This Week in Science

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Science 10 October 1997: 197.
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Editorial:
Tobacco Control: The Dramatic Choice

William D. Novelli
Science 10 October 1997: 203.
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 Gordon Research Conference

Science 10 October 1997: 312-315.

News and Comment

MATERIALS TRANSFER:
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Eliot Marshall
Science 10 October 1997: 212-213.
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MATERIALS TRANSFER:
Devilish Details

Eliot Marshall
Science 10 October 1997: 213.
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NOBEL PRIZE:
Prusiner Recognized for Once-Heretical Prion Theory

Gretchen Vogel
Science 10 October 1997: 214.
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LAUNCHERS:
Europe Set to Try Again With Ariane 5

Alexander Hellemans
Science 10 October 1997: 215.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Mars Has Magnetic Spots

Richard A. Kerr
Science 10 October 1997: 215.
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CLIMATE CHANGE TREATY:
Panels Lead the Way on the Road to Kyoto Conference

Science 10 October 1997: 216.
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CLIMATE CHANGE TREATY:
Panel Seeks Boost in Energy R&D Spending

Andrew Lawler
Science 10 October 1997: 216-217.
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CLIMATE CHANGE TREATY:
Helping Those Most at Risk

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 10 October 1997: 217.
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CLIMATE CHANGE TREATY:
Britain Stresses Need for Action

Nigel Williams
Science 10 October 1997: 217.
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NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH:
AIDS Research Chief Bows Out

Jon Cohen
Science 10 October 1997: 218.
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PALEO ANTHRO:
Fabulous Sum for a Fearsome Fossil

Science 10 October 1997: 218.
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PALEONTOLOGY:
Fossil Hunters Seek Ways to Bring Their Field Alive

Richard Stone
Science 10 October 1997: 219.
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ScienceScope

Science 10 October 1997: 211.
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Random Samples

Science 10 October 1997: 227.
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Research News

ARCHAEOLOGY:
Doubts Over Spectacular Dates

Ann Gibbons
Science 10 October 1997: 220-222.
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ASTRONOMY:
Probing a Star's Heart of Crystal

Govert Schilling
Science 10 October 1997: 222.
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EVOLUTION:
How the Malaria Parasite Manipulates Its Hosts

Virginia Morell
Science 10 October 1997: 223.
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MATHEMATICS:
Fractions to Make an Egyptian Scribe Blanch

Dana Mackenzie
Science 10 October 1997: 224.
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PARASITOLOGY:
Fishing for Answers to Whirling Disease

Carol Potera
Science 10 October 1997: 225-226.
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ASTROPHYSICS:
Theorists Nix Distant Antimatter Galaxies

Gary Taubes
Science 10 October 1997: 226.
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Letters

"Call of the wild"

Science 10 October 1997: 205-209.
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 Man and His Dog

N. E. Federoff, R. M. Nowak;, J. P. Scott, Orville S. Elliot, Benson E. Ginsburg;, Carles Vilà, Jesús Maldonado, Isabel R. Amorim, Robert K. Wayne, Keith A. Crandall, and Rodney L. Honeycutt;
Science 10 October 1997: 205-209.
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 Mass Balance of North Greenland

Niels Reeh, Henrik Højmark Thomsen, Ole B. Olesen, Wolfgang Starzer;, Eric Rignot, S. P. Gogineni, W. B. Krabill, and S. Ekholm;
Science 10 October 1997: 205-209.
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 Squirming over "Grant Writing"

Warren S. Wooster; and Eds.;
Science 10 October 1997: 205-209.
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Books et al.

Heroic Therapies

Ilana Löwy
Science 10 October 1997: 235.
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Crosses in Nature

Donald A. Levin
Science 10 October 1997: 235-236.
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Policy Forum

Preserving Biodiversity in Korea's Demilitarized Zone

Ke Chung Kim
Science 10 October 1997: 242-243.
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Perspectives

PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Enhanced: Io and the Plasma Torus

Melissa A. McGrath
Science 10 October 1997: 237-238.
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IMMUNOLGY:
Reuse of B Lymphocyte in Germinal Centers

Yong-Jun Liu
Science 10 October 1997: 238-239.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Good Pain, Bad Pain

Michael J. Iadarola and Robert M. Caudle
Science 10 October 1997: 239-240.
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GEOLOGY:
Do Continents Part Passively, or Do They Need a Shove?

Richard W. Carlson
Science 10 October 1997: 240-241.
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Tech.Sight

 Tech.Sight: Products

Science 10 October 1997: 309-311.

