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Science, New Series, Vol. 289, No. 5488, Sep. 29, 2000


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Front Matter (41 pp.)
Netwatch, p. 2235
Jocelyn Kaiser

Editors' Choice, pp. 2241+2243
Gilbert Chin


News


News of the Week
Scientists Weave New-Style Webs to Tame the Information Glut, pp. 2250-2251
David Voss
Downloading the Human Brain, with Security, p. 2250
Eliot Marshall
Misconduct Alleged in Yanomamo Studies, pp. 2251+2253
Charles C. Mann
Ice Man Warms up for European Scientists, pp. 2253-2254
Richard Stone
ScienceScope, pp. 2253+2255
Michael Balter; Dennis Normile; Wu Qi; Jocelyn Kaiser; David Malakoff
Structural Biology Gets a $150 Million Boost, pp. 2254-2255
Robert F. Service
Astronomers Measure Size of a Giant's Sighs, pp. 2255-2256
Dana Mackenzie
Panel Cites Barriers to Government Service, p. 2256
Jeffrey Mervis
A New Look at How Neurons Compute, pp. 2256-2257
Marcia Barinaga
Bones Decision Rattles Researchers, p. 2257
Constance Holden
Funding Hike, with Strings Attached, p. 2259
Annika Nilsson; Joanna Rose
Group Urges Southwest Migration Corridors, p. 2259
Jocelyn Kaiser


News Focus
CERN's Gamble Shows Perils, Rewards of Playing the Odds, pp. 2260-2262
Charles Seife
Salted Clouds Pour More Rain on Mexico, pp. 2263-2264
Richard A. Kerr
Japan's Whaling Program Carries Heavy Baggage, pp. 2264-2265
Dennis Normile
A Tentative Comeback for Bioremediation, pp. 2266-2267
Todd Zwillich
Critics Say Rulings Give State U. License to Steal, pp. 2267+2269
David Malakoff


Random Samples, p. 2271
Constance Holden


Science's Compass


Editorial
A Global Biodiversity Map, p. 2279
Edward O. Wilson


Letters
Aiding African Agriculture, p. 2281
Valerie S. Palmer; John Tor-Agbidye; Peter S. Spencer
Many Plans, One Bottom Line: Save Endangered Salmon, pp. 2281-2283
Peter Kareiva; Phillip S. Levin; Michelle M. McClure; Scott Bosse; Justin Hayes; Rob Masonis; Charles C. Mann; Mark L. Plummer
Thyroid Tumor Banks, p. 2283
G. A. Thomas; E. D. Williams
The First Predictions, p. 2283
Robert L. Fleischer
Corrections and Clarifications: The Global Spread of Malaria in a Future, Warmer World, pp. 2283-2284
Corrections and Clarifications: NetWatch, p. 2284
Corrections and Clarifications: A Single Adenosine with a Neutral pKa in the Ribosomal Peptidyl Transferase Center, p. 2284
Corrections and Clarifications: The Shots Heard 'Round the World, p. 2284


Policy Forum
Managing Carbon from the Bottom up, p. 2285
M. Granger Morgan
Equity and Greenhouse Gas Responsibility, p. 2287
Paul Baer; John Harte; Barbara Haya; Antonia V. Herzog; John Holdren; Nathan E. Hultman; Daniel M. Kammen; Richard B. Norgaard; Leigh Raymond


Books et al.
Deep Thoughts on the Forbidden, p. 2288
The Forest of Taboos: Morality, Hunting, and Identity among the Huaulu of the Moluccas
Valerio Valeri
Review author[s]: Mary Douglas
Against Triage, p. 2289
The California Condor: A Saga of Natural History and Conservation
Noel Snyder; Helen Snyder
Review author[s]: Stuart L. Pimm


Perspectives
New Insights into an Old Modification, pp. 2290-2291
Craig A. Mizzen; C. David Allis
The NO2 Flux Conundrum, pp. 2291+2293
Manuel T. Lerdau; J. William Munger; Daniel J. Jacob
Protein Loss in Cancer Cachexia, pp. 2293-2294
Michael J. Tisdale
Separating Rare Earth Elements, pp. 2295-2296
Derek J. Fray
An Accomplice for γ-Secretase Brought into Focus, pp. 2296-2297
Sangram S. Sisodia


Bioinformatics for Biodiversity
Diversity Digitized, p. 2305
Andrew Sugden; Elizabeth Pennisi


News
Taxonomic Revival, pp. 2306-2308
Elizabeth Pennisi
Fossil Databases Move to the Web, p. 2307
Jocelyn Kaiser


