This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Priority Setting: Quixotic or Essential?

Floyd E. Bloom
Science 27 November 1998: 1641.
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NetWatch

Best of the Web in science.
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 Gordon Research Conferences

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 NEW PRODUCTS

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 AAAS News & Notes

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News of the Week

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY:
DNA Suggests Cultural Traits Affect Whales' Evolution

Gretchen Vogel
Science 27 November 1998: 1616.
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RESEARCH ETHICS:
Panel Tightens Rules on Mental Disorders

Eliot Marshall
Science 27 November 1998: 1617.
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DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY:
Hairy Mice Offer Hope for Baldness Remedy

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 27 November 1998: 1617.
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BIOTECHNOLOGY:
Improving Gene Transfer Into Livestock

Anne Simon Moffat
Science 27 November 1998: 1619.
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NANOTECHNOLOGY:
AFMs Wield Parts for Nanoconstruction

Robert F. Service
Science 27 November 1998: 1620.
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ASTRONOMY:
Looking South to the Early Universe

Donald Goldsmith
Science 27 November 1998: 1621.
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PATENT LAW:
High Court to Review Standard for Appeal

David Malakoff
Science 27 November 1998: 1622.
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RUSSIAN SCIENCE:
Program Luring Foreign Talent Gets a Boost

Richard Stone
Science 27 November 1998: 1623.
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AIDS RESEARCH:
Outsmarting HIV Drug Resistance

Michael Balter
Science 27 November 1998: 1623.
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NUCLEAR PHYSICS:
Experiment Stopped After Safety Concerns

David Malakoff
Science 27 November 1998: 1625.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

SCIENCE AND BUSINESS:
Cuba's Billion-Dollar Biotech Gamble

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 27 November 1998: 1626-1628.
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SCIENCE AND BUSINESS:
Embargo Impedes Scientific Headway

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 27 November 1998: 1627.
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CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS:
Clock Photoreceptor Shared By Plants and Animals

Marcia Barinaga
Science 27 November 1998: 1628-1630.
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AIDS RESEARCH:
HIV's Early Home and Inner Life

Michael Balter
Science 27 November 1998: 1630-1631.
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MATHEMATICS:
From Solitaire, a Clue to the World of Prime Numbers

Dana Mackenzie
Science 27 November 1998: 1631-1633.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 27 November 1998: 1643.
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 Journal Publishing

Peter T. Shepherd; and H. K. Lee
Science 27 November 1998: 1643.
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 ACS Embargo Policy

Denise Graveline
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 Valuable Skills

T. J. Murphy
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 Environmental Health: Nickel-and-Diming It

Bernard Weiss
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 An Early Snowball Earth?

Gregory S. Jenkins, Christopher R. Scotese;, Paul F. Hoffman, Daniel P. Schrag, Galen P. Halverson, and J. Alan Kaufman
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

ASTROPHYSICS:
Black Hole Horizons

Richard A. Matzner
Science 27 November 1998: 1651.
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SOFTWARE:
Statistics, Fast and Easy

John Wass
Science 27 November 1998: 1652.
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Policy Forum

SCIENCE AND GOVERNMENT:
The Science and Technology-Bereft Department of State

Anne Keatley Solomon
Science 27 November 1998: 1649-1650.
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SCIENCE AND GOVERNMENT:
Put Science and Technology Back into Foreign Policy

J. Thomas Ratchford
Science 27 November 1998: 1650.
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Perspectives

BOTANY:
The Abominable Mystery

William L. Crepet
Science 27 November 1998: 1653-1654.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
The When and Where of Floor Plate Induction

Jane Dodd, Thomas M. Jessell, and Marysia Placzek
Science 27 November 1998: 1654-1657.
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BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION:
Go Forth and Multiply

Keith Burnett
Science 27 November 1998: 1657-1658.
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POPULATION GENETICS:
Enhanced: No Need to Isolate Genetics

Michael E. Soulé and L. Scott Mills
Science 27 November 1998: 1658-1659.
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Association Affairs

 ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
Space--Where Now, and Why?

