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Previous Issue: New Series, Vol. 286, No. 5449, Dec. 24, 1999
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Front Matter (28 pp.)
Netwatch, p. 7
- Jocelyn Kaiser
Editors' Choice, pp. 13+15
- Gilbert Chin
News
News of the Week
- CDC Struggles to Recover from Debacle over Earmark, pp. 22-23
- Martin Enserink
- Kinesin Movements Revealed, pp. 23+25
- Elizabeth Pennisi
- Satellite Radar Spies City Subsidence, p. 25
- Alexander Hellemans
- ScienceScope, pp. 25+27
- The Science News staff
- Zoology Naming Rules Eased, p. 26
- Elizabeth Pennisi
- Academy Plans Guide to Improve Status, pp. 26-27
- Jeffrey Mervis
- Army Corps Seized by Dam Indecision, p. 27
- Charles C. Mann; Mark L. Plummer
News Focus: The Holy Land
- Archaeology in the Holy Land, pp. 28-29
- Michael Balter
- Baedeker's Guide, or Just Plain 'Trouble'?, pp. 29-30
- Michael Balter
- The Two Tels: Armageddon for Biblical Archaeology?, pp. 31-32
- Michael Balter
- Palestinians Inherit Riches, but Struggle to Make a Mark, pp. 33-34
- Michael Balter
- Archaeologists and Rabbis Clash over Human Remains, pp. 34-35
- Michael Balter
- Unearthing Monuments of the Yarmukians, p. 35
- Michael Balter
Random Samples, p. 37
- Laura Helmuth
Science's Compass
Editorial
- Science's Why Not Today Problem, p. 39
- Floyd E. Bloom
Letters
- Duchamp's L.H.O.O.Q.-From 1919 or 1930?, p. 41
- Rhonda Roland Shearer; Stephen Jay Gould
- Bt Toxin: Assessing GM Strategies, p. 41
- Theo Wallimann
- Resistance to Bt Toxins, p. 42
- Bruce E. Tabashnik; Richard T. Roush; Elizabeth D. Earle; Anthony M. Shelton; Fangneng Huang; Lawrent Buschman; Randall Higgins; William McGaughey
- CAMPFIRE Experiences in Zimbabwe, pp. 42-43
- Bruce M. Campbell; Bevlyne Sithole; Peter Frost; Wayne Getz; Louise Fortmann; David Cumming; Johan du Toit; Rowan Martin
Corrections and Clarifications: Commercialization of Genetic Research and Public Policy, p. 43
Corrections and Clarifications: First-Principles Determination of Elastic Anisotrophy and Wave Velocities of MgO at Lower Mantle Conditions, p. 43
Science's Compass
Essay on Science and Society
- Will Tribal Knowledge Survive the Millennium?, pp. 44-45
- Paul Alan Cox
Books et al.
- Two Views of a Star's Life, pp. 46-47
- Carl Sagan: A Life in the Cosmos
- William Poundstone
- Carl Sagan: A Life
- Keay Davidson
- Review author[s]: Clark R. Chapman
- Why Do Kids Say Goed and Brang?, pp. 47-48
- Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language
- Steven Pinker
- Review author[s]: James L. McClelland; Mark S. Seidenberg
Perspectives
- Brane-Worlds, pp. 49-50
- Gary Gibbons
- Tracing the Origins of Salmonella Outbreaks, pp. 50-52
- Andreas J. Bäumler; Billy M. Hargis; Renee M. Tsolis
- Reading the Worm Genome, pp. 52-53
- Stuart K. Kim
- Charon's First Detailed Spectra Hold Many Surprises, pp. 53-54
- Eliot Young
- Nota Bene: Sensing Old Age, p. 54
- Orla Smith
The Milky Way
- Portrait of a Galaxy, p. 61
- Linda Rowan; Richard Stone
News
- A Crushing End for Our Galaxy, pp. 62-64
- Robert Irion
- New Probe to Chart the Milky Way, p. 63
- Alexander Hellemans
- Into the Lair of the Beast, pp. 65-67
- Erik Stokstad
- A Magnifying Glass for the Milky Way, pp. 67-68
- Govert Schilling
Reviews
