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Previous Issue: New Series, Vol. 281, No. 5377, Jul. 31, 1998
Next Issue: New Series, Vol. 281, No. 5379, Aug. 14, 1998
Front Matter (23 pp.)
Netwatch, p. 747
- Jocelyn Kaiser
News
News of the Week
- Practical Tests for an 'Untestable' Theory of Everything?, pp. 758-759
- David Kestenbaum
- Physicist Named Japan's Education Minister, pp. 759+761
- Dennis Normile
- Fusion Facility Faces Fall Deadline, pp. 761-762
- Andrew Lawler
- ScienceScope, pp. 761+763
- Computer Experts Urge New Federal Initiative, p. 762
- Jennifer Couzin
- Gravity Measurements Ride the Atom Wave, pp. 762-763
- Robert F. Service
- A Two-Piece Protein Assembles Itself, pp. 763-764
- Gretchen Vogel
- Accelerator Gets Set to Explore Cosmic Bias, pp. 764-765
- Andrew Watson
- Engineers Dream of Practical Star Flight, pp. 765+767
- James Glanz
- Paving the Way for British Xenotransplants, p. 767
- Nigel Williams
- USGS Nominee Breaks Ground, p. 767
- Jocelyn Kaiser
News Focus
- Agricultural Biotech Faces Backlash in Europe, pp. 768-771
- Nigel Williams
- China Hopes to Move FAST on Largest Telescope, pp. 771+773
- Li Hui
- Fight Erupts Over Rights to Profits from Holdings, pp. 773-774
- Richard Stone
- New Views of the Origins of Mammals, pp. 774-775
- Dennis Normile
Random Samples, p. 777
- Constance Holden
Essays on Science and Society
- Closing the Knowledge Gap between Scientist and Nonscientist, pp. 778-779
- Takashi Tachibana
Science's Compass
Editorial
- Korean Science and Technology, p. 781
- Chang-Hee Kang
Letters
- The New Look, p. 783
- Nicholas A. Halasz; Pat Mail; Susan Rabitan; Janet Rubin; Len Stephan; Bret Cooper; Dominic Eisinger
- Making the Case for Science, p. 783
- Mary Woolley
- Dangerous Mixture, pp. 783-784
- John C. Angus; Yadong Li
- The Advanced Tokamak, p. 784
- Richard D. Hazeltine; Gerald A. Navratil; William M. Nevins; Miklos Porkolab; Ned R. Sauthoff; Thomas C. Simonen; Weston M. Stacey
- Indian Science, pp. 784-785
- T. Balakrishna Reddy; G. Padmanaban
- Arsenic-Laced Water in Chile, p. 785
- Mary Lou Biggs; Reina Haque; Lee Moore; Allan Smith; Catterina Ferreccio; Claudia Hopenhayn-Rich
- Household Antibiotic Storage, p. 785
- Xavier Bosch; Rosamund J. Williams
Policy Forum
- Database Protection and Access to Information, pp. 786-787
- William Gardner; Joseph Rosenbaum
Books and New Media
- Beyond the Null Hypothesis, p. 788
- The Ecological Detective. Confronting Models with Data.
- Ray Hilborn; Marc Mangel
- Review author[s]: Thomas E. Miller; Gretchen LeBuhn
- Neural Nets for Novices, p. 789
- Neuroshell Easy: Predictor Classifier Run-Time.
- Ward Systems Group
- Review author[s]: John Wass
Perspectives
- Coordinated Feet and the Dance of Ryanodine Receptors, pp. 790-791
- Donald M. Bers; Michael Fill
- A Complex Field, pp. 791-792
- Rob van der Voo
- Beyond Factorization and Search, pp. 792-794
- Lov K. Grover
- Choline, a Vital Amine, pp. 794-795
- Jan Krzysztof Blusztajn
Research
Reports
- The Magnetic Stability of Spin-Dependent Tunneling Devices, pp. 797-799
- S. Gider; B.-U. Runge; A. C. Marley; S. S. P. Parkin
- Evidence of Soft-Mode Quantum Phase Transitions in Electron Double Layers, pp. 799-802
- Vittorio Pellegrini; Aron Pinczuk; Brian S. Dennis; Annette S. Plaut; Loren N. Pfeiffer; Ken W. West
- Preparation of Photonic Crystals Made of Air Spheres in Titania, pp. 802-804
- Judith E. G. J. Wijnhoven; Willem L. Vos
- Diffusion Kinetics of Samarium and Neodymium in Garnet, and a Method for Determining Cooling Rates of Rocks, pp. 805-807
- J. Ganguly; M. Tirone; R. L. Hervig
- Decoupled Temporal Patterns of Evolution and Ecology in Two Post-Paleozoic Clades, pp. 807-809
- Frank K. McKinney; Scott Lidgard; J. John Sepkoski Jr.; Paul D. Taylor
- In situ Observations of a High-Pressure Phase of H2O Ice, pp. 809-812
- I-Ming Chou; Jennifer G. Blank; Alexander F. Goncharov; Ho-kwang Mao; Russell J. Hemley
- Evidence Against a Significant Younger Dryas Cooling Event in New Zealand, pp. 812-814
- Christiane Singer; James Shulmeister; Bill McLea
- Callosal Window between Prefrontal Cortices: Cognitive Interaction to Retrieve Long-Term Memory, pp. 814-818
- Isao Hasegawa; Tetsuya Fukushima; Takeshi Ihara; Yasushi Miyashita
- Coupled Gating between Individual Skeletal Muscle Ca 2+ Release Channels (Ryanodine Receptors), pp. 818-821
- Steven O. Marx; Karol Ondrias; Andrew R. Marks
- Role of Phosphorylation in Regulation of the Assembly of Endocytic Coat Complexes, pp. 821-824
- Vladimir I. Slepnev; Gian-Carlo Ochoa; Margaret H. Butler; Detlev Grabs; Pietro de Camilli
- How Temperature Changes Reset a Circadian Oscillator, pp. 825-829
- Yi Liu; Martha Merrow; Jennifer J. Loros; Jay C. Dunlap
- RNA-Mediated Trans-Activation of Transcription from a Viral RNA, pp. 829-832
- Tim L. Sit; Andrew A. Vaewhongs; Steven A. Lommel
- Role of IQGAP1, a Target of the Small GTPases Cdc42 and Rac1, in Regulation of E-Cadherin-Mediated Cell-Cell Adhesion, pp. 832-835
- Shinya Kuroda; Masaki Fukata; Masato Nakagawa; Katsuhiko Fujii; Tomoko Nakamura; Tadashi Ookubo; Ichiro Izawa; Takahiro Nagase; Nobuo Nomura; Hideki Tani; Ikuo Shoji; Yoshiharu Matsuura; Shin Yonehara; Kozo Kaibuchi
- Positive Selection Through a Motif in the αβ T Cell Receptor, pp. 835-838
- B. Thomas Bäckström; Urs Müller; Barbara Hausmann; Ed Palmer
- DARPP-32: Regulator of the Efficacy of Dopaminergic Neurotransmission, pp. 838-842
- A. A. Fienberg; N. Hiroi; P. G. Mermelstein; W.-J. Song; G. L. Snyder; A. Nishi; A. Cheramy; J. P. O'Callaghan; D. B. Miller; D. G. Cole; R. Corbett; C. N. Haile; D. C. Cooper; S. P. Onn; A. A. Grace; C. C. Ouimet; F. J. White; S. E. Hyman; D. J. Surmeier; J.-A. Girault; E. J. Nestler; P. Greengard
Back Matter (30 pp.)
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