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Science, New Series, Vol. 279, No. 5347, Jan. 2, 1998


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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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