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Volume 342 Issue 6245, 2 November 1989

Opinion

  • The US Secretary of State is rightly cock-a-hoop about the prospects for arms control in the near future, but his vision of what follows is incomplete. But it is not too soon to be planning for the post-strategic world.

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  • The US human genome project must be mounted inter-nationally, and others must help pay for it.

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  • The British government needs to learn from the way it has damaged its own research enterprise.

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News

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Commentary

  • The concept of P-selection, by which graduates of the more prestigious (P) universities tend to publish longer than those from other (NP) universities, is herewith introduced into the literature.

    • Virginia Trimble
    Commentary
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Correspondence

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News & Views

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Scientific Correspondence

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Book Review

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Article

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Letter

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Product Review

  • Efforts to alter the mAb component of pharmaceuticals have focused on making them more human-lIke and smaller. Ultimately, the smallest molecular recognition unit derived from antibodies may be a single complementarity region.

    • J. D. Rodwell
    Product Review
  • Highlights at next week's American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting in Houston, Texas include an interactive 3-D graphics software package and formuIin-free tissue fixative.

    • Diane Gershon
    Product Review
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Employment Review

  • The demographic changes predicted for the 1990s may not have the effects that had been expected as there will be a rising proportion of students from non-traditional backgrounds.

    • Richard Pearson
    Employment Review
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