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Previous Issue: New Series, Vol. 286, No. 5443, Nov. 12, 1999
Next Issue: New Series, Vol. 286, No. 5445, Nov. 26, 1999
Front Matter (26 pp.)
NetWatch, p. 1439
- Jocelyn Kaiser
News
News of the Week
- New York's Lethal Virus Came from Middle East, DNA Suggests, pp. 1450-1451
- Martin Enserink
- Shadow of an Exoplanet Detected, pp. 1451+1453
- Govert Schilling
- ScienceScope, pp. 1453+1455
- Protests Win Changes to Peer-Review Proposal, pp. 1453-1454
- Bruce Agnew
- Cyclone Wrecks Rice, Botanical Centers, p. 1454
- Pallava Bagla
- Chimps and Lethal Strain a Bad Mix, pp. 1454-1455
- Jon Cohen
- Ocean Project Drills for Methane Hydrates, p. 1456
- Dennis Normile
- Lumpy Infrared Points to Earliest Galaxies, pp. 1456-1457
- Alexander Hellemans
- A System Fails at Mars, A Spacecraft is Lost, pp. 1457+1459
- Richard A. Kerr
- Journals Launch Private Reference Network, p. 1459
- Eliot Marshall
- Gyroscope Failure Closes Down Hubble, p. 1459
- Andrew Lawler
News Focus
- Bayes Offers a 'New' Way to Make Sense of Numbers, pp. 1460-1464
- David Malakoff
- A Smoking Gun for an Ancient Methane Discharge, p. 1465
- Richard A. Kerr
- Were Spaniards Among the First Americans?, pp. 1467-1468
- Constance Holden
- Rockefeller to End Network After 15 Years of Success, pp. 1468-1469
- Dennis Normile
- Can Immune Systems be Trained to Fight HIV?, pp. 1470-1471
- Michael Balter
Random Samples, p. 1473
- Constance Holden
Science's Compass
Editorial
- A Hippocratic Oath for Scientists, p. 1475
- Joseph Rotblat
Letters
- Biomedical Attacks, p. 1477
- Frankie L. Trull
- Rates of Soil Erosion, pp. 1477-1478
- David Pimentel; Edward L. Skidmore; Stanley W. Trimble
- Meme's the Word, pp. 1478-1479
- Jacob Goldenberg; David Mazursky; Sorin Solomon
- Corrections and Clarifications: Fighting Fire with Fire, p. 1479
- Corrections and Clarifications: Slope Water Current Over the Laurentian Fan on Interannual to Millenial Time Scales, p. 1479
Policy Forum
- Regulating Firearms as a Consumer Product, pp. 1481-1482
- Susan B. Sorenson
Books et al.
- The Brain's Number-Crunching Power, pp. 1483-1484
- What Counts. How Every Brain is Hardwired for Math.
- Brian Butterworth
- Review author[s]: Marc Hauser
- Lingua Franca, p. 1484
- Tower of Babel. The Evidence Against the New Creationism.
- Robert T. Pennock
- Review author[s]: Fintan R. Steele
Perspectives
- Mid-Holocene Climate Change, pp. 1485+1487
- Eric J. Steig
- On the Edge of the Solar System, pp. 1487-1488
- Rodney Gomes
- "Sickle Cell Anemia, a Molecular Disease", pp. 1488-1490
- Bruno J. Strasser
- The Evolutionary Synthesis, p. 1490
- Nils Chr. Stenseth
Essay
- Tantalizing Transcriptomes-SAGE and Its Use in Global Gene Expression Analysis, pp. 1491-1492
- Victor E. Velculescu
Tech.Sight
- Replacement Arteries Made to Order, pp. 1493-1494
- L. E. Niklason
- Planning Plasmids, pp. 1495-1496
- Vector NTI Suite.
