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Science, New Series, Vol. 258, No. 5083, Oct. 30, 1992


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Front Matter (28 pp.)
Editorial: A Changing Climate for Scientific Research, p. 723
Philip H. Abelson


Letters
The Pre-Druid Super Collider?, p. 725
Leon Lederman
Crop Circles: Normal Hoaxing?, p. 725
John Michell
Arctic Mystery: Plumes or Clouds?, p. 725
Charles K. Paull; William J. Buelow
Forecast of Earthquake in Western Nicaragua, p. 726
David H. Harlow; Randall A. White; Ines Lucia Cifuentes; Arturo Aburto Q.
Big Physics Collaborations, pp. 726-727
Robert N. Cahn; Jay M. Pasachoff
Pioneering Work in Immune Tolerance, pp. 727-728
Ali Naji; Andrew M. Posselt; Clyde F. Barker


Corrections and Clarifications: Surface Order and Stability of Langmuir-Blodgett Films, p. 728
Corrections and Clarifications: Prosecutor v. scientist: A cat-and-mouse Relationship, p. 728
Corrections and Clarifications: Treating AIDS with worts, p. 728
ScienceScope, p. 731
David P. Hamilton


News and Comment
Breast Cancer's Forced March?, pp. 732+734
Eliot Marshall
Women's Health Issues Take Center Stage at the IOM, p. 733
Ann Gibbons
NIH Fends Off Critics of Tamoxifen Study, p. 734
Richard Stone
Three Physicians Convicted in French `Blood-Supply Trial', p. 735
Peter Aldhous; Catherine Tastemain
Rustum Roy: PR Is a Better System Than Peer Review, p. 736
Ivan Amato
A Consensus on Reform Begins to Take Shape, p. 737
David P. Hamilton


Random Samples, pp. 738-739
Constance Holden


Research News
The Huntington's Gene Quest Goes On, pp. 740-741
Leslie Roberts
Seismologists Issue a No-Win Earthquake Warning, pp. 742-743
Richard A. Kerr
Good Forecast, But Missed Prediction, p. 743
Richard A. Kerr
At Age 2, Gene Therapy Enters a Growth Phase, pp. 744-746
Larry Thompson
Supercomputers Image the Body in Three Dimensions, p. 747
Mike May


Perspective
Actin Constitution: Guaranteeing the Right to Assemble, pp. 759-760
Kenneth F. Wertman; David G. Drubin


Electrorheological Fluids, pp. 761-766
Thomas C. Halsey

What If Minkowski Had Been Ageusic? An Alternative Angle on Diabetes, pp. 766-770
J. Denis McGarry


Research Article
Femtosecond Resolution of Soft Mode Dynamics in Structural Phase Transitions, pp. 770-774
Thomas P. Dougherty; Gary P. Wiederrecht; Keith A. Nelson; Mark H. Garrett; Hans P. Jensen; Cardinal Warde


Reports
Resonance-Enhanced X-rays in Thin Films: A Structure Probe for Membranes and Surface Layers, pp. 775-778
Jin Wang; Michael J. Bedzyk; Martin Caffrey
Submicrometer Intracellular Chemical Optical Fiber Sensors, pp. 778-781
Weihong Tan; Zhong-You Shi; Steve Smith; Duane Birnbaum; Raoul Kopelman
Large Enhancement in Oxygen Mobility in the Superconductors RBa2Cu3O7 with Increasing Rare-Earth Size, pp. 781-783
J. L. Tallon; B.-E. Mellander
Nanochannel Array Glass, pp. 783-785
R. J. Tonucci; B. L. Justus; A. J. Campillo; C. E. Ford
An Accurate Quantum Monte Carlo Calculation of the Barrier Height for the Reaction H + H2 -> H2 + H, pp. 786-788
Drake L. Diedrich; James B. Anderson
Infrared Reflection-Absorption Spectroscopy and STM Studies of Model Silica-Supported Copper Catalysts, pp. 788-790
Xueping Xu; Scott M. Vesecky; D. Wayne Goodman
Strange Floral Attractors: Pollinator Attraction and the Evolution of Plant Sexual Systems, pp. 791-793
Robert D. Podolsky
Middle Tertiary Volcanism During Ridge-Trench Interactions in Western California, pp. 793-796
Ronald B. Cole; Asish R. Basu
Contribution of Oceanic Gabbros to Sea-Floor Spreading Magnetic Anomalies, pp. 796-799
Eiichi Kikawa; Kazuhito Ozawa
Homobatrachotoxin in the Genus Pitohui: Chemical Defense in Birds?, pp. 799-801
John P. Dumbacher; Bruce M. Beehler; Thomas F. Spande; H. Martin Garraffo; John W. Daly
Saltation and Stasis: A Model of Human Growth, pp. 801-803
M. Lampl; J. D. Veldhuis; M. L. Johnson
Antibody-Catalyzed Rearrangement of the Peptide Bond, pp. 803-805
Richard A. Gibbs; Scott Taylor; Stephen J. Benkovic
Fatal Familial Insomnia and Familial Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: Disease Phenotype Determined by a DNA Polymorphism, pp. 806-808
Lev G. Goldfarb; Robert B. Petersen; Massimo Tabaton; Paul Brown; Andréa C. LeBlanc; Pasquale Montagna; Pietro Cortelli; Jean Julien; Claude Vital; William W. Pendelbury; Matti Haltia; Peter R. Willis; Jean J. Hauw; Paul E. McKeever; Lucia Monari; Bertold Schrank; Gary D. Swergold; Lucila Autilio-Gambetti; D. Carleton Gajdusek; Elio Lugaresi; Pierluigi Gambetti
Ikaros, an Early Lymphoid-Specific Transcription Factor and a Putative Mediator for T Cell Commitment, pp. 808-812
Katia Georgopoulos; David D. Moore; Bruce Derfler
A GDP Dissociation Inhibitor That Serves as a GTPase Inhibitor for the Ras-Like Protein CDC42Hs, pp. 812-815
Matthew J. Hart; Yoshiro Maru; David Leonard; Owen N. Witte; Tony Evans; Richard A. Cerione
Selecting T Cell Receptors with High Affinity for Self-MHC by Decreasing the Contribution of CD8, pp. 815-818
Linda A. Sherman; Sabine V. Hesse; Michael J. Irwin; Drake La Face; Per Peterson
Comparative Genomic Hybridization for Molecular Cytogenetic Analysis of Solid Tumors, pp. 818-821
Anne Kallioniemi; Olli-P. Kallioniemi; Damir Sudar; Denis Rutovitz; Joe W. Gray; Fred Waldman; Dan Pinkel


Technical Comments
Mantle Plumes and Mantle Sources, pp. 821-822
K. A. Farley; H. Craig; Stanley R. Hart; E. H. Hauri; L. A. Oschmann; J. A. Whitehead


Inside AAAS, pp. 823-824
Karen Hopkin


Book Reviews
Remanent Monasticism, pp. 829-830
A World without Women. The Christian Clerical Culture of Western Science.
David F. Noble
Review author[s]: Monica H. Green
Mentalist Imputations, pp. 830-831
Animal Minds.
Donald R. Griffin
Review author[s]: Sonja I. Yoerg
Devices and Incentives, pp. 831-832
Managing the Medical Arms Race. Public Policy and Medical Device Innovation.
Susan Bartlett Foote
Review author[s]: Rebecca Handerson
Books Received, pp. 832-833


Back Matter (27 pp.)

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