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Science, New Series, Vol. 292, No. 5520, May 18, 2001


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Front Matter (34 pp.)
Editorial: The Science of Climate Change, p. 1261
Editors' Choice, pp. 1263+1265
Gilbert Chin

Netwatch, p. 1267
Jocelyn Kaiser


News


News of the Week
Alzheimer's Researcher in Japan Accused of Economic Espionage, pp. 1274-1275
Eliot Marshall; Dennis Normile
Windfall for European Data Bank, p. 1275
Michael Balter
17 National Academies Endorse Kyoto, pp. 1275+1277
Jocelyn Kaiser
ScienceScope, pp. 1277+1279
Andrew Lawler; Charles Seife; Jeffrey Mervis
Making Copies in the RNA World, p. 1278
R. John Davenport
Early Tyrannosaur Was Small but Well Armed, pp. 1278-1279
Erik Stokstad
Charles River Labs to Care for NIH Chimps, pp. 1279-1280
Gretchen Vogel
Centers of Excellence Get Big U.S. Boost, p. 1280
Richard Stone
New Genomes Shed Light on Complex Cells, pp. 1280-1281
Elizabeth Pennisi
Oregon's Rising, an Eruption to Follow?, pp. 1281+1283
Richard A. Kerr
Star-Cluster Census Shows Surprises, p. 1283
Andrew Watson


News Focus
Boosting Brain Activity from the outside in, pp. 1284-1286
Laura Helmuth
Creationism Takes Root Where Europe, Asia Meet, pp. 1286-1287
Robert Koenig
Shirley Tilghman: Princeton's Unconventional New Chief, pp. 1288-1289
Eliot Marshall
West Nile Researchers Get Ready for round Three, pp. 1289+1291
Martin Enserink
New Data in Chemistry Show 'Zero' Diversity, pp. 1291-1292
Jeffrey Mervis
A Variable Sun and the Maya Collapse, p. 1293
Richard A. Kerr
Random Samples, p. 1295
Constance Holden


Science's Compass


Letters
The Ethical Reasons for Stem Cell Research, p. 1299
Robert P. Lanza; Jose B. Cibelli; Michael D. West; Elliott Dorff; Carol Tauer; Ronald M. Green
Arsenic Levels Can Be "Standard" or "Safe", pp. 1299-1300
Gerhard Stöhrer
Defining Dyslexia, pp. 1300-1301
Willem J. M. Levelt; E. Paulesu; J.-F. Démonet; F. Fazio; S. F. Cappa; G. Cossu; C. D. Frith; U. Frith


Policy Forum
Facing Inheritable Genetic Modifications, p. 1303
Mark S. Frankel; Audrey R. Chapman


Books et al.
Adapt or Perish? Zoos Must Choose, pp. 1304-1305
A Different Nature: The Paradoxical World of Zoos and Their Uncertain Future
David Hancocks
Review author[s]: Michael H. Robinson
Complexities of a Controversial Practice, pp. 1305-1306
Female "Circumcision" in Africa: Culture, Controversy, and Change
Bettina Shell-Duncan; Ylva Hernlund
The Female Circumcision Controversy: An Anthropological Perspective
Ellen Gruenbaum
Review author[s]: Carla Makhlouf Obermeyer


Perspectives
The Death of a Comet and the Birth of Our Solar System, pp. 1307+1309
Hermann Boehnhardt
The Cholesterol Quartet, pp. 1310-1312
Joseph L. Goldstein; Michael S. Brown
How Bacteria Respire Minerals, pp. 1312-1313
Dianne K. Newman
A TIP about Rabs, pp. 1313-1314
Nava Segev
Can Genes Explain Biological Complexity?, pp. 1315-1316
Eörs Szathmáry; Ferenc Jordán; Csaba Pál
How Viruses Spread among Computers and People, pp. 1316-1317
Alun L. Lloyd; Robert M. May


Research


Research Article
RNA-Catalyzed RNA Polymerization: Accurate and General RNA-Templated Primer Extension, pp. 1319-1325
Wendy K. Johnston; Peter J. Unrau; Michael S. Lawrence; Margaret E. Glasner; David P. Bartel


