Table of contents
Volume 388 Number 6639 pp211-308
In this issue (17 July 1997)
Opinion
Two cheers for the multilateral malaria initiative p211
A major health crisis is being belatedly addressed by those who can make a difference. Real progress can be anticipated — provided participants act with regard for each others' constraints and experience.
Martian life to be avoided p211
Sending people to Mars is a bad idea.
News
Asian economies lead increase in carbon dioxide emissions p213
Ehsan Masood
Technology programme thinks small p213
Colin Macilwain
NASA seeks 'fair exchange' of technical data p214
Tony Reichhardt
Canada wins biotech boost of cancer vaccine project p214
David Spurgeon
US funds for ITER safe for one more year p214
Colin Macilwain
Mars rover meets rock with complex past p215
Stephen Battersby
NASA 'must fill gaps' to finalize streamlined plans for human expedition p215
Tony Reichhardt
Japan's life sciences take integrated road p216
Robert Triendl and David Swinbanks
Clinton backs Congressional efforts on genetic discrimination p216
Sally Lehrman
'USA should fund half transatlantic links' p217
Alison Abbott and Colin Macilwain
Encryption technology divides policy-makers p217
NIH urged to address chimp care 'crisis' p218
Colin Macilwain
Small increase planned in German budget p218
Alison Abbott
Malaria meeting charts rocky path ahead p219
Declan Butler
Correspondence
Limit the number of grants per person p222
Frederick Sachs
True to Tony Blair p222
Anne Campbell, (Member of Parliament for Cambridge)
Getting ahead of one's self p222
Giorgio G. C. Palumbo
Capital Letters p222
G. P. Findlay
Commentary
Need for change in Japan's universities p223
Japan's universities need strong leadership to give young scientists, foreign staff and women the opportunities that are denied them. Academics should have more of a sense of crisis over what is an unacceptable situation.
News and Views
A molecular handle on the Neanderthals p225
The sequencing of mitochondrial DNA from Neanderthal fossil bone is a terrific achievement. Among the conclusions to be drawn from the data is that there was a period of more than 500,000 years during which Neanderthals and the line leading to modern humans evolved independently.
Ryk Ward and Chris Stringer
Volcanology: The giant Popocatépetl stirs p227
Servando De la Cruz-Reyna and Claus Siebe
Spongiform encephalopathies: Tracking turncoat prion proteins p228
Colin L. Masters and Konrad Beyreuther
Symbiosis: Making light work of adaptation p229
Robert W. Buddemeier
Immunodeficiency viruses: Spoilt for choice of co-receptors p230
Paul R. Clapham and Robin A. Weiss
100 and 50 years ago p232
Asteroids: Made of craters p232
Stephen Battersby
Familial Parkinson's disease: The awakening of 
-synuclein p232
Michel Goedert
Daedalus: Guided lightning p233
David Jones
Obituary: Dorothy Hill (1907-97) p234
Peter A. Jell
Scientific Correspondence
Fatigue, alcohol and performance impairment p235
Drew Dawson and Kathryn Reid
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Entropy difference between crystal phases p235
P. G. Bolhuis, D. Frenkel, Siun-Choun Mau and David A. Huse
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Reply: Entropy difference between crystal phases p236
L. V. Woodcock
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Metallothionein in snail Cd and Cu metabolism p237
Reinhard Dallinger, Burkhard Berger, Peter Hunziger and Jeremias H. R. Kgi
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A new SIV co-receptor, STRL33 p238
Ghalib Alkhatib, Fang Liao, Edward A. Berger, Joshua M. Farber and Keith W. C. Peden
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Book Reviews
Tales of memory and imagination p239
Stuart Sutherland reviews Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Culture by Elaine Showalter and Junk Psychology: Fallacies in Studies of 'Repression' and Childhood Trauma by Harrison G. Pope,, Jr
Inside knowledge p240
Andrew Whiten reviews Interpreting Minds: The Evolution of a Practice by Radu Bogdan
Picnic in the park p240
Ways of seeing p240
John M. Kennedy reviews Art and Representation: New Principles in the Analysis of Pictures by John Willats
Metallurgy — and other animals p242
Paul Calvert reviews Stuff: The Materials the World is Made of by Ivan Amato
Article
