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The first serious test of the Rio Convention on Climate Change will come later this month, when the members of the treaty decide what happens next. They need above all to stay cool.
doi:10.1038/374199a0
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| | House Republicans float proposal for single Department of Science 201
Colin Macilwain & Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/374201a0
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| | MIT chemist named to head spy agency 201
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/374201b0
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| | �5,000 light bulb − and it's broken! 201
doi:10.1038/374201c0
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| | Gene therapy approval may be rocky road for industry 202
Helen Gavaghan
doi:10.1038/374202a0
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| | US sets up new bioethics advisory board 202
doi:10.1038/374202b0
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| | Medical centre cuts staff in preparation for 'managed care' 202
Sally Lehrman
doi:10.1038/374202c0
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| | Europe agrees to seek new climate targets 203
Fiona Gammie
doi:10.1038/374203a0
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| | Aid agency under fire in Brussels 203
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/374203b0
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| | EC 'likely to reopen patent negotiations' 203
doi:10.1038/374203c0
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| | Prospective studies urged of health risks 204
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/374204a0
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| | Lab rejects report that nuclear dump 'could explode' 204
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/374204b0
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| | Earthquake prediction likely to grow' after new review 205
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/374205a0
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| | UK seeks enhanced science links with South Korea 205
Fiona Gammie
doi:10.1038/374205b0
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| | France seeks to tighten its control over life sciences 206
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/374206a0
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| | Gravity scores one, microgravity zero 206
doi:10.1038/374206b0
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| | EU commissioner sets sights on closer ties with industry 206
doi:10.1038/374206c0
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| | Smithsonian heeds physicists' complaints 207
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/374207a0
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| | Politics of climate change 208
Bert Bolin
doi:10.1038/374208a0
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| | Distorted views 208
Riccardo Giacconi
doi:10.1038/374208b0
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| | The use of Taxol as a trademark 208
Stephen Chesnoff
doi:10.1038/374208c0
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| | Is science policy in the doldrums? 209
Science policy is in the doldrums, having run out of intellectual steam and strong political commitment. It needs shaking up if it is to support and guide science and technology in a global, knowledge-based economy.
John de la Mothe & Paul Dufour
doi:10.1038/374209a0
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| | Celebration of QED's half-century 211
A badly constructed yet fascinating account of the origins of quantum electrodynamics suggests the need for a way of capturing both the spirit of an heroic age and the later history of the concepts that it spawned.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/374211a0
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| | Destructive debris 212
Alan W. Harris
doi:10.1038/374212a0
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| | The primary requirements 213
John Beddington
doi:10.1038/374213a0
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| | Inverse agonists exposed 214
J. W. Black & N. P. Shankley
doi:10.1038/374214a0
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| | Questions of clusters 215
Sidney van den Bergh
doi:10.1038/374215a0
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| | New phase for mantle research 216
Dion L. Heinz
doi:10.1038/374216a0
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| | Growth factor lends a hand 217
J. M. W. Slack
doi:10.1038/374217a0
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| | A broad view 218
David Jones
doi:10.1038/374218a0
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| | Amphibian breeding and climate 219
Trevor J. C. Beebee
doi:10.1038/374219a0
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| | Transgenic crops against parasites 220
Daniel M. Joel, Yeshaiahu Kleifeld, Dalia Losner-Goshen, Geza Herzlinger & Jonathan Gressel
doi:10.1038/374220a0
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R. Åke Norberg
doi:10.1038/374221a0
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J. R. Speakman & S. C. Thomson
doi:10.1038/374221b0
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| | Proton movement on membranes 222
Peter Scherrer
doi:10.1038/374222a0
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| | Tackling Torquemada 223
Christopher Edens reviews Deciphering the Indus Script
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Asko Parpola
doi:10.1038/374223a0
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| | Privileged order 224
