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Previous Issue: New Series, Vol. 278, No. 5346, Dec. 19, 1997
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Front Matter (12 pp.)
Editorial: Opening Science's Compass, p. 10
- Floyd E. Bloom
Letters
- The HUGO Mutation Database Initiative, pp. 10-11
- R. G. H. Cotton; V. McKusick; C. R. Scriver
- Sex Offenders, pp. 11-12
- Susan L. McElroy; Harrison G. Pope Jr.; Abraham L. Halpern; Barbara E. O'Connell; Howard Zonana
- Cancer Therapy and Tumor Physiology, pp. 12-13
- Amato J. Giaccia; J. Martin Brown; Bradley Wouters; Nicholas Denko; Constantinos Koumenis
- Pyramid Scheme?, p. 13
- Jonathan Gallant
- NASA's SkyView, p. 13
- Thomas McGlynn
- Genetic Diversity Survey, p. 14
- William J. Schull
- SIV Vaccine for AIDS, pp. 14-15
- Charles F. Farthing; John L. Sullivan
- Chick Heart, Not Lizard Lung, p. 15
- John A. Ruben; Terry D. Jones; Nicholas R. Geist; W. Jaap Hillenius
ScienceScope, p. 19
- Jocelyn Kaiser
News and Comment
- Planning a Future Without ITER, pp. 20-21
- James Glanz; Andrew Lawler
- NIH Settles, NSF Sued in Student Cases, p. 22
- Jeffrey Mervis
- Astrophysicist Dies in Plane Crash, p. 22
- David Ehrenstein
- Physicists Urge Technology Push to Reach 2005 Target, p. 23
- Eliot Marshall
- 5-Year Plan Boosts Basic Research, p. 24
- Michael Baker
- CERN Picks Maiani to Build the LHC, p. 24
- Alexander Hellemans
- Genome of TB Culprit Deciphered, p. 25
- Nigel Williams
- Kennewick Man: More Bones to Pick, pp. 25-26
- Virginia Morell
- Midlife Crisis Threatens Center for Semiarid Crops, pp. 26-27
- Pallava Bagla
Research News
- Calibrating the Mitochondrial Clock, pp. 28-29
- Ann Gibbons
- Geophysicists Ponder Hints of Otherworldly Water, pp. 30-31
- Richard A. Kerr
- Sieving Prime Numbers from Thin Ore, p. 31
- Barry Cipra
- New Nonopioid Painkiller Shows Promise in Animal Tests, pp. 32-33
- Evelyn Strauss
- Putting the Infrared Heat on X-rays, p. 33
- Robert F. Service
- Do Fateful Circles of DNA Cause Cells to Grow Old?, p. 34
- Elizabeth Pennisi
Random Samples, p. 35
- Constance Holden
Science's Compass
Policy
- An Independent Perspective on the Human Genome Project, pp. 36-37
- Steven E. Koonin
Books
- Taxonomy Recapitulates Society, p. 38
- The Platypus and the Mermaid and Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination
- Harriet Ritvo
- Review author[s]: Sherrie Lyons
Research
- Is the Geometry of Nature Fractal?, pp. 39-40
- David Avnir; Ofer Biham; Daniel Lidar; Ofer Malcai
- Even Viruses Can Learn to Cope with Stress, pp. 40-41
- Grant McFadden
- Sweeping the Field, p. 41
- David Voss
- BSE and Prions: Uncertainties About the Agent, pp. 42-43
- Bruce Chesebro
Webwatch, p. 43
- David Voss
Science's Compass
Review
- Spin-Transition Polymers: From Molecular Materials Toward Memory Devices, pp. 44-48
- O. Kahn; C. Jay Martinez
Research Article
- Hydrogen Radicals, Nitrogen Radicals, and the Production of O3 in the Upper Troposphere, pp. 49-53
- P. O. Wennberg; T. F. Hanisco; L. Jaeglé; D. J. Jacob; E. J. Hintsa; E. J. Lanzendorf; J. G. Anderson; R.-S. Gao; E. R. Keim; S. G. Donnelly; L. A. Del Negro; D. W. Fahey; S. A. McKeen; R. J. Salawitch; C. R. Webster; R. D. May; R. L. Herman; M. H. Proffitt; J. J. Margitan; E. L. Atlas; S. M. Schauffler; F. Flocke; C. T. McElroy; T. P. Bui
