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Science, New Series, Vol. 285, No. 5429, Aug. 6, 1999


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Front Matter (29 pp.)
NetWatch, p. 799
Jocelyn Kaiser


News


News of the Week
E-biomed Morphs to E-biosci, Focus Shifts to Reviewed Papers, pp. 810-811
Eliot Marshall
DOE Builds a Web Site for the Physical Sciences, p. 811
Eliot Marshall
New Clues to Whooping Cough Pathology, pp. 811+813
Evelyn Strauss
House Panel Cuts Space Science, NSF Budgets, pp. 813-814
Michael Hagmann
ScienceScope, pp. 813+815
Gene Linked to Faulty Cholesterol Transport, pp. 814-815
Trisha Gura
GPS's 'Dress Rehearsal' for Year 2000 Problem, p. 816
Richard A. Kerr
Science Board Floats $1 Billion Trial Balloon, pp. 816-817
Jocelyn Kaiser
A Plan to Save Hawaii's Threatened Biodiversity, pp. 817+819
Richard Stone
U.N. Plans Its Future in Space, p. 819
Helen Gavaghan
France Takes Share in British Synchrotron, p. 819
Alexander Hellemans


News Focus
Common Ground for Fusion, pp. 820-821
James Glanz
Fusion Power from a Floating Magnet?, pp. 821-823
James Riordon
JET Staff OKs Pay Settlement, p. 823
Judy Redfearn
A Long March to Save Africa's Dwindling Wildlands, p. 825
Richard Stone


Random Samples, p. 827
Gretchen Vogel


Science's Compass


Editorial
Staying Competitive, p. 833
D. Allan Bromley


Letters
How Women Contribute, p. 835
Londa Schiebinger
"Macho Total Synthesis", pp. 835-836
Carl Djerassi; John Haseltine
Facts about Artificial Intelligence, p. 836
Diane Proudfoot
Chimp Cultural Diversity, pp. 836-837
David S. Woodruff; Nina G. Jablonski; George Chaplin
DNA Discovery, p. 837
Graham Wallis
Mitochondrial Recombination? (Continued), p. 837
D. Andrew Merriweather; Frederika A. Kaestle
Protein Crystallization at NASA: Well Grounded, pp. 837-838
Michael R. Fiske

Corrections and Clarifications: Congress Votes Down Delay in Access Law, p. 838
Corrections and Clarifications: Regular and Irregular Patterns in Semiarid Vegetation, p. 838
Corrections and Clarifications: Random Samples, p. 838
Corrections and Clarifications: Glenn Seaborg (1912-1999), p. 838
Corrections and Clarifications: Aging and the Genome, p. 838
Corrections and Clarifications: Precambrian Sponges with Cellular Structures, p. 838


Essays on Science and Society
A Tale of Two Cities: Architecture and the Digital Revolution, pp. 839+841
William J. Mitchell


Books et al.
Representing the World in a Computer, p. 842
The Nature of Mathematical Modeling.
Neil Gershenfeld
Review author[s]: Brian Sleeman
Themes of Thought and Thinking, pp. 842-843
The Nature of Cognition.
Robert J. Sternberg
Review author[s]: C. R. Gallistel


Perspectives
Close Encounters -- An Artist Shows that Size Affects Shape, pp. 844-846
Denis G. Pelli
Hawaiian Plume Dynamics, pp. 846-847
John Lassiter
Extrasolar Giant Planets and Brown Dwarfs, pp. 847-848
Adam Burrows
How the Sun's Corona Gets Hot, p. 849
H. S. Hudson; T. Kosugi


Review
A Diamond Trilogy: Superplumes, Supercontinents, and Supernovae, pp. 851-860
Stephen E. Haggerty


