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| | Animal welfare and the veal trade 175
The British are whipping themselves into an orgy of excitement about the export of farm animals to the rest of Europe without proper consideration of the underlying issues.
doi:10.1038/373175a0
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| | Research accountability 176
The row in Japan over research accountability has more to do with control of the civil service than with research.
doi:10.1038/373176a0
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| | Naming people lightly 176
The naming of new human species should be the business of those skilled at the job.
doi:10.1038/373176b0
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| | Japan science head in move to limit decision-making role of officials 177
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/373177a0
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| | Clinical trials face lack of minority group volunteers 178
Helen Gavaghan
doi:10.1038/373178a0
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| | Satellite failure hits Japan's space plans 178
DAVID SWINBANKS
doi:10.1038/373178b0
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| | Falling stock prices put the squeeze on biotech start-ups 178
Sally Lehrman
doi:10.1038/373178c0
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| | NSF 'should help fund private observatories' 179
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/373179a0
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| | US Congress targets research facilities 179
COLIN MACILWAIN
doi:10.1038/373179b0
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| | US to rule on use of science in regulations 180
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/373180a0
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| | NASA plans for shuttle replacement 180
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/373180b0
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| | Europe urged to set common science teaching standards 181
Maggie Verrall
doi:10.1038/373181a0
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| | Unilever consigns manganese catalyst to the back-burner 181
Maggie Verrall
doi:10.1038/373181b0
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| | Neuroscientist tipped as new Science editor 181
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/373181c0
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| | Physics centre re-launches search for new director 182
Alison Abbott & K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/373182a0
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| | DNA repair, sry gene share Jeantet prizes 182
doi:10.1038/373182b0
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| | French committee to link research to 'national interests' 182
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/373182c0
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| | EU research chief to raise political profile 183
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/373183a0
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| | Italy approves changes at space agency 183
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/373183b0
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| | Molecular biology of ghosts 184
T. W. Stone
doi:10.1038/373184a0
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| | Molecular biology of ghosts 184
Frederick Fenter & François Caloz
doi:10.1038/373184b0
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| | Wrong move 184
Christian Anfinsen, Julius Axelrod, Paul Berg, Allan Conney, Bernard Horecker, Ronald Kaback, Arthur Kornberg, Joshua Lederberg, Marshall Nirenberg, George Palade, Sidney Pestka, Premkumar Reddy, Aaron Shatkin, Ann Skalka, Sidney Specter & Arthur Weissbach
doi:10.1038/373184c0
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| | Marconi minute 184
H. C. Alexander
doi:10.1038/373184d0
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| | Patenting of human genes 185
Alistair D. Stewart
doi:10.1038/373185a0
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| | Rwandan refugees 185
Judith Patterson
doi:10.1038/373185b0
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| | Penn's law 185
Gareth Penn
doi:10.1038/373185c0
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| | The importance of academic freedom 186
The principle of academic freedom is an inalienable right in any civilized country. How should the state support academic research without interfering with it?
Peter Swinnerton-Dyer
doi:10.1038/373186a0
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| | Duesberg and the new view of HIV 189
This journal has offered Dr Peter Duesberg and his associates an opportunity to comment on last week's publications suggesting that the immune system reacts hyperactively to HIV infection.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/373189a0
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| | All's fair when love is war 190
Laurent Keller
doi:10.1038/373190a0
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| | Probing dark matter 191
Adam Burrows & James Liebert
doi:10.1038/373191a0
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| | Combating cholesterol 192
Mike J. Kelly & Stanley M. Roberts
doi:10.1038/373192a0
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| | Manufacture of a marine menace 193
Philip Ball
doi:10.1038/373193a0
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| | Phospholipids in action 194
James B. Hurley
doi:10.1038/373194a0
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| | Vision without awareness 195
Jon H. Kaas
doi:10.1038/373195a0
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| | How to promote proton transfer 196
Daniel S. Kemp
doi:10.1038/373196a0
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| | Hunting haemoglobin 196
Tim Lincoln
doi:10.1038/373196b0
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| | Cryptic sites in vinculin 197
Andrew P. Gilmore & Keith Burridge
doi:10.1038/373197a0
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| | Hit and run 198
doi:10.1038/373198a0
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| | Modulation by instruction 198
