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Science, New Series, Vol. 292, No. 5523, Jun. 8, 2001


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Front Matter (33 pp.)
Editorial: Drug Prices: Real Problem, Wrong Solution, p. 1797
Donald Kennedy

Editors' Choice, pp. 1799+1801
Gilbert Chin

Netwatch, p. 1803
Jocelyn Kaiser


News


News of the Week
New Rules on Foreign Contacts Resurrect Cold War-Era Distrust, p. 1810
Vladimir Pokrovsky; Elena Kokurina
Academies Seek Release of Egyptian Scientist, p. 1811
Constance Holden
German Leaders Spar over Bioethics, pp. 1811+1813
Robert Koenig; Gretchen Vogel
Canada Eyes Front-Row Seat in Mars Program, pp. 1813-1814
Andrew Lawler
ScienceScope, pp. 1813+1815+1817
Wayne Kondro; Jocelyn Kaiser; Constance Holden; Dennis Normile; Robert Koenig; Pallava Bagla; Robert F. Service
Faster Maps Mean Fewer Mice, pp. 1814-1815
R. John Davenport
Roche Dealt a Setback on European Taq Patent, p. 1815
Robert F. Service
Returning Alien Rocks Right the Second Time, p. 1817
Richard A. Kerr
Director of Natural History Museum Quits, pp. 1817-1818
Elizabeth Pennisi
Transatlantic War over BRCA1 Patent, p. 1818
Michael Balter
Mass Extinctions Pinned on Ice Age Hunters, p. 1819
Leigh Dayton


News Focus
Can Adult Stem Cells Suffice?, pp. 1820-1822
Gretchen Vogel
National Count Reveals Major Societal Changes, p. 1823
Daniel Walfish
Can Organisms Speed Their Own Evolution?, pp. 1824-1827
Marina Chicurel
A Former Capital Stakes Its Future on Science, pp. 1827+1829
Robert Koenig
Random Samples, p. 1831
Constance Holden


Science's Compass


Letters
The Growing Family of NIH Institutes, pp. 1835-1836
Richard Burr; Kurt Randerath; Paul Goldhaber; John S. Greenspan; William H. Bowen; Robert J. Genco; Ben Barker; John C. Greene; Myron Allukian Jr.; Charles A. McCallum; Harold Slavkin; Harold Varmus
The Yanomamo and the 1960s Measles Epidemic, pp. 1836-1838
James V. Neel Jr.; Kim Hill; Samuel L. Katz; Charles C. Mann


Corrections and Clarifications: The Sequence of the Human Genome, p. 1838


Science's Compass


Policy Forum
Fundamentals of Treaty-Making on Climate Change, pp. 1839-1840
David B. Sandalow; Ian A. Bowles


Books et al.
Cenozoic Dramas, pp. 1841+1843
The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples
Tim Flannery
Review author[s]: Stuart Pimm
Nota Bene: Some Things Never Change, p. 1843
Oxygen
Carl Djerassi; Roald Hoffmann
Review author[s]: Julia Uppenbrink


Perspectives
A Marvellous Machine for Making Messages, pp. 1844-1846
Aaron Klug
Fleeting Molecules Extend Their Stay, pp. 1846-1847
Curt Wentrup
Toward Diamond Lasers, pp. 1847-1848
Phillip John
Are There Bugs in Our Genome?, pp. 1848-1850
Jan O. Andersson; W. Ford Doolittle; Camilla L. Nesbø
Indian Ocean Actively Deforms, pp. 1850-1851
Christine Deplus
Getting p53 out of the Nucleus, pp. 1851-1852
Vanesa Gottifredi; Carol Prives


Review
Free-Electron Lasers: Status and Applications, pp. 1853-1858
Patrick G. O'Shea; Henry P. Freund


Research


Research Articles
Structural Basis of Transcription: RNA Polymerase II at 2.8 Ångstrom Resolution, pp. 1863-1876
Patrick Cramer; David A. Bushnell; Roger D. Kornberg
Structural Basis of Transcription: An RNA Polymerase II Elongation Complex at 3.3 Å Resolution, pp. 1876-1882
Averell L. Gnatt; Patrick Cramer; Jianhua Fu; David A. Bushnell; Roger D. Kornberg
Evidence for Substantial Variations of Atmospheric Hydroxyl Radicals in the Past Two Decades, pp. 1882-1888
R. G. Prinn; J. Huang; R. F. Weiss; D. M. Cunnold; P. J. Fraser; P. G. Simmonds; A. McCulloch; C. Harth; P. Salameh; S. O'Doherty; R. H. J. Wang; L. Porter; B. R. Miller


Reports
New Ages for the Last Australian Megafauna: Continent-Wide Extinction about 46,000 Years Ago, pp. 1888-1892
Richard G. Roberts; Timothy F. Flannery; Linda K. Ayliffe; Hiroyuki Yoshida; Jon M. Olley; Gavin J. Prideaux; Geoff M. Laslett; Alexander Baynes; M. A. Smith; Rhys Jones; Barton L. Smith
A Multispecies Overkill Simulation of the End-Pleistocene Megafaunal Mass Extinction, pp. 1893-1896
John Alroy
Room-Temperature Ultraviolet Nanowire Nanolasers, pp. 1897-1899
Michael H. Huang; Samuel Mao; Henning Feick; Haoquan Yan; Yiying Wu; Hannes Kind; Eicke Weber; Richard Russo; Peidong Yang
Ultraviolet Emission from a Diamond pn Junction, pp. 1899-1901
Satoshi Koizumi; Kenji Watanabe; Masataka Hasegawa; Hisao Kanda
(Amino)(Aryl)Carbenes: Stable Singlet Carbenes Featuring a Spectator Substituent, pp. 1901-1903
Stéphane Solé; Heinz Gornitzka; Wolfgang W. Schoeller; Didier Bourissou; Guy Bertrand
Microbial Genes in the Human Genome: Lateral Transfer or Gene Loss?, pp. 1903-1906
Steven L. Salzberg; Owen White; Jeremy Peterson; Jonathan A. Eisen
Role of T-bet in Commitment of TH1 Cells before IL-12-Dependent Selection, pp. 1907-1910
Alan C. Mullen; Frances A. High; Anne S. Hutchins; Hubert W. Lee; Alejandro V. Villarino; David M. Livingston; Andrew L. Kung; Nezih Cereb; Tso-Pang Yao; Soo Y. Yang; Steven L. Reiner
A p53 Amino-Terminal Nuclear Export Signal Inhibited by DNA Damage-Induced Phosphorylation, pp. 1910-1915
Yanping Zhang; Yue Xiong
In Silico Mapping of Complex Disease-Related Traits in Mice, pp. 1915-1918
Andrew Grupe; Soren Germer; Jonathan Usuka; Dee Aud; John K. Belknap; Robert F. Klein; Mandeep K. Ahluwalia; Russell Higuchi; Gary Peltz


Back Matter (34 pp.)

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