Science, New Series, Vol. 211, No. 4478, Jan. 9, 1981

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Front Matter (26 pp.)

Letters

Superconducting Magnets, pp. 119-121

G. H. Vineyard; Leon M. Lederman; William J. Broad

Shortages of Scientists and Engineers, p. 123

Philip H. Abelson

Phase Transitions, Critical Phenomena, and Instabilities, pp. 125-131

Paul A. Fleury

Biodegradation of Chemicals of Environmental Concern, pp. 132-138

Martin Alexander

Science and Technology in the White House, 1977 to 1980: Part 1, pp. 139-145

Frank Press

News and Comment

Plutonium Production Slated to Increase, pp. 146-147

Marjorie Sun

Nuclear Fuel Account Books in Bad Shape, pp. 147-148+150

Eliot Marshall

Briefing

A Cooler Look at Laser Weapons, pp. 148-149

Nicholas Wade

French Have Rocket Aimed at NASA's Shuttle, p. 149

Nicholas Wade

Biologists Need Code on Commercial Behavior, p. 149

Nicholas Wade

Auto Crash Tests Unsettle Japan and Detroit, pp. 150-152

R. Jeffrey Smith

Citizens for Space, p. 152

M. Mitchell Waldrop

Research News

A Movable Feast in the Eukaryotic Genome, pp. 153-155

Jean L. Marx

Fingers of Salt Help Mix the Sea, pp. 155-157

Richard A. Kerr

Book Reviews

A Theoretical Physicist, p. 158

Landau

Anna Livanova

Review author[s]: P. W. Anderson

Internationalism in Denmark, pp. 158-159

The Early Years

Peter Robertson

Review author[s]: David C. Cassidy

Quantum Field Theory, p. 160

Gauge Fields

L. D. Faddeev; A. A. Slavnov

Review author[s]: David Brydges

A Public Health Issue, pp. 160-161

A Safe Cigarette?

Gio B. Gori; Fred G. Bock

Review author[s]: Millicent Higgins

Reports

Global Transport of Organic Pollutants: Ambient Concentrations in the Remote Marine Atmosphere, pp. 163-165

E. Atlas; C. S. Giam

Annual Growth Increments in Shells of Spisula solidissima Record Marine Temperature Variability, pp. 165-167

Douglas S. Jones

Relative Humidity: Important Modifier of Pollutant Uptake by Plants, pp. 167-169

S. B. McLaughlin; G. E. Taylor

Phosphorus Distribution in the Nucleosome, pp. 169-170

D. P. Bazett-Jones; F. P. Ottensmeyer

Left-Handed Double Helical DNA: Variations in the Backbone Conformation, pp. 171-176

Andrew H.-J. Wang; Gary J. Quigley; Francis J. Kolpak; Gijs Van Der Marel; Jacques H. Van Boom; Alexander Rich

Unmyelinated Axons in the Posterior Funiculi, pp. 176-177

Lauren A. Langford; Richard E. Coggeshall

Assessment of Pharmacological Treatment of Myocardial Infarction by Phosphorus-31 NMR with Surface Coils, pp. 177-180

Ray L. Nunnally; Paul A. Bottomley

Mutagenicity of Fly Ash Particles in Paramecium, pp. 180-182

J. Smith-Sonneborn; R. A. Palizzi; C. Herr; G. L. Fisher

2-amino-4-phosphonobutyric Acid: A New Pharmacological Tool for Retina Research, pp. 182-185

Malcolm M. Slaughter; Robert F. Miller

Body Weight and Composition in Laboratory Rats: Effects of Diets with High or Low Protein Concentrations, pp. 185-186

Patillo Donald; Grover C. Pitts; Stephen L. Pohl

Back Matter (22 pp.)

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