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Previous Issue: New Series, Vol. 282, No. 5391, Nov. 6, 1998
Next Issue: New Series, Vol. 282, No. 5393, Nov. 20, 1998
Front Matter (28 pp.)
Netwatch, p. 1223
- Jocelyn Kaiser
News
News of the Week
- Democrats Match GOP in Sending a Physicist to Washington, pp. 1234-1235
- David Malakoff
- Understanding of Ears, Bristles Jumps a Notch, p. 1235
- Gretchen Vogel
- Microsoft Picks Beijing for New R&D Lab, pp. 1235+1237
- Justin Wang
- Canada Opens Program to Community Groups, pp. 1237-1238
- Wayne Kondro
- ScienceScope, pp. 1237+1239
- NSF to Send College Students Into Schools, pp. 1238-1239
- Jeffrey Mervis
- Reaction to Stem Cells: A Tale of the Ticker, p. 1239
- David Malakoff
- Binaries Answer Riddle of Brown Dwarf Origins, p. 1240
- Alexander Hellemans
- Cold Spring Harbor to Offer Own Degrees, pp. 1240-1241
- Eliot Marshall
- Pasteur Recruit Resigns in Battle Over New Unit, pp. 1241+1243
- Michael Balter
- Genome Links Typhus Bug to Mitochondrion, p. 1243
- Elizabeth Pennisi
News Focus
- Training Viruses to Attack Cancers, pp. 1244-1246
- Elizabeth Pennisi
- Popular Interest Fuels a Dinosaur Research Boom, pp. 1246-1247
- Erik Stokstad
- Does Science Know the Vital Statistics of the Cosmos?, pp. 1247-1248
- James Glanz
- No Backing Off from the Accelerating Universe, pp. 1249+1251
- James Glanz
- Ocean Drilling Floats Ambitious Plans for Growth, pp. 1251-1252
- Richard A. Kerr; Dennis Normile
- Temperate Forests Gain Ground, p. 1253
- Anne Simon Moffat
Random Samples, p. 1255
- Constance Holden
Essays on Science and Society
- Nobel: Always the Winners, Never the Losers, pp. 1256-1257
- Elisabeth Crawford
Science's Compass
Editorial
- Issues Facing the New FDA Commissioner, p. 1263
- Louis Lasagna; Kenneth I. Kaitin
Letters
- Fossil Discoveries in India: Continued, p. 1265
- Simon Conway Morris; Sören Jensen; Nicholas J. Butterfield
- California Standards, p. 1265
- Steven B. Oppenheimer
- Human Rights: An Issue Among Anthropologists, p. 1265
- Tom Greaves
- New Niches for Life Scientists, pp. 1265+1267
- Elaine Caton; Jennifer Cherrier; Elizabeth Farnsworth; Scott Franklin; Beth Hufnagel; Eric Klopfer; Janet Russell; Ben Sayler
- Internet Friendships, p. 1267
- Philip Aspden; James E. Katz
- Publishers' Honeymoon?, pp. 1267-1268
- Louis M. Guenin
- Apoptosis and Alzheimer's Disease, pp. 1268-1269
- George Perry; Akihiko Nunomura; Paul Lucassen; Hans Lassmann; Mark A. Smith
- Genetics of Alcoholism, p. 1269
- Howard J. Edenberg; Tatiana Foroud; Alison Goate; John Rice; Theodore Reich; C. Robert Cloninger; John I. Nurnberger Jr.; T.-K. Li; P. M. Conneally; Jay A. Tischfield; Raymond Crowe; Victor Hesselbrock; Marc Schuckit; Bernice Porjesz; Henri Begleiter
Policy Forum
- Conservation Targets in South American Temperate Forests, pp. 1271-1272
- J. J. Armesto; R. Rozzi; C. Smith-Ramírez; M. T. K. Arroyo
Books and New Media
- Innovative History of the Chemical Industry, pp. 1273-1274
- Chemicals and Long-Term Economic Growth. Insights from the Chemical Industry.
- Ashish Arora; Ralph Landau; Nathan Rosenberg
- Review author[s]: Christopher Freeman
- Rainforest "Crows" in Fancy Dress, p. 1274
- The Birds of Paradise. Paradisaeidae.
- Clifford B. Frith; Bruce M. Beehler
- Review author[s]: Sherman J. Suter
Perspectives
- Toughened Ceramics, p. 1275
- William K. Tredway
- Spinosaurs as Crocodile Mimics, pp. 1276-1277
- Thomas R. Holtz Jr.
