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Science, New Series, Vol. 274, No. 5295, Dec. 20, 1996


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Volume Information (12 pp.)
Front Matter (23 pp.)
Editorial: Breakthroughs of the Year, 1996, p. 1987
Floyd E. Bloom

Breakthrough of the Year: New Hope in HIV Disease, pp. 1988-1991


Letters
Linnaean Categories, p. 1993
Alessandro Minelli
Debating Creationists, pp. 1993-1994
Eugenie C. Scott
Bollgard Cotton Performance, p. 1994
Robert T. Fraley
Japanese Science, p. 1994
Izumi Hironari
Meeting Standards, p. 1995
Thomas Borelli; Allen Kassman
Dating the Origin of Animals, pp. 1995-1996
Kenneth J. McNamara
Airborne Particle Analysis, pp. 1996-1997
Bernhard Spengler; Klaus-Peter Hinz; Raimund Kaufmann; Thomas Peter; Daniel M. Murphy


ScienceScope, p. 1999
Jocelyn Kaiser


News and Comment
Smiles and Status Quo at NSF, pp. 2000-2002
Jeffrey Mervis
Travel Grants to Boost Sagging Labs, p. 2002
Richard Stone
Origins Researchers Win Gore's Ear, Not Pocketbook, p. 2003
Andrew Lawler
Fraud and Ethics Charges Hit Stroke Drug Trial, pp. 2004-2005
Martin Enserink
Baltimore to Head New Vaccine Panel, p. 2005
Jon Cohen


Research News
Mining the Deep Field, pp. 2006-2007
Gretchen Vogel
Repeated Bursts Puzzle Astronomers, p. 2007
Andrew Watson
Genes, Junctions, and Disease at Cell Biology Meeting, pp. 2008-2009
Elizabeth Pennisi
Tumor-Killer Made; How Does it Work?, p. 2009
Robert F. Service
Ironing Out the Wrinkles in the Prion Strain Problem, p. 2010
Denise Grady
Fly Gene Discovery Gets at Root of Branching Structures, p. 2011
Wade Roush
On Ice's Surface, a Dance of Molecules, p. 2012
Charles Seife
Rock Chemistry Traces Ancient Traders, pp. 2012-2013
Robert F. Service
Supercritical Solvent Comes Into Its Own, p. 2013
Jocelyn Kaiser
Prime Formula Weds Number Theory and Quantum Physics, pp. 2014-2015
Barry Cipra
Does Europa's Ice Hide an Ocean?, p. 2015
Richard A. Kerr


Random Samples, p. 2017
Constance Holden


Association Affairs
Global Climate and Infectious Disease: The Cholera Paradigm, pp. 2025-2031
Rita R. Colwell


Book Reviews
Darwinism from France, p. 2032
Dictionnaire du Darwinisme et de l'Evolution.
Patrick Tort
Review author[s]: Ernst Mayr
Mathematical Discoveries, pp. 2032-2033
Celestial Encounters. The Origins of Chaos and Stability.
Florin Diacu; Philip Holmes
Review author[s]: Robert L. Devaney
Books Reviewed in Science 26 May 1995 Through 20 December 1996, pp. 2033-2035


Perspectives
Capturing the Dynamic Behavior of Adsorbed Polymers, pp. 2036-2037
Anna C. Balazs
Complexities in the Treatment of Autoimmune Disease, pp. 2037-2038
Henry F. McFarland
A Ligand-Receptor Mechanism in Plant-Pathogen Recognition, pp. 2038-2039
Chris Lamb
Biologists Put on Mathematical Glasses, pp. 2039-2040
Torbjörn Fagerström; Peter Jagers; Peter Schuster; Eörs Szathmary


