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Science, New Series, Vol. 273, No. 5278, Aug. 23, 1996


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Front Matter (18 pp.)
Editorial: Mortgaging Science's Future, p. 1027
Alan G. Kraut


Letters
"Environmental Estrogens", p. 1029
Arthur M. Shapiro
German Education, pp. 1029-1030
Wolfgang Zeman; Stuart Brody; Manfred Philipp
Turbulence Hits Wall, pp. 1030-1031
Charles Sleicher; Anthony E. Perry
California Civil Rights: Stealth Clause, pp. 1031-1032
Lucy Johns
Streetcar Theory and Long-Term Evolution, p. 1032
Peter Hammerstein


ScienceScope, p. 1035
Jocelyn Kaiser


News and Comment
Salk: Under New Management, pp. 1036-1037
Jon Cohen
New Satellite Puts Japan in Top Tier of Remote Sensing, p. 1038
Dennis Normile
Promega Wins Round in Fight Over Taq, p. 1039
Marcia Barinaga
Fortov Named to New Post; Saltykov Out, p. 1039
Andrey Allakhverdov; Vladimir Pokrovsky
More Monkey Business Alleged at NYU, p. 1040
Richard Stone
2003 Is Earliest to Retrieve Samples, pp. 1040-1041
Jocelyn Kaiser
Scientists Plan Mercury Probe and Earth Satellite Campaign, pp. 1041-1042
Helen Gavaghan


Research News
Life's Last Domain, pp. 1043-1045
Virginia Morell
Exploring Biodiversity's Benefits, pp. 1045-1046
Elizabeth Culotta
Getting Familiar with the Top Quark, p. 1046
James Glanz
Lattices May Put Security Codes on a Firmer Footing, pp. 1047-1048
Barry Cipra
Galileo Gazes at Jupiter and Its Moons, p. 1048
Gretchen Vogel


Random Samples, pp. 1049+1051
Constance Holden


Book Reviews
Bad Surprises, p. 1052
Why Things Bite Back. Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences.
Edward Tenner
Review author[s]: Langdon Winner
Approaches to Prions, pp. 1052-1053
Prion Diseases.
Harry F. Baker; Rosalind M. Ridley
Review author[s]: Pierluigi Gambetti
More on Prions, p. 1053
Prions Prions Prions.
S. B. Prusiner
Review author[s]: Katherine Livingston
Books Received, p. 1053


Perspectives
Volcanic Dilemma: Flow or Blow?, pp. 1054-1055
D. B. Dingwell
An Excellent Lightness, pp. 1055-1056
Thomas D. Albright
Small Nucleolar RNAs Guide Ribosomal RNA Methylation, pp. 1056-1057
David Tollervey


Complete Genome Sequence of the Methanogenic Archaeon, Methanococcus jannaschii, pp. 1058-1073
Carol J. Bult; Owen White; Gary J. Olsen; Lixin Zhou; Robert D. Fleischmann; Granger G. Sutton; Judith A. Blake; Lisa M. FitzGerald; Rebecca A. Clayton; Jeannine D. Gocayne; Anthony R. Kerlavage; Brian A. Dougherty; Jean-Francois Tomb; Mark D. Adams; Claudia I. Reich; Ross Overbeek; Ewen F. Kirkness; Keith G. Weinstock; Joseph M. Merrick; Anna Glodek; John L. Scott; Neil S. M. Geoghagen; Janice F. Weidman; Joyce L. Fuhrmann; Dave Nguyen; Teresa R. Utterback; Jenny M. Kelley; Jeremy D. Peterson; Paul W. Sadow; Michael C. Hanna; Matthew D. Cotton; Kevin M. Roberts; Margaret A. Hurst; Brian P. Kaine; Mark Borodovsky; Hans-Peter Klenk; Claire M. Fraser; Hamilton O. Smith; Carl R. Woese; J. Craig Venter


Research Articles
Universal Quantum Simulators, pp. 1073-1078
Seth Lloyd
A Crosslinked Cofactor in Lysyl Oxidase: Redox Function for Amino Acid Side Chains, pp. 1078-1084
Sophie Xuefei Wang; Minae Mure; Katalin F. Medzihradszky; Alma L. Burlingame; Doreen E. Brown; David M. Dooley; Alan J. Smith; Herbert M. Kagan; Judith P. Klinman


Reports
Evidence for Supersonic Turbulence in the Upper Atmosphere of Jupiter, pp. 1085-1087
Claude Emerich; Lotfi Ben Jaffel; John T. Clarke; Renée Prangé; G. Randall Gladstone; Joel Sommeria; Gilda Ballester
Rapid Variations in Atmospheric Methane Concentration During the Past 110,000 Years, pp. 1087-1091
Edward J. Brook; Todd Sowers; Joe Orchardo
Late Pleistocene Desiccation of Lake Victoria and Rapid Evolution of Cichlid Fishes, pp. 1091-1093
Thomas C. Johnson; Christopher A. Scholz; Michael R. Talbot; Kerry Kelts; R. D. Ricketts; Gideon Ngobi; Kristina Beuning; Immacculate Ssemmanda; J. W. McGill
Simultaneous Measurement of Local Gain and Electron Density in X-ray Lasers, pp. 1093-1096
R. Cauble; L. B. Da Silva; T. W. Barbee Jr.; P. Celliers; C. Decker; R. A. London; J. C. Moreno; J. E. Trebes; A. S. Wan; F. Weber
BTK as a Mediator of Radiation-Induced Apoptosis in DT-40 Lymphoma B Cells, pp. 1096-1100
Faith M. Uckun; Kevin G. Waddick; Sandeep Mahajan; Xiao Jun; Minoru Takata; Joseph Bolen; Tomohiro Kurosaki
Corticofugal Modulation of Time-Domain Processing of Biosonar Information in Bats, pp. 1100-1103
Jun Yan; Nobuo Suga
The Representation of Brightness in Primary Visual Cortex, pp. 1104-1107
Andrew F. Rossi; Cynthia D. Rittenhouse; Michael A. Paradiso
Pilus Assembly by Agrobacterium T-DNA Transfer Genes, pp. 1107-1109
Karla Jean Fullner; J. Cano Lara; Eugene W. Nester
Role of Postreplicative DNA Mismatch Repair in the Cytotoxic Action of Thioguanine, pp. 1109-1111
Peter F. Swann; Timothy R. Waters; David C. Moulton; Yao-Zhong Xu; Qinguo Zheng; Mina Edwards; Raymond Mace
Selective Activation of Calcium Permeability by Aspartate in Purkinje Cells, pp. 1112-1114
Michisuke Yuzaki; Douglas Forrest; Tom Curran; John A. Connor


Back Matter (26 pp.)

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