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Science, New Series, Vol. 283, No. 5407, Mar. 5, 1999


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Front Matter (34 pp.)
Netwatch, p. 1411
Jocelyn Kaiser


News


News of the Week
Physics Prize Falls Foul of Middle East Politics, pp. 1422-1423
Michael Balter
New Clues Found to Diabetes and Obesity, pp. 1423+1425
Dan Ferber
Sciencescope, pp. 1425+1427
Genetic Clues Revise View of Japanese Roots, pp. 1426-1427
Dennis Normile
Chinese Journals Pledge Crackdown, p. 1427
Justin Wang
Surprising Asymmetry Seen in Kaon Decays, p. 1428
James Glanz
Panel Backs Next-Generation Synchrotron, pp. 1428-1429
Robert F. Service
Entangled Trio to Put Nonlocality to the Test, p. 1429
Andrew Watson
Big Increase Seen as Answer to Sanctions, pp. 1429+1431
Pallava Bagla
Patients Scarce in Test of Long-Term Therapy, p. 1431
Eliot Marshall


News Focus
Harnessing the Power of Stem Cells, pp. 1432-1434
Gretchen Vogel
A Man in a Hurry, pp. 1434-1435
Joseph Alper
Can Mitochondrial Clocks Keep Time?, pp. 1435+1437-1438
Evelyn Strauss
Y Chromosomes Point to Native American Adam, pp. 1439-1440
Diego Hurtado de Mendoza; Ricardo Braginski
Taking Global Warming to The People, pp. 1440-1441
Kathryn S. Brown
Claude Allègre: Back to the Wall, but Still Fighting, pp. 1442-1443
Claude Allègre; Michael Balter


Random Samples, p. 1445
Constance Holden


Science's Compass


Editorial
A Media Uncertainty Principle, p. 1453
Barbara Jasny; R. Brooks Hanson; Floyd E. Bloom


Letters
Physician-Scientists at Risk, pp. 1455-1456
Don Rockey; Jerry Sobieraj; Erwin B. Montgomery Jr.; Oliver G. Cameron
Erect Leaves and Photosynthesis in Rice, pp. 1456-1457
Thomas R. Sinclair; John E. Sheehy
Einstein's "Kyoto Lecture": The Michelson-Morley Experiment, pp. 1457-1458
Ryoichi Itagaki
Arsenic and Drinking Water Contamination, pp. 1458-1459
Tom W. Gebel
Crystal-Growing in Space, p. 1459
Alexander McPherson; Larry DeLucas


Corrections and clarifications: Water, Climate, and Life, p. 1459


Science's Compass


Essays on Science and Society
Ritual Abuse, Hot Air, and Missed Opportunities, pp. 1461-1463
Michael Crichton


Books et al
Shifting the Spotlight from Center Stage, p. 1464
Women's Science Learning and Succeeding from the Margins
Margaret A. Eisenhart; Elizabeth Finkel
Review author[s]: Jill Shapiro


Perspectives
Exon Shuffling in Retrospect, pp. 1465+1467
Tom Eickbush
Ultrafast Glimpses at Water and Ice, pp. 1467-1468
Edwin J. Heilweil
Putting Stem Cells to Work, pp. 1468-1470
Davor Solter; John Gearhart
A Message from Warmer Times, pp. 1470-1471
Matthew P. Golombek


Mitochondria
[Introduction], p. 1475
Paula A. Kiberstis


Reviews
Mitochondrial Evolution, pp. 1476-1481
Michael W. Gray; Gertraud Burger; B. Franz Lang
Mitochondrial Diseases in Man and Mouse, pp. 1482-1488
Douglas C. Wallace
Oxidative Phosphorylation at the fin de siècle, pp. 1488-1493
Matti Saraste
The Machinery of Mitochondrial Inheritance and Behavior, pp. 1493-1497
Michael P. Yaffe


Research


Research Article
A Glycyl Radical Site in the Crystal Structure of a Class III Ribonucleotide Reductase, pp. 1499-1504
Derek T. Logan; Jessica Andersson; Britt-Marie Sjöberg; Pär Nordlund


Reports
Controlling the Morphology of Amorphous Solid Water, pp. 1505-1507
K. P. Stevenson; Greg A. Kimmel; Z. Dohnálek; R. Scott Smith; Bruce D. Kay
Semimajor Axis Mobility of Asteroidal Fragments, pp. 1507-1510
Paolo Farinella; David Vokrouhlický
Quartzlike Carbon Dioxide: An Optically Nonlinear Extended Solid at High Pressures and Temperatures, pp. 1510-1513
V. Iota; C. S. Yoo; H. Cynn
Electrostatic Deflections and Electromechanical Resonances of Carbon Nanotubes, pp. 1513-1516
Philippe Poncharal; Z. L. Wang; Daniel Ugarte; Walt A. de Heer
An Elusive Blind-Thrust Fault Beneath Metropolitan Los Angeles, pp. 1516-1518
John H. Shaw; Peter M. Shearer
Evolution of the Continents and the Atmosphere Inferred from Th-U-Nb Systematics of the Depleted Mantle, pp. 1519-1522
Kenneth D. Collerson; Balz S. Kamber
Rapid Thinning of Parts of the Southern Greenland Ice Sheet, pp. 1522-1524
W. Krabill; E. Frederick; S. Manizade; C. Martin; J. Sonntag; R. Swift; R. Thomas; W. Wright; J. Yungel
A Functional Model for O-O Bond Formation by the O2-Evolving Complex in Photosystem II, pp. 1524-1527
Julian Limburg; John S. Vrettos; Louise M. Liable-Sands; Arnold L. Rheingold; Robert H. Crabtree; Gary W. Brudvig
Episodic Fluctuations in Larval Supply, pp. 1528-1530
Paul A. Dixon; Maria J. Milicich; George Sugihara
Exon Shuffling by L1 Retrotransposition, pp. 1530-1534
John V. Moran; Ralph J. DeBerardinis; Haig H. Kazazian Jr.
Adhesive and Mammalian Transglutaminase Substrate Properties of Candida albicans Hwp 1, pp. 1535-1538
Janet F. Staab; Steven D. Bradway; Paul L. Fidel; Paula Sundstrom
The Predictive Value of Changes in Effective Connectivity for Human Learning, pp. 1538-1541
C. Büchel; J. T. Coull; K. J. Friston
Cytokinin Activation of Arabidopsis Cell Division through a D-Type Cyclin, pp. 1541-1544
Catherine Riou-Khamlichi; Rachael Huntley; Annie Jacqmard; James A. H. Murray
Increased Insulin Sensitivity and Obesity Resistance in Mice Lacking the Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase-1B Gene, pp. 1544-1548
Mounib Elchebly; Paul Payette; Eva Michaliszyn; Wanda Cromlish; Susan Collins; Ailsa Lee Loy; Denis Normandin; Alan Cheng; Jean Himms-Hagen; Chi-Chung Chan; Chidambaram Ramachandran; Michael J. Gresser; Michel L. Tremblay; Brian P. Kennedy


Back Matter (44 pp.)

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