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Science, New Series, Vol. 290, No. 5494, Nov. 10, 2000


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Front Matter (39 pp.)
Netwatch, p. 1047
Jocelyn Kaiser

Editors' Choice, pp. 1053+1055
Gilbert Chin


News


News of the Week
Families Sue Hospital, Scientist for Control of Canavan Gene, p. 1062
Eliot Marshall
Company, Researchers Battle over Data Access, p. 1063
Carol Cruzan Morton
Twinned Genes Live Life in the Fast Lane, pp. 1065-1066
Elizabeth Pennisi
ScienceScope, pp. 1065+1067
Eliot Marshall; Michael Balter; Jocelyn Kaiser; Andrew Lawler
Offbeat Lenses Promise Perfect Fidelity, p. 1066
Charles Seife
New Clues to How Genes Are Controlled, pp. 1066-1067
Jean Marx
Pesticide Causes Parkinson's in Rats, p. 1068
Laura Helmuth
Ehlers Bill Suffers Surprising Defeat, pp. 1068-1069
Jeffrey Mervis
Ruling Allows Unions at Private Colleges, pp. 1069+1071
Constance Holden
Panel Backs EPA Dioxin Assessment, p. 1071
Jocelyn Kaiser
Halley's Origins Mysterious No More?, p. 1071
Richard A. Kerr


News Focus
Silent No Longer: 'Model Minority' Mobilizes, pp. 1072-1077
Andrew Lawler
In Search of Biological Weirdness, pp. 1077+1079-1080
Elizabeth Pennisi
Europeans Trace Ancestry to Paleolithic People, pp. 1080-1081
Ann Gibbons


Random Samples, p. 1083
Constance Holden


Science's Compass


Editorial
New Climate News, p. 1091
Don Kennedy


Letters
Canine Detectives: The Nose Knows-Or Does It?, p. 1093
I. Lehr Brisbin Jr.; Steven Austad; Steven K. Jacobson
Ideas about the Development of Violent Behavior, pp. 1093-1095
Debra L. Niehoff; Richard Rhodes
Conflict and Resolution in Primates-All Too Human?, pp. 1095-1097
Mary Greenberg; Ray Pierotti; Charles H. Southwick; Frans B. M. de Waal
Cause of Seal Die-Off in 1988 Is Still under Debate, p. 1097
Thomas J. O'Shea
Ph.D.'s as Science Teachers: Notes from the Field, p. 1098
Louis Roccanova
Corrections and Clarifications: Help Needed to Rebuild Science in Yugoslavia, p. 1098
Corrections and Clarifications: The Ascent of Atmospheric Sciences, p. 1098
Corrections and Clarifications: Texas Scientist Admits Falsifying Results, p. 1098


Policy Forum
Science in Europe, pp. 1099+1101
Kai Simons; Carol Featherstone


Books et al.
How We Got Here and Where We Are Going, pp. 1102-1103
Human Natures: Genes, Cultures, and the Human Prospect
Paul R. Ehrlich
Review author[s]: Mark Ridley
Nota Bene: Seven Scientists up Close, p. 1103
Me & Isaac Newton
Michael Apted
Review author[s]: David Voss


Perspectives
The Economics of Immunity, pp. 1104-1105
Andrew F. Read; Judith E. Allen
Do the Tropics Rule?, pp. 1107-1108
Mark A. Cane; Michael Evans
Unwinding RNA Silencing, pp. 1108-1109
David C. Baulcombe
A New Route toward Limiting Climate Change?, pp. 1109-1110
Steven J. Smith; Tom M. L. Wigley; Jae Edmonds
Nitrogen on the Moon, pp. 1110-1111
Richard H. Becker


Pathways of Discovery
Breaking down Scientific Barriers to the Study of Brain and Mind, pp. 1113-1120
Eric R. Kandel; Larry R. Squire


Research


Research Article
Allosteric Effects of Pit-1 DNA Sites on Long-Term Repression in Cell Type Specification, pp. 1127-1131
Kathleen M. Scully; Eric M. Jacobson; Kristen Jepsen; Victoria Lunyak; Hector Viadiu; Catherine Carrière; David W. Rose; Farideh Hooshmand; Aneel K. Aggarwal; Michael G. Rosenfeld


Reports
Spin-Dependent Tunneling in Self-Assembled Cobalt-Nanocrystal Superlattices, pp. 1131-1134
C. T. Black; C. B. Murray; R. L. Sandstrom; Shouheng Sun
The Role of Mg 2+ as an Impurity in Calcite Growth, pp. 1134-1137
Kevin J. Davis; Patricia M. Dove; James J. De Yoreo
African Hot Spot Volcanism: Small-Scale Convection in the Upper Mantle beneath Cratons, pp. 1137-1140
Scott D. King; Jeroen Ritsema
Direct Condensation of Carboxylic Acids with Alcohols Catalyzed by Hafnium(IV) Salts, pp. 1140-1142
Kazuaki Ishihara; Suguru Ohara; Hisashi Yamamoto
Solar Wind Record on the Moon: Deciphering Presolar from Planetary Nitrogen, pp. 1142-1145
Ko Hashizume; Marc Chaussidon; Bernard Marty; François Robert
Decadal Sea Surface Temperature Variability in the Subtropical South Pacific from 1726 to 1997 A.D., pp. 1145-1148
Braddock K. Linsley; Gerard M. Wellington; Daniel P. Schrag
Contributions of Land-Use History to Carbon Accumulation in U.S. Forests, pp. 1148-1151
John P. Caspersen; Stephen W. Pacala; Jennifer C. Jenkins; George C. Hurtt; Paul R. Moorcroft; Richard A. Birdsey
The Evolutionary Fate and Consequences of Duplicate Genes, pp. 1151-1155
Michael Lynch; John S. Conery
The Genetic Legacy of Paleolithic Homo sapiens sapiens in Extant Europeans: A Y Chromosome Perspective, pp. 1155-1159
Ornella Semino; Giuseppe Passarino; Peter J. Oefner; Alice A. Lin; Svetlana Arbuzova; Lars E. Beckman; Giovanna de Benedictis; Paolo Francalacci; Anastasia Kouvatsi; Svetlana Limborska; Mladen Marcikiæ; Anna Mika; Barbara Mika; Dragan Primorac; A. Silvana Santachiara-Benerecetti; L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza; Peter A. Underhill
Transgene and Transposon Silencing in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii by a DEAH-Box RNA Helicase, pp. 1159-1162
Dancia Wu-Scharf; Byeong-ryool Jeong; Chaomei Zhang; Heriberto Cerutti
Aureusidin Synthase: A Polyphenol Oxidase Homolog Responsible for Flower Coloration, pp. 1163-1166
T. Nakayama; K. Yonekura-Sakakibara; T. Sato; S. Kikuchi; Y. Fukui; M. Fukuchi-Mizutani; T. Ueda; M. Nakao; Y. Tanaka; T. Kusumi; T. Nishino
Survival for Immunity: The Price of Immune System Activation for Bumblebee Workers, pp. 1166-1168
Yannick Moret; Paul Schmid-Hempel
Promiscuity and the Primate Immune System, pp. 1168-1170
Charles L. Nunn; John L. Gittleman; Janis Antonovics
NMDA Receptor: Dependent Synaptic Reinforcement as a Crucial Process for Memory Consolidation, pp. 1170-1174
Eiji Shimizu; Ya-Ping Tang; Claire Rampon; Joe Z. Tsien


Back Matter (74 pp.)

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