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Science, New Series, Vol. 252, No. 5008, May 17, 1991


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Front Matter (20 pp.)
Book Reviews in Science, p. 897
Philip H. Abelson


Letters
Carcinogenesis Mechanisms: The Debate Continues, pp. 902-904
Bruce N. Ames; Lois S. Gold; Samuel M. Cohen; Leon B. Ellwein; Frederica P. Perera; David P. Rall; I. B. Weinstein


ScienceScope, p. 907
Eliot Marshall


News and Comment
Showdown at the Waxahachie Corral, pp. 908-910
David P. Hamilton
Proposals to Limit Indirect Costs Emerge in Congress, p. 910
Joseph Palca
EPA Moves to Reassess the Risk of Dioxin, p. 911
Leslie Roberts
Was Underwater "Shot" Harmful to the Whales?, pp. 912-914
Jon Cohen
East German Cancer Data: A Benefit of Big Brother?, p. 915
Richard Sietmann


Briefings
GAO Questions Census Adjustment, p. 916
Constance Holden
Slugging It Out Over Left-Handed Mortality, p. 916
Constance Holden
Digital Harvest, p. 916
Constance Holden
How About Men Only for Mars?, pp. 916-917
Constance Holden
Animal Rights Food Groups, p. 917
Constance Holden
Crowded Dial, p. 917
Constance Holden
Thier to Head Brandeis, p. 917
Constance Holden
The Eating Right Pyramid, p. 917
Constance Holden


Research News
A "New Look" for Archeology, pp. 918-920
Ann Gibbons
Making Waves With Interfering Atoms, pp. 921-922
Faye Flam
Shine On, Holey Silicon, pp. 922-923
Ivan Amato


Perspective
A Partnership Between the Dioxin Receptor and a Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Protein, pp. 924-925
Eric F. Johnson


Core Formation During Early Accretion of the Earth, pp. 926-933
Horton E. Newsom; Kenneth W. W. Sims

Discrimination Between Intracellular Uptake and Surface Adhesion of Bacterial Pathogens, pp. 934-938
Ralph R. Isberg


Research Article
Synchronous Bursts of Action Potentials in Ganglion Cells of the Developing Mammalian Retina, pp. 939-943
Markus Meister; Rachel O. L. Wong; Denis A. Baylor; Carla J. Shatz


Reports
Epitaxial Cuprate Superconductor/Ferroelectric Heterostructures, pp. 944-946
R. Ramesh; A. Inam; W. K. Chan; B. Wilkens; K. Myers; K. Remschnig; D. L. Hart; J. M. Tarascon
Calcic Micas in the Allende Meteorite: Evidence for Hydration Reactions in the Early Solar Nebula, pp. 946-949
Lindsay P. Keller; Peter R. Buseck
Samarium-Neodymium Direct Dating of Fluorite Mineralization, pp. 949-951
J. T. Chesley; A. N. Halliday; R. C. Scrivener
A Calcium-Dependent Protein Kinase with a Regulatory Domain Similar to Calmodulin, pp. 951-954
Jeffrey F. Harper; Michael R. Sussman; G. Eric Schaller; Cindy Putnam-Evans; Harry Charbonneau; Alice C. Harmon
Cloning of a Factor Required for Activity of the Ah (Dioxin) Receptor, pp. 954-958
Emily C. Hoffman; Herminio Reyes; Fong-Fong Chu; Fred Sander; Linda H. Conley; Barbara A. Brooks; Oliver Hankinson
Site-Specific Recombination Between Homologous Chromosomes in Drosophila, pp. 958-961
Kent G. Golic
LAV Revisited: Origins of the Early HIV-1 Isolates from Institut Pasteur, pp. 961-965
Simon Wain-Hobson; Jean-Pierre Vartanian; Michel Henry; Nicole Chenciner; Rémi Cheynier; Sylvie Delassus; Livia Pedroza Martins; Monica Sala; Marie-Thérèse Nugeyre; Denise Guétard; David Klatzmann; Jean-Claude Gluckman; Willy Rozenbaum; Franc̨oise Barré-Sinoussi; Luc Montagnier
Similarity of Human Mitochondrial Transcription Factor 1 to High Mobility Group Proteins, pp. 965-969
Melissa A. Parisi; David A. Clayton
Retronphage φR73: An E. coli Phage That Contains a Retroelement and Integrates into a tRNA Gene, pp. 969-971
Sumiko Inouye; Melvin G. Sunshine; Erich W. Six; Masayori Inouye
Spectral Tuning of Pigments Underlying Red-Green Color Vision, pp. 971-974
Maureen Neitz; Jay Neitz; Gerald H. Jacobs


