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Science, New Series, Vol. 252, No. 5012, Jun. 14, 1991


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Front Matter (15 pp.)
Improved Yields of Biomass, p. 1469
Philip H. Abelson


Letters
Toujours Gaia, pp. 1472-1473
James E. Lovelock; Jerry Coyne
Learning from the Acid Rain Program, pp. 1473+1475
Robert G. Fleagle; Thomas F. Malone; Chris Bernabo; Patricia M. Irving; Thomas E. Barnard
Where Zagreb Is, p. 1475
A. Ljubičić; B. A. Logan
Sununu Diplomacy?, p. 1475
Saunders Mac Lane


ScienceScope, p. 1479
Joseph Palca


News and Comment
Bell Labs: Shakeout Follows Breakup, pp. 1480-1482
Robert Crease
Starving Science to Feed Space Station, p. 1483
Eliot Marshall
Aging Research: A Growth Industry, p. 1483
Ann Gibbons
Sexism Charged by Stanford Physician, p. 1484
Marcia Barinaga
Mental Health Agency May Rejoin NIH, p. 1484
Joseph Palca
Moving Mountains for French Research, pp. 1485-1487
Peter Coles
Mid-Course Correction at LBL Genome Center, p. 1487
Leslie Roberts


Briefings
OTA Gives One Thumb Up for Bio, p. 1488
Faye Flam
Queasy Riders, p. 1488
Faye Flam
Volcano Claims Scientists' Lives, p. 1488
Faye Flam
Suit Against NAS Dismissed, pp. 1488-1489
Faye Flam
Lost Fossil of the Oort Cloud?, p. 1489
Faye Flam
Muddled Signals on Biotech, p. 1489
Faye Flam
On the Paper Trail, p. 1489
Faye Flam
Hot Times in the LMC, p. 1489
Faye Flam


Research News
The Cell Cycle: Spinning Farther Afield, pp. 1490-1492
Jean Marx
Once-Marooned Spacecraft Gets an Earthly Physical, p. 1493
Ivan Amato
Astrophysics Goes South, pp. 1494-1495
Per H. Andersen
Cows and Climate; Sundry Catastrophes, pp. 1496-1497
Richard A. Kerr


Perspective
Spliceosomes and Snurposomes, pp. 1499-1500
Joseph G. Gall


Organic Superconductors-New Benchmarks, pp. 1501-1508
Jack M. Williams; Arthur J. Schultz; Urs Geiser; K. Douglas Carlson; Aravinda M. Kini; H. Hau Wang; Wai-Kwong Kwok; Myung-Hwan Whangbo; James E. Schirber

The Physics of Organic Superconductors, pp. 1509-1514
D. Jérome

Molecular Biology of Prion Diseases, pp. 1515-1522
Stanley B. Prusiner


Research Article
Interaction of the IL-2 Receptor with the src-Family Kinase p56 lck : Identification of Novel Intermolecular Association, pp. 1523-1528
Masanori Hatakeyama; Takeshi Kono; Naoki Kobayashi; Atsuo Kawahara; Steven D. Levin; Roger M. Perlmutter; Tadatsugu Taniguchi


Reports
ROSAT Detection of an X-ray Shadow in the 1/4-keV Diffuse Background in the Draco Nebula, pp. 1529-1532
S. L. Snowden; U. Mebold; W. Hirth; U. Herbstmeier; J. H. M. M. Schmitt
Crystallinity of the Double Layer of Cadmium Arachidate Films at the Water Surface, pp. 1532-1536
F. Leveiller; D. Jacquemain; M. Lahav; L. Leiserowitz; M. Deutsch; K. Kjaer; J. Als-Nielsen
Satellite Observations of Smoke from Oil Fires in Kuwait, pp. 1536-1539
S. S. Limaye; V. E. Suomi; C. Velden; G. Tripoli
40 Ar/ 39 Ar Age of Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary Tektites from Haiti, pp. 1539-1542
G. A. Izett; G. B. Dalrymple; L. W. Snee
Light-Transparent Phase Formed by Room-Temperature Compression of Graphite, pp. 1542-1544
Wataru Utsumi; Takehiko Yagi
Monolayer Crystallization of Flagellar L-P Rings by Sequential Addition and Depletion of Lipid, pp. 1544-1546
Toshihiko Akiba; Hideyuki Yoshimura; Keiichi Namba
Dopamine Activation of an Orphan of the Steroid Receptor Superfamily, pp. 1546-1548
Ronan F. Power; John P. Lydon; Orla M. Conneely; Bert W. O'Malley
Recognition by Class II Alloreactive T Cells of Processed Determinants from Human Serum Proteins, pp. 1548-1550
Paola Panina-Bordignon; Giampietro Corradin; Eddy Roosnek; Alessandro Sette; Antonio Lanzavecchia
Generation of Torsional and Vertical Eye Position Signals by the Interstitial Nucleus of Cajal, pp. 1551-1553
J. D. Crawford; W. Cadera; T. Vilis
Mediation of the Attachment or Fusion Step in Vesicular Transport by the GTP-Binding Ypt1 Protein, pp. 1553-1556
Nava Segev
Potential of Visual Cortex to Develop an Array of Functional Units Unique to Somatosensory Cortex, pp. 1556-1560
Bradley L. Schlaggar; Dennis D. M. O'Leary
A Distinct Potassium Channel Polypeptide Encoded by the Drosophila eag Locus, pp. 1560-1562
Jeffrey Warmke; Rachel Drysdale; Barry Ganetzky
Alteration of Four Identified K+ Currents in Drosophila Muscle by Mutations in eag, pp. 1562-1564
Yi Zhong; Chun-Fang Wu


Book Reviews
Advisory Mechanisms, p. 1565
Worldwide Science and Technology Advice to the Highest Levels of Governments.
William T. Golden
Review author[s]: S. J. Buchsbaum
Toxicological Concerns, pp. 1565-1566
An Environmental Odyssey. People, Pollution, and Politics in the Life of a Practical Scientist.
Merril Eisenbud
Review author[s]: Daniel Serwer
Ribosomology, p. 1566
The Ribosome. Structure, Function, and Evolution.
Walter E. Hill; Peter B. Moore; Albert Dahlberg; David Schlessinger; Roger A. Garrett; Jonathan R. Warner
Review author[s]: Lasse Lindahl; Janice M. Zengel
A Theory of Molecules, pp. 1566-1567
Atoms in Molecules. A Quantum Theory.
Richard F. W. Bader
Review author[s]: Jerzy Cioslowski
Books Received, pp. 1567-1568


Back Matter (16 pp.)

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