This Week in Science

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Science 13 December 1996: 1813.
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Editorial:
Preparing Children for the Future

Philip H. Abelson
Science 13 December 1996: 1819-0.
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 Products & Materials|

Science 13 December 1996: 1935-0.
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News and Comment

Education: Green Education Under Fire

Karen F. Schmidt
Science 13 December 1996: 1828-1830.
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Budget '98: Gibbons Warns of Decline in R&D

Andrew Lawler
Science 13 December 1996: 1830-0.
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Energy Research: Political Sails Are Up for Revamping DOE

Andrew Lawler
Science 13 December 1996: 1831-0.
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United Kingdom: Lab Privatization Program in Tatters

Nigel Williams
Science 13 December 1996: 1831-0.
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International Collaboration: Funding Inequality Threatens Novel Bioscience Program

Nigel Williams
Science 13 December 1996: 1832-1833.
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Human Frontier Science Program: Collaboration Across Continents

Nigel Williams
Science 13 December 1996: 1833-0.
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ScienceScope

Science 13 December 1996: 1827.
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Random Samples

Science 13 December 1996: 1843.
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Research News

Computers: Can Chip Devices Keep Shrinking?

Robert F. Service
Science 13 December 1996: 1834-1836.
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Genetics: Fly Sex Drive Traced to fru Gene

Wade Roush
Science 13 December 1996: 1836-0.
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Astronomy: Could Stellar Ash Revise Cosmic Ages?

James Glanz
Science 13 December 1996: 1837-0.
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Endocrine Disrupters: Scientists Angle for Answers

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 13 December 1996: 1837-1838.
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Alzheimer's Research: Dissecting How Presenilins Function--and Malfunction

Jean Marx
Science 13 December 1996: 1838-1840.
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Computing: Do-It-Yourself Supercomputers

Gary Taubes
Science 13 December 1996: 1840-0.
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Human Origins: Homo erectus in Java: A 250,000-Year Anachronism

Ann Gibbons
Science 13 December 1996: 1841-1842.
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Paleontology: Unscrambling Time in the Fossil Record

Richard A. Kerr
Science 13 December 1996: 1842-0.
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Letters

 This Week's Letters

Science 13 December 1996: 1820-1825.
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 Plagiarism in China

Cong Cao
Science 13 December 1996: 1820-1825.
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 U.S.-Chinese Collaborations

Paul R. Renne
Science 13 December 1996: 1820-1825.
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 Paleoindians in the Brazilian Amazon

Stuart Fiedel;, Tom D. Dillehay;, Betty J. Meggers;, and Anna C. Roosevelt
Science 13 December 1996: 1820-1825.
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 Plagiarism in China

Cong Cao
Science 13 December 1996: 1821.
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 U.S.-Chinese Collaborations

Paul R. Renne
Science 13 December 1996: 1821.
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 Paleoindians in the Brazilian Amazon

Stuart Fiedel
Science 13 December 1996: 1821-1822.
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 Paleoindians in the Brazilian Amazon

Tom D. Dillehay
Science 13 December 1996: 1822-1823.
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 Paleoindians in the Brazilian Amazon

Betty J. Meggers
Science 13 December 1996: 1823.
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 Response: Paleoindians in the Brazilian Amazon

Anna C. Roosevelt
Science 13 December 1996: 1823-1934.
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Books et al.

 A Classical Physicist: The Life and Legacy of G. I. Taylor.

Carl Wunsch
Science 13 December 1996: 1846.
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 Detections from Space: 3 K.

Scott Dodelson
Science 13 December 1996: 1847-1848.
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 Molecular Aides: The Chaperonins.

Richard I. Morimoto
Science 13 December 1996: 1848.
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Perspectives

Enhanced: Learning Rediscovered

Elizabeth Bates and Jeffrey Elman
Science 13 December 1996: 1849-1850.
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Crossing the Hydrophobic Barrier--Insertion of Membrane Proteins

Donald M. Engelman
Science 13 December 1996: 1850-1851.
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Plasticity of a Different Feather?

Allison J. Doupe
Science 13 December 1996: 1851-1853.
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The Metal-Insulator Transition in Correlated Disordered Systems

Elihu Abrahams and Gabriel Kotliar
Science 13 December 1996: 1853-1854.
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Articles

Functions of Ceramide in Coordinating Cellular Responses to Stress

Yusuf A. Hannun
Science 13 December 1996: 1855-1859.
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Research Article

Structure of Staphylococcal -Hemolysin, a Heptameric Transmembrane Pore

Langzhou Song, Michael R. Hobaugh, Christopher Shustak, Stephen Cheley, Hagan Bayley, and J. Eric Gouaux
Science 13 December 1996: 1859-1865.
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Reports

Forcing of Atlantic Equatorial and Subpolar Millennial Cycles by Precession

Andrew McIntyre and Barbara Molfino
Science 13 December 1996: 1867-1870.
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Latest Homo erectus of Java: Potential Contemporaneity with Homo sapiens in Southeast Asia

C. C. Swisher, III, W. J. Rink, S. C. Antón, H. P. Schwarcz, G. H. Curtis, A. Suprijo, and Widiasmoro
Science 13 December 1996: 1870-1874.
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Dynamical Signature of the Mott-Hubbard Transition in Ni(S,Se)₂

