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| | National vandalism at the US Geological Survey 631
An ill-considered library cut proposed last week would devastate an irreplaceable resource for the Earth sciences and for related industries, and should be vigorously opposed.
doi:10.1038/386631a0
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| | More freedom in the Framework 631
The European Commission should have more independence in its research programme management.
doi:10.1038/386631b0
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| | News | |
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| | Researchers find silver lining in delay to work on space station 633
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/386633a0
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| | Canada swaps robot arm for lab space 633
David Spurgeon
doi:10.1038/386633b0
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| | Journals joust over policy on authors' interests 634
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/386634a0
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| | UK astronomers hit out at funding council 635
Ehsan Masood
doi:10.1038/386635a0
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| | Copyright treaties threaten information flow, says NRC 635
Tony Reichhardt
doi:10.1038/386635b0
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| | Budget cuts force Sweden to consider CERN pull-out 636
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/386636a0
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| | Body work leads to UK sculptor's arrest 636
doi:10.1038/386636b0
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| | French law would help scientists to go into business 636
Eric Glover
doi:10.1038/386636c0
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| | Library cuts bring tremors to geologists 637
Laura Garwin
doi:10.1038/386637a0
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| | Medical centre repays 'overbilled' $15.5m 637
Meredith Wadman
doi:10.1038/386637b0
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| | Fishermen fight rangers in conservation battle for Galápagos 638
Alison Abbott
doi:10.1038/386638a0
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| | 'Ark evidence' challenged in Sydney court 638
Peter Pockley
doi:10.1038/386638b0
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| | News in Brief | |
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| | News in brief 639
doi:10.1038/386639a0
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| | Correspondence | |
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| | Harmonizing European patent practice 641
Alastair Kent, Nick Scott-Ram & Sandy Thomas
doi:10.1038/386641a0
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| | Patronomy pioneers 641
Gerhard Haszprunar
doi:10.1038/386641b0
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| | Learning from history 642
Mark Cantley
doi:10.1038/386642a0
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| | Deserving of trust 642
Ahvie Herskowitz
doi:10.1038/386642b0
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| | Unequal letters 643
K. Thorsten Jaekel
doi:10.1038/386643a0
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| | Problems with stockpile stewardship 645
US government proposals for maintaining competence in nuclear weapons while observing a test ban have serious flaws. An approach based on remanufacturing proven weapons when necessary offers significant advantages.
Ray E. Kidder
doi:10.1038/386645a0
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| | From the Labrador Sea to global change 649
An understanding is emerging of the powerful changes that have occurred in convection in the North Atlantic. That understanding provides pointers not only to the regional influence of such changes, but how they may bear on global shifts in climate.
Bob Dickson
doi:10.1038/386649a0
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| | The first visible burst 650
Bohdan Paczy ski & Ralph Wijers
doi:10.1038/386650a0
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| | Genesis of snakes in exodus from the sea 651
Nicholas C. Fraser
doi:10.1038/386651a0
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| | Charting orientation territories 652
Rachel O.L. Wong
doi:10.1038/386652a0
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| | The cheetah's time has come 653
Helen Phillips
doi:10.1038/386653a0
