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Science, New Series, Vol. 277, No. 5330, Aug. 29, 1997


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Front Matter (22 pp.)
Editorial: Microstructural Engineering of Materials, p. 1183
Phil Szuromi


Letters
Science, Technology, and Foreign Policy, pp. 1185-1187
Timothy E. Wirth; Irving A. Lerch; Peter A. Cohen
Economics and Informed Passions, p. 1187
Richard B. Norgaard
Critical Habitats on Private Land, pp. 1187-1189
Roger D. Applegate; Sandy Shaw; Fraser Shilling
A U3-Like Small Nucleolar RNA in Archaea: Retraction, p. 1189
Anthony G. Russell; Mario Moniz de Sa; Patrick P. Dennis


Corrections and Clarifications: New Imaging Methods Provide a Better View into the Brain, p. 1189
ScienceScope, p. 1191
Jocelyn Kaiser


News and Comment
The Calculus of School Reform, pp. 1192-1195
Gretchen Vogel
Bipartisan Mood in Congress Opens Door for Pork, pp. 1195-1196
Andrew Lawler
In Land of Industrial Giants, Universities Nurture Start-Ups, pp. 1196-1197
Dennis Normile
Government Restores Funding Cuts, p. 1197
Michael Balter
Merger Plan for Rival Science Agencies, p. 1198
Dennis Normile
NASA Boosts Earth Science Grants, p. 1198
Andrew Lawler


Research News
Drug Delivery Takes a Deep Breath, pp. 1199-1200
Robert F. Service
No Hidden Starstuff in Nearby Universe, p. 1201
Govert Schilling
New Kind of Cancer Mutation Found, pp. 1201-1202
Trisha Gura
Conjuring Matter From Light, p. 1202
David Ehrenstein
Ice Age Communities May Be Earliest Known Net Hunters, pp. 1203-1204
Heather Pringle
How Humans and Nature Influence Ecosystems, pp. 1204-1205
Jocelyn Kaiser; Richard Gallagher


Random Samples, p. 1207
Elizabeth Pennisi


Frontiers in Materials Science
Shining a Bright Light on Materials, p. 1213
Daniel Clery
X-rays Find New Ways to Shine, pp. 1214-1215
Alexander Hellemans
X-rays Go Where Neutrons Fear to Tread, pp. 1216-1217
Andrew Watson


News
Brightness Speeds Search for Structures Great and Small, pp. 1217-1219
Robert F. Service
New Synchrotrons Light Up Microstructure of Earth, p. 1220
Daniel Clery

Structure Determination of Mg5Si6 Particles in Al by Dynamic Electron Diffraction Studies, pp. 1221-1225
H. W. Zandbergen; S. J. Andersen; J. Jansen
Competing Interactions and Levels of Ordering in Self-Organizing Polymeric Materials, pp. 1225-1232
M. Muthukumar; C. K. Ober; E. L. Thomas
Fuzzy Nanoassemblies: Toward Layered Polymeric Multicomposites, pp. 1232-1237
Gero Decher
Computational Design of Hierarchically Structured Materials, pp. 1237-1242
G. B. Olson
Molecular Manipulation of Microstructures: Biomaterials, Ceramics, and Semiconductors, pp. 1242-1248
Samuel I. Stupp; Paul V. Braun
Pathways to Macroscale Order in Nanostructured Block Copolymers, pp. 1248-1253
Zhong-Ren Chen; Julia A. Kornfield; Steven D. Smith; Jeffrey T. Grothaus; Michael M. Satkowski


Book Reviews
Particles and Peregrinations, pp. 1254-1255
A Tale of Two Continents. A Physicist's Life in a Turbulent World.
Abraham Pais
Review author[s]: David Gross
Evolution Step by Step, pp. 1255-1256
Selection. The Mechanism of Evolution.
Graham Bell
The Basics of Selection.
Graham Bell
Review author[s]: John A. Endler
Books Received, p. 1256


Perspectives
Gamma Ray Bursts, pp. 1257-1258
Chryssa Kouveliotou
Closer to Coherence Control, pp. 1258-1259
Lu J. Sham
Yeast as a Model Organism, pp. 1259-1260
David Botstein; Steven A. Chervitz; J. Michael Cherry
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function: The Debate Deepens, pp. 1260-1261
J. P. Grime


Research Articles
A Conformational Switch in Escherichia coli 16S Ribosomal RNA During Decoding of Messenger RNA, pp. 1262-1267
J. Stephen Lodmell; Albert E. Dahlberg
The Motion and Boundary Between the Capricorn and Australian Plates, pp. 1268-1274
Jean-Yves Royer; Richard G. Gordon


Reports
A Test Case of Correlation Metric Construction of a Reaction Pathway from Measurements, pp. 1275-1279
Adam Arkin; Peidong Shen; John Ross
40 Ar/ 39 Ar Dating into the Historical Realm: Calibration Against Pliny the Younger, pp. 1279-1280
P. R. Renne; W. D. Sharp; A. L. Deino; G. Orsi; L. Civetta
s-Process Zirconium in Presolar Silicon Carbide Grains, pp. 1281-1283
Günther K. Nicolussi; Andrew M. Davis; Michael J. Pellin; Roy S. Lewis; Robert N. Clayton; Sachiko Amari
Room-Temperature Spin Memory in Two-Dimensional Electron Gases, pp. 1284-1287
J. M. Kikkawa; I. P. Smorchkova; N. Samarth; D. D. Awschalom
Synthesis of Gallium Nitride Nanorods Through a Carbon Nanotube-Confined Reaction, pp. 1287-1289
Weiqiang Han; Shoushan Fan; Qunqing Li; Yongdan Hu
Corona Formation and Heat Loss on Venus by Coupled Upwelling and Delamination, pp. 1289-1294
Suzanne E. Smrekar; Ellen R. Stofan
Bipolar Changes in Atmospheric Circulation During the Little Ice Age, pp. 1294-1296
K. J. Kreutz; P. A. Mayewski; L. D. Meeker; M. S. Twickler; S. I. Whitlow; I. I. Pittalwala
The Influence of Island Area on Ecosystem Properties, pp. 1296-1299
David A. Wardle; Olle Zackrisson; Greger Hörnberg; Christiane Gallet
The Influence of Functional Diversity and Composition on Ecosystem Processes, pp. 1300-1302
David Tilman; Johannes Knops; David Wedin; Peter Reich; Mark Ritchie; Evan Siemann
The Effects of Plant Composition and Diversity on Ecosystem Processes, pp. 1302-1305
David U. Hooper; Peter M. Vitousek
A Critical Role for Tapasin in the Assembly and Function of Multimeric MHC Class I-TAP Complexes, pp. 1306-1309
Bodo Ortmann; James Copeman; Paul J. Lehner; Bhanu Sadasivan; Jethro A. Herberg; Andeas G. Grandea; Stanley R. Riddell; Robert Tampé; Thomas Spies; John Trowsdale; Peter Cresswell
Induced α Helix in the VP16 Activation Domain upon Binding to a Human TAF, pp. 1310-1313
Motonari Uesugi; Origène Nyanguile; Hua Lu; Arnold J. Levine; Gregory L. Verdine
Accelerated Aging and Nucleolar Fragmentation in Yeast sgs1 Mutants, pp. 1313-1316
David A. Sinclair; Kevin Mills; Leonard Guarente


AAAS News and Notes, pp. 1317-1318
S. L. Byrand

Back Matter (86 pp.)

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