This Week in Science

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Science 8 November 1996: 893.
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Editorial:
America's Challenge

Walter F. Mondale
Science 8 November 1996: 899-0.
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Science 8 November 1996: 907-0.
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 Book Reviews|Making PCR and Exquisite Specificity, reviewed by S. Hilgartner * Chondrules and the Protoplanetary Disk, H. Y. McSween Jr. * Biotic Recovery from Mass Extinction Events, J. H. Lipps * Vignette * Books Received

Science 8 November 1996: 934-936.
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 Products& Materials|

Science 8 November 1996: 1015-1016.
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 Science's Next Wave|Science's Next Wave Forum Asks: M.S. or Ph.D.?

Science 8 November 1996: 1021-0.
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News and Comment

Scientific Misconduct: Fraud Strikes Top Genome Lab

Eliot Marshall
Science 8 November 1996: 908-910.
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Scientific Misconduct: Doubts Cast on Leukemia Papers

Eliot Marshall
Science 8 November 1996: 909-0.
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Power Lines and Health: Panel Finds EMFs Pose No Threat

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 8 November 1996: 910-0.
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Peer Review: Battle Ends in $21 Million Settlement

Eliot Marshall
Science 8 November 1996: 911-0.
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Ireland: Long-Awaited R&D Plan Short on Action

Nigel Williams
Science 8 November 1996: 911-0.
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Space Science: Building a Bridge Between the Big Bang and Biology

Andrew Lawler
Science 8 November 1996: 912-0.
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Risk Assessment: A New Way to Ask the Experts: Rating Radioactive Waste Risks

Richard A. Kerr
Science 8 November 1996: 913-914.
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Department of Energy: Weaponeers Cultivate Academics

Peter Weiss
Science 8 November 1996: 914-0.
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China: Government Gives Green Light to Four New Facilities

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 8 November 1996: 915-0.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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Research News

Biodiversity: Rare Habitats Vie for Protection

Karen Schmidt
Science 8 November 1996: 916-918.
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Biodiversity: Some Biologists See Holes in Gap Analysis

Karen Schmidt
Science 8 November 1996: 917-0.
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Life on Mars: Martian Rocks Tell Divergent Stories

Richard A. Kerr
Science 8 November 1996: 918-0.
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Statistical Mechanics: Persistence Pays Off in Defining History of Diffusion

Andrew Watson
Science 8 November 1996: 919-920.
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Astronomy: Do Comets Get a Nudge From the Galaxy?

Charles Seife
Science 8 November 1996: 920-0.
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Structural Biology: Filling In the Blanks in the p53 Protein Structure

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 8 November 1996: 921-922.
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Physiology Research: Mouse Model for Pregnancy Problem?

Trisha Gura
Science 8 November 1996: 922-0.
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Letters

 This Week's Letters

Science 8 November 1996: 901-905.
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 Methanococcus Genome

James A. Lake, Maria Rivera;, Robert Haselkorn, William J. Buikema;, Solomon W. Golomb;, Gary J. Olsen, Carl R. Woese, Owen White, and J. Craig Venter
Science 8 November 1996: 901-905.
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 Whose Genes Are They and How Can We Identify Them?

Jeffrey R. Botkin; and Ivo G. Gut
Science 8 November 1996: 901-905.
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 Evolution Teaching

Michael J. Erpino;, David Edge;, and Todd P. Silverstein
Science 8 November 1996: 901-905.
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 German Universities

Andreas Steup; and Sanford L. Segal
Science 8 November 1996: 901-905.
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 Methanococcus Genome

Solomon W. Golomb
Science 8 November 1996: 902.
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 Response: Methanococcus Genome

Gary J. Olsen, Carl R. Woese, Owen White, and J. Craig Venter
Science 8 November 1996: 902-903.
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 Whose Genes Are They and How Can We Identify Them?

Jeffrey R. Botkin
Science 8 November 1996: 903-904.
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 Whose Genes Are They and How Can We Identify Them?

Ivo G. Gut
Science 8 November 1996: 904.
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 Evolution Teaching

Michael J. Erpino
Science 8 November 1996: 904.
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 Evolution Teaching

David Edge
Science 8 November 1996: 904.
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 Evolution Teaching

Todd P. Silverstein
Science 8 November 1996: 904-905.
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 German Universities

Andreas Steup
Science 8 November 1996: 905.
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 German Universities

Sanford L. Segal
Science 8 November 1996: 905.
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Books et al.

 Fiery Drops: Chondrules and the Protoplanetary Disk.

Harry Y. McSween, Jr.
Science 8 November 1996: 935-936.
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 Ecological Comebacks: Biotic Recovery from Mass Extinction Events.

Jere H. Lipps
Science 8 November 1996: 936.
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 Books Received

Science 8 November 1996: 936.
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Perspectives

Past and Present Subtropical Summer Monsoons

Frank Sirocko
Science 8 November 1996: 937-938.
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Quantum Hysteresis in Molecular Magnets

Eugene M. Chudnovsky
Science 8 November 1996: 938-939.
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Lipid A--Target for Antibacterial Drugs

Martii Vaara
Science 8 November 1996: 939-0.
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Exoskeletons out of the Closet

Jon Seger
Science 8 November 1996: 941-0.
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Research Articles

Nonstationary Phase of the Plio-Pleistocene Asian Monsoon

Steven C. Clemens, David W. Murray, and Warren L. Prell
Science 8 November 1996: 943-948.
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Structure of the MDM2 Oncoprotein Bound to the p53 Tumor Suppressor Transactivation Domain

