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| | Room for hope after a chemical defeat 201
The Clinton administration blinked and a small group of arch-conservatives dealt an unexpected blow to the Chemical Weapons Convention. The treaty has its weaknesses, but it merits greater faith in its strengths.
doi:10.1038/383201a0
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| | BSE's propaganda 201
The UK government's public deployment of a Nature paper encourages incorrect perceptions of the role of science.
doi:10.1038/383201b0
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| | NASA head fends off proposal to bring in 'base closure' scheme 203
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/383203a0
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| | Paris plan prefers art to anthropology 203
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/383203b0
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| | China urged to delay 'eugenics' law... 204
Claire O'Brien
doi:10.1038/383204a0
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| | EU aid to Palestinians focuses on hardware 204
Haim Watzman
doi:10.1038/383204b0
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| |  as British scientists register protest 204
doi:10.1038/383204c0
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| | Researchers contest reports of tree death 205
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/383205a0
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| | UN biodiversity advisers warned: stick to science 205
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/383205b0
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| | Japan to double university project grants 206
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/383206a0
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| | Accelerator complex gains momentum 206
DAVID SWINBANKS
doi:10.1038/383206b0
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| | Gore announces boost for neutron research at Oak Ridge lab 207
David Kramer
doi:10.1038/383207a0
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| | Biogeochemists and industry search for common interests 207
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/383207b0
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| | East Asian research universities explore links 207
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/383207c0
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| | Uncertain CERN cash means UK physicists face grant freeze 208
doi:10.1038/383208a0
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| | Tribal groups attack ethics of genome diversity project 208
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/383208b0
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| | First plant genome sequencing planned 208
David Kramer
doi:10.1038/383208c0
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| | 'Mad cow' politics tries to corral science 209
Declan Butler
doi:10.1038/383209a0
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| | News in brief 210
doi:10.1038/383210a0
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| | Spending on BSE research 211
Ian Howie
doi:10.1038/383211a0
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| | Spending on BSE research 211
H. Schellekens
doi:10.1038/383211b0
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| | Spending on BSE research 211
J. Z. Turner
doi:10.1038/383211c0
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| | Unravelling the Indian rope-trick 212
Richard Wiseman & Peter Lamont
doi:10.1038/383212a0
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| | IPCC report, chapter and verse 214
Tom M. L. Wigley
doi:10.1038/383214a0
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| | IPCC report, chapter and verse 214
Ken Caldeira
doi:10.1038/383214b0
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| | IPCC report, chapter and verse 214
Hugh W. Ellsaesser
doi:10.1038/383214c0
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| | Statistical leaps 214
Ajoy K. Baksi
doi:10.1038/383214d0
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| | Le mot juste 214
Jamie Thomerson
doi:10.1038/383214e0
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| | The holes are defined by the string 215
Must general relativity finally bow to quantum mechanics? Calculations that describe black-hole properties using collections of superstrings have gone some way towards resolving one of the most vexing puzzles in physics.
Edward Witten
doi:10.1038/383215a0
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| | Circling the inverse square 215
EDWARD WITTEN
doi:10.1038/383215b0
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| | Pictures, words and the brain 216
Alfonso Caramazza
doi:10.1038/383216a0
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| | Pyramid power, people power 218
Ian Stewart
doi:10.1038/383218a0
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| | Bacteria on the rampage 219
Julian Davies
doi:10.1038/383219a0
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| | Timing is everything 220
Meir Aridor & William E. Batch
doi:10.1038/383220a0
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| | Dusting off panspermia 221
Paul Parsons
doi:10.1038/383221a0
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| | Silence overhead 222
David Jones
doi:10.1038/383222a0
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| | Origin of ant soldiers 223
Cesare Baroni Urbani & Luc Passera
doi:10.1038/383223a0
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| | Mitochondria and male disease 224
S. A. Frank & L. D. Hurst
doi:10.1038/383224a0
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| | Evolutionary fixation of RNA editing 225
G. Valentin BÖrner & Svante Pääbo
doi:10.1038/383225a0
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| | Correction 225
doi:10.1038/383225b0
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| | Effects of radiation on children 226
Chiyoko Satoh & Mieko Kodaira
doi:10.1038/383226a0
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| | Effects of radiation on children 226
Yuri E. Dubrova, Rita Newmann, David L. Neil, Alec J. Jeffreys, Valeri N. Nesterov, Nicolay G. Krouchinsky & Vladislav A. Ostapenko
doi:10.1038/383226b0
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| | God in the details 227
Jerry A. Coyne reviews Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
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Michael J. Behe
doi:10.1038/383227a0
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doi:10.1038/383227b0
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| | The end of the beginning 228
John D. Barrow reviews Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point: New Directions for the Physics of Time.
