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Science 10 November 1995: 893.
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Editorial:
Great Transitions

Philip H. Abelson
Science 10 November 1995: 895.
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 ScienceScope|

Science 10 November 1995: 903.

 Random Samples|

Science 10 November 1995: 919-921.

 Book Reviews|Dialogues on Perception and Early Vision and Beyond, reviewed by R. Shapley * Vignettes * Books Received

Science 10 November 1995: 1009-1010.
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 Products & Materials|

Science 10 November 1995: 1015-1016.

News and Comment

AIDS Research: Thailand Weighs AIDS Vaccine Tests

Jon Cohen
Science 10 November 1995: 904-907.
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Searching for the Ideal Cohort

Jon Cohen
Science 10 November 1995: 905.
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Money Matters

Jon Cohen
Science 10 November 1995: 906.
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Clinical Trials: IL-12 Deaths: Explanation and a Puzzle

Jon Cohen
Science 10 November 1995: 908.
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Science Policy: Panel Considers Radical Funding Cuts

Andrew Lawler
Science 10 November 1995: 908.
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Italy: University Appointments Scandal Widens

Susan Biggin
Science 10 November 1995: 909.
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Human Genetics Meeting: Publicity Fears Cancel Gene Talk

Rachel Nowak
Science 10 November 1995: 909-910.
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Cancer Prevention: Tamoxifen's Trials and Tribulations

Eliot Marshall
Science 10 November 1995: 910.
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Research News

Seismology: Quake Prediction Tool Gains Ground

Richard A. Kerr
Science 10 November 1995: 911-912.
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Space Physics: Ulysses Cracks a Cosmic Peanut

James Glanz
Science 10 November 1995: 912.
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Quantum Physics: `Eraser' Rubs Out Information to Reveal Light's Dual Nature

Andrew Watson
Science 10 November 1995: 913-914.
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Optics: Laser Is a Guiding Light for Atoms

Robert F. Service
Science 10 November 1995: 914.
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Immunology: Monoclonal Antibodies at Age 20: Promise at Last?

Stephen S. Hall
Science 10 November 1995: 915-916.
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Developmental Biology: Sifting Mitosis, Cell Fate in Fly Eyes

Wade Roush
Science 10 November 1995: 916.
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AIDS Research: New Clues Found to How Some People Live With HIV

Jon Cohen
Science 10 November 1995: 917-918.
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Paleoanthropology: Asian Anthropoids Strike Back

Elizabeth Culotta
Science 10 November 1995: 918.
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Letters

 Letters|CLOD Spreading in the Sea-Surface Microlayer: M. S. Hale and J. G. Mitchell; M. M. Littler and D. S. Littler * Earth's Carrying Capacity: T. Gawne; D. J. Boggs * AZT Trial in Thailand: M. Lallemant et al. * Faculty Dismissals in J apan: K. R. Gregg * Biopolymer Sequence Availability: D. Yep and M. J. Toussant * Russian Mathematics: A. Kagan * Dioxin Research in Vietnam: C. Portier, G. Lucier, T. Damstra

Science 10 November 1995: 897-901.
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Policy Forum

Urgently Needed: Policies on Access to Data by Erstwhile Collaborators

Barbara Mishkin
Science 10 November 1995: 927.
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Perspectives

Pharmacia Biotech & Science Prize

Science 10 November 1995: 930-931.
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Life and Death Decisions: ced-9 and Programmed Cell Death in Caenorhabditis elegans

Michael O. Hengartner
Science 10 November 1995: 931.
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The Yin and Yang of T Cell Costimulation

James P. Allison and Matthew F. Krummel
Science 10 November 1995: 932.
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ENHANCED PERSPECTIVE: Trimeric G Proteins--Surprise Witness Tells a Tale

Henry R. Bourne
Science 10 November 1995: 933.
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Remembering X-rays

Janos Kirz
Science 10 November 1995: 934.
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Articles

Protein Design: A Hierarchic Approach

James W. Bryson, Stephen F. Betz, Helen S. Lu, Daniel J. Suich, Hongxing X. Zhou, Karyn T. O'Neil, and William F. DeGrado
Science 10 November 1995: 935-941.
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Geometry of a Black Hole Collision

Richard A. Matzner, H. E. Seidel, Stuart L. Shapiro, L. Smarr, W.-M. Suen, Saul A. Teukolsky, and J. Winicour
Science 10 November 1995: 941-947.
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Research Articles

Geophysics of the Pitman Fracture Zone and Pacific-Antarctic Plate Motions During the Cenozoic

