This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
Science 3 January 1997: 7.
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Editorial:
Continuous Innovation in Health

Kenneth I. Shine
Science 3 January 1997: 9-0.
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 Book Reviews|Racing to the Beginning of the Road, reviewed by G. Klein * Molecular Zoology, R. L. Honeycutt, etc.

Science 3 January 1997: 36-37.

 Products & Materials|

Science 3 January 1997: 97-0.

News and Comment

Science Policy: U.K. Universities: Jostling for Rank

Nigel Williams
Science 3 January 1997: 18-19.
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Particle Physics: CERN Sets Sights on an Early LHC

Alexander Hellemans
Science 3 January 1997: 19-0.
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Environment: The Pentagon Steps Up the Battle to Save Biodiversity

Gretchen Vogel
Science 3 January 1997: 20-0.
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Science and the Law: Breast-Implant Ruling Sends a Message

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 3 January 1997: 21-0.
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Japanese Budget: Basic Science Spending to Jump in 1997

Dennis Normile
Science 3 January 1997: 21-0.
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Human Genome Project: Panel Urges Cloning Ethics Boards

Eliot Marshall
Science 3 January 1997: 22-0.
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Russia: Duma Holds Down Science Budget

Andrey Allakhverdov and Vladimir Pokrovsky
Science 3 January 1997: 22-0.
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Canada: Drug Industry Misses Target for Funding Work on Campus

Wayne Kondro
Science 3 January 1997: 23-24.
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Cabinet Appointments: Clinton Picks Peña to Lead Energy

Andrew Lawler
Science 3 January 1997: 24-0.
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Australia: New Funds Plant Seeds for Genome Research Effort

Patricia Kahn
Science 3 January 1997: 25-0.
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Marine Geoscience: Navigating Shrinking Financial Seas

Virginia Morell
Science 3 January 1997: 26-0.
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ScienceScope

Science 3 January 1997: 17.
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Random Samples

Science 3 January 1997: 35.
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Research News

Cell Biology: The Many Faces of WAS Protein

Carol Featherstone
Science 3 January 1997: 27-28.
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Social Science: Evolutionary Psychologists Look for Roots of Cognition

Nigel Williams
Science 3 January 1997: 29-30.
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Social Science: Selling Darwinism in a Citadel of Social Science

Nigel Williams
Science 3 January 1997: 29-0.
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Physics: Improbable Particles--or Artifacts?

Andrew Watson
Science 3 January 1997: 30-31.
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Materials Science: Researchers Construct Cell Look-Alikes

Robert F. Service
Science 3 January 1997: 31-0.
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Neuroscience: New Knockout Mice Point to Molecular Basis of Memory

Wade Roush
Science 3 January 1997: 32-33.
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Computer Science: Hedging Bets on Hard Problems

Charles Seife
Science 3 January 1997: 33-0.
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Letters

 This Week's Letters

Science 3 January 1997: 11-14.
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 Disposing of Excess Plutonium

Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky
Science 3 January 1997: 11-14.
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 Eco-Friendly Coffee Farming

Daniel B. Katz; and Allen M. Young
Science 3 January 1997: 11-14.
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 Approaches to AIDS Research

Ronald C. Desrosiers
Science 3 January 1997: 11-14.
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 Swedish Biomedical Research Funding

Kerstin Eliasson
Science 3 January 1997: 11-14.
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 Responsibility of Co-Authors

Michael K. Gilson;, Tobias I. Baskin;, Jay M. Pasachoff;, and Craig Loehle
Science 3 January 1997: 11-14.
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 Corrections and Clarifications

Science 3 January 1997: 11-14.
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Perspectives

Enhanced: Evidence for Life on Earth More Than 3850 Million Years Ago

Heinrich D. Holland
Science 3 January 1997: 38-39.
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Germanyl and Silyl Cations--Free at Last

Paul von Ragué Schleyer
Science 3 January 1997: 39-40.
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Pax Polio

Harry F. Hull
Science 3 January 1997: 40-41.
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Asthma--An Epidemic in the Absence of Infection?