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| | Bog standards in Minnesota 655
Peter D. Moore
doi:10.1038/386655a0
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| | 100 YEARS AGO 655
doi:10.1038/386655b0
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| | Long drops in free fall 656
Stephen Battersby
doi:10.1038/386656a0
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| | The importance of being unfolded 657
Kevin W. Plaxco & Michael Gro
doi:10.1038/386657a0
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| | A greener north 659
Inez Fung
doi:10.1038/386659a0
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| | Hosts and parasitoids in space 660
H. C. J. Godfray & M. P. Hassell
doi:10.1038/386660a0
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| | Radical nutrition 661
David Jones
doi:10.1038/386661a0
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| | Obituary: Edward M. Purcell (1912−97) Pioneer in nuclear magnetic resonance and in radioastronomy 662
Nicolaas Bloembergen
doi:10.1038/386662a0
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| | A prokaryotic phytochrome 663
Jon Hughes, Tilman Lamparter, Franz Mittmann, Elmar Hartmann, Wolfgang Gärtner, Annegret Wilde & Thomas Börner
doi:10.1038/386663a0
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| | Circadian clock in Malpighian tubules 664
Jadwiga M. Giebultowicz & David M. Hege
doi:10.1038/386664a0
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| | Carbon isotope evidence for early life 665
J. M. Eiler, S. J. Mojzsis & G. Arrhenius
doi:10.1038/386665a0
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| | Clouds, precipitation and temperature range 665
Aiguo Dai, Anthony D. Del Genio & Inez Y. Fung
doi:10.1038/386665b0
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| | Book Reviews | |
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| | Shrinking minds and swollen heads 667
V. S. Ramachandran & J.J. Smythies reviews The Encyclopedia of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Psychoanalysis
edited by
Benjamin B. Wolman and The Blackwell Dictionary of Neuropsychology
edited by
J. Graham Beaumont, Pamela M. Kenealy & Marcus J. C. Rogers
doi:10.1038/386667a0
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| | Chilling tales of winters past 667
doi:10.1038/386667b0
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| | The cultures of genetics 668
Benno Müller-Hill reviews La Souris, Ia Mouche et I'Homme
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François Jacob
doi:10.1038/386668a0
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| | Digging up the past 669
Warwick Bray reviews Eyewitness to Discovery
edited by
Brian M. Fagan and The Oxford Companion to Archaeology
edited by
Brian M. Fagan
doi:10.1038/386669a0
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| | An audience with a pharaoh 669
doi:10.1038/386669b0
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| | In retrospect 670
Keith Devlin reviews Syntactic Structures
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Noam Chomsky
doi:10.1038/386670a0
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| | Progress | |
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| | Mechanisms of angiogenesis 671
Werner Risau
doi:10.1038/386671a0
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| | Surprisingly rapid spreading of newly formed intermediate waters across the North Atlantic Ocean 675
Alexander Sy, Monika Rhein, John R. N. Lazier, Klaus Peter Koltermann, Jens Meincke, Alfred Putzka & Manfred Bersch
doi:10.1038/386675a0
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| | Disruption of orientation tuning visual cortex by artificially correlated neuronal activity 680
Michael Weliky & Lawrence C. Katz
doi:10.1038/386680a0
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| | Transient optical emission from the error box of the  -ray burst of 28 February 1997 686
J. van Paradijs, P. J. Groot, T. Galama, C. Kouveliotou, R. G. Strom, J. Telting, R. G. M. Rutten, G. J. Fishman, C. A. Meegan, M. Pettini, N. Tanvir, J. Bloom, H. Pedersen, H. U. Nørdgaard-Nielsen, M. Linden-Vørnle, J. Melnick, G. van der Steene, M. Bremer, R. Naber, J. Heise, J. in't Zand, E. Costa, M. Feroci, L. Piro, F. Frontera, G. Zavattini, L. Nicastro, E. Palazzi, K. Bennet, L. Hanlon & A. Parmar
doi:10.1038/386686a0
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| | Momentum creation by vortices in superfluid 3He as a model of primordial baryogenesis 689
T. D. C. Bevan, A. J. Manninen, J. B. Cook, J. R. Hook, H. E. Hall, T. Vachaspati & G. E. Volovik
