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Previous Issue: New Series, Vol. 256, No. 5055, Apr. 17, 1992
Next Issue: New Series, Vol. 256, No. 5057, May 1, 1992
Front Matter (37 pp.)
Editorial: Plus ça Change, Plus c'est la Même Chose, p. 421
- Daniel E. Koshland, Jr.
Letters
- Patriot Missile Controversy, p. 426
- Ashton B. Carter
- Kuwait Oil Well Fires, p. 426
- Gary L. Ginsberg; Wendy H. Koch; Gale F. Hoffnagle
- Early Humans in North America, pp. 426-427
- Steve Emslie
- Cigarettes and Addiction, p. 427
- Lester Levin; Thomas C. Mosca III; Gio Batta Gori
- Consolidation at Yale, pp. 427-428
- Judith Rodin
Corrections and Clarifications: "Profile of a Field: Mathematics: Heroism is Still the Norm", p. 428
Corrections and Clarifications: "Data Points", p. 428
Corrections and Clarifications: "Chemists vie to Make a Better Taxol", p. 428
Corrections and Clarifications: "The Ascent of Odorless Chemistry", p. 428
ScienceScope, p. 431
- David P. Hamilton
News and Comment
- SLAC Sees Writing on the Wall, pp. 432-434
- David P. Hamilton
- Another Panel Rejects Nevada Disaster Theory, pp. 434-436
- Richard A. Kerr
- A European Plan Gathers Support, p. 436
- Faye Flam
- Lead Researcher Confronts Accusers in Public Hearing, pp. 437-438
- Joseph Palca
- A Japanese Claim Generates New Heat, p. 438
- David H. Freedman
- Headed for a Brick Wall?, p. 439
- Eliot Marshall
- Last Piece of Jigsaw in Place, p. 439
- C. N.
Research News
- Biology Approaches the Teraflop Era, pp. 440-442
- Richard Stone
- Chemists Storm San Francisco, pp. 442-443
- Ivan Amato
- Novel Function Discovered For the Cystic Fibrosis Gene, pp. 444-445
- Marcia Barinaga
- New Vector Puts Payload on the Outside, p. 445
- Michelle Hoffman
Random Samples, p. 446
- Richard Stone
Science in Europe
News Reports
- European Unity, Inch by Centimeter, pp. 458-460
- Alun Anderson
- Molecular Biology: U. S. Juggernaut Overwhelms Divided European Elite, pp. 460-462+463+464
- Alun Anderson
- Gene Mapping the Industrial Way, p. 463
- Alexander Dorozynski
- An Institute Without Bosses, p. 464
- Patricia Kahn
- Astronomy: New Telescopes Bring Europe Closer to the United States, p. 465
- Steven Dickman
- High Energy Physics: Europeans Confident in the Battle of the Big Machines, pp. 466-467
- Faye Flam
- Neurobiology: Neuroscientists Struggle to Achieve a Critical Mass, p. 468
- Alun Anderson
- Young Biologists: Europe's Rising Stars, Viewed from America, pp. 469-471
- Michael Balter; Patricia Kahn; Jeremy Cherfas; John Maurice
- Patterns of Diversity, p. 472
- United Kingdom: Britain's Slow Decline, Through American Eyes, p. 473
- Central Europe: Science Après Le Déluge: Struggling to Stay Afloat, pp. 474-475
- Steven Dickman
- Switzerland: Politicians Try Tuning up the Swiss Research Machine, p. 476
- Peter Aldhous
- Italy: Scientific Superpower Status Remains Elusive, p. 477
- Peter Aldhous
Perspectives
- Integration of European Life Sciences, p. 478
- Lennart Philipson
- Higher Education in Europe: The French Example, pp. 479-480
- Vincent Courtillot
- Genome Research in Europe, pp. 480-481
- Sir Walter Bodmer
- Can Europe Keep up the Pace in Condensed Matter Physics?, p. 482
- T. M. Rice
- A Phenotype or Not: Targeting Genes in the Immune System, p. 483
- Klaus Rajewsky
- The European Strategy in Particle Physics, pp. 484-485
- Carlo Rubbia
- European Astronomy, pp. 485-487
- Martin Rees
- Genes to Greens: Embryonic Pattern Formation in Plants, pp. 487-488
- Gerd Jürgens
Soft Matter, pp. 495-497
- P. G. de Gennes
Ion Channels for Communication Between and Within Cells, pp. 498-502
- Erwin Neher
Elementary Steps in Synaptic Transmission Revealed by Currents Through Single Ion Channels, pp. 503-512
- Bert Sakmann
Reports
- Fractals and Cosmological Large-Scale Structure, pp. 513-515
- Xiaochun Luo; David N. Schramm
- Metallo-Carbohedrenes [M8C 12 + (M = V, Zr, Hf, and Ti)]: A Class of Stable Molecular Cluster Ions, pp. 515-516
- B. C. Guo; S. Wei; J. Purnell; S. Buzza; A. W. Castleman, Jr.
- Mantle Plumes and Entrainment: Isotopic Evidence, pp. 517-520
- S. R. Hart; E. H. Hauri; L. A. Oschmann; J. A. Whitehead
- Polyhydroxybutyrate, a Biodegradable Thermoplastic, Produced in Transgenic Plants, pp. 520-523
- Yves Poirier; Douglas E. Dennis; Karen Klomparens; Chris Somerville
- X-ray Structure of T4 Endonuclease V: An Excision Repair Enzyme Specific for a Pyrimidine Dimer, pp. 523-526
- K. Morikawa; O. Matsumoto; M. Tsujimoto; K. Katayanagi; M. Ariyoshi; T. Doi; M. Ikehara; T. Inaoka; E. Ohtsuka
- Tertiary Structure Around the Guanosine-Binding Site of the Tetrahymena Ribozyme, pp. 526-529
- Jin-Feng Wang; Thomas R. Cech
- Regulation of Plasma Membrane Recycling by CFTR, pp. 530-532
- Neil A. Bradbury; Tamas Jilling; Gabor Berta; Eric J. Sorscher; Robert J. Bridges; Kevin L. Kirk
- Regulation of Arterial Tone by Activation of Calcium-Dependent Potassium Channels, pp. 532-535
- Joseph E. Brayden; Mark T. Nelson
- Isolation of a Complementary DNA That Encodes the Mammalian Splicing Factor SC35, pp. 535-538
- Xiang-Dong Fu; Tom Maniatis
- Regulatory Elements That Control the Lineage-Specific Expression of myoD, pp. 538-542
- David J. Goldhamer; Alexander Faerman; Moshe Shani; Charles P. Emerson, Jr.
- Participation of Tyrosine Phosphorylation in the Cytopathic Effect of Human Immunodeficiency Virus-1, pp. 542-545
- David I. Cohen; Yoshihiko Tani; Huan Tian; Elizabeth Boone; Lawrence E. Samelson; H. Clifford Lane
- Observational Learning in Octopus vulgaris, pp. 545-547
- Graziano Fiorito; Pietro Scotto
Inside AAAS, pp. 548-550
- Cynthia Lollar
Book Reviews
- An Americanization, pp. 553-554
- The Expansion of American Biology.
- Keith R. Benson; Jane Maienschein; Ronald Rainger
- Review author[s]: Jonathan Harwood
- Global Transformations, p. 555
- Science and Technology in History. An Approach to Industrial Development.
- Ian Inkster
- Review author[s]: Louis Galambos
- Books Received, pp. 555-556
Back Matter (28 pp.)
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