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Science, New Series, Vol. 283, No. 5401, Jan. 22, 1999


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Front Matter (27 pp.)
Netwatch, p. 455
Jocelyn Kaiser


News


News of the Week
NIMH to Screen Studies for Science and Human Risks, pp. 464-465
Eliot Marshall
Ruling May Free NIH to Fund Stem Cell Studies, pp. 465+467
Eliot Marshall
El Niño Grew Strong as Cultures Were Born, pp. 467-468
Richard A. Kerr
ScienceScope, p. 467
Stunning Fossil Shows Breath of a Dinosaur, p. 468
Bernice Wuethrich
Development Blocked Near Tucson Telescopes, p. 469
Mark Muro
Diagnostic Test Scores High Marks in Study, pp. 469+471
Michael Balter
Brain Stem Cells Show Their Potential, p. 471
Evelyn Strauss


News Focus
Exploring the Proton Sea, pp. 472-474
Andrew Watson
Element 114 Lumbers into View, p. 474
Richard Stone
Rocky Mountain Rendezvous, pp. 475+477
Elizabeth Pennisi
Science Spending Keeps Rising but may Miss 5-Year Targets, p. 478
Dennis Normile
Science Hopes to Rebound in Post-Cold War Era, pp. 479-480
Andrew Lawler
New Clues to the Habits of Heavyweights, pp. 480-481
James Glanz; Robert Irion
Random Samples, p. 483
Constance Holden


Science's Compass


Editorial
Successful Priority-Setting Initiatives, p. 485
Floyd E. Bloom


Letters
Iceland's Central Database of Health Records, p. 487
Ragnheidur Haraldsdóttir
Georgetown Faculty Grievance, p. 487
Robert I. Glazer; Donald Massaro
Livestock Cloning, pp. 487-488
Robert H. Foote
Phytolith Analysis, pp. 488-489
Irwin Rovner
Science and Technology at the State Department, p. 489
Lisa R. Shaffer


Corrections and Clarifications: The Buzz on Bugs, p. 489


Science's Compass


Policy Forum
A One-Number Census: Some Related History, pp. 491-492
Tommy Wright


Books et al.
Entrancing Influences, p. 493
Mesmerized. Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain.
Alison Winter
Review author[s]: Alan Gauld
True Stories of An Imaginary Number, p. 494
An Imaginary Tale. The Story of √-1.
Paul J. Nahin
Review author[s]: Victor J. Katz


Perspectives
Diversity by Default, pp. 495-496
David Tilman
Energy on Demand, pp. 496-497
Pierre J. Magistretti; Luc Pellerin; Douglas L. Rothman; Robert G. Shulman
Spice and the Demon, pp. 498-499
Raymond W. Schmitt
Transitions in the Mid-Holocene, pp. 499-500
Daniel H. Sandweiss; Kirk A. Maasch; David G. Anderson


Review
Astrophysics on the GRAPE Family of Special-Purpose Computers, pp. 501-505
Piet Hut; Jun Makino


Research


Reports
Self-Oriented Regular Arrays of Carbon Nanotubes and Their Field Emission Properties, pp. 512-514
Shoushan Fan; Michael G. Chapline; Nathan R. Franklin; Thomas W. Tombler; Alan M. Cassell; Hongjie Dai
Pulmonary Function and Metabolic Physiology of Theropod Dinosaurs, pp. 514-516
John A. Ruben; Cristiano Dal Sasso; Nicholas R. Geist; Willem J. Hillenius; Terry D. Jones; Marco Signore
An ∼ 15,000-Year Record of El Niño-Driven Alluviation in Southwestern Ecuador, pp. 516-520
Donald T. Rodbell; Geoffrey O. Seltzer; David M. Anderson; Mark B. Abbott; David B. Enfield; Jeremy H. Newman
Nanophase-Separated Polymer Films as High-Performance Antireflection Coatings, pp. 520-522
Stefan Walheim; Erik Schäffer; Jürgen Mlynek; Ullrich Steiner
Conversion of Supramolecular Clusters to Macromolecular Objects, pp. 523-526
Eugene R. Zubarev; Martin U. Pralle; Leiming Li; Samuel I. Stupp
Compensation of Horizontal Temperature and Salinity Gradients in the Ocean Mixed Layer, pp. 526-529
Daniel L. Rudnick; Raffaele Ferrari
Transient Phase-Induced Nucleation, pp. 529-532
E. B. Sirota; A. B. Herhold
Recruitment of a Hedgehog Regulatory Circuit in Butterfly Eyespot Evolution, pp. 532-534
David N. Keys; David L. Lewis; Jane E. Selegue; Bret J. Pearson; Lisa V. Goodrich; Ronald L. Johnson; Julie Gates; Matthew P. Scott; Sean B. Carroll
Turning Brain into Blood: A Hematopoietic Fate Adopted by Adult Neural Stem Cells In vivo, pp. 534-537
Christopher R. R. Bjornson; Rodney L. Rietze; Brent A. Reynolds; M. Cristina Magli; Angelo L. Vescovi
A Tobacco Syntaxin with a Role in Hormonal Control of Guard Cell Ion Channels, pp. 537-540
Barbara Leyman; Danny Geelen; Francisco J. Quintero; Michael R. Blatt
Reciprocal Inhibitory Connections and Network Synchrony in the Mammalian Thalamus, pp. 541-543
Molly M. Huntsman; Darrell M. Porcello; Gregg E. Homanics; Timothy M. DeLorey; John R. Huguenard
Prevention of Constitutive TNF Receptor 1 Signaling by Silencer of Death Domains, pp. 543-546
Yingping Jiang; John D. Woronicz; Wei Liu; David V. Goeddel
Silencing of Genes Flanking the P1 Plasmid Centromere, pp. 546-549
Oleg Rodionov; Małgorzata Łobocka; Michael Yarmolinsky
The Role of Locus Coeruleus in the Regulation of Cognitive Performance, pp. 549-554
Marius Usher; Jonathan D. Cohen; David Servan-Schreiber; Janusz Rajkowski; Gary ASton-Jones
Light-Gap Disturbances, Recruitment Limitation, and Tree Diversity in a Neotropical Forest, pp. 554-557
S. P. Hubbell; R. B. Foster; S. T. O'Brien; K. E. Harms; R. Condit; B. Wechsler; S. J. Wright; S. Loo de Lao


Back Matter (35 pp.)

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