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| | An agency undermined by silence 281
The National Science Foundation has found itself stranded by the US budgetary battles, while other, more contentious agencies know what they will have to spend. Scientists and science's beneficiaries need to sharpen their political wits.
doi:10.1038/379281a0
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| | Ocean researchers make waves in quest for funds and military data 283
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/379283a0
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| | NASA's planet search programme 'on track' 283
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/379283b0
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| | Europe is warned of a 'neutron drought'... 284
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/379284a0
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| | ... as leak fuels German uranium debate 284
Alison Abbott & Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/379284b0
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| | Corruption claims hang over Amazon surveillance system 285
Ricardo Bonalume Neto
doi:10.1038/379285a0
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| | University equipment fund meets with mixed reaction 286
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/379286a0
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| | Britain plans to ask for further cuts in CERN running costs 286
doi:10.1038/379286b0
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| | Budget politics jeopardizes US drugs credit 287
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/379287a0
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| | International papers register decline 287
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/379287b0
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| | Environmental lobby splits on US tuna bills 288
Joel N. Shurkin
doi:10.1038/379288a0
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| | South Africa sets out science options 288
Michael Cherry
doi:10.1038/379288b0
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| | Bioethics panels may be threat to public debate on research 289
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/379289a0
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| | 'Clay-pit to paradise' scheme 289
doi:10.1038/379289b0
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| | News in brief 290
Leslie Sage
doi:10.1038/379290a0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | The enemy of science is within 292
Cecil H. Fox
doi:10.1038/379292a0
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| | The enemy of science is within 292
Helmut Grünewald
doi:10.1038/379292b0
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| | The enemy of science is within 292
Stephen Keast
doi:10.1038/379292c0
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| | The enemy of science is within 292
Andrew P. Halestrap
doi:10.1038/379292d0
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| | Confidentiality of referees 292
Maynard Case
doi:10.1038/379292e0
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| | Family likeness 292
William Bains
doi:10.1038/379292f0
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| | Biological anthropology 293
Kenneth M. Weiss
doi:10.1038/379293a0
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| | Write to reply 293
Leon Avery
doi:10.1038/379293b0
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| | Joule ratings miss the mark 293
Bent Sørensen
doi:10.1038/379293c0
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| | Ethics of genomic patenting 294
David Shapiro
doi:10.1038/379294a0
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| | Austrian science 294
Hermann Esterbauer, Ernst Kuechler, Gunther Kreil & Fritz Paltauf
doi:10.1038/379294b0
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| | Foreign workers in Europe 294
Jonathan E. Snow
doi:10.1038/379294c0
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| | Melatonin hype hard to swallow 295
Melatonin is being touted as the latest cure-all. But in their eagerness to explain to the public the possible health benefits of this natural hormone, the mass media as well as some scientists have misrepresented the scientific data.
Fred W. Turek
doi:10.1038/379295a0
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| | The G-protein nanomachine 297
Many of the external signals reaching a cell are transmitted through G proteins, which lie just inside the cell membrane. New crystal structures shed light on how the complex works.
David E. Clapham
doi:10.1038/379297a0
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| | Where do rabbits and kin fit in? 299
Michael J. Novacek
doi:10.1038/379299a0
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| | The 5-billion-dollar bumps 300
Marcia McNutt
doi:10.1038/379300a0
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| | Wrinkles waiting for GOD0T 301
Douglas E. Brash & Barbara A. Gilchrest
doi:10.1038/379301a0
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| | Tuned heat 302
David Jones
doi:10.1038/379302a0
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| | Scientific Correspondence | |
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| | Kuwait oil lakes as insect traps 303
Gábor Horváth & Jochen Zeil
doi:10.1038/379303a0
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| | Hidden quasars reddened by dust? 304
Stephen Serjeant & Steve Rawlings
doi:10.1038/379304a0
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| | New photosynthesis or old? 304
Armen Y. Mulkidjanian & Wolfgang Junge
doi:10.1038/379304b0
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| | New photosynthesis or old? 305
E. Greenbaum, J. W. Lee, C. V. Tevault, S. L Blankinship & L. J. Mets
doi:10.1038/379305a0
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| | Lateral proton diffusion 305
J. Teissié
doi:10.1038/379305b0
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| | Lateral proton diffusion 306
Peter Scherrer
doi:10.1038/379306a0
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| | Chaos in the classroom 306
Justin Marston
