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| | Why not reform the United Nations? 707
The low-key celebrations of the half-century of the United
Nations has served chiefly as a reminder that the organization is ripe for
reform - but not abolition.
doi:10.1038/375707a0
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| | Clinton two strikes down 707
The US president has lost his nomination for surgeon-general and
made a mess of an immunization programme.
doi:10.1038/375707b0
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| | Brent Spar, broken spur 708
Shell Oil's decision not to sink a used oil-rig at sea is a needless
dereliction of rationality.
doi:10.1038/375708a0
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| | News | |
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| | US energy department backs down on plan for A-bomb victim
studies 709
Colin Macilwain & David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/375709a0
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| | French physicists attack bomb tests 709
Kimberly Carr
doi:10.1038/375709b0
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| | Balkan physics cruise shifts to dry land after protests 710
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/375710a0
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| | Polio pioneer Salk dies 710
doi:10.1038/375710b0
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| | Japan pledges new aid to Minamata victims 711
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/375711a0
PDF (139K)
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| | Technology office heads for reprieve 711
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/375711b0
PDF (139K)
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| | 'Faster, cheaper, better' under fire at NASA 712
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/375712a0
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| | Chile offers cash for ESO telescope site 712
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/375712b0
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| | Japan 'will raise its LHC support' 712
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/375712c0
PDF (131K)
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| | Panel seeks cut and delay in international fusion project 713
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/375713a0
PDF (188K)
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| | NIH review to suggest streamlined handling of gene therapy bids 713
Robert Taylor
doi:10.1038/375713b0
PDF (188K)
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| | UK to set up advisory panel on genetic data 714
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/375714a0
PDF (128K)
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| | Curtain to fall on Beckenham lab 714
Mike Ward
doi:10.1038/375714b0
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| | Is metal disposal toxic to deep oceans? 715
E. G. Nisbet & C.M. R. Fowler
doi:10.1038/375715a0
References | PDF (132K)
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| | UK and space science 716
Paul Mardin
doi:10.1038/375716a0
PDF (136K)
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| | UK and space science 716
A. M. Cruise
doi:10.1038/375716b0
PDF (136K)
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| | Worthy journals 716
Christopher Bell
doi:10.1038/375716c0
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| | Science in an era of political change 717
With peace under way, and bright immigrants pouring into the
country, Israel has a huge opportunity to maximize the potential of its strong
science and technology base. Get it right, and its future will never have been
brighter.
doi:10.1038/375717a0
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| | The ultimate in atom manipulation 733
A remarkable experiment carried out in Paris has shown that it is
possible to change the phase of quantum matter waves by modulating a virtual
mirror reflecting atoms with a radio-frequency signal.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/375733a0
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| | Missense on the membrane 734
Dennis
J. Selkoe
doi:10.1038/375734a0
References | PDF (255K)
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| | How cortex reorganizes 735
Jon H. Kaas
doi:10.1038/375735a0
References | PDF (282K)
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| | New lookforold reptiles 735
Henry Gee
doi:10.1038/375735b0
PDF (120K)
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| | The Notch connection 736
Pat Simpson
doi:10.1038/375736a0
References | PDF (332K)
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| | Melt pathways in the mantle 737
Marc Hirschmann
doi:10.1038/375737a0
References | PDF (301K)
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| | Raymond Lyttleton (1911-95) 738
Fred Hoyle
doi:10.1038/375738a0
PDF (132K)
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| | A fine set of whiskers 739
Philip Ball
doi:10.1038/375739a0
PDF (134K)
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| | Presenting an odd autoantigen 739
Lawrence Steinman
doi:10.1038/375739b0
References | PDF (330K)
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| | Plain polymer 740
David Jones
doi:10.1038/375740a0
PDF (197K)
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| | Scientific Correspondence | |
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mutY 'directs' mutation? 741
Bryn A. Bridges
doi:10.1038/375741a0
References | PDF (146K)
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| | Life at extremely low pH 741
Christa Schleper, Gabriela Piihler, Brigitte Kuhlmorgen & Wolfram Zillig
doi:10.1038/375741b0
References | PDF (329K)
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| | Star clusters in merging galaxies 742
Gerhardt R. Meurer
doi:10.1038/375742a0
References | PDF (184K)
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| | The theologies of science 743
Walter Gratzer reviews The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution.
Edited by
John Brockman
doi:10.1038/375743a0
PDF (274K)
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| | Beyond natural selection? 744
Jonathan Cooke reviews Epigenetic Inheritance and Evolution: The Lamarckian
Dimension.
By
Eva Jablonka & Marion J. Lamb
doi:10.1038/375744a0
PDF (333K)
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| | On growth and form 745
Lionel G. Harrison reviews The Algorithmic Beauty of Sea Shells.
