This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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 Editorial:
Biological Warfare

Philip H. Abelson
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NetWatch

Best of the Web in science.
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 NEW PRODUCTS

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 AAAS News & Notes

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 Gordon Research Conferences

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News of the Week

BUDGET FINALE:
NIH Gets $17.9 Billion in Another Record Year

David Malakoff
Science 26 November 1999: 1654.
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BIOTECH PATENTS:
Genentech, UC Settle Suit for $200 Million

Marcia Barinaga
Science 26 November 1999: 1655.
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GEOSCIENCE FACILITIES:
NSF Proposes Marriage of Rocks and Waves

Richard A. Kerr
Science 26 November 1999: 1655-1658.
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DATABASES:
Scientists Decry Antipiracy Bill

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 26 November 1999: 1658.
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WOMEN IN SCIENCE:
EU Confronts the Gender Gap

Michael Hagmann
Science 26 November 1999: 1659.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Learning Visualized, on the Double

Marcia Barinaga
Science 26 November 1999: 1661.
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NUCLEAR PHYSICS:
DOE Gives Up on Brookhaven Reactor

David Malakoff
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

FOOD FIGHT:
Risks and Benefits: GM Crops in the Cross Hairs

Dan Ferber
Science 26 November 1999: 1662-1666.
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FOOD FIGHT:
Monarch Press Release Raises Eyebrows

Dan Ferber
Science 26 November 1999: 1663.
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FOOD FIGHT:
Biotech Critics Watch the Watchdogs

Dan Ferber
Science 26 November 1999: 1664.
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FOOD FIGHT:
Industry Response: Ag Biotech Moves to Mollify Its Critics

Martin Enserink
Science 26 November 1999: 1666-1668.
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ART AND SCIENCE:
Duchamp and Poincaré Renew an Old Acquaintance

Barry Cipra
Science 26 November 1999: 1668-1669.
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REEMERGING DISEASES:
Stalking a Killer in Russia's Prisons

Constance Holden
Science 26 November 1999: 1670.
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CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES:
CAS President Engineers Major Reform of Institutes

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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 A Barely Tested Hypothesis

David W. Hogg
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 Cutting Back the Calories

Glenn S. Gerhard;, Richard Weindruch, and Tomas A. Prolla
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 Philanthropy with Modest Means

Enriqueta Bond, Marth Peck, and Karyn Hede
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 The Bible Code

Maya Bar-Hillel
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

ECOLOGY:
How Do Communities Come Together?

Nicholas J. Gotelli
Science 26 November 1999: 1684-1685.
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 BROWSINGS

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Policy Forum

SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS:
The Challenge for Chinese Scientific Journals

Shengli Ren, Ping Liang, and Guang'an Zu
Science 26 November 1999: 1683.
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Perspectives

VOLCANISM:
Enhanced: Will Vesuvius Erupt? Three Million People Need to Know

Grant Heiken
Science 26 November 1999: 1685-1687.
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PROTEIN STRUCTURE:
Molecular Rotary Motors

Robert H. Fillingame
Science 26 November 1999: 1687-1688.
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COSMOLOGY:
Cosmic Explosions in an Accelerating Universe

Mario Livio
Science 26 November 1999: 1689-1690.
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PLANT BIOLOGY:
No Stigma Attached to Male Rejection

Hugh Dickinson
Science 26 November 1999: 1690-1691.
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Review

Interacting Minds--A Biological Basis

Chris D. Frith and Uta Frith
Science 26 November 1999: 1692-1695.
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Research Articles

The Male Determinant of Self-Incompatibility in Brassica

Christel R. Schopfer, Mikhail E. Nasrallah, and June B. Nasrallah
Science 26 November 1999: 1697-1700.
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Molecular Architecture of the Rotary Motor in ATP Synthase

Daniela Stock, Andrew G. W. Leslie, and John E. Walker
Science 26 November 1999: 1700-1705.
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Reports

First-Principles Determination of Elastic Anisotropy and Wave Velocities of MgO at Lower Mantle Conditions

