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Previous Issue: New Series, Vol. 283, No. 5410, Mar. 26, 1999
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Front Matter (42 pp.)
NetWatch, p. 7
- Erik Stokstad
News
News of the Week
- Colorado Nobelist Chosen to Lead Howard Hughes, p. 18
- Jon Cohen
- Research Shutdown Roils Los Angeles VA, pp. 18-19+21
- Jon Cohen
- Court Views Engineers as Scientists, p. 21
- Jeffrey Mervis
- ScienceScope, pp. 21+23+25
- Shedding Light on Visual Imagination, p. 22
- Marcia Barinaga
- Dispute Over a Legendary Fish, pp. 22-23
- Constance Holden
- A Deep Look Beneath Tall Mountains, p. 24
- Richard A. Kerr
- Laser Light from a Handful of Dust, pp. 24-25
- Alexander Hellemans
- University Cash Crisis Blocks Career Paths, pp. 25+27
- Lone Frank
- DESY Puts the Spin Into Gluons, p. 27
- Alexander Hellemans
News Focus
- Battle Over a Dying Sea, pp. 28-30
- Jocelyn Kaiser
- Coming to Grips with the Aral Sea's Grim Legacy, pp. 30-31+33
- Richard Stone
- Heart Failure Simulated, pp. 33-34
- Robert F. Service
- Celebrating a Century of Physics, en Masse, pp. 34-36
- James Glanz; Robert Irion
- A Species' Fate, by the Numbers, pp. 36-37
- Charles C. Mann; Mark L. Plummer
Random Samples, p. 39
- Constance Holden
Science's Compass
Editorial
- Think Ahead, p. 47
- Floyd Bloom
Letters
- Replenishing Marine Populations, p. 49
- Craig Dahlgren
- Young Scientists in Biomedical Research, p. 49
- David A. Hume
- Redefining Rats, Mice, and Birds, pp. 49-50
- Joseph C. Besharse; Bruce M. Carlson; Donald P. Jenkins; David S. Lester; James L. Olds; Peter Satir
- Field Primatology and Biomedical Research, p. 50
- Jane E. Philips-Conroy; Clifford J. Jolly
- Fluorescent Lamps in Photocopiers, pp. 50-52
- Dale D. Hancock; Thomas E. Besser; Colin Gill; Carolyn Hovde Bohach; John T. Bickmore
- Cattle, Hay, and E. coli, pp. 52-53
- James B. Russell; Francisco Diez-Gonzalez
Essays on Science and Society
- Amateur Science -- Strong Tradition, Bright Future, pp. 55-56
- Forrest M. Mims III
Books et al.
- The Benefits of Selective Thinking, pp. 57-58
- Evolution in Health and Disease.
- Stephen C. Stearns
- Review author[s]: Mark Pagel
- Seeing is Believing, but What Do We See?, p. 58
- The Birth of the Cell.
- Henry Harris
- Review author[s]: Manfred D. Laubichler
Perspectives
- CH5+: The Cheshire Cat Smiles, pp. 59+61
- Dominik Marx; Michele Parrinello
- Fear of Flying, p. 61
- Orla Smith
- Dirty Transcripts from Clean DNA, pp. 62-63
- Bryn A. Bridges
- A Deadly Double Life, pp. 63-64
- Alan M. Weiner; Nancy Maizels
Review
- The Human Genus, pp. 65-71
- Bernard Wood; Mark Collard
Complex Systems
- [Introduction], p. 79
- Richard Gallagher; Tim Appenzeller
News
- Exploring the Systems of Life, pp. 80-81+83
- Robert F. Service
- Building Working Cells 'in Silico', pp. 80-81
- Dennis Normile
- Unraveling Bacteria's Dependable Homing System, p. 82
- Elizabeth Pennisi
- Life After Chaos, pp. 83-86
- Carl Zimmer
Viewpoints
- Simple Lessons from Complexity, pp. 87-89
- Nigel Goldenfeld; Leo P. Kadanoff
- Complexity in Chemistry, pp. 89-92
- George M. Whitesides; Rustem F. Ismagilov
- Complexity in Biological Signaling Systems, pp. 92-96
- Gezhi Weng; Upinder S. Bhalla; Ravi Iyengar
- Complexity and the Nervous System, pp. 96-98
