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| | How not to reform an independent academy 525
Openness is a virtue, but its imposition from without threatens the independence of the US National Academy of Sciences complex.
doi:10.1038/386525a0
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| | Small symbols of peace 525
The Middle East provides a setting for science policy as a lever for hope amid strife.
doi:10.1038/386525b0
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| | 'EU programme should increase support for social sciences' 527
David Dickson
doi:10.1038/386527a0
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| | Fellowships seem likely to win out over basic research in Europe 527
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/386527b0
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| | Clean car programme falling short of goal 528
Colin Macilwain
doi:10.1038/386528a0
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| | US supercomputer centres to concentrate on networking 528
COLIN MACILWAIN
doi:10.1038/386528b0
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| | Creationism 'Ark' trial opens in Australia 529
Peter Pockley
doi:10.1038/386529a0
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| | Biologists sound warning on species conservation 530
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/386530a0
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| | Discoverer of comet bemoans lack of jobs 530
TONY REICHHARDT
doi:10.1038/386530b0
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| | 'No consensus' on FDA role in gene tests 531
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/386531a0
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| | Nirex chief expected to lose seat on UK's nuclear waste panel 531
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/386531b0
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| | ESA agrees full re-fly for Cluster mission 532
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/386532a0
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| | Europe outlines labelling rules for genetic modification seeds 532
Alun Anderson
doi:10.1038/386532b0
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| | US privacy laws may curb access to medical data 533
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/386533a0
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| | Sandra Thurman named as new 'AIDS Czar' 533
MEREDITH WADMAN
doi:10.1038/386533b0
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| | News in Brief | |
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| | News in brief 534
doi:10.1038/386534a0
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| | Time to put malaria control on the global agenda 535
Growing international awareness of the impact of malaria, and in particular the prospect of an imminent catastrophe in Africa, is generating an unprecedented groundswell for a bold new effort in control.
doi:10.1038/386535a0
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| | India plans $200 million attack on malaria 536
K.S. Jayaraman
doi:10.1038/386536a0
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| | Research 'essential' for control strategy 537
doi:10.1038/386537a0
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| | Vaccines: a roller-coaster of hopes 537
doi:10.1038/386537b0
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| | Transgenic mosquitoes: a new solution? 538
doi:10.1038/386538a0
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| | Global agencies hold the financial key 539
doi:10.1038/386539a0
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| | Can industry be wooed back into the act? 540
doi:10.1038/386540a0
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| | The spirit of Dakar: a call for action on malaria 541
doi:10.1038/386541a0
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| | Value for money 542
J. P. Dean Goldring
doi:10.1038/386542a0
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| | History of parity violation experiment 542
Richard L. Garwin & Leon M. Lederman
doi:10.1038/386542b0
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| | Science as a cultural construct 545
Scientific knowledge is a communal belief system with a dubious grip on reality, according to a widely quoted school of sociologists. But they ignore crucial evidence that contradicts this allegation.
Kurt Gottfried & Kenneth G. Wilson
doi:10.1038/386545a0
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| | Afterslip no longer an afterthought 549
Measuring the imperceptible motion of tectonic plates has become possible with sub-centimetre positioning from satellite data. Such measurements show that postseismic creep can release as much energy as violent earthquakes.
Charles DeMets
doi:10.1038/386549a0
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| | Where are the things we see? 550
Joel M. Miller & Christopher Bockisch
doi:10.1038/386550a0
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| | Stars and ships and superfluids 551
C.W.F. Everitt
doi:10.1038/386551a0
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| | Providing a little stability 553
Peter E. Warburton & David Kipling
doi:10.1038/386553a0
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| | Ordering Up aMAC 554
PETER E. WARBURTON & DAVID KIPLING
doi:10.1038/386554a0
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| | The monkeys' defence alliance 555
Robin Dunbar
doi:10.1038/386555a0
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| | A lively debate 557
Timothy J. McCoy
doi:10.1038/386557a0
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| | Tracking slabs in the lower mantle 558
Guy Masters
doi:10.1038/386558a0
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| | Space and time in the mental universe 559
Patricia Goldman-Rakic
doi:10.1038/386559a0
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| | 100 YEARS AGO 559
doi:10.1038/386559b0
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| | Mutable mutations 560
David Jones
doi:10.1038/386560a0
