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| | Memorial for Hiroshima and Nagasaki 371
The fiftieth anniversary of the bombing of two Japanese cities should remind the rest of us that, while international control of nuclear energy is no longer feasible, good second-bests are well within our grasp.
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| | US immigration moves raise fears over ease of entry for scientists 373
Tony Reichhardt
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| | Soliton wave receives crowd of admirers 373
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| | Embargo system under siege on Wall St over obesity gene 374
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/376374a0
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| | Developing countries dispute use of figures on climate change impacts 374
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/376374b0
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| | Chemical weapons ban edges to realization 375
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/376375a0
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| | Moon landing film á¤~gave liftá¤TM to space station 375
doi:10.1038/376375b0
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| | Canadian research strategy set for lukewarm welcome? 376
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/376376a0
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| | Protestors use World Wide Web in petition against nuclear tests 376
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/376376b0
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| | France thinks small for future satellite plans 377
Catherine Tastemain
doi:10.1038/376377a0
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| | MRC cuts funding of alpha-rated projects 377
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/376377b0
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| | Shell keeps its options open for disposing of Brent Spar 378
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/376378a0
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| | Boost for Japanese centres of excellence in new grant scheme 378
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/376378b0
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| | Figures confirm global R&D spending trends 379
doi:10.1038/376379a0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Science in Australia 380
Craig M. Liddell
doi:10.1038/376380a0
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| | Cerebral malaria 380
Y. D. Sharma, Rajiv Kant, C. R. Pillai, M.
A. Ansari & Usha Filial
doi:10.1038/376380b0
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| | Apoptosis again 380
Beautyman
doi:10.1038/376380c0
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| | Bats galore 380
Cavonius
doi:10.1038/376380d0
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| | A road by any other name 381
Karl J. Hunter
doi:10.1038/376381a0
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| | A road by any other name 381
John Twin
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| | A road by any other name 381
P. -L. Chau
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| | A road by any other name 381
John McCauley
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| | A road by any other name 381
Cesare Emiliani
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| | A road by any other name 381
Marco Fraccaro
doi:10.1038/376381f0
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| | Birth dates 381
Isabel Azevedo, Perpétua Pinto-do-Ó & Nuno Borges
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| | Down House 381
Alexander H. Harcourt
doi:10.1038/376381h0
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| | Commentary |  |
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| | Fifty years in the shadow of the bomb 382
The world is still sharply divided over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But we
have since created a tradition of non-use of nuclear weapons that is a much better
guide for the future than were those fateful bombings 50 years ago.
McGeorge Bundy
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| | Is the Principia publishable now? 385
Newton's theory of gravitation was a landmark in science but might
easily have fallen foul of modern referees demanding explanations.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/376385a0
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| | Around and around we go 386
Melosh
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| | May or December? 387
Charles D. Bailyn
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| | Short-circuiting the Z-scheme 388
Jim Barber
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| | Stabilists strike again 389
Dick van der
Wateren & Richard Hindmarsh
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| | Ins and outs of the ribosome 391
Robert A. Zimmermann
doi:10.1038/376391a0
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| | Star Wars 2 392
David Jones
doi:10.1038/376392a0
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| | Scientific Correspondence | |
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| | Birth rate of millisecond pulsars 393
LorimerLyneFestinNicastro
doi:10.1038/376393a0
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| | Localization of active zones 393
Andrei Zefirov, Thomas Benish, Nail Fatkullin, Sergei Cheranov & Roustem Khazipov
doi:10.1038/376393b0
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| | Volcanic risk for Rwandan refugees 394
Haroun Tazieff
doi:10.1038/376394a0
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| | Book Reviews | |
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| | On the shoulders of giants 395
David Hughes reviews Newton's Principiafor the Common Reader.
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S. Chandrasekhar
doi:10.1038/376395a0
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| | Bonds of friendship 396
Brian Pippard reviews Fritz London: A Scientific Biography.
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Kostas Gavroglu
doi:10.1038/376396a0
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| | In search of Neanderthals 397
Robin Dennell reviews Honor Among Thieves: A Zooarchaeological Study of
Neandertal Ecology.
