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Previous Issue: New Series, Vol. 258, No. 5080, Oct. 9, 1992
Next Issue: New Series, Vol. 258, No. 5082, Oct. 23, 1992
Front Matter (20 pp.)
Editorial: Concerning the Future of the NSF, p. 379
- F. Albert Cotton
Letters
- Understanding Chemistry, p. 381
- Herbert D. Thier
- Use of Animal Drugs, p. 381
- Gerald B. Guest
- Hydrogen Bonding, pp. 381-382
- Bruce C. Faust; G. A. Blake
- Carbon Budget Estimates, pp. 382-383
- Edward B. Rastetter; R. A. Houghton; Pekka E. Kauppi; Kari Mielikäinen; Kullervo Kuusela
Corrections and Clarifications: DNA Fingerprinting: Academy Reports, p. 383
Policy Forum
- Science Policy: The Candidates' Response, pp. 384-385+492-493
ScienceScope, p. 387
- Richard Stone
News and Comment
- Searching for Markers on the AIDS Trail, pp. 388-390
- Jon Cohen
- Dustup in the Bone Pile: Academics V. Collectors, pp. 391-392
- Virginia Morell
- Peering Through a Lens, Sharply, p. 393
- Faye Flam
- Who's Who Among Science Advisers, p. 393
- David P. Hamilton
- Study Casts Doubt on Hiroshima Data, p. 394
- Eliot Marshall
- NASA Urged to Pump Up Its First 'A', pp. 394-395
- Ivan Amato
- Pinatubo Fails to Deepen the Ozone Hole, p. 395
- Richard A. Kerr
Random Samples, pp. 396-397
- Constance Holden
Research News
- Mortality: Overturning Received Wisdom, pp. 398-399
- Marcia Barinaga
- Chemists Cluster in Chicago to Confer on Cagey Compounds, pp. 400-401
- Anne Simon Moffat
- An Everyman's Free-Electron Laser?, p. 401
- Ivan Amato
- Dictyostelium Researchers Expect Gene Bonanza, pp. 402-403
- Jean Marx
- Earth Gains a Retinue of Mini-Asteroids, p. 403
- Richard A. Kerr
Perspective
- New Ideas for Guiding the Evolution of a Quantum System, pp. 412-413
- Stuart A. Rice
Macroscopic Quantum Effects in Nanometer-Scale Magnets, pp. 414-421
- David D. Awschalom; David P. DiVincenzo; Joseph F. Smyth
The Age and Size of the Universe, pp. 421-424
- Sidney van den Bergh
E2F: A Link Between the Rb Tumor Suppressor Protein and Viral Oncoproteins, pp. 424-429
- Joseph R. Nevins
Research Articles
- An Instability in Neutron Stars at Birth, pp. 430-434
- Adam Burrows; Bruce A. Fryxell
- Atomic Structure of the DNA Repair [4Fe-4S] Enzyme Endonuclease III, pp. 434-440
- Che-Fu Kuo; Duncan E. McRee; Cindy L. Fisher; Suzanne F. O'Handley; Richard P. Cunningham; John A. Tainer
Reports
- Polymerization-Induced Epitaxy: Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of a Hydrogen-Bonded Sheet of Polyamide on Graphite, pp. 441-443
- Masahito Sano; Darryl Y. Sasaki; Toyoki Kunitake
- Small-Angle Synchrotron X-ray Scattering Reveals Distinct Shape Changes of the Myosin Head During Hydrolysis of ATP, pp. 443-447
- Katsuzo Wakabayashi; Makio Tokunaga; Izumi Kohno; Yasunobu Sugimoto; Toshiaki Hamanaka; Yasunori Takezawa; Takeyuki Wakabayashi; Yoshiyuki Amemiya
- Neural Computing in Cancer Drug Development: Predicting Mechanism of Action, pp. 447-451
- John N. Weinstein; Kurt W. Kohn; Michael R. Grever; Vellarkad N. Viswanadhan; Lawrence V. Rubinstein; Anne P. Monks; Dominic A. Scudiero; Lester Welch; Antonis D. Koutsoukos; August J. Chiausa; Kenneth D. Paull
- Age and Duration of Weathering by 40 K- 40 Ar and 40 Ar/ 39 Ar Analysis of Potassium-Manganese Oxides, pp. 451-455
- Paulo M. Vasconcelos; Tim A. Becker; Paul R. Renne; George H. Brimhall
- Some Anthropological Aspects of the Prehistoric Tyrolean Ice Man, pp. 455-457
- Horst Seidler; Wolfram Bernhard; Maria Teschler-Nicola; Werner Platzer; Dieter zur Nedden; Rainer Henn; Andreas Oberhauser; Thorstein Sjøvold
- Slowing of Mortality Rates at Older Ages in Large Medfly Cohorts, pp. 457-461
- James R. Carey; Pablo Liedo; Dina Orozco; James W. Vaupel
- Demography of Genotypes: Failure of the Limited Life-Span Paradigm in Drosophila melanogaster, pp. 461-463
- James W. Curtsinger; Hidenori H. Fukui; David R. Townsend; James W. Vaupel
- Absorption Spectra of the Hybrid Pigments Responsible for Anomalous Color Vision, pp. 464-466
- Shannath L. Merbs; Jeremy Nathans
- Isomerase and Chaperone Activity of Prolyl Isomerase in the Folding of Carbonic Anhydrase, pp. 466-468
- Per-Ola Freskgård; Nils Bergenhem; Bengt-Harald Jonsson; Magdalena Svensson; Uno Carlsson
- Spontaneous Hypercholesterolemia and Arterial Lesions in Mice Lacking Apolipoprotein E, pp. 468-471
- Sunny H. Zhang; Robert L. Reddick; Jorge A. Piedrahita; Nobuyo Maeda
- Formation of a Gated Channel by a Ligand-Specific Transport Protein in the Bacterial Outer Membrane, pp. 471-475
- Jeanette M. Rutz; Jun Liu; Jeri Ann Lyons; Joanne Goranson; Sandra K. Armstrong; Mark A. McIntosh; Jimmy B. Feix; Phillip E. Klebba
- DNA Polymerase β and DNA Synthesis in Xenopus Oocytes and in a Nuclear Extract, pp. 475-478
- Timothy M. Jenkins; Jitendra K. Saxena; Amalendra Kumar; Samuel H. Wilson; Eric J. Ackerman
- The Primary Structure of MEK, a Protein Kinase That Phosphorylates the ERK Gene Product, pp. 478-480
- Craig M. Crews; Alessandro Alessandrini; Raymond L. Erikson
- Removal of Nonhomologous DNA Ends in Double-Strand Break Recombination: The Role of the Yeast Ultraviolet Repair Gene RAD1, pp. 480-484
- Jacqueline Fishman-Lobell; James E. Haber
- Interaction of the Immunosuppressant Deoxyspergualin with a Member of the Hsp70 Family of Heat Shock Proteins, pp. 484-486
- Steven G. Nadler; Mark A. Tepper; Bernice Schacter; Charles E. Mazzucco
Book Reviews
- Inside Creationism, pp. 487-488
- The Creationists. The Evolution of Scientific Creationism.
- Ronald L. Numbers
- Review author[s]: J. David Hoeveler, Jr.
- Stakeholders in Misfortune, pp. 489-490
- The Disability Business. Rehabilitation in America.
- Gary L. Albrecht
- Review author[s]: Edward D. Berkowitz
- A Sometime Specter, p. 490
- Dirt and Disease. Polio Before FDR.
- Naomi Rogers
- Review author[s]: Rima D. Apple
- Books Received, pp. 490-491
Back Matter (23 pp.)
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