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| | Thin Rewriting history is not possible 539
Many countries in the West are in confusion about Japan's role in the Second World War, but demands for apologies are generally misplaced; teaching contemporary history is a better course.
doi:10.1038/376539a0
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| | Nicotine as a drug 539
Clinton's war on teenage smoking is a just war, but will need imagination as well as toughness.
doi:10.1038/376539b0
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| | France and US in late conversion to 'zero-yield' nuclear test ban 540
Declan Butler & Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/376540a0
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| | Gene patent study drowned as OTA sinks 541
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/376541a0
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| | Last-minute lifeline for Princeton Tokamak tests 541
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/376541b0
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| | 'Made in Japan' policy jettisoned in space 542
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/376542a0
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| | Very Large Quake shakes telescope 542
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/376542b0
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| | Japanese science agency loses iron lady 542
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/376542c0
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| | Reunification grant shake-up threatens jobs 543
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/376543a0
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| | Sacked chimpanzee centre director complains of monkey business 543
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/376543b0
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| | OSPREY makes waves in UK energy research 544
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/376544a0
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| | Corn crosses last hurdle for genetically modified crops 544
Mike Ward
doi:10.1038/376544b0
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| | Bad manners, not good 545
William L. Dewey
doi:10.1038/376545a0
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| | Science in India 545
B. N. Dwivedi
doi:10.1038/376545b0
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| | Effects of DDE 545
Thomas H. Jukes
doi:10.1038/376545c0
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| | Drugs in ancient texts 546
HÃ¥kan TunÃn & Jan G. Bruhn
doi:10.1038/376546a0
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| | Italian research 546
Franco Pavese
doi:10.1038/376546b0
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| | Origins of Frazer's Golden Bough
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Christiano Camporesi
doi:10.1038/376546c0
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| | New world, old word 546
Gareth Penn
doi:10.1038/376546d0
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| | New world, old word 546
Friedrich Katscher
doi:10.1038/376546e0
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| | In praise of interdisciplinarity 547
Overspecialization in science is a bane of the times, but a meeting last week showed the benefits to be had from reversing the trend.
Laura Garwin
doi:10.1038/376547a0
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| | RNA seeks its maker 548
Joseph A. Piccirilli
doi:10.1038/376548a0
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| | Is dopamine a missing link? 549
Robert Desimone
doi:10.1038/376549a0
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| | Gadolinium peanuts 550
P. J. Twin
doi:10.1038/376550a0
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| | Evolving Darwinism 551
John F. Y. Brookfield
doi:10.1038/376551a0
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| | A spectre in the spectrum 552
G. Mark Voit
doi:10.1038/376552a0
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| | A target for Pl(3) kinase 553
Julian Downward
doi:10.1038/376553a0
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| | AWrestling with restless calderas and fighting floods of lava 554
Ken Hon & John Pallister
doi:10.1038/376554a0
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| | Ecological apes and ancestors 555
Peter Andrews
doi:10.1038/376555a0
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| | Social conscience 556
David Jones
doi:10.1038/376556a0
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| | Why is dieting so difficult? 557
P. J. Cowen, E. M. Clifford, C. Williams, A. E. S. Walsh & C. G. Fairburn
doi:10.1038/376557a0
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| | Differential abortion in the yucca 557
Kevin S. Richter & Arthur E. Weis
doi:10.1038/376557b0
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| | Differential abortion in the yucca 558
Olle Pellmyr & Chad J. Huth
doi:10.1038/376558a0
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| | Age of early hominids 558
John Kappelman & John G. Fleagle
doi:10.1038/376558b0
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| | Age of early hominids 559
G. WoldeGabriel, P. Renne, T. D. White, G. Suwa, J. de Heinzelin, W. K. Hart & G. Heiken
doi:10.1038/376559a0
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M. Jasie ski & F. A. Bazzaz
doi:10.1038/376559b0
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| | Gene expression and mRNA 560
Sangryeol Ryu
doi:10.1038/376560a0
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| | The body in question 561
W. F. Bynum reviews The Body Emblazoned: Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture
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Jonathan Sawday & Carole Rawcliffe
doi:10.1038/376561a0
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| | Ecological vicars and curate's eggs 562
John H. Lawton reviews Species Diversity in Space and Time
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Michael L. Rosenzweig
doi:10.1038/376562a0
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| | European science and public policy 563
Glauco P. Tocchini-Valentini reviews Uno Spazio Europeo della Scienza: Rif-lessioni sulla Politica Europea della Ricerca
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Antonio Ruberti & Michel André
doi:10.1038/376563a0
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| | Fleshing out intelligent machines 564
Igor Aleksander reviews The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks
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Michael A. Arbib
doi:10.1038/376564a0
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| | New four-million-year-old hominid species from Kanapoi and Allia Bay, Kenya 565
Meave G. Leakey, Craig S. Feibel, Ian McDougall & Alan Walker
doi:10.1038/376565a0
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| | Modulation of memory fields by dopamine Dl receptors in prefrontal cortex 572
Graham V. Williams & Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic
doi:10.1038/376572a0
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| | Radiative acceleration of gas in quasars 576
N. Arav, K. T. Korista, T. A. BarlowBegelman
doi:10.1038/376576a0
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| | Template switching between PNA and RNA oligonucleotides 578
Christof Böhler, Peter E. Nielsen & Leslie E. Orgel
doi:10.1038/376578a0
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| | Polymer microstructures formed by moulding in capillaries 581
Enoch Kim, Younan Xia & George M. Whitesides
doi:10.1038/376581a0
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| | Mutations in the palmitoyl protein thioesterase gene causing infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis 584
Jouni Vesa, Elina Hellsten, Linda A. Verkruyse, Laura A. Camp, Juhani Rapola, Pirkko Santavuori, Sandra L. Hofmann & Leena Peltonen
doi:10.1038/376584a0
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| | Brain regions associated with retrieval of structurally coherent visual information 587
Daniel L. Schacter, Eric Reiman, Anne Uecker, Michael R. Roister, Lang Sheng Yun & Lynn A. Cooper
doi:10.1038/376587a0
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| | Inhibition by anandamide of gap junctions and intercellular calcium signalling in striatal astrocytes 590
Laurent Venance, Daniele Piomelli, Jacques Glowinski & Christian Glaume
doi:10.1038/376590a0
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| | An IL-12-based vaccination method for preventing fibrosis induced by schistosome infection 594
Thomas A. Wynn, Allen W. Cheever, Dragana Jankovic, Robert W. Poindexter, Pat Caspar, Fred A. Lewis & Alan Sher
doi:10.1038/376594a0
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| | An IRF-1-dependent pathway of DNA damage-induced apoptosis in mitogen-activated T lymphocytes 596
Tomohiko Tamura, Masahiko Ishihara, Marc S. Lamphier, Nobuyuki Tanaka, Isao Oishi, Shinichi Aizawa, Toshifumi Matsuyama, Tak W. Mak, Shinsuke Taki & Tadatsugu Taniguchi
doi:10.1038/376596a0
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| | Protein kinase B (c-Akt) in phosphatidylinositol-3-OH kinase signal transduction 599
Boudewijn M. Th. Burgering & Paul J. Coffer
doi:10.1038/376599a0
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| | Recognition of bZIP proteins by the human T-cell leukaemia virus transactivator Tax 602
Giovanni Perini, Susanne Wagner & Michael R. Green
doi:10.1038/376602a0
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| | Mechanism of DNA-binding enhancement by the human T-cell leukaemia virus transactivator Tax 606
Anne M. Baranger, C. Rodgers Palmer, Mary Kay Hamm, Holli A. Giebler, Anne Brauweiler, Jennifer K. Nyborg & Alanna Schepartz
doi:10.1038/376606a0
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| | Model for binding of transcription factor TFIIB to the TBP-DNA complex 609
Sally Lee & Steven Hahn
doi:10.1038/376609a0
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| | Crystal structure of Thermus aquaticus DNA polymerase 612
Youngsoo Kim, Soo Hyun Eom, Jimin Wang, Dae-Sil Lee, Se Won Suh & Thomas A. Steitz
doi:10.1038/376612a0
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| | ERRATUM: Crystal structure of a replication fork single-stranded DNA binding protein (T4 gp32) complexed to DNA 616
Yousif Shamoo, Alan M. Friedman, Mark R. Parsons, William H. Konigsberg & Thomas A. Steitz
doi:10.1038/376616a0
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| | The surface force apparatus — a tool for probing molecular protein interactions 617
Force measurements can probe directly the molecular impact of proteins' electrostatic surface properties, specific bond strengths, membrane composition, and membrane fluidity on biological recognition events.
Deborah Leckband
doi:10.1038/376617a0
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| | A chemistry section 619
Force measurements can probe directly the molecular impact of proteins' electrostatic surface properties, specific bond strengths, membrane composition, and membrane fluidity on biological recognition events.
doi:10.1038/376619a0
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The conditions under which research is exempt from European patent law are ambiguous, and current judicial interpretation is too restrictive. A more liberal approach would be a welcome boost to small research-based companies.
Simon Cohen
doi:10.1038/376622a0
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