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| | Science policy by conjuror's hat 281
The British government's penchant for sudden reorganization is plainly matched by its capacity instantly to formulate goals for research and to choose snappy titles for them, but when will it learn to think what it is doing?
doi:10.1038/376281a0
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| | Clinton neutron promise 282
The future for large physics facilities in the United States looks bleak.
doi:10.1038/376282a0
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| | Dispute over 'threshold' explosions could disrupt test ban negotiations 283
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/376283a0
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| | France keeps the experts guessing 283
D. B.
doi:10.1038/376283b0
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| | Physicists reveal glimpses of Japan's atomic bomb effort 284
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/376284a0
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| | Congress saves Cassini, but targets infrared astronomy mission 284
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/376284b0
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| | Neutron source plans face uncertain future 285
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/376285a0
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| | HIV scandal hits Bombay blood centre 285
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/376285b0
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| | France seeks revised role in space station 286
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/376286a0
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| | Technology office: now it's up, now it's down 286
C. M.
doi:10.1038/376286b0
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| | Defence physicist takes on top post at Australia's CSIRO 287
Mark Lawson & David Dickson
doi:10.1038/376287a0
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| | Breeder plans are dented as thermal reactor support falls 287
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/376287b0
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| | Biotech tax set-back 287
doi:10.1038/376287c0
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| | Embryo research faces a renewed ban in US 288
Adrianne Appel
doi:10.1038/376288a0
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| | California drops affirmative actions 288
Sally Lehrman
doi:10.1038/376288b0
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| | Prizes fail to quell disquiet over UK policy 289
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/376289a0
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| | Equality in sight for contract research staff 289
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/376289b0
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| | Corruption and appointment 290
Vicente Rodilla
doi:10.1038/376290a0
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| | Climate treaty and equity 290
Seth Dunn
doi:10.1038/376290b0
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| | Job for the boy? 290
Mario G. Fiori & Pier Giorgio
Righetti
doi:10.1038/376290c0
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| | More muddle over the Hubble constant 291
A new calculation makes it likely that Type la supernovae will be
more useful standard candles for estimating the distance scale of the Universe,
but discordance is unlikely to be banished soon.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/376291a0
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| | Smart transcription factors 292
Gabriel
la D'Arcangelo & Tom Curran
doi:10.1038/376292a0
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| | New ribbons and threads 293
Leonard F. Lindoy
doi:10.1038/376293a0
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| | Confirmational change 294
Jonathan Pines
doi:10.1038/376294a0
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| | Cultural developments 295
H.G.
doi:10.1038/376295a0
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| | Resetting the circadian cycle 296
Michael Hastings
doi:10.1038/376296a0
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| | CFC alternatives under a cloud 297
Steven
E. Schwarzbach
doi:10.1038/376297a0
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| | Washing the car 298
David Jones
doi:10.1038/376298a0
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| | Scientific Correspondence | |
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| | Making a meal of mother 299
Theodore A. Evans, Elycia J. Wallis & Mark A. Elgar
doi:10.1038/376299a0
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| | Opening up Ca2+ stores with lnsP3
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L. Missiaen, J.
B. Parys, H. De
Smedt, I. Sienaert, R.
H. Henning & R. Casteels
doi:10.1038/376299b0
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| | Opening up Ca2+ stores with lnsP3
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Mokdad Mezna & Francesco Michelangeli
doi:10.1038/376300a0
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| | Opening up Ca2+ stores with lnsP3
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Kenzo Hirose & Masamitsu lino
doi:10.1038/376301a0
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| | Penguins disturbed by tourists 301
Boris M. Culik & Rory P. Wilson
doi:10.1038/376301b0
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| | Oil biodegradation around roots 302
Samir Radwan, Naser Sorkhoh & Israa EI-Nemr
doi:10.1038/376302a0
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| | Silent legacy of the bomb 303
Michael O'Riordan reviews Suffering Made Real: American Science and the Survivors at
Hiroshima
By
M. Susan Lindee
doi:10.1038/376303a0
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| | World webs 305
Andrew Goudie reviews Geoecology: An Evolutionary Approach
By
Richard John Huggett
doi:10.1038/376305a0
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| | The harmonies of nature 305
doi:10.1038/376305b0
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| | The uses of mathematics 305
C. W. Kilmister reviews On the Shoulders of Giants
By
Malcolm E.
doi:10.1038/376305c0
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| | Three lemming puzzles 306
Ilkka Hanski reviews The Biology of Lemmings.
