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Museums are not the same as galleries, and should not become so. The Musee de I'Homme in Paris presents an excellent opportunity publicly to bring together disciplines that were until recently estranged.
doi:10.1038/383105a0
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| | Moving targets 105
Migrant researchers with a shadowed past are a growing problem for research institutions.
doi:10.1038/383105b0
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| | International recruitment highlights need to track scientific behaviour 107
Rex Dalton
doi:10.1038/383107a0
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| | Rotation experiment returns to Cologne 107
doi:10.1038/383107b0
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| | Private investigators track down fraudsters 108
doi:10.1038/383108a0
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| | Anthropology museum fights art gallery plan 109
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/383109a0
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| | Labor resists reductions in Australian research incentives 109
Peter Pockley
doi:10.1038/383109b0
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| | Singapore plans to double research cash 110
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/383110a0
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| | Strategy seeks to make the most of Scottish science 110
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/383110b0
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| | Labour party pledges to end privatization of UK laboratories 111
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/383111a0
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| | ESA members reluctant to replace Cluster mission 111
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/383111b0
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| | Nuclear treaty text set for UN approval 111
doi:10.1038/383111c0
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| | 'Petrol from plants' claim baffles Indian scientists 112
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/383112a0
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| | Foundations funding biomedical bodies 'should shift focus' 112
Sally Lehrman
doi:10.1038/383112b0
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| | Breast cancer grant policy comes under fire 113
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/383113a0
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| | Radar will investigate magnetic storms 113
doi:10.1038/383113b0
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| | News in brief 114
doi:10.1038/383114a0
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| | The Republican blueprint 116
Robert S. Walker
doi:10.1038/383116a0
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| | East and West 116
Peter Russer
doi:10.1038/383116b0
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| | Positively discriminating 116
Dan Graur
doi:10.1038/383116c0
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| | New era of fiscal restraint for Australia 117
The recent first budget of the new Australian Coalition government offers an opportunity to reflect on the way in which Australian science must adapt to an environment of fiscal rectitude.
Gustav Nossal
doi:10.1038/383117a0
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| | Activation without a vital ingredient 119
The complicated machinery that initiates transcription of protein-coding genes contains components, known as TAFs, that are held to be generally required for gene activation. Experiments in vivo change that view.
David M. Chao & Richard A. Young
doi:10.1038/383119a0
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| | Biochemistry and genetics: checks and balances 120
D. M. C. & R. A. Y.
doi:10.1038/383120a0
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| | Neville Mott (1905−96) 121
Philip Anderson
doi:10.1038/383121a0
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| | Fly (almost) south young bird 123
James L. Gould
doi:10.1038/383123a0
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| | Molecular jail-making 124
Rolf W. Saalfrank
doi:10.1038/383124a0
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| | Tunnelling secrets extracted 125
P. C. E. Stamp
doi:10.1038/383125a0
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| | Raf gets it together 127
C. J. Marshall
doi:10.1038/383127a0
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| | The wired wood 128
David Jones
doi:10.1038/383128a0
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| | The 1996 Antarctic ozone hole 129
D. J. Hofmann
doi:10.1038/383129a0
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David M. Hillis
doi:10.1038/383130a0
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Toshiro Mizuno, Etsuro Yamaha, Masami Wakahara, Atsushi Kuroiwa & Hiroyuki Takeda
doi:10.1038/383131a0
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Bland J. Finlay, Genoveva F. Esteban & Tom Fenchel
doi:10.1038/383132a0
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Stephen J. Hall & Simon P. Greenstreet
doi:10.1038/383133a0
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J. Dean Pakulski, Richard B. Coffin, Cheryl A. Kelley, Sonya L. Holder, Roswell Downer, Peter Aas, M. Maille Lyons & Wade H. Jeffrey
doi:10.1038/383133b0
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| | Yesterday's malaria wars 135
Robert S. Desowitz reviews The Tomorrow of Malaria
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Socrates Litsios
doi:10.1038/383135a0
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doi:10.1038/383136a0
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| | Arms control 136
R. V. Jones reviews National Military Establishments and the Advancement of Science and Technology
