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Science, New Series, Vol. 282, No. 5393, Nov. 20, 1998


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Front Matter (28 pp.)
Netwatch, p. 1379
Jocelyn Kaiser


News


News of the Week
Claim of Human-Cow Embryo Greeted with Skepticism, pp. 1390-1391
Eliot Marshall
Station Launch Hides Lingering Woes, pp. 1391+1393
Richard Stone
Science Gets Share of Stimulus Package, pp. 1393-1394
Dennis Normile
ScienceScope, p. 1393
India Prepares to Join U.S., World Teams, p. 1394
Pallava Bagla
Can IL-2 Smoke Out HIV Reservoirs?, pp. 1394-1395
Nigel Williams
A Possible New Partner for Telomerase, pp. 1395+1397
Elizabeth Pennisi
fMRI Provides New View of Monkey Brains, p. 1397
Marcia Barinaga


News Focus
Requiem for Life on Mars? Support for Microbes Fades, pp. 1398-1400
Richard A. Kerr
Finding Life's Limits, p. 1399
Gretchen Vogel
Buffeted Community Braces for More Change, pp. 1401+1403
Annika Nilsson; Joanna Rose
Brazil's Budget Crunch Crushes Science, pp. 1403-1404
Cássio Leite Vieira
Training a Molecular Gun on Killer E. coli, p. 1404
Richard A. Lovett
A First Step Toward Wiring Up a Quantum Computer, p. 1405
James Glanz
New Ways to Probe the Molecules of Life, pp. 1406-1407
Evelyn Strauss


Random Samples, p. 1409
Constance Holden


Essays on Science and Society
The Impact of Society on Science, pp. 1411-1412
Sydney Brenner


Science's Compass


Editorial
Animal Rights: Reaching the Public, p. 1417
P. Michael Conn; James Parker


Letters
Declining Fertility, p. 1419
Joshua Mitteldorf; Steven W. Mosher
Laboratory Safety, pp. 1419-1420
C. H. Collins; D. A. Kennedy
Patenting Genomic Technologies, pp. 1420-1421
David S. Block; Daniel J. Curran; Rebecca S. Eisenberg; Michael Heller


Corrections and Clarifications: Standards for Engineer Witnesses, p. 1421
Corrections and Clarifications: The Transcriptional Program of Sporulation in Budding Yeast, p. 1421


Science's Compass


Policy Forum
Strengthening the Biological Weapons Convention, p. 1423
Thomas P. Monath; Lance K. Gordon


Books and New Media
Terrible Lizards-Impure Science?, pp. 1424-1425
The Last Dinosaur Book. The Life and Times of a Cultural Icon.
W. J. T. Mitchell
Review author[s]: Peter Dodson
Confirming Antiquity in the Americas, pp. 1425-1426
Monte Verde. A Late Pleistocene Settlement in Chile, Vol. 2: The Archaeological Context and Interpretation.
Tom D. Dillehay
Review author[s]: Donald K. Grayson


Perspectives
The Sulfur Cycle and Atmospheric Oxygen, pp. 1426-1427
Robert A. Berner; Steven T. Petsch
Molecular Origin of Species, pp. 1428-1429
Masatoshi Nei; Jianzhi Zhang
Controlling Artificial Atoms, pp. 1429-1430
François H. Julien; Antigoni Alexandrou
Bringing the Mountain to Mohammed, pp. 1430-1431
Richard Losick; Lucy Shapiro


Review
Experimental Evolution of Parasites, pp. 1432-1435
Dieter Ebert


Tech.Sight
Hidden Models in Biopolymers, pp. 1436-1437
Mor Amitai


Techsightings, pp. 1438-1439
Robert Sikorski; Richard Peters


Archaeology: Transitions in Prehistory
[Introduction], p. 1441
Tim Appenzeller; Daniel Clery; Elizabeth Culotta


News
Why Settle Down? The Mystery of Communities, pp. 1442-1445
Michael Balter
The Slow Birth of Agriculture, pp. 1446-1450
Heather Pringle
Art: Evolution or Revolution?, pp. 1451-1454
Tim Appenzeller
No Last Word on Language Origins, pp. 1455-1458
Constance Holden


