News of the Week

BIOMEDICAL FUNDING:
NIH Embraces Citizens' Council to Cool Debate on Priorities

Bruce Agnew
Science 2 October 1998: 18-19.
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KENYA:
Leakey Back as Head of Wildlife Service

David Malakoff
Science 2 October 1998: 19.
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PALEONTOLOGY:
Tracks of Billion-Year-Old Animals?

Richard A. Kerr
Science 2 October 1998: 19-21.
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ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE:
Mexican Fires Charge Up U.S. Clouds

Robert Irion
Science 2 October 1998: 21-22.
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GERMAN GENERAL ELECTION:
Researchers Wary of Red-Green Coalition

Robert Koenig
Science 2 October 1998: 22.
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U.S. SCIENCE POLICY:
House Report Takes Middle Ground

David Malakoff
Science 2 October 1998: 23-24.
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ASTROPHYSICS:
Distant Star's Radiation Jolts Earth's Atmosphere

David Kestenbaum
Science 2 October 1998: 24.
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INFORMATION SCIENCES:
Japan Urged to Open Up Planning for Lab

Dennis Normile
Science 2 October 1998: 24-25.
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ASTRONOMY:
A Gray Day on a Brown Dwarf

Govert Schilling
Science 2 October 1998: 25-27.
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GENETIC DISEASES:
RAC Confronts in Utero Gene Therapy Proposals

Jennifer Couzin
Science 2 October 1998: 27.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

PLANT BIOLOGY:
When Walls Can Talk, Plant Biologists Listen

Evelyn Strauss
Science 2 October 1998: 28-29.
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CRYSTALLOGRAPHY:
New Math Speeds the Search for Protein Structures

David Kestenbaum
Science 2 October 1998: 30-31.
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ECOLOGY:
A Bold Plan to Re-Create a Long-Lost Siberian Ecosystem

Richard Stone
Science 2 October 1998: 31-34.
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RADIO ASTRONOMY:
Iridium Accelerates Squeeze on the Spectrum

David Malakoff
Science 2 October 1998: 34-35.
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CAREERS IN SCIENCE:
Leveling the Playing Field for Scientists With Disabilities

Constance Holden
Science 2 October 1998: 36-37.
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CAREERS IN SCIENCE:
Opening New Vistas for Blind Scientists

Constance Holden
Science 2 October 1998: 37.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 2 October 1998: 47.
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 Chimp Research

Steven R. Leigh and Oliver A. Ryder
Science 2 October 1998: 47.
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 Big Sky Science

Conrad Burns
Science 2 October 1998: 47.
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 Is Oil Running Out?

Michael Toman, Joel Darmstadter;, Amory B. Lovins, Richard C. Duncan, and Walter Youngquist
Science 2 October 1998: 47.
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 "Bow Tie" Correction

Claire Gmachl
Science 2 October 1998: 47.
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 Cope's Rule

Paul D. Polly and John Alroy
Science 2 October 1998: 47.
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

Science 2 October 1998: 47.
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Books et al.

VIROLOGY:
The New "Great Work"

Simon Wain-Hobson
Science 2 October 1998: 55.
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SOFTWARE:
Beyond Expert Advice

Larry S. Daley and Kevin Ahern
Science 2 October 1998: 55-57.
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Policy Forum

GENOMICS:
The Human Genome Project: Reaching the Finish Line

R. Waterston and J. E. Sulston
Science 2 October 1998: 53-54.
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Perspectives

NEUROSCIENCE:
Enhanced: Separating the Wheat from the Chaff

Nancy Kanwisher and Paul Downing
Science 2 October 1998: 57-58.
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CLIMATE CHANGE:
A Role for the Tropical Pacific

Mark A. Cane
Science 2 October 1998: 59-61.
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CLIMATE CHANGE:
The Seesaw Effect

Thomas F. Stocker
Science 2 October 1998: 61-62.
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Association Affairs

 ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
Bioprospecting in an African Context

Lydia Makhubu
Science 2 October 1998: 41-42.
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Review

Harnessing the Biosynthetic Code: Combinations, Permutations, and Mutations

David E. Cane, Christopher T. Walsh, and Chaitan Khosla
Science 2 October 1998: 63-68.
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Reports

Tomographic Evidence for Localized Lithospheric Shear Along the Altyn Tagh Fault

Gérard Wittlinger, Paul Tapponnier, Georges Poupinet, Jiang Mei, Shi Danian, Georges Herquel, and Frédéric Masson
Science 2 October 1998: 74-76.
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Enhanced Positive Cloud-to-Ground Lightning in Thunderstorms Ingesting Smoke from Fires

