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| | Against short-termism: priorities for a new government 307
Whichever political party wins power in the United Kingdom, it will need urgently to ensure that high-technology industry, investors and government develop capacities to act more strategically.
doi:10.1038/386307a0
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| | US academy warns of disaster if required to open up panels 309
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/386309a0
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| | Russian science minister faces challenge 309
doi:10.1038/386309b0
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| | Ulster violence leads to university cuts 310
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/386310a0
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| | Consensus grows on risk assessment 310
Ayala Ochert
doi:10.1038/386310b0
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| | Multibeam survey sweeps galaxies 311
Peter Pockley
doi:10.1038/386311a0
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| | 'Less bureaucracy' pledge for Italian space agency 311
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/386311b0
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| | Bottled radar pays tribute to Sagan 312
Steve Nadis
doi:10.1038/386312a0
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| | NIH is likely to challenge genetic 'probe' patents 312
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/386312b0
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| | Law urged to check genetic discrimination 312
MEREDITH WADMAN
doi:10.1038/386312c0
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| | Tokamak closure leaves a hole at centre 313
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/386313a0
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| | UK parties differ on means, not ends 314
Many scientists are looking forward to a likely change of government, as the UK's election campaign begins in earnest. But Labour in power would face similar pressures and constraints to the Conservatives.
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/386314a0
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| | Little change in the politics of science – but closer links with industry? 315
DAVID DICKSON
doi:10.1038/386315a0
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| | News in Brief | |
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| | News in brief 316
doi:10.1038/386316a0
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| | Not the fault of Confucius 318
Klim King, Young-Sun Lin & Hong N. Yeung
doi:10.1038/386318a0
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| | No lack of interest 318
Etienne Davignon
doi:10.1038/386318b0
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| | Unclothed emperor 318
Viktor Holoubek
doi:10.1038/386318c0
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| | Misplaced complacency about energy resources 319
R. S. Scorer
doi:10.1038/386319a0
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| | Misplaced complacency about energy resources 319
Douglas Axe
doi:10.1038/386319b0
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| | Habitable moons 319
Oliver Morton
doi:10.1038/386319c0
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| | Malicious referees 319
R. P. Clarke
doi:10.1038/386319d0
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| | Worldwide ageing programme needed 320
Angelo Azzi
doi:10.1038/386320a0
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| | Data available 320
Joseph J. Ferretti, David W. Dyer & Bruce A. Roe
doi:10.1038/386320b0
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| | Worthless ranking 320
David Colquhoun
doi:10.1038/386320c0
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| | Marijuana as a medicine 320
Sumner Burstein
doi:10.1038/386320d0
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| | Hantavirus in Argentina 320
Carlos M. Barclay & Gabriela Rubinstein
doi:10.1038/386320e0
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| | Language that dare not speak its name 321
Proposals by a school board in California to recognize the dialect used by most of its pupils unleashed a ferocious media attack. Why did the press get things so wrong, and why were the proposals so virulently ridiculed?
Geoffrey K. Pullum
doi:10.1038/386321a0
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| | From Cinderella's dilemma to rock slides 323
A mixture of two different types of grain can undergo spontaneous stratification simply by being poured. This surprising behaviour may be significant in fields from pharmaceuticals to geology.
Jay Fineberg
doi:10.1038/386323a0
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| | Chick limbs, fly wings and homology at the fringe 324
Stephen J. Gaunt
doi:10.1038/386324a0
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| | Blessed dams or damned dams? 325
John D. Milliman
doi:10.1038/386325a0
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| | Leaning trees on sloping ground 327
R. McNeill Alexander
doi:10.1038/386327a0
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| | Shaking in the USA 328
John VanDecar
doi:10.1038/386328a0
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| | New break for archaeal enzyme 329
James C. Wang
doi:10.1038/386329a0
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| | Hot winds stay in the plane 331
Fred Hamann
doi:10.1038/386331a0
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| | 100 YEARS AGO 332
doi:10.1038/386332a0
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| | The right size for a mammal 332
Andy Purvis & Paul H. Harvey
doi:10.1038/386332b0
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| | Its all in the mind 333
David Jones
doi:10.1038/386333a0
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| | Chien-Shiung Wu (1912–97) Experimental physicist, co-discoverer of parity violation
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T. D. Lee
doi:10.1038/386334a0
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| | Rediscovery of the wild pig Sus bucculentus
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Colin P. Groves, George B. Schaller, George Amato & Khamkhoun Khounboline
doi:10.1038/386335a0
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| | Bacterial DNA causes septic shock 336
Tim Sparwasser, Thomas Miethke, Grayson Lipford, Katrin Borschert, Hans Häcker, Klaus Heeg & Hermann Wagner
doi:10.1038/386336a0
