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| | Surrender on technology support 185
The Clinton administration is sticking to its desire to fund key technology developments in industry, in the teeth of political and scientific opposition, and with little past success to build on. The president should give way.
doi:10.1038/380185a0
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| | German consensus undermined 185
Pressures following reunification threaten a fine example of collaborative support for science.
doi:10.1038/380185b0
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| | 1997 budget confirms US science faces a period of flat funding 187
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/380187a0
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| | A shot in the arm for clinical research 187
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/380187b0
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| | US budget envisages level funds for NASA, more for environment 188
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/380188a0
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| | Ministers seek legal shelter from Canada's HIV inquiry 188
David Spurgeon
doi:10.1038/380188b0
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| | Cash crisis halts nuclear power in India 188
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/380188c0
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| | Budget woes cast chill on French research 189
Catherine Tastemain
doi:10.1038/380189a0
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| | Moroccan mineral is truly new and blue 189
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/380189b0
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| | Panel calls for overhaul of AIDS research 190
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/380190a0
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doi:10.1038/380191a0
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| | Research centres face chaos after German ruling on tax 191
Alison Abbott & Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/380191b0
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| | Science loses cabinet seat after Australian election 192
Peter Pockley
doi:10.1038/380192a0
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doi:10.1038/380192b0
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| | Resignation defuses Witwatersrand row over immunologist 192
Michael Cherry
doi:10.1038/380192c0
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| | Tectonic rift 'may threaten' Lesotho dam 193
Michael Cherry
doi:10.1038/380193a0
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| | Einstein fails to sell 193
doi:10.1038/380193b0
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| | News in brief 194
doi:10.1038/380194a0
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| | What did Heisenberg know? 196
Friedrich Katscher
doi:10.1038/380196a0
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| | Pointed error 196
Wayne A. Van Voorhies
doi:10.1038/380196b0
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| | Dirac was not an "obdurate" atheist 196
Fernando Orrego
doi:10.1038/380196c0
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| | Bioterminology 196
Alan J. McCarthy
doi:10.1038/380196d0
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| | A big step along the visual pathway 197
The results of some technically demanding experiments may resolve a long-standing debate - the cause underlying the orientation selectivity of cells in the primary visual cortex.
David Hubel
doi:10.1038/380197a0
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| | The games lizards play 198
John Maynard Smith
doi:10.1038/380198a0
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| | Silhouettes of future worlds 199
Stephen Battersby
doi:10.1038/380199a0
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| | Foamy viruses bubble on 201
Robin A. Weiss
doi:10.1038/380201a0
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| | The brine of the Earth 202
Terry Plank
doi:10.1038/380202a0
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| | Root cause of fish buoyancy 203
Rory Hewlett
doi:10.1038/380203a0
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| | The real water-bearer 205
Sun Kwok
doi:10.1038/380205a0
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| | Taking the pressure off 205
M. F. Perutz
doi:10.1038/380205b0
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| | Grow your own 206
David Jones
doi:10.1038/380206a0
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| | Screening for genetic mutations 207
Christina Carlsson, Mats Jonsson, Bengt Nordén, Maria T. Dulay, Richard N. Zare, Jaan Noolandi, Peter E. Nielsen, Lap-Chee Tsui & Julian Zielenski
doi:10.1038/380207a0
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| | Bomb signals in old Antarctic brachiopods 207
Lloyd S. Peck & Thomas Brey
doi:10.1038/380207b0
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| | Mating success of male birds 208
Laurent Keller & Michael J. B. Krieger
doi:10.1038/380208a0
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| | Reconstruction of museum specimens 209