Walter A. Lyons, Thomas E. Nelson, Earle R. Williams, John A. Cramer, and Tommy R. Turner
Science 2 October 1998: 77-80.
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Triploblastic Animals More Than 1 Billion Years Ago: Trace Fossil Evidence from India

Adolf Seilacher, Pradip K. Bose, and Friedrich Pflüger
Science 2 October 1998: 80-83.
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ROSAT X-ray Detection of a Young Brown Dwarf in the Chamaeleon I Dark Cloud

Ralph Neuhäuser and Fernando Comerón
Science 2 October 1998: 83-85.
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Measuring the Spin Polarization of a Metal with a Superconducting Point Contact

R. J. Soulen, Jr., J. M. Byers, M. S. Osofsky, B. Nadgorny, T. Ambrose, S. F. Cheng, P. R. Broussard, C. T. Tanaka, J. Nowak, J. S. Moodera, A. Barry, and J. M. D. Coey
Science 2 October 1998: 85-88.
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Particle Nucleation in the Tropical Boundary Layer and Its Coupling to Marine Sulfur Sources

A. D. Clarke, D. Davis, V. N. Kapustin, F. Eisele, G. Chen, I. Paluch, D. Lenschow, A. R. Bandy, D. Thornton, K. Moore, L. Mauldin, D. Tanner, M. Litchy, M. A. Carroll, J. Collins, and G. Albercook
Science 2 October 1998: 89-92.
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Synchronous Climate Changes in Antarctica and the North Atlantic

E. J. Steig, E. J. Brook, J. W. C. White, C. M. Sucher, M. L. Bender, S. J. Lehman, D. L. Morse, E. D. Waddington, and G. D. Clow
Science 2 October 1998: 92-95.
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Solution Properties of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Jian Chen, Mark A. Hamon, Hui Hu, Yongsheng Chen, Apparao M. Rao, Peter C. Eklund, and Robert C. Haddon
Science 2 October 1998: 95-98.
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Ammonia Synthesis at Atmospheric Pressure

George Marnellos and Michael Stoukides
Science 2 October 1998: 98-100.
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An Arabidopsis Mutant Defective in the Plastid General Protein Import Apparatus

Paul Jarvis, Lih-Jen Chen, Hsou-min Li, Charles A. Peto, Christian Fankhauser, and Joanne Chory
Science 2 October 1998: 100-103.
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Hepatitis C Viral Dynamics in Vivo and the Antiviral Efficacy of Interferon- Therapy

Avidan U. Neumann, Nancy P. Lam, Harel Dahari, David R. Gretch, Thelma E. Wiley, Thomas J. Layden, and Alan S. Perelson
Science 2 October 1998: 103-107.
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Mechanisms of Directed Attention in the Human Extrastriate Cortex as Revealed by Functional MRI

Sabine Kastner, Peter De Weerd, Robert Desimone, and Leslie G. Ungerleider
Science 2 October 1998: 108-111.
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A Structural Basis for Recognition of A·T and T·A Base Pairs in the Minor Groove of B-DNA

Clara L. Kielkopf, Sarah White, Jason W. Szewczyk, James M. Turner, Eldon E. Baird, Peter B. Dervan, and Douglas C. Rees
Science 2 October 1998: 111-115.
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A Carrot Leucine-Rich-Repeat Protein That Inhibits Ice Recrystallization

Dawn Worrall, Luisa Elias, David Ashford, Maggie Smallwood, Chris Sidebottom, Peter Lillford, Julia Telford, Chris Holt, and Dianna Bowles
Science 2 October 1998: 115-117.
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Role for the Target Enzyme in Deactivation of Photoreceptor G Protein in Vivo

Stephen H. Tsang, Marie E. Burns, Peter D. Calvert, Peter Gouras, Denis A. Baylor, Stephen P. Goff, and Vadim Y. Arshavsky
Science 2 October 1998: 117-121.
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An Antimicrobial Activity of Cytolytic T Cells Mediated by Granulysin

Steffen Stenger, Dennis A. Hanson, Rachel Teitelbaum, Puneet Dewan, Kayvan R. Niazi, Christopher J. Froelich, Tomas Ganz, Sybille Thoma-Uszynski, Agustín Melián, Christian Bogdan, Steven A. Porcelli, Barry R. Bloom, Alan M. Krensky, and Robert L. Modlin
Science 2 October 1998: 121-125.
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