doi:10.1038/379306b0
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| | Classical flights of fancy 307
Malcolm Davies reviews Aristophanes' Birds
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Nan Debar
doi:10.1038/379307a0
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| | How many people can we support? 308
Basia Zaba reviews The Stork and the Plow
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Paul R. Ehrlich, Anne H. Ehrlich, Gretchen C. Daily & Lester R. Brown
doi:10.1038/379308a0
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| | On the wilder shores of cosmology 309
Michael Rowan-Robinson reviews A Short History of the Universe
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Joseph Silk and Perspectives in Astrophysical Cosmology
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Martin Rees and The Nature of Space and Time
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Stephen Hawking & Roger Penrose and Einstein's Greatest Blunder? The Cosmological Constant and other Fudge Factors in the Physics of the Universe
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Donald Goldsmith and Cosmology: A First Course
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Marc Lachièze
doi:10.1038/379309a0
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| | On the wilder shores of cosmology 309
doi:10.1038/379309b0
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| | Neural mysteries 310
Alison Abbott reviews The Case of the Frozen Addicts
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J. William Langston & Jon Palfreman
doi:10.1038/379310a0
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| | The 2.0 Å crystal structure of a heterotrimeric G protein 311
David G. Lambright, John Sondek, Andrew Bohm, Nikolai P. Skiba, Heidi E. Hamm & Paul B. Sigler
doi:10.1038/379311a0
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| | Kilometre-scale structures in the Sun's corona 321
Richard Woo
doi:10.1038/379321a0
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| | Rapid energy dissipation and variability of the lo–Jupiter electrodynamic circuit 323
Renée Prangé, Daniel Rego, David Southwood, Philippe Zarka, Steven Miller & Wing Ip
doi:10.1038/379323a0
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| | Cationic cyclopropanation by antibody catalysis 326
Tingyu Ll, Kim D. Janda & Richard A. Lerner
doi:10.1038/379326a0
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| | Recent atmospheric warming and retreat of ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula 328
D. G. Vaughan & C. S. M. Doake
doi:10.1038/379328a0
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| | Glacial isostatic adjustment and the anomalous tide gauge record of eastern North America 331
James L. Davis & Jerry X. Mitrovica
doi:10.1038/379331a0
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| | Phylogenetic position of the order Lagomorpha (rabbits, hares and allies) 333
Dan Graur, Laurent Duret & Manolo Gouy
doi:10.1038/379333a0
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| | Molecular basis of sun-induced premature skin ageing and retinoid antagonism 335
Gary J. Fisher, Subhash C. Datta, Harvinder S. Talwar, Zeng-Quan Wang, James Varani, Sewon Kang & John J. Voorhees
doi:10.1038/379335a0
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| | Normal host prion protein necessary for scrapie-induced neurotoxicity 339
Sebastian Brandner, Stefan Isenmann, Alex Raeber, Marek Fischer, Andreas Sailer, Yasushi Kobayashi, Silvia Marino, Charles Weissmann & Adriano Aguzzi
doi:10.1038/379339a0
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| | Treatment of experimental encephalomyelitis with a peptide analogue of myelin basic protein 343
Stefan Brocke, Koenraad Gijbels, Mark Allegretta, Iris Ferber, Christopher Piercy, Thomas Blankensteini, Roland Martin, Ursula Utz, Nathan Karin, Dennis Mitchell, Timo Veromaa, Ari Waisman, Amitabh Gaur, Paul Conlon, Nicholas Ling, Paul J. Fairchild, David C. Wraith, Anne O'Garra, C. Garrison Fathman & Lawrence Steinman
doi:10.1038/379343a0
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| | Augmented humoral and anaphylactic responses in Fc RII-deficient mice 346
Toshiyuki Takai, Masao Ono, Masaki Hikida, Hitoshi Ohmori & Jeffrey V. Ravetch
doi:10.1038/379346a0
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| | Suppression of apoptosis in mammalian cells by NAIP and a related family of IAP genes 349
Peter Listen, Natalie Roy, Katsuyuki Tamai, Charles Lefebvre, Stephen Baird, Gabriele Cherton-Horvat, Reza Farahani, Michael McLean, Joh-E lkeda, Alex Mackenzie & Robert G. Korneluk
doi:10.1038/379349a0
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| | A presynaptic inositol-5-phosphatase 353
Peter S. McPherson, Elizabeth P. Garcia, Vladimir I. Slepnev, Carol David, Xiaomei Zhang, Detlev Grabs, Wayne S. Sossini, Rudolf Bauerfeind, Yasuo Nemoto & Pietro De Camilli
doi:10.1038/379353a0
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| | Role for a Xenopus Orc2-related protein in controlling DNA replication 357
Phillip B. Carpenter, Paul R. Mueller & William G. Dunphy
doi:10.1038/379357a0
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| | Interaction of Cdc2 and CdclS with a fission yeast ORC2-like protein 360
Janet Leatherwood, Antonia Lopez-Girona & Paul Russell
doi:10.1038/379360a0
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| | Calcium oscillations in mammalian eggs triggered by a soluble sperm protein 364
John Parrington, Karl Swann, Valery I. Shevchenko, Abdul K. Sesay & F. Anthony Lai
doi:10.1038/379364a0
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| | Crystal structure of a GA protein  dimer at 2.1 Å resolution 369
John Sondek, Andrew Bohm, David G. Lambright, Heidi E. Hamm & Paul B. Sigler
doi:10.1038/379369a0
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| | A guide to scientific products 375
Dipping the oars into some fresh waters, product review offers product information on astronomy and oceanography, as well as our standard complement, including electroporation cuvettes and a direct blotting electrophoresis system.
Brendan Horton
doi:10.1038/379375a0
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