B. B. Karki, R. M. Wentzcovitch, S. de Gironcoli, and S. Baroni
Science 26 November 1999: 1705-1707.
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Core Rotational Dynamics and Geological Events

Marianne Greff-Lefftz and Hilaire Legros
Science 26 November 1999: 1707-1709.
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Eight Centuries of North Atlantic Ocean Atmosphere Variability

David E. Black, Larry C. Peterson, Jonathan T. Overpeck, Alexey Kaplan, Michael N. Evans, and Michaele Kashgarian
Science 26 November 1999: 1709-1713.
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van der Waals Interactions in the Cl + HD Reaction

Dimitris Skouteris, David E. Manolopoulos, Wensheng Bian, Hans-Joachim Werner, Lih-Huey Lai, and Kopin Liu
Science 26 November 1999: 1713-1716.
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Ordered Bicontinuous Nanoporous and Nanorelief Ceramic Films from Self Assembling Polymer Precursors

Vanessa Z.-H. Chan, James Hoffman, Victor Y. Lee, Hermis Iatrou, Apostolos Avgeropoulos, Nikos Hadjichristidis, Robert D. Miller, and Edwin L. Thomas
Science 26 November 1999: 1716-1719.
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Single-Bond Formation and Characterization with a Scanning Tunneling Microscope

H. J. Lee and W. Ho
Science 26 November 1999: 1719-1722.
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Mechanical Rotation of the c Subunit Oligomer in ATP Synthase (F₀F₁): Direct Observation

Yoshihiro Sambongi, Yuko Iko, Mikio Tanabe, Hiroshi Omote, Atsuko Iwamoto-Kihara, Ikuo Ueda, Toshio Yanagida, Yoh Wada, and Masamitsu Futai
Science 26 November 1999: 1722-1724.
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Visualization of Dioxygen Bound to Copper During Enzyme Catalysis

C. M. Wilmot, J. Hajdu, M. J. McPherson, P. F. Knowles, and S. E. V. Phillips
Science 26 November 1999: 1724-1728.
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A Breakdown of Brassica Self-Incompatibility in ARC1 Antisense Transgenic Plants

Sophia L. Stone, MaryAnne Arnoldo, and Daphne R. Goring
Science 26 November 1999: 1729-1731.
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Arthritis Provoked by Linked T and B Cell Recognition of a Glycolytic Enzyme

Isao Matsumoto, Adrien Staub, Christophe Benoist, and Diane Mathis
Science 26 November 1999: 1732-1735.
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Proapoptotic Bcl-2 Relative Bim Required for Certain Apoptotic Responses, Leukocyte Homeostasis, and to Preclude Autoimmunity

Philippe Bouillet, Donald Metcalf, David C. S. Huang, David M. Tarlinton, Tom W. H. Kay, Frank Köntgen, Jerry M. Adams, and Andreas Strasser
Science 26 November 1999: 1735-1738.
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Differentiation Stage-Specific Inhibition of the Raf-MEK-ERK Pathway by Akt

Christian Rommel, Brian A. Clarke, Sven Zimmermann, Lorna Nuñez, Roni Rossman, Kristina Reid, Karin Moelling, George D. Yancopoulos, and David J. Glass
Science 26 November 1999: 1738-1741.
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Phosphorylation and Regulation of Raf by Akt (Protein Kinase B)

Sven Zimmermann and Karin Moelling
Science 26 November 1999: 1741-1744.
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Building Neural Representations of Habits

Mandar S. Jog, Yasuo Kubota, Christopher I. Connolly, Viveka Hillegaart, and Ann M. Graybiel
Science 26 November 1999: 1745-1749.
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Technical Comments

 On the Distribution and Abundance of Species

Roger D. Maddux, Krishna Athreya;, John Harte, Ann Kinzig, and Jessica Green;
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 Polymorphism in the IL-13 Promoter

T. C. T. M. van der Pouw Kraan, L. A. Aarden, C. L. Verweij;, Kathleen M. Gillespie, Karen L. Anderson, and Peter W. Mathieson;
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