Geoffrey Waller & John Cookson
doi:10.1038/380209a0
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| | Alone in the Universe? 211
Woodruff T. Sullivan III reviews Extraterrestrial Intelligence
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Jean Heidmann and Extraterrestrials: Where are They? Second Edition
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Ben Zuckerman & Michael H. Hart
doi:10.1038/380211a0
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| | Cosmic imagination 212
Giovanni F. Bignami reviews Imago Mundi: La rappresentazione del Cosmo attraverso i secoli
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Francesco Bertola
doi:10.1038/380212a0
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| | Eclipsed star 212
Owen Gingerich reviews The Correspondence of John Flamsteed, First Astronomer Royal
Edited by
Erie G. Forbes, Lesley Murdin & Frances Wilimoth
doi:10.1038/380212b0
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| | About time 213
John J. Tyson reviews Biochemical Oscillations and Cellular Rhythms: The Molecular Bases of Periodic and Chaotic Behaviour
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Albert Goldbeter
doi:10.1038/380213a0
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| | Shifting sands 214
Martin A. Conway reviews Memory Distortion: How Minds, Brains, and Societies Reconstruct the Past
Edited by
Daniel L. Schacter
doi:10.1038/380214a0
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| | State-dependent life histories 215
John M. McNamara & Alasdair I. Houston
doi:10.1038/380215a0
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| | S-nitrosohaemoglobin: a dynamic activity of blood involved in vascular control 221
Li Jia, Celia Bonaventura, Joseph Bonaventura & Jonathan S. Stamler
doi:10.1038/380221a0
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| | Infrared emission spectra of candidate interstellar aromatic molecules 227
D. J. Cook, S. Schlemmer, N. Balucani, D. R. Wagner, B. Steiner & R. J. Saykally
doi:10.1038/380227a0
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| | Discovery of an extended sodium atmosphere around Europa 229
Michael E. Brown & Richard E. Hill
doi:10.1038/380229a0
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| | Yttrium and lanthanum hydride films with switchable optical properties 231
J. N. Huiberts, R. Griessen, J. H. Rector, R. J. Wijngaarden, J. P. Dekker, D. G. de Groot & N. J. Koeman
doi:10.1038/380231a0
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| | Oxygen-isotope record of sea level and climate variations in the Sulu Sea over the past 150,000 years 234
Braddock K. Linsley
doi:10.1038/380234a0
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| | Constraints from partitioning experiments on the composition of subduction-zone fluids 237
Hans Keppler
doi:10.1038/380237a0
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| | The rock−paper−scissors game and the evolution of alternative male strategies 240
B. Sinervo & C. M. Lively
doi:10.1038/380240a0
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| | A role for melanin-concentrating hormone in the central regulation of feeding behaviour 243
Daqing Qu, David S. Ludwig, Steen Gammeltoft, Megan Piper, Mary Ann Pelleymounter, Mary Jane Cullen, Wendy Foulds Mathes, Jeanne Przypek, Robin Kanarek & Eleftheria Maratos-Flier
doi:10.1038/380243a0
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| | Learning to commit or avoid the base-rate error 247
Adam S. Goodie & Edmund Fantino
doi:10.1038/380247a0
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| | Orientation selectivity of thalamic input to simple cells of cat visual cortex 249
David Ferster, Sooyoung Chung & Heidi Wheat
doi:10.1038/380249a0
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| | Functional recovery in parkinsonian monkeys treated with GDNF 252
Don M. Gash, Zhiming Zhang, Aliza Ovadia, Wayne A. Cass, Ai Yi, Linda Simmerman, Deborah Russell, David Martin, Paul A. Lapchak, Frank Collins, Barry J. Hoffer & Greg A. Gerhard
doi:10.1038/380252a0
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| | Voltage-dependent modulation of N-type calcium channels by G-protein   subunits 255
Stephen R. Ikeda
doi:10.1038/380255a0
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| | Modulation of Ca2+ channels G-protein py subunits 258
Stefan Herlitze, David E. Garcia, Ken Mackie, Bertil Hille, Todd Scheuer & William A. Catterall
doi:10.1038/380258a0
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| | Inactivation of p27Kip1 by the viral E1A oncoprotein in TGF-treated cells 262
Asoke Mal, Randy Y. C. Poon, Philip H. Howe, Hideo Toyoshima, Tony Hunter & Marian L. Harter
doi:10.1038/380262a0
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| | Sequence-specific DNA binding by Ku autoantigen and its effects on transcription 265
Ward Giffin, Heather Torrance, David J. Rodda, Gratien G. Préfontaine, Louise Pope & Robert J. G. Haché
doi:10.1038/380265a0
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| | Kinetic trapping of oxygen in cell respiration 268
Michael I. Verkhovsky, Joel E. Morgan, Anne Puustinen & Mårten Wikström
doi:10.1038/380268a0
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