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| | Scientist tests the public trust 1
An unreported accident in a virus laboratory at Yale is but one of many factors that challenge society's trust in scientists' promises to do hazardous research.
doi:10.1038/371001a0
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| | AIDS ... again 2
Knowledge that something is dangerous is not necessarily a sufficient inducement to change behaviour.
doi:10.1038/371002a0
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| | Clinton's indecision 2
US president Bill Clinton's "policy" on the Cuban refugee crisis speaks volumes about his presidency.
doi:10.1038/371002b0
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| | Is health reform dead? 2
Mr Clinton appears ready to compromise on health care reform despite previous denials.
doi:10.1038/371002c0
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| | News | |
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| | Japanese science agencies stress networks in request for budget hike 3
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/371003a0
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| | Rocket success brings sighs of relief 3
doi:10.1038/371003b0
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| | 'Drop-out' row hits soft spot for UK universities 4
Maggie Verrall
doi:10.1038/371004a0
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| | State of Washington plans cull to save endangered steel-head trout from hungry sea lions 4
Joel Shurkin
doi:10.1038/371004b0
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| | Radioastronomers hope for world observatory 5
Leslie Sage
doi:10.1038/371005a0
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| | Hungarian coalition has proscience leanings 6
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/371006a0
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| | Euroagency for drug evaluation sets up shop in London's East End 6
doi:10.1038/371006b0
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| | Court case blows away US-French truce on industrial espionage allegations 7
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/371007a0
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| | Wyden widens net of probe into drug marketing 7
Sally Lehrman
doi:10.1038/371007b0
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| | Lack of political will, clinical precision stalls RSI research 8
Maggie Verrall
doi:10.1038/371008a0
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| | India moves gently to liberalize drug industry 8
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/371008b0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Botanical collections at risk 9
D. S. Ingram, G. LI. Lucas & R. Huxley
doi:10.1038/371009a0
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| | Medicinal plants 9
Daniele Piomelli & Antonlno Pollio
doi:10.1038/371009b0
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| | My first five years in science 10
Linus Pauling, a giant of modern chemistry, died on 19 August (see page 584 of last week's issue). What follows is an account, in his own words, of his first years as a research scientist.
Linus Pauling
doi:10.1038/371010a0
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| | The return of cosmological creation 11
Without much notice, the notion that the Universe may have been through an infinite series of bouts of creation, and not just one, has been making headway in the literature.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/371011a0
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| | The flight of the pterosaur 12
R. McNeill Alexander
doi:10.1038/371012a0
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| | A distant space thermometer 13
David M. Meyer
doi:10.1038/371013a0
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| | Genocide in tribal society 14
Shepard Krech III
doi:10.1038/371014a0
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| | Attractive guides for axons 15
Dennis D. M. O'Leary
doi:10.1038/371015a0
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| | A view from the far side 16
Karl Ziemelis
doi:10.1038/371016a0
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| | Over the top to SUSY? 17
A. D. Martin
doi:10.1038/371017a0
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| | A Galactic speed record 18
Galen Gisler
doi:10.1038/371018a0
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| | Docking mission accomplished 19
David Stuart
doi:10.1038/371019a0
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| | OBITUARY: Dorothy Hodgkin (1910–94) 20
Max Perutz
doi:10.1038/371020a0
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| | p53, guardian of Rb 21
Eileen White
doi:10.1038/371021a0
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| | Light and shade 22
David Jones
doi:10.1038/371022a0
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| | Scientific Correspondence | |
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| | The 'St Jude' mind virus 23
Oliver R Goodenough & Richard Dawkins
doi:10.1038/371023a0
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| | Pulsed dynamics of fountains 24
Emmanuel Villermaux
doi:10.1038/371024a0
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| | Climate and food supply 25
A. Barrie Pittock, Peter Whett & Yingping Wang
doi:10.1038/371025a0
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| | Fruitfly origins 25
Françoise Lemeunier, Sylvie Aulard, Véronique Bénassi & Michel Veuille
doi:10.1038/371025b0
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| | Inversion of dorsoventral axis? 26
D. Arendt & K. Nübler-Jung
doi:10.1038/371026a0
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| | Evolution in real time 27
