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Science 8 March 1996: 1341.
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Editorial:
Research Pays Off

Vinton G. Cerf
Science 8 March 1996: 1343.
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 ScienceScope|

Science 8 March 1996: 1351.
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 Random Samples|Tamoxifen Labeled Carcinogen * Company Secrets Don't Stop Science * Another Comet Coming Up * Gene-Hunters' Choice: Fish or Fowl? * AAAS Gets Caught in Numbers Game * Irrigation Speeds Nile Delta Erosion

Science 8 March 1996: 1367-1369.
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 Book Reviews|Leks, reviewed by M. Zuk * Foundations of Vision, K. K. De Valois * Atoms, Bombs, and Eskimo Kisses, K. Livingston * Books Received

Science 8 March 1996: 1370.
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 Products & Materials|

Science 8 March 1996: 1436-1437.
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 Science's Next Wave|Using Science to Help Shape the Nation's Policies

Science 8 March 1996: 1439.
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News and Comment

Genome Research: Gene Hunters Close In On Elusive Prey

Patricia Kahn
Science 8 March 1996: 1352-1354.
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Genome Research: Building a Home for Complex Disease Research

Patricia Kahn
Science 8 March 1996: 1354.
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Earth Science: NASA Revises EOS, Adds Small Craft

Andrew Lawler
Science 8 March 1996: 1355.
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Weapons Research: Los Alamos Takes Step Back to Its Roots

Jonathan Weisman
Science 8 March 1996: 1355-1356.
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Science and the Public I: Putting Museumgoers in Scientists' Shoes

Wade Roush
Science 8 March 1996: 1356.
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Science and the Public II: Anti-Evolution TV Show Prompts Furor

Constance Holden
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Xenotransplantation: Yellow Light for Pig-Human Transplants

Claire O'Brien
Science 8 March 1996: 1357.
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Oceanography: Japan Trolls for Global Support of Deepest Drilling Vessel

Dennis Normile
Science 8 March 1996: 1358-1359.
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Biomedical Research: Gallo's Institute at the Last Hurdle

Eliot Marshall
Science 8 March 1996: 1359.
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Research News

Earth Science: A New Dawn for Sun-Climate Links?

Richard A. Kerr
Science 8 March 1996: 1360-1361.
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Physics: Oil-Drop Trap Is Set for Lone Quark

Steve Nadis
Science 8 March 1996: 1361-1362.
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Biodiversity: Focal Species Offer Management Tool

William James Davis
Science 8 March 1996: 1362-1363.
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Materials Science: Tuning a Catalyst for New Plastics

Robert F. Service
Science 8 March 1996: 1363.
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Molecular Evolution: Evidence Mounts for Our African Origins--and Alternatives

Joshua Fischman
Science 8 March 1996: 1364.
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Theoretical Biology: Streetcar Carries Evolution Modelers Around Roadblocks

Nigel Williams
Science 8 March 1996: 1365-1366.
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Letters

 Whistleblowing Consequences

Lawrence J. Rhoades
Science 8 March 1996: 1345-1349.
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 Academia vs. National Labs

Norman Metzger; and Thomas Dietz
Science 8 March 1996: 1345-1349.
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 Genetics and Informed Consent

Lori B. Andrews
Science 8 March 1996: 1345-1349.

 Access to the Internet

Susumu Wakai; and null Editor
Science 8 March 1996: 1345-1349.

 From Plants to Mammals

M. A. Matzke and R. A. Jorgensen
Science 8 March 1996: 1345-1349.

 Sea Grant Fellows

Ronald C. Baird
Science 8 March 1996: 1345-1349.

 Consider the Amateur

Forrest M. Mims III
Science 8 March 1996: 1345-1349.

 ``Allons Enfants ...''

Robert Weeks; and null Editor
Science 8 March 1996: 1345-1349.

 Drosophila Homolog of Yeast ORC: Correction

Manfred Gossen, Daniel T. S. Pak, and Michael R. Botchan
Science 8 March 1996: 1345-1349.

 Academia and National Labs

Thomas Dietz
Science 8 March 1996: 1346.
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 Genetics and Informed Consent

Lori B. Andrews
Science 8 March 1996: 1346-1347.
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 Access to the Internet: Susumu Wakai

Science 8 March 1996: 1347.
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 From Plants to Mammals

M. A. Matzke and R. A. Jorgensen
Science 8 March 1996: 1347-1348.
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 Sea Grant Fellows

Ronald C. Baird
Science 8 March 1996: 1348.
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 Consider the Amateur

Forrest M. Mims, III
Science 8 March 1996: 1348-1349.
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 "Allons Enfants..."

Robert Weeks
Science 8 March 1996: 1349.
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 Drosophila Homolog of Yeast ORC: Correction

Manfred Gossen, Daniel T. S. Pak, and Michael R. Botchan
Science 8 March 1996: 1349.
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 Corrections and Clarifications

Science 8 March 1996: 1345-1349.

Corrections and Clarifications

Science 8 March 1996: 1349.
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Corrections and Clarifications

Science 8 March 1996: 1349.
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Books et al.

 Visual Perception: Foundations of Vision.

Karen K. De Valois
Science 8 March 1996: 1371.
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 Also Noteworthy: Atoms, Bombs, and Eskimo Kisses.

