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Britain will probably not rejoin Unesco at this stage, but has a right (and responsibility) to press for new terms of reference as the price for its subscription.
doi:10.1038/378423a0
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| | Go fish for patents 424
An academic group has protested against gene patenting by putting a nucleotide sequence on the Internet.
doi:10.1038/378424a0
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| | So God plays dice! 424
Professor Stephen Hawking's announcement that the Universe is unpredictable is a little premature.
doi:10.1038/378424b0
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| | Open access to sequence data 'will boost hunt for breast cancer gene' 425
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/378425a0
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| | UK court rejects appeal over hepatitis C kits 425
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/378425b0
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| | Press panel recommends a unified budget for science 426
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/378426a0
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| | Environment agency is urged to focus on strategic priorities 426
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/378426b0
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| | Oncomouse hearing ends up in confusion 427
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/378427a0
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| | Patently a matter of principle, not profit 427
A. A.
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| | CERN to open US talks on collider project 428
Colin Macilwain & David Dickson
doi:10.1038/378428a0
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| | French agency to protect visiting posts 428
Catherine Tastemain
doi:10.1038/378428b0
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| | Stanford accelerator announces staff cuts 428
doi:10.1038/378428c0
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| | Temperature rises in dispute over costing climate change 429
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/378429a0
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| | Call for more research into health effects of Chernobyl accident 429
Ehsan Mahsood
doi:10.1038/378429b0
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| | Decision time for Europe's hot rock project 430
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/378430a0
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| | Renewable energy regains its funding 430
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/378430b0
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| | Deaths prompt calls for drug control review 431
Stephen Barker
doi:10.1038/378431a0
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| | Safety dispute ignites over plans for UK nuclear sell-off 431
Ayala Ochert
doi:10.1038/378431b0
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Quis custodiet ipsos custodies?
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Burton L. Appleton
doi:10.1038/378432a0
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Quis custodiet ipsos custodies?
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Barbara Mishkin
doi:10.1038/378432b0
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Quis custodiet ipsos custodies?
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John Maddox
doi:10.1038/378432c0
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| | Soros funds 432
V. I. Rigin
doi:10.1038/378432d0
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| | Life assurance 432
R. V. Harrowell
doi:10.1038/378432e0
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| | Price of stardom 432
Alexander Kamb
doi:10.1038/378432f0
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| | Economics Of Climate Change 433
Aubrey Meyer
doi:10.1038/378433a0
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| | Finding fault 433
George W. Housner
doi:10.1038/378433b0
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| | Theism and science 433
Denis R. Alexander
doi:10.1038/378433c0
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| | Gloves off 433
Andrew J. Wilson
doi:10.1038/378433d0
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| | Aversion to xenotransplantation 434
Paula J. Mohacsi, Charles E. Blumer, Susan Quine & John F. Thompson
doi:10.1038/378434a0
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| | Aversion to xenotransplantation 434
David White
doi:10.1038/378434b0
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| | Aversion to xenotransplantation 434
Robin Holliday
doi:10.1038/378434c0
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| | Bee versus hornet 434
H. Heyworth
doi:10.1038/378434d0
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| | The prevalent distrust of science 435
An account of the now common distrust of science, an explanation of its origins and a suggestion of what may, and indeed, should be done about it.
John Maddox
doi:10.1038/378435a0
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| | Beating a path to Myc 438
Robert N. Eisenman & Jonathan A. Cooper
doi:10.1038/378438a0
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| | Overcoming inhibition 439
Clifford J. Woolf
doi:10.1038/378439a0
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| | Gérard de Vaucouleurs (1918–95) 440
Geoffrey Burbidge
doi:10.1038/378440a0
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| | A very cool customer 441
France Allard
doi:10.1038/378441a0
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| | Location is a sticky business 442
Peter D. Moore
doi:10.1038/378442a0
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| | Characteristic or haphazard? 443
Ross S. Stein
doi:10.1038/378443a0
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| | Ordering chaos with disorder 444
Steven H. Strogatz
doi:10.1038/378444a0
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| | Strong case for weak bosons 445
Dieter Zeppenfeld
doi:10.1038/378445a0
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| | Measuring the vertices 445