A multivalent PDZ-domain protein assembles signalling complexes in a G-protein-coupled cascade p243
Susan Tsunoda, Jimena Sierralta, Yumei Sun, Ruth Bodner, Emiko Suzuki, Ann Becker, Michael Socolich and Charles S. Zuker
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Letters to Nature
A high deuterium abundance at redshift z = 0.7 p250
J. K. Webb, R. F. Carswell, K. M. Lanzetta, R. Ferlet, M. Lemoine, A. Vidal-Madjar and D. V. Bowen
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Chaotic dynamics of falling disks p252
Stuart B. Field, M. Klaus, M. G. Moore and Franco Nori
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Conductivity enhancement in single-walled carbon nanotube bundles doped with K and Br p255
R. S. Lee, H. J. Kim, J. E. Fischer, A. Thess and R. E. Smalley
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Evidence for charge transfer in doped carbon nanotube bundles from Raman scattering p257
A. M. Rao, P. C. Eklund, Shunji Bandow, A. Thess and R. E. Smalley
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Seismological evidence for three-dimensional melt migration beneath the East Pacific Rise p259
Robert A. Dunn and Douglas R. Toomey
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Nearly synchronous climate change in the Northern Hemisphere during the last glacial termination p263
Larry Benson, James Burdett, Steve Lund, Michaele Kashgarian and Scott Mensing
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Landscape ecology of algal symbionts creates variation in episodes of coral bleaching p265
Rob Rowan, Nancy Knowlton, Andrew Baker and Javier Jara
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A polymorphism maintained by opposite patterns of parasitism and predation p269
John E. Losey, Jason Harmon, Ford Ballantyne and Carrie Brown
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Multistability of cognitive maps in the hippocampus of old rats p272
Carol A. Barnes, Matthew S. Suster, Jiemin Shen and Bruce L. McNaughton
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cAMP-induced switching in turning direction of nerve growth cones p275
Hong-jun Song, Guo-li Ming and Mu-ming Poo
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Synapse specificity of long-term potentiation breaks down at short distances p279
Florian Engert and Tobias Bonhoeffer
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Molecular assessment of the potential transmissibilities of BSE and scrapie to humans p285
Gregory J. Raymond, James Hope, David A. Kocisko, Suzette A. Priola, Lynne D. Raymond, Alex Bossers, James Ironside, Robert G. Will, Shu G. Chen, Robert B. Petersen, Pierluigi Gambetti, Richard Rubenstein, Mari A. Smits, Peter T. Lansbury, Jr and Byron Caughey
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A minK–HERG complex regulates the cardiac potassium current IKr p289
Thomas V. McDonald, Zhihui Yu, Zhen Ming, Eugen Palma, Marian B. Meyers, Ke-Wei Wang, Steve A. N. Goldstein and Glenn I. Fishman
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P. falciparum rosetting mediated by a parasite-variant erythrocyte membrane protein and complement-receptor 1 p292
J. Alexandra Rowe, Joann M. Moulds, Christopher I. Newbold and Louis H. Miller
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Expression cloning of new receptors used by simian and human immunodeficiency viruses p296
HongKui Deng, Derya Unutmaz, Vineet N. KewalRamani and Dan R. Littman
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X-linked IAP is a direct inhibitor of cell-death proteases p300
Quinn L. Deveraux, Ryosuke Takahashi, Guy S. Salvesen and John C. Reed
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Drosophila Mad binds to DNA and directly mediates activation of vestigial by Decapentaplegic p304
Jaeseob Kim, Kirby Johnson, Hui Ju Chen, Sean Carroll and Allen Laughon
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erratum: Differential activation of transcription factors induced by Ca2+ response amplitude and duration p308
Ricardo E. Dolmetsch, Richard S. Lewis, Christopher C. Goodnow and James I. Healy
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erratum: Large-scale tectonic deformation inferred from small earthquakes p308
Falk Amelung and Geoffrey King
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