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| | More talk to help Europe's money 1
Last week's contest for the leadership of Britain's Conservative party was a missed chance by both sides to say what is right and wrong about plans for a common currency
doi:10.1038/376001a0
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| | More trade bilateralism 1
On the heels of an aborted trade war with Japan, the United States is still hankering after bilateralism.
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| | A broken embargo 2
Journalists who break agreed embargoes damage not only themselves but also their profession.
doi:10.1038/376002a0
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| | Environmental groups get Supreme Court boost on endangered species 3
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/376003a0
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| | 'All lines from space are engaged...' 3
Ehsan Masood
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| | Budget axe threatens social science directorate at NSF 4
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/376004a0
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| | Mouse gene repository 4
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| | German Council under fire over 'political influence on decisions' 4
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/376004c0
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| | French science head faces cash crunch... 5
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/376005a0
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| | ... and says blood claims are 'simplistic' 5
doi:10.1038/376005b0
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| | Polish science In need of further reforms' 6
doi:10.1038/376006a0
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| | German research centres take on a historical name 6
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/376006b0
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| | D'Escatha to head French atomic agency 7
doi:10.1038/376007a0
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| | Strong yen prompts Japanese search for overseas talent 7
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/376007b0
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| | Trans-species transplants raise virus fears 8
Sally Lehrman
doi:10.1038/376008a0
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| | Markl to move to MPG 8
doi:10.1038/376008b0
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| | Wellcome and Zeneca form genetic alliance 9
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/376009a0
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| | AAAS to send forensic experts to Haiti 9
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | A philosopher's point of view 10
Bernard Williams
doi:10.1038/376010a0
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| | A philosopher's point of view 10
Christopher Coope
doi:10.1038/376010b0
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| | A philosopher's point of view 10
Michael A. Zarowitz
doi:10.1038/376010c0
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| | Whale numbers 11
Milton Freeman
doi:10.1038/376011a0
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| | Site for disposal 11
Tom Curtin
doi:10.1038/376011b0
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| | Forced evolution 11
A. W. F. Edwards
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| | Authors scorned 11
Louis Delpino
doi:10.1038/376011d0
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| | History of Xerox 11
George W. Housner
doi:10.1038/376011e0
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| | Revolutionary birthdays 12
Cesare Emiliani
doi:10.1038/376012a0
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| | Discriminatory Frontier policy 12
Michael Lardelli
doi:10.1038/376012b0
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| | Science in verse 12
John Constable
doi:10.1038/376012c0
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| | Street names 12
M. Benarie
doi:10.1038/376012d0
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| | Genetic information and life insurance 13
Genetic testing will become the future standard of medical care. Life insurers will also need access to genetic information if the insurance industry is to survive intact and if cover is to remain affordable.
Robert J. Pokorski
doi:10.1038/376013a0
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| | Making sense of dwarf-star evolution 15
A remarkable double white-dwarf star appears to confirm a mechanism by which binary stars lose angular momentum but suggests that the pair may yet spring to life a billion years from now.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/376015a0
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| | Faecal pellets in world events 16
Malcolm Walter
doi:10.1038/376016a0
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| | The last cut is the deepest 17
Moira Whyte & Gerard Evan
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| | Scales and stock markets 18
Allan Timmermann
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| | OBITUARY: Christian B. Anfinsen (1916-95) 19
Frederic M. Richards
doi:10.1038/376019a0
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| | Potassium tells a tale 20
Stuart Ross Taylor
doi:10.1038/376020a0
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| | Time for a new neural code? 21
Terrence J. Sejnowski
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| | A taste of things to come 22
Charles S. Zuker
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| | Stellar gerontology 23
Steven V. W. Beckwith
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| | Steam speaks! 24
David Jones
doi:10.1038/376024a0
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| | Scientific Correspondence | |
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| | A Drosophila NSF mutant 25
Leo Pallanck, Richard W. Ordway & Barry Ganetzky
doi:10.1038/376025a0
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| | Origins of photosynthesis 25
Lars Olof Björn
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| | Origins of Photosynthesis 26