A. Husmann, X. Yao, D. S. Jin, Y. V. Zastavker, T. F. Rosenbaum, and J. M. Honig
Science 13 December 1996: 1874-1876.
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Hf-W Isotopic Evidence for Rapid Accretion and Differentiation in the Early Solar System

Der-Chuen Lee and Alex N. Halliday
Science 13 December 1996: 1876-1879.
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Polymorphs of Alumina Predicted by First Principles: Putting Pressure on the Ruby Pressure Scale

Kendall T. Thomson, Renata M. Wentzcovitch, and Mark S. T. Bukowinski
Science 13 December 1996: 1880-1882.
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Planet Within a Planet: Rotation of the Inner Core of Earth

Wei-jia Su, Adam M. Dziewonski, and Raymond Jeanloz
Science 13 December 1996: 1883-1887.
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Rotation and Magnetism of Earth's Inner Core

Gary A. Glatzmaier and Paul H. Roberts
Science 13 December 1996: 1887-1891.
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Tomography of the Source Area of the 1995 Kobe Earthquake: Evidence for Fluids at the Hypocenter?

Dapeng Zhao, Hiroo Kanamori, Hiroaki Negishi, and Douglas Wiens
Science 13 December 1996: 1891-1894.
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Paleontology and Chronology of Two Evolutionary Transitions by Hybridization in the Bahamian Land Snail Cerion

Glenn A. Goodfriend and Stephen Jay Gould
Science 13 December 1996: 1894-1897.
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Nanocapillarity and Chemistry in Carbon Nanotubes

D. Ugarte, A. Châtelain, and W. A. de Heer
Science 13 December 1996: 1897-1899.
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Ca²⁺-Dependent Protein Kinases and Stress Signal Transduction in Plants

Jen Sheen
Science 13 December 1996: 1900-1902.
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NF-AT-Driven Interleukin-4 Transcription Potentiated by NIP45

Martin R. Hodge, Hyung J. Chun, Jyothi Rengarajan, Aya Alt, Rebecca Lieberson, and Laurie H. Glimcher
Science 13 December 1996: 1903-1905.
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CD5-Mediated Negative Regulation of Antigen Receptor-Induced Growth Signals in B-1 B Cells

Gabriel Bikah, Jacqueline Carey, John R. Ciallella, Alexander Tarakhovsky, and Subbarao Bondada
Science 13 December 1996: 1906-1909.
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Quantal Duration of Auditory Memories

Sek Jin Chew, David S. Vicario, and Fernando Nottebohm
Science 13 December 1996: 1909-1914.
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Ethylene as a Signal Mediating the Wound Response of Tomato Plants

P. J. O'Donnell, C. Calvert, R. Atzorn, C. Wasternack, H. M. O. Leyser, and D. J. Bowles
Science 13 December 1996: 1914-1917.
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Immunologic NO Synthase: Elevation in Severe AIDS Dementia and Induction by HIV-1 gp41

D. Cory Adamson, Brigitte Wildemann, Masayuki Sasaki, Jonathan D. Glass, Justin C. McArthur, Vesselin I. Christov, Ted M. Dawson, and Valina L. Dawson
Science 13 December 1996: 1917-1921.
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Reduction of Voltage-Dependent Mg²⁺ Blockade of NMDA Current in Mechanically Injured Neurons

Lei Zhang, Beverly A. Rzigalinski, Earl F. Ellis, and Leslie S. Satin
Science 13 December 1996: 1921-1923.
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Multiple Extracellular Elements of CCR5 and HIV-1 Entry: Dissociation from Response to Chemokines

Robert E. Atchison, Jennifa Gosling, Felipe S. Monteclaro, Christian Franci, Laura Digilio, Israel F. Charo, and Mark A. Goldsmith
Science 13 December 1996: 1924-1926.
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Statistical Learning by 8-Month-Old Infants

Jenny R. Saffran, Richard N. Aslin, and Elissa L. Newport
Science 13 December 1996: 1926-1928.
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Technical Comments

DNA Looping and Lac Repressor-CAP Interaction

M. Perros, T. A. Steitz;, M. G. Fried, J. M. Hudson;, and M. Lewis
Science 13 December 1996: 1929-1932.
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 DNA Looping and Lac Repressor—CAP Interaction

Michael G. Fried and J. Michael Hudson
Science 13 December 1996: 1930-1931.
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 Response: DNA Looping and Lac Repressor—CAP Interaction

Mitchell Lewis
Science 13 December 1996: 1931-1932.
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The Loss of Atmosphere from Mars

R. E. Johnson, M. Liu;, D. M. Kass, and Y. L. Yung
Science 13 December 1996: 1932-1933.
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 The Loss of Atmosphere from Mars

R. E. Johnson and M. Liu
Science 13 December 1996: 1932.
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 Response: The Loss of Atmosphere from Mars

D. M. Kass and Y. L. Yung
Science 13 December 1996: 1932-1933.
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Alzheimer's Precursor Protein and the Use of Bathocuproine for Determining Reduction of Copper(II)

L. M. Sayre; and G. Multhaup
Science 13 December 1996: 1933-1934.
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 Response: Alzheimer's Precursor Protein and the Use of Bathocuproine for Determining Reduction of Copper(II)

Gerd Multhaup
Science 13 December 1996: 1934.
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