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| | Modern human origins backdated 337
Günter Bräuer, Yuji Yokoyama, Christophe Falguères & Emma Mbua
doi:10.1038/386337a0
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| | Endothelial nitric oxide synthase and LTP 338
Rachel I. Wilson, Jevgenij Yanovsky, Axel Gödecke, David R. Stevens, Jürgen Schrader & Helmut L. Haas
doi:10.1038/386338a0
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| | Human destinies and ultimate causes 339
Colin Renfrew
doi:10.1038/386339a0
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| | Hitch–hiker's guide to the Solar System 340
Carl D. Murray
doi:10.1038/386340a0
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| | Custom-made beast of burden 341
Marian Stamp Dawkins
doi:10.1038/386341a0
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| | A plague of weapons 342
Alastair Hay
doi:10.1038/386342a0
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| | Art transplant 342
doi:10.1038/386342b0
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| | Die either on the gallows, or of the pox 343
William Bynum
doi:10.1038/386343a0
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| | The hunting of the helix 344
Walter Gratzer
doi:10.1038/386344a0
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| | The solution to pollution? 345
John Houghton
doi:10.1038/386345a0
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| | A shrinking discipline 346
John C. Marshall
doi:10.1038/386346a0
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| | Engineering just-so stories 347
David Jones
doi:10.1038/386347a0
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| | Deadly mushrooms 348
Hubert Curien
doi:10.1038/386348a0
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| | Artists have felines too 348
doi:10.1038/386348b0
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| | Gladiator for science 349
Crispin Tickell
doi:10.1038/386349a0
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| | Roots theories and racist interpretations 350
Leslie C. Alello
doi:10.1038/386350a0
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| | Nitride-based semiconductors for blue and green light-emitting devices 351
F. A. Ponce & D. P. Bour
doi:10.1038/386351a0
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Radical fringe positions the apical ectodermal ridge at the dorsoventral boundary of the vertebrate limb 360
Concepción Rodriguez-Esteban, John W. R. Schwabe, Jennifer De La Peña, Bryon Foys, Brian Eshelman & Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte
doi:10.1038/386360a0
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| | Expression of Radical fringe in limb-bud ectoderm regulates apical ectodermal ridge formation
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Ed Laufer, Randall Dahn, Olivia E. Orozco, Chang-Yeol Yeo, Jacqueline Pisenti, Domingos Henrique, Ursula K. Abbott, John F. Fallon & Cliff Tabin
doi:10.1038/386366a0
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| | Anomalously small magnetic field in the local interstellar cloud 374
George Gloeckler, L. A. Fisk & Johannes Geiss
doi:10.1038/386374a0
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| | Storage of hydrogen in single-walled carbon nanotubes 377
A. C. Dillon, K. M. Jones, T. A. Bekkedahl, C. H. Kiang, D. S. Bethune & M. J. Heben
doi:10.1038/386377a0
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| | Spontaneous stratification in granular mixtures 379
Hernán A. Makse, Shlomo Havlin, Peter R. King & H. Eugene Stanley
doi:10.1038/386379a0
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| | Closure of the Central American Isthmus and its effect on deep-water formation in the North Atlantic 382
Kevin W. Burton, Hong-Fei Ling & R. Keith O'Nions
doi:10.1038/386382a0
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| | Effect of Danube River dam on Black Sea biogeochemistry and ecosystem structure 385
Christoph Humborg, Venugopalan Ittekkot, Adriana Cociasu & Bodo v. Bodungen
doi:10.1038/386385a0
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| | Evidence for a selectively favourable reduction in the mutation rate of the X chromosome 388
Gilean T. McVean & Laurence D. Hurst
doi:10.1038/386388a0
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| | Modular decomposition in visuomotor learning 392
Zoubin Ghahramani & Daniel M. Wolpert
doi:10.1038/386392a0
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| | Protective effect of encapsulated cells producing neurotrophic factor CNTF in a monkey model of Huntington's disease 395
Dwaine F. Emerich, Shelley R. Winn, Philippe M. Hantraye, Marc Peschanski, Er-Yun Chen, Yaping Chu, Patricia McDermott, E. Edward Baetge & Jeffrey H. Kordower
doi:10.1038/386395a0
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| | The Pax4 gene is essential for differentiation of insulin-producing  cells in the mammalian pancreas 399
Beatriz Sosa-Pineda, Kamal Chowdhury, Miguel Torres, Guillermo Oliver & Peter Gruss
doi:10.1038/386399a0
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| | Abnormal angiogenesis and responses to glucose and oxygen deprivation in mice lacking the protein ARNT 403
Emin Maltepe, Jennifer V. Schmidt, David Baunoch, Christopher A. Bradfield & M. Celeste Simon
doi:10.1038/386403a0
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| | Sensitization of diabetic and obese mice to insulin by retinoid X receptor agonists 407
Ranjan Mukherjee, Peter J. A. Davies, Diane L. Crombie, Eric D. Bischoff, Rosemary M. Cesario, Lily Jow, Lawrence G. Hamann, Marcus F. Boehm, Carl E. Mondon, Alex M. Nadzan, James R. Paterniti Jr & Richard A. Heyman
doi:10.1038/386407a0
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| | Biologically erodable microspheres as potential oral drug delivery systems 410
Edith Mathiowitz, Jules S. Jacob, Yong S. Jong, Gerardo P. Carino, Donald E. Chickering, Pravin Chaturvedi, Camilla A. Santos, Kavita Vijayaraghavan, Sean Montgomery, Michael Bassett & Craig Morrell
doi:10.1038/386410a0
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| | An atypical topoisomerase II from archaea with implications for meiotic recombination 414
Agnès Bergerat, Bernard de Massy, Danielle Gadelle, Paul-Christophe Varoutas, Alain Nicolas & Patrick Forterre
doi:10.1038/386414a0
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Trans-activation of group II intron splicing by nuclear U5 snRNA 417
Martin Hetzer, Gabriele Wurzer, Rudolf J. Schweyen & Manfred W. Mueller
doi:10.1038/386417a0
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