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Science, New Series, Vol. 290, No. 5496, Nov. 24, 2000


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Front Matter (34 pp.)
Netwatch, p. 1459
Jocelyn Kaiser

Editors' Choice, pp. 1465+1467
Stella Hurtley


News


News of the Week
Researchers Pained by Effort to Define Distress Precisely, pp. 1474-1475
Constance Holden
Unlocking the Secrets of the Grim Reaper, p. 1475
Kathryn Brown
Ligand Chip Helps Manipulate Cells, pp. 1477-1478
Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
ScienceScope, p. 1477
Eliot Marshall; Pallava Bagla; Andrew Lawler
Color-Changing Protein Times Gene Activity, pp. 1478-1479
Marina Chicurel
Stem Cells Hear Call of Injured Tissue, pp. 1479+1481
Laura Helmuth
Armenia Wants Second Mideast Synchrotron, p. 1481
Robert Koenig
Moore Foundation Targets Science, p. 1481
David Malakoff


News Focus
The Enigma of West Nile, pp. 1482-1484
Martin Enserink
Iran's Scientists Cautiously Reach out to the World, pp. 1484-1487
Robert Koenig
The Shaman of Space and Time, pp. 1488-1489+1491
Robert Irion
Close Encounters: Good, Bad, and Ugly, pp. 1491-1493
Elizabeth Pennisi


Random Samples, p. 1495
Constance Holden


Science's Compass


Editorial
Staffing Science Policy-Making, p. 1501
Daryl Chubin; Jane Maienschein


Letters
Microorganisms Should Be High on DNA Preservation List, p. 1503
John A. Fuerst; Philip Hugenholtz
Figuring the Odds, pp. 1503-1504
William H. Jefferys
Examining Priorities for a Primate Genome Project, pp. 1504-1505
John L. VandeBerg; Sarah Williams-Blangero; Bennett Dyke; Jeffrey Rogers; Edwin H. McConkey; Ajit Varki
Transgenic Crops in China, pp. 1505-1506
Bao-Hong Zhang
Unite Efforts and Conquer Mysteries of Artificial Genetics, p. 1506
Steven A. Benner


Policy Forum
The Case for Deemphasizing Genomics in Malaria Control, p. 1508
C. F. Curtis
Research (Genomics) Is Crucial to Attacking Malaria, p. 1509
Stephen L. Hoffman


Books et al.
The Essential Anti-Essentialist, pp. 1511-1512
Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics
Clifford Geertz
Review author[s]: Richard A. Shweder
Be Awed, Be Very Awed, p. 1512
SolarMax
John Weiley
Review author[s]: Linda Rowan


Perspectives
Water's Role in Making Stars, pp. 1513-1514
Brunella Nisini
Earth under Strain, pp. 1514-1515
Stephen Mackwell; David Rubie
An Arresting Start for MAPK, pp. 1515+1517-1518
Jacques Pouysségur
Reprogramming X Inactivation, pp. 1518-1519
Philippe Clerc; Philip Avner
How to Power a Nanomotor, p. 1520
Flemming Besenbacher; Jens K. Nørskov


Issues in Nanotechnology
Taking the Initiative, p. 1523
Robert Coontz; Phil Szuromi


News
Atom-Scale Research Gets Real, pp. 1524-1531
Robert F. Service
Coaxing Molecular Devices to Build Themselves, pp. 1524-1525
Dennis Normile
Cantilever Tales, p. 1529
Alexander Hellemans
NanoManipulator Lets Chemists Go Mano a Mano with Molecules, p. 1530
Mark Sincell
Strange Behavior at One Dimension, p. 1531
Dennis Normile


Reviews
Nanoelectromechanical Systems, pp. 1532-1535
H. G. Craighead
From Micro- to Nanofabrication with Soft Materials, pp. 1536-1540
Stephen R. Quake; Axel Scherer
Microfabricating Conjugated Polymer Actuators, pp. 1540-1545
Edwin W. H. Jager; Elisabeth Smela; Olle Inganäs