Edited by
Nils Christian Stenseth & Rolf Anker Ims
doi:10.1038/376306a0
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| | Protein molecules as computational elements in living cells 307
Dennis Bray
doi:10.1038/376307a0
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| | Mechanism of CDK activation revealed by the structure of a cyclinA-CDK2
complex 313
Philip D. Jeffrey, Alicia
A. Russo, Kornelia Polyak, Emma Gibbs, Jerard Hurwitz, Joan Massagué & Nikola
P. Pavletich
doi:10.1038/376313a0
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| | Extensive dark-matter haloes in low-luminosity galaxies revealed by quasar
absorption lines 321
X. Barcons, K.
M. Lanzettat & J.
K. Webb
doi:10.1038/376321a0
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| | Stress-induced domain reorientation in urea inclusion compounds 323
Michael E. Brown & Mark D. Hollingsworth
doi:10.1038/376323a0
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| | Potential accumulation of a CFC-replacement degradation product in
seasonal wetlands 327
T. K. Tromp, M.
K. W. Ko, J.
M. Rodriguez & N.
D. Sze
doi:10.1038/376327a0
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| | Induction of epidermis and inhibition of neural fate by Bmp-4 331
Paul A. Wilson & Ali Hemmati-Brivanlou
doi:10.1038/376331a0
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| | Regulation of neural induction by the Chd and Bmp-4 antagonistic
patterning signals in Xenopus
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Yoshiki Sasai, Bin Lu, Herbert Steinbeisser & Eddy
M. De Robertis
doi:10.1038/376333a0
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| | Epithelial immaturity and multiorgan failure in mice lacking epidermal
growth factor receptor 337
Päivi J. Miettinen, Joel
E. Berger, Juanito Meneses, Yume Phung, Roger
A. Pedersen, Zena Werb & Rik Derynck
doi:10.1038/376337a0
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| | Effect of lesions in visual cortical area V4 on the recognition of
transformed objects 342
Peter H. Schiller
doi:10.1038/376342a0
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| | Neural regulation of thermotaxis in Caenorhabditis elegans
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Ikue Mori & Yasumi Ohshima
doi:10.1038/376344a0
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| | Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome caused by mutations in the transcriptional
co-activator CBP 348
Fred Petrif, Rachel
H. Giles, Hans
G. Dauwerse, Jasper
J. Saris, Raoul C.
M. Hennekam, Mitsuo Masuno, Niels Tommerup, Gert-Jan
B. van Ommen, Richard
H. Goodman, Dorien J.
M. Peters & Martijn
H. Breuning
doi:10.1038/376348a0
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| | Impairment of T-cell-dependent B-cell responses and B-l cell development
in CD19-deficient mice 352
Robert C. Rickert, Klaus Rajewsky & Jiirgen Roes
doi:10.1038/376352a0
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| | Allelic exclusion of Ly49-family genes encoding class I MHC-specific
receptors on NK cells 355
Werner Held, Jacques Roland & David
H. Raulet
doi:10.1038/376355a0
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| | Requirement for tyrosine phosphorylation of Cdk4 in Gl arrest induced by
ultraviolet irradiation 358
Yasuhiko Terada, Masaaki Tatsuka, Shigeki Jinno & Hiroto Okayama
doi:10.1038/376358a0
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| | Crystal structure of a replication fork single-stranded DNA binding
protein (T4 gp32) complexed to DNA 362
Yousif Shamoo, Alan
M. Friedman, Mark
R. Parsons, William
H. Konigsberg & Thomas
A. Steitz
doi:10.1038/376362a0
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Tunable optical parametric generators, an expanded range of
high-temperature tube furnaces, a new class of fibre optic instruments and a
protein fingerprinting system are but a few examples of new equipment available
for the laboratory.
doi:10.1038/376367a0
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