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| | Ammonia excretion by hummingbirds 561
Marion R. Preest & Carol A. Beuchat
doi:10.1038/386561a0
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| | Socioeconomic factors and tropical deforestation 562
Kamaljit S. Bawa & S. Dayanandan
doi:10.1038/386562a0
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| | Kinked DNA 563
Wenhai Han, S. M. Lindsay, Mensur Dlakic & Rodney E. Harrington
doi:10.1038/386563a0
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| | Biochemical typing of scrapie strains 564
Robert A. Somerville, Angela Chong, Orla U. Mulqueen, Christopher R. Birkett, Sophie C. E. R. Wood & James Hope
doi:10.1038/386564a0
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| | Biochemical typing of scrapie strains 564
John Collinge, Andrew F. Hill, Katie C. L. Sidle & James Ironside
doi:10.1038/386564b0
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| | Journals of our plague years 565
Robert Desowitz reviews And the Waters Turned to Blood
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Rodney Barker and Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague
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Richard Rhodes
doi:10.1038/386565a0
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| | Teachers should go back to school 566
Cynthia M. Friend reviews Talking About Leaving: Why Undergraduates Leave the Sciences
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Elaine Seymour & Nancy M. Hewitt
doi:10.1038/386566a0
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| | Film star walks on water 566
doi:10.1038/386566b0
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| | You can see right through me 567
John Mallard reviews Naked to the Bone: Medical Imaging in the Twentieth Century
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BettyannHoltzmann Kevles
doi:10.1038/386567a0
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| | Umpteenth editions and other revisions 567
doi:10.1038/386567b0
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JOHN G. WALSEY reviews Early Vertebrates
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Philippe Janvier
doi:10.1038/386568a0
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ARUN HOLDEN reviews Supersymmetry in Disorder and Chaos
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Konstantin Efetov
doi:10.1038/386568a0
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PETER T. LANDSBERG reviews Concise Thermodynamics
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Jeremy Dunning-Davies
doi:10.1038/386568a0
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| | Transcriptional activation by recruitment 569
Mark Ptashne & Alexander Gann
doi:10.1038/386569a0
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| | Evidence for deep mantle circulation from global tomography 578
R. D. van der Hilst, S. Widiyantoro & E. R. Engdahl
doi:10.1038/386578a0
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| | Detection of the Earth's rotation using superfluid phase coherence 585
Keith Schwab, Niels Bruckner & Richard E. Packard
doi:10.1038/386585a0
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| | Non-volatile memory device based on mobile protons in SiO2 thin films 587
K. Vanheusden, W. L. Warren, R. A. B. Devine, D. M. Fleetwood, J. R. Schwank, M. R. Shaneyfelt, P. S. Winokur & Z. J. Lemnios
doi:10.1038/386587a0
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| | Dynamics of glasses below the glass transition 589
B. Jérôme & J. Commandeur
doi:10.1038/386589a0
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| | Inherently unstable climate behaviour due to weak thermohaline ocean circulation 592
Eli Tziperman
doi:10.1038/386592a0
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| | Silent fault slip following an interplate thrust earthquake at the Japan Trench 595
Kosuke Heki, Shin'ichi Miyazaki & Hiromichi Tsuji
doi:10.1038/386595a0
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| | Compression of visual space before saccades 598
John Ross, M. Concetta Morrone & David C. Burr
doi:10.1038/386598a0
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| | Perceived geometrical relationships affected by eye-movement signals 601
Rick H. Cai, Alexandre Pouget, Madeleine Schlag-Rey & John Schlag
doi:10.1038/386601a0
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| | Temporal dynamics of brain activation during a working memory task 604
Jonathan D. Cohen, William M. Perlstein, Todd S. Braver, Leigh E. Nystrom, Douglas C. Noll, John Jonides & Edward E. Smith
doi:10.1038/386604a0
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| | Transient and sustained activity in a distributed neural system for human working memory 608
Susan M. Courtney, Leslie G. Ungerleider, Katrina Keil & James V. Haxby
doi:10.1038/386608a0
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| | Allosteric activation and tuning of ligand efficacy in cyclic-nucleotide-gated channels 612
Gareth R. Tibbs, Evan H. Goulding & Steven A. Siegelbaum
doi:10.1038/386612a0
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| | Release of gelatinase A during platelet activation mediates aggregation 616
Grzegorz Sawicki, Eduardo Salas, Jesus Murat, Helena Miszta-Lane & Marek W. Radomski
doi:10.1038/386616a0
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| | Caspase-1 processes IFN- -inducing factor and regulates LPS-induced IFN- production 619
Tariq Ghayur, Subhashis Banerjee, Margaret Hugunin, Deborah Butler, Linda Herzog, Adam Carter, Lucia Quintal, Les Sekut, Robert Talanian, Michael Paskind, Winnie Wong, Robert Kamen, Daniel Tracey & Hamish Alien
doi:10.1038/386619a0
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| | Genetic instability in colorectal cancers 623
C. Lengauer, K. W. Kinzler & B. Vogelstein
doi:10.1038/386623a0
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| | Activation of prokaryotic transcription through arbitrary protein−protein contacts 627
Simon L. Dove, J. Keith Joung & Ann Hochschild
doi:10.1038/386627a0
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