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Science 12 April 1996: 173.
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Editorial:
The Metaphor of Distributed Intelligence

Vice President Al Gore
Science 12 April 1996: 177-0.
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 ScienceScope|

Science 12 April 1996: 185-0.
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 Random Samples|Photosynthetic Organism Sequenced * Environment Award Honors the Big Chill * Hands-Off Science in Higher Ed * Anthropologist Exonerated * Nature v. Culture: A Lesson From the Guppy * Nobelist Charged With Child Sex Abuse

Science 12 April 1996: 201-203.
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 Book Reviews|Thread of the Silkworm, reviewed by M. J. Neufeld * Launching Europe, W. Finlay * Scientifically Yours * Vignettes

Science 12 April 1996: 217-218.
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 Products & Materials|

Science 12 April 1996: 285-286.
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News and Comment

Industrial Research: A Disconnect for NTT Labs?

Dennis Normile
Science 12 April 1996: 186-187.
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Industrial Research: A $3 Billion Slice of AT&T

Robert F. Service
Science 12 April 1996: 187-0.
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Human Genome Program: NIH Launches the Final Push to Sequence the Genome

Eliot Marshall and Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 12 April 1996: 188-189.
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Science and the Law: New York Courts Seek `Neutral' Experts

Eliot Marshall
Science 12 April 1996: 189-0.
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Immigration Reform: Proposals That Would Limit Visas Strike Fear at Universities

James Glanz
Science 12 April 1996: 190-191.
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Virology: Australia Fends Off Critic of Plan to Eradicate Rabbits

Dan Drollette
Science 12 April 1996: 191-192.
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Research News

Genetics: Premature Aging Gene Discovered

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 12 April 1996: 193-194.
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Astronomy: Comet Hyakutake Blazes in X-rays

James Glanz
Science 12 April 1996: 194-0.
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Gene Therapy: New Role for HIV: A Vehicle for Moving Genes Into Cells

Jon Cohen
Science 12 April 1996: 195-0.
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Meeting Briefs: Chemists Clean Ceramics and Coat Enzymes in Plastic

Robert F. Service
Science 12 April 1996: 196-197.
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Ecology: Acid Rain's Dirty Business: Stealing Minerals From Soil

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 12 April 1996: 198-0.
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Quantum Mechanics: Error-Correcting Code Keeps Quantum Computers on Track

Barry Cipra
Science 12 April 1996: 199-0.
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Meeting Briefs: New Data Help Toxicologists Home In on Assessing Risks

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 12 April 1996: 200-0.
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Letters

 This Week's Letters

Science 12 April 1996: 179-183.
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 Sun-Climate Links

Curt Covey
Science 12 April 1996: 179-183.
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 And the Winner Is ...

Erik P. Scully
Science 12 April 1996: 179-183.
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 Bad Science, Bad Policy?

Henry I. Miller
Science 12 April 1996: 179-183.
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 Calculus as a Tool

Robert E. Hurst
Science 12 April 1996: 179-183.
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 The ITER Project

Paul H. Rutherford; and Charles C. Baker
Science 12 April 1996: 179-183.
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 Structure of W(CH₃)₆

Clark R. Landis, Thomas Cleveland, Timothy K. Firman;, and K. Seppelt
Science 12 April 1996: 179-183.
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 Strangelovian Concepts

Bruce Onisko
Science 12 April 1996: 179-183.
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 Note from the Editor-in-Chief

Floyd E. Bloom
Science 12 April 1996: 179-183.
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 Bad Science, Bad Policy?

Henry I. Miller
Science 12 April 1996: 180.
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 Calculus as a Tool

Robert E. Hurst
Science 12 April 1996: 180.
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 The ITER Project

Paul H. Rutherford
Science 12 April 1996: 181.
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 The ITER Project

Charles C. Baker
Science 12 April 1996: 181-182.
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 Structure of W(CH₃)₆

Clark R. Landis, Thomas Cleveland, and Timothy K. Firman
Science 12 April 1996: 182.
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 Response: Structure of W(CH₃)₆

K. Seppelt
Science 12 April 1996: 182-183.
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 Strangelovian Concepts

Bruce Onisko
Science 12 April 1996: 183.
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Books et al.

 Orbits of a Rocketeer: Thread of the Silkworm.

Michael J. Neufeld
Science 12 April 1996: 217.
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 Inside ESA: Launching Europe.

William Finlay
Science 12 April 1996: 217-218.
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 Aussi Notable: Scientifically Yours.

Katherine Livingston
Science 12 April 1996: 218.
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Policy Forum

Is There a Role for Benefit-Cost Analysis in Environmental, Health, and Safety Regulation?

