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| | Britain's discord on Europe's money 643
Britain is rehearsing again the role of black sheep at Europe's next intergovernmental conference, running the risk of alienating potential allies and perpetuating confusion among its voters.
doi:10.1038/373643a0
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| | Microsoft and the law 643
The US courts' worries about Microsoft's success should be diverted into more tangible directions.
doi:10.1038/373643b0
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| | Genetic expectations 644
The search for the genetic roots of antisocial behaviour is now, and may always, be premature.
doi:10.1038/373644a0
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| | After 20 years, prospects remain bleak for minorities in US science 645
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/373645a0
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| | Art meets science underneath the Louvre 645
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/373645b0
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| | R&D funding 'heading for 25% cut' 646
COLIN MACILWAIN
doi:10.1038/373646a0
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| | Scientists urged to protest against new 'book burners' 646
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/373646b0
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| | UK observatories head for a new management shake-up 647
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/373647a0
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| | Institute Pasteur to adopt 'automatic' misconduct process 647
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/373647b0
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| | German minister backs more growth for basic research 648
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/373648a0
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| | Dutch universities 'need shorter courses for undergraduates' 648
ALISON ABBOTT
doi:10.1038/373648b0
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| | NIH resolves dispute on cancer gene patent 649
Helen Gavaghan
doi:10.1038/373649a0
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| | More focus urged for Japan's drug research 649
doi:10.1038/373649b0
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| | Medical schools fight their corner 649
Helen Gavaghan
doi:10.1038/373649c0
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| | France takes control of genome programme 650
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/373650a0
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| | Technician charged after CERN sabotage 650
DECLAN BUTLER
doi:10.1038/373650b0
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| | Indian confirms identity of plague 650
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/373650c0
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| | ANC adviser takes over at science ministry 651
Michael Cherry
doi:10.1038/373651a0
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| | Australian researchers hold government to its promises 651
Mark Lawson
doi:10.1038/373651b0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Misinterpreting Aquinas 652
David A. Jones & Donald T. Haynie
doi:10.1038/373652a0
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| | Misinterpreting Aquinas 652
Gonzalo Herranz
doi:10.1038/373652b0
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| | Misinterpreting Aquinas 652
Michael Jarmulowicz
doi:10.1038/373652c0
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| | Tree of life 652
Harry Miller
doi:10.1038/373652d0
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| | Atom microscopy comes of age 653
Four years after the first demonstration that beams of atoms can interfere with each other just as if they were beams of light, it has been possible to extract useful information from an experiment. But emulators will be few.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/373653a0
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| | Europa's oxygen atmosphere 654
Donald M. Hunten
doi:10.1038/373654a0
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| | Two heads are better than one 655
Bruce J. Schnapp
doi:10.1038/373655a0
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| | Hedgehog digs up an old friend 656
Seth S. Blair
doi:10.1038/373656a0
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| | Fast-focus telephoto eye 658
Michael F. Land
doi:10.1038/373658a0
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| | Life at the margins 659
James P. Ferris
doi:10.1038/373659a0
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| | Exploding volcanic myths 660
Jonathan Fink
doi:10.1038/373660a0
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| | Adolf Butenandt (1903−1995) 660
Peter Karlson
doi:10.1038/373660b0
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| | Enter a polypeptide messenger 661
Patrick A. Baeuerle
doi:10.1038/373661a0
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| | Gut feeling 662
David Jones
doi:10.1038/373662a0
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| | Anticipated stimuli across skin 663
Michael P. Kilgard & Michael M. Merzenich
doi:10.1038/373663a0
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| | Improved green fluorescence 663
Roger Heim, Andrew B. Cubitt & Roger Y. Tsien
doi:10.1038/373663b0
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| | Kinetics of protein folding 664
Hue Sun Chan
doi:10.1038/373664a0
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| | Kinetics of protein folding 665
M. Karplus, A. S˘ali & E. Shakhnovich
doi:10.1038/373665a0
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| | Hot white dwarfs 666
Richard W. Tweedy
doi:10.1038/373666a0
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| | Do long branches attract flies? 666
David Carmean & Bernard J. Crespi
doi:10.1038/373666b0
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| | Grandiose conceits 667
John Morton reviews Making Monsters: False Memory, Psychotherapy and Sexual Hysteria
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Richard Ofshe & Ethan Watters
doi:10.1038/373667a0
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| | Minds in the unmaking 668
Hugh Freeman reviews House of Cards: Psychology and Psychotherapy Built on Myth
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Robyn M. Dawes
doi:10.1038/373668a0
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| | Codebreaking 669
David Knight reviews Gehennical Fire: The Lives of George Starkey, an American Alchemist in the Scientific Revolution.