Research


Reports
Resistance Spikes at Transitions between Quantum Hall Ferromagnets, pp. 1546-1549
E. P. de Poortere; E. Tutuc; S. J. Papadakis; M. Shayegan
Magnetic Clusters on Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: The Kondo Effect in a One-Dimensional Host, pp. 1549-1552
Teri W. Odom; Jin-Lin Huang; Chin Li Cheung; Charles M. Lieber
Modulated Chemical Doping of Individual Carbon Nanotubes, pp. 1552-1555
Chongwu Zhou; Jing Kong; Erhan Yenilmez; Hongjie Dai
Powering an Inorganic Nanodevice with a Biomolecular Motor, pp. 1555-1558
Ricky K. Soong; George D. Bachand; Hercules P. Neves; Anatoli G. Olkhovets; Harold G. Craighead; Carlo D. Montemagno
Mechanisms of Ordering in Striped Patterns, pp. 1558-1560
Christopher Harrison; Douglas H. Adamson; Zhengdong Cheng; John M. Sebastian; Srinivasan Sethuraman; David A. Huse; Richard A. Register; P. M. Chaikin
Alloying at Surfaces by the Migration of Reactive Two-Dimensional Islands, pp. 1561-1564
A. K. Schmid; N. C. Bartelt; R. Q. Hwang
High Shear Strain of Olivine Aggregates: Rheological and Seismic Consequences, pp. 1564-1567
M. Bystricky; K. Kunze; L. Burlini; J.-P. Burg
Quantitative Imaging of Lateral ErbB1 Receptor Signal Propagation in the Plasma Membrane, pp. 1567-1570
Peter J. Verveer; Fred S. Wouters; Andrew R. Reynolds; Philippe I. H. Bastiaens
Biochemical Basis of Oxidative Protein Folding in the Endoplasmic Reticulum, pp. 1571-1574
Benjamin P. Tu; Siew C. Ho-Schleyer; Kevin J. Travers; Jonathan S. Weissman
β-Arrestin 2: A Receptor-Regulated MAPK Scaffold for the Activation of JNK3, pp. 1574-1577
Patricia H. McDonald; Chi-Wing Chow; William E. Miller; Stéphane A. Laporte; Michael E. Field; Fang-Tsyr Lin; Roger J. Davis; Robert J. Lefkowitz
X-Chromosome Inactivation in Cloned Mouse Embryos, pp. 1578-1581
Kevin Eggan; Hidenori Akutsu; Konrad Hochedlinger; William Rideout III; Ryuzo Yanagimachi; Rudolf Jaenisch
Gamma Oscillations and Object Processing in the Infant Brain, pp. 1582-1585
G. Csibra; G. Davis; M. W. Spratling; M. H. Johnson
"Fluorescent Timer": Protein That Changes Color with Time, pp. 1585-1588
Alexey Terskikh; Arkady Fradkov; Galina Ermakova; Andrey Zaraisky; Patrick Tan; Andrey V. Kajava; Xiaoning Zhao; Sergey Lukyanov; Mikhail Matz; Stuart Kim; Irving Weissman; Paul Siebert
Oxygen Activation and Reduction in Respiration: Involvement of Redox-Active Tyrosine 244, pp. 1588-1591
Denis A. Proshlyakov; Michelle A. Pressler; Catherine DeMaso; Joseph F. Leykam; David L. DeWitt; Gerald T. Babcock
Control of SIV Rebound through Structured Treatment Interruptions during Early Infection, pp. 1591-1593
Franco Lori; Mark G. Lewis; Jianqing Xu; Georg Varga; Donald E. Zinn Jr.; Carrol Crabbs; Wendeline Wagner; Jack Greenhouse; Peter Silvera; Jake Yalley-Ogunro; Carmine Tinelli; Julianna Lisziewicz
Disruption of Signaling by Yersinia Effector YopJ, a Ubiquitin-like Protein Protease, pp. 1594-1597
Kim Orth; Zhaohui Xu; Mary Beth Mudgett; Zhao Qin Bao; Lance E. Palmer; James B. Bliska; Walter F. Mangel; Brian Staskawicz; Jack E. Dixon


AAAS News and Notes, pp. 1598-1599
Back Matter (41 pp.)

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