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Science, New Series, Vol. 285, No. 5431, Aug. 20, 1999


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Front Matter (24 pp.)
NetWatch, p. 1175
Laura Helmuth


News


News of the Week
Kansas Dumps Darwin, Raises Alarm Across the United States, pp. 1186-1187
Constance Holden
Sharp Drop Seen in Soil Erosion Rates, pp. 1187+1189
James Glanz
Fraud Finding Triggers Payback Demand, pp. 1189-1190
Marcia Barinaga; Jocelyn Kaiser
ScienceScope, pp. 1189+1191
Mexican Pairs Show Geography's Role, p. 1190
Bernice Wuethrich
One Mouse's Meat is Another One's Poison, pp. 1190-1191
Laura Helmuth
A World with Two Suns, pp. 1191+1193
Mark Sincell
DOE Blames Three at Los Alamos Lab, p. 1193
David Malakoff


News Focus
Making the Stuff of the Big Bang, pp. 1194-1197
David Voss
Getting to the Roots of Carbon Loss, Chili's Gain, pp. 1198-1199
Jocelyn Kaiser
Scarcity of Rain, Stream Gages Threatens Forecasts, pp. 1199-1200
Erik Stokstad
How Chromatin Changes Its Shape, pp. 1200-1201+1203
Michael Hagmann


Random Samples, p. 1205
Constance Holden


Science's Compass


Editorial
Scruples or Squabbles?, p. 1207
Floyd E. Bloom


Letters
Biomass in the Energy Picture, pp. 1209-1210
Thomas E. Bull; John A. Turner
Cladistics and Early Hominid Phylogeny, pp. 1210-1211
David S. Strait; Frederick E. Grine; B. Asfaw; T. White; O. Lovejoy; B. Latimer; S. Simpson; G. Suwa; Melanie McCollum


Policy Forum
Are the Foreign Born a Source of Strength for U.S. Science?, pp. 1213-1214
Sharon G. Levin; Paula E. Stephen


Books et al.
Gene Therapy Enters Adolescence, pp. 1215-1216
The Development of Human Gene Therapy
Theodore Friedmann
Review author[s]: Jeffrey M. Leiden
Personal Planetaria, p. 1216
Starry Night Pro.
Sienna Software Inc.
Review author[s]: Kevin B. Marvel


Perspectives
Take the Shuttle -- from Marine Algae to Atmospheric Chemistry, pp. 1217-1218
Peter Liss
Interfering with Water, pp. 1218-1219
David C. Clary
Tack -- a Sticky Subject, pp. 1219-1220
T. P. Russell; H. C. Kim
Xenografts and Retroviruses, pp. 1221-1222
Robin A. Weiss
Taking Transgenic Plants with a Pinch of Salt, pp. 1222-1223
Wolf B. Frommer; Uwe Ludewig; Doris Rentsch


Tech.Sight
Imaging Molecular Chemistry with Infrared Microscopy, pp. 1224-1225
David L. Wetzel; Steven M. LeVine
Sequence Server Samurai, pp. 1226-1227
Software Solution for Bio-Medicine
InforMax, Inc.
Review author[s]: Pavel Simakov
TechSighting, pp. 1228-1229
William Seffens; Robert Sikorski; Richard Peters


Research


Research Articles
Normal-Mode and Free-Air Gravity Constraints on Lateral Variations in Velocity and Density of Earth's Mantle, pp. 1231-1236
Miaki Ishii; Jeroen Tromp
Search for Cross-Species Transmission of Porcine Endogenous Retrovirus in Patients Treated with Living Pig Tissue, pp. 1236-1241
Khazal Paradis; Gillian Langford; Zhifeng Long; Walid Heneine; Paul Sandstrom; William M. Switzer; Louisa E. Chapman; Chris Lockey; David Onions; The Xen 111 Study Group; Edward Otto


Reports
Superconductivity and the c Axis Spectral Weight of High-Tc Superconductors, pp. 1241-1244
L. B. Ioffe; A. J. Millis
Decreased Rates of Alluvial Sediment Storage in the Coon Creek Basin, Wisconsin, 1975-93, pp. 1244-1246
Stanley W. Trimble
Switchable Tackiness and Wettability of a Liquid Crystalline Polymer, pp. 1246-1249
Guillaume de Crevoisier; Pascale Fabre; Jean-Marc Corpart; Ludwik Leibler
Chemical "Double Slits": Dynamical Interference of Photodissociation Pathways in Water, pp. 1249-1253
R. N. Dixon; D. W. Hwang; X. F. Yang; S. Harich; J. J. Lin; X. Yang
Alternative Dewetting Pathways of Thin Liquid Films, pp. 1254-1256
Rachel Yerushalmi-Rozen; Tobias Kerle; Jacob Klein
Salt Tolerance Conferred by Overexpression of a Vacuolar Na+/H+ Antiport in Arabidopsis, pp. 1256-1258
Maris P. Apse; Gilad S. Aharon; Wayne A. Snedden; Eduardo Blumwald
Genetic Variation in Susceptibility to Endocrine Disruption by Estrogen in Mice, pp. 1259-1261
Jimmy L. Spearow; Paul Doemeny; Robyn Sera; Rachael Leffler; Marylynn Barkley
Rapid Infection of Oral Mucosal-Associated Lymphoid Tissue with Simian Immunodeficiency Virus, pp. 1261-1265
Christiane Stahl-Hennig; Ralph M. Steinman; Klara Tenner-Racz; Melissa Pope; Nicole Stolte; Kerstin Mätz-Rensing; Gudrun Grobschupff; Birgit Raschdorff; Gerhard Hunsmann; Paul Racz
Conservatism of Ecological Niches in Evolutionary Time, pp. 1265-1267
A. T. Peterson; J. Soberón; V. Sánchez-Cordero
AP-2 Recruitment to Synaptotagmin Stimulated by Tyrosine-Based Endocytic Motifs, pp. 1268-1271
Volker Haucke; Pietro De Camilli
Identification of a Mating Type-Like Locus in the Asexual Pathogenic Yeast Candida albicans, pp. 1271-1275
Christina M. Hull; Alexander D. Johnson
Anti-Inflammatory Properties of Cytochrome P450 Epoxygenase-Derived Eicosanoids, pp. 1276-1279
Koichi Node; Yuqing Huo; Xiulu Ruan; Baichun Yang; Martin Spiecker; Klaus Ley; Darryl C. Zeldin; James K. Liao


Back Matter (37 pp.)

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