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| | North Korea's way with weapons 725
The deal between the United States and North Korea is not the climb-down it may appear, but should spur the nuclear powers to a comprehensive test-ban treaty before next year.
doi:10.1038/371725a0
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| | Who is Caesar's wife? 725
Politicians accused of conflicts of interest may be a model for
ethics in the research community.
doi:10.1038/371725b0
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| | Another rope trick 726
The University of Chandigarh in India has been disgracefully
lenient with Professor V.J. Gupta.
doi:10.1038/371726a0
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| | Boston University claims scientific successes built on earmarked
funds 727
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/371727a0
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| | Warning of retaliation over access to physics facilities 728
Maggie Verrall
doi:10.1038/371728a0
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| | Brussels suggests 'variable geometry' research projects 728
doi:10.1038/371728b0
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| | Cresson tipped for EU research post 728
doi:10.1038/371728c0
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| | Concern grows over 'trade' in Russian fossils 729
Toni Feder & Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/371729a0
PDF (146K)
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| | $1.8bn nuclear ignition facility for Livermore 729
doi:10.1038/371729b0
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| | Germany may back military satellite project 730
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/371730a0
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| | ESA agrees to extra year for ERS-1 730
doi:10.1038/371730b0
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| | UK/Japan projects in life sciences to target priority areas 731
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/371731a0
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| | Japan's universities 'need to strengthen links to industry' 731
David
doi:10.1038/371731b0
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| | Caskey to head Merck's genome efforts 731
doi:10.1038/371731c0
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| | Tunisian institute to tackle secrets of malaria genome 732
Helen Gavaghan
doi:10.1038/371732a0
PDF (259K)
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| | French minister bends to protests over CNRS funds 732
doi:10.1038/371732b0
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| | Stanford ends research costs row 732
Sally Lehrman
doi:10.1038/371732c0
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| | Study proposed on integrity of published data 733
Helen Gavaghan
doi:10.1038/371733a0
PDF (138K)
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| | NASA scientists brace for new cuts 733
Tony Reichardt
doi:10.1038/371733b0
PDF (138K)
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | ESF works, don't change it 734
Pekka Pyykkö & Bernd Hess
doi:10.1038/371734a0
PDF (119K)
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| | No need to scoff 734
Werner Sieber
doi:10.1038/371734b0
PDF (119K)
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| | No need to scoff 734
Richard Dryden
doi:10.1038/371734c0
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| | Divergent proteins and views 734
Thomas H. Jukes
doi:10.1038/371734d0
References | PDF (119K)
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| | Experimenting on the vulnerable 734
Vasily Vlassov
doi:10.1038/371734e0
References | PDF (119K)
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| | DNA fingerprinting dispute laid to rest 735
Two principals in the once-raging debate over forensic DNA typing
conclude that the scientific issues have all been resolved.
Eric S. Lander & Bruce Budowle
doi:10.1038/371735a0
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| | News and Views |  |
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| | Measuring magnets on a micron scale 739
A remarkable account of the micro-measurement of single haematite grains provides data that are to late to provide reassurance for palaeomagnetism, but no doubt help tape manufacturers to better things.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/371739a0
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| | The little Big Bang 740
Gregory A. Petsko
doi:10.1038/371740a0
References | PDF (279K)
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| | The Universe in crisis 741
George H. Jacoby
doi:10.1038/371741a0
References | PDF (257K)
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| | Ubiquitin with everything 742
Jonathon Pines
doi:10.1038/371742a0
References | PDF (276K)
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| | A Heisenberg microscope 744
Christopher Foot
doi:10.1038/371744a0
PDF (296K)
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| | Illusory figures and real neurons 745
Gerald Westheimer
doi:10.1038/371745a0
References | PDF (287K)
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| | Nomadic vortices 746
David Bishop
doi:10.1038/371746a0
References | PDF (306K)
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| | Turned on by insulin 747
Christopher G. Proud
doi:10.1038/371747a0
References | PDF (295K)
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| | Area of no return 748
David Jones
doi:10.1038/371748a0
PDF (134K)
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| | Scientific Correspondence | |
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| | Anarchy in the beehive 749
Benjamin P. Oldroyd, Adam J. Smolenski, Jean-Marie Cornuet & Ross H. Crozler
doi:10.1038/371749a0
References | PDF (118K)
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| | Microbe grows by reducing arsenic 750
Dianne Ahmann, A. Lynn Roberts, Lee R. Krumholz & François M. M. Morel
doi:10.1038/371750a0
References | PDF (116K)
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| | How old is 'Boxgrove man'? 751
D. Q. Bowen & G. A. Sykes
doi:10.1038/371751a0
PDF (135K)
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| | How old is 'Boxgrove man'? 751
M. B. Roberts
doi:10.1038/371751b0
References | PDF (135K)
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| | Alu alert 752
Jean-Michel Claverie & Wojciech Makalowski
doi:10.1038/371752a0
References | PDF (129K)
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| | Very fast flagellar rotation 752
Y. Magariyama, S. Sugiyama, K. Muramoto, Y. Maekawa, I. Kawagishi, Y. Imae & S. Kudo
doi:10.1038/371752b0
References | PDF (129K)