Kenneth J. Arrow, Maureen L. Cropper, George C. Eads, Robert W. Hahn, Lester B. Lave, Roger G. Noll, Paul R. Portney, Milton Russell, Richard Schmalensee, V. Kerry Smith, and Robert N. Stavins
Science 12 April 1996: 221-222.
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Perspectives

A History of Global Metal Pollution

Jerome O. Nriagu
Science 12 April 1996: 223-0.
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Cell Shape Determination--A Pivotal Role for Rho

Howard Bussey
Science 12 April 1996: 224-0.
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Arousal--Revisiting the Reticular Activating System

Mircea Steriade
Science 12 April 1996: 225-0.
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Articles

Protein Sorting by Transport Vesicles

James E. Rothman and Felix T. Wieland
Science 12 April 1996: 227-234.
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Research Article

Global Observations of Oceanic Rossby Waves

Dudley B. Chelton and Michael G. Schlax
Science 12 April 1996: 234-238.
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Reports

Long-Term Effects of Acid Rain: Response and Recovery of a Forest Ecosystem

G. E. Likens, C. T. Driscoll, and D. C. Buso
Science 12 April 1996: 244-246.
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History of Ancient Copper Smelting Pollution During Roman and Medieval Times Recorded in Greenland Ice

Sungmin Hong, Jean-Pierre Candelone, Clair C. Patterson, and Claude F. Boutron
Science 12 April 1996: 246-249.
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Extraterrestrial Helium Trapped in Fullerenes in the Sudbury Impact Structure

Luann Becker, Robert J. Poreda, and Jeffrey L. Bada
Science 12 April 1996: 249-252.
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Orientation-On-Demand Thin Films: Curing of Liquid Crystalline Networks in ac Electric Fields

Hilmar Körner, Atsushi Shiota, Timothy J. Bunning, and Christopher K. Ober
Science 12 April 1996: 252-255.
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Imaging and Time-Resolved Spectroscopy of Single Molecules at an Interface

J. J. Macklin, J. K. Trautman, T. D. Harris, and L. E. Brus
Science 12 April 1996: 255-258.
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Positional Cloning of the Werner's Syndrome Gene

Chang-En Yu, Junko Oshima, Ying-Hui Fu, Ellen M. Wijsman, Fuki Hisama, Reid Alisch, Shellie Matthews, Jun Nakura, Tetsuro Miki, Samir Ouais, George M. Martin, John Mulligan, and Gerard D. Schellenberg
Science 12 April 1996: 258-262.
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In Vivo Gene Delivery and Stable Transduction of Nondividing Cells by a Lentiviral Vector

Luigi Naldini, Ulrike Blömer, Philippe Gallay, Daniel Ory, Richard Mulligan, Fred H. Gage, Inder M. Verma, and Didier Trono
Science 12 April 1996: 263-267.
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Accurate Processing of a Eukaryotic Precursor Ribosomal RNA by Ribonuclease MRP in Vitro

Zoi Lygerou, Christine Allmang, David Tollervey, and Bertrand Séraphin
Science 12 April 1996: 268-270.
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Role of Reticular Activation in the Modulation of Intracortical Synchronization

Matthias H. J. Munk, Pieter R. Roelfsema, Peter König, Andreas K. Engel, and Wolf Singer
Science 12 April 1996: 271-274.
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Short-Term Plasticity of a Thalamocortical Pathway Dynamically Modulated by Behavioral State

Manuel A. Castro-Alamancos and Barry W. Connors
Science 12 April 1996: 274-277.
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Rho1p, a Yeast Protein at the Interface Between Cell Polarization and Morphogenesis

Jana Drgonová, Tomás Drgon, Kazuma Tanaka, Roman Kollár, Guang-Chao Chen, Richard A. Ford, Clarence S. M. Chan, Yoshimi Takai, and Enrico Cabib
Science 12 April 1996: 277-279.
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Identification of Yeast Rho1p GTPase as a Regulatory Subunit of 1,3--Glucan Synthase

Hiroshi Qadota, Christophe P. Python, Shunsuke B. Inoue, Mikio Arisawa, Yasuhiro Anraku, Yi Zheng, Takahide Watanabe, David E. Levin, and Yoshikazu Ohya
Science 12 April 1996: 279-281.
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Technical Comments

Lophophorate Phylogeny

S. Conway Morris, B. L. Cohen, A. B. Gawthrop, T. Cavalier-Smith, B. Winnepenninckx;, K. M. Halanych, J. D. Bacheller, A. M. A. Aguinaldo, S. M. Liva, D. M. Hillis, and J. A. Lake
Science 12 April 1996: 282-283.
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 Response: Lophophorate Phylogeny

Kenneth M. Halanych, John D. Bacheller, Anna Marie A. Aguinaldo, Stephanie M. Liva, David M. Hillis, and James A. Lake
Science 12 April 1996: 283.
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