This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
Science 1 March 1996: 1209.
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 Editorial:
Bureaucrats Save Lives

Gerald R. Fink
Science 1 March 1996: 1213.
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 ScienceScope|

Science 1 March 1996: 1221.
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 Random Samples|Impressive Track Record for Immigrant Scientists * Our New Relation * Scientists Help Craft Gene Testing Law * Investors Sought for AIDS Vaccine Trials * Nobelist Spreads the Wealth * How to Live in Japan * The World's Oldest Flower

Science 1 March 1996: 1235-1237.
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 Book Reviews|tRNA, reviewed by R. A. Zimmermann * Cephalopod Neurobiology * The Cortical Neuron, D. Johnston * Books Received * Vignettes

Science 1 March 1996: 1240-1242.
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 Products & Materials|

Science 1 March 1996: 1306-1307.
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News and Comment

National Academy of Engineering: Leadership Crisis Rocks Academy

Andrew Lawler
Science 1 March 1996: 1222-1223.
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 National Academy of Engineering: NAE Council to Change Hands

Andrew Lawler
Science 1 March 1996: 1222.
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Space Science: Fate of Tether Hangs by a Thread

Andrew Lawler
Science 1 March 1996: 1223.
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National Cancer Institute: Klausner's Unconventional `Field Station' in Seattle

Eliot Marshall
Science 1 March 1996: 1224-1225.
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Science Interview: Donna Shalala: `Leaving Footprints' at HHS

Eliot Marshall
Science 1 March 1996: 1225-1226.
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AIDS Research: Vaccine Drought Spurs NIAID Plan to Improve Industry Ties...

Jon Cohen
Science 1 March 1996: 1227-1228.
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 AIDS Research: ...While Gore Tries a Bully Pulpit

Jon Cohen
Science 1 March 1996: 1227.
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Regulatory Agencies: FDA Reform Starts Down the Track

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 1 March 1996: 1228.
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Research News

Neuroscience: Is Hippocampal Cell Death a Myth?

Ingrid Wickelgren
Science 1 March 1996: 1229-1230.
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Microelectronics: Isotope Switch Toughens Transistors

James Glanz
Science 1 March 1996: 1230.
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Solar Physics: Dim Corona Foreshadows Storms

Kim Peterson
Science 1 March 1996: 1231.
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Heavy-Ion Physics: GSI Bags Another New Element

Robert Koenig
Science 1 March 1996: 1231.
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Materials Science: Mixing Nanotube Structures to Make a Tiny Switch

Robert F. Service
Science 1 March 1996: 1232.
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Neurobiology: An Intriguing New Lead on Huntington's Disease

Marcia Barinaga
Science 1 March 1996: 1233.
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Immunology: T Cell Inactivation Linked to Ras Block

Nigel Williams
Science 1 March 1996: 1234.
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Letters

 Lioness Leadership

Gary C. Jahn
Science 1 March 1996: 1215.
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 Response: Lioness Leadership

Craig Packer and Robert Heinsohn
Science 1 March 1996: 1215-1216.
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 Lioness Leadership

null Gary C. Jahn;Craig Packer,Robert Heinsohn
Science 1 March 1996: 1216-1219.

 Treatment of Chronic Lyme Disease

null Allen C. Steere
Science 1 March 1996: 1216-1219.

 Effective U.S. Science Continued

null Roger Geiger;Roger A. Pielke Jr.,Radford Byerly Jr.
Science 1 March 1996: 1216-1219.

 Effective U.S. Science Continued

Roger Geiger
Science 1 March 1996: 1218.
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 Response: Effective U.S. Science Continued

Roger A. Pielke, Jr. and Radford Byerly, Jr.
Science 1 March 1996: 1218-1219.
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 Letters

Science 1 March 1996: 1216-1219.
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Books et al.

 Also Noteworthy: Cephalopod Neurobiology.

Katherine Livingston
Science 1 March 1996: 1241.
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 The Cortical Neuron

Daniel Johnston
Science 1 March 1996: 1241.
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 Books Received

Science 1 March 1996: 1241-1242.
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Perspectives

Cool Gas in the Virgo Cluster?

Andrew C. Fabian
Science 1 March 1996: 1244-1245.
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The Whole Lactose Repressor

Kathleen S. Matthews
Science 1 March 1996: 1245-1246.
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Research Article

Crystal Structure of the Lactose Operon Repressor and Its Complexes with DNA and Inducer

Mitchell Lewis, Geoffrey Chang, Nancy C. Horton, Michele A. Kercher, Helen C. Pace, Maria A. Schumacher, Richard G. Brennan, and Ponzy Lu
Science 1 March 1996: 1247-1254.
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Reports

Doping-Induced Change of Superconducting Gap Anisotropy in Bi₂Sr₂Ca₁Cu₂O₈₊

R. J. Kelley, C. Quitmann, M. Onellion, H. Berger, P. Almeras, and G. Margaritondo
Science 1 March 1996: 1255-1257.
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Model Estimations Biased by Truncated Expansions: Possible Artifacts in Seismic Tomography

Jeannot Trampert and Roel Snieder
Science 1 March 1996: 1257-1260.
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Radiation-Induced Diamond Formation in Uranium-Rich Carbonaceous Materials

Tyrone L. Daulton and Minoru Ozima
Science 1 March 1996: 1260-1263.
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Impact Origin of the Chesapeake Bay Structure and the Source of the North American Tektites

