This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
How to Change the University

Michael S. Gazzaniga
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NetWatch

Best of the Web in science.
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 AAAS Meeting Program

Science 9 October 1998: 301-325.

 NEW PRODUCTS

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News of the Week

SPACE STATION:
NASA to Buy Research Time to Bail Out Russian Agency

David Malakoff
Science 9 October 1998: 206-207.
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PHOTONICS:
Optical Circuits Turn a Corner

Andrew Watson
Science 9 October 1998: 207.
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SPAIN:
R&D Budget Request Reverses Long Decline

Alicia Rivera
Science 9 October 1998: 207-209.
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U.S. R&D BUDGET:
Three Spending Bills Bolster Research

David Malakoff
Science 9 October 1998: 209-210.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Geologists See Mars in the Canadian Arctic

Robert Irion
Science 9 October 1998: 210-211.
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ASTRONOMY:
Probing the Milky Way's Black Heart

Govert Schilling
Science 9 October 1998: 211-212.
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GRANTS MANAGEMENT:
NSF Spells Out an Electronic Future

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 9 October 1998: 212.
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JAPAN:
Court Hears Fight Over Safety of Lab

Dennis Normile
Science 9 October 1998: 213-215.
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EUROPEAN UNION:
Cresson Told to Explain Questioned Contracts

Nigel Williams
Science 9 October 1998: 215.
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ECOLOGY:
Bug Vanquishes Species

Dan Ferber
Science 9 October 1998: 215.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY:
Human Rights Fades as a Cause for Scientists

James Glanz
Science 9 October 1998: 216-219.
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INFECTIOUS DISEASE:
Molecular Methods Fire Up the Hunt for Emerging Pathogens

Michael Balter
Science 9 October 1998: 219-221.
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INFECTIOUS DISEASE:
19th Century Rules of Causation Outdated?

Science 9 October 1998: 220.
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PHYSICS:
How Matter Can Melt at Absolute Zero

David Voss
Science 9 October 1998: 221-224.
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SYMPOSIUM ON THE BRAIN:
New Clues to Movement Control and Vision

Ingrid Wickelgren
Science 9 October 1998: 224-225.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 9 October 1998: 239.
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 Nature Medicine's Reply Policy

Adrian J. Ivinson
Science 9 October 1998: 239.
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 Airborne Particulate Matter

Forrest M. Mims III
Science 9 October 1998: 239.
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 Great Ape Phenome Project?

Ajit Varki, Christopher Wills, David Perlmutter, David Woodruff, Fred Gage, James Moore, Katerina Semendeferi, Kurt Benirschke, Robert Katzman, Russell Doolittle, and Theodore Bullock
Science 9 October 1998: 239.
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 Science Education Reform

John A. Moore;, Glenn T. Seaborg;, Leon M. Lederman, and Marjorie G. Bardeen
Science 9 October 1998: 239.
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 5200-Year-Old Acupuncture in Central Europe?

Leopold Dorfer, Maximilian Moser, Konrad Spindler, Frank Bahr, Eduard Egarter-Vigl, and Gottfried Dohr
Science 9 October 1998: 239.
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 Maternal Investment in Human Brain Growth

Rose E. Frisch
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 Typographical Error

Georg F. Weber, Samy Ashkar, Harvey Cantor, and Melvin J. Glimcher
Science 9 October 1998: 239.
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
The Public and the Quake That Wasn't

Seth Stein
Science 9 October 1998: 247.
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DEVELOPMENT:
Model Metaorganism

Graham Bell
Science 9 October 1998: 248.
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Policy Forum

HEALTH CARE POLICY:
Outcomes Research: Measuring the End Results of Health Care

Carolyn M. Clancy and John M. Eisenberg
Science 9 October 1998: 245-246.
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Perspectives

GENERAL RELATIVITY:
Enhanced: A New Twist

Matt Visser
Science 9 October 1998: 249.
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RNA STRUCTURE:
Ribozyme Architectural Diversity Made Visible

Eric Westhof and François Michel
Science 9 October 1998: 251-252.
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BOTANY:
A Plant's Dilemma