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William R. New-man
doi:10.1038/373669a0
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| | Integrative animal behaviour 669
Gene E. Robinson reviews Behavioral Mechanisms in Evolutionary Ecology
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Leslie A. Real
doi:10.1038/373669b0
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| | The measure of the world 670
C. W. Kilmister reviews Poetry of the Universe: A Mathematical Exploration of the Cosmos
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Robert Osserman
doi:10.1038/373670a0
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| | Pathway of processive ATP hydrolysis by kinesin 671
Susan P. Gilbert, Martin R. Webb, Martin Brune & Kenneth A. Johnson
doi:10.1038/373671a0
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| | Detection of an oxygen atmosphere on Jupiter's moon Europa 677
D. T. Hall, D. F. Strobel, P. D. Feldman, M. A. McGrath & H. A. Weaver
doi:10.1038/373677a0
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| | High current densities above 100 K in the high-temperature superconductor HgBa2CaCu2O6+
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L. Krusin-Elbaum, C. C. Tsuei & A. Gupta
doi:10.1038/373679a0
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| | Differences in the chemical reactivity of individual molecules of an enzyme 681
Qifeng Xue & Edward S. Yeung
doi:10.1038/373681a0
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| | A possible prebiotic synthesis of pantetheine, a precursor to coenzyme A 683
Anthony D. Keefe, Gerald L. Newton & Stanley L. Miller
doi:10.1038/373683a0
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| | Isotopic constraints on carbon exchange between deep ocean sediments and sea water 686
James E. Bauer, Clare E. Reimers, Ellen R. M. Druffel & Peter M. Williams
doi:10.1038/373686a0
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| | Explosive fragmentation of erupting magma 689
Ichiro Sugioka & Marcus Bursik
doi:10.1038/373689a0
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| | A negatively powered lens in the chameleon 692
Matthias Ott & Frank Schaeffel
doi:10.1038/373692a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (398K)
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| | Colour constancy influenced by contrast adaptation 694
Michael A. Webster & J. D. Mollon
doi:10.1038/373694a0
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| | Scatter factor/hepatocyte growth factor is essential for liver development 699
Claudia Schmidt, Friedhelm Bladt, Stefanie Goedecke, Volker Brinkmann, Wolfgang Zschiesche, Melanie Sharpe, Ermanno Gherardi & Carmen Birchmeler
doi:10.1038/373699a0
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| | Placental defect and embryonic lethality in mice lacking hepatocyte growth factor/scatter factor 702
Yoshihiko Uehara, Osamu Minowa, Chisato Mori, Kohei Shiota, Junko Kuno, Tetsuo Noda & Naomi Kitamura
doi:10.1038/373702a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (654K)
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| | Regulation of furrow progression in the Drosophila eye by cAMP-dependent protein kinase A 705
David I. Strutt, Volker Wiersdorff & Marek Mlodzik
doi:10.1038/373705a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (851K)
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| | Growth and differentiation in the Drosophila eye coordinated by hedgehog
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Ulrike Heberlein, Carol M. Singh, Alvin Y. Luk & Terrence J. Donohoe
doi:10.1038/373709a0
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| | Signal transduction by cAMP-dependent protein kinase A in Drosophila limb patterning 711
Thierry Lepage, Stephen M. Cohen, Fernando J. Diaz-Benjumea & Susan M. Parkhurst
doi:10.1038/373711a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (745K)
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| | Molecular characterization of eukaryotic polysialyltransferase-1 715
Matthias Eckhardt, Martina Mühlenhoff, Andrea Bethe, Jaap Koopman, Matthias Frosch & Rita Gerardy-Schahn
doi:10.1038/373715a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (476K)
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| | Failure of a single-headed kinesin to track parallel to microtubule protofilaments 718
Elise Berliner, Edgar C. Young, Karin Anderson, Hansraj K. Mahtani & Jeff Gelles
doi:10.1038/373718a0
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| | Sequence specificity and transcriptional activation in the binding of lactoferrin to DNA 721
Jianglin He & Philip Furmanski
doi:10.1038/373721a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (502K)
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| | Pre-bending of a promoter sequence enhances affinity for the TATA-binding factor 724
Jeffrey D. Parvin, Richard J. McCormick, Phillip A. Sharp & David E. Fisher
doi:10.1038/373724a0
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doi:10.1038/373727a0
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| | Product Review | |
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Take this exit on the information superhighway to find software for a digital notary system, automated curve fitting, ELISA data analysis and graphical and statistical analysis.
Brendan Norton
doi:10.1038/373728a0
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