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Science, New Series, Vol. 275, No. 5296, Jan. 3, 1997


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Front Matter (12 pp.)
Editorial: Continuous Innovation in Health, p. 9
Kenneth I. Shine


Letters
Disposing of Excess Plutonium, pp. 11-12
Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky
Eco-Friendly Coffee Farming, pp. 12-13
Daniel B. Katz; Allen M. Young
Approaches to AIDS Research, p. 13
Ronald C. Desrosiers
Swedish Biomedical Research Funding, pp. 13-14
Kerstin Eliasson
Responsibility of Co-Authors, p. 14
Michael K. Gilson; Tobias I. Baskin; Jay M. Pasachoff; Craig Loehle


Corrections and Clarifications: The Case of the Missing Migrants, p. 14
Corrections and Clarifications: Glimpsing Myelin's Protein Glue, p. 14
Corrections and Clarifications: High-Resolution Imaging of the Self-Assembly of Organic Monolayers, p. 14
Corrections and Clarifications: Prognosis in HIV-1 Infection Predicted by the Quantity of Virus in Plasma, p. 14
ScienceScope, p. 17
Jocelyn Kaiser


News and Comment
U.K. Universities: Jostling for Rank, pp. 18-19
Nigel Williams
CERN Sets Sights on an Early LHC, p. 19
Alexander Hellemans
The Pentagon Steps Up the Battle to Save Biodiversity, p. 20
Gretchen Vogel
Breast-Implant Ruling Sends a Message, p. 21
Jocelyn Kaiser
Basic Science Spending to Jump in 1997, p. 21
Dennis Normile
Panel Urges Cloning Ethics Boards, p. 22
Eliot Marshall
Duma Holds Down Science Budget, p. 22
Andrey Allakhverdov; Vladimir Pokrovsky
Drug Industry Misses Target for Funding Work on Campus, pp. 23-24
Wayne Kondro
Clinton Picks Pena to Lead Energy, p. 24
Andrew Lawler
New Funds Plant Seeds for Genome Research Effort, pp. 25-26
Patricia Kahn
Navigating Shrinking Financial Seas, p. 26
Virginia Morell


Research News
The Many Faces of WAS Protein, pp. 27-28
Carol Featherstone
Evolutionary Psychologists Look for Roots of Cognition, pp. 29-30
Nigel Williams
Improbable Particles-or Artifacts?, pp. 30-31
Andrew Watson
Researchers Construct Cell Look-Alikes, p. 31
Robert F. Service
New Knockout Mice Point to Molecular Basis of Memory, pp. 32-33
Wade Roush
Hedging Bets on Hard Problems, p. 33
Charles Seife


Random Samples, p. 35
Constance Holden


Book Reviews
The Cancer Field, p. 36
Racing to the Beginning of the Road. The Search for the Origin of Cancer.
Robert A. Weinberg
Review author[s]: George Klein
Evolutionary Issues, pp. 36-37
Molecular Zoology. Advances, Strategies, and Protocols.
Joan D. Ferraris; Stephen R. Palumbi
Review author[s]: Rodney L. Honeycutt
Reprints of Books Previously Reviewed, p. 37


Perspectives
Evidence for Life on Earth More Than 3850 Million Years Ago, pp. 38-39
Heinrich D. Holland
Germanyl and Silyl Cations: Free at Last, pp. 39-40
Paul von Ragué Schleyer
Pax Polio, pp. 40-41
Harry F. Hull
Asthma: An Epidemic in the Absence of Infection?, pp. 41-42
William O. C. M. Cookson; Miriam F. Moffatt
There Are GAPS and There Are GAPS, pp. 42-43
Ravi Iyengar


Webwatch, p. 43
David Voss

Mixed Self-Assembled Monolayers in Chemical Separations, pp. 44-47
Mary J. Wirth; R. W. Peter Fairbank; Hafeez O. Fatunmbi


