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Science, New Series, Vol. 290, No. 5497, Dec. 1, 2000


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Front Matter (56 pp.)
Netwatch, p. 1647
John S. MacNeil

Editors' Choice, pp. 1653+1655
Gilbert Chin


News


News of the Week
How Prevalent Is Fraud? That's a Million-Dollar Question, pp. 1662-1663
Eliot Marshall
Too Little, Too Late, at the Climate Talks, p. 1663
Richard A. Kerr
Sweden to Get Tough on Lingering Compounds, pp. 1663+1665-1666
Lotta Fredholm
ScienceScope, p. 1665
Elizabeth Finkel; Eliot Marshall
NASA Blasted for Rising Costs, Cancellations, p. 1666
Andrew Lawler
DOE Drops Plan to Restart Reactor, pp. 1666-1667
Robert F. Service
Higher Profile for Minority Health, pp. 1667-1668
Jocelyn Kaiser
Where the Brain Monitors the Body, p. 1668
Laura Helmuth
Disease Data Stolen in Lab Break-in, pp. 1668-1669
Pallava Bagla
Gene Jocks, Data Crunchers Hit Jackpot, pp. 1669+1671
John Pickrell
New Recruits for French Prion Research, p. 1671
Barbara Casassus
Sanger Will Sequence Zebrafish Genome, p. 1671
Gretchen Vogel


News Focus
Stem Cells: New Excitement, Persistent Questions, pp. 1672-1674
Gretchen Vogel
Fossils Come to Life in Mexico, p. 1675
Erik Stokstad
Beating up on a Young Earth, and Possibly Life, p. 1677
Richard A. Kerr


Random Samples, p. 1679
Constance Holden


Science's Compass


Editorial
Dr. Noitall Returns: Just in Time for the Election!, p. 1693
Daniel E. Koshland Jr.


Letters
Scientific Whaling: Source of Illegal Products for Market?, pp. 1695-1696
C. Scott Baker; G. M. Lento; F. Cipriano; M. L. Dalebout; S. R. Palumbi; Mutsuo Goto; Seiji Ohsumi
Further Scrutiny of Scientific Whaling, p. 1696
Robert L. Brownell Jr.; Michael F. Tillman; Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara; Per Berggren; Andrew J. Read
Publication Rights for Sequence Data Producers, pp. 1696-1698
Elaine Bell; Lee Rowen; Leroy Hood
Corrections and Clarifications: Consideration of Copollutants, p. 1698
Corrections and Clarifications: Front Matter, p. 1698


Essay on Science and Society
Privatizing the University: The New Tragedy of the Commons, pp. 1701-1702
James Robert Brown


Books et al.
Stirred, Not Shaken, pp. 1703+1705
The Sokal Hoax: The Sham That Shook the Academy
Lingua Franca
Review author[s]: Ullica Segerstråle
A Fruitful Fungus, p. 1706
Neurospora: Contributions of a Model Organism
Rowland H. Davis
Review author[s]: David E. A. Catcheside


Perspectives
Survival Is Impossible without an Editor, pp. 1707+1709
Liam P. Keegan; Angela Gallo; Mary A. O'Connell
An Absorbing Study of Cholesterol, pp. 1709-1711
Hooman Allayee; Bryan A. Laffitte; Aldons J. Lusis
Sulfate Reducers: Dominant Players in a Low-Oxygen World?, pp. 1711-1712
Crisogono Vasconcelos; Judith A. McKenzie
The Lion and the Lamb Find Closure, pp. 1712-1713
Alan Hastings
Smaller, Faster Midinfrared Lasers, pp. 1713-1714
Jerome Faist


Prize Essay
Transposition and Evolution of Antigen-Specific Immunity, pp. 1715-1716
Alka Agrawal


Reviews
Autophagy as a Regulated Pathway of Cellular Degradation, pp. 1717-1721
Daniel J. Klionsky; Scott D. Emr
How Cells Handle Cholesterol, pp. 1721-1726
Kai Simons; Elina Ikonen