Reports
- Infrared Photorefractive Polymers and Their Applications for Imaging, pp. 54-57
- B. Kippelen; S. R. Marder; E. Hendrickx; J. L. Maldonado; G. Guillemet; B. L. Volodin; D. D. Steele; Y. Enami; Sandalphon; Y. J. Yao; J. F. Wang; H. Röckel; L. Erskine; N. Peyghambarian
- Electromechanical Properties of an Ultrathin Layer of Directionally Aligned Helical Polypeptides, pp. 57-60
- T. Jaworek; D. Neher; G. Wegner; R. H. Wieringa; A. J. Schouten
- Coupling of South American and African Plate Motion and Plate Deformation, pp. 60-63
- Paul G. Silver; Raymond M. Russo; Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni
- Footwall Refrigeration Along a Detachment Fault: Implications for the Thermal Evolution of Core Complexes, pp. 63-66
- Jean Morrison; J. Lawford Anderson
- Suppression of Volcanism During Rapid Extension in the Basin and Range Province, United States, pp. 66-68
- P. B. Gans; W. A. Bohrson
- Migrating Planets, pp. 69-72
- N. Murray; B. Hansen; M. Holman; S. Tremaine
- Magnetic Properties of Hexagonal Closed-Packed Iron Deduced from Direct Observations in a Diamond Anvil Cell, pp. 72-74
- Stuart Gilder; Jonathan Glen
- Formation of Molecular Chlorine from the Photolysis of Ozone and Aqueous Sea-Salt Particles, pp. 74-77
- K. W. Oum; M. J. Lakin; D. O. DeHaan; T. Brauers; B. J. Finlayson-Pitts
- Broad-Spectrum, Non-Opioid Analgesic Activity by Selective Modulation of Neuronal Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors, pp. 77-81
- A. W. Bannon; M. W. Decker; M. W. Holladay; P. Curzon; D. Donnelly-Roberts; P. S. Puttfarcken; R. S. Bitner; A. Diaz; A. H. Dickenson; R. D. Porsolt; M. Williams; S. P. Arneric
- Inhibition of the Hammerhead Ribozyme Cleavage Reaction by Site-Specific Binding of Tb(III), pp. 81-84
- Andrew L. Feig; William G. Scott; Olke C. Uhlenbeck
- Quantitation of Transcription and Clonal Selection of Single Living Cells with β-Lactamase as Reporter, pp. 84-88
- Gregor Zlokarnik; Paul A. Negulescu; Thomas E. Knapp; Lora Mere; Neal Burres; Luxin Feng; Michael Whitney; Klaus Roemer; Roger Y. Tsien
- Dimerization-Induced Inhibition of Receptor Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase Function Through an Inhibitory Wedge, pp. 88-91
- Ravindra Majeti; Alexandrine M. Bilwes; Joseph P. Noel; Tony Hunter; Arthur Weiss
- Dissociated Pattern of Activity in Visual Cortices and Their Projections During Human Rapid Eye Movement Sleep, pp. 91-95
- Allen R. Braun; Thomas J. Balkin; Nancy J. Wesensten; Fuad Gwadry; Richard E. Carson; Mary Varga; Paul Baldwin; Gregory Belenky; Peter Herscovitch
- Discrete Start Sites for DNA Synthesis in the Yeast ARS1 Origin, pp. 95-98
- Anja-Katrin Bielinsky; Susan A. Gerbi
- Modification of the NADH of the Isoniazid Target (InhA) from Mycobacterium tuberculosis, pp. 98-102
- Denise A. Rozwarski; Gregory A. Grant; Derek H. R. Barton; William R. Jacobs Jr.; James C. Sacchettini
- Ultraviolet-Induced Cell Death Blocked by a Selenoprotein from a Human Dermatotropic Poxvirus, pp. 102-105
- Joanna L. Shisler; Tatiana G. Senkevich; Marla J. Berry; Bernard Moss
- Change in Chemoattractant Responsiveness of Developing Axons at an Intermediate Target, pp. 105-107
- Ryuichi Shirasaki; Ryuta Katsumata; Fujio Murakami
Back Matter (33 pp.)
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