Jeremy J. D. Greenwood reviews The Beak of the Finch
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Jonathan Weiner
doi:10.1038/371027a0
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| | Fancying the fancy 28
James L. Gould reviews Sexual Selection
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Malte Andersson
doi:10.1038/371028a0
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doi:10.1038/371028b0
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| | Insects and vortices 29
R. McNeill Alexander reviews The Evolution of Insect Flight
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A. K. Brodsky
doi:10.1038/371029a0
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| | Deep questions, flawed answers 29
N. David Mermin reviews Observational Foundations of Physics
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Alan Cook
doi:10.1038/371029b0
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doi:10.1038/371030a0
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| | The map book 30
David W. Hughes reviews The Guide to the Galaxy
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Nigel Henbest & Heather Couper
doi:10.1038/371030b0
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| | In vitro evolution of new ribozymes with polynucleotide kinase activity 31
Jon R. Lorsch & Jack W. Szostak
doi:10.1038/371031a0
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| | Structure of influenza haemagglutinin at the pH of membrane fusion 37
Per A. Bullough, Frederick M. Hughson, John J. Skehel & Don C. Wiley
doi:10.1038/371037a0
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| | Letters | |
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| | Measurement of the microwave background temperature at a redshift of 1.776 43
A. Songaila, L. L. Cowie, S. Vogt, M. Keane, A. M. Wolfei, E. M. Hu, A. L. Oren, D.-R. Tytleri & K. M. Lanzetta
doi:10.1038/371043a0
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| | A superluminal source in the Galaxy 46
I. F. Mirabel & L. F. Rodríguez
doi:10.1038/371046a0
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| | Flat pearls from biofabrication of organized composites on inorganic substrates 49
Monika Fritz, Angela M. Belcher, Manfred Radmacher, Deron A. Walters, Paul K. Hansma, Galen D. Stucky, Daniel E. Morse & Stephen Mann
doi:10.1038/371049a0
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| | Feedbacks between climate and boreal forests during the Holocene epoch 52
Jonathan A. Foley, John E. Kutzbach, Michael T. Coe & Samuel Levis
doi:10.1038/371052a0
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| | A cellular model of braided rivers 54
A. Brad Murray & Chris Paola
doi:10.1038/371054a0
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| | Nd and Sr isotope evidence linking mid-ocean-ridge basalts and abyssal peridotites 57
Jonathan E. Snow, Stanley R. Hart & Henry J. B. Dick
doi:10.1038/371057a0
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| | Coupling of tree transpiration to atmospheric turbulence 60
D. Y. Hollinger, F. M. Kelliher, E.-D. Schulze & B. M. M. Köstner
doi:10.1038/371060a0
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| | Sordes pilosus and the nature of the pterosaur flight apparatus 62
David M. Unwin & Natasha N. Bakhurina
doi:10.1038/371062a0
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| | Habitat destruction and the extinction debt 65
David Tilman, Robert M. May, Clarence L. Lehman & Martin A. Nowak
doi:10.1038/371065a0
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| | Positive selection of CD4+ T cells by TCR ligation without aggregation even in the absence of MHC 67
Yousuke Takahama, Harumi Suzuki, Kenneth S. Katz, Michael J. Grusby & Alfred Singer
doi:10.1038/371067a0
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| | M and L cones in macaque fovea connect to midget ganglion cells by different numbers of excitatory synapses 70
David J. Calkins, Stanley J. Schein, Yoshihiko Tsukamoto & Peter Sterling
doi:10.1038/371070a0
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p53-dependent apoptosis produced by Rb-deficiency in the developing mouse lens 72
Sharon D. Morgenbesser, Bart O. Williams, Tyler Jacks & Ronald A. DePinho
doi:10.1038/371072a0
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| | Mutations of two P/WS homologues in hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer 75
Nicholas C. Nicolaides, Nickolas Papadopoulos, Bo Liu, Ying-Fei Weit, Kenneth C. Carter, Steven M. Ruben, Craig A. Rosen, William A. Haseltine, Robert D. Fleischmann, Claire M. Fraser, Mark D. Adams, J. Craig Venter, Malcolm G. Dunlop, Stanley R. Hamilton, Gloria M. Petersen, Albert de la Chapelle, Bert Vogelstein & Kenneth W. Kinzler
doi:10.1038/371075a0
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| | Crystal structure of an isoleucine-zipper trimer 80
Pehr B. Harbury, Peter S. Kim & Tom Alber
doi:10.1038/371080a0
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| | Flattening of the sea-floor depth-age curve as a response to asthenospheric flow 83
Jason Phipps Morgan & Walter H. F. Smith
doi:10.1038/371083a0
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| | Shorting out the cellular battery 84
A low-resolution structure of the bacterial toxin colicin la provides a model for its lethal membrane association and an explanation for the anomalous behaviour of its C-terminal peptide fragment.
Christopher Surridge
doi:10.1038/371084a0
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| | Going for growth 85
Cell and tissue culture aids featured this week include postmitotic human neuronal cells, viability test kits for yeast, fungi and bacteria, cultureware, bioreactors, platers, shakers, stirrers and workstations.
doi:10.1038/371085a0
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