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Science, New Series, Vol. 280, No. 5364, May 1, 1998


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Front Matter (26 pp.)
NetWatch, p. 647
Jocelyn Kaiser

Editorial: New Zealand's Foresight Project, p. 655
Maurice Williamson


Letters
The Gentle Force of Entropy, pp. 655+657
Arthur W. Adamson
Bioresources and "Biopiracy" in Brazil, p. 657
Marina Silva
Super-Accelerators and International Collaboration, p. 657
Björn H. Wiik
Shifty Eyes, p. 657
August L. Reader
Funding Themselves and Others, pp. 657-658
Herbert F. Voigt; Dana D. Ricciardi; Ernst-August Seyfarth
Gray Whales in Cold Water, pp. 658-659
Martha E. Heath; John E. Heyning; James G. Mead
Ring Laser Design, p. 659
M. Schneider; U. Schreiber; G. E. Stedman


Corrections and Clarifications: Visual Input to the Efferent Control System of a Fly's 'Gyroscope', p. 659
Corrections and Clarifications: Clues to Unsolved Arsenic Case, p. 659
ScienceScope, p. 663
Constance Holden


News and Comment
An Anxious Time for Swiss Science, pp. 664-665
Robert Koenig
Report Sees More Overruns, Delays, p. 666
Andrew Lawler
Counting NIH's Fiscal Chickens, pp. 666-667
Eliot Marshall
Private Help for a Public Database?, pp. 667-668
Eliot Marshall
Ulysses Laps Sun, Inspires New Missions, p. 668
Alexander Hellemans
New Projects Receive Boost as Cuts Pinch Current Work, p. 669
Dennis Normile
World's Biggest Telescope is About to See the Light, pp. 670-671
Govert Schilling


Research News
Genome Data Shake Tree of Life, pp. 672-674
Elizabeth Pennisi
X-ray Flickers Reveal a Space Warp, pp. 674-675
David Kestenbaum
Genes Put Mammals in Age of Dinosaurs, pp. 675-676
Ann Gibbons
New Clue to How Anthrax Kills, p. 676
Evelyn Strauss
Bison Prime Prairie Biodiversity, p. 677
Jocelyn Kaiser
'Monogamous' Gibbons Really Swing, pp. 677-678
Ann Gibbons
Last Hurrah for an Infrared Satellite, p. 678
Govert Schilling
Deep-Sea Coral Records Quick Response to Climate, p. 679
Richard A. Kerr


Random Samples, p. 681
Constance Holden


Essays on Science and Society
Extensions of "The Tragedy of the Commons", pp. 682-683
Garrett Hardin


Science's Compass


Policy
The Patenting of DNA, pp. 689-690
John J. Doll


Books
A Mole Brought to Light, pp. 691-692
Bombshell. The Secret Story of America's Unknown Atomic Spy Conspiracy.
Joseph Albright; Marcia Kunstel
Review author[s]: David Holloway
Tales of Terrible Toxins, p. 692
The Clostridia: Molecular Biology and Pathogenesis.
Julian I. Rood
Review author[s]: Michael Young


Research
Explosions and Dissociations, pp. 693-694
Henry Hutchinson
Microbial Control of Oceanic Carbon Flux: The Plot Thickens, pp. 694-696
Farooq Azam
Triplet-Repeat Transcripts: A Role for RNA in Disease, pp. 696-697
Robert H. Singer


Review
Can Patents Deter Innovation? The Anticommons in Biomedical Research, pp. 698-701
Michael A. Heller; Rebecca S. Eisenberg


Reports
Ordering of Ruthenium Cluster Carbonyls in Mesoporous Silica, pp. 705-708
Wuzong Zhou; John Meurig Thomas; Douglas S. Shephard; Brian F. G. Johnson; Don Ozkaya; Thomas Maschmeyer; Robert G. Bell; Qingfeng Ge
A Trivalent System from Vancomycin·D-Ala-D-Ala with Higher Affinity Than Avidin·Biotin, pp. 708-711
Jianghong Rao; Joydeep Lahiri; Lyle Isaacs; Robert M. Weis; George M. Whitesides
An Analysis of the Origins of a Cooperative Binding Energy of Dimerization, pp. 711-714
Dudley H. Williams; Alison J. Maguire; Wakako Tsuzuki; Martin S. Westwell
Elucidation of the Chain Conformation in a Glassy Polyester, PET, by Two-Dimensional NMR, pp. 714-717
K. Schmidt-Rohr; W. Hu; N. Zumbulyadis
Effect of Substrate Strain on Adsorption, pp. 717-720
M. Gsell; P. Jakob; D. Menzel
Micromechanical "Trampoline" Magnetometers for Use in Large Pulsed Magnetic Fields, pp. 720-722
V. Aksyuk; F. F. Balakirev; G. S. Boebinger; P. L. Gammel; R. C. Haddon; D. J. Bishop
Reductive Dechlorination of DDE to DDMU in Marine Sediment Microcosms, pp. 722-724
John F. Quensen III; Sherry A. Mueller; Mahendra K. Jain; James M. Tiedje
Deep-Sea Coral Evidence for Rapid Change in Ventilation of the Deep North Atlantic 15,400 Years Ago, pp. 725-728
Jess F. Adkins; Hai Cheng; Edward A. Boyle; Ellen R. M. Druffel; R. Lawrence Edwards
Local Orbital Forcing of Antarctic Climate Change During the Last Interglacial, pp. 728-730
Seong-Joong Kim; Thomas J. Crowley; Achim Stössel
Cope's Rule and the Dynamics of Body Mass Evolution in North American Fossil Mammals, pp. 731-734
John Alroy
Proteolytic Inactivation of MAP-Kinase-Kinase by Anthrax Lethal Factor, pp. 734-737
Nicholas S. Duesbery; Craig P. Webb; Stephen H. Leppla; Valery M. Gordon; Kurt R. Klimpel; Terry D. Copeland; Natalie G. Ahn; Marianne K. Oskarsson; Kenji Fukasawa; Ken D. Paull; George F. Vande Woude
Disruption of Splicing Regulated by a CUG-Binding Protein in Myotonic Dystrophy, pp. 737-741
Anne V. Philips; Lubov T. Timchenko; Thomas A. Cooper
Yeast Ku as a Regulator of Chromosomal DNA End Structure, pp. 741-744
Serge Gravel; Michel Larrivée; Pascale Labrecque; Raymund J. Wellinger
Modulation of Diversity by Grazing and Mowing in Native Tallgrass Prairie, pp. 745-747
Scott L. Collins; Alan K. Knapp; John M. Briggs; John M. Blair; Ernest M. Steinauer
Anterior Cingulate Cortex, Error Detection, and the Online Monitoring of Performance, pp. 747-749
Cameron S. Carter; Todd S. Braver; Deanna M. Barch; Matthew M. Botvinick; Douglas Noll; Jonathan D. Cohen
Actin Mutations in Dilated Cardiomyopathy, a Heritable Form of Heart Failure, pp. 750-752
Timothy M. Olson; Virginia V. Michels; Stephen N. Thibodeau; Yin-Shan Tai; Mark T. Keating
Ribonuclease P Protein Structure: Evolutionary Origins in the Translational Apparatus, pp. 752-755
Travis Stams; S. Niranjanakumari; Carol A. Fierke; David W. Christianson


Back Matter (33 pp.)

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