- Gathering Glycine Receptors at Synapses, pp. 1277-1279
- Stanley C. Froehner
- A Cellular Striptease Act, pp. 1279-1280
- Zena Werb; Yibing Yan
Research
Research Articles
- An Essential Role for Ectodomain Shedding in Mammalian Development, pp. 1281-1284
- Jacques J. Peschon; Jennifer L. Slack; Pranitha Reddy; Kim L. Stocking; Susan W. Sunnarborg; David C. Lee; William E. Russell; Beverly J. Castner; Richard S. Johnson; Jeffrey N. Fitzner; Rogely W. Boyce; Nicole Nelson; Carl J. Kozlosky; Martin F. Wolfson; Charles T. Rauch; Douglas Pat Cerretti; Raymond J. Paxton; Carl J. March; Roy A. Black
- Presolar Corundum and Spinel in Ordinary Chondrites: Origins from AGB Stars and a Supernova, pp. 1284-1289
- Byeon-Gak Choi; Gary R. Huss; G. J. Wasserburg; Roberto Gallino
Reports
- Direct Observations of Structural Phase Transitions in Planar Crystallized Ion Plasmas, pp. 1290-1293
- T. B. Mitchell; J. J. Bollinger; D. H. E. Dubin; X.-P. Huang; W. M. Itano; R. H. Baughman
- Controlling Factors for the Brittle-to-Ductile Transition in Tungsten Single Crystals, pp. 1293-1295
- Peter Gumbsch; Joachim Riedle; Alexander Hartmaier; Hellmut F. Fischmeister
- A Tough, Thermally Conductive Silicon Carbide Composite with High Strength up to 1600°C in Air, pp. 1295-1297
- Toshihiro Ishikawa; Shinji Kajii; Kenji Matsunaga; Toshihiko Hogami; Yasuhiko Kohtoku; Toshio Nagasawa
- A Long-Snouted Predatory Dinosaur from Africa and the Evolution of Spinosaurids, pp. 1298-1302
- Paul C. Sereno; Allison L. Beck; Didier B. Dutheil; Boubacar Gado; Hans C. E. Larsson; Gabrielle H. Lyon; Jonathan D. Marcot; Oliver W. M. Rauhut; Rudyard W. Sadleir; Christian A. Sidor; David D. Varricchio; Gregory P. Wilson; Jeffrey A. Wilson
- Ultrastable Mesostructured Silica Vesicles, pp. 1302-1305
- Seong Su Kim; Wenzhong Zhang; Thomas J. Pinnavaia
- Large-Scale Nitrogen Oxide Plumes in the Tropopause Region and Implications for Ozone, pp. 1305-1309
- Dominik Brunner; Johannes Staehelin; Dominique Jeker
- Discovery of a Low-Mass Brown Dwarf Companion of the Young Nearby Star G 196-3, pp. 1309-1312
- Rafael Rebolo; María R. Zapatero Osorio; Santiago Madruga; Víctor J. S. Béjar; Santiago Arribas; Javier Licandro
- Requirement for MAPK Activation for Normal Mitotic Progression in Xenopus Egg Extracts, pp. 1312-1315
- Thomas M. Guadagno; James E. Ferrell Jr.
- Catalytic Plasticity of Fatty Acid Modification Enzymes Underlying Chemical Diversity of Plant Lipids, pp. 1315-1317
- Pierre Broun; John Shanklin; Ed Whittle; Chris Somerville
- Regulation of Cell Death Protease Caspase-9 by Phosphorylation, pp. 1318-1321
- Michael H. Cardone; Natalie Roy; Henning R. Stennicke; Guy S. Salvesen; Thomas F. Franke; Eric Stanbridge; Steven Frisch; John C. Reed
- Dual Requirement for Gephyrin in Glycine Receptor Clustering and Molybdoenzyme Activity, pp. 1321-1324
- Guoping Feng; Hartmut Tintrup; Joachim Kirsch; Mia C. Nichol; Jochen Kuhse; Heinrich Betz; Joshua R. Sanes
- Structure of Human Methionine Aminopeptidase-2 Complexed with Fumagillin, pp. 1324-1327
- Shenping Liu; Joanne Widom; Christopher W. Kemp; Craig M. Crews; Jon Clardy
- A Structural Explanation for the Recognition of Tyrosine-Based Endocytotic Signals, pp. 1327-1332
- David J. Owen; Philip R. Evans
- Reovirus Therapy of Tumors with Activated Ras Pathway, pp. 1332-1334
- Matthew C. Coffey; James E. Strong; Peter A. Forsyth; Patrick W. K. Lee
- Role for Cingulate Motor Area Cells in Voluntary Movement Selection Based on Reward, pp. 1335-1338
- Keisetsu Shima; Jun Tanji
- Control of Neonatal Tolerance to Tissue Antigens by Peripheral T Cell Trafficking, pp. 1338-1341
- Judith Alferink; Anna Tafuri; Dietmar Vestweber; Rupert Hallmann; Günter J. Hümmerling; Bernd Arnold
Back Matter (31 pp.)
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