Erwin Grill and Hubert Ziegler
Science 9 October 1998: 252-253.
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Association Affairs

 ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
The Mouse with the Flying Bicycle

John Lynch
Science 9 October 1998: 229-230.
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Research Article

A Preorganized Active Site in the Crystal Structure of the Tetrahymena Ribozyme

Barbara L. Golden, Anne R. Gooding, Elaine R. Podell, and Thomas R. Cech
Science 9 October 1998: 259-264.
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Reports

The Chemistry of Water on Alumina Surfaces: Reaction Dynamics from First Principles

Kenneth C. Hass, William F. Schneider, Alessandro Curioni, and Wanda Andreoni
Science 9 October 1998: 265-268.
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Past Temperatures Directly from the Greenland Ice Sheet

D. Dahl-Jensen, K. Mosegaard, N. Gundestrup, G. D. Clow, S. J. Johnsen, A. W. Hansen, and N. Balling
Science 9 October 1998: 268-271.
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Direct Measurement of Femtomoles of Osmium and the ¹⁸⁷Os/¹⁸⁶Os Ratio in Seawater

Sylvain Levasseur, Jean-Louis Birck, and Claude J. Allègre
Science 9 October 1998: 272-274.
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Experimental Demonstration of Guiding and Bending of Electromagnetic Waves in a Photonic Crystal

Shawn-Yu Lin, Edmund Chow, Vince Hietala, Pierre R. Villeneuve, and J. D. Joannopoulos
Science 9 October 1998: 274-276.
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Organic Carbon Fluxes and Ecological Recovery from the Cretaceous-Tertiary Mass Extinction

Steven D'Hondt, Percy Donaghay, James C. Zachos, Danielle Luttenberg, and Matthias Lindinger
Science 9 October 1998: 276-279.
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Climate Change Record in Subsurface Temperatures: A Global Perspective

Henry N. Pollack, Shaopeng Huang, and Po-Yu Shen
Science 9 October 1998: 279-281.
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Isolation of Acidophilic Methane-Oxidizing Bacteria from Northern Peat Wetlands

Svetlana N. Dedysh, Nicolai S. Panikov, Werner Liesack, Regine Großkopf, Jizhong Zhou, and James M. Tiedje
Science 9 October 1998: 281-284.
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Alterations of the PPP2R1B Gene in Human Lung and Colon Cancer

Steven Siqing Wang, Edward D. Esplin, Jia Ling Li, Liying Huang, Adi Gazdar, John Minna, and Glen A. Evans
Science 9 October 1998: 284-287.
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Role of Farnesyltransferase in ABA Regulation of Guard Cell Anion Channels and Plant Water Loss

Zhen-Ming Pei, Majid Ghassemian, Christine M. Kwak, Peter McCourt, and Julian I. Schroeder
Science 9 October 1998: 287-290.
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Cell Surface Trafficking of Fas: A Rapid Mechanism of p53-Mediated Apoptosis

Martin Bennett, Kirsty Macdonald, Shiu-Wan Chan, J. Paul Luzio, Robert Simari, and Peter Weissberg
Science 9 October 1998: 290-293.
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Bifurcation of Lipid and Protein Kinase Signals of PI3K to the Protein Kinases PKB and MAPK

Tzvetanka Bondeva, Luciano Pirola, Ginette Bulgarelli-Leva, Ignacio Rubio, Reinhard Wetzker, and Matthias P. Wymann
Science 9 October 1998: 293-296.
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Controlling Gene Expression in Living Cells Through Small Molecule-RNA Interactions

Geoffrey Werstuck and Michael R. Green
Science 9 October 1998: 296-298.
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Transition from Moderate to Excessive Drug Intake: Change in Hedonic Set Point

S. H. Ahmed and G. F. Koob
Science 9 October 1998: 298-300.
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Technical Comments

 IGF-I and Prostate Cancer

Catherine Schaefer, Gary D. Friedman, Charles P. Quesenberry, Jr., Norman Orentreich, Joseph H. Vogelman;, June M. Chan, Meir J. Stampfer, Edward Giovannucci, and Michael Pollak;
Science 9 October 1998: 199.
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