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Science, New Series, Vol. 249, No. 4972, Aug. 31, 1990


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Front Matter (8 pp.)
Accreditation and Diversity in Engineering Education, p. 969
M. Granger Morgan


Perspective
Too Many Rodent Carcinogens: Mitogenesis Increases Mutagenesis, pp. 970-971
Bruce N. Ames; Lois Swirsky Gold


Letters
Pseudo Skua?, p. 972
Robert Marcus; Ann Marcus; David G. Ainley
Changing Science, p. 972
Rolf M. Sinclair
Boron Neutron Capture Therapy: The Role of Peer Review, pp. 972-973
Otto K. Harling
Long-Term Potentiation, p. 973
T. V. P. Bliss


Erratum: Polarity and Velocity of Sliding Filaments: Control of Direction by Actin and of Speed by Myosin, p. 973
Erratum: Bloch Leaves NSF in Mainstream, p. 973
Erratum: Eastern Europe: Missing an Opportunity, p. 973
Erratum: De Novo Design Expression, and Characterization of Felix: A Four-Helix Bundle Protein of Native-Like Sequence, p. 973
Erratum: Cognitive Tutelage, p. 973
Erratum: Military Patronage, p. 973


News and Comment
Gene Therapy: Into the Home Stretch, pp. 974-976
Barbara J. Culliton
A Violent Venus Seen from a Troubled Magellan, p. 977
Richard A. Kerr
Bottom-Up Revolution in Science Teaching, pp. 978-979
Marcia Barinaga
Turning Teachers on to Science, p. 979
Min-Wei Lee
What's Holding Up "Aversives" Report?, pp. 980-981
Constance Holden
U.K. Science Responds to Terror, p. 981
Jeremy Cherfas


Briefings
Four Mathematicians Win Field Medals, p. 982
David P. Hamilton
From Crackhouse to Freakhouse, p. 982
David P. Hamilton
Recombinant Vaccine Finally Gets a Chance, p. 982
David P. Hamilton
Congress Cites Agent Orange Coverup, pp. 982-983
David P. Hamilton
A Round of Applause (Sort of) for EOS, p. 983
David P. Hamilton
A New Fight Over Fetal Tissue?, p. 983
David P. Hamilton
A Fishy Kind of Pollution Detector, p. 983
David P. Hamilton


Research News
Alzheimer's Pathology Explored, pp. 984-986
Jean Marx
Astronomers Try to Put Mauna Kea "into Space", p. 987
M. Mitchell Waldrop
L-Tryptophan Puzzle Takes New Twist, p. 988
Leslie Roberts
A Go-Ahead for Mount Graham?, p. 988
M. Mitchell Waldrop


Policy Forum
Minorities at Majority Institutions, pp. 989-991
James H. Wyche; Henry T. Frierson, Jr.


Principles of Design of Fluid Transport Systems in Zoology, pp. 992-1000
Michael LaBarbera

In Situ Interfacial Mass Detection with Piezoelectric Transducers, pp. 1000-1007
Michael D. Ward; Daniel A. Buttry

Cell Proliferation in Carcinogenesis, pp. 1007-1011
Samuel M. Cohen; Leon B. Ellwein


Research Article
Regulation of an Enzyme by Phosphorylation at the Active Site, pp. 1012-1016
James H. Hurley; Antony M. Dean; Julie L. Sohl; Daniel E. Koshland, Jr.; Robert M. Stroud


Reports
Fire-Southern Oscillation Relations in the Southwestern United States, pp. 1017-1020
Thomas W. Swetnam; Julio L. Betancourt
Triassic Vertebrates of Gondwanan Aspect form the Richmond Basin of Virginia, pp. 1020-1023
Hans-Dieter Sues; Paul E. Olsen
Alteration of α1 Na+, K+-ATPase 86 Rb+ Influx by a Single Amino Acid Substitution, pp. 1023-1026
Victoria L. M. Herrera; Nelson Ruiz-Opazo
Sexual Role Reversal in Mate-Finding Strategies of the Cabbage Looper Moth, pp. 1026-1028
Peter J. Landolt; Robert R. Heath
The Minimal Number of Class II MHC-Antigen Complexes Needed for T Cell Activation, pp. 1028-1030
Stephane Demotz; Howard M. Grey; Alessandro Sette
Adhesion of Human B Cells to Germinal Centers in Vitro Involves VLA-4 and INCAM-110, pp. 1030-1033
Arnold S. Freedman; J. Michael Munro; G. Edgar Rice; Michael P. Bevilacqua; Chikao Morimoto; Bradley W. McIntyre; Kurt Rhynhart; Jordan S. Pober; Lee M. Nadler
Molecular Cloning and Functional Expression of Glutamate Receptor Subunit Genes, pp. 1033-1037
Jim Boulter; Michael Hollmann; Anne O'Shea-Greenfield; Melissa Hartley; Evan Deneris; Cornelia Maron; Stephen Heinemann
Stereoscopic Depth Discrimination in the Visual Cortex: Neurons Ideally Suited as Disparity Detectors, pp. 1037-1041
Izumi Ohzawa; Gregory C. DeAngelis; Ralph D. Freeman
Activation of Extrastriate and Frontal Cortical Areas by Visual Words and Word-Like Stimuli, pp. 1041-1044
Steven E. Petersen; Peter T. Fox; Abraham Z. Snyder; Marcus E. Raichle
Electrostatic and Steric Contributions to Regulation at the Active Site of Isocitrate Dehydrogenase, pp. 1044-1046
Antony M. Dean; Daniel E. Koshland, Jr.
Presence of a Potent Transcription Activating Sequence in the p53 Protein, pp. 1046-1049
Stanley Fields; Sung Key Jang
Transcriptional Activation by Wild-Type But Not Transforming Mutants of the p53 Anti-Oncogene, pp. 1049-1051
Loretta Raycroft; Hongyun Wu; Guillermina Lozano


Book Reviews
Preparing for Scarcity, pp. 1052-1053
Bad Year Economics. Cultural Responses to Risk and Uncertainty.
Paul Halstead; John O'Shea
Review author[s]: Bruce Winterhalder
Asteroids Updated, p. 1053
Asteroids II.
Richard P. Binzel; Tom Gehrels; Mildred Shapley Matthews
Review author[s]: Laurel L. Wilkening
Superconducting Organics, pp. 1053-1054
Organic Superconductors.
T. Ishiguro; K. Yamaji
Review author[s]: Jack M. Williams
Ecological Interactions, p. 1054
Perspectives on Plant Competition.
James B. Grace; David Tilman
Review author[s]: Thomas E. Miller
Books Received, p. 1055


Back Matter (21 pp.)

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