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Science, New Series, Vol. 290, No. 5495, Nov. 17, 2000


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Front Matter (31 pp.)
Netwatch, p. 1255
Jocelyn Kaiser

Editors' Choice, pp. 1261+1263
Gilbert Chin


News


News of the Week
Push to Revive Pluto Mission May Mean Competition for JPL, pp. 1270-1271
Andrew Lawler
Heretical View of Visual Development, pp. 1271+1273
Ingrid Wickelgren
An Antibiotic to Treat Alzheimer's?, pp. 1273-1274
Laura Helmuth
ScienceScope, pp. 1273+1275
Wayne Kondro; David Malakoff; Constance Holden
The Final Tally Leaves LEP a Probable Loser, p. 1274
Oliver Morton
Core Takes a Page from the Sea Floor, pp. 1274-1275
Richard A. Kerr
Debate Flares over Tracking Foreigners, p. 1276
Andrew Lawler
Arsenic Researchers Face Isotope Shortage, pp. 1276-1277
Jocelyn Kaiser
Uncertainty Wins by a Landslide, pp. 1277+1279
David Malakoff
Astronomers Spot Their First Carbon Bomb, p. 1279
Robert Irion


News Focus
Planned Ritalin Trial for Tots Heads into Uncharted Waters, pp. 1280-1282
Eliot Marshall
Reef Migrations, Bleaching Effects Stir the Air in Bali, pp. 1282-1283
Dennis Normile
A Lifelong Fascination with the Chick Embryo, pp. 1284-1285+1287
Kathryn Brown
New Science Chief Must Juggle Missions and Politics, pp. 1287-1288
Andrew Watson
A Billion and Counting: China's Tricky Census, pp. 1288-1289
Daniel Walfish


Random Samples, p. 1291
Constance Holden


Science's Compass


Editorial
"Faster, Better, Cheaper"? Agencies and Scientists, p. 1297
Giovanni F. Bignami


Letters
Is It Warm? Is It Real? Or Just Low Spatial Frequency?, p. 1299
Margaret S. Livingstone
Animal Welfare Act's Changes Deserve Praise, Not Panic, pp. 1299-1300
John McArdle
Agriculture, Food Systems, Energy, and Global Change, p. 1300
Kenneth A. Dahlberg
Measurements and Models of Soil Loss Rates, pp. 1300-1301
M. A. Nearing; M. J. M. Romkens; L. D. Norton; D. E. Stott; F. E. Rhoton; J. M. Laflen; D. C. Flanagan; C. V. Alonso; R. L. Binger; S. M. Dabney; O. C. Doering; C. H. Huang; K. C. McGregor; A. Simon; Stanley W. Trimble; Pierre Crosson
Thoughts on the Causes of Tree Mortality in Appalachia, p. 1301
Howard S. Neufeld
Corrections and Clarifications: For 'Father' of Abortion Drug, Vindication at Last, p. 1301
Corrections and Clarifications: Netwatch, p. 1301
Corrections and Clarifications: Element 107 Leaves the Table Unturned, p. 1301


Policy Forum
An Opportunities-Based Science Budget, p. 1303
Newt Gingrich


Books et al.
Learning by Text or Context?, p. 1304
The Social Life of Information
John Seely Brown; Paul Duguid
Review author[s]: Bruce R. Schatz
A Feast without Recipes, p. 1305
The Cambridge World History of Food
Kenneth F. Kiple; Kriemhild Coneè Ornelas
Review author[s]: John Emsley


Perspectives
A Simpler Nucleic Acid, pp. 1306-1307
Leslie Orgel
Y's and Ends, pp. 1307-1308
Philip Pincus
Artificial Chromosomes Coming to Life, pp. 1308-1309
Huntington F. Willard
Putting a New Spin on Carbon Nanotubes, pp. 1310-1311
Ray H. Baughman
Turning up the Heat on Histoplasma capsulatum, pp. 1311-1312
Bruce S. Klein
Variable Carbon Sinks, p. 1313
Inez Fung


Tech.Sight
Biosensors: Sense and Sensitivity, pp. 1315-1317
Anthony P. F. Turner
Equationsmith, p. 1318
Equation Illustrator V
Review author[s]: Eric Basham
Infrared Spectra Vending Machine, p. 1318
HaveItAll IR
Review author[s]: Satyam Priyadarshy; Ashvani K. Singh
Mega Stats, p. 1319
Stat-200
Review author[s]: William Seffens
New Primer Predictor, p. 1319
iOligo
Review author[s]: Yiannis A. Ioannou


Research


Research Article
Early Development of Ocular Dominance Columns, pp. 1321-1324
Justin C. Crowley; Lawrence C. Katz


Reports
Hot Plasma and Black Hole Binaries in Starburst Galaxy M82, pp. 1325-1328
R. E. Griffiths; A. Ptak; E. D. Feigelson; G. Garmire; L. Townsley; W. N. Brandt; R. Sambruna; J. N. Bregman
Defect-Induced Phase Separation in Dipolar Fluids, pp. 1328-1331
T. Tlusty; S. A. Safran
Macroscopic Fibers and Ribbons of Oriented Carbon Nanotubes, pp. 1331-1334
Brigitte Vigolo; Alain Pénicaud; Claude Coulon; Cédric Sauder; René Pailler; Catherine Journet; Patrick Bernier; Philippe Poulin
Change in the Probability for Earthquakes in Southern California Due to the Landers Magnitude 7.3 Earthquake, pp. 1334-1338
Max Wyss; Stefan Wiemer
Sediments at the Top of Earth's Core, pp. 1338-1342
Bruce A. Buffett; Edward J. Garnero; Raymond Jeanloz
Regional Changes in Carbon Dioxide Fluxes of Land and Oceans since 1980, pp. 1342-1346
Philippe Bousquet; Philippe Peylin; Philippe Ciais; Corinne Le Quéré; Pierre Friedlingstein; Pieter P. Tans
Chemical Etiology of Nucleic Acid Structure: The α-Threofuranosyl-(3′→2′) Oligonucleotide System, pp. 1347-1351
K.-U. Schöning; P. Scholz; S. Guntha; X. Wu; R. Krishnamurthy; A. Eschenmoser
Protection against Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Resulting from Bites of Uninfected Sand Flies, pp. 1351-1354
Shaden Kamhawi; Yasmine Belkaid; Govind Modi; Edgar Rowton; David Sacks
Regulation of Antigen-Specific CD8+ T Cell Homeostasis by Perforin and Interferon-g, pp. 1354-1357
Vladimir P. Badovinac; Amy R. Tvinnereim; John T. Harty
Crossing the Hopf Bifurcation in a Live Predator-Prey System, pp. 1358-1360
Gregor F. Fussmann; Stephen P. Ellner; Kyle W. Shertzer; Nelson G. Hairston Jr.
Coherence and Conservation, pp. 1360-1364
David J. D. Earn; Simon A. Levin; Pejman Rohani
PSD-95 Involvement in Maturation of Excitatory Synapses, pp. 1364-1368
Alaa El-Din El-Husseini; Eric Schnell; Dane M. Chetkovich; Roger A. Nicoll; David S. Bredt
Intracellular Parasitism by Histoplasma capsulatum: Fungal Virulence and Calcium Dependence, pp. 1368-1372
Tricia Schurtz Sebghati; Jacquelyn T. Engle; William E. Goldman


Back Matter (80 pp.)

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