Research


Research Articles
Sulfur Isotopic Composition of Cenozoic Seawater Sulfate, pp. 1459-1462
Adina Paytan; Miriam Kastner; Douglas Campbell; Mark H. Thiemens
High-Resolution Protein Design with Backbone Freedom, pp. 1462-1467
Pehr B. Harbury; Joseph J. Plecs; Bruce Tidor; Tom Alber; Peter S. Kim


Reports
Reconstructing Past Ocean pH-Depth Profiles, pp. 1468-1471
M. R. Palmer; P. N. Pearson; S. J. Cobb
Low-Field Electron Emission from Undoped Nanostructured Diamond, pp. 1471-1473
W. Zhu; G. P. Kochanski; S. Jin
Coherent Optical Control of the Quantum State of a Single Quantum Dot, pp. 1473-1476
N. H. Bonadeo; J. Erland; D. Gammon; D. Park; D. S. Katzer; D. G. Steel
Photonic Band Gap Guidance in Optical Fibers, pp. 1476-1478
J. C. Knight; J. Broeng; T. A. Birks; P. St. J. Russell
Direct Demonstration of Milk as an Element of Archaeological Economies, pp. 1478-1481
Stephanie N. Dudd; Richard P. Evershed
Pb Isotopic Variability in Melt Inclusions from Oceanic Island Basalts, Polynesia, pp. 1481-1484
A. E. Saal; S. R. Hart; N. Shimizu; E. H. Hauri; G. D. Layne
Tankyrase, a Poly(ADP-Ribose) Polymerase at Human Telomeres, pp. 1484-1487
Susan Smith; Izabela Giriat; Anja Schmitt; Titia de Lange
Phytochromes and Cryptochromes in the Entrainment of the Arabidopsis Circadian Clock, pp. 1488-1490
David E. Somers; Paul F. Devlin; Steve A. Kay
Role of Mouse Cryptochrome Blue-Light Photoreceptor in Circadian Photoresponses, pp. 1490-1494
Randy J. Thresher; Martha Hotz Vitaterna; Yasuhide Miyamoto; Aleksey Kazantsev; David S. Hsu; Claude Petit; Christopher P. Selby; Lale Dawut; Oliver Smithies; Joseph S. Takahashi; Aziz Sancar
Induction and Evasion of Host Defenses by Type 1-Piliated Uropathogenic Escherichia coli, pp. 1494-1497
Matthew A. Mulvey; Yolanda S. Lopez-Boado; Carole L. Wilson; Robyn Roth; William C. Parks; John Heuser; Scott J. Hultgren
Requirement for p53 and p21 to Sustain G2 Arrest After DNA Damage, pp. 1497-1501
F. Bunz; A. Dutriaux; C. Lengauer; T. Waldman; S. Zhou; J. P. Brown; J. M. Sedivy; K. W. Kinzler; B. Vogelstein
A Rapidly Evolving Homeobox at the Site of a Hybrid Sterility Gene, pp. 1501-1504
Chau-Ti Ting; Shun-Chern Tsaur; Mao-Lien Wu; Chung-I Wu
Local GABA Circuit Control of Experience-Dependent Plasticity in Developing Visual Cortex, pp. 1504-1508
Takao K. Hensch; Michela Fagiolini; Nobuko Mataga; Michael P. Stryker; Steinunn Baekkeskov; Shera F. Kash
Synaptic Segregation at the Developing Neuromuscular Junction, pp. 1508-1511
Wen-Biao Gan; Jeff W. Lichtman
The Role of Far1p in Linking the Heterotrimeric G Protein to Polarity Establishment Proteins During Yeast Mating, pp. 1511-1516
Anne-Christine Butty; Peter M. Pryciak; Linda S. Huang; Ira Herskowitz; Matthias Peter
Localization of Bacterial DNA Polymerase: Evidence for a Factory Model of Replication, pp. 1516-1519
Katherine P. Lemon; Alan D. Grossman


Back Matter (81 pp.)

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