By
Hans Meinhardt
doi:10.1038/375745a0
PDF (418K)
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| | The sea is a very big place 746
Paul F. S. Cornelius reviews Monsters of the Sea: The History, Natural History, and
Mythology of the Oceans' Most Fantastic Creatures
By
Richard Ellis
doi:10.1038/375746a0
PDF (228K)
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| | Articles |  |
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| | Extraction of mid-ocean-ridge basalt from the upwelling mantle by
focused flow of melt in dunite channels 747
Peter B. Kelemen, Nobumichi Shimizu & Vincent
J. M. Salters
doi:10.1038/375747a0
Abstract & References | PDF (990K)
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| | Cloning of a gene bearing missense mutations in early-onset familial
Alzheimer's disease 754
R. Sherrington, E.
I. Rogaev, Y. Liang, E.
A. Rogaeva, G. Levesque, M. Ikeda, H. Chi, C. Lin, G. Li, K. Holman, T. Tsuda, L. Mar, J.-F. Foncin, A.
C. Bruni, M.
P. Montesi, S. Sorbi, I. Rainero, L. Pinessi, L. Nee, I. Chumakov, D. Pollen, A. Brookes, P. Sanseau, R.
J. Polinsky, W. Wasco, H.
A. R. Da Silva, J.
L. Haines, M.
A. Pericak-Vance, R.
E. Tanzi, A.
D. Roses, P.
E. Fraser, J.
M. Rommens & P. H. St
George-Hyslop
doi:10.1038/375754a0
Abstract & References | PDF (825K)
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| | Primary neurogenesis in Xenopus embryos regulated by a
homologue of the Drosophila neurogenic gene Delta
761
Ajay Chitnis, Domingos Henrique, Julian Lewis, David Ish-Horowicz & Chris Kintner
doi:10.1038/375761a0
Abstract & References | PDF (819K)
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| | Letters | |
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| | The signature of conductance quantization in metallic point
contacts 767
J. M. Krans, J. M. van
Ruitenbeek, V.
V. Fisun, I.
K. Yanson & L. J. de
Jongh
doi:10.1038/375767a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (348K)
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| | Synthesis and characterization of carbide nanorods 769
Hongjie Dai, Eric W. Wong, Yuan Z. Lu, Shoushan Fan & Charles M. Lieber
doi:10.1038/375769a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (534K)
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| | An efficient prebiotic synthesis of cytosine and uracil 772
Michael P. Robertson & Stanley L. Miller
doi:10.1038/375772a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (328K)
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| | Lattice preferred orientation of olivine aggregates deformed in simple
shear 774
Shuqing Zhang & Shun-ichiro Karato
doi:10.1038/375774a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (585K)
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| | Locally layered convection inferred from dynamic models of the Earth's
mantle 777
Catherine Thoraval, Philippe Machetel & Anny Cazenave
doi:10.1038/375777a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (648K)
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| | Long-range horizontal connections and their role in cortical
reorganization revealed by optical recording of cat primary visual cortex 780
Aniruddha Das & Charles
D. Gilbert
doi:10.1038/375780a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (865K)
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| | Distinct aspects of neuronal differentiation encoded by frequency of
spontaneous Ca2+ transients 784
Xiaonan Gu & Nicholas
C. Spitzer
doi:10.1038/375784a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (466K)
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| | Expression of a Delta homologue in prospective neurons in the
chick 787
Domingos Henrique, Julie Adam, Anna Myat, Ajay Chitnis, Julian Lewis & David Ish-Horowicz
doi:10.1038/375787a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (613K)
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| | Absence of radius and ulna in mice lacking hoxa-11
andhoxd-11
791
Allan
Peter Davis, David P. Witte, Hsiu M. Hsieh-Li, S.
Steven Potter & Mario R. Capecchi
doi:10.1038/375791a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (731K)
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| | Crucial role of the pre-T-cell receptor  gene in development of ap
but not   T cells 795
Hans Jörg Fehling, Anna Krotkova, Claude Saint-Ruf & Harald von
Boehmer
doi:10.1038/375795a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (450K)
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| | The small heat-shock protein B-crystallin as candidate autoantigen in multiple sclerosis 798
Johannes M. van Noort, Arianne C. van Sechel, Jeffrey J. Bajramovic, Mustapha EI Ouagmiri, Chris H. Polman, Hans Lassmann & Rivka Ravid
doi:10.1038/375798a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (473K)
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| | Mediation by HLA-DM of dissociation of peptides from HLA-DR 802
Victor S. Sloan, Patricia Cameron, Gene Porter, Maureen Gammon, Miguel Amaya, Elizabeth Mellins & Dennis M. Zaller
doi:10.1038/375802a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (587K)
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| | A SNARE-like protein required for traffic through the Golgi complex 806
David K. Banfield, Michael J. Lewis & Hugh
R. B. Pelham
doi:10.1038/375806a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (489K)
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| | Powering the flagellar motor of Escherichia coli with an external
voltage source 809
David C. Fung & Howard
C. Berg
doi:10.1038/375809a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (479K)
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| | Mechanism of active transcriptional repression by the retinoblastoma
protein 812
Steven J. Weintraub, Kevin N. B. Chow, Robin X. Luo, Steven
H. Zhang, Song He & Douglas
C. Dean
doi:10.1038/375812a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (576K)
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