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Science, New Series, Vol. 279, No. 5350, Jan. 23, 1998


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Front Matter (23 pp.)
Editorial: Cell Biology of the Cytoskeleton, p. 459
Stella M. Hurtley


Letters
Mercury in Fish, pp. 459+461
Tom Clarkson; Christopher Cox; Philip W. Davidson; Gary J. Myers; Tomohiro Kawaguchi
Frog Deformities, pp. 461-462
Stanley K. Sessions
Royalties or Research Funds?, p. 462
Ernest B. Hook
Drugs for the Third World, p. 462
Sergio Erill
Nuclear Research at Duke, pp. 462-463
Werner Tornow; Ludwig DeBraeckeleer; Calvin R. Howell; N. Russell Roberson; Richard L. Walter; Henry R. Weller
Presenilin Interactions and Alzheimer's Disease, pp. 463-465
Kenneth S. Kosik; Rudolph E. Tanzi; Caleb E. Finch


ScienceScope, p. 469
Andrew Lawler


News and Comment
Green Light for Long-Awaited Facility, pp. 470-471
Andrew Lawler
An Accelerator to Boost Neutron Science, p. 471
James Glanz
'Fountain of Youth' Lifts Biotech Stock, p. 472
Robert F. Service
U.K. Cooks Up Food Standards Agency, p. 472
Nigel Williams
Medline Searches Turn Up Cases of Suspected Plagiarism, pp. 473-474
Eliot Marshall
Study Suggests New Way to Gauge Prostate Cancer Risk, p. 475
Marcia Barinaga
Bose Credited with Key Role in Marconi's Radio Breakthrough, p. 476
Jeffrey Mervis; Pallava Bagla


Research News
Cell Division Gatekeepers Identified, pp. 477-478
Elizabeth Pennisi
Did Galaxies Bloom in Clumps?, p. 479
Govert Schilling
Mimicking an Enzyme in Look and Deed, pp. 479-480
Robert F. Service
Irish Bridge Sheds Light on Dark Ages, p. 480
Sean Duke
Getting a Handle on the Molecules that Guide Axons, pp. 481-482
Evelyn Strauss
The Mediterranean Beckons to Europe's Oceanographers, pp. 483-484
Nigel Williams
The Transistor with a Heart of Gold, p. 484
Alexander Hellemans


Random Samples, pp. 485+487
Constance Holden


Association Affairs
Entering the Century of the Environment: A New Social Contract for Science, pp. 491-497
Jane Lubchenco


Science's Compass


Policy
Partnership Between South and North Crystallizes Around Malaria, pp. 498-499
Barend Mons; Eduard Klasen; Renee van Kessel; Thomas Nchinda


Books
An Architect of Science, pp. 500-501
Endless Frontier. Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century.
G. Pascal Zachary
Review author[s]: William Aspray


Research
Ecological Science and Statistical Paradigms: At the Threshold, pp. 502-503
Brian A. Maurer
Direct Imaging of Adsorbates and Precursors on Surfaces, pp. 503-504
David A. King
The Coming of Age of Molecular Systematics, pp. 505-506
Laura E. Maley; Charles R. Marshall
Fixing Nitrogen Any Which Way, pp. 506-507
G. J. Leigh


Frontiers in Cell Biology: The Cytoskeleton
Rho GTPases and the Actin Cytoskeleton, pp. 509-514
Alan Hall
A Structural Scaffolding of Intermediate Filaments in Health and Disease, pp. 514-519
Elaine Fuchs; Don W. Cleveland
Kinesin and Dynein Superfamily Proteins and the Mechanism of Organelle Transport, pp. 519-526
Nobutaka Hirokawa
Unconventional Myosins in Cell Movement, Membrane Traffic, and Signal Transduction, pp. 527-533
Valerie Mermall; Penny L. Post; Mark S. Mooseker