Henry Petroski reviews Structures in the Stream: Water, Science, and the Rise of the US Army Corps of Engineers
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Todd Shallat
doi:10.1038/374224a0
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| | Out of the flames of phlogiston 225
Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent reviews In the Shadow of Lavoisier: The Annales de Chimie and the Establishment of a New Science
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Maurice Crosland
doi:10.1038/374225a0
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| | The uses of beauty 225
A. D. Van Nostrand reviews Confessions of a Technophile
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Lewis M. Branscomb
doi:10.1038/374225b0
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| | The major evolutionary transitions 227
Eörs Szathmáry & John Maynard Smith
doi:10.1038/374227a0
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| | A mechanism for decoupling within the oceanic lithosphere revealed in the Troodos ophiolite 232
Susan M. Agar & Kim D. Klitgord
doi:10.1038/374232a0
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| | Tidal effects of disconnected hydrocarbon seas on Titan 238
Stanley F. Dermott & Carl Sagan
doi:10.1038/374238a0
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| | Comb-type grafted hydrogels with rapid deswelling response to temperature changes 240
Ryo Yoshida, Katsumi Uchida, Yuzo Kaneko, Kiyotaka Sakai, Akihiko Kikuchi, Yasuhisa Sakurai & Teruo Okano
doi:10.1038/374240a0
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| | Transformation of stishovite to a denser phase at lower-mantle pressures 243
Kathleen J. Kingma, Ronald E. Cohen, Russell J. Hemley & Ho-kwang Mao
doi:10.1038/374243a0
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| | Confounding influence of magnetic fabric on sedimentary records of a field reversal 246
Xavier Quidelleur, John Holt & Jean-Pierre Valet
doi:10.1038/374246a0
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| | Geodetic observations of very rapid convergence and back-arc extension at the Tonga arc 249
Michael Bevis, F. W. Taylor, B. E. Schutz, Jacques Recy, B. L. Isacks, Saimone Helu, Rajendra Singh, Eric Kendrick, James Stowell, Brian Taylor & Stephane Calmantli
doi:10.1038/374249a0
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| | Interactive effects of ambient ozone and climate measured on growth of mature forest trees 252
S. B. McLaughlin & D. J. Downing
doi:10.1038/374252a0
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| | Primary production required to sustain global fisheries 255
D. Pauly & V. Christensen
doi:10.1038/374255a0
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| | Aberrant differentiation of neuromuscular junctions in mice lacking s-laminin/laminin  2 258
Peter G. Noakes, Medha Gautam, Jacqueline Mudd, Joshua R. Sanes & John P. Merlie
doi:10.1038/374258a0
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| | Nitric oxide mediates activity-dependent synaptic suppression at developing neuromuscular synapses 262
Ti Wang, Zuoping Xie & Bai Lu
doi:10.1038/374262a0
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| | Control of lamprey locomotor neurons by colocalized monoamine transmitters 266
Judith Schotland, Oleg Shupliakov, Martin Wikström, Lennart Brodin, Meera Srinivasan, Zhi-bing You, Mario Herrera-Marschitz, Weiqi Zhang, Tomas Hökfelt & Sten Grillner
doi:10.1038/374266a0
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| | Malarial haemozoin/-haematin supports haem polymerization in the absence of protein 269
Arnulf Dorn, Ruedi Stoffel, Hugues Matile, André Bubendorf & Robert G. Ridley
doi:10.1038/374269a0
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| | Physiological effects of inverse agonists in transgenic mice with myocardial overexpression of the 2-adrenoceptor 272
Richard A. Bond, Paul Leff, T.David Johnson, Carmelo A. Milano, Howard A. Rockman, Thomas R. McMinn, Subramaniam Apparsundaram, Michael F. Hyek, Terry P. Kenakin, Lee F. Allen & Robert J. Lefkowitz
doi:10.1038/374272a0
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| | Replication of transcriptionally active chromatin 276
Renzo Lucchini & José M. Sogo
doi:10.1038/374276a0
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| | Association of Cdk-activating kinase subunits with transcription factor TFIIH 280
Hiroaki Serizawa, Tomi P. Mäkelä, Joan Weliky Conaway, Ronald C. Conaway, Robert A. Weinberg & Richard A. Young
doi:10.1038/374280a0
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| | Cdk-activating kinase complex is a component of human transcription factor TFIIH 283
Ramin Shiekhattar, Fred Mermelstein, Robert P. Fisher, Ronny Drapkin, Brian Dynlacht, Holly C. Wessling, David O. Morgan & Danny Reinberg
doi:10.1038/374283a0
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| | Site-specific RNase E cleavage of oligonucleotides and inhibition by stem−loops 287
Kenneth J. McDowall, Vladimir R. Kaberdin, Se-Wei Wu, Stanley N. Cohen & Sue Lin-Chao
doi:10.1038/374287a0
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| | Interaction with RAP74 subunit of TFIIF is required for transcriptional activation by serum response factor 290
Véronique Joliot, Mark Demma & Ron Prywes
doi:10.1038/374290a0
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| |  -lnterferon and expression of MHC genes regulate peptide hydrolysis by proteasomes 290
Maria Gaczynska, Kenneth L. Rock & Alfred L. Goldberg
doi:10.1038/374290b0
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| | Design and synthesis of an ultraviolet-transparent nonlinear optical crystal Sr2Be2B2O7 290
Chuangtian Chen, Yebin Wang, Baichang Wu, Keche Wu, Wenlun Zeng & Linhua Yu
doi:10.1038/374290c0
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