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| | Courage, vision and the Department of Energy 469
Federico Peña is heading for one of the hottest seats in the United States government. He will need farsighted resolve to pursue his department's controversial goals.
doi:10.1038/385469a0
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| | Avoid financial 'correctness' 469
Insistence that authors declare business interests in papers is beside the point.
doi:10.1038/385469b0
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| | Tunnelling techniques hold key to prospects for giant accelerator 471
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/385471a0
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| | Prime minister heads Indian science panel 471
K. S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/385471b0
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| | Entire E. coli genome sequenced−at last 472
Claire O'Brien
doi:10.1038/385472a0
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| | Peña plays it straight to keep on course for US energy secretary 472
David Kramer
doi:10.1038/385472b0
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| | UK calls a halt to moves to privatize laboratories 473
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/385473a0
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| | First national review in Australia looks at 'gaps and overlaps' 473
Peter Pockley
doi:10.1038/385473b0
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| | UK seeks to appease food safety critics 474
Declan Butter
doi:10.1038/385474a0
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| | AIDS 'cure' scientists go to top for funds 474
Michael Cherry
doi:10.1038/385474b0
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| | University teaching hospitals battle for scarce funds in Berlin 475
Quirin Schiermeier
doi:10.1038/385475a0
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| | Mellow mood fosters marijuana research 475
Sally Lehrman
doi:10.1038/385475b0
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| | Medical network pioneers live 3-D surgical images 476
David Swinbanks
doi:10.1038/385476a0
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| | Top FDA official named as 'de facto' chief 476
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/385476b0
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| | In-flight service will let Hubble see red 476
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/385476c0
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| | US urged to monitor some genetic tests 477
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/385477a0
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| | Russian budget falls short of 'legal level' 477
Carl Levitin
doi:10.1038/385477b0
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| | News in brief 478
doi:10.1038/385478a0
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| | Darwin a better name than Wallace? 480
Tom Tregenza
doi:10.1038/385480a0
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| | A novel paradigm 480
Simon H. Friedman & Jens O. M. Karlsson
doi:10.1038/385480b0
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| | Alternative therapy bias 480
E. Ernst & M.H. Pittler
doi:10.1038/385480c0
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| | How do memories leave their mark? 481
We remember some events while others slip from our minds. The results of a new study indicate how records of sensory experiences might be consolidated into long-term memory.
Mark F. Bear
doi:10.1038/385481a0
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| | The amazing atom laser 482
Keith Burnett
doi:10.1038/385482a0
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| | 100 years ago 483
G.P.S. Occhlallni & C.F. Powell
doi:10.1038/385483a0
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| | Diamonds from warm water 485
R.C. DeVries
doi:10.1038/385485a0
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| | Birds face sexual discrimination 486
Patricia Adair Gowaty
doi:10.1038/385486a0
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| | Bubbling over 486
Karl Ziemelis
doi:10.1038/385486b0
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| | See-saw sea 487
James A. Carton
doi:10.1038/385487a0
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| | How to keep a head in order 489
Per Erik Ahlberg
doi:10.1038/385489a0
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| | The Earth's mantle remodelled 490
Ross Angel
doi:10.1038/385490a0
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| | Visionary spectacles 491
David Jones
doi:10.1038/385491a0
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| | AlexTodd (1907−97)
Organic chemist, and mover-and-shaker in British science policy
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John Maddox
doi:10.1038/385492a0
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| | Politicians' uniquely simple personalities 493
Gian Vittorio Caprara, Claudio Barbaranelli & Philip G. Zimbardo
doi:10.1038/385493a0
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| | Synergy between synthetic oestrogens? 494
J. Ashby, P. A. Lefevre, J. Odum, C. A. Harris, E. J. Routledge & J. P. Sumpter
doi:10.1038/385494a0
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| | Ant soldiers are not modified queens 494
Philip S. Ward
doi:10.1038/385494b0
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| | HIV-1 tropism and co-receptor use 495
Matthias T. Dittmar, Áine McKnight, Graham Simmons, Paul R. Clapham, Robin A. Weiss & Peter Simmonds
doi:10.1038/385495a0
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| | The ascent of ideas in evolution 497
David L. Hull reviews Monad to Man: The Concept of Progress in Evolutionary Biology
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Michael Ruse
doi:10.1038/385497a0
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| | Guidebook for the underwater eco-tourist 497