Paul H. Kussie, Svetlana Gorina, Vincent Marechal, Brian Elenbaas, Jacque Moreau, Arnold J. Levine, and Nikola P. Pavletich
Science 8 November 1996: 948-953.
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Reports

Dynamical Instabilities and the Formation of Extrasolar Planetary Systems

Frederic A. Rasio and Eric B. Ford
Science 8 November 1996: 954-956.
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Controlled Deposition of Size-Selected Silver Nanoclusters

Karsten Bromann, Christian Félix, Harald Brune, Wolfgang Harbich, René Monot, Jean Buttet, and Klaus Kern
Science 8 November 1996: 956-958.
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Thermally Switchable Periodicities and Diffraction from Mesoscopically Ordered Materials

Jesse M. Weissman, Hari B. Sunkara, Albert S. Tse, and Sanford A. Asher
Science 8 November 1996: 959-963.
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Mg/Ca Thermometry in Coral Skeletons

Takehiro Mitsuguchi, Eiji Matsumoto, Osamu Abe, Tetsuo Uchida, and Peter J. Isdale
Science 8 November 1996: 961-963.
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Anisotropy in the Inner Core: Could It Be Due To Low-Order Convection?

Barbara Romanowicz, Xiang-Dong Li, and Joseph Durek
Science 8 November 1996: 963-966.
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Three-Dimensional Imaging of Single Molecules Solvated in Pores of Poly(acrylamide) Gels

Robert M. Dickson, D. J. Norris, Yih-Ling Tzeng, and W. E. Moerner
Science 8 November 1996: 966-968.
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Rate Constants for Charge Transfer Across Semiconductor-Liquid Interfaces

Arnel M. Fajardo and Nathan S. Lewis
Science 8 November 1996: 968-972.
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 Rate Constants for Charge Transfer Across Semiconductor-Liquid Interfaces

Arnel M. Fajardo and Nathan S. Lewis
Science 8 November 1996: 969-972.
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Maturation of a Central Glutamatergic Synapse

G.-Y. Wu, R. Malinow, and H. T. Cline
Science 8 November 1996: 972-976.
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Distinct Mechanisms for Synchronization and Temporal Patterning of Odor-Encoding Neural Assemblies

Katrina MacLeod and Gilles Laurent
Science 8 November 1996: 976-979.
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Antibacterial Agents That Inhibit Lipid A Biosynthesis

H. Russell Onishi, Barbara A. Pelak, Lynn S. Gerckens, Lynn L. Silver, Frederick M. Kahan, Meng-Hsin Chen, Arthur A. Patchett, Susan M. Galloway, Sheryl A. Hyland, Matt S. Anderson, and Christian R. H. Raetz
Science 8 November 1996: 980-982.
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CKI1, a Histidine Kinase Homolog Implicated in Cytokinin Signal Transduction

Tatsuo Kakimoto
Science 8 November 1996: 982-985.
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Quantitative Image Analysis of HIV-1 Infection in Lymphoid Tissue

Ashley T. Haase, Keith Henry, Mary Zupancic, Gerald Sedgewick, Russell A. Faust, Holly Melroe, Winston Cavert, Kristin Gebhard, Katherine Staskus, Zhi-Qiang Zhang, Peter J. Dailey, Henry H. Balfour, Jr., Alejo Erice, and Alan S. Perelson
Science 8 November 1996: 985-989.
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Signal Transduction by DR3, a Death Domain-Containing Receptor Related to TNFR-1 and CD95

Arul M. Chinnaiyan, Karen O'Rourke, Guo-Liang Yu, Robert H. Lyons, Manish Garg, D. Roxanne Duan, Lily Xing, Reiner Gentz, Jian Ni, and Vishva M. Dixit
Science 8 November 1996: 990-992.
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Conditional Manipulation of Sex Ratios by Ant Workers: A Test of Kin Selection Theory

Liselotte Sundström, Michel Chapuisat, and Laurent Keller
Science 8 November 1996: 993-995.
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Hypertension Induced in Pregnant Mice by Placental Renin and Maternal Angiotensinogen

Eriko Takimoto, Junji Ishida, Fumihiro Sugiyama, Hisashi Horiguchi, Kazuo Murakami, and Akiyoshi Fukamizu
Science 8 November 1996: 995-998.
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Laser Capture Microdissection

Michael R. Emmert-Buck, Robert F. Bonner, Paul D. Smith, Rodrigo F. Chuaqui, Zhengping Zhuang, Seth R. Goldstein, Rhonda A. Weiss, and Lance A. Liotta
Science 8 November 1996: 998-1001.
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Structure of the p53 Tumor Suppressor Bound to the Ankyrin and SH3 Domains of 53BP2

Svetlana Gorina and Nikola P. Pavletich
Science 8 November 1996: 1001-1005.
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U1-Mediated Exon Definition Interactions Between AT-AC and GT-AG Introns

Qiang Wu and Adrian R. Krainer
Science 8 November 1996: 1005-1008.
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Technical Comments

HIV-1 Evolution and Disease Progression

M. A. Nowak, R. M. Anderson, M. C. Boerlijst, S. Bonhoeffer, R. M. May, A. J. McMichael;, S. M. Wolinsky, K. J. Kunstman, J. T. Safrit, R. A. Koup, A. U. Neumann, and B. T. M. Korber
Science 8 November 1996: 1008-1011.
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 Response: HIV-1 Evolution and Disease Progression

Steven M. Wolinsky, Kevin J. Kunstman, Jeffrey T. Safrit, Richard A. Koup, Avidan U. Neumann, and Bette T. M. Korber
Science 8 November 1996: 1010-1011.
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