Reports
True Polar Wander as a Mechanism for Second-Order Sea-Level Variations, pp. 534-537
Jon E. Mound; Jerry X. Mitrovica
Catalytic Galactose Oxidase Models: Biomimetic Cu(II)-Phenoxyl-Radical Reactivity, pp. 537-540
Yadong Wang; Jennifer L. DuBois; Britt Hedman; Keith O. Hodgson; T. D. P. Stack
Bimetallic System for Nitrogen Fixation: Ruthenium-Assisted Protonation of Coordinated N2 on Tungsten with H2, pp. 540-542
Yoshiaki Nishibayashi; Shotaro Iwai; Masanobu Hidai
Isolation of an Intrinsic Precursor to Molecular Chemisorption, pp. 542-544
David E. Brown; Douglas J. Moffatt; Robert A. Wolkow
Dangling Bond Dynamics on the Silicon (100)-2×1 Surface: Dissociation, Diffusion, and Recombination, pp. 545-548
Marcus McEllistrem; Matthew Allgeier; John J. Boland
Triblock Copolymer Syntheses of Mesoporous Silica with Periodic 50 to 300 Angstrom Pores, pp. 548-552
Dongyuan Zhao; Jianglin Feng; Qisheng Huo; Nicholas Melosh; Glenn H. Fredrickson; Bradley F. Chmelka; Galen D. Stucky
Transform-Limited, Narrow-Linewidth Lasing Action in Organic Semiconductor Microcavities, pp. 553-555
V. Bulović; V. G. Kozlov; V. B. Khalfin; S. R. Forrest
Accelerating Invasion Rate in a Highly Invaded Estuary, pp. 555-558
Andrew N. Cohen; James T. Carlton
Role of Substrates and Products of PI 3-Kinase in Regulating Activation of Rac-Related Guanosine Triphosphatases by Vav, pp. 558-560
Jaewon Han; Katherine Luby-Phelps; Balaka Das; Xiaodong Shu; Yi Xia; Raymond D. Mosteller; U. Murali Krishna; John R. Falck; Michael A. White; Daniel Broek
Coupling of Ras and Rac Guanosine Triphosphatases Through the Ras Exchanger Sos, pp. 560-563
Anjaruwee S. Nimnual; Bogdan A. Yatsula; Dafna Bar-Sagi
Plasma Insulin-Like Growth Factor-I and Prostate Cancer Risk: A Prospective Study, pp. 563-566
June M. Chan; Meir J. Stampfer; Edward Giovannucci; Peter H. Gann; Jing Ma; Peter Wilkinson; Charles H. Hennekens; Michael Pollak
The Role of Visual Experience in the Development of Columns in Cat Visual Cortex, pp. 566-570
Michael C. Crair; Deda C. Gillespie; Michael P. Stryker
Inhibitory Cerebello-Olivary Projections and Blocking Effect in Classical Conditioning, pp. 570-573
Jeansok J. Kim; David J. Krupa; Richard F. Thompson
Role of Dynamin in the Formation of Transport Vesicles from the Trans-Golgi Network, pp. 573-577
Steven M. Jones; Kathryn E. Howell; John R. Henley; Hong Cao; Mark A. McNiven
Gain-of-Function Mutations of c-kit in Human Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors, pp. 577-580
Seiichi Hirota; Koji Isozaki; Yasuhiro Moriyama; Koji Hashimoto; Toshirou Nishida; Shingo Ishiguro; Kiyoshi Kawano; Masato Hanada; Akihiko Kurata; Masashi Takeda; Ghulam Muhammad Tunio; Yuji Matsuzawa; Yuzuru Kanakura; Yasuhisa Shinomura; Yukihiko Kitamura
Interaction of a Golgi-Associated Kinesin-Like Protein with Rab6, pp. 580-585
Arnaud Echard; Florence Jollivet; Olivier Martinez; Jean-Jacques Lacapère; Annie Rousselet; Isabelle Janoueix-Lerosey; Bruno Goud


Back Matter (35 pp.)

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