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Previous Issue: New Series, Vol. 281, No. 5385, Sep. 25, 1998
Next Issue: New Series, Vol. 282, No. 5387, Oct. 9, 1998
Front Matter (31 pp.)
NetWatch, p. 7
- Jocelyn Kaiser
News
News of the Week
- NIH Embraces Citizens' Council to Cool Debate on Priorities, pp. 18-19
- Bruce Agnew
- Leakey Back as Head of Wildlife Service, p. 19
- David Malakoff
- Tracks of Billion-Year-Old Animals?, pp. 19+21
- Richard A. Kerr
- Mexican Fires Charge Up U.S. Clouds, pp. 21-22
- Robert Irion
ScienceScope, pp. 21+23
News
News of the Week
- Researchers Wary of Red-Green Coalition, pp. 22-23
- Robert Koenig
- House Report Takes Middle Ground, pp. 23-24
- David Malakoff
- Distant Star's Radiation Jolts Earth's Atmosphere, p. 24
- David Kestenbaum
- Japan Urged to Open Up Planning for Lab, pp. 24-25
- Dennis Normile
- A Gray Day on a Brown Dwarf, pp. 25+27
- Govert Schilling
- RAC Confronts in Utero Gene Therapy Proposals, p. 27
- Jennifer Couzin
News Focus
- When Walls Can Talk, Plant Biologists Listen, pp. 28-29
- Evelyn Strauss
- New Math Speeds the Search for Protein Structures, pp. 30-31
- David Kestenbaum
- A Bold Plan to Re-Create a Long-Lost Siberian Ecosystem, pp. 31+33-34
- Richard Stone
- Iridium Accelerates Squeeze on the Spectrum, pp. 34-35
- David Malakoff
- Leveling the Playing Field for Scientists with Disabilities, pp. 36-37
- Constance Holden
Random Samples, p. 39
- Gretchen Vogel
Essays on Science and Society
- Bioprospecting in an African Context, pp. 41-42
- Lydia Makhubu
Science's Compass
Editorial
- A Call for More Science in EPA Regulations, p. 45
- William J. Madia
Letters
- Chimp Research, p. 47
- Steven R. Leigh; Oliver A. Ryder
- Big Sky Science, p. 47
- Conrad Burns
- Is Oil Running Out?, pp. 47-49
- Michael Toman; Joel Darmstadter; Amory B. Lovins; Richard C. Duncan; Walter Youngquist
- "Bow Tie" Correction, pp. 49-50
- Claire Gmachl
- Cope's Rule, pp. 50-51
- Paul D. Polly; John Alroy
Corrections and Clarifications: Strict Rules Rile Indian Scientists, p. 51
Corrections and Clarifications: Graduate Admissions Down for Minorities, p. 51
Corrections and Clarifications: The Paradox of Lead Poisoning Prevention, p. 51
Corrections and Clarifications: Tales Told in Lead, p. 51
Science's Compass
Policy Forum
- The Human Genome Project: Reaching the Finish Line, pp. 53-54
- R. Waterston; J. E. Sulston
Books and New Media
- The New "Great Work", p. 55
- Retroviruses.
- John M. Coffin; Stephen H. Hughes; Harold E. Varmus
- Review author[s]: Simon Wain-Hobson
- Beyond Expert Advice, pp. 55-57
- HyperNMR 2.0.
- Hypercube Inc.