Christian Koeberl, C. Wylie Poag, Wolf Uwe Reimold, and Dion Brandt
Science 1 March 1996: 1263-1266.
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Biomimetic Templating of Porous Lamellar Silicas by Vesicular Surfactant Assemblies

Peter T. Tanev and Thomas J. Pinnavaia
Science 1 March 1996: 1267-1269.
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A Distinct G₁ Step Required to Specify the Chinese Hamster DHFR Replication Origin

Jia-Rui Wu and David M. Gilbert
Science 1 March 1996: 1270-1272.
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Blocked Signal Transduction to the ERK and JNK Protein Kinases in Anergic CD4⁺ T Cells

Wei Li, Carmella D. Whaley, Anna Mondino, and Daniel L. Mueller
Science 1 March 1996: 1272-1276.
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Blocked Ras Activation in Anergic CD4⁺ T Cells

Patrick E. Fields, Thomas F. Gajewski, and Frank W. Fitch
Science 1 March 1996: 1276-1278.
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Antigen Presentation and T Cell Development in H2-M-Deficient Mice

Wai-Ping Fung-Leung, Charles D. Surh, Monika Liljedahl, Jesse Pang, Didier Leturcq, Per A. Peterson, Susan R. Webb, and Lars Karlsson
Science 1 March 1996: 1278-1281.
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Enhanced Fidelity of 3TC-Selected Mutant HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase

Mark A. Wainberg, William C. Drosopoulos, Horacio Salomon, Mayla Hsu, Gadi Borkow, Michael A. Parniak, Zhengxian Gu, Qingbin Song, Jayanthi Manne, Sabina Islam, Gino Castriota, and Vinayaka R. Prasad
Science 1 March 1996: 1282-1285.
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Somatic Mutation of Immunoglobulin V Genes in Vitro

Eva Källberg, Sandra Jainandunsing, David Gray, and Tomas Leanderson
Science 1 March 1996: 1285-1289.
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Role of Lymphotoxin and the Type I TNF Receptor in the Formation of Germinal Centers

Mitsuru Matsumoto, Sanjeev Mariathasan, Moon H. Nahm, Ferenc Baranyay, Jacques J. Peschon, and David D. Chaplin
Science 1 March 1996: 1289-1291.
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HIV-1 Langerhans' Cell Tropism Associated with Heterosexual Transmission of HIV

Luis E. Soto-Ramirez, Boris Renjifo, Mary F. McLane, Richard Marlink, Carl O'Hara, Ruengpung Sutthent, Chantapong Wasi, Prakong Vithayasai, Vicharn Vithayasai, Chatchawann Apichartpiyakul, Prasert Auewarakul, Victor Peña Cruz, Dao-Shan Chui, Rapin Osathanondh, Kenneth Mayer, Tun-Hou Lee, and Max Essex
Science 1 March 1996: 1291-1293.
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Bidirectional Control of Quantal Size by Synaptic Activity in the Hippocampus

Stéphane H. R. Oliet, Robert C. Malenka, and Roger A. Nicoll
Science 1 March 1996: 1294-1297.
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Technical Comments

Coral Reefs and Carbon Dioxide

J.-P. Gattuso, M. Frankignoulle, J. R. Ware, S. V. Smith, R. Wollast;, R. W. Buddemeier;, and H. Kayanne
Science 1 March 1996: 1298-1300.
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 Coral Reefs and Carbon Dioxide

J. -P. Gattuso, M. Frankignoulle, S. V. Smith, J. R. Ware, and R. Wollast
Science 1 March 1996: 1298.
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 Coral Reefs and Carbon Dioxide

Robert W. Buddemeier
Science 1 March 1996: 1298-1299.
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 Response: Coral Reefs and Carbon Dioxide

Hajime Kayanne
Science 1 March 1996: 1299-1300.
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Self-Fertilization, Linkage Disequilibrium, and Strain in Plasmodium falciparum

M. Tibayrenc, A. Lal;, R. E. L. Paul, and K. P. Day
Science 1 March 1996: 1300-1301.
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 Self-Fertilization, Linkage Disequilibrium, and Strain in Plasmodium falciparum

M. Tibayrenc and A. Lal
Science 1 March 1996: 1300.
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 Response: Self-Fertilization, Linkage Disequilibrium, and Strain in Plasmodium falciparum

Richard E. L. Paul and Karen P. Day
Science 1 March 1996: 1300-1301.
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Faunal Evidence and Sterkfontein Member 2 Foot Bones of Early Hominid

J. K. McKee;, P. V. Tobias, and R. J. Clarke
Science 1 March 1996: 1301-1302.
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 Faunal Evidence and Sterkfontein Member 2 Foot Bones of Early Hominid

Jeffrey K. McKee
Science 1 March 1996: 1301.
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 Response: Faunal Evidence and Sterkfontein Member 2 Foot Bones of Early Hominid

Phillip V. Tobias and Ronald J. Clarke
Science 1 March 1996: 1301-1302.
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More Haemophilus and Mycoplasma Genes

J. Brosius;, K. Robison, W. Gilbert, G. M. Church;, and J. C. Venter
Science 1 March 1996: 1302-1304.
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 More Haemophilus and Mycoplasma Genes

Jürgen Brosius
Science 1 March 1996: 1302.
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 More Haemophilus and Mycoplasma Genes

Keith Robison, Walter Gilbert, and George M. Church
Science 1 March 1996: 1302-1303.
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 Response: More Haemophilus and Mycoplasma Genes

J. Craig Venter
Science 1 March 1996: 1303-1304.
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