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Previous Issue: New Series, Vol. 270, No. 5244, Dec. 22, 1995
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Front Matter (14 pp.)
Editorial: Nanophase Chemistry, p. 11
- Philip H. Abelson
Letters
- The Bell Curve: A Statement, pp. 13-14
- Lori B. Andrews; Dorothy Nelkin
- Genetic Patents, p. 14
- Philip L. Bereano
- Explaining "Linguistic Features" of Noncoding DNA, pp. 14-15
- Sebastian Bonhoeffer; Andreas V. M. Herz; Maarten C. Boerlijst; Sean Nee; Martin A. Nowak; Robert M. May
- Coral Bleaching, pp. 15-16
- C. F. D'Elia; R. W. Buddemeier; S. V. Smith
- Rare Trees, p. 16
- Loren H. Rieseberg
- Italian Academic Turnover, pp. 16-17
- Benedetto Terracini
- Useful Antisense, p. 17
- Ling Yuan
Corrections and Clarifications: Brethren of the Net: American Entomology, 1840-1880, p. 17
Corrections and Clarifications: Can Nuclear Waste Keep Yucca Mountain Dry- and Safe?, p. 17
Corrections and Clarifications: China's Unique Environment Favors Large Intervention Trials, p. 17
Corrections and Clarifications: Defective Lymphoid Development in Mice Lacking Jak3, p. 17
Corrections and Clarifications: Pioneering Work, p. 17
Corrections and Clarifications: Tracing Croatia's 'Disappeared', p. 17
ScienceScope, p. 19
- Jocelyn Kaiser
News and Comment
- AIDS Trials Take On Peer Review, pp. 20-21
- Jon Cohen
- Impasse Puts NIH Grants on Hold, p. 22
- Eliot Marshall; Jeffrey Mervis
- New Budget Gives 7% Boost to R & D, p. 22
- Dennis Normile
- Indonesian Policies Stymie Global Circulation Experiment, pp. 23-24
- Jeffrey Mervis
- Broken Belt Sets Back New Accelerator, p. 24
- Alexander Hellemans
- Japan Pumps Up Budget for Table-Top Short-Pulse Lasers, pp. 25-26
- Dennis Normile
- Meeting Takes Pulse of Laser Accelerators, p. 26
- James Glanz
Research News
- Giving Language Skills a Boost, pp. 27-28
- Marcia Barinaga
- Does Tellurium Frost Venus's Highlands?, pp. 28-29
- Richard A. Kerr
- Obesity: Leptin Receptor Weighs In, p. 29
- Marcia Barinaga
- A Second Breast Cancer Susceptibility Gene Is Found, pp. 30-31
- Jean Marx
- Flexing Muscle With Just One Amino Acid, p. 31
- Robert F. Service
- Ozone-Destroying Chlorine Tops Out, p. 32
- Richard A. Kerr
- New Skull Turns Up in Northeast Africa, p. 32
- Virginia Morell
- Sperm Protein Makes Its Mark Upon the Worm Embryo, p. 33
- Wade Roush
Random Samples, p. 35
- Constance Holden
Book Reviews
- Relativity and Experiment, pp. 37-38
- Gravitation and Inertia.
- Ignazio Ciufolini; John Archibald Wheeler
- Review author[s]: Carlo Rovelli
- Responding to AIDS, p. 38
- AIDS and the Public Debate. Historical and Contemporary Perspectives.
- Caroline Hannaway; Victoria A. Harden; John Parascandola
- Review author[s]: Dan E. Beauchamp
Perspectives
- Putting a New Spin on Spider Silk, pp. 39-40
- David A. Tirrell
- Ecdysis Control Sheds Another Layer, pp. 40-41
- James W. Truman
- Stardust in the Laboratory, pp. 41-42
- Ernst Zinner
- Optical Rockets, p. 42
- David Voss
Supported Membranes: Scientific and Practical Applications, pp. 43-48
- E. Sackmann
Reports
- Electrochemically Tunable Magnetic Phase Transition in a High-Tc Chromium Cyanide Thin Film, pp. 49-51
- O. Sato; T. Lyoda; A. Fujishima; K. Hashimoto
- Achieving Linear Scaling for the Electronic Quantum Coulomb Problem, pp. 51-53
- Matthew C. Strain; Gustavo E. Scuseria; Michael J. Frisch
- Low-Compressibility Carbon Nitrides, pp. 53-55
- David M. Teter; Russell J. Hemley
- Criticality and Parallelism in Combinatorial Optimization, pp. 56-59
- William G. Macready; Athanassios G. Siapas; Stuart A. Kauffman
- Quantifying Hydrogen Bond Cooperativity in Water: VRT Spectroscopy of the Water Tetramer, pp. 59-62
- J. D. Cruzan; L. B. Braly; Kun Liu; M. G. Brown; J. G. Loeser; R. J. Saykally
- Vibration-Rotation Tunneling Spectra of the Water Pentamer: Structure and Dynamics, pp. 62-64
- K. Liu; M. G. Brown; J. D. Cruzan; R. J. Saykally
- Role of Mutant CFTR in Hypersusceptibility of Cystic Fibrosis Patients to Lung Infections, pp. 64-67
- Gerald B. Pier; Martha Grout; Tanweer S. Zaidi; John C. Olsen; Larry G. Johnson; James R. Yankaskas; Joanna B. Goldberg
- Control of Aragonite or Calcite Polymorphism by Mollusk Shell Macromolecules, pp. 67-69
- Giuseppe Falini; Shira Albeck; Steve Weiner; Lia Addadi
- Sexual Selection for Male Sacrifice in the Australian Redback Spider, pp. 70-72
- Maydianne C. B. Andrade
- Direct Observation of Protein Solvation and Discrete Disorder with Experimental Crystallographic Phases, pp. 72-77
- F. Temple Burling; William I. Weis; Kevin M. Flaherty; Axel T. Brünger
- Temporal Processing Deficits of Language-Learning Impaired Children Ameliorated by Training, pp. 77-81
- Michael M. Merzenich; William M. Jenkins; Paul Johnston; Christoph Schreiner; Steven L. Miller; Paula Tallal
- Language Comprehension in Language-Learning Impaired Children Improved with Acoustically Modified Speech, pp. 81-84
- Paula Tallal; Steve L. Miller; Gail Bedi; Gary Byma; Xiaoqin Wang; Srikantan S. Nagarajan; Christoph Schreiner; William M. Jenkins; Michael M. Merzenich
- Molecular Orientation and Two-Component Nature of the Crystalline Fraction of Spider Dragline Silk, pp. 84-87
- Alexandra H. Simmons; Carl A. Michal; Lynn W. Jelinski
- Identification of Ecdysis-Triggering Hormone from an Epitracheal Endocrine System, pp. 88-91
- Dušan Žitňan; Timothy G. Kingan; John L. Hermesman; Michael E. Adams
Technical Comments
- Analog Computational Power, p. 92
- Peter Shor; Richard Y. Kain
Back Matter (24 pp.)
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