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Science, New Series, Vol. 259, No. 5093, Jan. 15, 1993


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Front Matter (24 pp.)
Editorial: Basic Research (I), p. 291
Daniel E. Koshland, Jr.


Letters
NASA Asteroid Report, p. 293
John D. G. Rather
Knuckle-Walking Ancestors, pp. 293-294
Brian T. Shea; Sandra E. Inouye; David R. Begun
Conservation: Should Drug Companies Share in the Costs?, pp. 294-295
Thomas Eisner; Ignacio Chapela
Addendum: Crystal Structure at 3.5 \angst Resolution of HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase Complexed with an Inhibitor, p. 295
Thomas A. Steitz; Lori A. Kohlstaedt; Jimin Wang; Jonathan M. Friedman; Phoebe A. Rice
Alliteration Accidental?, p. 295
Thomas J. Volk


Policy Forum
Marine Sciences in the Coming Decades, pp. 296-297
Carl Wunsch


ScienceScope, p. 299
Richard Stone


News and Comment
Genome Project Goes Commercial, pp. 300-302
Christopher Anderson
Gene Therapists Jump Ship..., p. 303
Larry Thompson
...Top AIDS Official to Leave, p. 303
Jon Cohen
UC Berkeley Embroiled in Computer Software Lawsuit, pp. 304-305
John Travis
Wake-Up Call for Sleep Research, p. 305
Constance Holden


Research News
New Superconductors: A Slow Dawn, pp. 306-308
Ivan Amato
Carbon Monoxide: Killer to Brain Messenger in One Step, p. 309
Marcia Barinaga
A Stimulating New Approach To Cancer Treatment, pp. 310-311
John Travis
Catalytic Conversion Could be a Gas, p. 311
Ivan Amato
Geneticists Trace the DNA Trail of the First Americans, pp. 312-313
Ann Gibbons


Random Samples, p. 314
Constance Holden


Perspective
Cyclic ADP-Ribose: A New Way to Control Calcium, pp. 325-326
Antony Galione


Far-Ultraviolet Astronomy on the Astro-1 Space Shuttle Mission, pp. 327-334
Arthur F. Davidsen


Research Article
Particles Floating on a Moving Fluid: A Dynamically Comprehensible Physical Fractal, pp. 335-339
John C. Sommerer; Edward Ott


Reports
A Mercury-Catalyzed, High-Yield System for the Oxidation of Methane to Methanol, pp. 340-343
Roy A. Periana; Douglas J. Taube; Eric R. Evitt; Daniel G. Löffler; Paul R. Wentrcek; George Voss; Toshihiko Masuda
Production of Syngas by Direct Catalytic Oxidation of Methane, pp. 343-346
D. A. Hickman; L. D. Schmidt
Single Crystal Metals Encapsulated in Carbon Nanoparticles, pp. 346-348
Rodney S. Ruoff; Donald C. Lorents; Bryan Chan; Ripudaman Malhotra; Shekhar Subramoney
Paleohydrology of Late Pleistocene Superflooding, Altay Mountains, Siberia, pp. 348-350
Victor R. Baker; Gerardo Benito; Alexey N. Rudoy
Why Does the Earth Spin Forward?, pp. 350-354
Luke Dones; Scott Tremaine
Mechanisms in the Competitive Success of an Invading Sexual Gecko over an Asexual Native, pp. 354-358
Kenneth Petren; Douglas T. Bolger; Ted J. Case
Two Open Complexes and a Requirement for Mg 2+ to Open the λPR Transcription Start Site, pp. 358-361
Won-Chul Suh; Wilma Ross; M. Thomas Record, Jr.
Molecular Mapping and Detoxification of the Lipid A Binding Site by Synthetic Peptides, pp. 361-365
Alessandro Rustici; Massimo Velucchi; Raffaella Faggioni; Marina Sironi; Pietro Ghezzi; Sally Quataert; Bruce Green; Massimo Porro
Sequence-Specific Binding of Transfer RNA by Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenase, pp. 365-368
Ravinder Singh; Michael R. Green
Tumor Rejection After Direct Costimulation of CD8+ T Cells by B7- Transfected Melanoma Cells, pp. 368-370
Sarah E. Townsend; James P. Allison
Cyclic ADP-Ribose in Insulin Secretion from Pancreatic β Cells, pp. 370-373
Shin Takasawa; Koji Nata; Hideto Yonekura; Hiroshi Okamoto
Blood-Brain Barrier Penetration and in Vivo Activity of an NGF Conjugate, pp. 373-377
Phillip M. Friden; Lee R. Walus; Patricia Watson; Susan R. Doctrow; John W. Kozarich; Cristina Bäckman; Hanna Bergman; Barry Hoffer; Floyd Bloom; Ann-Charlotte Granholm
Retinal Degeneration in Choroideremia: Deficiency of Rab Geranylgeranyl Transferase, pp. 377-381
Miguel C. Seabra; Michael S. Brown; Joseph L. Goldstein
Carbon Monoxide: A Putative Neural Messenger, pp. 381-384
Ajay Verma; David J. Hirsch; Charles E. Glatt; Gabriele V. Ronnett; Solomon H. Snyder


Book Reviews
Aspirations in Santa Fe, pp. 387-388
Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos.
M. Mitchell Waldrop
Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos.
Roger Lewin
Review author[s]: Lionel G. Harrison
Timepieces, pp. 388-389
Ivory Diptych Sundials, 1570-1750.
Steven A. Lloyd
Review author[s]: Bernard R. Goldstein
2-D Physics, p. 390
Two-Dimensional Crystals.
Igor Lyuksyutov; A. G. Naumovets; V. Pokrovsky
Review author[s]: D. P. DiVincenzo
Vertebrate Adaptations, pp. 390-391
Environmental Physiology of the Amphibians.
Martin E. Feder; Warren W. Burggren
Review author[s]: Cynthia Carey
Books Received, p. 391


Back Matter (37 pp.)

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