This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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 Editorial:
Science Learning, Science Opportunity

Rita R. Colwell and Eamon M. Kelly
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NetWatch

Best of the Web in science.
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 NEW PRODUCTS

Science 8 October 1999: 320-321.

 Gordon Research Conferences

Science 8 October 1999: 323-326.

News of the Week

EPIDEMIOLOGY:
Groups Race to Sequence and Identify New York Virus

Martin Enserink
Science 8 October 1999: 206-207.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
More Than Missing Metric Doomed Orbiter

Richard A. Kerr
Science 8 October 1999: 207.
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NUCLEAR ACCIDENT:
Special Treatment Set For Radiation Victim

Dennis Normile
Science 8 October 1999: 207-209.
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CHEMISTRY:
Possible New Anti-Inflammatory Agent

Evelyn Strauss
Science 8 October 1999: 209-210.
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GENOMICS:
Mouse Genome Added to Sequencing Effort

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 8 October 1999: 210.
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ASTRONOMY:
Peering at the Crab's Power Supply

Robert Irion
Science 8 October 1999: 211.
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DOE BUDGET:
Fusion Gains, Basic Science Takes a Hit

David Malakoff
Science 8 October 1999: 211-213.
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SUPERFLUIDS:
Tweaking Twisters in a Quantum World

Erik Stokstad
Science 8 October 1999: 213.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

SCIENCE FUNDING:
Philanthropy's Rising Tide Lifts Science

Jon Cohen
Science 8 October 1999: 214-223.
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PROFILE:
Biomedical Heavyweights

Jon Cohen
Science 8 October 1999: 216-217.
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PROFILE:
Making a Name For Themselves

Jon Cohen
Science 8 October 1999: 218-219.
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PROFILE:
Niche Players: Whitaker

Jon Cohen
Science 8 October 1999: 220-221.
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PROFILE:
Niche Players: Ellison

Jon Cohen
Science 8 October 1999: 220-221.
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PROFILE:
Niche Players: McDonnell

Jon Cohen
Science 8 October 1999: 220-221.
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PROFILE:
The New Behemoths

Jon Cohen
Science 8 October 1999: 222.
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CELL BIOLOGY:
A New Finger on the Protein Destruction Button

Marcia Barinaga
Science 8 October 1999: 223-225.
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CELL BIOLOGY:
First Components Found for Key Kidney Filter

Ingrid Wickelgren
Science 8 October 1999: 225-226.
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INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH:
Berkeley Puts All Its Eggs in Two Baskets

Robert F. Service
Science 8 October 1999: 226-227.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 DARPA in the Spotlight

Sheldon Penman; and Charles C. Bates
Science 8 October 1999: 239.
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 Stevenson's Fingers

Thomas M. Daniel
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 Support for Structural Genomics and Synchrotrons

Marvin Cassman and John C. Norvell
Science 8 October 1999: 239.
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 Conserved Ecological Niches

Chris D. Jiggins and Margarita Beltran
Science 8 October 1999: 239.
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 Oldest Printed Star Charts

John S. Major and David C. Major
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 How a Geologist Finds the Truck

Gene Ciancanelli
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 To Be a Good Teacher

Edward Aboufadel
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 A Very Old Sahara

Christopher Swezey
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Books et al.

COGNITIVE SCIENCE:
Into the Minds of Babes

Mark H. Johnson
Science 8 October 1999: 247.
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APPLIED PHYSICS:
Precise Timing

Christopher R. Ekstrom
Science 8 October 1999: 248.
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BROWSINGS

Science 8 October 1999: 248.
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Policy Forum

MEGASCIENCE:
International Scientific Cooperation

Pierre Baruch
Science 8 October 1999: 245-246.
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Perspectives

MICROBIAL ECOLOGY:
How to Avoid Oxygen

David Lloyd
Science 8 October 1999: 249.
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SUPERCONDUCTIVITY:
Self-Organized One Dimensionality

J. Zaanen
Science 8 October 1999: 251-252.
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STRUCTURAL BIOCHEMISTRY:
Proton Pump Caught in the Act

Robert B. Gennis and Thomas G. Ebrey
Science 8 October 1999: 252-253.
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Research Article

Structural Changes in Bacteriorhodopsin During Ion Transport at 2 Angstrom Resolution

Hartmut Luecke, Brigitte Schobert, Hans-Thomas Richter, Jean-Philippe Cartailler, and Janos K. Lanyi
Science 8 October 1999: 255-260.
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Reports

