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Science, New Series, Vol. 282, No. 5387, Oct. 9, 1998


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Front Matter (35 pp.)
NetWatch, p. 195
Jocelyn Kaiser


News


News of the Week
NASA to Buy Research Time to Bail Out Russian Agency, pp. 206-207
David Malakoff
Optical Circuits Turn a Corner, p. 207
Andrew Watson
R&D Budget Request Reverses Long Decline, pp. 207+209
Alicia Rivera
Three Spending Bills Bolster Research, pp. 209-210
David Malakoff


ScienceScope, pp. 209+211


News


News of the Week
Geologists See Mars in the Canadian Arctic, pp. 210-211
Robert Irion
Probing the Milky Way's Black Heart, pp. 211-212
Govert Schilling
NSF Spells Out an Electronic Future, p. 212
Jeffrey Mervis
Court Hears Fight Over Safety of Lab, pp. 213+215
Dennis Normile
Cresson Told to Explain Questioned Contracts, p. 215
Nigel Williams
Bug Vanquishes Species, p. 215
Dan Ferber


News Focus
Human Rights Fades as a Cause for Scientists, pp. 216-219
James Glanz
Molecular Methods Fire Up the Hunt for Emerging Pathogens, pp. 219-221
Michael Balter
How Matter Can Melt at Absolute Zero, pp. 221+223-224
David Voss
New Clues to Movement Control and Vision, pp. 224-225
Ingrid Wickelgren


Random Samples, p. 227
Constance Holden


Essays on Science and Society
The Mouse with the Flying Bicycle, pp. 229-230
John Lynch


Science's Compass


Editorial
How to Change the University, p. 237
Michael S. Gazzaniga


Letters
Nature Medicine's Reply Policy, p. 239
Adrian J. Ivinson
Airborne Particulate Matter, p. 239
Forrest M. Mims III
Great Ape Phenome Project?, pp. 239-240
Ajit Varki; Christopher Wills; David Perlmutter; David Woodruff; Fred Gage; James Moore; Katerina Semendeferi; Kurt Benirshke; Robert Katzman; Russell Doolittle; Theodore Bullock
Science Education Reform, pp. 240-242
John A. Moore; Glenn T. Seaborg; Leon M. Lederman; Marjorie G. Bardeen
5200-Year-Old Acupuncture in Central Europe?, pp. 242-243
Leopold Dorfer; Maximilian Moser; Konrad Spindler; Frank Bahr; Eduard Egarter-Vigl; Gottfried Dohr
Maternal Investment in Human Brain Growth, p. 243
Rose E. Frisch
Typographical Error, p. 243
Georg F. Weber; Samy Ashkar; Harvey Cantor; Melvin J. Glimcher


Corrections and Clarifications: A Biomolecule Building Block from Vents, p. 243
Corrections and Clarifications: Assembling the World's Biggest Library on Your Desktop, p. 243
Corrections and Clarifications: Solution to a Conservation Problem?, p. 243
Corrections and Clarifications: Societies Leap Into California Standards Fray, p. 243
Corrections and Clarifications: Populations as 'Species-in-Waiting'?, p. 243


Science's Compass


Policy Forum
Outcomes Research: Measuring the End Results of Health Care, pp. 245-246
Carolyn M. Clancy; John M. Eisenberg


Books and New Media
The Public and the Quake That Wasn't, p. 247
Earthquake Fears, Predictions, and Preparations in Mid-America.
John E. Farley
Review author[s]: Seth Stein
Model Metaorganism, p. 248
Volvox. Molecular-Genetic Origins of Multicellularity and Cellular Differentiation.
David L. Kirk
Review author[s]: Graham Bell


Perspectives
A New Twist, p. 249
Matt Visser
Ribozyme Architectural Diversity Made Visible, pp. 251-252
Eric Westhof; François Michel
A Plant's Dilemma, pp. 252-253
Erwin Grill; Hubert Ziegler


Research


Research Article
A Preorganized Active Site in the Crystal Structure of the Tetrahymena Ribozyme, pp. 259-264
Barbara L. Golden; Anne R. Gooding; Elaine R. Podell; Thomas R. Cech


Reports
The Chemistry of Water on Alumina Surfaces: Reaction Dynamics from First Principles, pp. 265-268
Kenneth C. Hass; William F. Schneider; Alessandro Curioni; Wanda Andreoni
Past Temperatures Directly from the Greenland Ice Sheet, pp. 268-271
D. Dahl-Jensen; K. Mosegaard; N. Gundestrup; G. D. Clow; S. J. Johnsen; A. W. Hansen; N. Balling
Direct Measurement of Femtomoles of Osmium and the 187 Os/ 186 Os Ratio in Seawater, pp. 272-274
Sylvain Levasseur; Jean-Louis Birck; Claude J. Allègre
Experimental Demonstration of Guiding and Bending of Electromagnetic Waves in a Photonic Crystal, pp. 274-276
Shawn-Yu Lin; Edmund Chow; Vince Hietala; Pierre R. Villeneuve; J. D. Joannopoulos
Organic Carbon Fluxes and Ecological Recovery from the Cretaceous-Tertiary Mass Extinction, pp. 276-279
Steven D'Hondt; Percy Donaghay; James C. Zachos; Danielle Luttenberg; Matthias Lindinger
Climate Change Record in Subsurface Temperatures: A Global Perspective, pp. 279-281
Henry N. Pollack; Shaopeng Huang; Po-Yu Shen
Isolation of Acidophilic Methane-Oxidizing Bacteria from Northern Peat Wetlands, pp. 281-284
Svetlana N. Dedysh; Nicolai S. Panikov; Werner Liesack; Regine Großkopf; Jizhong Zhou; James M. Tiedje
Alterations of the PPP2R1B Gene in Human Lung and Colon Cancer, pp. 284-287
Steven Siqing Wang; Edward D. Esplin; Jia Ling Li; Liying Huang; Adi Gazdar; John Minna; Glen A. Evans
Role of Farnesyltransferase in ABA Regulation of Guard Cell Anion Channels and Plant Water Loss, pp. 287-290
Zhen-Ming Pei; Majid Ghassemian; Christine M. Kwak; Peter McCourt; Julian I. Schroeder
Cell Surface Trafficking of Fas: A Rapid Mechanism of p53-Mediated Apoptosis, pp. 290-293
Martin Bennett; Kirsty Macdonald; Shiu-Wan Chan; J. Paul Luzio; Robert Simari; Peter Weissberg
Bifurcation of Lipid and Protein Kinase Signals of PI3Kγ to the Protein Kinases PKB and MAPK, pp. 293-296
Tzvetanka Bondeva; Luciano Pirola; Ginette Bulgarelli-Leva; Ignacio Rubio; Reinhard Wetzker; Matthias P. Wymann
Controlling Gene Expression in Living Cells Through Small Molecule-RNA Interactions, pp. 296-298
Geoffrey Werstuck; Michael R. Green
Transition from Moderate to Excessive Drug Intake: Change in Hedonic Set Point, pp. 298-300
S. H. Ahmed; G. F. Koob


Back Matter (68 pp.)

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