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Science 24 November 1995: 1277.
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Editorial:
BioMedicine '96: A New Partnership

Floyd E. Bloom
Science 24 November 1995: 1279.
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 ScienceScope|

Science 24 November 1995: 1287.

 Random Samples|Alabama Schools Disclaim Evolution * Worlds in Collision * Fewer Black Engineers, etc.

Science 24 November 1995: 1305.

 Gordon Research Conferences|

Science 24 November 1995: 1376-1377.

 AAAS News & Notes|

Science 24 November 1995: 1378.

 Book Reviews|Ancestral Passions, reviewed by J. Altmann * Nazi Science, H. Mehrtens * Vignette * Books Received * Publishers' Addresses

Science 24 November 1995: 1381-1384.
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 Products & Materials|

Science 24 November 1995: 1385-1386.

News and Comment

Biomedicine: Varmus Puts His Stamp on NIH

Eliot Marshall
Science 24 November 1995: 1288-1290.
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Double Duty at NIH

Eliot Marshall
Science 24 November 1995: 1289.
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Russia: Antarctic Research Ship Narrowly Saved

Andrey Allakhverdov
Science 24 November 1995: 1290.
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Global Change: Making Nice With the Nobelists

Andrew Lawler
Science 24 November 1995: 1291.
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Energy Policy: DOE Tritium Plan Burns Up Republicans

Andrew Lawler
Science 24 November 1995: 1291.
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Job Market: Semiconductors Open a New Niche for Plasma Researchers

James Glanz
Science 24 November 1995: 1292.
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Poland: Scientists Brace for Change As Ex-Communist Wins Election

Robert Koenig
Science 24 November 1995: 1293.
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Scientific Meetings: Interdisciplinary Talkfest Prompts Flurry of Questions

Jon Cohen
Science 24 November 1995: 1294.
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Research News

Astronomy: Closing In on Cosmic Expansion

Ann Finkbeiner
Science 24 November 1995: 1295-1296.
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Limb Development: Gene Ties Arthropods Together

Wade Roush
Science 24 November 1995: 1297.
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Paleoanthropology: Sexing Fossils: A Boy Named Lucy?

James Shreeve
Science 24 November 1995: 1297-1298.
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Physics: LEPing Up to Higher Energies

Gary Taubes
Science 24 November 1995: 1298.
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Chemistry: Prompting Complex Patterns to Form Themselves

Robert F. Service
Science 24 November 1995: 1299-1300.
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Paleontology: Embryos Provide Clues to Early Animal Evolution

Richard A. Kerr
Science 24 November 1995: 1300-1301.
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Geology: Faults Stretch Rocks--and Theorists' Imaginations

Richard A. Kerr
Science 24 November 1995: 1301.
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Wildlife Biology: Dogfight Erupts Over Animal Studies in the Serengeti

Virginia Morell
Science 24 November 1995: 1302-1303.
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Astronomy: Naked Quasars Get Dressed

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 24 November 1995: 1303.
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Letters

 Letters|Megabucks for Megajoules?: W. E. Parkins * Genetic Discrimination: J.-J. Duby; J. D. Gross; S. Holtzman and E. D. Hillback Jr. * E-Mail Privacy: P. B. C. Jones * The Nuclear Option: W. R. Dickinson * Intrachain Calcium Binding: S. Forsén and J. Stenflo

Science 24 November 1995: 1281-1285.
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Perspectives

The Chemistry of Size and Order on a Nanometer Scale

James R. Heath
Science 24 November 1995: 1315-1316.
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ENHANCED PERSPECTIVE: Ensemble Activity and Behavior--What's the Code?

Sam A. Deadwyler and Robert E. Hampson
Science 24 November 1995: 1316.
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Resistance to Radiation

Michael J. Daly and Kenneth W. Minton
Science 24 November 1995: 1318.
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Articles

Origin of Bilaterian Body Plans: Evolution of Developmental Regulatory Mechanisms

Eric H. Davidson, Kevin J. Peterson, and R. Andrew Cameron
Science 24 November 1995: 1319-1325.
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Research Article

Opposing Effects of ERK and JNK-p38 MAP Kinases on Apoptosis

Zhengui Xia, Martin Dickens, Joël Raingeaud, Roger J. Davis, and Michael E. Greenberg
Science 24 November 1995: 1326-1331.
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Reports

Cation Dynamics and Diffusion in Lithium Orthosilicate: Two-Dimensional Lithium-6 NMR

Zhi Xu and Jonathan F. Stebbins
Science 24 November 1995: 1332-1334.
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Self-Organization of CdSe Nanocrystallites into Three-Dimensional Quantum Dot Superlattices

C. B. Murray, C. R. Kagan, and M. G. Bawendi
Science 24 November 1995: 1335-1338.
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Creation of Theta-Auroras: The Isolation of Plasma Sheet Fragments in the Polar Cap

Patrick T. Newell and Ching-I. Meng
Science 24 November 1995: 1338-1341.
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Fission Track Evidence on the Initial Rifting of the Red Sea: Two Pulses, No Propagation

Gomaa I. Omar and Michael S. Steckler
Science 24 November 1995: 1341-1344.
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Relation of the 1992 Landers, California, Earthquake Sequence to Seismic Scattering

Justin Revenaugh
Science 24 November 1995: 1344-1347.
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North Atlantic Deepwater Temperature Change During Late Pliocene and Late Quaternary Climatic Cycles

Gary S. Dwyer, Thomas M. Cronin, Paul A. Baker, Maureen E. Raymo, Jeffrey S. Buzas, and Thierry Corrège
Science 24 November 1995: 1347-1351.
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Designer Cytokines: Targeting Actions to Cells of Choice

Aris N. Economides, Jeffrey V. Ravetch, George D. Yancopoulos, and Neil Stahl
Science 24 November 1995: 1351-1353.
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Sequence and Characterization of a Coactivator for the Steroid Hormone Receptor Superfamily

Sergio A. Oñate, Sophia Y. Tsai, Ming-Jer Tsai, and Bert W. O'Malley
Science 24 November 1995: 1354-1357.
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Self-Release of CLIP in Peptide Loading of HLA-DR Molecules

Harald Kropshofer, Anne B. Vogt, Lawrence J. Stern, and Günter J. Hämmerling
Science 24 November 1995: 1357-1359.
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Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte Lysis Inhibited by Viable HIV Mutants

Ute-Christiane Meier, Paul Klenerman, Philip Griffin, William James, Britta Köppe, Brendan Larder, Andrew McMichael, and Rodney Phillips
Science 24 November 1995: 1360-1362.
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The Development of Crustacean Limbs and the Evolution of Arthropods

Grace Panganiban, Angela Sebring, Lisa Nagy, and Sean Carroll
Science 24 November 1995: 1363-1366.
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Selective Opioid Inhibition of Small Nociceptive Neurons

Abraha Taddese, Seung-Yeol Nah, and Edwin W. McCleskey
Science 24 November 1995: 1366-1369.
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Regulated Expression of the Neural Cell Adhesion Molecule L1 by Specific Patterns of Neural Impulses

Kouichi Itoh, Beth Stevens, Melitta Schachner, and R. Douglas Fields
Science 24 November 1995: 1369-1372.
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Scope of the AIDS Epidemic in the United States

Philip S. Rosenberg
Science 24 November 1995: 1372-1375.
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