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Science, New Series, Vol. 284, No. 5422, Jun. 18, 1999


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Front Matter (31 pp.)
NetWatch, p. 1887
Jocelyn Kaiser


News


News of the Week
Top Scientists Lock Horns in Research Reform Debate, p. 1898
Michael Balter
How Aztecs Played Their Rubber Matches, pp. 1898-1899
Erik Stokstad
Mutant Fruit Flies Respond to Lorenzo's Oil, pp. 1899+1901
Marcia Barinaga
ScienceScope, pp. 1901+1903
Canada Dedicates New Human, Animal Labs, p. 1902
Jeffrey Mervis
Spending Boost Aims to Reform Academia, pp. 1902-1903
Michael Baker
Supreme Court Limits Scope of Appeals, pp. 1903+1905
David Malakoff
Corporate Ties Still Off Limits for Academics, p. 1905
Dennis Normile
Tulane Inquiry Clears Lead Researcher, p. 1905
Jocelyn Kaiser


News Focus
A High-Stakes Gamble on Genome Sequencing, pp. 1906-1909
Eliot Marshall
Experiment Uses Nuclear Plants to Understand Neutrinos, pp. 1909-1911
Dennis Normile
SNO Closes in on Solar Neutrino Riddle, p. 1910
Mark Sincell
Survival Test for Geophysics Center, pp. 1911-1912
Richard Stone
Telescope Builders Think Big -- Really Big, pp. 1913+1915
Govert Schilling
Lofty Observatory Gets Boost, p. 1915
Govert Schilling
Microbes Feature as Pathogens and Pals at Gathering, pp. 1916-1917
Evelyn Strauss


Random Samples, p. 1919
Constance Holden


Science's Compass


Editorial
Mitigating Natural Disasters, p. 1927
Frank Press; Robert M. Hamilton


Letters
"New Physics" Patents, pp. 1929-1932
Thomas Valone; Eugene F. Mallove; Paul LaViolette; John E. Haaland; Leon Kaufman; Lee Kavanau
Tulane Investigation Completed, p. 1932
John C. LaRosa
Corrections and Clarifications: The Global Topography of Mars and Implications for Surface Evolution, p. 1932
Corrections and Clarifications: NAS Elects 60 New Members, p. 1932


Books et al.
Information Isn't Everything, p. 1935
The Touchstone of Life. Molecular Information, Cell Communication, and the Foundations of Life
Werner R. Loewenstein
Review author[s]: Louis J. DeFelice
Free Radicals in the 20th Century, pp. 1935-1936
Reactive Oxygen Species in Biological Systems. An Interdisciplinary Approach
Daniel L. Gilbert; Carol A. Colton
Review author[s]: Ian A. Cotgreave; Sten Orrenius


Perspectives
Unsteady Aerodynamics, pp. 1937+1939
Robert Dudley
Small is Beautiful, pp. 1939-1940
André Thiaville; Jacques Miltat
Rolf Landauer (1927-1999), p. 1940
Charles Bennett
Respiration Without O2, pp. 1941-1942
Lars Hederstedt
Completing the Cycle, p. 1942
Julia Uppenbrink


Review
Mitigation Emerges as Major Strategy for Reducing Losses Caused by Natural Disasters, pp. 1943-1947
Board on Natural Disasters


Tech.Sight
Protein Interaction Methods -- Toward an Endgame, pp. 1948-1950
Andrew R. Mendelsohn; Roger Brent
At Your Fingertips, p. 1951
NuGenesis Mantra Software.
Review author[s]: John Wass
TechSightings, pp. 1952-1953
Robert Sikorski; Richard Peters; Frank Hoover


Research


Research Articles
Wing Rotation and the Aerodynamic Basis of Insect Flight, pp. 1954-1960
Michael H. Dickinson; Fritz-Olaf Lehmann; Sanjay P. Sane
Structure of the Escherichia coli Fumarate Reductase Respiratory Complex, pp. 1961-1966
Tina M. Iverson; César Luna-Chavez; Gary Cecchini; Douglas C. Rees


Reports
Quantum Computing with Electrons Floating on Liquid Helium, pp. 1967-1969
P. M. Platzman; M. I. Dykman
Spontaneous Bubble Domain Formation in a Layered Ferromagnetic Crystal, pp. 1969-1971
T. Fukumura; H. Sugawara; T. Hasegawa; K. Tanaka; H. Sakaki; T. Kimura; Y. Tokura
Century-Scale Shifts in Early Holocene Atmospheric CO2 Concentration, pp. 1971-1973
Friederike Wagner; Sjoerd J. P. Bohncke; David L. Dilcher; Wolfram M. Kürschner; Bas van Geel; Henk Visscher
Contribution of Disturbance to Increasing Seasonal Amplitude of Atmospheric CO2, pp. 1973-1976
S. A. Zimov; S. P. Davidov; G. M. Zimova; A. I. Davidova; F. S. Chapin III; M. C. Chapin; J. F. Reynolds
Xyloglucan Fucosyltransferase, an Enzyme Involved in Plant Cell Wall Biosynthesis, pp. 1976-1979
Robyn M. Perrin; Amy E. DeRocher; Maor Bar-Peled; Weiqing Zeng; Lorena Norambuena; Ariel Orellana; Natasha V. Raikhel; Kenneth Keegstra
Dissociating Pain from Its Anticipation in the Human Brain, pp. 1979-1981
Alexander Ploghaus; Irene Tracey; Joseph S. Gati; Stuart Clare; Ravi S. Menon; Paul M. Matthews; J. Nicholas P. Rawlins
Gating of BDNF-Induced Synaptic Potentiation by cAMP, pp. 1982-1984
Lisa Boulanger; Mu-ming Poo
Preventing Neurodegeneration in the Drosophila Mutant bubblegum, pp. 1985-1988
Kyung-Tai Min; Seymour Benzer
Prehistoric Polymers: Rubber Processing in Ancient Mesoamerica, pp. 1988-1991
Dorothy Hosler; Sandra L. Burkett; Michael J. Tarkanian
Requirement for Croquemort in Phagocytosis of Apoptotic Cells in Drosophila, pp. 1991-1994
Nathalie C. Franc; Pascal Heitzler; R. Alan B. Ezekowitz; Kristin White
Vessel Cooption, Regression, and Growth in Tumors Mediated by Angiopoietins and VEGF, pp. 1994-1998
J. Holash; P. C. Maisonpierre; D. Compton; P. Boland; C. R. Alexander; D. Zagzag; G. D. Yancopoulos; S. J. Wiegand
Initiation of Mammalian Liver Development from Endoderm by Fibroblast Growth Factors, pp. 1998-2003
Joonil Jung; Minghua Zheng; Mitchell Goldfarb; Kenneth S. Zaret
Identification of Both Shared and Distinct Proteins in the Major and Minor Spliceosomes, pp. 2003-2005
Cindy L. Will; Claudia Schneider; Robin Reed; Reinhard Lührmann


Back Matter (39 pp.)

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