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Paul Forman & José M. Sánchez-Ron
doi:10.1038/383136b0
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| | Humans and climate 137
Ian Tattersall reviews Children of the Ice Age
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Steven M. Stanley, Elisabeth S. Vrba, George H. Denton, Timothy C. Partridge & Lloyd H. Burckle
doi:10.1038/383137a0
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doi:10.1038/383137b0
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| | Fabian tactics 138
John Godfrey reviews Europe's Environment: The Dobrís Assessment
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David Stanners, Philippe Bourdeau, Henry Lee & David Wallace
doi:10.1038/383138a0
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| | Circumstellar disks and the search for neighbouring planetary systems 139
Steven V. W. Beckwith & Anneila I. Sargent
doi:10.1038/383139a0
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| | Macroscopic quantum tunnelling of magnetization in a single crystal of nanomagnets 145
L. Thomas, F. Lionti, R. Ballou, D. Gatteschi, R. Sessoli & B. Barbara
doi:10.1038/383145a0
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| | Synthesis of hydroazafullerene C59HN, the parent hydroheterofullerene 147
Majid Keshavarz-K, Rosario González, Robin G. Hicks, Gordana Srdanov, Vojislav I. Srdanov, Tasha G. Collins, Jan Cornelis Hummelen, Cheryl Bellavia-Lund, James Pavlovich, Fred Wudl & Karoly Holczer
doi:10.1038/383147a0
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| | Site-ordering effects on element partitioning during rapid solidification of alloys 150
H. Assadi & A. L. Greer
doi:10.1038/383150a0
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| | Recent changes in tropical freezing heights and the role of sea surface temperature 152
Henry F. Diaz & Nicholas E. Graham
doi:10.1038/383152a0
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| | Microbial generation of economic accumulations of methane within a shallow organic-rich shale 155
Anna M. Martini, Joyce M. Budai, Lynn M. Walter & Martin Schoell
doi:10.1038/383155a0
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| | Magnetic information affects the stellar orientation of young bird migrants 158
Peter Weindler, Roswitha Wiltschko & Wolfgang Wiltschko
doi:10.1038/383158a0
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| | The dosage compensation system of Drosophila is co-opted by newly evolved X chromosomes 160
Ignacio Marín, Axel Franke, Greg J. Bashaw & Bruce S. Baker
doi:10.1038/383160a0
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| | Functional neuroanatomy of human rapid-eye-movement sleep and dreaming 163
Pierre Maquet, Jean-Marie Péters, Joël Aerts, Guy Delfiore, Christian Degueldre, André Luxen & Georges Franck
doi:10.1038/383163a0
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| | Induction of cell death by endogenous nerve growth factor through its p75 receptor 166
José María Frade, Alfredo Rodríguez-Tébar & Yves-Alain Barde
doi:10.1038/383166a0
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| | Receptor-associated Mad homologues synergize as effectors of the TGF- response 168
Ying Zhang, Xin-Hua Feng, Rui-Yun Wu & Rik Derynck
doi:10.1038/383168a0
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Ned Watson, Maurine E. Linder, Kirk M. Druey, John H. Kehrl & Kendall J. Blumer
doi:10.1038/383172a0
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| | RGS10 is a selective activator of Gi GTPase activity 175
Timothy W. Hunt, Timothy A. Fields, Patrick J. Casey & Ernest G. Peralta
doi:10.1038/383175a0
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| | Activation of the Raf-1 kinase cascade by coumermycin-induced dimerization 178
Michael A. Farrar, José Alberola-lla & Roger M. Perlmutter
doi:10.1038/383178a0
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| | Oligomerization activates c-Raf-1 through a Ras-dependent mechanism 181
Zhijun Luo, Guri Tzivion, Peter J. Belshaw, Demetrios Vavvas, Mark Marshall & Joseph Avruch
doi:10.1038/383181a0
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Scott S. Walker, Joseph C. Reese, Lynne M. Apone & Michael R. Green
doi:10.1038/383185a0
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Zarmik Moqtaderi, Yu Bai, David Poon, P. Anthony Weil & Kevin Struhl
doi:10.1038/383188a0
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Eric H. Ekland & David P. Bartel
doi:10.1038/383192a0
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Featured this week, a pot-pourri of useful equipment and reagents for biomedical research, including a mycoplasma removal agent, antibodies for apoptosis research, a biomedical imager and an oligonucleotide labelling kit.
doi:10.1038/383193a0
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| | The world of the postdoc 195
Opportunities abound for those who wish to make scientific research their career, if a nomadic lifestyle and short-term positions are acceptable. Advice abounds, particularly on the Internet. Nature's global review begins with the biggest postdoc jungle of them all.
Brendan Norton
doi:10.1038/383195a0
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| | NIH lends a hand with loan repayment 197
Diane Gershon
doi:10.1038/383197a0
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DIANE GERSHON
doi:10.1038/383198a0
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| | The view from Europe 199
Although the prospects for European postdocs are as uncertain as anywhere, young people are flocking to science as a career.
Alison Abbott & Gabor Stiegler
doi:10.1038/383199a0
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David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/383200a0
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