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Previous Issue: New Series, Vol. 281, No. 5376, Jul. 24, 1998
Next Issue: New Series, Vol. 281, No. 5378, Aug. 7, 1998
Front Matter (21 pp.)
NetWatch, p. 615
- Jocelyn Kaiser
News
News of the Week
- New Study Points to Eurasian Ape as Great Ape Ancestor, pp. 622-623
- Ann Gibbons
- Clinton's R&D Chiefs Waiting on Sidelines, p. 623
- Andrew Lawler
- U.S., Ukraine Launch New Chernobyl Lab, pp. 623+625
- Richard Stone
- Outside Insider Named to Head EPA Research, pp. 625-626
- Jocelyn Kaiser
- ScienceScope, pp. 625+627
- Eliot Marshall; Susan Biggin; Pallava Bagla; Richard Stone
- Vanishing Pools Taking Species with Them, p. 626
- Kathryn S. Brown
- Did Twisty Starlight Set Stage for Life?, pp. 626-627
- Robert Irion
- A Sulfurous Start for Protein Synthesis?, pp. 627+629
- Gretchen Vogel
- Molecular Imaging Beats Limits of Light, p. 629
- Rob van den Berg
News Focus
- A Shadow Falls on Hepatitis B Vaccination Effort, pp. 630-631
- Eliot Marshall
- Possible Cause Found for Lyme Arthritis, pp. 631-632
- Steven Dickman
- Field Emitters Finding Home in Electronics, pp. 632-633
- Dennis Normile
- The Sahara is Not Marching Southward, pp. 633-634
- Richard A. Kerr
- Sphere Does Elegant Gymnastics in New Video, pp. 634-635
- Dana Mackenzie
- Physicist-Turned-Politician Seeks Middle Ground, pp. 635-636
- Andrew Lawler
- Gravity Teases Details from Ancient Cosmic Birthplaces, p. 637
- James Glanz
- Random Samples, p. 639
- Constance Holden
Essays on Science and Society
- The Challenge of Faust, pp. 640-641
- Hans Christoph Binswanger
Science's Compass
Editorial
- Training for Today's Marketplace, p. 645
- Elizabeth Marincola; Frank Solomon
Letters
- Scientific Literacy, p. 647
- Richard L. Hinman
- That Corner Office, p. 647
- Frank Selker
- The Plight of Postdocs, p. 647
- Trevor M. Penning
- Strategies for Carbon Reduction, pp. 647-649
- Ronald J. Sutherland; Joseph Romm; Mark Levine; Marilyn Brown; Eric Petersen
Policy Forum
- ART into Science: Regulation of Fertility Techniques, pp. 651-652
- ISLAT Working Group
Books and New Media
- A Piece of Your Mind, pp. 653-654
- How the Mind Works.
- Steven Pinker
- Review author[s]: Melvin Konner
- Boundaries in Blood, p. 654
- Drawing Blood. Technology and Disease Identity in Twentieth-Century America.
- Keith Wailoo
- Review author[s]: John T. Truman
Perspectives
- Two Views of the Deep Mantle, pp. 655-656
- Jeroen Tromp; Adam M. Dziewonski
- Buried Spins in Slow Motion, pp. 656-657
- J. M. Kikkawa; D. D. Awschalom
- Genetic Medicine-When Will it Come to the Drugstore?, pp. 657-658
- Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede
- All You Need is RNA, pp. 658-659
- Paul Schimmel; Rebecca Alexander
Review
- An Integrated Model of the Transcription Complex in Elongation, Termination, and Editing, pp. 660-665
- Peter H. von Hippel
Research
Research Article
- Reconstitution of Peptide Bond Formation with Escherichia coli 23S Ribosomal RNA Domains, pp. 666-669
- Itaru Nitta; Yoshie Kamada; Hiroe Noda; Takuya Ueda; Kimitsuna Watanabe
Reports
- Peptides by Activation of Amino Acids with CO on (Ni,Fe)S Surfaces: Implications for the Origin of Life, pp. 670-672
- Claudia Huber; Günter Wächtershäuser
- Circular Polarization in Star-Formation Regions: Implications for Biomolecular Homochirality, pp. 672-674
- Jeremy Bailey; Antonio Chrysostomou; J. H. Hough; T. M. Gledhill; Alan McCall; Stuart Clark; François Ménard; Motohide Tamura
- Elastic Moduli of Wadsleyite (b-Mg2SiO4) to 7 Gigapascals and 873 Kelvin, pp. 675-677
- Baosheng Li; Robert C. Liebermann; Donald J. Weidner
- Ultrasonic Shear Wave Velocities of MgSiO3 Perovskite at 8 GPa and 800 K and Lower Mantle Composition, pp. 677-679
- Yegor D. Sinelnikov; Ganglin Chen; Daniel R. Neuville; Michael T. Vaughan; Robert C. Liebermann
- Multi-Atom Resonant Photoemission: A Method for Determining Near-Neighbor Atomic Identities and Bonding, pp. 679-683
- A. Kay; E. Arenholz; S. Mun; F. J. García de Abajo; C. S. Fadley; R. Denecke; Z. Hussain; M. A. Van Hove
- Visualization of Three-Dimensional Chaos, pp. 683-686
- G. O. Fountain; D. V. Khakhar; J. M. Ottino
- Ultraslow Electron Spin Dynamics in GaAs Quantum Wells Probed by Optically Pumped NMR, pp. 686-690
- N. N. Kuzma; P. Khandelwal; S. E. Barrett; L. N. Pfeiffer; K. W. West
- Near Extinction of a Large, Widely Distributed Fish, pp. 690-692
- Jill M. Casey; Ransom A. Myers
- Regulation of a Transcription Factor Network Required for Differentiation and Metabolism, pp. 692-695
- Stephen A. Duncan; M. Angeles Navas; Daniel Dufort; Janet Rossant; Markus Stoffel
- Impact of a Catastrophic Hurricane on Island Populations, pp. 695-697
- David A. Spiller; Jonathan B. Losos; Thomas W. Schoener
- Nucleation of COPII Vesicular Coat Complex by Endoplasmic Reticulum to Golgi Vesicle SNAREs, pp. 698-700
- Sebastian Springer; Randy Schekman
- Functional Reconstitution of Ypt7p GTPase and a Purified Vacuole SNARE Complex, pp. 700-702
- Ken Sato; William Wickner
- Identification of LFA-1 as a Candidate Autoantigen in Treatment-Resistant Lyme Arthritis, pp. 703-706
- Dawn M. Gross; Thomas Forsthuber; Magdalena Tary-Lehmann; Carey Etling; Kouichi Ito; Zoltan A. Nagy; Jodie A. Field; Allen C. Steere; Brigitte T. Huber
- Pioneer Axon Guidance by UNC-129, a C. elegans TGF-β, pp. 706-709
- Antonio Colavita; Srikant Krishna; Hong Zheng; Richard W. Padgett; Joseph G. Culotti
- Concerted Evolution in an Egg Receptor for a Rapidly Evolving Abalone Sperm Protein, pp. 710-712
- Willie J. Swanson; Victor D. Vacquier
AAAS News and Notes, pp. 714-715
- Tiffany Ayers
Back Matter (25 pp.)
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