image 499
Henry Gee
doi:10.1038/370499b0
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| | Biodiversity in Switzerland 500
John A. Arnone III, Michel Blot, Paul Leadley, Diethart Matthies & Ian Sanders
doi:10.1038/370500a0
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| | What next? 500
Christian Hansen
doi:10.1038/370500b0
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| | Backward step 500
Philip Drazln
doi:10.1038/370500c0
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| | Cancer trials 500
Jean Mossman
doi:10.1038/370500d0
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| | Correction 500
Thomas H. Jukes
doi:10.1038/370500e0
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| | Primary care is not the answer 501
The idea that the United States can solve major problems in medical care by mandating that in the future 50 per cent of physicians go into primary care is wishful thinking.
Barbara J. Culliton
doi:10.1038/370501a0
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| | Controlling radical reactions 502
Joanne Stubbe
doi:10.1038/370502a0
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| | Kitty litter for carbon control 503
Cindy Lee
doi:10.1038/370503a0
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| | Return of the amphioxus 504
Henry Gee
doi:10.1038/370504a0
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| | Oldest rocks in Europe 505
Stephen J. G. Galer
doi:10.1038/370505a0
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| | Liquid crystal fans 505
L. M.
doi:10.1038/370505b0
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| | Cracking tyrosine phosphatases 506
John Tainer & Paul Russell
doi:10.1038/370506a0
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| | The hunt for Ras targets 508
Larry A. Feig & Brian Schaffhausen
doi:10.1038/370508a0
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| | Flutes to hyperinstruments 509
Thomas D. Rossing
doi:10.1038/370509a0
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| | Fractal money 510
David Jones
doi:10.1038/370510a0
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| | Foundations of gregariousness 511
Robert J. Toonen & Joseph R. Pawlik
doi:10.1038/370511a0
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| | Female platys prefer long tails 512
Sarah E Haines & James L. Gould
doi:10.1038/370512a0
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| | Earliest genets in Europe 512
Arturo Morales
doi:10.1038/370512b0
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| | Climate and the pollen record 513
P. C. Tzedakis, K. D. Bennett, D. Magri & D. Magri
doi:10.1038/370513a0
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J. R. Speakman & S. C. Thomson
doi:10.1038/370514a0
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| | The physicist's tale 515
Walter Gratzer reviews La vie à filtendu.
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Georges Charpak
doi:10.1038/370515a0
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| | Green networks 516
Timothy O'Riordan reviews Fantasy, the Bomb and the Greening of Britain.
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Meredith Veldman
doi:10.1038/370516a0
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| | The Hermetic Hamlet 517
Ryan J. Huxtable reviews The Jewish Alchemists: A History and Source Book.
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Raphael Patai
doi:10.1038/370517a0
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doi:10.1038/370517b0
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| | Gene hunting in the raw 518
Peter Goodfellow reviews The Gene Hunters: Adventures in the Human Genome Jungle.
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Wi11iam Cookson
doi:10.1038/370518a0
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| | Feynman and the art of physics 518
doi:10.1038/370518b0
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| | The role of magmas in the formation of hydrothermal ore deposits 519
Jeffrey W. Hedenquist & Jacob B. Lowenstern
doi:10.1038/370519a0
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| | Phosphatidylinositol-3-OH kinase direct target of Ras 527
Pablo Rodriguez-Viciana, Patricia H. Warne, Ritu Dhand, Bart Vanhaesebroeck, Ivan Gout, Michael J. Fry, Michael D. Waterfield & Julian Downward
doi:10.1038/370527a0
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| | Structure of ribonucleotide reductase protein R1 533
Ulla Uhlin & Hans Eklund
doi:10.1038/370533a0
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| | Selective activation of carbon−carbon bonds next to a carbonyl group 540
Masahiro Murakami, Hideki Amii & Yoshihiko Ito
doi:10.1038/370540a0
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| | An efficient mimic of cytochrome P-450 from a zeolite-encaged iron complex in a polymer membrane 541
Rudy F. Parton, Ivo F. J. Vankelecom, Mark J. A. Casselman, Cvetana P. Bezoukhanova, Jan B. Uytterhoeven & Peter A. Jacobs
doi:10.1038/370541a0
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| | The role of stratospheric ozone in modulating the solar radiative forcing of climate 544
J. D. Haigh
doi:10.1038/370544a0
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| | Minimal effects of UVB radiation on Antarctic diatoms over the past 20 years 547
A. McMinn, H. Heijnist & D. Hodgson
doi:10.1038/370547a0
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| | Sorptive preservation of labile organic matter in marine sediments 549
Richard G. Keil, Daniel B. Montluçon, Fredrick G. Prahl & John I. Hedges
doi:10.1038/370549a0
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| | Archaean crustal development in the Lewisian complex of northwest Scotland 552
Kevin W. Burton, Anthony S. Cohen, R. Keith O'Nions & Michael J. O'Hara
doi:10.1038/370552a0
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| | Processing of tumour necrosis factor- precursor by metalloproteinases 555
A. J. H. Gearing, P. Beckett, M. Christodoulou, M. Churchill, J. Clements, A. H. Davidson, A. H. Drummond, W. A. Galloway, R. Gilbert, J. L. Gordon, T. M. Leber, M. Mangan, K. Miller, P. Nayee, K. Owen, S. Patel, W. Thomas, G. Wells, L. M. Wood & K. Woolley
doi:10.1038/370555a0
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| | Regulation of tumour necrosis factor- processing by a metalloproteinase inhibitor 558
Gerard M. McGeehan, J. David Becherer, Robert C. Bast Jr, Cinda M. Boyer, Brian Champion, Kevin M. Connolly, James G. Conway, Paul Furdon, Stephen Karp, Sudha Kidao, Andrew B. McElroy, James Nichols, Katherine M. Pryzwansky, Frank Schoenen, Les Sekut, Anne Truesdale, Margrith Verghese, Janet Warner & Judy P. Ways
doi:10.1038/370558a0
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| | Regulation of cell number in Drosopfiila
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Ana Busturia & Peter A. Lawrence
doi:10.1038/370561a0
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| | Archetypal organization of the amphioxus Hox gene cluster 563
Jordi Garcia-Fernàndez & Peter W. H. Holland
doi:10.1038/370563a0
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| | A conserved retinoic acid response element required for early expression of the homeobox gene Hoxb-1
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Heather Marshall, Michèle Studer, Heike Pöpperl, Sam Aparicio, Atsushi Kuroiwa, Sydney Brenner & Robb Krumlauf
doi:10.1038/370567a0
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| | Crystal structure of Yersinia protein tyrosine phosphatase at 2.5 Å and the complex with tungstate 571
Jeanne A. Stuckey, Heidi L. Schubert, Eric B. Fauman, Zhong-Yin Zhang, Jack E. Dixon & Mark A. Saper
doi:10.1038/370571a0
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| | The crystal structure of a low-molecular-weight phosphotyrosine protein phosphatase 575
Xiao-Dong Su, Niccolo' Taddei, Massimo Stefani, Giampietro Ramponi & Pär Nordlund
doi:10.1038/370575a0
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| | Premature translational termination triggers mRNA decapping 578
Denise Muhlrad & Roy Parker
doi:10.1038/370578a0
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doi:10.1038/370582a0
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