Viewpoints
The Quiet Revolution: Biodiversity Informatics and the Internet, pp. 2309-2312
Frank A. Bisby
Interoperability of Biodiversity Databases: Biodiversity Information on Every Desktop, pp. 2312-2314
James L. Edwards; Meredith A. Lane; Ebbe S. Nielsen


Research


Reports
Flashing Superluminal Components in the Jet of the Radio Galaxy 3C120, pp. 2317-2320
José-Luis Gómez; Alan P. Marscher; Antonio Alberdi; Svetlana G. Jorstad; Cristina García-Miró
Quantum Hall Ferromagnetism in a Two-Dimensional Electron System, pp. 2320-2323
J. Eom; H. Cho; W. Kang; K. L. Campman; A. C. Gossard; M. Bichler; W. Wegscheider
Imaging Coherent Electron Flow from a Quantum Point Contact, pp. 2323-2326
M. A. Topinka; B. J. LeRoy; S. E. J. Shaw; E. J. Heller; R. M. Westervelt; K. D. Maranowski; A. C. Gossard
Technique for Enhanced Rare Earth Separation, pp. 2326-2329
Tetsuya Uda; K. Thomas Jacob; Masahiro Hirasawa
A Mechanical Model for Intraplate Earthquakes: Application to the New Madrid Seismic Zone, pp. 2329-2332
Shelley J. Kenner; Paul Segall
Dating of Pore Waters with 129 I: Relevance for the Origin of Marine Gas Hydrates, pp. 2332-2335
Udo Fehn; Glen Snyder; Per K. Egeberg
Polyploidy and the Evolution of Gender Dimorphism in Plants, pp. 2335-2338
J. S. Miller; D. L. Venable
Alteration of Stimulus-Specific Guard Cell Calcium Oscillations and Stomatal Closing in Arabidopsis det3 Mutant, pp. 2338-2342
Gethyn J. Allen; Sarah P. Chu; Karin Schumacher; Chad T. Shimazaki; Dionne Vafeados; Andrea Kemper; Scott D. Hawke; Gary Tallman; Roger Y. Tsien; Jeffrey F. Harper; Joanne Chory; Julian I. Schroeder
High Direct Estimate of the Mutation Rate in the Mitochondrial Genome of Caenorhabditis elegans, pp. 2342-2344
Dee R. Denver; Krystalynne Morris; Michael Lynch; Larissa L. Vassilieva; W. Kelley Thomas
Resetting of Circadian Time in Peripheral Tissues by Glucocorticoid Signaling, pp. 2344-2347
Aurélio Balsalobre; Steven A. Brown; Lysiane Marcacci; FranÇois Tronche; Christoph Kellendonk; Holger M. Reichardt; Günther Schütz; Ueli Schibler
Dendritic Computation of Direction Selectivity by Retinal Ganglion Cells, pp. 2347-2350
W. Rowland Taylor; Shigang He; William R. Levick; David I. Vaney
Failure to Regulate TNF-Induced NF-κB and Cell Death Responses in A20-Deficient Mice, pp. 2350-2354
Eric G. Lee; David L. Boone; Sophia Chai; Shon L. Libby; Marcia Chien; James P. Lodolce; Averil Ma
A Specificity-Enhancing Factor for the ClpXP Degradation Machine, pp. 2354-2356
Igor Levchenko; Meredith Seidel; Robert T. Sauer; Tania A. Baker
Ubiquitin-Activating/Conjugating Activity of TAF II 250, a Mediator of Activation of Gene Expression in Drosophila, pp. 2357-2360
Anh-Dung Pham; Frank Sauer
Active Remodeling of Somatic Nuclei in Egg Cytoplasm by the Nucleosomal ATPase ISWI, pp. 2360-2362
Nobuaki Kikyo; Paul A. Wade; Dmitry Guschin; Hui Ge; Alan P. Wolffe
NF-κB-Induced Loss of MyoD Messenger RNA: Possible Role in Muscle Decay and Cachexia, pp. 2363-2366
Denis C. Guttridge; Marty W. Mayo; Lee V. Madrid; Cun-Yu Wang; Albert S. Baldwin Jr.
Increase of Maximum Life-Span in Sweden, 1861-1999, pp. 2366-2368
J. R. Wilmoth; L. J. Deegan; H. Lundström; S. Horiuchi


AAAS News and Notes, p. 2369
Coimbra Sirica

Back Matter (71 pp.)

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