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Previous Issue: New Series, Vol. 286, No. 5447, Dec. 10, 1999
Next Issue: New Series, Vol. 286, No. 5449, Dec. 24, 1999
Front Matter (28 pp.)
NetWatch, p. 2227
- Jocelyn Kaiser
Breakthrough of the Year
- Capturing the Promise of Youth, pp. 2238-2243
- Gretchen Vogel; Constance Holden
News
News of the Week
- Gene Therapy Death Prompts Review of Adenovirus Vector, pp. 2244-2245
- Eliot Marshall
- Promising Antibiotic Candidate Identified, pp. 2245+2247
- Martin Enserink
- Europe Lofts X-ray Observatory, pp. 2247-2248
- Alexander Hellemans
- ScienceScope, pp. 2247+2249
- Mental Health Agency Shrugs Off Critics, p. 2248
- Constance Holden
- Changes to Missions Could Delay Science, pp. 2248-2249
- Andrew Lawler; Richard Kerr
- Researcher Rebuked for 20-Year-Old Misdeed, pp. 2249-2250
- Michael Hagmann
- Big Blue Aims to Crack Protein Riddle, p. 2250
- Robert F. Service
- NRC Panel to Propose Station Institute, p. 2251
- Andrew Lawler
- Taq Polymerase Patent Ruled Invalid, pp. 2251+2253
- Robert F. Service
- Licenses Suspended at 3 Toronto Hospitals, p. 2253
- Wayne Kondro
News Focus
- Ancient Continent Opens Window on the Early Earth, pp. 2254-2256
- Carl Zimmer
- Does Cancer Therapy Trigger Cell Suicide?, pp. 2256-2258
- Elizabeth Finkel
- Europe Stresses Prevention Rather than Cure, pp. 2258-2259
- Michael Hagmann
- Indian Agency Eyes Moon in Shift Toward Research, p. 2260
- Pallava Bagla
- Scanners Get a Fix on Lab Animals, pp. 2261+2263
- Robert F. Service
Random Samples, p. 2265
- Constance Holden
Science's Compass
Editorial
- Breakthroughs 1999, p. 2267
- Floyd E. Bloom
Letters
- A Loss to Science, p. 2269
- Robert J. Birgeneau
- Dietary Supplements: What is in the Public's Best Interest?, pp. 2269-2271
- John N. Hathcock; Shawn M. Talbott; Steven H. Zeisel
- Scrutinizing Creativity, pp. 2271-2272
- Dennis Hollenberg; Jacob Goldenberg; David Mazursky; Sorin Solomon
- A Comb-Wide Web, pp. 2272-2273
- Jürgen Tautz
- Corrections and Clarifications: Whirling Dervishes, p. 2273
- Corrections and Clarifications: Sexual Transmission and Propagation of SIV and HIV in Resting and Activated CD4+T Cells, p. 2273
- Corrections and Clarifications: First Glimpse of a Cosmic Funnel, p. 2273
- Corrections and Clarifications: Scientists Strike Back against Creationism, p. 2273
- Corrections and Clarifications: Precisely Localized LTD in the Neocortex Revealed by Infrared-Guided Laser Stimulation, p. 2273
- Corrections and Clarifications: A Responsible Energy Furture, p. 2273
Policy Forum
- Food Irradiation-The Neglected Solution to Food-Borne Illness, pp. 2275-2276
- Randall Lutter
- Commercialization of Genetic Research and Public Policy, pp. 2277-2278
- Bartha Maria Knoppers; Marie Hirtle; Kathleen Cranley Glass
Books et al.
- Cathedrals as Astronomical Instruments, pp. 2279-2280
- The Sun in the Church. Cathedrals as Solar Observatories
- J. L. Heibron
- Review author[s]: Albert Van Helden
- A Bright View, too Focused, p. 2280
- From Space to Earth. The Story of Electricity.
- John Perlin
- Review author[s]: David Faiman
Perspectives
- Y2K, p. 2281
- Christopher J. Cramer; Jeffrey T. Roberts
- An Innate Basis for Language?, pp. 2283-2284
- Dorothy V. M. Bishop
- Mutant Dyskerin Ends Relationship with Telomerase, pp. 2284-2285
- Jerry W. Shay; Woodring E. Wright
- Imaging Elusive Solute Atoms, pp. 2285-2286
- M. K. Miller
- Toward Efficient Smart Pixels, pp. 2286-2287
- Jörg P. Kotthaus
- DNA Methylation de Novo, pp. 2287-2288
- Adrian Bird
Tech.Sight
- New Tools for Isotopic Analysis, pp. 2289-2290
- Trevor Ireland
- A Mathematical Swiss Army Knife, pp. 2291-2292
- Mathematica 4.0.
- Review author[s]: John A. Wass
- Plugging in to Visual Data, p. 2293
- HDF Import Plug-in Fortner Software, LLC.
