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Science, New Series, Vol. 291, No. 5513, Mar. 30, 2001


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Front Matter (27 pp.)
Editorial: An Unfortunate U-Turn on Carbon, p. 2515
Donald Kennedy

Editors' Choice, pp. 2517+2519
Gilbert Chin

Netwatch, p. 2521
Jocelyn Kaiser


News


News of the Week
Ribosome's Inner Workings Come into Sharper View, pp. 2526-2527
Elizabeth Pennisi
German Neutron Source Faces New Demands, pp. 2527+2529
Robert Koenig
No Easy Answers for Biodiversity in Africa, pp. 2529-2530
Gretchen Vogel
ScienceScope, pp. 2529+2531
David Malakoff; Robert Koenig; Dennis Normile; Eliot Marshall; Gretchen Vogel
How Cannabinoids Work in the Brain, pp. 2530-2531
Marcia Barinaga
River Dolphins Add Branches to Family Tree, pp. 2531-2532
Dennis Normile
Early Birds May Miss the Worms, p. 2532
Elizabeth Pennisi
Science Only One Part of Arsenic Standards, p. 2533
Jocelyn Kaiser
NSF Scores Low on Using Own Criteria, pp. 2533+2535
Jeffrey Mervis
Affymetrix Settles Suit, Fixes Mouse Chips, p. 2535
Eliot Marshall
NIH Pledges Big Hike in Postdoc Stipends, p. 2535
Jeffrey Mervis


News Focus
The Soft Science of Dietary Fat, pp. 2536-2541+2543-2545
Gary Taubes
Random Samples, p. 2547
Constance Holden


Science's Compass


Letters
A Comprehensive U.S. Energy Policy, p. 2549
Monroe Burk; S. J. Deitchman
Portugal: A Case History in S&T Cooperation, pp. 2549-2550
Edward McSweegan
Tracking Antibiotics up the Food Chain, p. 2550
Daniel M. Byrd III; L. Anthony Cox Jr.; James D. Wilson; Stanley Falkow; Donald Kennedy
Taiwan Seeks to Solve Its Resistance Problems, pp. 2550-2551
Monto Ho
Antibiotic Resistance Affects Plant Pathogens, p. 2551
George W. Sundin
Corrections and Clarifications: Patience Yields Secrets of Seed Longevity, p. 2551
Corrections and Clarifications: Discovery of Earliest Hominid Remains, p. 2551
Corrections and Clarifications: Central Role for the Lens in Cave Fish Eye Degeneration, p. 2551


Policy Forum
Don't Clone Humans!, p. 2552
Rudolf Jaenisch; Ian Wilmut


Books et al.
Boltzmann's Science, Irony and Achievement, pp. 2553-2554
Boltzmann's Atom: The Great Debate That Launched a Revolution in Physics
David Lindley
Review author[s]: Leo P. Kadanoff
Nota Bene: Microbial Resolution and Reality, p. 2554
Growth and Form: Biomedical Images: Awards and Interpretations
Denna Jones
Review author[s]: Caroline Ash


Perspectives
A CINtillating New Job for the APC Tumor Suppressor, pp. 2555-2556
David Pellman
Standing Room Only at the Quantum Scale, pp. 2556-2557
K. M. O'Hara; J. E. Thomas
Chewing the Fat: ACC and Energy Balance, pp. 2558-2559
Neil Ruderman; Jeffrey S. Flier
The Song Does Not Remain the Same, pp. 2559-2561
Daniel Margoliash
You May Squeeze the Atoms but Don't Mangle the Surface!, pp. 2561-2562
Alex de Lozanne
Discriminating Plants, pp. 2562-2563
F. I. Woodward


Research


Research Article
Dynamics of the Vocal Imitation Process: How a Zebra Finch Learns Its Song, pp. 2564-2569
Ofer Tchernichovski; Partha P. Mitra; Thierry Lints; Fernando Nottebohm


