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Science, New Series, Vol. 281, No. 5375, Jul. 17, 1998


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Front Matter (41 pp.)
NetWatch, p. 303
Jocelyn Kaiser


News


News of the Week
U.K. Government, Wellcome Trust Give $1.75 Billion Boost to R&D, pp. 314-315
Nigel Williams
Smuggled Chinese Fossils on Exhibit, pp. 315+317
Mutsumi Stone; Jennifer Couzin; Li Hui
ScienceScope, p. 317
Plant Biologists Score Two New Major Facilities, pp. 317-318
Jocelyn Kaiser
Epidemiologist Named CDC Director, p. 318
Eliot Marshall
Russian Academy to End AIP Journals Deal?, pp. 318-319
Andrey Allakhverdov
Relief from Finance Farce?, p. 319
Andrey Allakhverdov; Vladimir Pokrovsky
A Fruitful Scoop for Ancient DNA, pp. 319-320
Erik Stokstad
Glow Reveals Early Star Nurseries, p. 320
Andrew Watson
Hydrogen Coaxed into Quantum Condensate, p. 321
David Kestenbaum
Building a Better Bug Repellent, pp. 321+323
Luis Campos
Green Farming by the Incas?, p. 323
Kevin Krajick


News Focus
Genome Reveals Wiles and Weak Points of Syphilis, pp. 324-325
Elizabeth Pennisi
Scientists Step Onto the Political Stage, pp. 326-327
Robert Koenig
Turbulent Times Mean Trouble for Science, pp. 327+329
Jeffrey Mervis
Tracking the History of the Genetic Code, pp. 329-331
Gretchen Vogel
The First Codon and Its Descendants, p. 330
Elizabeth Pennisi
Plant Biology in the Genome Era, pp. 331-332
Christine Mlot
A Dark Matter Candidate Loses Its Luster, pp. 332-333
James Glanz


Random Samples, p. 335
Constance Holden


Essays on Science and Society
The Role of Science in Sustainable Development, pp. 336-337
Angela Merkel


Science's Compass


Editorial
Budget-The Big Picture, p. 345
Henry J. Aaron


Letters
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, p. 347
Robert P. Redwine
Kenyan Wildlife Conservation, pp. 347-348
Agi Kiss
Embryology and Evolution, pp. 348-349
Michael J. Behe; Klaus Sander; Roland Bender
Tick Population Trends and Forest Type, pp. 349-351
Howard S. Ginsberg; Kerwin E. Hyland; Renjie Hu; Thomas J. Daniels; Richard C. Falco; Richard S. Ostfeld; Clive G. Jones; Michele P. Richard; Eric M. Schauber; Jerry O. Wolff
Corrections and Clarifications: NIH Urged to Involve the Public in Policy- Making, p. 351


Policy
Elimination of Syphilis in the United States, pp. 353-354
Michael E. St. Louis; Judith N. Wasserheit


Books and New Media
Into Jurassic Air, pp. 355-356
Taking Wing: Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird Flight.
Pat Shipman
Review author[s]: Sharon Swartz
Mapping Natural Communities and Ecosystems, p. 356
A Classification of North American Biotic Communities.
David E. Brown; Frank Reichenbacher; Susan E. Franson
Ecoregions. The Ecosystem Geography of the Oceans and Continents.
Robert G. Bailey
Review author[s]: Sherman Suter


Perspectives
Switching with Hot Spins, pp. 357+359
Jo De Boeck
Giant Planets to Brown Dwarfs: What is in Between?, pp. 359-360
Filipe D. Santos
A Tale of Two Transmitters, pp. 360-361
Roger A. Nicoll; Robert C. Malenka


Tech.Sight
A Sequencing Method Based on Real-Time Pyrophosphate, pp. 363+365
Mostafa Ronaghi; Mathias Uhlén; Pål Nyrén


TechSightings, pp. 366-369
Richard Peters; Robert Sikorski


Research


Research Article
Complete Genome Sequence of Treponema pallidum, the Syphilis Spirochete, pp. 375-388
Claire M. Fraser; Steven J. Norris; George M. Weinstock; Owen White; Granger G. Sutton; Robert Dodson; Michelle Gwinn; Erin K. Hickey; Rebecca Clayton; Karen A. Ketchum; Erica Sodergren; John M. Hardham; Michael P. McLeod; Steven Salzberg; Jeremy Peterson; Hanif Khalak; Delwood Richardson; Jerrilyn K. Howell; Monjula Chidambaram; Teresa Utterback; Lisa McDonald; Patricia Artiach; Cheryl Bowman; Matthew D. Cotton; Claire Fujii; Stacey Garland; Bonnie Hatch; Kurt Horst; Kevin Roberts; Mina Sandusky; Janice Weidman; Hamilton O. Smith; J. Craig Venter


Reports
Reversible Hydrogels from Self-Assembling Artificial Proteins, pp. 389-392
Wendy A. Petka; James L. Harden; Kevin P. McGrath; Denis Wirtz; David A. Tirrell
Atmospheric Residence Time of CH3Br Estimated from the Junge Spatial Variability Relation, pp. 392-396
Jonah J. Colman; Donald R. Blake; F. Sherwood Rowland
Water as a Dense Icelike Component in Silicate Glasses, pp. 396-398
P. Richet; A. Polian
Evidence for Large Earthquakes in Metropolitan Los Angeles, pp. 398-402
Charles M. Rubin; Scott C. Lindvall; Thomas K. Rockwell
Molecular Coproscopy: Dung and Diet of the Extinct Ground Sloth Nothrotheriops shastensis, pp. 402-406
Hendrik N. Poinar; Michael Hofreiter; W. Geoffrey Spaulding; Paul S. Martin; B. Artur Stankiewicz; Helen Bland; Richard P. Evershed; Göran Possnert; Svante Pääbo
Room Temperature-Operating Spin-Valve Transistors Formed by Vacuum Bonding, pp. 407-409
D. J. Monsma; R. Vlutters; J. C. Lodder
Boundary Formation in Drosophila Wing: Notch Activity Attenuated by the POU Protein Nubbin, pp. 409-413
Carl J. Neumann; Stephen M. Cohen
Uncoupling of Nonreceptor Tyrosine Kinases from PLC-γ1 in an SLP-76- Deficient T Cell, pp. 413-416
Deborah Yablonski; Michelle R. Kuhne; Theresa Kadlecek; Arthur Weiss
Requirement for the Leukocyte-Specific Adapter Protein SLP-76 for Normal T Cell Development, pp. 416-419
James L. Clements; Baoli Yang; Susan E. Ross-Barta; Steve L. Eliason; Ronald F. Hrstka; Roger A. Williamson; Gary A. Koretzky
Corelease of Two Fast Neurotransmitters at a Central Synapse, pp. 419-424
Peter Jonas; Josef Bischofberger; Jürgen Sandkühler
Spatial Organization of Transcription Elongation Complex in Escherichia coli, pp. 424-428
Evgeny Nudler; Ivan Gusarov; Ekaterina Avetissova; Maxim Kozlov; Alex Goldfarb
Combinatorial Chemistry in Insects: A Library of Defensive Macrocyclic Polyamines, pp. 428-431
Frank C. Schröder; Jay J. Farmer; Athula B. Attygalle; Scott R. Smedley; Thomas Eisner; Jerrold Meinwald


Back Matter (45 pp.)

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