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Science, New Series, Vol. 254, No. 5037, Dec. 6, 1991


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Front Matter (24 pp.)
Pork Barrel "Science", p. 1433
Richard S. Nicholson


Letters
Kuwaiti Fires and Nuclear Winter, p. 1434
Carl Sagan
Fertility, Health, and Consanguineous Marriages, pp. 1434-1435
Philip Hedrick; Alan H. Bittles; William M. Mason


Erratum: Physics in Canada, p. 1435
Erratum: Oscillations of Cytosolic Sodium During Calcium Oscillations in Exocrine Acinar Cells, p. 1435
Erratum: Regulation of Transendothelial Neutrophil Migration by Endogenous Interleukin-8, p. 1435
Erratum: Ancient Rocks, Rhythms in Mud, a Tipsy Venus, p. 1435
ScienceScope, p. 1443
Richard Stone


News and Comment
Biological Immigrants Under Fire, pp. 1444-1447
Elizabeth Culotta
Baltimore Resigns at Rockefeller, p. 1447
Stephen S. Hall
Court Test for Plagiarism Detector?, p. 1448
Richard Stone
Europeans Launch Diet, Cancer Study, pp. 1448-1449
Jeremy Cherfas
Senators Clash Over Military "Pork", p. 1449
Eliot Marshall


Research News
Depression: The News Isn't Depressing, pp. 1450-1452
Constance Holden
The Case of the Unlikely Molecular Twins, pp. 1452-1453
Ivan Amato
Planet X: Going, Going...But Not Quite Gone, pp. 1454-1455
Robert Matthews
Putting New Muscle Into Gene Therapy, pp. 1455-1456
Michelle Hoffman
Coming up Short in a Crustal Quest, pp. 1456-1457
Richard A. Kerr
Excess Genetic Baggage Dumped, p. 1457
Anne Simon Moffat
Disappearing Mushrooms: Another Mass Extinction?, p. 1458
Jeremy Cherfas


Briefings
Super Network Authorized, p. 1459
Constance Holden
SSC Magnets Upgraded, p. 1459
Constance Holden
Japan Fellowships Going Begging, p. 1459
Constance Holden
Paint That Reveals, p. 1459
Constance Holden


Perspective
How Does III x II Make U6?, pp. 1462-1463
James E. Dahlberg; Elsebet Lund


Subterranean Waterworks of Biblical Jerusalem: Adaptation of a Karst System, pp. 1467-1471
Dan Gill

The Atom Economy-A Search for Synthetic Efficiency, pp. 1471-1477
Barry M. Trost


Research Article
Photoreceptor Deactivation and Retinal Degeneration Mediated by a Photoreceptor-Specific Protein Kinase C, pp. 1478-1484
Dean P. Smith; Rama Ranganathan; Robert W. Hardy; Julia Marx; Tammy Tsuchida; Charles S. Zuker


Reports
Polar Orientation of Dyes in Robust Multilayers by Zirconium Phosphate- Phosphonate Interlayers, pp. 1485-1487
H. E. Katz; G. Scheller; T. M. Putvinski; M. L. Schilling; W. L. Wilson; C. E. D. Chidsey
Tuning High-Tc Superconductors Via Multistage Intercalation, pp. 1487-1489
X.-D. Xiang; W. A. Vareka; A. Zettl; J. L. Corkill; T. W. Barbee III; Marvin L. Cohen; N. Kijima; R. Gronsky
Phase Transformations in Carbon Fullerenes at High Shock Pressures, pp. 1489-1491
C. S. Yoo; W. J. Nellis
Symbiont Recognition and Subsequent Morphogenesis as Early Events in an Animal-Bacterial Mutualism, pp. 1491-1494
Margaret J. McFall-Ngai; Edward G. Ruby
Selective Cleavage of Human DNA: RecA-Assisted Restriction Endonuclease (RARE) Cleavage, pp. 1494-1497
Lance J. Ferrin; R. Daniel Camerini-Otero
Sequence-Selective Recognition of DNA by Strand Displacement with a Thymine-Substituted Polyamide, pp. 1497-1500
Peter E. Nielsen; Michael Egholm; Rolf H. Berg; Ole Buchardt
Type-Specific Regulation of Adenylyl Cyclase by G Protein βγ Subunits, pp. 1500-1503
Wei-Jen Tang; Alfred G. Gilman
A Requirement for the Intercellular Messenger Nitric Oxide in Long-Term Potentiation, pp. 1503-1506
Erin M. Schuman; Daniel V. Madison
Systemic Delivery of Recombinant Proteins by Genetically Modified Myoblasts, pp. 1507-1509
Eliav Barr; Jeffrey M. Leiden
Systemic Delivery of Human Growth Hormone by Injection of Genetically Engineered Myoblasts, pp. 1509-1512
Jyotsna Dhawan; Lydia C. Pan; Grace K. Pavlath; Marilyn A. Travis; Andrea M. Lanctot; Helen M. Blau
Regulation of Phagocyte Oxygen Radical Production by the GTP-Binding Protein Rac 2, pp. 1512-1515
Ulla G. Knaus; Paul G. Heyworth; Tony Evans; John T. Curnutte; Gary M. Bokoch
NMDA Antagonist Neurotoxicity: Mechanism and Prevention, pp. 1515-1518
J. W. Olney; J. Labruyere; G. Wang; D. F. Wozniak; M. T. Price; M. A. Sesma
Functional Contribution of Neuronal AChR Subunits Revealed by Antisense Oligonucleotides, pp. 1518-1521
Mark Listerud; Arjen B. Brussaard; Píreska Devay; David R. Colman; Lorna W. Role
Refined Structure of Charybdotoxin: Common Motifs in Scorpion Toxins and Insect Defensins, pp. 1521-1523
Francois Bontems; Christian Roumestand; Bernard Gilquin; André Ménez; Flavio Toma


Book Reviews
The Rage for Antiquity, pp. 1528-1529
Fantastic Archaeology. The Wild Side of North American Prehistory.
Stephen Williams
Review author[s]: William H. Goetzmann
Precision Teaching, pp. 1529-1530
Physics as a Calling. Discipline and Practice in the Königsberg Seminar for Physics.
Kathryn M. Olesko
Review author[s]: Jeffrey A. Johnson
Superfluid Vortices, p. 1530
Quantized Vortices in Helium II.
Russell L. Donnelly
Review author[s]: Laurence J. Campbell
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Taphonomy. Releasing the Data Locked in the Fossil Record.
Peter A. Allison; Derek E. G. Briggs
Review author[s]: Katherine Livingston
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The Growth and Decay of Ice.
G. S. H. Lock
Review author[s]: W. F. Weeks
Books Received, pp. 1531-1532


Back Matter (24 pp.)

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