JSTOR Home Skip to Main Content
  
  
  
  

Science, New Series, Vol. 273, No. 5283, Sep. 27, 1996


Previous Issue: New Series, Vol. 273, No. 5282, Sep. 20, 1996
Next Issue: New Series, Vol. 274, No. 5284, Oct. 4, 1996


Volume Information (11 pp.)
Front Matter (19 pp.)
Editorial: Cooperation, Competition, and Science Policy, p. 1779
Erich Bloch


Letters
Interleukin-1 Research, p. 1781
Thomas P. Hopp
On Sociological Biophobia, pp. 1781-1782
Andrew Abbott; John H. Gagnon
Morality Play, pp. 1782-1785
Leslie Z. Benet; Walter R. Debler; James R. Thomen; Ernest B. Hook; Carter Eckert; Dorothy S. Zinberg


ScienceScope, p. 1787
Jocelyn Kaiser


News and Comment
Whose Genome is it, Anyway?, pp. 1788-1789
Eliot Marshall
Research is Spared the Budget Ax, p. 1790
Michael Balter
No Respite for International Labs, p. 1790
Robert Koenig
Explosive Growth Helps Japan Take Its Place on Global Team, pp. 1791-1792
Lori Valigra
A Plea to Protect Threatened Collections, pp. 1792-1793
Nigel Williams
Congressional Scorecard Sparks Furor, pp. 1793-1794
Andrew Lawler
In Boston, a Revolutionary Experience, p. 1794
Wade Roush


Research News
Biofilms Invade Microbiology, pp. 1795-1797
Carol Potera
Receptor Mutations Help Slow Disease Progression, pp. 1797-1798
Jon Cohen
Quick Work Draws Scientific Praise, Colleagues' Complaints, p. 1798
J.C.
Hubble Spectrograph Takes a Hard Look in the Ultraviolet, pp. 1799-1800
Gretchen Vogel
Plastics May Add New Colors to Lasers' Light Show, pp. 1800-1801
Robert F. Service
How the Songbird Makes his Song, pp. 1801-1802
Elizabeth Pennisi
Politics Meets Technology in Next Collider, pp. 1802-1803
Alexander Hellemans


Random Samples, p. 1805
Constance Holden


Book Reviews
A Call for Redirection, pp. 1806-1807
Frontiers of Illusion. Science, Technology, and the Politics of Progress.
Daniel Sarewitz
Review author[s]: David H. Guston
Paleovertebrates, pp. 1807-1808
The Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs.
David E. Fastovsky; David B. Weishampel
Dinosaur Extinction and the End of an Era. What the Fossils Say.
J. David Archibald
Review author[s]: Dale A. Russell
Also Noteworthy, p. 1808
The Great Dinosaur Extinction Controversy.
Charles Officer; Jake Page
Review author[s]: Katherine Livingston
Books Received, p. 1808


Perspectives
Flux Lattice Melting, p. 1811
David J. Bishop
Is Neural Noise Just a Nuisance?, p. 1812
David Ferster
A Parallel Spliceosome, p. 1813
Timothy W. Nilsen


Noble Gases and Earth's Accretion, pp. 1814-1818
Charles L. Harper Jr.; Stein B. Jacobsen

Copper Sources, Metal Production, and Metals Trade in Late Postclassic Mesoamerica, pp. 1819-1824
Dorothy Hosler; Andrew Macfarlane


Research Article
Highly Diverged U4 and U6 Small Nuclear RNAs Required for Splicing Rare AT-AC Introns, pp. 1824-1832
Woan-Yuh Tarn; Joan A. Steitz


Reports
Semiconducting Polymers: A New Class of Solid-State Laser Materials, pp. 1833-1836
Fumitomo Hide; María A. Díaz-García; Benjamin J. Schwartz; Mats R. Andersson; Qibing Pei; Alan J. Heeger
Nanorod-Superconductor Composites: A Pathway to Materials with High Critical Current Densities, pp. 1836-1840
Peidong Yang; Charles M. Lieber
Methane Hydrate and Free Gas on the Blake Ridge from Vertical Seismic Profiling, pp. 1840-1843
W. Steven Holbrook; Hartley Hoskins; Warren T. Wood; Ralph A. Stephen; Daniel Lizarralde
Peculiarities of Methane Clathrate Hydrate Formation and Solid-State Deformation, Including Possible Superheating of Water Ice, pp. 1843-1848
Laura A. Stern; Stephen H. Kirby; William B. Durham
A Trinuclear Intermediate in the Copper-Mediated Reduction of O2: Four Electrons from Three Coppers, pp. 1848-1850
Adam P. Cole; David E. Root; Pulakesh Mukherjee; Edward I. Solomon; T. D. P. Stack
Age and Paleogeographical Origin of Dominican Amber, pp. 1850-1852
Manuel A. Iturralde-Vinent; R. D. E. MacPhee
Initiation of Runaway Cell Death in an Arabidopsis Mutant by Extracellular Superoxide, pp. 1853-1856
Thorsten Jabs; Robert A. Dietrich; Jeffery L. Dang
Genetic Restriction of HIV-1 Infection and Progression to AIDS by a Deletion Allele of the CKR5 Structural Gene, pp. 1856-1862
Michael Dean; Mary Carrington; Cheryl Winkler; Gavin A. Huttley; Michael W. Smith; Rando Allikmets; James J. Goedert; Susan P. Buchbinder; Eric Vittinghoff; Edward Gomperts; Sharyne Donfield; David Vlahov; Richard Kaslow; Alfred Saah; Charles Rinaldo; Roger Detels; Stephen J. O'Brien
CD40 Ligand-Dependent T Cell Activation: Requirement of B7-CD28 Signaling Through CD40, pp. 1862-1864
Yiping Yang; James M. Wilson
Requirement for CD40 Ligand in Costimulation Induction, T Cell Activation, and Experimental Allergic Encephalomyelitis, pp. 1864-1867
Iqbal S. Grewal; Harald G. Foellmer; Kate D. Grewal; Jianchao Xu; Fridrika Hardardottir; Jody L. Baron; Charles A. Janeway Jr.; Richard A. Flavell
Dynamics of Ongoing Activity: Explanation of the Large Variability in Evoked Cortical Responses, pp. 1868-1871
Amos Arieli; Alexander Sterkin; Amiram Grinvald; Ad Aertsen
Temporal Hierarchical Control of Singing in Birds, pp. 1871-1875
Albert C. Yu; Daniel Margoliash
Conformational States of the Nuclear Pore Complex Induced by Depletion of Nuclear Ca 2+ Stores, pp. 1875-1877
Carmen Perez-Terzic; Jason Pyle; Marisa Jaconi; Lisa Stehno-Bittel; David E. Clapham


Technical Comments
Sm-Nd Isotopic Data and Earth's Evolution, pp. 1878-1879
S. Moorbath; M. J. Whitehouse; Samuel A. Bowring; Todd Housh


AAAS News and Notes, pp. 1880-1881
Diana Parsell

Back Matter (76 pp.)

Previous Issue: New Series, Vol. 273, No. 5282, Sep. 20, 1996
Next Issue: New Series, Vol. 274, No. 5284, Oct. 4, 1996



©2000-2007 JSTOR