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Science, New Series, Vol. 273, No. 5271, Jul. 5, 1996


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Front Matter (17 pp.)
Editorial: Why China Needs Science... and Partners, p. 13
Li Peng


Letters
Battling Heart Disease, pp. 15-16
Jan I. Breslow; Michael S. Brown; Joseph L. Goldstein; Darwin R. Labarthe
Release of RHD Virus in Australia, pp. 16-18
David O. Matson; Alvin W. Smith


Corrections and Clarifications: Structure of the Atmosphere of Jupiter: Galileo Probe Measurements, p. 18
Corrections and Clarifications: Observations of Saturn's Ring-plane Crossings in August and November 1995, p. 18
Corrections and Clarifications: Fluorescent Hydroxyl Emissions from Saturn's Ring Atmosphere, p. 18
ScienceScope, p. 21
Jocelyn Kaiser


News and Comment
NAE Strives to Re-Engineer Itself, pp. 22-24
Andrew Lawler
Black Spots Blot German Coastal Flats, p. 25
Robert Koenig
Legislators Get Into the Details, pp. 25-26
Andrew Lawler
Chauvet Study Gets the Go-Ahead, p. 26
Michael Balter
Agencies Scramble to Measure Public Impact of Research, pp. 27-28
Jeffrey Mervis
Auguste D. and Alzheimer's Disease, p. 28
Claire O'Brien


Research News
Folding Proteins Caught in the Act, pp. 29-30
Robert F. Service
Selling the Immune System Short, pp. 30-31
Jon Cohen
Long Ago, a River Ran Through It, p. 31
Bernice Wuethrich
With Mirrors and Finesse, Labs Domesticate the X-ray Laser, pp. 32-33
Alexander Hellemans
Muscling Transplants Into Mice, p. 33
Ingrid Wickelgren
Sky-High Findings Drop New Hints of Greenhouse Warming, p. 34
Richard A. Kerr
Chromosome Yield New Clue To Pairing in Meiosis, pp. 35-36
Jean Marx
Helical Beams Give Particles a Whirl, p. 36
Sunny Bains


Random Samples, pp. 37+39
Constance Holden


Horizons in Aging


News
[Introduction], Patterns of Aging, p. 41
Katrina L. Kelner; Jean Marx
Live Long and Prosper?, pp. 42-46
Wade Roush
Japan: Feeling the Strains of an Aging Population, pp. 44-45
Sumiko Oshima
New Populations of Old Add to Poor Nations' Burdens, pp. 46-48
Constance Holden
For the Cortex, Neuron Loss May Be Less Than Thought, pp. 48-50
Ingrid Wickelgren
Searching for Drugs That Combat Alzheimer's, pp. 50-53
Jean Marx

Longevity, Genes, and Aging, pp. 54-59
S. Michal Jazwinski
Oxidative Stress, Caloric Restriction, and Aging, pp. 59-63
Rajindar S. Sohal; Richard Weindruch
Replicative Senescence: Implications for in Vivo Aging and Tumor Suppression, pp. 63-67
James R. Smith; Olivia M. Pereira-Smith
Menopause: The Aging of Multiple Pacemakers, pp. 67-70
Phyllis M. Wise; Kristine M. Krajnak; Michael L. Kashon
The Aging Immune System: Primer and Prospectus, pp. 70-74
Richard A. Miller


Book Reviews
Immunology Dichotomized, pp. 75-76
Species and Specificity. An Interpretation of the History of Immunology.
Pauline M. H. Mazumdar
Review author[s]: John E. Lesch
Reprints of Books Previously Reviewed, p. 76
Books Received, p. 76


Perspectives
A Search for Earthquake Precursors, pp. 77-78
Paul G. Silver; Hiroshi Wakita
How T Cells Count, pp. 78-79
Ellen V. Rothenberg
Mechanisms and Evolution of Aging, p. 80
Gordon J. Lithgow; Thomas B. L. Kirkwood


Reports
Colossal Magnetoresistance Without Mn 3+ /Mn 4+ Double Exchange in the Stoichiometric Pyrochlore Tl2Mn2O7, pp. 81-84
M. A. Subramanian; B. H. Toby; A. P. Ramirez; W. J. Marshall; A. W. Sleight; G. H. Kwei
Direct, Nondestructive Observation of a Bose Condensate, pp. 84-87
M. R. Andrews; M.-O. Mewes; N. J. van Druten; D. S. Durfee; D. M. Kurn; W. Ketterle
Homogeneous Linewidths in the Optical Spectrum of a Single Gallium Arsenide Quantum Dot, pp. 87-90
D. Gammon; E. S. Snow; B. V. Shanabrook; D. S. Katzer; D. Park
Two Calorimetrically Distinct States of Liquid Water Below 150 Kelvin, pp. 90-92
G. P. Johari; Andreas Hallbrucker; Erwin Mayer
Helium Isotopic Evidence for a Lower Mantle Component in Depleted Archean Komatiite, pp. 93-95
Denis Richard; Bernard Marty; Marc Chaussidon; Nicholas Arndt
Transition Element-Like Chemistry for Potassium Under Pressure, pp. 95-97
L. J. Parker; T. Atou; J. V. Badding
Detrital Zircon Link Between Headwaters and Terminus of the Upper Triassic Chinle-Dockum Paleoriver System, pp. 97-100
N. R. Riggs; T. M. Lehman; G. E. Gehrels; W. R. Dickinson
Late Proterozoic and Paleozoic Tides, Retreat of the Moon, and Rotation of the Earth, pp. 100-104
C. P. Sonett; E. P. Kvale; A. Zakharian; Marjorie A. Chan; T. M. Demko
T Cell Activation Determined by T Cell Receptor Number and Tunable Thresholds, pp. 104-106
Antonella Viola; Antonio Lanzavecchia
Mapping of Catalytic Residues in the RNA Polymerase Active Center, pp. 107-109
Evgeny Zaychikov; Emil Martin; Ludmila Denissova; Maxim Kozlov; Vadim Markovtsov; Mikhail Kashlev; Hermann Heumann; Vadim Nikiforov; Alex Goldfarb; Arkady Mustaev
Prevention of Islet Allograft Rejection with Engineered Myoblasts Expressing FasL in Mice, pp. 109-112
Henry T. Lau; Ming Yu; Adriano Fontana; Christian J. Stoeckert Jr.
Evidence for Physical and Functional Association Between EMB-5 and LIN-12 in Caenorhabditis elegans, pp. 112-115
E. Jane Albert Hubbard; Qu Dong; Iva Greenwald
Formation of a Transition-State Analog of the Ras GTPase Reaction by Ras·GDP, Tetrafluoroaluminate, and GTPase-Activating Proteins, pp. 115-117
Rohit Mittal; Mohammad Reza Ahmadian; Roger S. Goody; Alfred Wittinghofer
Centric Heterochromatin and the Efficiency of Achiasmate Disjunction in Drosophila Female Meiosis, pp. 118-122
Gary H. Karpen; Mong-Huong Le; Hiep Le


Technical Comments
Miocene Deposits in the Amazonian Foreland Basin, pp. 122-125
Carina Hoorn; Charles G. M. Paxton; William G. R. Crampton; Peter Burgess; Larry G. Marshall; John G. Lundberg; Matti E. Räsänen; Ari M. Linna


Back Matter (23 pp.)

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