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Science, New Series, Vol. 280, No. 5368, May 29, 1998


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Front Matter (30 pp.)
NetWatch, p. 1319
Jocelyn Kaiser

Editorial: Challenges for European Biology, p. 1327
Fotis C. Kafatos


Letters
The Ethics of AIDS Vaccine Trials, pp. 1327+1329-1331
Jonathan M. Mann; Deborah Zion; Cheryl Cox Macpherson; Barry R. Bloom


Corrections and Clarifications: Budding Yeast Cdc20: A Target of the Spindle Checkpoint, p. 1331
ScienceScope, p. 1335
Constance Holden


News and Comment
A New Initiative for Russian Science, pp. 1336-1337
Richard Stone
'First Light' for Giant Sky Survey, pp. 1337-1338
James Glanz
Astrobiology Institute Picks Partners, p. 1338
Andrew Lawler
Ready for Takeoff, Antimatter Experiment Takes Some Flak, p. 1339
Meher Antia
Smithsonian Field Station Gets the Boot, p. 1340
Joseph Alper
Japan Law Fosters Academic Patents, pp. 1340-1341
Dennis Normile
Panel Issues Plea to Boost FDA Research, p. 1341
Eliot Marshall
Aboriginal Groups Warm to Studies of Early Australians, pp. 1342-1343
Elizabeth Finkel
Euro Networks Aim to Train Postdocs, Build a Community, p. 1344
Judy Redfearn


Research News
Solving the Brain's Energy Crisis, pp. 1345-1347
Ann Gibbons
Taiwan, U.S. Team Up to Chase Shadows, p. 1347
Peter Weiss
Transmuting Light Into X-rays, p. 1348
David Kestenbaum
New Clues to Alcoholism Risk, pp. 1348-1349
Constance Holden
Temperature Rise Could Squeeze Salmon, p. 1349
Nigel Williams
Growing Joints Use Their Noggins, p. 1350
Steven Dickman
New Method Churns Out TB Mutants, pp. 1350-1351
Carol Potera
Young Ages for Australian Rock Art, p. 1351
Ann Gibbons


Random Samples, p. 1353
Constance Holden


Essays on Science and Society
The Shoulders of Giants, pp. 1354-1355
Dara Horn


Regulation of Body Weight
[Introduction], p. 1363
Paula A. Kiberstis; Jean Marx


News
Obesity: How Big a Problem?, pp. 1364-1367
Ingrid Wickelgren
As Obesity Rates Rise, Experts Struggle to Explain Why, pp. 1367-1368
Gary Taubes
Uncoupling Proteins Provide New Clue to Obesity's Causes, pp. 1369-1370
Trisha Gura

Environmental Contributions to the Obesity Epidemic, pp. 1371-1374
James O. Hill; John C. Peters
The Search for Human Obesity Genes, pp. 1374-1377
Anthony G. Comuzzie; David B. Allison
Signals That Regulate Food Intake and Energy Homeostasis, pp. 1378-1383
Stephen C. Woods; Randy J. Seeley; Daniel Porte Jr.; Michael W. Schwartz
Strategies and Potential Molecular Targets for Obesity Treatment, pp. 1383-1387
L. Arthur Campfield; Françoise J. Smith; Paul Burn
Eating Disorders: Progress and Problems, pp. 1387-1390
B. Timothy Walsh; Michael J. Devlin


Science's Compass


Policy
The Terrestrial Carbon Cycle: Implications for the Kyoto Protocol, pp. 1393-1394
IGBP Terrestrial Carbon Working Group


Books
Unification Not Proved, p. 1395
Consilience. The Unity of Knowledge.
Edward O. Wilson
Review author[s]: John Dupré
Boundaries Not Established, pp. 1396-1397
Impossibility. The Limits of Science and the Science of Limits.
John Barrow
Review author[s]: Steve Fuller


Research
The Case of the Curved Universe: Open, Closed, or Flat?, pp. 1397-1398
Marc Kamionkowski
A Little Hot Dark Matter Matters, pp. 1398-1400
Joel R. Primack
Cloning for Profit, pp. 1400-1401
Gary B. Anderson; George E. Seidel
What's the Best Sound?, pp. 1402-1403
Eric D. Young
More Deafness Genes, p. 1403
Karen P. Steel; Steve D. M. Brown