D. Z.
doi:10.1038/378445b0
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| | Annexins taken to task 446
Stephen E. Moss
doi:10.1038/378446a0
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| | The species alias problem 447
Robert M. May & Sean Nee
doi:10.1038/378447a0
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| | Recolonization 448
David Jones
doi:10.1038/378448a0
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| | Underwater quantum coding 449
A. Muller, H. Zbinden & N. Gisin
doi:10.1038/378449a0
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| | Ambient ozone and loblolly pines 449
Gregory A. Reams, Paul C. Van Deusen & Alan A. Lucier
doi:10.1038/378449b0
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| | Ambient ozone and loblolly pines 450
S. B. McLaughlin & D. J. Downing
doi:10.1038/378450a0
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| | Sisters like it hot 451
Richard Shine, Melanie J. Elphick & Peter S. Harlow
doi:10.1038/378451a0
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| | Solution for the Sherborne problem 452
C. B. Stringer, F. d'Errico, C. T. Williams, R. Housley & R. Hedges
doi:10.1038/378452a0
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| | Echoes of chaos 453
Karl Sigmund reviews Frontiers of Complexity: The Search for Order in a Chaotic World
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Peter Coveney & Roger Highfield and Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity
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John H. Holland
doi:10.1038/378453a0
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| | Ditching causality 454
Peter Holland reviews Quantum Mechanics: Historical Contingency and the Copenhagen Hegemony
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James T. Cushing and The Mystery of the Quantum World second edition
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Euan Squires and An Interpretive Introduction to Quantum Field Theory
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Paul Teller
doi:10.1038/378454a0
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| | What thoughts are made of 455
Stevan Harnad reviews The Engine of Reason, the Seat of the Soul: A Philosophical Journey into the Brain
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Paul M. Churchland and Journey to the Centers of the Mind: Towards a Science of Consciousness
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Susan A. Greenfield & W. H. Freeman
doi:10.1038/378455a0
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| | Broad perspectives 456
Janette Atkinson reviews Visual Development
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Nigel W. Daw
doi:10.1038/378456a0
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| | The structure of an intermediate in class II MHC maturation: CLIP bound to HLA-DR3 457
Partho Ghosh, Miguel Amaya, Elizabeth Mellins & Don C. Wiley
doi:10.1038/378457a0
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| | Discovery of a cool brown dwarf 463
T. Nakajima, B. R. Oppenheimer, S. R. Kulkarni, D. A. Golimowski, K. Matthews & S. T. Durrance
doi:10.1038/378463a0
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| | Taming spatiotemporal chaos with disorder 465
Y. Braiman, John F. Lindner & William L. Ditto
doi:10.1038/378465a0
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| | Wide-band reflective polarizers from cholesteric polymer networks with a pitch gradient 467
D. J. Broer, J. Lub & G. N. Mol
doi:10.1038/378467a0
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| | Self-assembly of ten molecules into nanometre-sized organic host frameworks 469
Makoto Fujita, Daichi Oguro, Mayumi Miyazawa, Hiroko Oka, Kentaro Yamaguchi & Katsuyuki Ogura
doi:10.1038/378469a0
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Patrick S. Stayton, Tsuyoshi Shimoboji, Cynthia Long, Ashutosh Chilkoti, Guohua Ghen, J. Milton Harris & Allan S. Hoffman
doi:10.1038/378472a0
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| | A plausibly prebiotic synthesis of phosphonic acids 474
R. M. de Graaf, J. Visscher & Alan W. Schwartz
doi:10.1038/378474a0
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John A. Tarduno & Jeff Gee
doi:10.1038/378477a0
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| | The origins of Andean irrigation 481
K. S. Zimmerer
doi:10.1038/378481a0
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| | Alternative antipredator defences and genetic polymorphism in a pelagic predator–prey system 483
Luc De Meester, Lawrence J. Weider & Ralph Tollrian
doi:10.1038/378483a0
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| | Insertions and duplications of mtDNA in the nuclear genomes of Old World monkeys and hominoids 485
Randall V. Collura & Caro-Beth Stewart
doi:10.1038/378485a0
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| | A nuclear 'fossil' of the mitochondrial D-loop and the origin of modern humans 489
Hans Zischler, Helga Geisert, Arndt von Haeseler & Svante Pääbo
doi:10.1038/378489a0
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| | Visual cortical mechanisms detecting focal orientation discontinuities 492
Adam M. Slllito, Kenneth L. Grieve, Helen E. Jones, Javier Cudeiro & Justin Davls
doi:10.1038/378492a0
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| | Topographical representations of mental images in primary visual cortex 496
Stephen M. Kosslyn, William L. Thompson, Irene J. Klm & Nathaniel M. Alpert
doi:10.1038/378496a0
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| | Recovery from spinal cord injury mediated by antibodies to neurite growth inhibitors 498
Barbara S. Bregman, Ellen Kunkel-Bagden, Lisa Schnell, Hai Ning Dai, Da Gao & Martin E. Schwab
doi:10.1038/378498a0
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Melissa J. Coleman, Pierre Meyrand & Michael P. Nusbaum
doi:10.1038/378502a0
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| | Altered Hox expression and segmental identity in Mll-mutant mice 505
Benjamin D. Yu, Jay L. Hess, Susan E. Horning, Gary A. J. Brown & Stanley J. Korsmeyer
doi:10.1038/378505a0
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M. Vittoria Barone & Sara A. Courtneidge
doi:10.1038/378509a0
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| | Crystal structure of the annexin XII hexamer and implications for bilayer insertion 512
Hartmut Luecke, Bryna T. Chang, William S. Mailliard, David D. Schlaepfer & Harry T. Haigler
doi:10.1038/378512a0
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| | Mapping the genome one molecule at a time — optical mapping 516
Akhtar H. Samad, Wei Wen Cai, Xinghua Hu, Benjamin Irvin, Junping Jing, Jason Reed, Xun Meng, John Huang, Edward Huff, Brett Porter, Alex Shenkar, Thomas Anantharaman, Bhubaneswar Mishra, Virginia Clarke, Eileen Dimalanta, Joanne Edington, Catharina Hiort, Roderic Rabbah, John Skiada & David C. Schwartz
doi:10.1038/378516a0
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| | Synthesis and sequencing 517
A sequence-analysis system, software packages, DNA purification supplies, Internet information and a custom oligonucleotide synthesis service are some of the items covered in this product review feature.
Brendan Horton
doi:10.1038/378517a0
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