This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
Science 1 November 1996: 697.
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Editorial:
All Roads Lead to Rome

Jaleh Daie and Roger Wyse
Science 1 November 1996: 701-0.
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 Book Reviews|Conjuring Science, reviewed by S. Epstein * Stars as Laboratories for Fundamental Physics, L. Wolfenstein * Also Noteworthy * Vignettes * Books Received

Science 1 November 1996: 732-734.
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 AAAS Meetings

Science 1 November 1996: 807-0.

 Products & Materials|

Science 1 November 1996: 827-828.
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News and Comment

Science Education: How Not to Pick a Physicist?

James Glanz
Science 1 November 1996: 710-712.
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In China, an Enigma in Test Scores

James Glanz
Science 1 November 1996: 711-0.
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Planetary Science: The Moon Looms Large in Japan's Plans

Dennis Normile
Science 1 November 1996: 712-713.
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Demography: Designing a Census in Which All Americans Count

Wade Roush
Science 1 November 1996: 713-714.
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The Netherlands: Agencies Protest Funding Reforms

Alexander Hellemans
Science 1 November 1996: 714-715.
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International Collaboration: Both Sides Point Finger in Tiff Over China Dig

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 1 November 1996: 715-716.
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Cryptography: New Attacks Breach Computer Codes

Charles Seife
Science 1 November 1996: 716-717.
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Science and Religion: The Vatican's Position Evolves

Constance Holden
Science 1 November 1996: 717-0.
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ScienceScope

Science 1 November 1996: 709.
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Random Samples

Science 1 November 1996: 725.
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Research News

The Spell of Sonoluminescence

James Glanz
Science 1 November 1996: 718-719.
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Paleontology: New Feathered Fossil Brings Dinosaurs and Birds Closer

Ann Gibbons
Science 1 November 1996: 720-721.
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Mad Cow Disease: Protein Test Favors BSE-CJD Link

Claire O'Brien
Science 1 November 1996: 721-0.
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Astronomy: Stars Are Seen Through a Cloud, Darkly, Says New Theory

Bruce Schechter
Science 1 November 1996: 722-0.
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Meeting Briefs: Atomic Landscapes Beckon Researchers

Robert Service
Science 1 November 1996: 723-0.
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Apoptosis: Life-Death Balance Within the Cell

Marcia Barinaga
Science 1 November 1996: 724-0.
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Letters

 Resistance Management

Margaret Mellon
Science 1 November 1996: 703.
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 The Image of Sociobiology

Thomas P. Wilson
Science 1 November 1996: 703-704.
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 This Week's Letters

Science 1 November 1996: 704-707.
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 Resistance Management

Margaret Mellon
Science 1 November 1996: 704-707.
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 The Image of Sociobiology

Thomas P. Wilson
Science 1 November 1996: 704-707.
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 Future Tritium Supply

Harold M. Agnew
Science 1 November 1996: 704-707.
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 Interpretations of Multiregional Evolution

Milford H. Wolpoff;, Sarah A. Tishkoff, Kenneth K. Kidd, and Neil Risch
Science 1 November 1996: 704-707.
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 Mona with Cigar?

Richard L. Golden
Science 1 November 1996: 704-707.
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 Response:Interpretations of Multiregional Evolution

Sarah A. Tishkoff, Kenneth K. Kidd, and Neil Risch
Science 1 November 1996: 706-707.
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 Mona with Cigar?

Richard L. Golden
Science 1 November 1996: 707.
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Books et al.

 Neutrino Questions: Stars as Laboratories for Fundamental Physics.

Lincoln Wolfenstein
Science 1 November 1996: 733-734.
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 Also Noteworthy: The Life of Stefan Banach.

Science 1 November 1996: 734.
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 Also Noteworthy: On Social Structure and Science.

Science 1 November 1996: 734.
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 Also Noteworthy: Sixty Years of Biology.

Science 1 November 1996: 734.
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 Also Noteworthy: In Search of Nature.

Katherine Livingston
Science 1 November 1996: 734.
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 Books Received

Science 1 November 1996: 734.
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Policy Forum

Kobe's Lesson: Dial 711 for "Open" Emergency Communications

Eli M. Noam and Harumasa Sato
Science 1 November 1996: 739-740.
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Evidence-Based Health Policy---Lessons from the Global Burden of Disease Study

Christopher J. L. Murray and Alan D. Lopez
Science 1 November 1996: 740-743.
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Perspectives

A Wave in the Earth

Arch C. Johnston
Science 1 November 1996: 735-0.
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Enhanced: Superconductor Flux Pinning and Grain Boundary Control

David Larbalestier
Science 1 November 1996: 736-737.
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Retroelements in Genome Organization

Daniel F. Voytas
Science 1 November 1996: 737-738.
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A Chloride Channel Model?