Katherine Livingston
Science 8 March 1996: 1371.
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 Books Received

Science 8 March 1996: 1371.
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Perspectives

Isolated Neutron Stars

Giovanni F. Bignami
Science 8 March 1996: 1372-1373.
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Intermittently Flowing Rivers of Magnetic Flux

Franco Nori
Science 8 March 1996: 1373-1374.
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The Expanding World of Trinucleotide Repeats

Stephen T. Warren
Science 8 March 1996: 1374-1375.
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Articles

Basins of Attraction

Helena E. Nusse and James A. Yorke
Science 8 March 1996: 1376-1380.
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Global Patterns of Linkage Disequilibrium at the CD4 Locus and Modern Human Origins

S. A. Tishkoff, E. Dietzsch, W. Speed, A. J. Pakstis, J. R. Kidd, K. Cheung, B. Bonné-Tamir, A. S. Santachiara-Benerecetti, P. Moral, M. Krings, S. Pääbo, E. Watson, N. Risch, T. Jenkins, and K. K. Kidd
Science 8 March 1996: 1380-1387.
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Research Article

The Exchange of Impact Ejecta Between Terrestrial Planets

Brett J. Gladman, Joseph A. Burns, Martin Duncan, Pascal Lee, and Harold F. Levison
Science 8 March 1996: 1387-1392.
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Reports

Observation of Dynamic Interaction of Vortices with Pinning Centers by Lorentz Microscopy

Tsuyoshi Matsuda, Ken Harada, Hiroto Kasai, Osamu Kamimura, and Akira Tonomura
Science 8 March 1996: 1393-1395.
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Understanding the Catalytic Behavior of Zeolites: A First-Principles Study of the Adsorption of Methanol

Rajiv Shah, M. C. Payne, M.-H. Lee, and Julian D. Gale
Science 8 March 1996: 1395-1397.
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Reversible Cleavage and Formation of the Dioxygen O-O Bond Within a Dicopper Complex

Jason A. Halfen, Samiran Mahapatra, Elizabeth C. Wilkinson, Susan Kaderli, Victor G. Young, Jr., Lawrence Que, Jr., Andreas D. Zuberbühler, and William B. Tolman
Science 8 March 1996: 1397-1400.
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High-Pressure Compounds in Methane-Hydrogen Mixtures

M. S. Somayazulu, L. W. Finger, R. J. Hemley, and H. K. Mao
Science 8 March 1996: 1400-1402.
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Comparison of Radiative and Physiological Effects of Doubled Atmospheric CO₂ on Climate

P. J. Sellers, L. Bounoua, G. J. Collatz, D. A. Randall, D. A. Dazlich, S. O. Los, J. A. Berry, I. Fung, C. J. Tucker, C. B. Field, and T. G. Jensen
Science 8 March 1996: 1402-1406.
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The Amyloid Precursor Protein of Alzheimer's Disease in the Reduction of Copper(II) to Copper(I)

Gerd Multhaup, Andrea Schlicksupp, Lars Hesse, Dirk Beher, Thomas Ruppert, Colin L. Masters, and Konrad Beyreuther
Science 8 March 1996: 1406-1409.
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Catalytic Role of 2-Hydroxyl Groups Within a Group II Intron Active Site

Dana L. Abramovitz, Richard A. Friedman, and Anna Marie Pyle
Science 8 March 1996: 1410-1413.
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Uncoupling of GTP Binding from Target Stimulation by a Single Mutation in the Transducin Subunit

Rohit Mittal, Jon W. Erickson, and Richard A. Cerione
Science 8 March 1996: 1413-1416.
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Rearrangement-Enhancing Element Upstream of the Mouse Immunoglobulin Kappa Chain J Cluster

Laurent Ferradini, Hua Gu, Annie De Smet, Klaus Rajewsky, Claude-Agnès Reynaud, and Jean-Claude Weill
Science 8 March 1996: 1416-1420.
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Electrophoretically Uniform Fluorescent Dyes for Automated DNA Sequencing

Michael L. Metzker, Jing Lu, and Richard A. Gibbs
Science 8 March 1996: 1420-1422.
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Friedreich's Ataxia: Autosomal Recessive Disease Caused by an Intronic GAA Triplet Repeat Expansion

Victoria Campuzano, Laura Montermini, Maria Dolores Moltò, Luigi Pianese, Mireille Cossée, Francesca Cavalcanti, Eugenia Monros, François Rodius, Franck Duclos, Antonella Monticelli, Federico Zara, Joaquin Cañizares, Hana Koutnikova, Sanjay I. Bidichandani, Cinzia Gellera, Alexis Brice, Paul Trouillas, Giuseppe De Michele, Alessandro Filla, Rosa De Frutos, Francisco Palau, Pragna I. Patel, Stefano Di Donato, Jean-Louis Mandel, Sergio Cocozza, Michel Koenig, and Massimo Pandolfo
Science 8 March 1996: 1423-1427.
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Egr-1-Induced Endothelial Gene Expression: A Common Theme in Vascular Injury

Levon M. Khachigian, Volkhard Lindner, Amy J. Williams, and Tucker Collins
Science 8 March 1996: 1427-1431.
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Technical Comments

Sperm-Egg Binding Protein or Proto-Oncogene?

P. Bork;, J.-Y. Tsai, L. M. Silver;, P. Saling, R. Carballada, D. Burks, and H. Moore
Science 8 March 1996: 1431-1435.
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 Sperm-Egg Binding Protein or Proto-Oncogene?

Jen-Yue Tsai and Lee M. Silver
Science 8 March 1996: 1432-1434.
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 Response: Sperm-Egg Binding Protein or Proto-Oncogene?

Patricia Saling, Rosa Carballada, Deborah Burks, and Harry Moore
Science 8 March 1996: 1434-1435.
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