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| | Japan's seismic tragedy at Kobe 269
The most destructive Japanese earthquake since that in Tokyo in 1923 will have implications far outside Japan as attention there turns to the search for safety in a seismically hazardous place.
doi:10.1038/373269a0
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| | Republican critics step up pressure on technology assessment office 270
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/373270a0
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| | How the earthquake struck Japan 270
doi:10.1038/373270b0
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| | Glaxo bid 'reflects changing patterns of drug research' 271
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/373271a0
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| | UK group to explore potential benefits of "foresight" exercise 271
doi:10.1038/373271b0
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| | AIDS activists fail to block "reasonable pricing" reform 272
Helen Gavaghan
doi:10.1038/373272a0
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| | New hominid remains found in Ethiopia 272
Henry Gee
doi:10.1038/373272b0
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| | Republican warns of $35−billion cut in 1996 budget 272
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/373272c0
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| | Kobe earthquake shatters faith in engineers 273
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/373273a0
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| | Striking similarities with US quake 273
DAVID SWINBANKS
doi:10.1038/373273b0
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| | Canada to set up genome research centre in Toronto 274
David Spurgeon
doi:10.1038/373274a0
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| | Brazil keeps former minister in post 274
Ricardo Bonalume Neto
doi:10.1038/373274b0
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| | Soros foundation is defended against charges of spying 274
Carl Levitin
doi:10.1038/373274c0
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| | Italian minister faces short spell, hot seat 275
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/373275a0
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| | DNA fingers illegal trade in hawks 275
Maggie Verrall
doi:10.1038/373275b0
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| | Europe 'needs one voice on large machines' 276
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/373276a0
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| | But France keeps EMBL guessing 276
ALISON ABBOTT
doi:10.1038/373276b0
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| | Germany plans new aid for scientists in east 277
Toni Feder
doi:10.1038/373277a0
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| | Cell biology centre plans to break the mould on staffing 277
Declan Butler & Annette Thomas
doi:10.1038/373277b0
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| | Biodiversity treaty misguided 278
Henry I. Miller
doi:10.1038/373278a0
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| | Athletic nonsense 278
B. W. Wybourne
doi:10.1038/373278b0
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| | Counting time 278
Cesare Emlliani
doi:10.1038/373278c0
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| | Science decided by committee? 279
Lewis Wolpert
doi:10.1038/373279a0
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| | Animal research 279
A. W. Thomas & S. Hererra
doi:10.1038/373279b0
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| | Animal research 279
H. E. Cazlaris
doi:10.1038/373279c0
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| | Malaria menace 279
Y. D. Sharma
doi:10.1038/373279d0
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| | Keeping the climate treaty relevant 280
Conventional wisdom holds that the proper next step for an effective climate treaty is to negotiate binding targets and timetables for greenhouse gases. But this is not the best approach.
David G. Victor & Julian E. Salt
doi:10.1038/373280a0
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| | Making models of symmetry breaking 283
A strictly symmetrical (if somewhat artificial) dynamical system has been shown to be capable of spontaneous transition between states in which its behaviour is far from symmetrical.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/373283a0
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| | Sponges out of their depth 284
Michelle Kelly-Borges
doi:10.1038/373284a0
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| | The hot, dry mountains of Venus 285
Sean Willett
doi:10.1038/373285a0
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| | Accounting for light-element abundances 286
A. G. W. Cameron
doi:10.1038/373286a0
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| | A butterfly flutters by 287
David Baltimore & Amer A. Beg
doi:10.1038/373287a0
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| | Obituary: Eugene Wigner (1902-1995) 288
Frederick Seitz
doi:10.1038/373288a0
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| | Neuron saving schemes 289
Ronald M. Lindsay
doi:10.1038/373289a0
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| | Recycled teeth 290
David Jones
doi:10.1038/373290a0
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| | Cause of blue petal colour 291
Kumi Yoshida, Tadao Kondo, Yoshiji Okazaki & Kiyoshi Katou
doi:10.1038/373291a0
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| | Flies suppress fire ants 292
M. R. Orr, S. H. Seike, W. W. Benson & L. E. Gilbert
doi:10.1038/373292a0
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| | Leukaemia and wartime evacuees 293
L. J. Kinlen & S. M. John
doi:10.1038/373293a0
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| | Organic carbon in sediments 293
Ian Head, Paul Farrimond & Steve Larter
doi:10.1038/373293b0
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| | Organic carbon in sediments 293
Walter A. Hartgers, Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté, Jan W. de Leeuw, J. Allan, A. G. Requejo & J. M. Hayes