Reports: Comet C/LINEAR
Water Production of Comet C/1999 S4 (LINEAR) Observed with the SWAN Instrument, pp. 1326-1329
J. Teemu T. Mäkinen; Jean-Loup Bertaux; Michael R. Combi; Eric Quémerais
HST and VLT Investigations of the Fragments of Comet C/1999 S4 (LINEAR), pp. 1329-1333
H. A. Weaver; Z. Sekanina; I. Toth; C. E. Delahodde; O. R. Hainaut; P. L. Lamy; J. M. Bauer; M. F. A'Hearn; C. Arpigny; M. R. Combi; J. K. Davies; P. D. Feldman; M. C. Festou; R. Hook; L. Jorda; M. S. W. Keesey; C. M. Lisse; B. G. Marsden; K. J. Meech; G. P. Tozzi; R. West
Organic Composition of C/1999 S4 (LINEAR): A Comet Formed near Jupiter?, pp. 1334-1339
M. J. Mumma; N. Dello Russo; M. A. DiSanti; K. Magee-Sauer; R. E. Novak; S. Brittain; T. Rettig; I. S. McLean; D. C. Reuter; Li-H. Xu
Outgassing Behavior and Composition of Comet C/1999 S4 (LINEAR) during Its Disruption, pp. 1339-1343
Dominique Bockelée-Morvan; Nicolas Biver; Raphaël Moreno; Pierre Colom; Jacques Crovisier; Éric Gérard; Florence Henry; Dariusz C. Lis; Henry Matthews; H. A. Weaver; Maria Womack; Michel C. Festou
Charge Exchange-Induced X-Ray Emission from Comet C/1999 S4 (LINEAR), pp. 1343-1348
C. M. Lisse; D. J. Christian; K. Dennerl; K. J. Meech; R. Petre; H. A. Weaver; S. J. Wolk
Imaging and Photometry of Comet C/1999 S4 (LINEAR) before Perihelion and after Breakup, pp. 1348-1353
Tony L. Farnham; David G. Schleicher; Laura M. Woodney; Peter V. Birch; Clara A. Eberhardy; Lorenza Levy


Reports
Microscopic Structure of the Metal-Insulator Transition in Two Dimensions, pp. 1354-1357
S. Ilani; A. Yacoby; D. Mahalu; Hadas Shtrikman
Controlling Chemical Turbulence by Global Delayed Feedback: Pattern Formation in Catalytic CO Oxidation on Pt(110), pp. 1357-1360
Minseok Kim; Matthias Bertram; Michael Pollmann; Alexander von Oertzen; Alexander S. Mikhailov; Harm Hinrich Rotermund; Gerhard Ertl
Bacterial Recognition of Mineral Surfaces: Nanoscale Interactions between Shewanella and α-FeOOH, pp. 1360-1363
Steven K. Lower; Michael F. Hochella Jr.; Terry J. Beveridge
Ultrafast Source-to-Surface Movement of Melt at Island Arcs from 226 Ra- 230 Th Systematics, pp. 1363-1366
Simon Turner; Peter Evans; Chris Hawkesworth
Solar Forcing of Drought Frequency in the Maya Lowlands, pp. 1367-1370
David A. Hodell; Mark Brenner; Jason H. Curtis; Thomas Guilderson
Origin and Environmental Setting of Ancient Agriculture in the Lowlands of Mesoamerica, pp. 1370-1373
Kevin O. Pope; Mary E. D. Pohl; John G. Jones; David L. Lentz; Christopher von Nagy; Francisco J. Vega; Irvy R. Quitmyer
Role of Rab9 GTPase in Facilitating Receptor Recruitment by TIP47, pp. 1373-1376
Kate S. Carroll; John Hanna; Iris Simon; Jeff Krise; Pierre Barbero; Suzanne R. Pfeffer
A GDP/GTP Exchange Factor Involved in Linking a Spatial Landmark to Cell Polarity, pp. 1376-1378
Pil Jung Kang; Anthony Sanson; Bongyong Lee; Hay-Oak Park
Interactions of the COP9 Signalosome with the E3 Ubiquitin Ligase SCF TIR1 in Mediating Auxin Response, pp. 1379-1382
Claus Schwechheimer; Giovanna Serino; Judy Callis; William L. Crosby; Svetlana Lyapina; Raymond J. Deshaies; William M. Gray; Mark Estelle; Xing-Wang Deng
Promotion of NEDD8-CUL1 Conjugate Cleavage by COP9 Signalosome, pp. 1382-1385
Svetlana Lyapina; Gregory Cope; Anna Shevchenko; Giovanna Serino; Tomohiko Tsuge; Chunshui Zhou; Dieter A. Wolf; Ning Wei; Andrej Shevchenko; Raymond J. Deshaies
Genetic Analysis of Digestive Physiology Using Fluorescent Phospholipid Reporters, pp. 1385-1388
Steven A. Farber; Michael Pack; Shiu-Ying Ho; Iain D. Johnson; Daniel S. Wagner; Roland Dosch; Mary C. Mullins; H. Stewart Hendrickson; Elizabeth K. Hendrickson; Marnie E. Halpern
Differentiation of Embryonic Stem Cells to Insulin-Secreting Structures Similar to Pancreatic Islets, pp. 1389-1394
Nadya Lumelsky; Olivier Blondel; Pascal Laeng; Ivan Velasco; Rea Ravin; Ron McKay
Autosomal Recessive Hypercholesterolemia Caused by Mutations in a Putative LDL Receptor Adaptor Protein, pp. 1394-1398
Christine Kim Garcia; Kenneth Wilund; Marcello Arca; Giovanni Zuliani; Renato Fellin; Mario Maioli; Sebastiano Calandra; Stefano Bertolini; Fausto Cossu; Nick Grishin; Robert Barnes; Jonathan C. Cohen; Helen H. Hobbs


Tech.Sight
Diagnosing Cancer in Vivo, pp. 1401+1403
Frank Koenig; Joachim Knittel; Herbert Stepp


Back Matter (33 pp.)

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