Research


Reports
Self-Mode-Locking of Quantum Cascade Lasers with Giant Ultrafast Optical Nonlinearities, pp. 1739-1742
Roberto Paiella; Federico Capasso; Claire Gmachl; Deborah L. Sivco; James N. Baillargeon; Albert L. Hutchinson; Alfred Y. Cho; H. C. Liu
Tunable Resistance of a Carbon Nanotube-Graphite Interface, pp. 1742-1744
S. Paulson; A. Helser; M. Buongiorno Nardelli; R. M. Taylor II; M. Falvo; R. Superfine; S. Washburn
Formation of Sphalerite (ZnS) Deposits in Natural Biofilms of Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria, pp. 1744-1747
Matthias Labrenz; Gregory K. Druschel; Tamara Thomsen-Ebert; Benjamin Gilbert; Susan A. Welch; Kenneth M. Kemner; Graham A. Logan; Roger E. Summons; Gelsomina De Stasio; Philip L. Bond; Barry Lai; Shelly D. Kelly; Jillian F. Banfield
Tropical Climate at the Last Glacial Maximum Inferred from Glacier Mass-Balance Modeling, pp. 1747-1750
Steven W. Hostetler; Peter U. Clark
The Formation of Chondrules at High Gas Pressures in the Solar Nebula, pp. 1751-1753
Albert Galy; Edward D. Young; Richard D. Ash; R. Keith O'Nions
Support for the Lunar Cataclysm Hypothesis from Lunar Meteorite Impact Melt Ages, pp. 1754-1756
B. A. Cohen; T. D. Swindle; D. A. Kring
Nitric Acid Trihydrate (NAT) in Polar Stratospheric Clouds, pp. 1756-1758
Christiane Voigt; Jochen Schreiner; Andreas Kohlmann; Peter Zink; Konrad Mauersberger; Niels Larsen; Terry Deshler; Chris Kröger; Jim Rosen; Alberto Adriani; Francesco Cairo; Guido Di Donfrancesco; Maurizio Viterbini; Joelle Ovarlez; Henri Ovariez; Christine David; Andreas Dörnbrack
Reinterpreting Space, Time Lags, and Functional Responses in Ecological Models, pp. 1758-1761
Matt J. Keeling; Howard B. Wilson; Steve W. Pacala
Posttranslational N-Myristoylation of BID as a Molecular Switch for Targeting Mitochondria and Apoptosis, pp. 1761-1765
Jiping Zha; Solly Weiler; Kyoung Joon Oh; Michael C. Wei; Stanley J. Korsmeyer
Requirement of the RNA Editing Deaminase ADAR1 Gene for Embryonic Erythropoiesis, pp. 1765-1768
Q. Wang; J. Khillan; P. Gadue; K. Nishikura
Down-Regulation of the Macrophage Lineage through Interaction with OX2 (CD200), pp. 1768-1771
Robert M. Hoek; Sigrid R. Ruuls; Craig A. Murphy; Gavin J. Wright; Ruth Goddard; Sandra M. Zurawski; Bianca Blom; Margit E. Homola; Wolfgang J. Streit; Marion H. Brown; A. Neil Barclay; Jonathon D. Sedgwick
Accumulation of Dietary Cholesterol in Sitosterolemia Caused by Mutations in Adjacent ABC Transporters, pp. 1771-1775
Knut E. Berge; Hui Tian; Gregory A. Graf; Liqing Yu; Nick V. Grishin; Joshua Schultz; Peter Kwiterovich; Bei Shan; Robert Barnes; Helen H. Hobbs
From Marrow to Brain: Expression of Neuronal Phenotypes in Adult Mice, pp. 1775-1779
Timothy R. Brazelton; Fabio M. V. Rossi; Gilmor I. Keshet; Helen M. Blau
Turning Blood into Brain: Cells Bearing Neuronal Antigens Generated in Vivo from Bone Marrow, pp. 1779-1782
Éva Mezey; Karen J. Chandross; Gyöngyi Harta; Richard A. Maki; Scott R. McKercher
Coding the Location of the Arm by Sight, pp. 1782-1786
Michael S. A. Graziano; Dylan F. Cooke; Charlotte S. R. Taylor
Neurons in Monkey Prefrontal Cortex That Track Past or Predict Future Performance, pp. 1786-1789
Ryohei P. Hasegawa; Ari M. Blitz; Nancy L. Geller; Michael E. Goldberg


Back Matter (55 pp.)

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