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Science, New Series, Vol. 284, No. 5418, May 21, 1999


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Front Matter (39 pp.)
NetWatch, p. 1231
Jocelyn Kaiser


News


News of the Week
European Ministers Back Commerce Over Space Science, pp. 1242-1243
Helen Gavaghan
New Date for the Dawn of Dream Time, pp. 1243+1245-1246
Carl Zimmer
ScienceScope, pp. 1245+1247
Shutdown of Research at Duke Sends a Message, p. 1246
Eliot Marshall
Space Rock Hints at Early Asteroid Furnace, pp. 1246-1247
Erik Stokstad
EPA's Piecemeal Risk Strategy on Way Out?, pp. 1247-1248
Jocelyn Kaiser
Budget Backs Report On Boosting Biotech, pp. 1248-1249
Elizabeth Finkel
New, Nonchemical Pest Control Proposed, pp. 1249+1251
Anne Simon Moffat
Giant New Telescope Bags Gamma Ray Burst, p. 1251
Govert Schilling
Picking Up Bits of the Electron's Charge, p. 1251
Alexander Hellemans


News Focus
'New Physics' Finds a Haven at the Patent Office, pp. 1252-1254
David Voss
Plan to Import Exotic Beetle Drives Some Scientists Wild, p. 1255
David Malakoff
Subjecting Belief to the Scientific Method, pp. 1257-1259
Constance Holden
U.S. Sanctions Block People But Not Goods from India, pp. 1259-1260
Pallava Bagla
Nuclear Transport Protein Does Double Duty in Mitosis, pp. 1260-1261
Elizabeth Pennisi


Random Samples, p. 1263
Constance Holden


Science's Compass


Editorial
Fault Lines, p. 1271
Shirley M. Malcom


Letters
Einstein: "All but the Dissertation", p. 1273
Harold I. Brown
Jaw Origins, p. 1273
Georgy Koentges
Asteroid Report, p. 1273
Benny J. Peiser
Y2K: An "Autopsy" of Modern Society?, pp. 1273-1274
Stuart A. Umpleby
The Web and Conflict of Interest, pp. 1274-1275
Glenn McGee
Phytohormone-Independent Division of Tobacco Protoplast-Derived Cells: Retractions, p. 1275
J. Schell


Policy Forum
The Heroin Prescribing Debate: Integrating Science and Politics, pp. 1277-1278
Gabriele Bammer; Anja Dobler-Mikola; Philip M. Fleming; John Strang; Ambros Uchtenhagen


Books et al.
Infectious Avenues to Cancer, p. 1279
Microbes and Malignancy. Infection as a Cause of Human Cancers.
Julie Parsonnet
Review author[s]: Don Ganem
Structural Catholicism, p. 1280
The Structure of Materials.
Samuel M. Allen; Edwin L. Thomas
Review author[s]: Pierre Wiltzius


Perspectives
Carbon Nanotube Muscles, pp. 1281-1282
Olle Inganäs; Ingemar Lundstrüm
The Cuprate Pairing Mechanism, pp. 1282-1283
D. J. Scalapino
Instruction, Selection, or Tampering with the Odds?, pp. 1283+1285
Robert L. Coffman; Steven L. Reiner
Seeking Ligands for Lonely Orphan Receptors, pp. 1285-1286
Jan-Åke Gustafsson


Tech.Sight
Biomolecule Mass Spectrometry, pp. 1289-1290
Fred W. McLafferty; Einar K. Fridriksson; David M. Horn; Mark A. Lewis; Roman A. Zubarev
A Carnival of Stats, pp. 1291-1292
Statistica 5.1 for Windows.
Review author[s]: Bruce McCallum
TechSightings, pp. 1293-1294
Frank Hoover; Robert Sikorski; Richard Peters


Microbes, Immunity, and Disease
Microbe Management, p. 1301
Beverly A. Purnell; Jean Marx


News
A Symphony of Bacterial Voices, pp. 1302-1304
Evelyn Strauss
Is it Time to Uproot the Tree of Life?, pp. 1305-1307
Elizabeth Pennisi


Viewpoints
The Search for Unrecognized Pathogens, pp. 1308-1310
David A. Relman
Emerging Infectious Diseases: Public Health Issues for the 21st Century, pp. 1311-1313
Sue Binder; Alexandra M. Levitt; Jeffrey J. Sacks; James M. Hughes