Reports
Probing Collective Motions of Terminally Anchored Polymers, pp. 2041-2044
George Fytas; Spiros H. Anastasiadis; Rachid Seghrouchni; Dimitris Vlassopoulos; Junbai Li; Bradford J. Factor; Wolfgang Theobald; Chris Toprakcioglu
Copper-Catalyzed Oxidation of Alcohols to Aldehydes and Ketones: An Efficient, Aerobic Alternative, pp. 2044-2046
Istvan E. Markó; Paul R. Giles; Masao Tsukazaki; Stephen M. Brown; Christopher J. Urch
Formation of Chiral Interdigitated Multilayers at the Air-Liquid Interface Through Acid-Base Interactions, pp. 2046-2049
Ivan Kuzmenko; Ronith Buller; Wim G. Bouwman; Kristian Kjær; Jens Als-Nielsen; Meir Lahav; Leslie Leiserowitz
Design of Nonionic Surfactants for Supercritical Carbon Dioxide, pp. 2049-2052
J. B. McClain; D. E. Betts; D. A. Canelas; E. T. Samulski; J. M. DeSimone; J. D. Londono; H. D. Cochran; G. D. Wignall; D. Chillura-Martino; R. Triolo
Grain Growth Rates of MgSiO3 Perovskite and Periclase Under Lower Mantle Conditions, pp. 2052-2054
Daisuke Yamazaki; Takumi Kato; Eiji Ohtani; Mitsuhiro Toriumi
Late Complications of Immune Deviation Therapy in a Nonhuman Primate, pp. 2054-2057
Claude P. Genain; Kristina Abel; Nicole Belmar; Francois Villinger; Daniel P. Rosenberg; Christopher Linington; Cedric S. Raine; Stephen L. Hauser
Loss of Heterozygosity in Normal Tissue Adjacent to Breast Carcinomas, pp. 2057-2059
Guoren Deng; You Lu; Galina Zlotnikov; Ann D. Thor; Helene S. Smith
Initiation of Plant Disease Resistance by Physical Interaction of AvrPto and Pto Kinase, pp. 2060-2063
Xiaoyan Tang; Reid D. Frederick; Jianmin Zhou; Dennis A. Halterman; Yulin Jia; Gregory B. Martin
Molecular Basis of Gene-for-Gene Specificity in Bacterial Speck Disease of Tomato, pp. 2063-2065
Steven R. Scofield; Christian M. Tobias; John P. Rathjen; Jeff H. Chang; Daniel T. Lavelle; Richard W. Michelmore; Brian J. Staskawicz
Capturing the Structure of a Catalytic RNA Intermediate: The Hammerhead Ribozyme, pp. 2065-2069
William G. Scott; James B. Murray; John R. P. Arnold; Barry L. Stoddard; Aaron Klug
Functional Analysis of the Genes of Yeast Chromosome V by Genetic Footprinting, pp. 2069-2074
Victoria Smith; Karen N. Chou; Deval Lashkari; David Botstein; Patrick O. Brown
Requirement for a Noncoding RNA in Drosophila Polar Granules for Germ Cell Establishment, pp. 2075-2079
Akira Nakamura; Reiko Amikura; Masanori Mukai; Satoru Kobayashi; Paul F. Lasko
Evidence for the Conformation of the Pathologic Isoform of the Prion Protein Enciphering and Propagating Prion Diversity, pp. 2079-2082
Glenn C. Telling; Piero Parchi; Stephen J. DeArmond; Pietro Cortelli; Pasquale Montagna; Ruth Gabizon; James Mastrianni; Elio Lugaresi; Pierluigi Gambetti; Stanley B. Prusiner
Intestinal Secretory Defects and Dwarfism in Mice Lacking cGMP-Dependent Protein Kinase II, pp. 2082-2086
Alexander Pfeifer; Attila Aszódi; Ursula Seidler; Peter Ruth; Franz Hofmann; Reinhard Fassler
Control of EGF Receptor Signaling by Clathrin-Mediated Endocytosis, pp. 2086-2089
Amandio V. Vieira; Christophe Lamaze; Sandra L. Schmid
Association of Src Tyrosine Kinase with a Human Potassium Channel Mediated by SH3 Domain, pp. 2089-2091
Todd C. Holmes; Debra A. Fadool; Ruibao Ren; Irwin B. Levitan
Reexpression of RAG-1 and RAG-2 Genes in Activated Mature Mouse B Cells, pp. 2092-2094
Masaki Hikida; Masaharu Mori; Toshiyuki Takai; Ken-ichi Tomochika; Kiyohiro Hamatani; Hitoshi Ohmori
Neoteny in Lymphocytes: Rag1 and Rag2 Expression in Germinal Center B Cells, pp. 2094-2097
Shuhua Han; Biao Zheng; David G. Schatz; Eugenia Spanopoulou; Garnett Kelsoe
Enhancement of Class II-Restricted T Cell Responses by Costimulatory NK Receptors for Class I MHC Proteins, pp. 2097-2100
Ofer Mandelboim; Daniel M. Davis; Hugh T. Reyburn; Mar Valés-Gómez; Eric G. Sheu; Laszlo Pazmany; Jack L. Strominger
Inhibition of Adipogenesis Through MAP Kinase-Mediated Phosphorylation of PPARγ, pp. 2100-2103
Erding Hu; Jae Bum Kim; Pasha Sarraf; Bruce M. Spiegelman
Associative Learning Disrupted by Impaired Gs Signaling in Drosophila Mushroom Bodies, pp. 2104-2107
John B. Connolly; Ian J. H. Roberts; J. Douglas Armstrong; Kim Kaiser; Michael Forte; Tim Tully; Cahir J. O'Kane
A Mechanism of Drug Action Revealed by Structural Studies of Enoyl Reductase, pp. 2107-2110
Clair Baldock; John B. Rafferty; Svetlana E. Sedelnikova; Patrick J. Baker; Antoine R. Stuitje; Antoni R. Slabas; Timothy R. Hawkes; David W. Rice
Orientation Maps of Subjective Contours in Visual Cortex, pp. 2110-2115
Bhavin R. Sheth; Jitendra Sharma; S. Chenchal Rao; Mriganka Sur
Requirement of CDC42 for Salmonella-Induced Cytoskeletal and Nuclear Responses, pp. 2115-2118
Li-Mei Chen; Silke Hobbie; Jorge E. Galan


Technical Comments
Consequences of Retinal Color Coding for Cortical Color Decoding, pp. 2118-2119
Vincent A. Billock; Dennis M. Dacey; Richard H. Masland
Evaluating the Evidence for Past Life on Mars, pp. 2119-2125
Edward Anders; C. K. Shearer; J. J. Papike; Jeffrey F. Bell; Simon J. Clemett; Richard N. Zare; David S. McKay; Kathie L. Thomas-Keprta; Christopher S. Romanek; Everett K. Gibson Jr.; Hhjatollah Vali; Everett K. Gibson Jr.; David S. McKay; Kathie Thomas-Keprta; Christopher S. Romanek


AAAS News and Notes, p. 2127
Cynthia Lollar

Back Matter (31 pp.)

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