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Science, New Series, Vol. 274, No. 5290, Nov. 15, 1996


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Front Matter (39 pp.)
Editorial: Neural Development: Mysterious No More?, p. 1063
Martin Raff


Letters
Small Business Grant Proposals, p. 1065
Philip Lader
Tritium from Russia, p. 1066
Richard L. Garwin
Misconduct Annotations, pp. 1066-1067
Chris B. Pascal
Red Alga Terminology, p. 1067
Hideo Takahashi
HIV-1 in Oropharyngeal Lymphoid Tissues, pp. 1067-1068
Aline Rinfret; Louis Lamarre; Paul Jolicoeur
Ancient Tides and Length of Day: Correction, pp. 1068-1069
C. P. Sonett; A. Zakharian; E. P. Kvale
Participants in HIV Study: Correction, p. 1069
Michael Dean; Mary Carrington; James Goedert; Stephen J. O'Brien


Corrections and Clarifications: The Genome Program's Conscience, p. 1069
Corrections and Clarifications: Role of GTP Hydrolysis in Fission of Caveolae Directly from Plasma Membranes, p. 1069
ScienceScope, p. 1071
Jocelyn Kaiser


News
A Postelection Vote for Consensus, pp. 1072-1073
Andrew Lawler
California Bans Affirmative Action, p. 1073
Marcia Barinaga
Database Access Fight Heats Up, p. 1074
Andrew Lawler
Global Interest High, Knowledge Low, p. 1074
Dennis Normile
Flotilla is Heading to Mars Seeking End to Data Drought, p. 1075
Andrew Lawler
Small Refugees Suffer the Effects of Early Neglect, pp. 1076-1077
Constance Holden
Activists Vote $14 Million for Research, p. 1077
Eliot Marshall
Dust Grains Bring Long-Lost Stars Into the Laboratory, pp. 1078-1079
James Glanz
Tiny Abacus Points to New Devices, pp. 1079-1080
Robert F. Service
A Shocking View of the Permo-Triassic, p. 1080
Richard A. Kerr
Quick-Change Pathogens Gain an Evolutionary Edge, p. 1081
Denise Grady
Tracing Backbone Evolution Through a Tunicate's Lost Tail, pp. 1082-1083
Elizabeth Pennisi
Early Birds Rise from China Fossil Beds, p. 1083
Ann Gibbons


Random Samples, p. 1085
Constance Holden


Developmental Neurobiology
[Introduction], p. 1099
Pamela J. Hines; Jean Marx


News
Guiding Neurons to the Cortex, pp. 1100-1101
Marcia Barinaga
The Supple Synapse: An Affair that Remembers, pp. 1102-1103
Wade Roush

An Internet Review: The Compleat Neuroscientist Scours the World Wide Web, pp. 1104-1108
Floyd E. Bloom
Patterning the Vertebrate Neuraxis, pp. 1109-1115
Andrew Lumsden; Robb Krumlauf
Diversity and Pattern in the Developing Spinal Cord, pp. 1115-1123
Yasuto Tanabe; Thomas M. Jessell
The Molecular Biology of Axon Guidance, pp. 1123-1133
Marc Tessier-Lavigne; Corey S. Goodman
Synaptic Activity and the Construction of Cortical Circuits, pp. 1133-1138
L. C. Katz; C. J. Shatz


Book Reviews
Growing Concerns, pp. 1147-1148
The Lives to Come. The Genetic Revolution and Human Possibilities.
Philip Kitcher
Double-Edged Sword. The Promises and Risks of the Genetic Revolution.
Karl A. Drlica
Improving Nature? The Science and Ethics of Genetic Engineering.
Michael J. Reiss; Roger Straughan
Review author[s]: Peter Conrad
Industrial Geophysics, p. 1148
Science on the Run. Information Management and Industrial Geophysics at Schlumberger, 1920-1940.
Geoffrey C. Bowker
Review author[s]: Jonathan Coopersmith
17th-Century Issues, pp. 1148-1149
The Scientific Revolution.
Steven Shapin
Review author[s]: David C. Lindberg


Correction: Comparative Vertebrate Neuroanatomy, p. 1149


Perspectives
Biosphere 2 and Biodiversity: The Lessons So Far, pp. 1150-1151
Joel E. Cohen; David Tilman
Does Leptin Contribute to Diabetes Caused by Obesity?, pp. 1151-1152
Simeon I. Taylor; Valarie Barr; Marc Reitman
One of Nature's Macromolecular Machines Demystified, pp. 1152-1153
JoAnne Stubbe
The Elusive Hydroxyl Revisited, p. 1153
William Brune