Carolyn Shoemaker
Science 27 November 1998: 1637-1638.
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Review

Magnetoelectronics

Gary A. Prinz
Science 27 November 1998: 1660-1663.
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Research Articles

In Situ Measurements of Organics, Meteoritic Material, Mercury, and Other Elements in Aerosols at 5 to 19 Kilometers

D. M. Murphy, D. S. Thomson, and M. J. Mahoney
Science 27 November 1998: 1664-1669.
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Structure of a Covalently Trapped Catalytic Complex of HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase: Implications for Drug Resistance

Huifang Huang, Rajiv Chopra, Gregory L. Verdine, and Stephen C. Harrison
Science 27 November 1998: 1669-1675.
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Reports

Anthropogenic Influence on the Autocorrelation Structure of Hemispheric-Mean Temperatures

T. M. L. Wigley, R. L. Smith, and B. D. Santer
Science 27 November 1998: 1676-1679.
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A Dielectric Omnidirectional Reflector

Yoel Fink, Joshua N. Winn, Shanhui Fan, Chiping Chen, Jurgen Michel, John D. Joannopoulos, and Edwin L. Thomas
Science 27 November 1998: 1679-1682.
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Helical Polyacetylene Synthesized with a Chiral Nematic Reaction Field

K. Akagi, G. Piao, S. Kaneko, K. Sakamaki, H. Shirakawa, and M. Kyotani
Science 27 November 1998: 1683-1686.
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Macroscopic Quantum Interference from Atomic Tunnel Arrays

B. P. Anderson and M. A. Kasevich
Science 27 November 1998: 1686-1689.
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Viscoelastic Flow in the Lower Crust after the 1992 Landers, California, Earthquake

Jishu Deng, Michael Gurnis, Hiroo Kanamori, and Egill Hauksson
Science 27 November 1998: 1689-1692.
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In Search of the First Flower: A Jurassic Angiosperm, Archaefructus, from Northeast China

Ge Sun, David L. Dilcher, Shaoling Zheng, and Zhekun Zhou
Science 27 November 1998: 1692-1695.
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Tracking the Long-Term Decline and Recovery of an Isolated Population

Ronald L. Westemeier, Jeffrey D. Brawn, Scott A. Simpson, Terry L. Esker, Roger W. Jansen, Jeffery W. Walk, Eric L. Kershner, Juan L. Bouzat, and Ken N. Paige
Science 27 November 1998: 1695-1698.
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Arabidopsis NPH1: A Flavoprotein with the Properties of a Photoreceptor for Phototropism

John M. Christie, Philippe Reymond, Gary K. Powell, Paul Bernasconi, Andrei A. Raibekas, Emmanuel Liscum, and Winslow R. Briggs
Science 27 November 1998: 1698-1701.
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Purification and Cloning of a Protein Kinase That Phosphorylates and Activates the Polo-Like Kinase Plx1

Yue-Wei Qian, Eleanor Erikson, and James L. Maller
Science 27 November 1998: 1701-1704.
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Regulation of Nerve Growth Mediated by Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate Receptors in Growth Cones

Kohtaro Takei, Ryong-Moon Shin, Takafumi Inoue, Kunio Kato, and Katsuhiko Mikoshiba
Science 27 November 1998: 1705-1708.
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Cultural Selection and Genetic Diversity in Matrilineal Whales

Hal Whitehead
Science 27 November 1998: 1708-1711.
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Zebrafish hox Clusters and Vertebrate Genome Evolution

Angel Amores, Allan Force, Yi-Lin Yan, Lucille Joly, Chris Amemiya, Andreas Fritz, Robert K. Ho, James Langeland, Victoria Prince, Yan-Ling Wang, Monte Westerfield, Marc Ekker, and John H. Postlethwait
Science 27 November 1998: 1711-1714.
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Regulation of the Proinflammatory Effects of Fas Ligand (CD95L)

Jian-Jun Chen, Yongnian Sun, and Gary J. Nabel
Science 27 November 1998: 1714-1717.
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Identification of Two Distinct Mechanisms of Phagocytosis Controlled by Different Rho GTPases

Emmanuelle Caron and Alan Hall
Science 27 November 1998: 1717-1721.
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Control of Cyclin Ubiquitination by CDK-Regulated Binding of Hct1 to the Anaphase Promoting Complex

Wolfgang Zachariae, Michael Schwab, Kim Nasmyth, and Wolfgang Seufert
Science 27 November 1998: 1721-1724.
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Technical Comments

 Biomass Decline in Amazonian Forest Fragments

David Cowles;, J. Boone Kauffman, D. L. Cummings, R. F. Hughes;, William F. Laurance, Leandro V. Ferreira, Claude Gascon, and Thomas E. Lovejoy;
Science 27 November 1998: 1611.
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