Reviews
Phylogenetic Perspectives in Innate Immunity, pp. 1313-1318
Jules A. Hoffmann; Fotis C. Kafatos; Charles A. Janeway Jr.; R. A. B. Ezekowitz
Bacterial Biofilms: A Common Cause of Persistent Infections, pp. 1318-1322
J. W. Costerton; Philip S. Stewart; E. P. Greenberg
Type III Secretion Machines: Bacterial Devices for Protein Delivery into Host Cells, pp. 1322-1328
Jorge E. Galán; Alan Collmer
Helicobacter pylori Virulence and Genetic Geography, pp. 1328-1333
Antonello Covacci; John L. Telford; Giuseppe Del Giudice; Julie Parsonnet; Rino Rappuoli


Research


Reports
Large Magnetoresistance of Electrodeposited Single-Crystal Bismuth Thin Films, pp. 1335-1337
F. Y. Yang; Kai Liu; Kimin Hong; D. H. Reich; P. C. Searson; C. L. Chien
Cracks Faster Than the Shear Wave Speed, pp. 1337-1340
A. J. Rosakis; O. Samudrala; D. Coker
Carbon Nanotube Actuators, pp. 1340-1344
Ray H. Baughman; Changxing Cui; Anvar A. Zakhidov; Zafar Iqbal; Joseph N. Barisci; Geoff M. Spinks; Gordon G. Wallace; Alberto Mazzoldi; Danilo De Rossi; Andrew G. Rinzler; Oliver Jaschinski; Siegman Roth; Miklos Kertesz
The Magnetic Excitation Spectrum and Thermodynamics of High-Tc Superconductors, pp. 1344-1347
Pengcheng Dai; H. A. Mook; S. M. Hayden; G. Aeppli; T. G. Perring; R. D. Hunt; F. Doğan
26 Al in Eucrite Piplia Kalan: Plausible Heat Source and Formation Chronology, pp. 1348-1350
G. Srinivasan; J. N. Goswami; N. Bhandari
Cloning Genes Encoding MHC Class II-Restricted Antigens: Mutated CDC27 as a Tumor Antigen, pp. 1351-1354
Rong-Fu Wang; Xiang Wang; Alicia C. Atwood; Suzanne L. Topalian; Steven A. Rosenberg
BRCA1 Inhibition of Estrogen Receptor Signaling in Transfected Cells, pp. 1354-1356
S. Fan; J.-A. Wang; R. Yuan; Y. Ma; Q. Meng; M. R. Erdos; R. G. Pestell; Fang Yuan; K. J. Auborn; I. D. Goldberg; E. M. Rosen
Self-Organization of Microtubule Asters Induced in Xenopus Egg Extracts by GTP-Bound Ran, pp. 1356-1358
T. Ohba; M. Nakamura; H. Nishitani; T. Nishimoto
Stimulation of Microtubule Aster Formation and Spindle Assembly by the Small GTPase Ran, pp. 1359-1362
Andrew Wilde; Yixian Zheng
Identification of a Nuclear Receptor for Bile Acids, pp. 1362-1365
Makoto Makishima; Arthur Y. Okamoto; Joyce J. Repa; Hua Tu; R. Marc Learned; Alvin Luk; Mitchell V. Hull; Kevin D. Lustig; David J. Mangelsdorf; Bei Shan
Bile Acids: Natural Ligands for an Orphan Nuclear Receptor, pp. 1365-1368
Derek J. Parks; Steven G. Blanchard; Randy K. Bledsoe; Gyan Chandra; Thomas G. Consler; Steven A. Kliewer; Julie B. Stimmel; Timothy M. Willson; Ann Marie Zavacki; David D. Moore; Jürgen M. Lehmann
Modulation of Polyketide Synthase Activity by Accessory Proteins During Lovastatin Biosynthesis, pp. 1368-1372
Jonathan Kennedy; Karine Auclair; Steven G. Kendrew; Cheonseok Park; John C. Vederas; C. Richard Hutchinson
UDP-GlcNAc 2-Epimerase: A Regulator of Cell Surface Sialylation, pp. 1372-1376
Oliver T. Keppler; Stephan Hinderlich; Josmar Langner; Reinhard Schwartz-Albiez; Werner Reutter; Michael Pawlita


Back Matter (44 pp.)

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