- Review author[s]: Larry S. Daley; Kevin Ahern
Perspectives
- Separating the Wheat from the Chaff, pp. 57-58
- Nancy Kanwisher; Paul Downing
- A Role for the Tropical Pacific, pp. 59+61
- Mark A. Cane
- The Seesaw Effect, pp. 61-62
- Thomas F. Stocker
Review
- Harnessing the Biosynthetic Code: Combinations, Permutations, and Mutations, pp. 63-68
- David E. Cane; Christopher T. Walsh; Chaitan Khosla
Research
Reports
- Tomographic Evidence for Localized Lithospheric Shear Along the Altyn Tagh Fault, pp. 74-76
- Gérard Wittlinger; Paul Tapponnier; Georges Poupinet; Jiang Mei; Shi Danian; Georges Herquel; Frédéric Masson
- Enhanced Positive Cloud-to-Ground Lightning in Thunderstorms Ingesting Smoke from Fires, pp. 77-80
- Walter A. Lyons; Thomas E. Nelson; Earle R. Williams; John A. Cramer; Tommy R. Turner
- Triploblastic Animals More Than 1 Billion Years Ago: Trace Fossil Evidence from India, pp. 80-83
- Adolf Seilacher; Pradip K. Bose; Friedrich Pflüger
- ROSAT X-ray Detection of a Young Brown Dwarf in the Chamaeleon I Dark Cloud, pp. 83-85
- Ralph Neuhäuser; Fernando Comerón
- Measuring the Spin Polarization of a Metal with a Superconducting Point Contact, pp. 85-88
- R. J. Soulen Jr.; J. M. Byers; M. S. Osofsky; B. Nadgorny; T. Ambrose; S. F. Cheng; P. R. Broussard; C. T. Tanaka; J. Nowak; J. S. Moodera; A. Barry; J. M. D. Coey
- Particle Nucleation in the Tropical Boundary Layer and Its Coupling to Marine Sulfur Sources, pp. 89-92
- A. D. Clarke; D. Davis; V. N. Kapustin; F. Eisele; G. Chen; I. Paluch; D. Lenschow; A. R. Bandy; D. Thornton; K. Moore; L. Mauldin; D. Tanner; M. Litchy; M. A. Carroll; J. Collins; G. Albercook
- Synchronous Climate Changes in Antarctica and the North Atlantic, pp. 92-95
- E. J. Steig; E. J. Brook; J. W. C. White; C. M. Sucher; M. L. Bender; S. J. Lehman; D. L. Morse; E. D. Waddington; G. D. Clow
- Solution Properties of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes, pp. 95-98
- Jian Chen; Mark A. Hamon; Hui Hu; Yongsheng Chen; Apparao M. Rao; Peter C. Eklund; Robert C. Haddon
- Ammonia Synthesis at Atmospheric Pressure, pp. 98-100
- George Marnellos; Michael Stoukides
- An Arabidopsis Mutant Defective in the Plastid General Protein Import Apparatus, pp. 100-103
- Paul Jarvis; Lih-Jen Chen; Hsou-min Li; Charles A. Peto; Christian Fankhauser; Joanne Chory
- Hepatitis C Viral Dynamics In vivo and the Antiviral Efficacy of Interferon-α Therapy, pp. 103-107
- Avidan U. Neumann; Nancy P. Lam; Harel Dahari; David R. Gretch; Thelma E. Wiley; Thomas J. Layden; Alan S. Perelson
- Mechanisms of Directed Attention in the Human Extrastriate Cortex as Revealed by Functional MRI, pp. 108-111
- Sabine Kastner; Peter de Weerd; Robert Desimone; Leslie G. Ungerleider
- A Structural Basis for Recognition of A·T and T·A Base Pairs in the Minor Groove of B-DNA, pp. 111-115
- Clara L. Kielkopf; Sarah White; Jason W. Szewczyk; James M. Turner; Eldon E. Baird; Peter B. Dervan; Douglas C. Rees
- A Carrot Leucine-Rich-Repeat Protein That Inhibits Ice Recrystallization, pp. 115-117
- Dawn Worrall; Luisa Elias; David Ashford; Maggie Smallwood; Chris Sidebottom; Peter Lillford; Julia Telford; Chris Holt; Dianna Bowles
- Role for the Target Enzyme in Deactivation of Photoreceptor G Protein In Vivo, pp. 117-121
- Stephen H. Tsang; Marie E. Burns; Peter D. Calvert; Peter Gouras; Denis A. Baylor; Stephen P. Goff; Vadim Y. Arshavsky
- An Antimicrobial Activity of Cytolytic T Cells Mediated by Granulysin, pp. 121-125
- Steffen Stenger; Dennis A. Hanson; Rachel Teitelbaum; Puneet Dewan; Kayvan R. Niazi; Christopher J. Froelich; Tomas Ganz; Sybille Thoma-Uszynski; Agustín Melián; Christian Bogdan; Steven A. Porcelli; Barry R. Bloom; Alan M. Krensky; Robert L. Modlin
Back Matter (63 pp.)
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