Reports
A Possible Intracluster Origin for the Excess Soft X-ray Component in Some Clusters, pp. 48-49
A. C. Fabian
Generation of X-rays from Comet C/Hyakutake 1996 B2, pp. 49-51
R. Bingham; J. M. Dawson; V. D. Shapiro; D. A. Mendis; B. J. Kellett
An Economics Approach to Hard Computational Problems, pp. 51-54
Bernardo A. Huberman; Rajan M. Lukose; Tad Hogg
Femtosecond Dynamics of Excited-State Evolution in [Ru(bpy)3] 2+, pp. 54-57
Niels H. Damrauer; Giulio Cerullo; Alvin Yeh; Thomas R. Boussie; Charles V. Shank; James K. McCusker
Effects of Monomer Structure on Their Organization and Polymerization in a Smectic Liquid Crystal, pp. 57-59
C. Allan Guymon; Erik N. Hoggan; Noel A. Clark; Thomas P. Rieker; David M. Walba; Christopher N. Bowman
A Free Cyclotrigermenium Cation with a 2π-Electron System, pp. 60-61
Akira Sekiguchi; Masanori Tsukamoto; Masaaki Ichinohe
Compressibility, Phase Transitions, and Oxygen Migration in Zirconium Tungstate, ZrW2O8, pp. 61-65
J. S. O. Evans; Z. Hu; J. D. Jorgensen; D. N. Argyriou; S. Short; A. W. Sleight
Disease Extinction and Community Size: Modeling the Persistence of Measles, pp. 65-67
M. J. Keeling; B. T. Grenfell
How Thiamine Diphosphate Is Activated in Enzymes, pp. 67-70
Dorothee Kern; Gunther Kern; Holger Neef; Kai Tittmann; Margrit Killenberg-Jabs; Christer Wikner; Gunter Schneider; Gerhard Hübner
Microtubule Architecture Specified by a β-Tubulin Isoform, pp. 70-73
Elizabeth C. Raff; James D. Fackenthal; Jeffrey A. Hutchens; Henry D. Hoyle; F. Rudolf Turner
Recognition of Unique Carboxyl-Terminal Motifs by Distinct PDZ Domains, pp. 73-77
Z. Songyang; A. S. Fanning; C. Fu; J. Xu; S. M. Marfatia; A. H. Chishti; A. Crompton; A. C. Chan; J. M. Anderson; L. C. Cantley
The Inverse Association Between Tuberculin Responses and Atopic Disorder, pp. 77-79
Taro Shirakawa; Tadao Enomoto; Shin-ichiro Shimazu; Julian M. Hopkin
Inflorescence Commitment and Architecture in Arabidopsis, pp. 80-83
Desmond Bradley; Oliver Ratcliffe; Coral Vincent; Rosemary Carpenter; Enrico Coen
Common Neural Substrates for the Addictive Properties of Nicotine and Cocaine, pp. 83-86
Emilio Merlo Pich; Sonia R. Pagliusi; Michela Tessari; Dominique Talabot-Ayer; Rob Hooft van Huijsduijnen; Christian Chiamulera
Interaction of the Thiol-Dependent Reductase ERp57 with Nascent Glycoproteins, pp. 86-88
Jason D. Oliver; Fimme J. van der Wal; Neil J. Bulleid; Stephen High
Early Onset of Reproductive Function in Normal Female Mice Treated with Leptin, pp. 88-90
Farid F. Chehab; Khalid Mounzih; Ronghua Lu; Mary E. Lim
Induction of Apoptosis by ASK1, a Mammalian MAPKKK That Activates SAPK/JNK and p38 Signaling Pathways, pp. 90-94
Hidenori Ichijo; Eisuke Nishida; Kenji Irie; Peter ten Dijke; Masao Saitoh; Tetsuo Moriguchi; Minoru Takagi; Kunihiro Matsumoto; Kohei Miyazono; Yukiko Gotoh


Technical Comments
Detecting Phases of Iron, pp. 94-96
S. K. Saxena; L. S. Dubrovinsky; C. S. Yoo; J. Akella; A. J. Campbell; H. K. Mao; R. J. Hemley


Back Matter (28 pp.)

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