Chris Miller
Science 1 November 1996: 738-0.
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Reports

Fennoscandian Earthquakes: Whole Crustal Rupturing Related to Postglacial Rebound

Ronald Arvidsson
Science 1 November 1996: 744-746.
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Climatic and Hydrologic Oscillations in the Owens Lake Basin and Adjacent Sierra Nevada, California

Larry V. Benson, James W. Burdett, Michaele Kashgarian, Steve P. Lund, Fred M. Phillips, and Robert O. Rye
Science 1 November 1996: 746-749.
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Chronology for Fluctuations in Late Pleistocene Sierra Nevada Glaciers and Lakes

Fred M. Phillips, Marek G. Zreda, Larry V. Benson, Mitchell A. Plummer, David Elmore, and Pankaj Sharma
Science 1 November 1996: 749-751.
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Nonresonant Spectral Hole Burning in the Slow Dielectric Response of Supercooled Liquids

B. Schiener, R. Böhmer, A. Loidl, and R. V. Chamberlin
Science 1 November 1996: 752-754.
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Epitaxial YBa₂Cu₃O₇ on Biaxially Textured Nickel (001): An Approach to Superconducting Tapes with High Critical Current Density

David P. Norton, Amit Goyal, John D. Budai, David K. Christen, Donald M. Kroeger, Eliot D. Specht, Qing He, Bernd Saffian, M. Paranthaman, Charles E. Klabunde, Dominic F. Lee, Brian C. Sales, and Fred A. List
Science 1 November 1996: 755-757.
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Creation of Nanocrystals Through a Solid-Solid Phase Transition Induced by an STM Tip

Jian Zhang, Jie Liu, Jin Lin Huang, Philip Kim, and Charles M. Lieber
Science 1 November 1996: 757-760.
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The Crystal Structure of a Five-Stranded Coiled Coil in COMP: A Prototype Ion Channel?

Vladimir N. Malashkevich, Richard A. Kammerer, Vladimir P. Efimov, Therese Schulthess, and Jürgen Engel
Science 1 November 1996: 761-765.
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Nested Retrotransposons in the Intergenic Regions of the Maize Genome

Phillip SanMiguel, Alexander Tikhonov, Young-Kwan Jin, Natasha Motchoulskaia, Dmitrii Zakharov, Admasu Melake-Berhan, Patricia S. Springer, Keith J. Edwards, Michael Lee, Zoya Avramova, and Jeffrey L. Bennetzen
Science 1 November 1996: 765-768.
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Requirement of Rigid-Body Motion of Transmembrane Helices for Light Activation of Rhodopsin

David L. Farrens, Christian Altenbach, Ke Yang, Wayne L. Hubbell, and H. Gobind Khorana
Science 1 November 1996: 768-770.
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Control of Spatiotemporal Coherence of a Thalamic Oscillation by Corticothalamic Feedback

Diego Contreras, Alain Destexhe, Terrence J. Sejnowski, and Mircea Steriade
Science 1 November 1996: 771-774.
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PIN: An Associated Protein Inhibitor of Neuronal Nitric Oxide Synthase

Samie R. Jaffrey and Solomon H. Snyder
Science 1 November 1996: 774-777.
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Change of a Catalytic Reaction Carried Out by a DNA Replication Protein

Marie-Françoise Noirot-Gros and Stanislav D. Ehrlich
Science 1 November 1996: 777-780.
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A Role for Phosphoinositide 3-Kinase in Bacterial Invasion

Keith Ireton, Bernard Payrastre, Hugues Chap, Wataru Ogawa, Hiroshi Sakaue, Masato Kasuga, and Pascale Cossart
Science 1 November 1996: 780-782.
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An Essential Role for NF-B in Preventing TNF--Induced Cell Death

Amer A. Beg and David Baltimore
Science 1 November 1996: 782-784.
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TNF- and Cancer Therapy-Induced Apoptosis: Potentiation by Inhibition of NF-B

Cun-Yu Wang, Marty W. Mayo, and Albert S. Baldwin, Jr.
Science 1 November 1996: 784-787.
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Suppression of TNF--Induced Apoptosis by NF-B

Daniel J. Van Antwerp, Seamus J. Martin, Tal Kafri, Douglas R. Green, and Inder M. Verma
Science 1 November 1996: 787-789.
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Conditional Circadian Dysfunction of the Arabidopsis early-flowering 3 Mutant

Karen A. Hicks, Andrew J. Millar, Isabelle A. Carré, David E. Somers, Martin Straume, D. Ry Meeks-Wagner, and Steve A. Kay
Science 1 November 1996: 790-792.
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Protection from Natural Killer Cell-Mediated Lysis by HLA-G Expression on Target Cells

Laszlo Pazmany, Ofer Mandelboim, Mar Valés-Gómez, Daniel M. Davis, Hugh T. Reyburn, and Jack L. Strominger
Science 1 November 1996: 792-795.
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Decreased Resistance to Bacterial Infection and Granulocyte Defects in IAP-Deficient Mice

Frederik P. Lindberg, Daniel C. Bullard, Tony E. Caver, Hattie D. Gresham, Arthur L. Beaudet, and Eric J. Brown
Science 1 November 1996: 795-798.
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Hyperresponsive B Cells in CD22-Deficient Mice

Theresa L. O'Keefe, Gareth T. Williams, Sarah L. Davies, and Michael S. Neuberger
Science 1 November 1996: 798-801.
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Visual Pigment Gene Structure and the Severity of Color Vision Defects

Jay Neitz, Maureen Neitz, and Pamela M. Kainz
Science 1 November 1996: 801-804.
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