Research


Reports
TRACE Observation of Damped Coronal Loop Oscillations: Implications for Coronal Heating, pp. 862-864
V. M. Nakariakov; L. Ofman; E. E. DeLuca; B. Roberts; J. M. Davila
Minimum Field Strength in Precessional Magnetization Reversal, pp. 864-867
C. H. Back; R. Allenspach; W. Weber; S. S. P. Parkin; D. Weller; E. L. Garwin; H. C. Siegmann
Current-Induced Switching of Domains in Magnetic Multilayer Devices, pp. 867-870
E. B. Myers; D. C. Ralph; J. A. Katine; R. N. Louie; R. A. Buhrman
Galileo Imaging of Atmospheric Emissions from Io, pp. 870-874
P. E. Geissler; A. S. McEwen; W. Ip; M. J. S. Belton; T. V. Johnson; W. H. Smyth; A. P. Ingersoll
Quantitative Assessment of Reactive Surface Area of Phlogopite during Acid Dissolution, pp. 874-876
Eric Rufe; Michael F. Hochella Jr.
Late Miocene Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations and the Expansion of C4 Grasses, pp. 876-879
Mark Pagani; Katherine H. Freeman; Michael A. Arthur
Hf Isotope Evidence for Pelagic Sediments in the Source of Hawaiian Basalts, pp. 879-882
J. Blichert-Toft; F. A. Frey; F. Albarède
Molecular Identification of a Eukaryotic, Stretch-Activated Nonselective Cation Channel, pp. 882-886
Makoto Kanzaki; Masahiro Nagasawa; Itaru Kojima; Chikara Sato; Keiji Naruse; Masahiro Sokabe; Hidetoshi Iida
Requirement of Rsk-2 for Epidermal Growth Factor-Activated Phosphorylation of Histone H3, pp. 886-891
Paolo Sassone-Corsi; Craig A. Mizzen; Peter Cheung; Claudia Crosio; Lucia Monaco; Sylvie Jacquot; André Hanauer; C. David Allis
The Selective Advantage of Low Relatedness, pp. 891-893
Blaine J. Cole; Diane C. Wiernasz
Landscape Structure and Biological Control in Agroecosystems, pp. 893-895
Carsten Thies; Teja Tscharntke
Signaling from Rho to the Actin Cytoskeleton Through Protein Kinases ROCK and LIM-kinase, pp. 895-898
Midori Maekawa; Toshimasa Ishizaki; Shuken Boku; Naoki Watanabe; Akiko Fujita; Akihiro Iwamatsu; Takashi Obinata; Kazumasa Ohashi; Kensaku Mizuno; Shuh Narumiya
Fas Ligand: A Sensor for DNA Damage Critical in Skin Cancer Etiology, pp. 898-900
Laurie L. Hill; Allal Ouhtit; Susan M. Loughlin; Margaret L. Kripke; Honnavara N. Ananthaswamy; Laurie B. Owen-Schaub
Functional Characterization of the S. cerevisiae Genome by Gene Deletion and Parallel Analysis, pp. 901-906
Elizabeth A. Winzeler; Daniel D. Shoemaker; Anna Astromoff; Hong Liang; Keith Anderson; Bruno Andre; Rhonda Bangham; Rocio Benito; Jef D. Boeke; Howard Bussey; Angela M. Chu; Carla Connelly; Karen Davis; Fred Dietrich; Sally Whelen Dow; Mohamed El Bakkoury; Franco̧ise Foury; Stephen H. Friend; Erik Gentalen; Guri Giaever; Johannes H. Hegemann; Ted Jones; Michael Laub; Hong Liao; Nicole Liebundguth; David J. Lockhart; Anca Lucau-Danila; Marc Lussier; Nasiha M'Rabet; Patrice Menard; Michael Mittmann; Chai Pai; Corinne Rebischung; Jose L. Revuelta; Linda Riles; Christopher J. Roberts; Petra Ross-MacDonald; Bart Scherens; Michael Snyder; Sharon Sookhai-Mahadeo; Reginald K. Storms; Steeve Véronneau; Marleen Voet; Guido Volckaert; Teresa R. Ward; Robert Wysocki; Grace S. Yen; Kexin Yu; Katja Zimmermann; Peter Philippsen; Mark Johnston; Ronald W. Davis
Early Neocortical Regionalization in the Absence of Thalamic Innervation, pp. 906-909
Emily M. Miyashita-Lin; Robert Hevner; Karen Montzka Wassarman; Salvador Martinez; John L. R. Rubenstein


Back Matter (63 pp.)

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