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BERNARD HEYMANN, ANDREAS ENGEL & YOSHINORI FUJIYOSHI http://www.nature.com/nlink/v407/n6804/abs/407599a0_fs.html ------------------------------ letters to nature ------------------------------ Efficient delivery of meteorites to the Earth from a wide range of asteroid parent bodies D. VOKROUHLICKÝ AND P. FARINELLA http://www.nature.com/nlink/v407/n6804/abs/407606a0_fs.html Trapping and emission of photons by a single defect in a photonic bandgap structure SUSUMU NODA, ALONGKARN CHUTINAN & MASAHIRO IMADA http://www.nature.com/nlink/v407/n6804/abs/407608a0_fs.html Colloidal ordering from phase separation in a liquid- crystalline continuous phase JEAN-CHRISTOPHE LOUDET, PHILIPPE BAROIS & PHILIPPE POULIN http://www.nature.com/nlink/v407/n6804/abs/407611a0_fs.html Patterning of polymer-supported metal films by microcutting NATALIE STUTZMANN, THEO A. 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DOWDY http://www.nature.com/nlink/v407/n6804/abs/407642a0_fs.html Role for the p53 homologue p73 in E2F-1-induced apoptosis MEREDITH IRWIN, MARIA CARMEN MARIN, ANDREW C. PHILLIPS, RATNAM S. SEELAN, DAVID I. SMITH, WANGUO LIU, ELSA R. FLORES, KENNETH Y. TSAI, TYLER JACKS, KAREN H. VOUSDEN & WILLIAM G. KAELIN http://www.nature.com/nlink/v407/n6804/abs/407645a0_fs.html S-RNase uptake by compatible pollen tubes in gametophytic self-incompatibility DOAN-TRUNG LUU, XIKE QIN, DAVID MORSE & MARIO CAPPADOCIA http://www.nature.com/nlink/v407/n6804/abs/407649a0_fs.html The large-scale organization of metabolic networks H. JEONG, B. TOMBOR, R. ALBERT, Z. N. OLTVAI & A.-L. BARABÁSI http://www.nature.com/nlink/v407/n6804/abs/407651a0_fs.html erratum: Determining multiple length scales in rocks YI-QIAO SONG, SEUNGOH RYU & PABITRA N. 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