Steven C. Cande, Carol A. Raymond, Joann Stock, and William F. Haxby
Science 10 November 1995: 947-953.
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Tertiary and Quaternary Structural Changes in G Induced by GTP Hydrolysis

Mark B. Mixon, Ethan Lee, David E. Coleman, Albert M. Berghuis, Alfred G. Gilman, and Stephen R. Sprang
Science 10 November 1995: 954-960.
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Reports

A First-Order Phase Transition Induced by a Magnetic Field

H. Kuwahara, Y. Tomioka, A. Asamitsu, Y. Moritomo, and Y. Tokura
Science 10 November 1995: 961-963.
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Chemical Generation of Acoustic Waves: A Giant Photoacoustic Effect

Huxiong Chen and Gerald Diebold
Science 10 November 1995: 963-966.
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Supramolecular Second-Order Nonlinearity of Polymers with Orientationally Correlated Chromophores

Martti Kauranen, Carlo Boutton, Thierry Verbiest, M. N. Teerenstra, Koen Clays, A. J. Schouten, R. J. M. Nolte, and André Persoons
Science 10 November 1995: 966-969.
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Carbon Dioxide and Oxygen Isotope Anomalies in the Mesosphere and Stratosphere

Mark H. Thiemens, Teresa Jackson, Edward C. Zipf, Peter W. Erdman, and Cornel van Egmond
Science 10 November 1995: 969-972.
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Logic Gates Made from Polymer Transistors and Their Use in Ring Oscillators

A. R. Brown, A. Pomp, C. M. Hart, and D. M. de Leeuw
Science 10 November 1995: 972-974.
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Optical Microfabrication of Chalcogenide Glasses

H. Hisakuni and K. Tanaka
Science 10 November 1995: 974-975.
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Crystal Structure of the Biphenyl-Cleaving Extradiol Dioxygenase from a PCB-Degrading Pseudomonad

Seungil Han, Lindsay D. Eltis, Kenneth N. Timmis, Steven W. Muchmore, and Jeffrey T. Bolin
Science 10 November 1995: 976-980.
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Guidelines for Protein Design: The Energetics of Sheet Side Chain Interactions

Catherine K. Smith and Lynne Regan
Science 10 November 1995: 980-982.
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Uncoupling Cell Fate Determination from Patterned Cell Division in the Drosophila Eye

Joriene C. de Nooij and Iswar K. Hariharan
Science 10 November 1995: 983-985.
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Lymphoproliferative Disorders with Early Lethality in Mice Deficient in Ctla-4

Paul Waterhouse, Josef M. Penninger, Emma Timms, Andrew Wakeham, Arda Shahinian, Kelvin P. Lee, Craig B. Thompson, Henrik Griesser, and Tak W. Mak
Science 10 November 1995: 985-988.
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Genomic Structure of an Attenuated Quasi Species of HIV-1 from a Blood Transfusion Donor and Recipients

N. J. Deacon, A. Tsykin, A. Solomon, K. Smith, M. Ludford-Menting, A. Ellett, D. J. Hooker, D. A. McPhee, A. L. Greenway, C. Chatfield, V. A. Lawson, S. Crowe, A. Maerz, S. Sonza, J. Learmont, J. S. Sullivan, A. Cunningham, D. Dwyer, D. Dowton, and J. Mills
Science 10 November 1995: 988-991.
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Converting Escherichia coli RNA Polymerase into an Enhancer-Responsive Enzyme: Role of an NH₂-Terminal Leucine Patch in ⁵⁴

Jonathan T. Wang, Adeela Syed, Mingli Hsieh, and Jay D. Gralla
Science 10 November 1995: 992-994.
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Transition in Specification of Embryonic Metazoan DNA Replication Origins

Olivier Hyrien, Chrystelle Maric, and Marcel Méchali
Science 10 November 1995: 994-997.
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A Left-Handed Parallel Helix in the Structure of UDP-N-Acetylglucosamine Acyltransferase

Christian R. H. Raetz and Steven L. Roderick
Science 10 November 1995: 997-1000.
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Elementary Computation of Object Approach by a Wide-Field Visual Neuron

Nicholas Hatsopoulos, Fabrizio Gabbiani, and Gilles Laurent
Science 10 November 1995: 1000-1003.
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Technical Comments

 Does the p53 Up-Regulated Gadd45 Protein Have a Role in Excision Repair?

A. Kazantsev, A. Sancar, J. M. Kearsey, M. K. K. Shivji, P. A. Hall, R. D. Wood, M. L. Smith, I-T Chen, and A. J. Fornace, Jr.
Science 10 November 1995: 1003-1006.
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