Research Article
Synchronized Terrestrial-Atmospheric Deglacial Records Around the North Atlantic, pp. 1155-1160
Svante Björck; Bernd Kromer; Sigfus Johnsen; Ole Bennike; Dan Hammarlund; Geoffrey Lemdahl; Göran Possnert; Tine Lander Rasmussen; Barbara Wohlfarth; Claus Uffe Hammer; Marco Spurk


Reports
Protein Folding Monitored at Individual Residues During a Two-Dimensional NMR Experiment, pp. 1161-1163
Jochen Balbach; Vincent Forge; Wai Shun Lau; Nico A. J. van Nuland; Keith Brew; Christopher M. Dobson
Early Adaptive Radiation of Birds: Evidence from Fossils from Northeastern China, pp. 1164-1167
Lianhai Hou; Larry D. Martin; Zhonghe Zhou; Alan Feduccia
Direct Observation of Vortex Dynamics in Superconducting Films with Regular Arrays of Defects, pp. 1167-1170
K. Harada; O. Kamimura; H. Kasai; T. Matsuda; A. Tonomura; V. V. Moshchalkov
Human Influence on the Atmospheric Vertical Temperature Structure: Detection and Observations, pp. 1170-1173
Simon F. B. Tett; John F. B. Mitchell; David E. Parker; Myles R. Allen
Dynamics of Oxidation of a Fe 2+ -Bearing Aluminosilicate (Basaltic) Melt, pp. 1173-1176
Reid F. Cooper; John B. Fanselow; J. K. Richard Weber; Dennis R. Merkley; David B. Poker
The Edge of Time: Dating Young Volcanic Ash Layers with the 40 Ar- 39 Ar Laser Probe, pp. 1176-1178
Yanshao Chen; Patrick E. Smith; Norman M. Evensen; Derek York; Kenneth R. Lajoie
The Nature of the 660-Kilometer Upper-Mantle Seismic Discontinuity from Precursors to the PP Phase, pp. 1179-1182
Charles H. Estabrook; Rainer Kind
Organic Glasses: A New Class of Photorefractive Materials, pp. 1182-1185
P. M. Lundquist; R. Wortmann; C. Geletneky; R. J. Twieg; M. Jurich; V. Y. Lee; C. R. Moylan; D. M. Burland
Modulation of Insulin Activities by Leptin, pp. 1185-1188
Batya Cohen; Daniela Novick; Menachem Rubinstein
From Peptide Precursors to Oxazole and Thiazole-Containing Peptide Antibiotics: Microcin B17 Synthase, pp. 1188-1193
Yue-Ming Li; Jill C. Milne; Lara L. Madison; Roberto Kolter; Christopher T. Walsh
Ultraviolet Light and Osmotic Stress: Activation of the JNK Cascade Through Multiple Growth Factor and Cytokine Receptors, pp. 1194-1197
Caridad Rosette; Michael Karin
Mapping of a Gene for Parkinson's Disease to Chromosome 4q21-q23, pp. 1197-1199
Mihael H. Polymeropoulos; Joseph J. Higgins; Lawrence I. Golbe; William G. Johnson; Susan E. Ide; Giuseppe Di Iorio; Giuseppe Sanges; Edward S. Stenroos; Lana T. Pho; Alejandro A. Schaffer; Alice M. Lazzarini; Robert L. Nussbaum; Roger C. Duvoisin
Identification of BIME as a Subunit of the Anaphase-Promoting Complex, pp. 1199-1201
Jan-Michael Peters; Randall W. King; Christer Höög; Marc W. Kirschner
Identification of Subunits of the Anaphase-Promoting Complex of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, pp. 1201-1204
Wolfgang Zachariae; Tae Ho Shin; Marta Galova; Brigitte Obermaier; Kim Nasmyth
Requirement of the Manx Gene for Expression of Chordate Features in a Tailless Ascidian Larva, pp. 1205-1208
Billie J. Swalla; William R. Jeffery
High Mutation Frequencies Among Escherichia coli and Salmonella Pathogens, pp. 1208-1211
J. Eugene LeClerc; Baoguang Li; William L. Payne; Thomas A. Cebula
Neuronal Gene Expression in the Waking State: A Role for the Locus Coeruleus, pp. 1211-1215
Chiara Cirelli; Maria Pompeiano; Giulio Tononi


Technical Comments
"Replay" of Hippocampal "Memories", pp. 1216-1217
George P. Moore; Jay R. Rosenberg; David Hary; Peter Breeze; William E. Skaggs; Bruce L. McNaughton


Back Matter (51 pp.)

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