Technical Comments
Detecting Potassium on Mercury, pp. 974-975
R. M. Killen; A. E. Potter; T. H. Morgan; A. L. Sprague; R. W. H. Kozlowski; D. M. Hunten


Book Reviews
Republics of Science, pp. 976-978
Solomon's House Revisited. The Organization and Institutionalization of Science.
Tore Frängsmyr
Review author[s]: Kathryn M. Olesko
Sociological Explanations, pp. 978-979
Theories of Science in Society.
Susan E. Cozzens; Thomas F. Gieryn
Review author[s]: Henry Etzkowitz
Matters of Graphics, pp. 979-980
Representation in Scientific Practice.
Michael Lynch; Steve Woolgar
Envisioning Information.
Edward R. Tufte
Review author[s]: Ian Hacking
Ventures in Popularization, pp. 980-981
La Science pour tous. Sur la Vulgarisation Scientifique en France de 1850 à 1914.
Bruno Béguet
Review author[s]: Mary Jo Nye
A Modern Necessity, pp. 981-982+984
Electrifying America. Social Meanings of a New Technology, 1880-1940.
David E. Nye
Review author[s]: Claude S. Fischer
Elusive Exactitude, pp. 984-985
Keeping Watch. A History of American Time.
Michael O'Malley
Review author[s]: Patricia Cline Cohen
Reshapings by Disease, pp. 985-986
The AIDS Disaster. The Failure of Organizations in New York and the Nation.
Charles Perrow; Mauro F. Guillen
A Disease of Society. Cultural and Institutional Responses to AIDS.
Dorothy Nelkin; David P. Willis; Scott V. Parris
Review author[s]: Peter Conrad
The Provision of Life, pp. 986-988
Fatal Years. Child Mortality in Late Nineteenth-Century America.
Samuel H. Preston; Michael R. Haines
Save the Babies. American Public Health Reform and the Prevention of Infant Mortality, 1850-1929.
Richard A. Meckel
Review author[s]: Janet Golden
Transformations on Campus, pp. 988-989
Gender and Higher Education in the Progressive Era.
Lynn D. Gordon
Review author[s]: Louise Stevenson
Current Patterns, pp. 989-990
Educated in Romance. Women, Achievement, and College Culture.
Dorothy C. Holland; Margaret A. Eisenhart
Review author[s]: Myra Marx Ferree
Cosmic Thinkers, pp. 990-991
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants. A Longer View of Newton and Halley. Essays Commemorating the Tercentenary of Newton's Principia and the 1985-1986 Return of Comet Halley.
Norman W. Thrower
Review author[s]: Michael S. Mahoney
Victorian Friends, pp. 991-992
The Correspondence Between Sir George Gabriel Stokes and Sir William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs.
David B. Wilson
Review author[s]: Bruce J. Hunt
Aspects of Darwin, pp. 992-993
Charles Darwin. A Biography.
John Bowlby
Charles Darwin. The Man and His Influence.
Peter J. Bowler
Review author[s]: William Montgomery
Tales Retold, pp. 993-994
Narratives of Human Evolution.
Misia Landau
Review author[s]: David L. Hull
The Events Stemming from Utah, pp. 994-995
Too Hot To Handle. The Race for Cold Fusion.
Frank Close
Review author[s]: Thomas F. Gieryn
Epochs in Physics, pp. 995-996
The Joy of Insight. Passions of a Physicist.
Victor Weisskopf
