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Science, New Series, Vol. 283, No. 5404, Feb. 12, 1999


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Front Matter (28 pp.)
Netwatch, p. 899
Jocelyn Kaiser


News


News of the Week
French AIDS Research Pioneers to Testify in Trial of Ministers, pp. 910-911
Michael Balter
Cooking Up Sugar Chains in a Hurry, pp. 911+913
Robert F. Service
Investigations on Trial in a Texas Court, pp. 913-914
Eliot Marshall
ScienceScope, pp. 913+915
New Telescope Will Turn a Keen Ear on E.T., p. 914
Donald Goldsmith
Plan for Divulging Raw Data Eases Fears, pp. 914-915
Jocelyn Kaiser
Black Sea Flood Theory to be Tested, pp. 915-916
Richard Stone
Cheap Treatment Cuts HIV Transmission, pp. 916-917
Jon Cohen
MIT's Bates Lab Gets Sudden Reprieve, p. 917
Jeffrey Mervis
SOHO Learns the Cruder Arts of Navigation, pp. 917+919
Alexander Hellemans
Red Tape Entangles Small Satellite, p. 919
David Malakoff


News Focus
New Light on the Oldest Art, pp. 920-922
Michael Balter; Virginia Morell
How Dark Matter Became an Unlikely Media Star, p. 923
James Glanz
Environmental Researchers Wait Anxiously for Salvation, p. 924
Annika Nilsson; Joanna Rose
Mathematicians Offer Answers to Everyday Conundrums, pp. 925+927
Barry Cipra
Search for Neutrino Mass is Big Stretch for Three Labs, pp. 928-929
Dennis Normile
Researchers Ready for the Plunge Into Deep Water, p. 929
Richard Stone


Random Samples, p. 931
Constance Holden


Science's Compass


Editorial
Census 2000-Science Meets Politics, p. 935
Kenneth Prewitt


Letters
Pluto's Planetary Status, p. 937
Robert L. Millis; Richard P. Binzel; Joseph A. Burns; Dale P. Cruikshank; William B. McKinnon; Karen J. Meech; S. Alan Stern; Govert Schilling
Animal Rights Review, p. 938
Review author[s]: F. Barbara Orlans; Tom L. Beauchamp; Rebecca Dresser; David B. Morton; John P. Gluck
Perfect Mirrors, Past and Present, pp. 938-939
James W. Seeser; Charles K. Carniglia; Jonathan P. Dowling
Brown Dwarf Origins, pp. 939-940
Ralph Neuhaeuser
Scientific Responsibility in Global Climate Change Research, pp. 940-941
S. Ichtiaque Rasool


Corrections and Clarifications: The Mystery of the Migrating Galaxy Clusters, p. 941
Corrections and Clarifications: Animal Rights Brochure, p. 941
Corrections and Clarifications: Georgetown Faculty Grievance, p. 941
Corrections and Clarifications: Warm, Warm on the Range, p. 941
Corrections and Clarifications: Measuring the Spin Polarization of a Metal with a Superconducting Point Contact, p. 941


Science's Compass


Books et al.
Whale Origins-Conquering the Seas, p. 943
The Emergence of Whales. Evolutionary Patterns in the Origin of Cetacea.
J. G. M. Thewissen
Review author[s]: John E. Heyning
Heart-Making Details, pp. 943-944
Heart Development.
Richard P. Harvey; Nadia Rosenthal
Review author[s]: Lewis Wolpert


Perspectives
Turtle Origins, pp. 945-946
Olivier Rieppel
Making Polymers from Carbon Dioxide, pp. 946-947
Eric J. Beckman
Unlimited Mileage from Telomerase?, pp. 947-949
Titia de Lange; Ronald A. DePinho
The North Atlantic Oscillation, pp. 948-949
Julia Uppenbrink


Review
Genesis and Evolution of the 1997-98 El Niño, pp. 950-954
Michael J. McPhaden


Research


Reports
Mechanism of Zeolite a Nanocrystal Growth from Colloids at Room Temperature, pp. 958-960
Svetlana Mintova; Norman H. Olson; Valentin Valtchev; Thomas Bein
Giant Wormlike Rubber Micelles, pp. 960-963
You-Yeon Won; H. Ted Davis; Frank S. Bates
Ordered Mesoporous Polymers of Tunable Pore Size from Colloidal Silica Templates, pp. 963-965
Stacy A. Johnson; Patricia J. Ollivier; Thomas E. Mallouk
Dislocations Faster Than the Speed of Sound, pp. 965-968
Peter Gumbsch; Huajian Gao
Chemical Analysis of Polar Stratospheric Cloud Particles, pp. 968-970
Jochen Schreiner; Christiane Voigt; Andreas Kohlmann; Frank Arnold; Konrad Mauersberger; Niels Larsen
A 0.5-Million-Year Record of Millennial-Scale Climate Variability in the North Atlantic, pp. 971-975
Jerry F. McManus; Delia W. Oppo; James L. Cullen
A Kuroko-Type Polymetallic Sulfide Deposit in a Submarine Silicic Caldera, pp. 975-977
K. Lizasa; R. S. Fiske; O. Ishizuka; M. Yuasa; J. Hashimoto; J. Ishibashi; J. Naka; Y. Horii; Y. Fujiwara; A. Imai; S. Koyama
A Giant Protease with Potential to Substitute for Some Functions of the Proteasome, pp. 978-981
Elke Geier; Günter Pfeifer; Matthias Wilm; Maria Lucchiari-Hartz; Wolfgang Baumeister; Klaus Eichmann; Gabriele Niedermann
Role of NADH Shuttle System in Glucose-Induced Activation of Mitochondrial Metabolism and Insulin Secretion, pp. 981-985
Kazuhiro Eto; Yoshiharu Tsubamoto; Yasuo Terauchi; Takuya Sugiyama; Takuya Kishimoto; Noriko Takahashi; Naoko Yamauchi; Naoto Kubota; Shigeo Murayama; Toru Aizawa; Yasuo Akanuma; Shinichi Aizawa; Haruo Kasai; Yoshio Yazaki; Takashi Kadowaki
Conserved Structures of Mediator and RNA Polymerase II Holoenzyme, pp. 985-987
Francisco J. Asturias; Yi Wei Jiang; Lawrence C. Myers; Claes M. Gustafsson; Roger D. Kornberg
Crystallographic Evidence for Preformed Dimers of Erythropoietin Receptor Before Ligand Activation, pp. 987-990
Oded Livnah; Enrico A. Stura; Steven A. Middleton; Dana L. Johnson; Linda K. Jolliffe; Ian A. Wilson
Erythropoietin Receptor Activation by a Ligand-Induced Conformation Change, pp. 990-993
Ingrid Remy; Ian A. Wilson; Stephen W. Michnick
Hunting Behavior of a Marine Mammal Beneath the Antarctic Fast Ice, pp. 993-996
R. W. Davis; L. A. Fuiman; T. M. Williams; S. O. Collier; W. P. Hagey; S. B. Kanatous; S. Kohin; M. Horning
A Copper Cofactor for the Ethylene Receptor ETR1 from Arabidopsis, pp. 996-998
Fernando I. Rodríguez; Jeffrey J. Esch; Anne E. Hall; Brad M. Binder; G. Eric Schaller; Anthony B. Bleecker
A Molecular Phylogeny of Reptiles, pp. 998-1001
S. Blair Hedges; Laura L. Poling
Efficient Bypass of a Thymine-Thymine Dimer by Yeast DNA Polymerase, Polη, pp. 1001-1004
Robert E. Johnson; Satya Prakash; Louise Prakash


Back Matter (68 pp.)

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