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Huw Price
doi:10.1038/383228a0
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| | Origins of clock watching 229
Owen Gingerich reviews History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders
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Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum
doi:10.1038/383229a0
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| | The need to love technology 230
Wiebe E. Bijker reviews Aramis, or the Love of Technology
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Bruno Latour
doi:10.1038/383230a0
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| | Atmospheric gas concentrations over the past century measured in air from firn at the South Pole 231
M. Battle, M. Bender, T. Sowers, P. P. Tans, J. H. Butler, J. W. Elkins, J. T. Ellis, T. Conway, N. Zhang, P. Lang & A. D. Clarket
doi:10.1038/383231a0
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| | Galaxy formation at high redshifts 236
N. Metcalfe, T. Shanks, A. Campos, R. Fong & J. P. Gardner
doi:10.1038/383236a0
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| | Entropic control of particle motion using passive surface microstructures 239
A. D. Dinsmore, A. G. Yodh & D. J. Pine
doi:10.1038/383239a0
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| | Direct U−Th dating of marine sediments from the two most recent interglacial periods 242
Niall C. Slowey, Gideon M. Henderson & William B. Curry
doi:10.1038/383242a0
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| | Interaction of weak faults and non-newtonian rheology produces plate tectonics in a 3D model of mantle flow 245
Shijie Zhong & Michael Gurnis
doi:10.1038/383245a0
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| | A genome-wide search for quantitative trait loci underlying asthma 247
Susan E. Daniels, Sumit Bhattacharrya, Alan James, Nicholas I. Leaves, Alan Young, Michael R. Hill, Jennie A. Faux, Gerrard F. Ryan, Peter N. le Söuef, G. Mark Lathrop, A. William Musk & William O. C. M. Cookson
doi:10.1038/383247a0
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| | Positional cloning of a global regulator of anterior−posterior patterning in mice 250
Armin Schumacher, Cynthia Faust & Terry Magnuson
doi:10.1038/383250a0
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| | Functional anatomy of a common semantic system for words and pictures 254
R. Vandenberghe, C. Price, R. Wise, O. Josephs & R. S. J. Frackowiak
doi:10.1038/383254a0
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| | Contribution of human hippocampal region to novelty detection 256
Robert T. Knight
doi:10.1038/383256a0
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| | Regulation of rhythmic movements by purinergic neurotransmitters in frog embryos 259
Nicholas Dale & Deborah Gilday
doi:10.1038/383259a0
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| | Role of the inositol phosphatase SHIP in negative regulation of the immune system by the receptor Fe RIIB 263
Masao Ono, Silvia Bolland, Paul Tempst & Jeffrey V. Ravetch
doi:10.1038/383263a0
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| | GTPase activity of Rab5 acts as a timer for endocytic membrane fusion 266
Vladimir Rybin, Oliver Ullrich, Mariantonietta Rubino, Kirill Alexandrov, Iris Simon, Miguel C. Seabra, Roger Goody & Marino Zerial
doi:10.1038/383266a0
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| | Transcription-linked acetylation by Gcn5p of histones H3 and H4 at specific lysines 269
Min-Hao Kuo, James E. Brownell, Richard E. Sobel, Tamara A. Ranalli, Richard G. Cook, Diane G. Edmondson, Sharon Y. Roth & C. David Allis
doi:10.1038/383269a0
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| | A new serine-protease fold revealed by the crystal structure of human cytomegalovirus protease 272
Liang Tong, Chungeng Qian, Marie-Josée Massariol, Pierre R. Bonneau, Michael G. Cordingley & Lisette Lagacé
doi:10.1038/383272a0
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| | Unique fold and active site in cytomegalovirus protease 275
Xiayang Qiu, Jeffrey S. Culp, Anthony G. DiLella, Brian Hellmig, Susan S. Hoog, Cheryl A. Janson, Ward W. Smith & Sherin S. Abdel-Meguid
doi:10.1038/383275a0
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| | Three-dimensional structure of human cytomegalovirus protease 279
Huey-Sheng Shieh, Ravi G. Kurumbail, Anna M. Stevens, Roderick A. Stegeman, Eric J. Sturman, Jina Y. Pak, Arthur J. Wittwer, Mark O. Palmier, Roger C. Wiegand, Barry C. Holwerda & William C. Stallings
doi:10.1038/383279a0
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