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Science, New Series, Vol. 291, No. 5510, Mar. 9, 2001


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Front Matter (37 pp.)
Editorial: vCJD: Broad U.S. Response Required, p. 1859
Bernadine Healy

Editors' Choice, pp. 1861+1863
Gilbert Chin

Netwatch, p. 1865
Jocelyn Kaiser


News


News of the Week
Rat Genome Spurs an Unusual Partnership, p. 1872
Eliot Marshall
Sequencing Set for Dreaded Mosquito, p. 1873
Michael Balter
Heavy Damage Feared after Taliban Decree, pp. 1873+1875
Andrew Lawler
Are Martian 'Pearl Chains' Signs of Life?, pp. 1875-1876
Richard A. Kerr
ScienceScope, pp. 1875+1877
Wayne Kondro; Jeffrey Mervis; Gretchen Vogel; David Malakoff
New Money to Lure Talent from Abroad, p. 1876
Robert Koenig
Fallout from German Fraud Case Continues, pp. 1876-1877
Robert Koenig
Quark Quirk Triggers Nuclear Shrinkage, pp. 1877-1878
Charles Seife
Russian Billionaires Launch Science Fund, p. 1878
Vladimir Pokrovsky; Andrey Allakhverdov; Marina Astvatsaturyan
Academician to Lead Science Ministry, pp. 1878-1879
Ding Yimin
Study Suggests Pitch Perception Is Inherited, p. 1879
Constance Holden
Long-Lasting Immunity Conferred in Monkeys, pp. 1879+1881
Jon Cohen
Getting Yeast Prions to Bridge the Species Gap, p. 1881
R. John Davenport


News Focus
Science Lobbyists Aim for Better Balanced Budget, pp. 1882-1884
David Malakoff
Budget Could Send Space Science off in New Directions at NASA, p. 1883
Andrew Lawler
Patience Yields Secrets of Seed Longevity, pp. 1884-1885
Kathryn Brown
Olin Puts up $500 Million for 'No-Excuses' College, pp. 1886-1887+1889
Jeffrey Mervis
Money and Charisma Help the Science Tide Come in, pp. 1889-1890
Richard Stone
Fiery Demise Spells End of Longest Research Run, p. 1891
Elena Savelyeva; Andrey Allakhverdov; Andrew Lawler
Random Samples, p. 1893
Constance Holden


Science's Compass


Letters
Choosing the Sources of Sustainable Energy, p. 1899
Per F. Peterson; Terry Collins
Longisquama Fossil and Feather Morphology, pp. 1899-1902
Richard O. Prum; D. M. Unwin; M. J. Benton; Terry D. Jones; John A. Ruben; Paul F. A. Maderson; Larry D. Martin
Bird Song in His Heart, p. 1902
Renato Baserga
Corrections and Clarifications: NMDA Receptor-Dependent Synaptic Reinforcement as a Crucial Process for Memory Consolidation, p. 1902


Policy Forum
Proliferation of National Institutes of Health, pp. 1903+1905
Harold Varmus


Books et al.
A Goddess of Earth or the Imagination of a Man?, pp. 1906-1907
Homage to Gaia: The Life of an Independent Scientist
James Lovelock
Review author[s]: Stephen H. Schneider
Culturing American Life, pp. 1907-1908
Biologists and the Promise of American Life: From Meriwether Lewis to Alfred Kinsey
Philip J. Pauly
Review author[s]: Audra J. Wolfe


Perspectives
Erosion by the Solar Wind, p. 1909
Rickard Lundin
Moving on, pp. 1910-1911
Barry J. Dickson
Toward Attosecond Pulses, pp. 1911+1913
Derryck T. Reid
The Origins of Modern Corals, pp. 1913-1914
George D. Stanley Jr.; Daphne G. Fautin
Signaling Antibiotic Resistance in Staphylococci, pp. 1915-1916
Gordon L. Archer; Joseph M. Bosilevac
RNP Remodeling with DExH/D Boxes, pp. 1916-1917
Cindy L. Will; Reinhard Lührmann