Reports
Observation of Fermi Pressure in a Gas of Trapped Atoms, pp. 2570-2572
Andrew G. Truscott; Kevin E. Strecker; William I. McAlexander; Guthrie B. Partridge; Randall G. Hulet
Spin Chirality, Berry Phase, and Anomalous Hall Effect in a Frustrated Ferromagnet, pp. 2573-2576
Y. Taguchi; Y. Oohara; H. Yoshizawa; N. Nagaosa; Y. Tokura
Alignment of Liquid Crystals with Patterned Isotropic Surfaces, pp. 2576-2580
Baek-woon Lee; Noel A. Clark
Quantitative Measurement of Short-Range Chemical Bonding Forces, pp. 2580-2583
M. A. Lantz; H. J. Hug; R. Hoffmann; P. J. A. van Schendel; P. Kappenberger; S. Martin; A. Baratoff; H.-J. Güntherodt
Influence of Carbonic Anhydrase Activity in Terrestrial Vegetation on the 18 O Content of Atmospheric CO2</latex>, pp. 2584-2587
Jim Gillon; Dan Yakir
Ancient Geodynamics and Global-Scale Hydrology on Mars, pp. 2587-2591
Roger J. Phillips; Maria T. Zuber; Sean C. Solomon; Matthew P. Golombek; Bruce M. Jakosky; W. Bruce Banerdt; David E. Smith; Rebecca M. E. Williams; Brian M. Hynek; Oded Aharonson; Steven A. Hauck II
Role of the Stratospheric Polar Freezing Belt in Denitrification, pp. 2591-2594
A. Tabazadeh; E. J. Jensen; O. B. Toon; K. Drdla; M. R. Schoeberl
Biospheric Primary Production during an ENSO Transition, pp. 2594-2597
Michael J. Behrenfeld; James T. Randerson; Charles R. McClain; Gene C. Feldman; Sietse O. Los; Compton J. Tucker; Paul G. Falkowski; Christopher B. Field; Robert Frouin; Wayne E. Esaias; Dorota D. Kolber; Nathan H. Pollack
Energetic and Fitness Costs of Mismatching Resource Supply and Demand in Seasonally Breeding Birds, pp. 2598-2600
Donald W. Thomas; Jacques Blondel; Philippe Perret; Marcel M. Lambrechts; John R. Speakman
Sterility of Drosophila with Mutations in the Bloom Syndrome Gene: Complementation by Ku70, pp. 2600-2602
Kohji Kusano; Dena M. Johnson-Schlitz; William R. Engels
Extreme Diversity, Conservation, and Convergence of Spider Silk Fibroin Sequences, pp. 2603-2605
John Gatesy; Cheryl Hayashi; Dagmara Motriuk; Justin Woods; Randolph Lewis
Costs and Benefits of High Mutation Rates: Adaptive Evolution of Bacteria in the Mouse Gut, pp. 2606-2608
Antoine Giraud; Ivan Matic; Olivier Tenaillon; Antonio Clara; Miroslav Radman; Michel Fons; François Taddei
Virus-Assisted Mapping of Neural Inputs to a Feeding Center in the Hypothalamus, pp. 2608-2613
Jeff DeFalco; Mark Tomishima; Hongyan Liu; Connie Zhao; XiaoLi Cai; Jamey D. Marth; Lynn Enquist; Jeffrey M. Friedman
Continuous Fatty Acid Oxidation and Reduced Fat Storage in Mice Lacking Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase 2, pp. 2613-2616
Lutfi Abu-Elheiga; Martin M. Matzuk; Khaled A. H. Abo-Hashema; Salih J. Wakil
Conservation Conflicts across Africa, pp. 2616-2619
Andrew Balmford; Joslin L. Moore; Thomas Brooks; Neil Burgess; Louis A. Hansen; Paul Williams; Carsten Rahbek


AAAS News and Notes, p. 2623
Coimbra Sirica

Back Matter (35 pp.)

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