doi:10.1038/373293c0
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| | Extinction and conservation on Cebu 294
Perla Magsalay, Thomas Brooks, Guy Dutson & Rob Timmins
doi:10.1038/373294a0
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| | Dining with Julesz 295
Jeremy M. Wolfe reviews Dialogues on Perception
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Bela Julesz
doi:10.1038/373295a0
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| | Flash Gordon and other scientists 296
Walter Gratzer reviews From Faust to Strangelove: Representations of the Scientist in Western Literature
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Roslynn D. Haynes
doi:10.1038/373296a0
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| | Reading the mind of God 297
Colin Judge reviews The Development of Biological Systematics: Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu, Nature and the Natural System
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Peter F. Stevens
doi:10.1038/373297a0
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| | Technology everywhere 298
Howard P. Segal reviews White Heat: People and Technology
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Carroll Pursell
doi:10.1038/373298a0
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| | Connecting landscape patterns to ecosystem and population processes 299
Peter Kareiva & Uno Wennergren
doi:10.1038/373299a0
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| | Structure of NF- B p50 homodimer bound to a B site 303
Gourisankar Ghosh, Gregory Van Duyne, Sankar Ghosh & Paul B. Sigler
doi:10.1038/373303a0
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| | Structure of the NF-B p50 homodimer bound to DNA 311
Christoph W. Müller, Félix A. Rey, Mikiko Sodeoka, Gregory L. Verdine & Stephen C. Harrison
doi:10.1038/373311a0
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| | Production and evolution of light elements in active star-forming regions 318
Michel Cassé, Roland Lehoucq & Elisabeth Vangloni-Flam
doi:10.1038/373318a0
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| | Effect of sample topology on the critical fields of mesoscopic superconductors 319
V. V. Moshchalkov, L. Gielen, C. Strunk, R. Jonckheere, X. Qiu, C. Van Haesendonck & Y. Bruynseraede
doi:10.1038/373319a0
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| | Design and synthesis of an ultraviolet-transparent nonlinear optical crystal Sr2Be2B2O7
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Chuangtian Chen, Yebin Wang, Baichang Wu, Keche Wu, Wenlun Zeng & Linhua Yu
doi:10.1038/373322a0
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| | A 'smart' catalyst that self-assembles under turnover conditions 324
Craig L. Hill & Xuan Zhang
doi:10.1038/373324a0
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| | Changes in oceanic and terrestrial carbon uptake since 1982 326
R. J. Francey, P. P. Tans, C. E. Allison, I. G. Enting, J. W. C. White & M. Trolier
doi:10.1038/373326a0
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| | Effect of shallow-level contamination on the helium isotope systematics of ocean-island lavas 330
D. R. Hilton, J. Barling & G. E. Wheller
doi:10.1038/373330a0
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| | Carnivorous sponges 333
J. Vacelet & N. Boury-Esnault
doi:10.1038/373333a0
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A. Tomac, E. Lindqvist, L.-F. H. Lin, S. O. Ögren, D. Young, B. J. Hoffer & L. Olson
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| | Mesencephalic dopaminergic neurons protected by GDNF from axotomy-induced degeneration in the adult brain 339
Klaus D. Beck, Janet Valverde, Tajrena Alexi, Kris Poulsen, Barbara Moffat, Richard A. Vandlen, Arnon Rosenthal & Franz Hefti
doi:10.1038/373339a0
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In vivo neurotrophic effects of GDNF on neonatal and adult facial motor neurons 341
Qiao Yan, Christine Matheson & Oscar T. Lopez
doi:10.1038/373341a0
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| | Developing motor neurons rescued from programmed and axotomy-induced cell death by GDNF 344
Ronald W. Oppenheim, Lucien J. Houenou, James E. Johnson, Leu-Fen H. Lin, Linxi Li, Albert C. Lo, Ann L. Newsome, David M. Prevette & Siwei Wang
doi:10.1038/373344a0
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W/kit gene required for interstitial cells of Cajal and for intestinal pacemaker activity 347
Jan D. Hulzinga, Lars Thuneberg, Michael Klüppel, John Malysz, Hanne B. Mikkelsen & Alan Bernstein
doi:10.1038/373347a0
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| | Developmental control point in induction of thymic cortex regulated by a subpopulation of prothymocytes 350
Georg A. Holländer, Baoping Wang, Aliki Nichogiannopoulou, Peter Paul Platenburg, Willem van Ewijk, Steven J. Burakoff, Jose-Carlos Gutierrez-Ramos & Cox Terhorst
doi:10.1038/373350a0
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| | CD8 modulation of T-cell antigen receptor−ligand interactions on living cytotoxic T lymphocytes 353
Immanuel F. Luescher, Eric Vivier, Andréas Layer, Jérôme Mahiou, François Godeau, Bernard Malissen & Pedro Romero
doi:10.1038/373353a0
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Neisseria PilC protein identified as type-4 pilus tip-located adhesin 357
Thomas Rudel, Ina Scheuerpflug & Thomas F. Meyer
doi:10.1038/373357a0
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| | A B-cell coactivator of octamer-binding transcription factors 360
Matthias Gstaiger, Lea Knoepfel, Oleg Georgiev, Walter Schaffner & Christopher M. Hovens
doi:10.1038/373360a0
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| | A Rosetta Stone of mammalian genetics 363
The Mammalian Comparative Database provides genetic maps of mammalian species. Comparative maps are valuable aids for predicting linkages, developing animal models and studying genome organization and evolution.
Joseph H. Nadeau, Patricia L. Grant, Srinivas Mankala, Joel E. Richardson, Janan T. Eppig & Andrew H. Reiner
doi:10.1038/373363a0
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| | Nucleic acid update 366
Brendan Norton
doi:10.1038/373366a0
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