doi:10.1038/386689a0
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| | Morphogenesis of shapes and surface patterns in mesoporous silica 692
Hong Yang, Neil Coombs & Geoffrey A. Ozin
doi:10.1038/386692a0
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| | Conformational identification of individual adsorbed molecules with the STM 696
T. A. Jung, R. R. Schlittler & J. K. Gimzewski
doi:10.1038/386696a0
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| | Increased plant growth in the northern high latitudes from 1981 to 1991 698
R. B. Myneni, C. D. Keeling, C. J. Tucker, G. Asrar & R. R. Nemani
doi:10.1038/386698a0
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| | Large-scale tectonic deformation inferred from small earthquakes 702
Falk Amelung & Geoffrey King
doi:10.1038/386702a0
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| | A snake with legs from the marine Cretaceous of the Middle East 705
Michael W. Caldwell & Michael S. Y. Lee
doi:10.1038/386705a0
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| | Insect parasitoid species respond to forest structure at different spatial scales 710
Jens Roland & Philip D. Taylor
doi:10.1038/386710a0
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Antonio Toscani, Richard V. Mettus, Robert Coupland, Henry Simpkins, Judith Litvin, Joanne Orth, Kimi S. Hatton & E. Premkumar Reddy
doi:10.1038/386713a0
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Martin Hrab de Angelis, Joseph Mclntyre II & Achim Gossler
doi:10.1038/386717a0
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| | NMDA-receptor regulation of substance P release from primary afferent nociceptors 721
Hantao Liu, Patrick W. Mantyh & Allan I. Basbaum
doi:10.1038/386721a0
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| | Induction of sodium channel clustering by oligodendrocytes 724
M. R. Kaplan, A. Meyer-Franke, S. Lambert, V. Bennett, I. D. Duncan, S. R. Levinson & B. A. Barres
doi:10.1038/386724a0
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| | Suppression of signalling through transcription factor NF-AT by interactions between calcineurin and Bcl-2 728
Futoshi Shibasaki, Eisaku Kondo, Tadaatsu Akagi & Frank McKeon
doi:10.1038/386728a0
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| | Functional interaction between DNA-PK and c-Abl in response to DNA damage 732
Surender Kharbanda, Pramod Pandey, Shengfang Jin, Satoshi Inoue, Ajit Bharti, Zhi-Min Yuan, Ralph Weichselbaum, David Weaver & Donald Kufe
doi:10.1038/386732a0
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Drosophila CBP is a co-activator of cubitus interruptus in hedgehog signalling 735
Hiroshi Akimaru, Yang Chen, Ping Dai, De-Xing Hou, Maki Nonaka, Sarah M. Smolik, Steve Armstrong, Richard H. Goodman & Shunsuke Ishii
doi:10.1038/386735a0
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| | Airborne signalling by methyl salicylate in plant pathogen resistance 738
Vladimir Shulaev, Paul Silverman & Ilya Raskin
doi:10.1038/386738a0
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| | Evidence for life on Earth before 3,800 million years ago 738
S. J. Mojzsis, G. Arrhenius, K. D. McKeegan, T. M. Harrison, A. P. Nutman & C. R. L. Friend
doi:10.1038/386738b0
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| | Cloning of a disintegrin metalloproteinase that processes precursor tumour-necrosis factor- 738
Marcia L. Moss, S.-L. Catherine Jin, Marcos E. Milla, D. Mark Bickett, William Burkhart, H. Luke Carter, Wen-Ji Chen, William C. , John R. Didsbury, Daniel Hassler, Christine R. Hoffman, Thomas A. Kost, Millard H. Lambert, M. Anthony Leesnitzer, Philip McCauley, Gerard McGeehan, Justin Mitchell, Mary Moyer, Gregory Pahel, Warren Rocque, Laurie K. Overton, Frank Schoenen, Theresa Seaton, Jui-Lan Su, Janet Warner, Derril Willard & J. David Becherer
doi:10.1038/386738c0
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| | Stochastic resonance in non-dynamical systems without response thresholds 738
Sergey M. Bezrukov & Igor Vodyanoy
doi:10.1038/386738d0
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| | New on the Market | |
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| | Implements of immunology 739
Antibodies and assays are on review in this issue, including two human platelet antibodies, a benchtop antibody production system, several new peptide inhibitors and fluorogenic substrates for measuring apoptosis enzymes.
doi:10.1038/386739a0
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