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Science, New Series, Vol. 287, No. 5462, Mar. 31, 2000


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Front Matter (53 pp.)
NetWatch, p. 2371
Laura Helmuth

Editors' Choice, pp. 2377+2379
Gilbert Chin


News


News of the Week
Conflict in Congo Threatens Bonobos and Rare Gorillas, pp. 2386-2387
Gretchen Vogel
Allègre Loses Job, Research Split off, p. 2387
Michael Balter
Mirror Film Is the Fairest of Them All, pp. 2387+2389
Robert F. Service
Richardson Puts Laser Project on Short Leash, pp. 2389-2390
David Malakoff
ScienceScope, pp. 2389+2391
Pallava Bagla; Michael Balter; Jeffrey Mervis; Erik Stokstad
Chipping Away at the Causes of Aging, p. 2390
Jean Marx
Drug-Resistant TB on the Rise, p. 2391
Erik Stokstad
Bat Researchers Dispute Rabies Policy, pp. 2391-2392
Christine Mlot
Austerity Push Begins a Bumpy Ride for R&D, pp. 2392-2393
Andrew Lawler
Aging NASA Satellite Headed for Fiery End, p. 2393
Laura Helmuth
Sky Survey Finds Mysterious Strangers, pp. 2393+2395
Charles Seife
Physicists Unveil Schrödinger's SQUID, p. 2395
Adrian Cho
Lab Accident Damages Solar Flare Satellite, p. 2395
Andrew Lawler


News Focus
In the Crossfire: Collins on Genomes, Patents, and 'Rivalry', pp. 2396-2398
Elliot Marshall; Elizabeth Pennisi; Leslie Roberts
When an Entire Country Is a Cohort, pp. 2398-2399
Lone Frank
Patent Suit Pits Postdoc against Former Mentor, pp. 2399+2401
Eliot Marshall
Oddities Both Lunar and Martian, pp. 2402-2403
Richard A. Kerr


Random Samples, p. 2405
Constance Holden


Science's Compass


Editorial
Sustainable Consumption, p. 2419
Norman Myers


Letters
Life on Snowball Earth, p. 2421
Warwick F. Vincent; Clive Howard-Williams
Asilomar Revisited, pp. 2421-2422
John Coulter
Untapped Source of Diplomats, p. 2422
Peter Cohen
Respect for the Opposition, p. 2422
Christopher D. Heinen; Steven B. Sands
pH Values below Zero, pp. 2422-2423
William A. Pryor
Close Encounters: Details Veto Depth from Shadows, pp. 2423-2425
Patrick Cavanagh; John M. Kennedy; Denis G. Pelli; Melanie Palomares
Corrections and Clarifications: Asilomar Revisited: Lessons for Today, p. 2425
Marcia Barinaga


Books et al.
The Human Role in Environmental History, pp. 2427-2428
Human Impact on Ancient Environments
Charles L. Redman
Review author[s]: Karl W. Butzer
Many Facets of a Noble Dane, p. 2428
On Tycho's Island: Tyco Brahne and His Assistants
John Robert Christianson
Review author[s]: Nicholas Jardine


Perspectives
Nanomatrices Are Cool, pp. 2429-2430
Giacinto Scoles; Kevin K. Lehmann
Stars at the Edge of Stability, pp. 2430-2431
Norbert Langer
RNA Interference, pp. 2431+2433
Phillip A. Sharp; Phillip D. Zamore
News from the Solar Interior, pp. 2434-2435
Douglas Gough
Bit Players in the Trombone Orchestra, pp. 2435-2436
Peter H. von Hippel; Debra H. Jing
Running the Red Light, pp. 2437-2438
Henri Buc
William Hamilton (1936-2000), p. 2438
David Haig; Naomi E. Pierce; Edward O. Wilson


Research


Research Article
Giant Birefringent Optics in Multilayer Polymer Mirrors, pp. 2451-2456
Michael F. Weber; Carl A. Stover; Larry R. Gilbert; Timothy J. Nevitt; Andrew J. Ouderkirk


Reports
Dynamic Variations at the Base of the Solar Convection Zone, pp. 2456-2460
R. Howe; J. Christensen-Dalsgaard; F. Hill; R. W. Komm; R. M. Larsen; J. Schou; M. J. Thompson; J. Toomre
Isolating the Spectroscopic Signature of a Hydration Shell with the Use of Clusters: Superoxide Tetrahydrate, pp. 2461-2463
J. Mathias Weber; Jude A. Kelley; Steen B. Nielsen; Patrick Ayotte; Mark A. Johnson
Hot and Dry Deep Crustal Xenoliths from Tibet, pp. 2463-2466
Bradley R. Hacker; Edwin Gnos; Lothar Ratschbacher; Marty Grove; Michael McWilliams; Stephen V. Sobolev; Jiang Wan; Wu Zhenhan
Global Carbon Sinks and Their Variability Inferred from Atmospheric O2 and δ 13 C</latex>, pp. 2467-2470
M. Battle; M. L. Bender; P. P. Tans; J. W. C. White; J. T. Ellis; T. Conway; R. J. Francey
On the Presence of Liquid in Earth's Inner Core, pp. 2471-2474
S. C. Singh; M. A. J. Taylor; J. P. Montagner
Insect Population Control Using a Dominant, Repressible, Lethal Genetic System, pp. 2474-2476
Dean D. Thomas; Christl A. Donnelly; Roger J. Wood; Luke S. Alphey
Bicoid-Independent Formation of Thoracic Segments in Drosophila, pp. 2476-2479
Ernst A. Wimmer; Alan Carleton; Phoebe Harjes; Terry Turner; Claude Desplan
Necessity for Afferent Activity to Maintain Eye-Specific Segregation in Ferret Lateral Geniculate Nucleus, pp. 2479-2482
Barbara Chapman
Structure of the RNA Polymerase Domain of E. coli Primase, pp. 2482-2486
James L. Keck; Daniel D. Roche; A. Simon Lynch; James M. Berger
Mitotic Misregulation and Human Aging, pp. 2486-2492
Danith H. Ly; David J. Lockhart; Richard A. Lerner; Peter G. Schultz
Similar Requirements of a Plant Symbiont and a Mammalian Pathogen for Prolonged Intracellular Survival, pp. 2492-2493
K. LeVier; R. W. Phillips; V. K. Grippe; R. M. Roop II; G. C. Walker
Genetic Requirements for Inheritance of RNAi in C. elegans, pp. 2494-2497
Alla Grishok; Hiroaki Tabara; Craig C. Mello
Single-Molecule Study of Transcriptional Pausing and Arrest by E. coli RNA Polymerase, pp. 2497-2500
R. John Davenport; Gijs J. L. Wuite; Robert Landick; Carlos Bustamante
T Cell-Independent Rescue of B Lymphocytes from Peripheral Immune Tolerance, pp. 2501-2503
Valerie Kouskoff; Georges Lacaud; David Nemazee


AAAS News and Notes, p. 2507
Tiffany Ayers

Back Matter (61 pp.)

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