- Review author[s]: Kevin Ahern
- Sorting on Silicon, pp. 2293-2294
- Robert Sikorski; Richard Peters
- Y2K or Bust, p. 2294
- Richard Peters; Robert Sikorski
Vision of the Furture
- Technology Transfer, pp. 2296-2298
- Ruth Kohen
- Appointment as Expert Juror, pp. 2298-2299
- Mary Ann Krug
- NIH Grant Application, pp. 2300-2301
Research
Research Article
- Structure of a Transcribing T7 RNA Polymerase Initiation Complex, pp. 2305-2309
- Graham M. T. Cheetham; Thomas A. Steitz
Reports
- Phase-Coherent Amplification of Matter Waves, pp. 2309-2312
- Mikio Kozuma; Yoichi Suzuki; Yoshio Torii; Toshiaki Sugiura; Takahiro Kuga; E. W. Hagley; L. Deng
- Exciton Storage in Semiconductor Self-Assembled Quantum Dots, pp. 2312-2314
- T. Lundstrom; W. Schoenfeld; H. Lee; P. M. Petroff
- Experimental Tunneling Ratchets, pp. 2314-2317
- H. Linke; T. E. Humphrey; A. Löfgren; A. O. Sushkov; R. Newbury; R. P. Taylor; P. Omling
- Three-Dimensional Atomic-Scale Imaging of Impurity Segregation to Line Defects, pp. 2317-2319
- D. Blavette; E. Cadel; A. Fraczkiewicz; A. Menand
- Deflection of the Local Interstellar Dust Flow by Solar Radiation Pressure, pp. 2319-2322
- M. Landgraf; K. Augustsson; E. Grün; B. Å. S. Gustafson
- Short-Lived Oxygen Diffusion During Hot, Deep-Seated Meteoric Alteration of Anorthosite, pp. 2323-2325
- Claudia I. Mora; Lee R. Riciputi; David R. Cole
- Surfactant-Mediated Two-Dimensional Crystallization of Colloidal Crystals, pp. 2325-2328
- Laurence Ramos; T. C. Lubensky; Nily Dan; Philip Nelson; D. A. Weitz
- Postnatal Sex Reversal of the Ovaries in Mice Lacking Estrogen Receptors α and β, pp. 2328-2331
- J. F. Couse; S. Curtis Hewitt; D. O. Bunch; M. Sar; V. R. Walker; B. J. Davis; K. S. Korach
- Isolation of West Nile Virus from Mosquitoes, Crows, and a Cooper's Hawk in Connecticut, pp. 2331-2333
- John F. Anderson; Theodore G. Andreadis; Charles R. Vossbrinck; Shirley Tirrell; Edward M. Wakem; Richard A. French; Antonio E. Garmendia; Herbert J. Van Kruiningen
- Origin of the West Nile Virus Responsible for an Outbreak of Encephalitis in the Northeastern United States, pp. 2333-2337
- R. S. Lanciotti; J. T. Roehrig; V. Deubel; J. Smith; M. Parker; K. Steele; B. Crise; K. E. Volpe; M. B. Crabtree; J. H. Scherret; R. A. Hall; J. S. MacKenzie; C. B. Cropp; B. Panigrahy; E. Ostlund; B. Schmitt; M. Malkinson; C. Banet; J. Weissman; N. Komar; H. M. Savage; W. Stone; T. McNamara; D. J. Gubler
- Binding of Transcription Termination Protein Nun to Nascent RNA and Template DNA, pp. 2337-2339
- Randolph S. Watnick; Max E. Gottesman
- Requirement of Yeast SGS1 and SRS2 Genes for Replication and Transcription, pp. 2339-2342
- Sung-Keun Lee; Robert E. Johnson; Sung-Lim Yu; Louise Prakash; Satya Prakash
- Posttranscriptional Gene Silencing in Neurospora by a RecQ DNA Helicase, pp. 2342-2344
- Carlo Cogoni; Giuseppe Macino
- Evolution of Shape Complementarity and Catalytic Efficiency from a Primordial Antibody Template, pp. 2345-2348
- Jian Xu; Qiaolin Deng; Jiangang Chen; Kendall N. Houk; Johannes Bartek; Donald Hilvert; Ian A. Wilson
- Crystal Structure of Thermotoga maritima Ribosome Recycling Factor: A tRNA Mimic, pp. 2349-2352
- Maria Selmer; Salam Al-Karadaghi; Go Hirokawa; Akira Kaji; Anders Liljas
- Microglial Activation Resulting from CD40-CD40L Interaction After β- Amyloid Stimulation, pp. 2352-2355
- Jun Tan; Terrence Town; Daniel Paris; Takashi Mori; Zhiming Suo; Fiona Crawford; Mark P. Mattson; Richard A. Flavell; Michael Mullan
- Cognitive Modularity and Genetic Disorders, pp. 2355-2358
- S. J. Paterson; J. H. Brown; M. K. Gsödl; M. H. Johnson; A. Karmiloff-Smith
- Mediation by a CREB Family Transcription Factor of NGF-Dependent Survival of Sympathetic Neurons, pp. 2358-2361
- Antonella Riccio; Sohyun Ahn; Christopher M. Davenport; Julie A. Blendy; David D. Ginty
- Use of the Cell Wall Precursor Lipid II by a Pore-Forming Peptide Antibiotic, pp. 2361-2364
- E. Breukink; I. Wiedemann; C. van Kraaij; O. P. Kuipers; H.-G. Sahl; B. de Kruijff
Back Matter (52 pp.)
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