Articles

Prion Diseases and the BSE Crisis

Stanley B. Prusiner
Science 10 October 1997: 245-251.
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Reports

Conductance of a Molecular Junction

M. A. Reed, C. Zhou, C. J. Muller, T. P. Burgin, and J. M. Tour
Science 10 October 1997: 252-254.
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Depth Extent of the Lau Back-Arc Spreading Center and Its Relation to Subduction Processes

Dapeng Zhao, Yingbiao Xu, Douglas A. Wiens, LeRoy Dorman, John Hildebrand, and Spahr Webb
Science 10 October 1997: 254-257.
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Microscopic Molecular Diffusion Enhanced by Adsorbate Interactions

B. G. Briner, M. Doering, H.-P. Rust, and A. M. Bradshaw
Science 10 October 1997: 257-260.
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The Mechanism of a C-H Bond Activation Reaction in Room-Temperature Alkane Solution

Steven E. Bromberg, Haw Yang, Matthew C. Asplund, T. Lian, B. K. McNamara, K. T. Kotz, J. S. Yeston, M. Wilkens, H. Frei, Robert G. Bergman, and C. B. Harris
Science 10 October 1997: 260-263.
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Magnetic Field Alignment of Ordered Silicate-Surfactant Composites and Mesoporous Silica

Sarah H. Tolbert, Ali Firouzi, Galen D. Stucky, and Bradley F. Chmelka
Science 10 October 1997: 264-268.
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The Response of Jupiter's Magnetosphere to an Outburst on Io

Michael E. Brown and Antonin H. Bouchez
Science 10 October 1997: 268-271.
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Organics and Other Molecules in the Surfaces of Callisto and Ganymede

T. B. McCord, R. W. Carlson, W. D. Smythe, G. B. Hansen, R. N. Clark, C. A. Hibbitts, F. P. Fanale, J. C. Granahan, M. Segura, D. L. Matson, T. V. Johnson, and P. D. Martin
Science 10 October 1997: 271-275.
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Inhibition of Hyperalgesia by Ablation of Lamina I Spinal Neurons Expressing the Substance P Receptor

Patrick W. Mantyh, Scott D. Rogers, Prisca Honore, Brian J. Allen, Joseph R. Ghilardi, Jun Li, Randy S. Daughters, Douglas A. Lappi, Ronald G. Wiley, and Donald A. Simone
Science 10 October 1997: 275-279.
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Preserved Acute Pain and Reduced Neuropathic Pain in Mice Lacking PKC

Annika B. Malmberg, Chong Chen, Susumu Tonegawa, and Allan I. Basbaum
Science 10 October 1997: 279-283.
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Structural Requirements for Glycolipid Antigen Recognition by CD1b-Restricted T Cells

D. Branch Moody, Bruce B. Reinhold, Mark R. Guy, Evan M. Beckman, Daphney E. Frederique, Stephen T. Furlong, Song Ye, Vernon N. Reinhold, Peter A. Sieling, Robert L. Modlin, Gurdyal S. Besra, and Steven A. Porcelli
Science 10 October 1997: 283-286.
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Structure-Based Analysis of Catalysis and Substrate Definition in the HIT Protein Family

Christopher D. Lima, Michael G. Klein, and Wayne A. Hendrickson
Science 10 October 1997: 286-290.
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Angiogenic and HIV-Inhibitory Functions of KSHV-Encoded Chemokines

Chris Boshoff, Yoshio Endo, Paul D. Collins, Yasuhiro Takeuchi, Jacqueline D. Reeves, Vicki L. Schweickart, Michael A. Siani, Takuma Sasaki, Timothy J. Williams, Patrick W. Gray, Patrick S. Moore, Yuan Chang, and Robin A. Weiss
Science 10 October 1997: 290-294.
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Caspase-3-Generated Fragment of Gelsolin: Effector of Morphological Change in Apoptosis

Srinivas Kothakota, Toshifumi Azuma, Christoph Reinhard, Anke Klippel, Jay Tang, Keting Chu, Thomas J. McGarry, Marc W. Kirschner, Kirston Koths, David J. Kwiatkowski, and Lewis T. Williams
Science 10 October 1997: 294-298.
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V(D)J Recombination in Mature B Cells: A Mechanism for Altering Antibody Responses

Fotini Papavasiliou, Rafael Casellas, Heikyung Suh, Xiao-Feng Qin, Eva Besmer, Roberta Pelanda, David Nemazee, Klaus Rajewsky, and Michel C. Nussenzweig
Science 10 October 1997: 298-301.
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V(D)J Recombinase Activity in a Subset of Germinal Center B Lymphocytes

Shuhua Han, Stacey R. Dillon, Biao Zheng, Michiko Shimoda, Mark S. Schlissel, and Garnett Kelsoe
Science 10 October 1997: 301-305.
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Technical Comments

 BMP Expression in Duck Interdigital Webbing: A Reanalysis

Ed Laufer, Sandrine Pizette, Hongyan Zou, Olivia E. Orozco, and Lee Niswander
Science 10 October 1997: 305.
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