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Science, New Series, Vol. 290, No. 5498, Dec. 8, 2000


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Front Matter (30 pp.)
Netwatch, p. 1851
Jocelyn Kaiser

Editors' Choice, pp. 1857-1859
Gilbert Chin


News


News of the Week
Asia Stays on Top, U.S. in Middle in New Global Rankings, p. 1866
Constance Holden
Panel Urges Further Study of Biotech Corn, p. 1867
Jocelyn Kaiser
Polio Outbreak Raises Questions about Vaccine, pp. 1867+1869
Liese Greensfelder
EMBL Rescued from the Financial Brink, p. 1869
Lone Frank
ScienceScope, pp. 1869+1871
Richard Stone; David Malakoff; Erik Stokstad; Eliot Marshall
Program for Elites Draws Praise, Fire, p. 1870
Richard Stone
New 'Replicon' Yields Viral Proteins, pp. 1870-1871
Eliot Marshall
Tiny, Feathered Dino Is Most Birdlike Yet, pp. 1871-1872
Erik Stokstad
Human Cloning Ban Allows Some Research, p. 1872
Dennis Normile
Studies Trace Patchwork of Conflict Policies, p. 1873
Bruce Agnew
Clinton Creates Huge Hawaiian Coral Haven, p. 1873
David Malakoff
Crystals Branch out into Exotic Shapes, p. 1875
Robert F. Service


News Focus
Probing HIV's Elusive Activities within the Host Cell, pp. 1876-1879
Marina Chicurel
A Dripping Wet Early Mars Emerging from New Pictures, pp. 1879-1880
Richard A. Kerr
Has Leishmaniasis Become Endemic in the U.S.?, pp. 1881+1883
Martin Enserink
Taking the Measure of the Wildest Dance on Earth, pp. 1883-1884
Dana Mackenzie
X-rays Hit the Spot for Astrophysicists, pp. 1884-1885
Robert Irion


Random Samples, p. 1887
Constance Holden


Science's Compass


Editorial
Good News at State, p. 1893
Mary Good


Letters
How Much Does One Vote Count in an Election?, p. 1895
Joseph F. Bunnett
"Kyoto Forests" and a Broader Perspective on Management, pp. 1895-1896
John H. Borden; Gregg Marland; Bernhard Schlamadinger; Robert Matthews; Ernst-Detlef Schulze; Christian Wirth; Martin Heimann
Safety Data Crucial for Biological Control Insect Agents, pp. 1896-1897
Robert W. Pemberton; Donald R. Strong
Ritalin Tests for Preschoolers, p. 1897
Laurence L. Greenhill
Corrections and Clarifications: In Search of Biological Weirdness, p. 1897
Corrections and Clarifications: New Site Suggests Anasazi Exodus, p. 1897


Policy Forum
Surveillance and Privacy, pp. 1898-1899
Ronald Bayer; Amy L. Fairchild


Books et al.
Attending Marvels, pp. 1900-1901
George Gaylord Simpson: Paleontologist and Evolutionist
Léo F. Laporte
Review author[s]: Niles Eldredge
Fade to Black?, p. 1901
State of the Planet
David Attenborough
Review author[s]: Andrew Sugden


Perspectives
Actin' up with Rac1, pp. 1902-1903
Nansi Jo Colley
Screen Savers of the World Unite!, pp. 1903-1904
Michael Shirts; Vijay S. Pande
Hear, Hear, for the Inner Ear, pp. 1904-1905
Anthony Graham
Glacial Climate Instability, pp. 1905-1907
Laurent Labeyrie
The Internet of Tomorrow, pp. 1907-1908
Steve Joiner
Noise Makes Sense in Neuronal Computing, pp. 1908-1909
Maxim Volgushev; Ulf T. Eysel


Review
Subduction and Slab Detachment in the Mediterranean-Carpathian Region, pp. 1910-1917
M. J. R. Wortel; W. Spakman


Pathways of Discovery
Piecing Together the Biggest Puzzle of All, pp. 1919-1925
Martin J. Rees


Research


Research Article
Sedimentary Rocks of Early Mars, pp. 1927-1937
Michael C. Malin; Kenneth S. Edgett


Reports
Planar Hexacoordinate Carbon: A Viable Possibility, pp. 1937-1940
Kai Exner; Paul von Ragué Schleyer
Geodynamic Evidence for a Chemically Depleted Continental Tectosphere, pp. 1940-1944
Alessandro M. Forte; H. K. Claire Perry
Teleconvection: Remotely Driven Thermal Convection in Rotating Stratified Spherical Layers, pp. 1944-1947
Keke Zhang; Gerald Schubert
Rapid Changes in the Hydrologic Cycle of the Tropical Atlantic during the Last Glacial, pp. 1947-1951
Larry C. Peterson; Gerald H. Haug; Konrad A. Hughen; Ursula Röhl
Synchronous Radiocarbon and Climate Shifts during the Last Deglaciation, pp. 1951-1954
Konrad A. Hughen; John R. Southon; Scott J. Lehman; Jonathan T. Overpeck
A Primitive Enantiornithine Bird and the Origin of Feathers, pp. 1955-1959
Fucheng Zhang; Zhonghe Zhou
Glucose-Dependent Insulin Release from Genetically Engineered K Cells, pp. 1959-1962
Anthony T. Cheung; Bama Dayanandan; Jamie T. Lewis; Gregory S. Korbutt; Ray V. Rajotte; Michael Bryer-Ash; Michael O. Boylan; M. Michael Wolfe; Timothy J. Kieffer
Response to RAG-Mediated V(D)J Cleavage by NBS1 and γ-H2AX, pp. 1962-1964
Hua Tang Chen; Avinash Bhandoola; Michael J. Difilippantonio; Jie Zhu; Martin J. Brown; Xuguang Tai; Emmy P. Rogakou; Tilmann M. Brotz; William M. Bonner; Thomas Ried; André Nussenzweig
Identification of Synergistic Signals Initiating Inner Ear Development, pp. 1965-1967
Raj K. Ladher; Kelly U. Anakwe; Austin L. Gurney; Gary C. Schoenwolf; Philippa H. Francis-West
The Contribution of Noise to Contrast Invariance of Orientation Tuning in Cat Visual Cortex, pp. 1968-1972
Jeffrey S. Anderson; Ilan Lampl; Deda C. Gillespie; David Ferster
Efficient Initiation of HCV RNA Replication in Cell Culture, pp. 1972-1974
Keril J. Blight; Alexander A. Kolykhalov; Charles M. Rice
Multigenerational Cortical Inheritance of the Rax2 Protein in Orienting Polarity and Division in Yeast, pp. 1975-1978
Tracy Chen; Takatoshi Hiroko; Amitabha Chaudhuri; Fumika Inose; Matthew Lord; Shigeko Tanaka; John Chant; Atsushi Fujita
Rescue of Photoreceptor Degeneration in Rhodopsin-Null Drosophila Mutants by Activated Rac1, pp. 1978-1980
Hui-Yun Chang; Donald F. Ready


Back Matter (40 pp.)

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