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Science, New Series, Vol. 282, No. 5392, Nov. 13, 1998


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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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