Michael Posner
doi:10.1038/373198b0
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| | Zen and the art of Fos and Jun 199
Tom Kerppola & Tom Curran
doi:10.1038/373199a0
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| | Instant sculpture 200
David Jones
doi:10.1038/373200a0
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| | Artefacts in Sr isotope records 201
Steven C. Clemens, L. Peter Gromet & John W. Farrell
doi:10.1038/373201a0
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| | Krill biomass in the Atlantic 201
P. N. Trathan, I. Everson, D. G. M. Miller, J. L. Watkins & E. J. Murphy
doi:10.1038/373201b0
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| | Matching needed for stereopsis 202
Barbara Gillam
doi:10.1038/373202a0
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| | Matching needed for stereopsis 203
L. Liu, S. B. Stevenson & C. M. Schor
doi:10.1038/373203a0
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| | Random laser? 203
Diederik S. Wiersma, Meint P. van Albada & Ad Lagendijk
doi:10.1038/373203b0
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| | Random laser? 204
N. M. Lawandy & R. M. Balachandran
doi:10.1038/373204a0
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| | Beyond folk psychology 205
Steven Pinker reviews The Elm and the Expert
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Jerry A. Fodor
doi:10.1038/373205a0
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| | Aping language 206
Matt Cartmill reviews Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind
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Sue Savage-Rumbaugh & Roger Lewin
doi:10.1038/373206a0
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| | Maths for the masses 206
Jerry P. King reviews Mathematics: The Science of Patterns
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Keith Devlin & William Dunham
doi:10.1038/373206b0
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| | Chaotic futures 208
Paul E. Griffiths reviews Darwinism Evolving: Systems Dynamics and the Genealogy of Natural Selection
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David D. Depew & Bruce H. Weber
doi:10.1038/373208a0
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| | Punishment in animal societies 209
T. H. Clutton-Brock & G. A. Parker
doi:10.1038/373209a0
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| | Regulation of PLC-mediated signalling in vivo by CDP-diacylglycerol synthase 216
Louisa Wu, Barbara Niemeyer, Nansi Colley, Michael Socolich & Charles S. Zuker
doi:10.1038/373216a0
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| | Large size of Lyman- gas clouds at intermediate redshifts 223
Nadine Dinshaw, Craig B. Foltz, Chris D. Impey, Ray J. Weymann & Simon L. Morris
doi:10.1038/373223a0
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| | Symmetry of the order parameter in the high-Tc superconductor YBa2Cu3O7- 
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J. R. Kirtley, C. C. Tsuei, J. Z. Sun, C. C. Chi, Lock See Yu-Jahnes, A. Gupta, M. Rupp & M. B. Ketchen
doi:10.1038/373225a0
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| | Large rate accelerations in antibody catalysis by strategic use of haptenic charge 228
Simon N. Thorn, Richard G. Daniels, Maria-Teresa M. Auditor & Donald Hilvert
doi:10.1038/373228a0
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| | Ecosystem changes in the North Pacific subtropical gyre attributed to the 1991−92 El Niño 230
D. M. Karl, R. Letelier, D. Hebel, L. Tupas, J. Dore, J. Christian & C. Winn
doi:10.1038/373230a0
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| | Evidence for a higher pH in the glacial ocean from boron isotopes in foraminifera 234
Abhijit Sanyal, N. G. Hemming, Gilbert N. Hanson & Wallace S. Broecker
doi:10.1038/373234a0
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| | Permeability enhancement in the shallow crust as a cause of earthquake-induced hydrological changes 237
S. Rojstaczer, S. Wolf & R. Michel
doi:10.1038/373237a0
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| | Unexpected patterns of parentage and relatedness in a primitively eusocial bee 239
Miriam H. Richards, Laurence Packer & Jon Seger
doi:10.1038/373239a0
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| | Cost of mating in Drosophila melanogaster females is mediated by male accessory gland products 241
Tracey Chapman, Lindsay F. Liddle, John M. Kalb, Mariana F. Wolfner & Linda Partridge
doi:10.1038/373241a0
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| | Transplanting a unique allosteric effect from crocodile into human haemoglobin 244
N. Hennakao Komiyama, Gentaro Miyazaki, Jeremy Tame & Kiyoshi Nagai
doi:10.1038/373244a0
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| | Blindsight in monkeys 247
Alan Cowey & Petra Stoerig
doi:10.1038/373247a0
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| | Blood flow changes in human somatosensory cortex during anticipated
stimulation 249
Wayne C. Drevets, Harold Burton, Tom O. Videen, Abraham Z. Snyder, Joseph R. Simpson Jr & Marcus E. Raichle
doi:10.1038/373249a0
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| | The site and stage of anti-DNA B-cell deletion 252
Ching Chen, Zoltan Nagy, Marko Z. Radic, Richard R. Hardy, Dennis Huszar, Sally A. Camper & Martin Weigert
doi:10.1038/373252a0
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David A. Ferrick, Mark D. Schrenzel, Thera Mulvania, Beryl Hsieh, Walter G. Ferlin & Heather Lepper
doi:10.1038/373255a0
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| | Crystal structure of the heterodimeric bZIP transcription factor c-Fos−c-Jun bound to DNA 257
J. N. Mark Glover & Stephen C. Harrison
doi:10.1038/373257a0
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| | F-actin binding site masked by the intramolecular association of vinculin head and tail domains 261
Robert P. Johnson & Susan W. Craig
doi:10.1038/373261a0
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| | Penicillin acylase has a single-amino-acid catalytic centre 264
Helen J. Duggleby, Shirley P. Tolley, Christopher P. Hill, Eleanor J. Dodson, Guy Dodson & Peter C. E. Moody
doi:10.1038/373264a0
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