Review author[s]: Robert N. Cahn
Views of a Comet, pp. 998-999
Comet Halley. Investigations, Results, Interpretations.
J. W. Mason
Review author[s]: Michael F. A'Hearn
Planetary Adventures, pp. 999-1000
Uranus. The Planet, Rings and Satellites.
Ellis D. Miner
Review author[s]: Bradford A. Smith
A Paradox for Biology, pp. 1000-1001
Evolutionary Biology of Aging.
Michael R. Rose
Review author[s]: Linda Partridge
A Popular Protein, p. 1001
Cytochromes c. Evolutionary, Structural and Physicochemical Aspects.
Geoffrey R. Moore; Graham W. Pettigrew
Review author[s]: E. Margoliash
Linked Functions, pp. 1001-1002
Binding and Linkage. Functional Chemistry of Biological Macromolecules.
Jeffries Wyman; Stanley J. Gill
Review author[s]: Serge N. Timasheff
The Phylogenetic Perspective, pp. 1002-1003
Phylogeny, Ecology, and Behavior. A Research Program in Comparative Biology.
Daniel R. Brooks; Deborah A. McLennan
Review author[s]: Jonathan B. Losos
The Birds Reclassified, pp. 1003-1005
Phylogeny and Classification of Birds. A Study in Molecular Evolution.
Charles G. Sibley; Jon E. Ahlquist
Review author[s]: Frank B. Gill; Frederick H. Sheldon
Extinct New Zealanders, pp. 1005-1006
Prodigious Birds. Moas and Moa-Hunting in Prehistoric New Zealand.
Atholl Anderson
Review author[s]: Alan Feduccia
Reptilians Past, p. 1006
Dinosaur Tracks.
Tony Thulborn
Dinosaurs, Spitfires, and Sea Dragons.
Christopher McGowan
Review author[s]: Kevin Padian
A Repopulation, pp. 1006+1008
After the Ice Age. The Return of Life to Glaciated North America.
E. C. Pielou
Review author[s]: S. David Webb
Tropical Sites, pp. 1008-1009
Four Neotropical Rainforests.
Alwyn H. Gentry
Review author[s]: Theodore H. Fleming
The Sunshine State, pp. 1009-1010
Ecosystems of Florida.
Ronald L. Myers; John J. Ewel
The Rivers of Florida.
Robert J. Livingston
Review author[s]: William H. Schlesinger
Work at Oxford, p. 1010
Elton's Ecologists. A History of the Bureau of Animal Population.
Peter Crowcroft
Review author[s]: Charles J. Krebs
Naymlap and Company, pp. 1011-1012
The Northern Dynasties. Kingship and Statecraft in Chimor.
Michael E. Moseley; Alana Cordy-Collins
Review author[s]: Helaine Silverman
The Ordering of a City, pp. 1012+1014
New York City Neighborhoods. The 18th Century.
Nan A. Rothschild
Review author[s]: Barbara J. Little
Bounded Economics, pp. 1014-1015
Models of My Life.
Herbert A. Simon
Review author[s]: Frank Hahn
An Alternative to Associationism, pp. 1015-1016
The Organization of Learning
C. R. Gallistel
Review author[s]: William Timberlake
Language Without Cognition, pp. 1016+1018+1020
Laura. A Case for the Modularity of Language.
Jeni E. Yamada
Review author[s]: Jean Berko Gleason
Social Impressions, p. 1020
Interpersonal Perception.
Edward E. Jones
Review author[s]: Mark R. Lepper
Books Reviewed in Science 18 May 1990 Through 10 May 1991, pp. 1020-1022


Back Matter (14 pp.)

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