Room-Temperature Magnetic Bistability in Organic Radical Crystals

Wataru Fujita and and Kunio Awaga
Science 8 October 1999: 261-262.
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Gate-Controlled Superconducting Proximity Effect in Carbon Nanotubes

A. F. Morpurgo, J. Kong, C. M. Marcus, and H. Dai
Science 8 October 1999: 263-265.
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Evidence for One-Dimensional Charge Transport in La_2xyNd_ySr_xCuO₄

Takuya Noda, Hiroshi Eisaki, and Shin-ichi Uchida
Science 8 October 1999: 265-268.
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One-Dimensional Electronic Structure and Suppression of d-Wave Node State in (La_1.28Nd_0.6Sr_0.12)CuO₄

X. J. Zhou, P. Bogdanov, S. A. Kellar, T. Noda, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida, Z. Hussain, and Z.-X. Shen
Science 8 October 1999: 268-272.
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Evidence of Nonlinear Elasticity of the Crust from the Mw7.6 Manyi (Tibet) Earthquake

Gilles Peltzer, Frédéric Crampé, and Geoffrey King
Science 8 October 1999: 272-276.
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Measurements of Past Ice Sheet Elevations in Interior West Antarctica

Robert P. Ackert, Jr., David J. Barclay, Harold W. Borns, Jr., Parker E. Calkin, Mark D. Kurz, James L. Fastook, and Eric J. Steig
Science 8 October 1999: 276-280.
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Past and Future Grounding-Line Retreat of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet

H. Conway, B. L. Hall, G. H. Denton, A. M. Gades, and E. D. Waddington
Science 8 October 1999: 280-283.
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Tributaries of West Antarctic Ice Streams Revealed by RADARSAT Interferometry

Ian Joughin, Laurence Gray, Robert Bindschadler, Stephen Price, David Morse, Christina Hulbe, Karim Mattar, and Charles Werner
Science 8 October 1999: 283-286.
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X-ray Crystallographic Structure of the Norwalk Virus Capsid

B. V. V. Prasad, Michele E. Hardy, Terje Dokland, Jordi Bella, Michael G. Rossmann, and Mary K. Estes
Science 8 October 1999: 287-290.
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Crystal Structure of Invasin: A Bacterial Integrin-Binding Protein

Zsuzsa A. Hamburger, Michele S. Brown, Ralph R. Isberg, and Pamela J. Bjorkman
Science 8 October 1999: 291-295.
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Evolutionarily Conserved Pathways of Energetic Connectivity in Protein Families

Steve W. Lockless and Rama Ranganathan
Science 8 October 1999: 295-299.
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Mimicry of CD40 Signals by Epstein-Barr Virus LMP1 in B Lymphocyte Responses

Junji Uchida, Teruhito Yasui, Yuko Takaoka-Shichijo, Masaaki Muraoka, Wanla Kulwichit, Nancy Raab-Traub, and Hitoshi Kikutani
Science 8 October 1999: 300-303.
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A Nonpeptidyl Mimic of Superoxide Dismutase with Therapeutic Activity in Rats

Daniela Salvemini, Zhi-Qiang Wang, Jay L. Zweier, Alexandre Samouilov, Heather Macarthur, Thomas P. Misko, Mark G. Currie, Salvatore Cuzzocrea, James A. Sikorski, and Dennis P. Riley
Science 8 October 1999: 304-306.
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Anaerobic Microbes: Oxygen Detoxification Without Superoxide Dismutase

Francis E. Jenney, Jr., Marc F. J. M. Verhagen, Xiaoyuan Cui, and Michael W. W. Adams
Science 8 October 1999: 306-309.
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The Tyrosine Kinase Negative Regulator c-Cbl as a RING-Type, E2-Dependent Ubiquitin-Protein Ligase

Claudio A. P. Joazeiro, Simon S. Wing, Han-kuei Huang, Joel D. Leverson, Tony Hunter, and Yun-Cai Liu
Science 8 October 1999: 309-312.
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Congenital Nephrotic Syndrome in Mice Lacking CD2-Associated Protein

Neng-Yao Shih, Jun Li, Vladimir Karpitskii, Ancho Nguyen, Michael L. Dustin, Osami Kanagawa, Jeffrey H. Miner, and Andrey S. Shaw
Science 8 October 1999: 312-315.
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Coordinated Polar Localization of Auxin Efflux Carrier PIN1 by GNOM ARF GEF

Thomas Steinmann, Niko Geldner, Markus Grebe, Stefan Mangold, Catherine L. Jackson, Sonia Paris, Leo Gälweiler, Klaus Palme, and Gerd Jürgens
Science 8 October 1999: 316-318.
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