- Christof Koch; Gilles Laurent
- Complexity, Pattern, and Evolutionary Trade-Offs in Animal Aggregation, pp. 99-101
- Julia K. Parrish; Leah Edelstein-Keshet
- Complexity in Natural Landform Patterns, pp. 102-104
- B. T. Werner
- Complexity and Climate, pp. 105-107
- D. Rind
- Complexity and the Economy, pp. 107-109
- W. Brian Arthur
Research
Reports
- Superradiance in a Torus Magnetosphere Around a Black Hole, pp. 115-118
- Maurice H. P. M. van Putten
- Geochemical Consequences of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide on Coral Reefs, pp. 118-120
- Joan A. Kleypas; Robert W. Buddemeier; David Archer; Jean-Pierre Gattuso; Chris Langdon; Bradley N. Opdyke
- Lateral Variations in Compressional/Shear Velocities at the Base of the Mantle, pp. 120-125
- Michael E. Wysession; Amy Langenhorst; Matthew J. Fouch; Karen M. Fischer; Ghassan I. Al-Eqabi; Patrick J. Shore; Timothy J. Clarke
- High-Resolution Holocene Environmental Changes in the Thar Desert, Northwestern India, pp. 125-128
- Y. Enzel; L. L. Ely; S. Mishra; R. Ramesh; R. Amit; B. Lazar; S. N. Rajaguru; V. R. Baker; A. Sandler
- Clinoenstatite in Alpe Arami Peridotite: Additional Evidence of Very High Pressure, pp. 128-132
- K. N. Bozhilov; H. W. Green II; L. Dobrzhinetskaya
- Quantum Phase Interference and Parity Effects in Magnetic Molecular Clusters, pp. 133-135
- W. Wernsdorfer; R. Sessoli
- CH5+: The Infrared Spectrum Observed, pp. 135-137
- Edmund T. White; Jian Tang; Takeshi Oka
- Electrochemical Defect-Mediated Thin-Film Growth, pp. 138-141
- K. Sieradzki; S. R. Brankovic; N. Dimitrov
- Strongly Photonic Macroporous Gallium Phosphide Networks, pp. 141-143
- Frank J. P. Schuurmans; Daniël Vanmaekelbergh; Jao van de Lagemaat; Ad Lagendijk
- Multilineage Potential of Adult Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells, pp. 143-147
- Mark F. Pittenger; Alastair M. Mackay; Stephen C. Beck; Rama K. Jaiswal; Robin Douglas; Joseph D. Mosca; Mark A. Moorman; Donald W. Simonetti; Stewart Craig; Daniel R. Marshak
- Two Distinct Cytokines Released from a Human Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetase, pp. 147-151
- Keisuke Wakasugi; Paul Schimmel
- ROUGH SHEATH2: A Myb Protein That Represses Knox Homeobox Genes in Maize Lateral Organ Primordia, pp. 151-153
- Marja C. P. Timmermans; Andrew Hudson; Philip W. Becraft; Timothy Nelson
- The Maize Rough Sheath2 Gene and Leaf Development Programs in Monocot and Dicot Plants, pp. 154-156
- Miltos Tsiantis; Richard Schneeberger; John F. Golz; Michael Freeling; Jane A. Langdale
- Apaf-1 and Caspase-9 in p53-Dependent Apoptosis and Tumor Inhibition, pp. 156-159
- M. S. Soengas; R. M. Alarcón; H. Yoshida; A. J. Giaccia; R. Hakem; T. W. Mak; S. W. Lowe
- Phenotypic Change Caused by Transcriptional Bypass of Uracil in Nondividing Cells, pp. 159-162
- Anand Viswanathan; Ho Jin You; Paul W. Doetsch
- Dynamic Control of CaMKII Translocation and Localization in Hippocampal Neurons by NMDA Receptor Stimulation, pp. 162-166
- Kang Shen; Tobias Meyer
- The Role of Area 17 in Visual Imagery: Convergent Evidence from PET and rTMS, pp. 167-170
- S. M. Kosslyn; A. Pascual-Leone; O. Felician; S. Camposano; J. P. Keenan; W. L. Thompson; G. Ganis; K. E. Sukel; N. M. Alpert
Back Matter (42 pp.)
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