Research Article
Extracting Primordial Density Fluctuations, pp. 1405-1411
Eric Gawiser; Joseph Silk


Reports
Phase-Matched Generation of Coherent Soft X-rays, pp. 1412-1415
Andy Rundquist; Charles G. Durfee III; Zenghu Chang; Catherine Herne; Sterling Backus; Margaret M. Murnane; Henry C. Kapteyn
Electrical Conductivity of Olivine, Wadsleyite, and Ringwoodite Under Upper-Mantle Conditions, pp. 1415-1418
Yousheng Xu; Brent T. Poe; Thomas J. Shankland; David C. Rubie
In situ Discovery of Graphite with Interstellar Isotopic Signatures in a Chondrule-Free Clast in an L3 Chondrite, pp. 1418-1420
S. Mostefaoui; P. Hoppe; A. El Goresy
Eclogitic Diamond Formation at Jwaneng: No Room for a Recycled Component, pp. 1421-1424
Pierre Cartigny; Jeffrey W. Harris; Marc Javoy
Multiple-Step Melting in Two-Dimensional Hexatic Liquid-Crystal Films, pp. 1424-1426
Chia-Fu Chou; Anjun J. Jin; S. W. Hui; C. C. Huang; John T. Ho
Helical Superstructures from Charged Poly(styrene)-Poly(isocyanodipeptide) Block Copolymers, pp. 1427-1430
Jeroen J. L. M. Cornelissen; Matthias Fischer; Nico A. J. M. Sommerdijk; Roeland J. M. Nolte
Identification of Water Ice on the Centaur 1997 CU26, pp. 1430-1432
Robert H. Brown; Dale P. Cruikshank; Yvonne Pendleton; Glenn J. Veeder
Impairment of Mycobacterial Immunity in Human Interleukin-12 Receptor Deficiency, pp. 1432-1435
Frédéric Altare; Anne Durandy; David Lammas; Jean-François Emile; Salma Lamhamedi; Françoise Le Deist; Pam Drysdale; Emmanuelle Jouanguy; Rainer Döffinger; Françoise Bernaudin; Olle Jeppsson; Jared A. Gollob; Edgar Meinl; Antony W. Segal; Alain Fischer; Dinakantha Kumararatne; Jean-Laurent Casanova
Severe Mycobacterial and Salmonella Infections in Interleukin-12 Receptor- Deficient Patients, pp. 1435-1438
Rolien de Jong; Frédéric Altare; Inez-Anne Haagen; Diënne G. Elferink; Tjitske de Boer; Peter J. C. van Breda Vriesman; Peter J. Kabel; Johannes M. T. Draaisma; Jaap T. van Dissel; Frank P. Kroon; Jean-Laurent Casanova; Tom H. M. Ottenhoff
Optimizing Sound Features for Cortical Neurons, pp. 1439-1443
R. Christopher deCharms; David T. Blake; Michael M. Merzenich
Correction of Deafness in shaker-2 Mice by an Unconventional Myosin in a BAC Transgene, pp. 1444-1447
Frank J. Probst; Robert A. Fridell; Yehoash Raphael; Thomas L. Saunders; Aihui Wang; Yong Liang; Robert J. Morell; Jeffrey W. Touchman; Robert H. Lyons; Konrad Noben-Trauth; Thomas B. Friedman; Sally A. Camper
Association of Unconventional Myosin MYO15 Mutations with Human Nonsyndromic Deafness DFNB3, pp. 1447-1451
Aihui Wang; Yong Liang; Robert A. Fridell; Frank J. Probst; Edward R. Wilcox; Jeffrey W. Touchman; Cynthia C. Morton; Robert J. Morell; Konrad Noben-Trauth; Sally A. Camper; Thomas B. Friedman
Continuity in Evolution: On the Nature of Transitions, pp. 1451-1455
Walter Fontana; Peter Schuster
Noggin, Cartilage Morphogenesis, and Joint Formation in the Mammalian Skeleton, pp. 1455-1457
Lisa J. Brunet; Jill A. McMahon; Andrew P. McMahon; Richard M. Harland


AAAS News and Notes, pp. 1460-1463
Ellen Cooper

Back Matter (29 pp.)

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