- The Formation and Early Evolution of the Milky Way Galaxy, pp. 69-74
- Roland Buser
- The Dark Halo of the Milky Way, pp. 74-79
- Charles Alcock
- The Baryon Halo of the Milky Way: A Fossil Record of Its Formation, pp. 79-84
- Joss Bland-Hawthorn; Ken Freeman
- The Galactic Center: An Interacting System of Unusual Sources, pp. 85-91
- F. Yusef-Zadeh; F. Melia; M. Wardle
Research
Research Articles
- Structural Basis of Smad2 Recognition by the Smad Anchor for Receptor Activation, pp. 92-97
- Geng Wu; Ye-Guang Chen; Barish Ozdamar; Cassie A. Gyuricza; P. Andrew Chong; Jeffrey L. Wrana; Joan Massagué; Yigong Shi
- Generating Solitons by Phase Engineering of a Bose-Einstein Condensate, pp. 97-101
- J. Denschlag; J. E. Simsarian; D. L. Feder; Charles W. Clark; L. A. Collins; J. Cubizolles; L. Deng; E. W. Hagley; K. Helmerson; W. P. Reinhardt; S. L. Rolston; B. I. Schneider; W. D. Phillips
Reports
- Equilibrium Regained: From Nonequilibrium Chaos to Statistical Mechanics, pp. 101-104
- David A. Egolf
- A Nucleation Site and Mechanism Leading to Epitaxial Growth of Diamond Films, pp. 104-106
- S. T. Lee; H. Y. Peng; X. T. Zhou; N. Wang; C. S. Lee; I. Bello; Y. Lifshitz
- Evidence for Crystalline Water and Ammonia Ices on Pluto's Satellite Charon, pp. 107-109
- Michael E. Brown; Wendy M. Calvin
- Evidence for a Low-Density Universe from the Relative Velocities of Galaxies, pp. 109-112
- R. Juszkiewicz; P. G. Ferreira; H. A. Feldman; A. H. Jaffe; M. Davis
- The Changing Morphology and Increasing Deceleration of Supernova 1993J in M81, pp. 112-116
- N. Bartel; M. F. Bietenholz; M. P. Rupen; A. J. Beasley; D. A. Graham; V. I. Altunin; T. Venturi; G. Umana; W. H. Cannon; J. E. Conway
- Protein Interaction Mapping in C. elegans Using Proteins Involved in Vulval Development, pp. 116-122
- Albertha J. M. Walhout; Raffaella Sordella; Xiaowei Lu; James L. Hartley; Gary F. Temple; Michael A. Brasch; Nicolas Thierry-Mieg; Marc Vidal
- A Short Fe-Fe Distance in Peroxodiferric Ferritin: Control of Fe Substrate versus Cofactor Decay?, pp. 122-125
- Jungwon Hwang; Carsten Krebs; Boi Hanh Huynh; Dale E. Edmondson; Elizabeth C. Theil; James E. Penner-Hahn
- Modulation of Brain Reward Circuitry by Leptin, pp. 125-128
- Stephanie Fulton; Barbara Woodside; Peter Shizgal
- Sex Determination in Malaria Parasites, pp. 128-131
- Richard E. L. Paul; Timothy N. Coulson; Anna Raibaud; Paul T. Brey
- DNA Topoisomerase IIβ and Neural Development, pp. 131-134
- Xia Yang; Wei Li; Elizabeth D. Prescott; Steven J. Burden; James C. Wang
- Tbx5 and the Retinotectum Projection, pp. 134-137
- Kazuko Koshiba-Takeuchi; Jun K. Takeuchi; Ken Matsumoto; Tsuyoshi Momose; Kenichiro Uno; Veit Hoepker; Keiko Ogura; Naoki Takahashi; Harukazu Nakamura; Kunio Yasuda; Toshihiko Ogura
- A Mammalian H+ Channel Generated through Alternative Splicing of the NADPH Oxidase Homolog NOH-1, pp. 138-142
- Botond Bánfi; Andrés Maturana; Stefano Jaconi; Serge Arnaudeau; Terese Laforge; Bhanu Sinha; Erzsébet Ligeti; Nicolas Demaurex; Karl-Heinz Krause
- Stat3-Mediated Transformation of NIH-3T3 Cells by the Constitutively Active Q205L Gαo Protein, pp. 142-144
- Prahlad T. Ram; Curt M. Horvath; Ravi Iyengar
Back Matter (36 pp.)
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