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Science, New Series, Vol. 276, No. 5316, May 23, 1997


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Front Matter (25 pp.)
Editorial: Scientifically Illiterate vs. Politically Clueless, p. 1175
Gregory E. van der Vink


Letters
Acquiring Language, pp. 1177-1181+1276
David Pesetsky; Ken Wexler; Victoria Fromkin; Steven Pinker; Lyle Jenkins; Allan Maxam; Robin Clark; Lila Gleitman; Anthony Kroch; Jeffrey Elman; Elizabeth Bates; Jenny R. Saffran; Richard N. Aslin; Elissa L. Newport


ScienceScope, p. 1183
Jocelyn Kaiser


News and Comment
A Deadline for an AIDS Vaccine, pp. 1184-1185
Andrew Lawler; Jon Cohen
Panel Weighs a Law Against Cloning, pp. 1185-1186
Eliot Marshall
A Report Card on European Science, p. 1186
Judy Redfearn
Firmer Footing for Delayed Station, p. 1187
Andrew Lawler
Japanese Mission to Explore Asteroid, pp. 1187-1188
Dennis Normile
For Sale: A Piece of Human History, p. 1188
Constance Holden
Hughes Network Expands by a Big Leap, p. 1189
Eliot Marshall
Sequencers Call for Faster Data Release, pp. 1189-1190
Eliot Marshall
Revised LHC Deal Quiets Congress, p. 1190
Andrew Lawler
NSF Prepares for New Round with Cuts at Current Sites, p. 1191
Jeffrey Mervis


Research News
Antisense Aims for a Renaissance, pp. 1192-1193
Wade Roush
It's Official: Gamma Bursts Come from Far, Far Away, p. 1194
Govert Schilling
Hopes for Exotic New Particle Fade, p. 1195
James Glanz
Nonlinear Molecules Trip the Light, pp. 1195-1196
Robert F. Service
Looking for Leads in HIV's Battle with Immune System, pp. 1196-1197
Jon Cohen
New Way to Hit the Hot Spot Hints at a Complex Pacific, p. 1198
Richard A. Kerr
Nitrogen Oxide Pollution May Spark Seeds' Growth, p. 1199
David A. Malakoff


Random Samples, p. 1201
Constance Holden


Book Reviews
Flying Feathers, pp. 1209-1210
The Origin and Evolution of Birds.
Alan Feduccia
Review author[s]: Lawrence M. Witmer


Perspectives
Macro Power from Micro Machinery, p. 1211
A. H. Epstein; S. D. Senturia
Throttles and Dampers: Controlling the Engine of Membrane Fusion, pp. 1212-1213
James E. Rothman; Thomas H. Söllner
Warming Early Earth and Mars, pp. 1213-1215
James F. Kasting
Sticky Endings: Separating Telomeres, p. 1215
R. Scott Hawley


The Early Faint Sun Paradox: Organic Shielding of Ultraviolet-Labile Greenhouse Gases, pp. 1217-1221
Carl Sagan; Christopher Chyba

Trichodesmium, a Globally Significant Marine Cyanobacterium, pp. 1221-1229
Douglas G. Capone; Jonathan P. Zehr; Hans W. Paerl; Birgitta Bergman; Edward J. Carpenter


Reports
Direct Measurement of Angles between Bond Vectors in High-Resolution NMR, pp. 1230-1233
Bernd Reif; Mirko Hennig; Christian Griesinger
Large Molecular Third-Order Optical Nonlinearities in Polarized Carotenoids, pp. 1233-1236
Seth R. Marder; William E. Torruellas; Mirelle Blanchard-Desce; Vincent Ricci; George I. Stegeman; Sharon Gilmour; Jean-Luc Brédas; Jun Li; Greg U. Bublitz; Steve G. Boxer
Europa's Differentiated Internal Structure: Inferences from Two Galileo Encounters, pp. 1236-1239
J. D. Anderson; E. L. Lau; W. L. Sjogren; G. Schubert; W. B. Moore
Europa's Magnetic Signature: Report from Galileo's Pass on 19 December 1996, pp. 1239-1241
M. G. Kivelson; K. K. Khurana; S. Joy; C. T. Russell; D. J. Southwood; R. J. Walker; C. Polanskey
X-ray Imaging of Stress and Strain of Diamond, Iron, and Tungsten at Megabar Pressures, pp. 1242-1245
Russell J. Hemley; Ho-kwang Mao; Guoyin Shen; James Badro; Philippe Gillet; Michael Hanfland; Daniel Häusermann
Silicon and Oxygen Self-Diffusivities in Silicate Liquids Measured to 15 Gigapascals and 2800 Kelvin, pp. 1245-1248
Brent T. Poe; Paul F. McMillan; David C. Rubie; Sumit Chakraborty; Jeff Yarger; Jason Diefenbacher
Trace Gas Emissions and Smoke-Induced Seed Germination, pp. 1248-1250
Jon E. Keeley; C. J. Fotheringham
Discrete Determinants in Transfer RNA for Editing and Aminoacylation, pp. 1250-1252
Stephen P. Hale; Douglas S. Auld; Eric Schmidt; Paul Schimmel
Ndj1p, a Meiotic Telomere Protein Required for Normal Chromosome Synapsis and Segregation in Yeast, pp. 1252-1255
Michael N. Conrad; Ana M. Dominguez; Michael E. Dresser
t-SNARE Activation Through Transient Interaction with a Rab-Like Guanosine Triphosphatase, pp. 1255-1258
Vladimir V. Lupashin; M. Gerard Waters
Promoter Recognition as Measured by Binding of Polymerase to Nontemplate Strand Oligonucleotide, pp. 1258-1260
M. T. Marr; J. W. Roberts
Ligand-Specific Opening of a Gated-Porin Channel in the Outer Membrane of Living Bacteria, pp. 1261-1264
Xunqing Jiang; Marvin A. Payne; Zhenghua Cao; Samuel B. Foster; Jimmy B. Feix; Salete M. C. Newton; Phillip E. Klebba
Adenosine: A Mediator of the Sleep-Inducing Effects of Prolonged Wakefulness, pp. 1265-1268
Tarja Porkka-Heiskanen; Robert E. Strecker; Mahesh Thakkar; Alvhild A. Bjørkum; Robert W. Greene; Robert W. McCarley
Gene Expression Profiles in Normal and Cancer Cells, pp. 1268-1272
Lin Zhang; Wei Zhou; Victor E. Velculescu; Scott E. Kern; Ralph H. Hruban; Stanley R. Hamilton; Bert Vogelstein; Kenneth W. Kinzler
Brain Regions Responsive to Novelty in the Absence of Awareness, pp. 1272-1275
Gregory S. Berns; Jonathan D. Cohen; Mark A. Mintun


Letters
Editorial "Plants"?, p. 1276
Robert Ornduff; Thomas Eisner


Back Matter (24 pp.)

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