doi:10.1038/385497b0
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| | Selling science 498
John Ziman reviews After the Breakthrough: The Emergence of High-Temperature Superconductivity as a Research Field
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Helga Nowotny & Ulrike Felt
doi:10.1038/385498a0
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| | Nature versus nurture at 60 MHz 499
Ayala Ochert
doi:10.1038/385499a0
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| | Play-safe politics 499
Timothy O'Riordan reviews Scientific Uncertainty and Environmental Problem Solving
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John Lemons
doi:10.1038/385499b0
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| | Searching out Scotland's floral rarities 500
doi:10.1038/385500a0
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| | Measurement of tectonic surface uplift rate in a young collisional mountain belt 501
Lon D. Abbott, Eli A. Silver, Robert S. Anderson, Randall Smith, James C. Ingle, Stanley A. Kling, David Haig, Eric Small, Joseph Galewsky & William S. Sliter
doi:10.1038/385501a0
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| | Notes for contributors 508
doi:10.1038/385508a0
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| | Duration of the superwind phase of asymptotic giant branch stars 509
T. Tanabé, S. Nishida, S. Matsumoto, T. Onaka, Y. Nakada, T. Soyano, T. Ono, K. Sekiguchi & I. S000. Glass
doi:10.1038/385509a0
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| | Dendritic growth of electro-hydrodynamic convection in a nematic liquid crystal 511
J. T. Gleeson
doi:10.1038/385511a0
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| | Hydrothermal growth of diamond in metal−C−H2O systems 513
Xing-Zhong Zhao, Rustum Roy, Kuruvilla A. Cherian & Andrzej Badzian
doi:10.1038/385513a0
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| | A decadal climate variation in the tropical Atlantic Ocean from thermodynamic air-sea interactions 516
Ping Chang, Link Ji & Hong Li
doi:10.1038/385516a0
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| | Triggering basaltic volcanic eruptions by bubble-melt separation 518
Andrew W. Woods & Silvana S. S. Cardoso
doi:10.1038/385518a0
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| | Potential collapse of North Sea cod stocks 521
R. M. Cook, A. Sinclair & G. Stefánsson
doi:10.1038/385521a0
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| | Extreme adaptive modification in sex ratio of the Seychelles warbler's eggs 522
Jan Komdeur, Serge Daan, Joost Tinbergen & Christa Mateman
doi:10.1038/385522a0
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| | Female infertility in mice lacking connexin 37 525
Alexander M. Simon, Daniel A. Goodenough, En Li & David L. Paul
doi:10.1038/385525a0
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| | Spatio−temporal frequency domains and their relation to cytochrome oxidase staining in cat visual cortex 529
Doron Shoham, Mark Hübener, Silke Schulze, Amiram Grinvald & Tobias Bonhoeffer
doi:10.1038/385529a0
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| | Synaptic tagging and long-term potentiation 533
Uwe Frey & Richard G. M. Morris
doi:10.1038/385533a0
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| | Integrin-ligand binding properties govern cell migration speed through cell-substratum adhesiveness 537
Sean P. Palecek, Joseph C. Loftus, Mark H. Ginsberg, Douglas A. Lauffenburger & Alan F. Horwitz
doi:10.1038/385537a0
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| | MAP3K-related kinase involved in NF-KB induction by TNF, CD95 and IL-1 540
Nikolai L. Malinin, Mark P. Boldin, Andrei V. Kovalenko & David Wallach
doi:10.1038/385540a0
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| | Suppression of c-Myc-induced apoptosis by Ras signalling through PI(3)K and PKB 544
Andrea Kauffmann-Zeh, Pablo Rodriguez-Viciana, Eugen Ulrich, Christopher Gilbert, Paul Coffer, Julian Downward & Gerard Evan
doi:10.1038/385544a0
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| | The nuclear receptor homologue Ftz-F1 and the homeodomain protein Ftz are mutually dependent cofactors 548
Antoine Guichet, John W. R. Copeland, Miklós Erdélyi, Daniela Hlousek, Péter Závorszky, Jacqueline Ho, Susan Brown, Anthony Percival-Smith, Henry M. Krause & Anne Ephrussi
doi:10.1038/385548a0
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| | The nuclear hormone receptor Ftz-F1 is a cofactor for the Drosophila homeodomain protein Ftz 552
Yan Yu, Willis Li, Kai Su, Miyuki Yussa, Wei Han, Norbert Perrimon & Leslie Pick
doi:10.1038/385552a0
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| | Structural basis for the binding of a globular antifreeze protein on ice 555
Zongchao Jia, Carl I. DeLuca, Heman Chao & Peter L. Davies
doi:10.1038/385555a0
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| | Structural basis for selective inhibition of cyclooxygenase-2 by anti-inflammatory agents 555
Ravi G. Kurumbail, Anna M. Stevens, James K. Gierse, Joseph J. McDonald, Roderick A. Stegeman, Jina Y. Pak, Daniel Gildehaus, Julie M. Miyashiro, Thomas D. Penning, Karen Seibert, Peter C. Isakson & William C. Stallings
doi:10.1038/385555b0
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| | How to find, identify and quantitate the sugars on proteins 557
A new sequenator allows the identification, quantification and characterization of sites of glycosylation on proteins, making it possible to analyse the glycosylation at serine and threonine sites in mucin-like domains.
Andrew A. Gooley & Keith L. Williams
doi:10.1038/385557a0
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The main focus for this issue is peptides with some items for proteins thrown in as well. Items include a multimode fraction collector, services for custom peptide synthesis and protein immunology. Peptide and protein epitope tags
doi:10.1038/385560a0
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