John F. Allen
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| | Orogins of photosynthesis 26
Euan G. Nisbet, Johnson R. Cann & Cindy Lee Van Dover
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| | Single odorant molecules? 27
Geoffrey H. Gold & Graeme Lowe
doi:10.1038/376027a0
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| | Eemian climate and pollen 27
Bent Aaby & Henrik Tauber
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| | Eemian climate and pollen 28
Brian Huntley & Michael H. Field
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| | Lie detection 28
Vasily Vlassov
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| | Fantastic archaeology 29
L. Sprague de Camp reviews Fingerprints of the Gods: A Quest for the Beginning and the End
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Graham Hancock
doi:10.1038/376029a0
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| | Making fiction of the truth 30
John Adams reviews But is it True? A Citizen's Guide to Environmental Health and Safety Issues
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Aaron Wildavsky
doi:10.1038/376030a0
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| | Free thinking 31
A. J. Meadows reviews Out in the Cold: Academic Boycotts and the Isolation of South Africa
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Lorraine J. Haricombe & F. W. Lancaster
doi:10.1038/376031a0
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| | Distant attraction 32
Tony Hey reviews The Force of Symmetry
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Vincent Icke
doi:10.1038/376032a0
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| | Pattern recognition computation using action potential timing for stimulus representation 33
J. J. Hopfield
doi:10.1038/376033a0
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| | Identification and inhibition of the ICE/CED-3 protease necessary for mammalian apoptosis 37
Donald W. Nicholson, Ambereen Ali, Nancy A. Thornberry, John P. Vaillancourt, Connie K. Ding, Michel Gallant, Yves Gareau, Patrick R. Griffin, Marc Labelle, Yuri A. Lazebnik, Neil A. Munday, Sayyaparaju M. Raju, Mark E. Smulson, Ting-Ting Yamin, Violeta L. Yu & Douglas K. Miller
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| | Letters | |
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| | Imaging of transport currents in superconducting (Bi, Pb)2Sr2Ca2Cu3Ox composites 44
U. Welp, D. O. Gunter, G. W. Crabtree, W. Zhong, U. Balachandran, P. Haldar, R. S. Sokolowski, V. K. Vlasko-Vlasovl & V. I. Nikitenko
doi:10.1038/376044a0
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| | Scaling behaviour in the dynamics of an economic index 46
Rosario N. Mantegna & H. Eugene Stanley
doi:10.1038/376046a0
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| | Dynamics of formation of symmetrical patterns by chemotactic bacteria 49
Elena O. Budrene & Howard C. Berg
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| | Terminal Proterozoic reorganization of biogeochemical cycles 53
Graham A. Logan, J. M. Hayes, Glenn B. Hieshima & Roger E. Summons
doi:10.1038/376053a0
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| | Isolation of a hyperthermophilic archaeum predicted by in situ RNA analysis 57
R. Huber, S. Burggraf, T. Mayer, S. M. Barns, P. Rossnagel & K. O. Stetter
doi:10.1038/376057a0
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| | Mesoderm induction in Xenopus caused by activation of MAP kinase 58
M. Umbhauer, C. J. Marshall, C. S. Mason, R. W. Old & J. C. Smith
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| | Failure of blood-island formation and vasculogenesis in Flk-1-deficient mice 62
Fouad Shalaby, Janet Rossant, Terry P. Yamaguchi, Marina Gertsenstein, Xiang-Fu Wu, Martin L. Breitman & Andre C. Schuh
doi:10.1038/376062a0
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| | Role of the Flt-1 receptor tyrosine kinase in regulating the assembly of vascular endothelium 66
Guo-Hua Fong, Janet Rossant, Marina Gertsenstein & Martin L. Breitman
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| | Distinct roles of the receptor tyrosine kinases Tie-1 and Tie-2 in blood vessel formation 70
Thomas N. Sato, Yuzuru Tozawa, Urban Deutsch, Karen Wolburg-Buchholz, Yuko Fujiwara, Maureen Gendron-Maguire, Thomas Gridley, Hartwig Wolburg, Werner Risau & Ying Qin
doi:10.1038/376070a0
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| | Activity-dependent long-term enhancement of transmitter release by presynaptic 3',5'-cyclic GMP in cultured hippocampal neurons 74
O. Arancio, E. R. Kandel & R. D. Hawkins
doi:10.1038/376074a0
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| | Coupling of bitter receptor to phosphodiesterase through transducin in taste receptor cells 80
Luis Ruiz-Avila, Susan K. McLaughlin, David Wildman, Peter J. McKinnon, Alain Robichon, Nancy Spickofsky & Robert F. Margolskee
doi:10.1038/376080a0
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| | A cyclic–nucleotide–suppressible conductance activated by transducin in taste cells 85
Stanislav S. Kolesnikov & Robert F. Margolskee
doi:10.1038/376085a0
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| | Increased and altered DNA binding of human p53 by S and G2/M but not Gl cyclin-dependent kinases 88
Yan Wang & Carol Prives
doi:10.1038/376088a0
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| | Structure of influenza virus haemagglutinin complexed with a neutralizing antibody 92
Thierry Bizebard, Benoît Gigant, Pascal Rigolet, Bjarne Rasmussen, Olivier Diat, Peter Böseckei, Steve A. Wharton, John J. Skehel & Marcel Knossow
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Nature's sister journals in review 95
Articles flagged here look into a possible way to control proliferation of cancer cells, the origins of some common birth defects, and mechanisms of catalysis of a tRNA synthetase and two aminotransferases.
doi:10.1038/376095a0
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| | Amplification technology 97
Product review comes in loud and clear with a PCR detection system, a solid phase sequencing kit, a micro-dispensing system, a template isolation kit and a DNA surface decontaminant.
doi:10.1038/376097a0
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