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Science, New Series, Vol. 272, No. 5259, Apr. 12, 1996


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Front Matter (35 pp.)
Editorial: The Metaphor of Distributed Intelligence, p. 177
Al Gore


Letters
Sun-Climate Links, p. 179
Curt Covey
And the Winner Is..., pp. 179-180
Erik P. Scully
Bad Science, Bad Policy?, p. 180
Henry I. Miller
Calculus as a Tool, p. 180
Robert E. Hurst
The ITER Project, pp. 181-182
Paul H. Rutherford; Charles C. Baker
Structure of W(CH3)6, pp. 182-183
Clark R. Landis; Thomas Cleveland; Timothy K. Firman; K. Seppelt
Strangelovian Concepts, p. 183
Bruce Onisko


ScienceScope, p. 185
Jocelyn Kaiser


News and Comment
A Disconnect for NTT Labs?, pp. 186-187
Dennis Normile
A $3 Billion Slice of AT&T, p. 187
Robert F. Service
NIH Launches the Final Push To Sequence the Genome, pp. 188-189
Eliot Marshall; Elizabeth Pennisi
New York Courts Seek 'Neutral' Experts, p. 189
Eliot Marshall
Proposals That Would Limit Visas Strike Fear at Universities, pp. 190-191
James Glanz
Australia Fends Off Critic of Plan to Eradicate Rabbits, pp. 191-192
Dan Drollette


Research News
Premature Aging Gene Discovered, pp. 193-194
Elizabeth Pennisi
Comet Hyakutake Blazes in X-rays, p. 194
James Glanz
New Role for HIV: A Vehicle For Moving Genes Into Cells, p. 195
Jon Cohen
Chemists Clean Ceramics and Coat Enzymes in Plastic, pp. 196-197
Robert F. Service
Acid Rain's Dirty Business: Stealing Minerals from Soil, p. 198
Jocelyn Kaiser
Error-Correcting Code Keeps Quantum Computers on Track, p. 199
Barry Cipra
New Data Help Toxicologists Home in on Assessing Risks, p. 200
Jocelyn Kaiser


Random Samples, pp. 201+203
Constance Holden


Book Reviews
Orbits of a Rocketeer, p. 217
Thread of the Silkworm.
Iris Chang
Review author[s]: Michael J. Neufeld
Inside ESA, pp. 217-218
Launching Europe. An Ethnography of European Cooperation in Space Science.
Stacia E. Zabusky
Review author[s]: William Finlay
Aussi Notable, p. 218
Scientifically Yours.
Lydie Navard; Atrick Navard; Gerald Fuller
Review author[s]: Katherine Livingston


Policy Forum
Is There a Role for Benefit-Cost Analysis in Environmental, Health, and Safety Regulation?, pp. 221-222
Kenneth J. Arrow; Maureen L. Cropper; George C. Eads; Robert W. Hahn; Lester B. Lave; Roger G. Noll; Paul R. Portney; Milton Russell; Richard Schmalensee; V. Kerry Smith; Robert N. Stavins


Perspectives
A History of Global Metal Pollution, pp. 223-224
Jerome O. Nriagu
Cell Shape Determination: A Pivotal Role for Rho, pp. 224-225
Howard Bussey
Arousal: Revisiting the Reticular Activating System, pp. 225-226
Mircea Steriade


Protein Sorting by Transport Vesicles, pp. 227-234
James E. Rothman; Felix T. Wieland


Research Article
Global Observations of Oceanic Rossby Waves, pp. 234-238
Dudley B. Chelton; Michael G. Schlax


Reports
Long-Term Effects of Acid Rain: Response and Recovery of a Forest Ecosystem, pp. 244-246
G. E. Likens; C. T. Driscoll; D. C. Buso
History of Ancient Copper Smelting Pollution During Roman and Medieval Times Recorded in Greenland Ice, pp. 246-249
Sungmin Hong; Jean-Pierre Candelone; Clair C. Patterson; Claude F. Boutron
Extraterrestrial Helium Trapped in Fullerenes in the Sudbury Impact Structure, pp. 249-252
Luann Becker; Robert J. Poreda; Jeffrey L. Bada
Orientation-On-Demand Thin Films: Curing of Liquid Crystalline Networks in ac Electric Fields, pp. 252-255
Hilmar Körner; Atsushi Shiota; Timothy J. Bunning; Christopher K. Ober
Imaging and Time-Resolved Spectroscopy of Single Molecules at an Interface, pp. 255-258
J. J. Macklin; J. K. Trautman; T. D. Harris; L. E. Brus
Positional Cloning of the Werner's Syndrome Gene, pp. 258-262
Chang-En Yu; Junko Oshima; Ying-Hui Fu; Ellen M. Wijsman; Fuki Hisama; Reid Alisch; Shellie Matthews; Jun Nakura; Tetsuro Miki; Samir Ouais; George M. Martin; John Mulligan; Gerard D. Schellenberg
In Vivo Gene Delivery and Stable Transduction of Nondividing Cells by a Lentiviral Vector, pp. 263-267
Luigi Naldini; Ulrike Blömer; Philippe Gallay; Daniel Ory; Richard Mulligan; Fred H. Gage; Inder M. Verma; Didier Trono
Accurate Processing of a Eukaryotic Precursor Ribosomal RNA by Ribonuclease MRP In vitro, pp. 268-270
Zoi Lygerou; Christine Allmang; David Tollervey; Bertrand Séraphin
Role of Reticular Activation in the Modulation of Intracortical Synchronization, pp. 271-274
Matthias H. J. Munk; Pieter R. Roelfsema; Peter König; Andreas K. Engel; Wolf Singer
Short-Term Plasticity of a Thalamocortical Pathway Dynamically Modulated by Behavioral State, pp. 274-277
Manuel A. Castro-Alamancos; Barry W. Connors
Rho1p, a Yeast Protein at the Interface Between Cell Polarization and Morphogenesis, pp. 277-279
Jana Drgonová; Tomás Drgon; Kazuma Tanaka; Roman Kollár; Guang-Chao Chen; Richard A. Ford; Clarence S. M. Chan; Yoshimi Takai; Enrico Cabib
Identification of Yeast Rho1p GTPase as a Regulatory Subunit of 1,3-β-Glucan Synthase, pp. 279-281
Hiroshi Qadota; Christophe P. Python; Shunsuke B. Inoue; Mikio Arisawa; Yasuhiro Anraku; Yi Zheng; Takahide Watanabe; David E. Levin; Yoshikazu Ohya


Technical Comments
Lophophorate Phylogeny, pp. 282-283
S. Conway Morris; B. L. Cohen; A. B. Gawthrop; T. Cavalier-Smith; B. Winnepenninckx; Kenneth M. Halanych; John D. Bacheller; Anna Marie A. Aguinaldo; Stephanie M. Liva; David M. Hillis; James A. Lake


Back Matter (37 pp.)

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