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Science, New Series, Vol. 285, No. 5432, Aug. 27, 1999


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Front Matter (25 pp.)
NetWatch, p. 1323
Jocelyn Kaiser


News


News of the Week
In Turkey, Havoc from a Falling-Domino Fault, pp. 1334-1335
Tim Appenzeller
Kenyan Skeleton Shakes Ape Family Tree, pp. 1335+1337
Carl Zimmer
California Probes Prison Teens Study, pp. 1337-1338
Marcia Barinaga
ScienceScope, p. 1337
Proving the Perfection of the Honeycomb, pp. 1338-1339
Dana Mackenzie
Selenium's Role in Infertility Explained, p. 1339
Evelyn Strauss
New Role Found for the Hippocampus, pp. 1339+1341
Laura Helmuth
Academy Seeks to Tap University Elites, p. 1341
Lin Gu


News Focus
Wiggling and Undulating Out of an X-ray Shortage, pp. 1342+1344-1346
Robert F. Service
Ribosome Finally Begins to Yield Its Complete Structure, p. 1343
Elizabeth Pennisi
Brazil Lobbies for First Nobel, p. 1346
Cassio Leite Vieira
New Ways to Glean Medicines from Plants, pp. 1347+1349
Trisha Gura
Subaru Sees an Unruly Pair, p. 1349
Dennis Normile


Random Samples, p. 1351
Constance Holden


Science's Compass


Editorial
Future U.S. Technology Leadership?, p. 1353
Philip H. Abelson


Letters
Darwin in Kansas, p. 1355
George B. Dyson
Ethane on Pluto?, p. 1355
Dale P. Cruikshank; Catherine de Bergh; Sylvain Douté; Thomas R. Geballe; Tobias C. Owen; Eric Quirico; Ted L. Roush; Bernard Schmitt
Increasing Food Availability, p. 1355
Pietro Cavalli
High-Altitude Tubers, p. 1356
Hector Flores
Polite Disagreement, p. 1356
Ian Tattersall; Jeffrey H. Schwartz
Artiodactyl Nuclear DNA Study, pp. 1356-1357
Conrad A. Matthee
Cold Fusion Prediction, p. 1357
Richard L. Garwin
Growing Metallic Whiskers: Alternative Interpretation, p. 1357
T. El-Raghy; M. W. Barsoum
Minority Data, pp. 1357-1358
William Yslas Velez
Rankings of Research-Active Departments, p. 1358
Vincent H. Crespi


Policy Forum
Privacy in Genetics Research, pp. 1359+1361
B. P. Fuller; M. J. Ellis Kahn; P. A. Barr; L. Biesecker; E. Crowley; J. Garber; M. K. Mansoura; P. Murphy; J. Murray; J. Phillips; K. Rothenberg; M. Rothstein; J. Stopfer; G. Swergold; B. Weber; F. S. Collins; K. L. Hudson


Books et al.
Curing and Caring -- The Long View, p. 1362
Mending Bodies, Saving Souls. A History of Hospitals.
Guenter B. Risse
Review author[s]: John V. Pickstone


Perspectives
The Benefits of Recycling, pp. 1363-1364
Karen P. Steel
Primordial Water, pp. 1364-1365
Robert N. Clayton
A Seismic Look Under the Continents, pp. 1365-1366
Karen M. Fischer; Rob D. van der Hilst
Regulating the Regulator, p. 1367
Bernard Mach


Review
Global Optimization of Clusters, Crystals, and Biomolecules, pp. 1368-1372
David J. Wales; Harold A. Scheraga


Research


Reports
Temperature Dependence of the Half-Integer Magnetic Flux Quantum, pp. 1373-1375
J. R. Kirtley; C. C. Tsuei; K. A. Moler
Inhibition of Crystallite Growth in the Sol-Gel Synthesis of Nanocrystalline Metal Oxides, pp. 1375-1377
Nae-Lih Wu; Sze-Yen Wang; I. A. Rusakova
Asteroidal Water Within Fluid Inclusion-Bearing Halite in an H5 Chondrite, Monahans (1998), pp. 1377-1379
Michael E. Zolensky; Robert J. Bodnar; Everett K. Gibson Jr.; Laurence E. Nyquist; Young Reese; Chi-Yu Shih; Henry Wiesmann
Origin of Graphitic Carbon and Pentlandite in Matrix Olivines in the Allende Meteorite, pp. 1380-1382
Adrian J. Brearley
Equatorius: A New Hominoid Genus from the Middle Miocene of Kenya, pp. 1382-1386
Steve Ward; Barbara Brown; Andrew Hill; Jay Kelley; Will Downs
Fossil Plants and Global Warming at the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary, pp. 1386-1390
J. C. McElwain; D. J. Beerling; F. I. Woodward
Gene Expression Profile of Aging and Its Retardation by Caloric Restriction, pp. 1390-1393
Cheol-Koo Lee; Roger G. Klopp; Richard Weindruch; Tomas A. Prolla
Dual Function of the Selenoprotein PHGPx During Sperm Maturation, pp. 1393-1396
Fulvio Ursini; Sabina Heim; Michael Kiess; Matilde Maiorino; Antonella Roveri; Josef Wissing; Leopold Flohé
Eutrophication, Fisheries, and Consumer-Resource Dynamics in Marine Pelagic Ecosystems, pp. 1396-1398
Fiorenza Micheli
Selection-Based Biodiversity at a Small Spatial Scale in a Low-Dispersing Insular Bird, pp. 1399-1402
Jacques Blondel; Paula C. Dias; Philippe Perret; Marie Maistre; Marcel M. Lambrechts
GTP Binding by Class II Transactivator: Role in Nuclear Import, pp. 1402-1405
Jonathan A. Harton; Drew E. Cressman; Keh-Chuang Chin; Channing J. Der; Jenny P.-Y. Ting
Rapid Adaptation in Visual Cortex to the Structure of Images, pp. 1405-1408
James R. Müller; Andrew B. Metha; John Krauskopf; Peter Lennie
Altered Cochlear Fibrocytes in a Mouse Model of DFN3 Nonsyndromic Deafness, pp. 1408-1411
O. Minowa; K. Ikeda; Y. Sugitani; T. Oshima; S. Nakai; Y. Katori; M. Suzuki; M. Furukawa; T. Kawase; Y. Zheng; M. Ogura; Y. Asada; K. Watanabe; H. Yamanaka; S. Gotoh; M. Nishi-Takeshima; T. Sugimoto; T. Kikuchi; T. Takasaka; T. Noda
Long-Term Depression in Hippocampal Interneurons: Joint Requirement for Pre- and Postsynaptic Events, pp. 1411-1414
Fernanda Laezza; James J. Doherty; Raymond Dingledine


AAAS News and Notes, pp. 1417-1418
Tiffany Ayers

Back Matter (30 pp.)

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