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Mary C. Stiner & Steven L. Kuhn
doi:10.1038/376397a0
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| | Immortal longings 398
Leonard Hayflick reviews Ageing: A Biomedical Perspective
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Denis Bellamy & Robin Holliday
doi:10.1038/376398a0
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| | Progress | |
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| | Conflict over the age of the Universe 399
M. Bolte & C. J. Hogan
doi:10.1038/376399a0
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| | Runaway telomere elongation caused by telomerase RNA gene mutations 403
Michael J. McEachern & Elizabeth H. Blackburn
doi:10.1038/376403a0
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| | Letters | |
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| | Continued decline of total ozone over Halley, Antarctica, since
1985 409
A. E. Jones & J. D. Shanklin
doi:10.1038/376409a0
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| | Preservation of Miocene glacier ice in East Antarctica 412
David E. Sugden, David
R. Marchant, Noel Potter Jr, Roland
A. Souchez, George
H. Denton, Carl C. Swisher
III & Jean-Louis Tison
doi:10.1038/376412a0
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| | Size and structure of the Chicxulub crater revealed by horizontal
gravity gradients and cenotes 415
A. R. Hildebrand, M.
Pilkington, M. Connors, C. Ortiz-Aleman & R.
E. Chavez
doi:10.1038/376415a0
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| | A trade-off-invariant life-history rule for optimal offspring
size 418
Eric L. Charnov & Jerry
F. Downhower
doi:10.1038/376418a0
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Hox genes and the diversification of insect and crustacean body
plans 420
Michalis Averof & Michael Akam
doi:10.1038/376420a0
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| | Distinguishable functions for engrailed and Invected in
anterior−posterior patterning in the Drosopila wing 424
Andrew J. Simmonds, William
J. Brook, Stephen
M. Cohen & John
B. Bell
doi:10.1038/376424a0
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| | Specification of neuroblast identity in the Drosophila
embryonic central nervous system by gooseberry-distal
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James B. Skeath, Yu Zhang, Robert Holmgren, Sean
B. Carroll & Chris
Q. Doe
doi:10.1038/376427a0
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| | Resistance to herpes stromal keratitis conferred by an lgG2a-derived
peptide 431
Anne C. Avery, Zi-Shan Zhao, Alejandro Rodriguez, Elizabeth
K. Bikoff, Masoud Soheilian, C.
Stephen Foster & Harvey Cantor
doi:10.1038/376431a0
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| | First experimental transmission of fatal familial insomnia 434
Jun Tateishi, Paul Brown, Tetsuyuki Kitamoto, Zahirul
M. Hoque, Raymond Roos, Robert Wollman, Larisa Cervenàkovà
& D.
Carleton Gajdusek
doi:10.1038/376434a0
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| | Essential role for ZAP-70 in both positive and negative selection of
thymocytes 435
Izumi Negishi, Noboru Motoyama, Kei-ichi Nakayama, Keiko Nakayama, Satoru Senju, Shigetsugu Hatakeyama, Qing Zhang, Andrew
C. Chan & Dennis
Y. Loh
doi:10.1038/376435a0
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| | CO2 fixation and photoevolution of H2 and
O2 in a mutant of Chlamydomonas lacking photosystem I 438
E. Greenbaum, J.
W. Lee, C.
V. Tevault, S. L. Blankinship & L. J. Mets
doi:10.1038/376438a0
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| | A model of protein synthesis based on cryo-electron microscopy of the
E. coli ribosome 441
Joachim Frank, Jun Zhu, Pawel Penczek, Yanhong Li, Suman Srivastava, Adriana Verschoor, Michael Radermacher, Robert Grassucci, Ramani
K. Lata & Rajendra
K. Agrawal
doi:10.1038/376441a0
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| | Sequestration of the membrane-targeting myristoyl group of recoverin
in the calcium-free state 444
Toshiyuki Tanaka, James
B. Amest, Timothy
S. Harvey, Lubert Stryer & Mitsuhiko lkura
doi:10.1038/376444a0
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| | Tumorigenesis and metastasis of neoplastic Kaposiá¤TMs sarcoma cell
line in immunodeficient mice blocked by a human pregnancy hormone 447
Yanto Lunardi-lskandar, Joseph
L. Bryant, Robert
A. Zeman, Victor
H. Lam, Felipe Samaniego, Jacques
M. Besnier, Philippe Hermans, Alaln
R. Thierry, Parkash Gill & Robert
C. Gallo
doi:10.1038/376447a0
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| | Product Review | |
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| | What's in a label? 449
For labelling technology, here is the á¤~short listá¤TM of new products — a radiolabelled DNA purification kit, reagents for analysis of cytokine reagents, a DIG detection ELISA kit and a line of streptavidin-coated microplates.
Brendan Horton
doi:10.1038/376449a0
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