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| | Book Reviews | |
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| | The genomes business 753
Horace Freeland Judson reviews Correcting the Code: Inventing the Genetic Cure for the
Human Body
By
Larry Thompson, Paul Berg, Maxine Singer, Necia Grant
Cooper, Robert Cook-Deegan & Robert Pollack
doi:10.1038/371753a0
PDF (345K)
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| | New In paperback 754
doi:10.1038/371754a0
PDF (218K)
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| | More long arguments 755
Christopher Wills reviews Evolution Extended: Biological Debates on the Meaning of
Life
Edited by
Connie Barlow
doi:10.1038/371755a0
PDF (225K)
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| | Name that asteroid 756
David Hughes reviews Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Second
Edition
By
Lutz D. Schmadel
doi:10.1038/371756a0
PDF (354K)
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| | The Crawford treasures: a heavenly library in Edinburgh 756
doi:10.1038/371756b0
PDF (357K)
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| | Articles |  |
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| | Distance to the Virgo cluster galaxy M100 from Hubble Space Telescope
observations of Cepheids 757
Wendy L. Freedman, Barry F. Madore, Jeremy R. Mould, Robert Hill, Laura Ferrarese, Robert C. Kennicutt Jr, Abhijit Saha, Peter B. Stetson, John A. Graham, Holland Ford, John G. Hoessel, John Huchra, Shaun M. Hughes & Garth D. Illingworth
doi:10.1038/371757a0
Abstract & References | PDF (865K)
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| | Insulin-dependent stimulation of protein synthesis by phosphorylation
of a regulator of 5'-cap function 762
Arnim Pause, Graham J. Belsham, Anne-Claude Gingras, Olivier Donzé, Tai-An Lin, John C. Lawrence Jr & Nahum Sonenberg
doi:10.1038/371762a0
Abstract & References | PDF (989K)
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| | Mitochondrial Hsp70/MIM44 complex facilitates protein import 768
Hans-Christoph Schneider, Jutta Berthold, Matthias F. Bauer, Klaus Dietmeier, Bernard Guiard, Michael Brunner & Walter Neupert
doi:10.1038/371768a0
Abstract & References | PDF (1,287K)
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| | Delayed recombination as a major source of the soft X-ray
background 774
D. Breitschwerdt & T. Schmutzler
doi:10.1038/371774a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (627K)
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| | Path of magnetic flux lines through high-T
c copper
oxide superconductors 777
Zhen Yao, Seokwon Yoon, Hongjie Dai, Shoushan Fan & Charles M. Lieber
doi:10.1038/371777a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (693K)
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| | Eemian climate fluctuations observed in a European pollen record 779
Michael H. Field, Brian Huntley & Helmut Müller
doi:10.1038/371779a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (770K)
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| | The role of soil organic matter in sustaining soil fertility 783
H. Tiessen, E. Cuevas & P. Chacon
doi:10.1038/371783a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (452K)
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| | Subduction zone melting of pelagic sediments constrained by melting
experiments 785
Geoff T. Nichols, Peter J. Wyllie & Charles R. Stern
doi:10.1038/371785a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (599K)
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| | How long should flowers live? 788
Tia-Lynn Ashman & Daniel J. Schoen
doi:10.1038/371788a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (556K)
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| | Parallel detection of Kanizsa subjective figures in the human visual
system 791
Greg Davis & Jon Driver
doi:10.1038/371791a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (620K)
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| | Broad tuning for spatial frequency of neural mechanisms underlying visual perception of coherent motion 793
Yuede Yang & Randolph Blake
doi:10.1038/371793a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (589K)
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| | Krox-20 controls myelination in the peripheral nervous system 796
Piotr Topilko, Sylvie Schneider-Maunoury, Giovanni Levi, Anne Baron-Van
Evercooren, Amina Ben Younes Chennoufi, Tania Seitanidou, Charles Babinet & Patrick Charnay
doi:10.1038/371796a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (608K)
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| | Agouti protein is an antagonist of the melanocyte-stimulating-hormone
receptor 799
Dongsi Lu, Derril Willard, Indravadan R. Patel, Sue Kadwell, Laurie Overton, Tom Kost, Michael Luther, Wenbiao Chen, Richard P. Woychik, William O. Wilkison & Roger D. Cone
doi:10.1038/371799a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (421K)
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| | Inefficient gene transfer by adenovirus vector to cystic fibrosis
airway epithelia of mice and humans 802
Barbara R. Grubb, Raymond J. Pickles, Hong Ye, James R. Yankaskas, Ralph N. Vick, John F. Engelhardt, James M. Wilson, Larry G. Johnson & Richard C. Boucher
doi:10.1038/371802a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (807K)
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| | The Trithorax-like gene encodes the Drosophila GAGA
factor 806
Gabriella Farkas, Janos Gausz, Mireille Galloni, Günter Reuter, Henrik Gyurkovics & François Karch
doi:10.1038/371806a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (386K)
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| | Crystal structure of photolysed carbonmonoxy-myoglobin 808
Ilme Schlichting, Joel Berendzen, George N. Phillips Jr & Robert M. Sweet
doi:10.1038/371808a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (974K)
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| | Errata | |
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| | Multiple processing streams in occipitotemporal visual cortex 812
Edgar A. DeYoe, Daniel J. Felleman, David C. Van Essen & Evelyn McClendon
doi:10.1038/371812a0
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| | The ancient regulatory-protein family of WD-repeat proteins 812
Eva J. Neer, Carl J. Schmidt, Raman Nambudripad & Temple F. Smith
doi:10.1038/371812b0
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| | Correction | |
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| | Somatostatin-induced inhibition of neuronal Ca2+ current modulated by cGMP-dependent protein kinase 812
Stephen D. Meriney, D. Bruce Gray & Guillermo R. Pilar
doi:10.1038/371812c0
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