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Previous Issue: New Series, Vol. 282, No. 5386, Oct. 2, 1998
Next Issue: New Series, Vol. 282, No. 5388, Oct. 16, 1998
Front Matter (35 pp.)
NetWatch, p. 195
- Jocelyn Kaiser
News
News of the Week
- NASA to Buy Research Time to Bail Out Russian Agency, pp. 206-207
- David Malakoff
- Optical Circuits Turn a Corner, p. 207
- Andrew Watson
- R&D Budget Request Reverses Long Decline, pp. 207+209
- Alicia Rivera
- Three Spending Bills Bolster Research, pp. 209-210
- David Malakoff
ScienceScope, pp. 209+211
News
News of the Week
- Geologists See Mars in the Canadian Arctic, pp. 210-211
- Robert Irion
- Probing the Milky Way's Black Heart, pp. 211-212
- Govert Schilling
- NSF Spells Out an Electronic Future, p. 212
- Jeffrey Mervis
- Court Hears Fight Over Safety of Lab, pp. 213+215
- Dennis Normile
- Cresson Told to Explain Questioned Contracts, p. 215
- Nigel Williams
- Bug Vanquishes Species, p. 215
- Dan Ferber
News Focus
- Human Rights Fades as a Cause for Scientists, pp. 216-219
- James Glanz
- Molecular Methods Fire Up the Hunt for Emerging Pathogens, pp. 219-221
- Michael Balter
- How Matter Can Melt at Absolute Zero, pp. 221+223-224
- David Voss
- New Clues to Movement Control and Vision, pp. 224-225
- Ingrid Wickelgren
Random Samples, p. 227
- Constance Holden
Essays on Science and Society
- The Mouse with the Flying Bicycle, pp. 229-230
- John Lynch
Science's Compass
Editorial
- How to Change the University, p. 237
- Michael S. Gazzaniga
Letters
- Nature Medicine's Reply Policy, p. 239
- Adrian J. Ivinson
- Airborne Particulate Matter, p. 239
- Forrest M. Mims III
- Great Ape Phenome Project?, pp. 239-240
- Ajit Varki; Christopher Wills; David Perlmutter; David Woodruff; Fred Gage; James Moore; Katerina Semendeferi; Kurt Benirshke; Robert Katzman; Russell Doolittle; Theodore Bullock
- Science Education Reform, pp. 240-242
- John A. Moore; Glenn T. Seaborg; Leon M. Lederman; Marjorie G. Bardeen
- 5200-Year-Old Acupuncture in Central Europe?, pp. 242-243
- Leopold Dorfer; Maximilian Moser; Konrad Spindler; Frank Bahr; Eduard Egarter-Vigl; Gottfried Dohr
- Maternal Investment in Human Brain Growth, p. 243
- Rose E. Frisch
- Typographical Error, p. 243
- Georg F. Weber; Samy Ashkar; Harvey Cantor; Melvin J. Glimcher
Corrections and Clarifications: A Biomolecule Building Block from Vents, p. 243
Corrections and Clarifications: Assembling the World's Biggest Library on Your Desktop, p. 243
Corrections and Clarifications: Solution to a Conservation Problem?, p. 243
Corrections and Clarifications: Societies Leap Into California Standards Fray, p. 243
Corrections and Clarifications: Populations as 'Species-in-Waiting'?, p. 243
Science's Compass
Policy Forum
- Outcomes Research: Measuring the End Results of Health Care, pp. 245-246
- Carolyn M. Clancy; John M. Eisenberg
Books and New Media
- The Public and the Quake That Wasn't, p. 247
- Earthquake Fears, Predictions, and Preparations in Mid-America.
- John E. Farley
- Review author[s]: Seth Stein
- Model Metaorganism, p. 248
- Volvox. Molecular-Genetic Origins of Multicellularity and Cellular Differentiation.
- David L. Kirk
- Review author[s]: Graham Bell
Perspectives
- A New Twist, p. 249
- Matt Visser
- Ribozyme Architectural Diversity Made Visible, pp. 251-252
- Eric Westhof; François Michel
- A Plant's Dilemma, pp. 252-253
- Erwin Grill; Hubert Ziegler
Research
Research Article
- A Preorganized Active Site in the Crystal Structure of the Tetrahymena Ribozyme, pp. 259-264
- Barbara L. Golden; Anne R. Gooding; Elaine R. Podell; Thomas R. Cech
Reports
- The Chemistry of Water on Alumina Surfaces: Reaction Dynamics from First Principles, pp. 265-268
- Kenneth C. Hass; William F. Schneider; Alessandro Curioni; Wanda Andreoni
- Past Temperatures Directly from the Greenland Ice Sheet, pp. 268-271
- D. Dahl-Jensen; K. Mosegaard; N. Gundestrup; G. D. Clow; S. J. Johnsen; A. W. Hansen; N. Balling
- Direct Measurement of Femtomoles of Osmium and the 187 Os/ 186 Os Ratio in Seawater, pp. 272-274
- Sylvain Levasseur; Jean-Louis Birck; Claude J. Allègre
- Experimental Demonstration of Guiding and Bending of Electromagnetic Waves in a Photonic Crystal, pp. 274-276
- Shawn-Yu Lin; Edmund Chow; Vince Hietala; Pierre R. Villeneuve; J. D. Joannopoulos
- Organic Carbon Fluxes and Ecological Recovery from the Cretaceous-Tertiary Mass Extinction, pp. 276-279
- Steven D'Hondt; Percy Donaghay; James C. Zachos; Danielle Luttenberg; Matthias Lindinger
- Climate Change Record in Subsurface Temperatures: A Global Perspective, pp. 279-281
- Henry N. Pollack; Shaopeng Huang; Po-Yu Shen
- Isolation of Acidophilic Methane-Oxidizing Bacteria from Northern Peat Wetlands, pp. 281-284
- Svetlana N. Dedysh; Nicolai S. Panikov; Werner Liesack; Regine Großkopf; Jizhong Zhou; James M. Tiedje
- Alterations of the PPP2R1B Gene in Human Lung and Colon Cancer, pp. 284-287
- Steven Siqing Wang; Edward D. Esplin; Jia Ling Li; Liying Huang; Adi Gazdar; John Minna; Glen A. Evans
- Role of Farnesyltransferase in ABA Regulation of Guard Cell Anion Channels and Plant Water Loss, pp. 287-290
- Zhen-Ming Pei; Majid Ghassemian; Christine M. Kwak; Peter McCourt; Julian I. Schroeder
- Cell Surface Trafficking of Fas: A Rapid Mechanism of p53-Mediated Apoptosis, pp. 290-293
- Martin Bennett; Kirsty Macdonald; Shiu-Wan Chan; J. Paul Luzio; Robert Simari; Peter Weissberg
- Bifurcation of Lipid and Protein Kinase Signals of PI3Kγ to the Protein Kinases PKB and MAPK, pp. 293-296
- Tzvetanka Bondeva; Luciano Pirola; Ginette Bulgarelli-Leva; Ignacio Rubio; Reinhard Wetzker; Matthias P. Wymann
- Controlling Gene Expression in Living Cells Through Small Molecule-RNA Interactions, pp. 296-298
- Geoffrey Werstuck; Michael R. Green
- Transition from Moderate to Excessive Drug Intake: Change in Hedonic Set Point, pp. 298-300
- S. H. Ahmed; G. F. Koob
Back Matter (68 pp.)
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