Research


Research Articles
X-Ray Pulses Approaching the Attosecond Frontier, pp. 1923-1927
Markus Drescher; Michael Hentschel; Reinhard Kienberger; Gabriel Tempea; Christian Spielmann; Georg A. Reider; Paul B. Corkum; Ferenc Krausz
Hierarchical Organization of Guidance Receptors: Silencing of Netrin Attraction by Slit through a Robo/DCC Receptor Complex, pp. 1928-1938
Elke Stein; Marc Tessier-Lavigne


Reports
On Atmospheric Loss of Oxygen Ions from Earth through Magnetospheric Processes, pp. 1939-1941
K. Seki; R. C. Elphic; M. Hirahara; T. Terasawa; T. Mukai
Quantum Mechanical Actuation of Microelectromechanical Systems by the Casimir Force, pp. 1941-1944
H. B. Chan; V. A. Aksyuk; R. N. Kleiman; D. J. Bishop; Federico Capasso
Spherical Bilayer Vesicles of Fullerene-Based Surfactants in Water: A Laser Light Scattering Study, pp. 1944-1947
Shuiqin Zhou; Christian Burger; Benjamin Chu; Masaya Sawamura; Noriaki Nagahama; Motoki Toganoh; Ulrich E. Hackler; Hiroyuki Isobe; Eiichi Nakamura
Nanobelts of Semiconducting Oxides, pp. 1947-1949
Zheng Wei Pan; Zu Rong Dai; Zhong Lin Wang
High Macromolecular Synthesis with Low Metabolic Cost in Antarctic Sea Urchin Embryos, pp. 1950-1952
Adam G. Marsh; Robert E. Maxson Jr.; Donal T. Manahan
A Short Duration of the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary Event: Evidence from Extraterrestrial Helium-3, pp. 1952-1955
S. Mukhopadhyay; K. A. Farley; A. Montanari
Continuous Mantle Melt Supply beneath an Overlapping Spreading Center on the East Pacific Rise, pp. 1955-1958
Robert A. Dunn; Douglas R. Toomey; Robert S. Detrick; William S. D. Wilcock
Hepatitis C Virus IRES RNA-Induced Changes in the Conformation of the 40S Ribosomal Subunit, pp. 1959-1962
Christian M. T. Spahn; Jeffrey S. Kieft; Robert A. Grassucci; Pawel A. Penczek; Kaihong Zhou; Jennifer A. Doudna; Joachim Frank
A Proteolytic Transmembrane Signaling Pathway and Resistance to β-Lactams in Staphylococci, pp. 1962-1965
H. Z. Zhang; C. J. Hackbarth; K. M. Chansky; H. F. Chambers
Recovery of Infectious Ebola Virus from Complementary DNA: RNA Editing of the GP Gene and Viral Cytotoxicity, pp. 1965-1969
Viktor E. Volchkov; Valentina A. Volchkova; Elke Mühlberger; Larissa V. Kolesnikova; Michael Weik; Olga Dolnik; Hans-Dieter Klenk
Genetic Correlates of Musical Pitch Recognition in Humans, pp. 1969-1972
Dennis Drayna; Ani Manichaikul; Marlies de Lange; Harold Snieder; Tim Spector
Presynaptic Kainate Receptor Mediation of Frequency Facilitation at Hippocampal Mossy Fiber Synapses, pp. 1972-1976
Dietmar Schmitz; Jack Mellor; Roger A. Nicoll
Binding of DCC by Netrin-1 to Mediate Axon Guidance Independent of Adenosine A2B Receptor Activation, pp. 1976-1982
Elke Stein; Yimin Zou; Mu-ming Poo; Marc Tessier-Lavigne
Filopodial Calcium Transients Promote Substrate-Dependent Growth Cone Turning, pp. 1983-1987
Timothy M. Gomez; Estuardo Robles; Mu-ming Poo; Nicholas C. Spitzer
Requirement for the SLP-76 Adaptor GADS in T Cell Development, pp. 1987-1991
Jeff Yoder; Christine Pham; Yoshie-Matsubayashi Iizuka; Osami Kanagawa; Stanley K. Liu; Jane McGlade; Alec M. Cheng


Back Matter (43 pp.)

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