- Review author[s]: David R. Wessner
- Visualizing a Changing World, p. 1497
- WorldWatcher
- Review author[s]: Andreas Madlung
- Techsighting, pp. 1497-1498
- Richard Peters; Robert Sikorski
Frontiers in Optics
- Making Light Work, p. 1499
- Ian Osborne; Tim Appenzeller
News
- Cages for Light Go From Concept to Reality, pp. 1500-1502
- Dennis Normile
- Holograms Can Store Terabytes, But Where?, pp. 1502-1504
- Alexander Hellemans
- Technique for Unblurring the Stars Comes of Age, pp. 1504-1506
- Govert Schilling
Reviews
- Frontiers in Ultrashort Pulse Generation: Pushing the Limits in Linear and Nonlinear Optics, pp. 1507-1512
- G. Steinmeyer; D. H. Sutter; L. Gallmann; N. Matuschek; U. Keller
- Parametric Generation of Tunable Light from Continuous-Wave to Femtosecond Pulses, pp. 1513-1517
- Malcolm H. Dunn; Majid Ebrahimzadeh
- Optical Spatial Solitons and Their Interactions: Universality and Diversity, pp. 1518-1523
- George I. Stegeman; Mordechai Segev
- Nonlinear Optics for High-Speed Digital Information Processing, pp. 1523-1528
- D. Cotter; R. J. Manning; K. J. Blow; A. D. Ellis; A. E. Kelly; D. Nesset; I. D. Phillips; A. J. Poustie; D. C. Rogers
Research
Reports
- The Source and Fate of Massive Carbon Input During the Latest Paleocene Thermal Maximum, pp. 1531-1533
- Miriam E. Katz; Dorothy K. Pak; Gerald R. Dickens; Kenneth G. Miller
- Global Measurements of Stratospheric Mountain Waves from Space, pp. 1534-1537
- Stephen D. Eckermann; Peter Preusse
- Enhancement of Interdecadal Climate Variability in the Sahel by Vegetation Interaction, pp. 1537-1540
- Ning Zeng; J. David Neelin; K.-M. Lau; Compton J. Tucker
- The Gelation of CO2: A Sustainable Route to the Creation of Microcellular Materials, pp. 1540-1543
- C. Shi; Z. Huang; S. Kilic; J. Xu; R. M. Enick; E. J. Beckman; A. J. Carr; R. E. Melendez; A. D. Hamilton
- Reversible Molecular Adsorption Based on Multiple-Point Interaction by Shrinkable Gels, pp. 1543-1545
- Taro Oya; Takashi Enoki; Alexander Yu. Grosberg; Satoru Masamune; Takaharu Sakiyama; Yukikazu Takeoka; Kazunori Tanaka; Guoqiang Wang; Yasar Yilmaz; Michael S. Feld; Ramachandra Dasari; Toyoichi Tanaka
- Pressure Effect on Hydrogen Isotope Fractionation between Brucite and Water at Elevated Temperatures, pp. 1545-1547
- Juske Horita; Thomas Driesner; David R. Cole
- A Laboratory Model for Convection in Earth's Core Driven by a Thermally Heterogeneous Mantle, pp. 1547-1549
- Ikuro Sumita; Peter Olson
- Large On-Off Ratios and Negative Differential Resistance in a Molecular Electronic Device, pp. 1550-1552
- J. Chen; M. A. Reed; A. M. Rawlett; J. M. Tour
- Feedback Connections to the Lateral Geniculate Nucleus and Cortical Response Properties, pp. 1552-1554
- Penelope C. Murphy; Simon G. Duckett; Adam M. Sillito
- Increased Cortical Oxidative Metabolism Due to Sensory Stimulation: Implications for Functional Brain Imaging, pp. 1555-1558
- Ivo Vanzetta; Amiram Grinvald
- Transmission of Chronic Nociception by Spinal Neurons Expressing the Substance P Receptor, pp. 1558-1561
- Michael L. Nichols; Brian J. Allen; Scott D. Rogers; Joseph R. Ghilardi; Prisca Honore; Nancy M. Luger; Matthew P. Finke; Jun Li; Douglas A. Lappi; Donald A. Simone; Patrick W. Mantyh
- Specific Lipopolysaccharide Found in Cystic Fibrosis Airway Pseudomonas aeruginosa, pp. 1561-1565
- Robert K. Ernst; Eugene C. Yi; Lin Guo; Kheng B. Lim; Jane L. Burns; Murray Hackett; Samuel I. Miller
- Modulation of Respiratory Frequency by Peptidergic Input to Rhythmogenic Neurons in the PreBötzinger Complex, pp. 1566-1568
- Paul A. Gray; Jens C. Rekling; Christopher M. Bocchiaro; Jack L. Feldman
- Identification of a Conserved Receptor-Binding Site on the Fiber Proteins of CAR-Recognizing Adenoviridae, pp. 1568-1571
- Peter W. Roelvink; Gai Mi Lee; David A. Einfeld; Imre Kovesdi; Thomas J. Wickham
- Genome Sequence of the Radioresistant Bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans R1, pp. 1571-1577
- Owen White; Jonathan A. Eisen; John F. Heidelberg; Erin K. Hickey; Jeremy D. Peterson; Robert J. Dodson; Daniel H. Haft; Michelle L. Gwinn; William C. Nelson; Delwood L. Richardson; Kelly S. Moffat; Haiying Qin; Lingxia Jiang; Wanda Pamphile; Marie Crosby; Mian Shen; Jessica J. Vamathevan; Peter Lam; Lisa McDonald; Terry Utterback; Celeste Zalewski; Kira S. Makarova; L. Aravind; Michael J. Daly; Kenneth W. Minton; Robert D. Fleischmann; Karen A. Ketchum; Karen E. Nelson; Steven Salzberg; Hamilton O. Smith; J. Craig Venter; Claire M. Fraser
- Species Diversity and Invasion Resistance in a Marine Ecosystem, pp. 1577-1579
- John J. Stachowicz; Robert B. Whitlatch; Richard W. Osman
- Structural Analysis of the Mechanism of Adenovirus Binding to Its Human Cellular Receptor, CAR, pp. 1579-1583
- Maria C. Bewley; Karen Springer; Yian-Biao Zhang; Paul Freimuth; John M. Flanagan
- Regulation of Myosin Phosphatase by a Specific Interaction with cGMP- Dependent Protein Kinase Iα, pp. 1583-1587
- Howard K. Surks; Naoki Mochizuki; Yasuyo Kasai; Serban P. Georgescu; K. Mary Tang; Masaaki Ito; Thomas M. Lincoln; Michael E. Mendelsohn
Back Matter (49 pp.)
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