William O. C. M. Cookson and Miriam F. Moffatt
Science 3 January 1997: 41-42.
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There Are GAPS and There Are GAPS

Ravi Iyengar
Science 3 January 1997: 42-43.
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 WebWatch

Science 3 January 1997: 43-0.
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Articles

Mixed Self-Assembled Monolayers in Chemical Separations

Mary J. Wirth, R. W. Peter Fairbank, and Hafeez O. Fatunmbi
Science 3 January 1997: 44-47.
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Reports

A Possible Intracluster Origin for the Excess Soft X-ray Component in Some Clusters

A. C. Fabian
Science 3 January 1997: 48-49.
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Generation of X-rays from Comet C/Hyakutake 1996 B2

R. Bingham, J. M. Dawson, V. D. Shapiro, D. A. Mendis, and B. J. Kellett
Science 3 January 1997: 49-51.
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An Economics Approach to Hard Computational Problems

Bernardo A. Huberman, Rajan M. Lukose, and Tad Hogg
Science 3 January 1997: 51-54.
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Femtosecond Dynamics of Excited-State Evolution in [Ru(bpy)₃]²⁺

Niels H. Damrauer, Giulio Cerullo, Alvin Yeh, Thomas R. Boussie, Charles V. Shank, and James K. McCusker
Science 3 January 1997: 54-57.
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Effects of Monomer Structure on Their Organization and Polymerization in a Smectic Liquid Crystal

C. Allan Guymon, Erik N. Hoggan, Noel A. Clark, Thomas P. Rieker, David M. Walba, and Christopher N. Bowman
Science 3 January 1997: 57-59.
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A Free Cyclotrigermenium Cation with a 2-Electron System

Akira Sekiguchi, Masanori Tsukamoto, and Masaaki Ichinohe
Science 3 January 1997: 60-61.
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Compressibility, Phase Transitions, and Oxygen Migration in Zirconium Tungstate, ZrW₂O₈

J. S. O. Evans, Z. Hu, J. D. Jorgensen, D. N. Argyriou, S. Short, and A. W. Sleight
Science 3 January 1997: 61-65.
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Disease Extinction and Community Size: Modeling the Persistence of Measles

M. J. Keeling and B. T. Grenfell
Science 3 January 1997: 65-67.
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How Thiamin Diphosphate Is Activated in Enzymes

Dorothee Kern, Gunther Kern, Holger Neef, Kai Tittmann, Margrit Killenberg-Jabs, Christer Wikner, Gunter Schneider, and Gerhard Hübner
Science 3 January 1997: 67-70.
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Microtubule Architecture Specified by a -Tubulin Isoform

Elizabeth C. Raff, James D. Fackenthal, Jeffrey A. Hutchens, Henry D. Hoyle, and F. Rudolf Turner
Science 3 January 1997: 70-73.
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Recognition of Unique Carboxyl-Terminal Motifs by Distinct PDZ Domains

Z. Songyang, A. S. Fanning, C. Fu, J. Xu, S. M. Marfatia, A. H. Chishti, A. Crompton, A. C. Chan, J. M. Anderson, and L. C. Cantley
Science 3 January 1997: 73-77.
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The Inverse Association Between Tuberculin Responses and Atopic Disorder

Taro Shirakawa, Tadao Enomoto, Shin-ichiro Shimazu, and Julian M. Hopkin
Science 3 January 1997: 77-79.
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Inflorescence Commitment and Architecture in Arabidopsis

Desmond Bradley, Oliver Ratcliffe, Coral Vincent, Rosemary Carpenter, and Enrico Coen
Science 3 January 1997: 80-83.
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Common Neural Substrates for the Addictive Properties of Nicotine and Cocaine

Emilio Merlo Pich, Sonia R. Pagliusi, Michela Tessari, Dominique Talabot-Ayer, Rob Hooft van Huijsduijnen, and Christian Chiamulera
Science 3 January 1997: 83-86.
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Interaction of the Thiol-Dependent Reductase ERp57 with Nascent Glycoproteins

Jason D. Oliver, Fimme J. van der Wal, Neil J. Bulleid, and Stephen High
Science 3 January 1997: 86-88.
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Early Onset of Reproductive Function in Normal Female Mice Treated with Leptin

Farid F. Chehab, Khalid Mounzih, Ronghua Lu, and Mary E. Lim
Science 3 January 1997: 88-90.
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Induction of Apoptosis by ASK1, a Mammalian MAPKKK That Activates SAPK/JNK and p38 Signaling Pathways

Hidenori Ichijo, Eisuke Nishida, Kenji Irie, Peter ten Dijke, Masao Saitoh, Tetsuo Moriguchi, Minoru Takagi, Kunihiro Matsumoto, Kohei Miyazono, and Yukiko Gotoh
Science 3 January 1997: 90-94.
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Technical Comments

Detecting Phases of Iron

S. K. Saxena, L. S. Dubrovinsky;, C. S. Yoo, J. Akella, A. J. Campbell, H. K. Mao, and R. J. Hemley
Science 3 January 1997: 94-96.
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