This Week in Science

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Science 22 November 1996: 1277.
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Editorial:
Materials Research and Applications

Philip H. Abelson
Science 22 November 1996: 1283-0.
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 Book Reviews|Krakatau, reviewed by T. J. Case * Supernovae and Nucleosynthesis, G. J. Mathews * Browsings

Science 22 November 1996: 1320-1321.
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 Gordon Research Conference|

Science 22 November 1996: 1396-1397.

 Products & Materials|

Science 22 November 1996: 1403-1404.
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News and Comment

Science Policy: Scientists With Clout

Michael Balter
Science 22 November 1996: 1292-1295.
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Science Policy: Generous Funding Wins a Seat at the Genome Top Table

Michael Balter
Science 22 November 1996: 1293-0.
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SPACE SCIENCE: Cluster Mission to Rise From the Ashes

Alexander Hellemans
Science 22 November 1996: 1295-0.
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School Achievement: Asia and Europe Top in World, But Reasons Are Hard to Find

Gretchen Vogel
Science 22 November 1996: 1296-0.
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Russian Space Science: Mars Loss Could Sink Planetary Probes

Andrew Lawler
Science 22 November 1996: 1297-0.
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Mad Cow Disease: EU Stops Fiddling While Cows Burn

Claire O'Brien
Science 22 November 1996: 1297-1298.
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Paleoanthropology: A Rare Glimpse of an Early Human Face

Ann Gibbons
Science 22 November 1996: 1298-0.
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ScienceScope

Science 22 November 1996: 1291.
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Random Samples

Science 22 November 1996: 1307.
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Research News

Ecology: The Case of the Missing Migrants

Laura Tangley
Science 22 November 1996: 1299-1300.
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Ecology: A Brewing Controversy Over Bird-Friendly Coffee

Laura Tangley
Science 22 November 1996: 1300-0.
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Cancer Genetics: Homing In On a Prostate Cancer Gene

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 22 November 1996: 1301-0.
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Neuroscience: Illusion Reveals Pain Locus in Brain

Gretchen Vogel
Science 22 November 1996: 1301-0.
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Immunology: Tumor Cells Fight Back to Beat Immune System

Nigel Williams
Science 22 November 1996: 1302-0.
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K-T Boundary: New Way to Read the Record Suggests Abrupt Extinction

Richard A. Kerr
Science 22 November 1996: 1303-1304.
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Developmental Biology: Hedgehog's Patterning Call Is Patched Through, Smoothly

Wade Roush
Science 22 November 1996: 1304-1305.
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Astronomy: Quasar Pairs: A Redshift Puzzle?

Govert Schilling
Science 22 November 1996: 1305-0.
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Circadian Clocks: PER Protein in Silkmoths Marches to Different Drummer

Marcia Barinaga
Science 22 November 1996: 1306-0.
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Letters

 This Week's Letters

Science 22 November 1996: 1285-1289.
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 Activation of Estrogen Receptors

Michael Joffe; and John A. McLachlan
Science 22 November 1996: 1285-1289.
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 "Quantum Voodoo"

Eric Geislinger
Science 22 November 1996: 1285-1289.
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 Flights from Reason?

W. Penn Handwerker
Science 22 November 1996: 1285-1289.
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 Arsenic Poisoning in West Bengal

Deba P. Saha; and Kunnath S. Subramanian
Science 22 November 1996: 1285-1289.
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 In Defense of Nannobacteria

Robert L. Folk
Science 22 November 1996: 1285-1289.
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 Cold Neutron Production

James D. Jorgensen, John M. Carpenter, and Gabriel Aeppli
Science 22 November 1996: 1285-1289.
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 "Quetzal" Coatings

Shou-Hsien Li and Walter Messier
Science 22 November 1996: 1285-1289.
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 "Quantum Voodoo"

Eric Geislinger
Science 22 November 1996: 1286.
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 Flights from Reason?

W. Penn Handwerker
Science 22 November 1996: 1286.
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 Arsenic Poisoning in West Bengal

Deba P. Saha
Science 22 November 1996: 1287.
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 Arsenic Poisoning in West Bengal

Kunnath S. Subramanian
Science 22 November 1996: 1287-1288.
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 In Defense of Nannobacteria

Robert L. Folk
Science 22 November 1996: 1288.
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 Cold Neutron Production

James D. Jorgensen, John M. Carpenter, and Gabriel Aeppli
Science 22 November 1996: 1288-1289.
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 "Quetzal" Coatings

Shou-Hsien Li and Walter Messier
Science 22 November 1996: 1289.
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 Corrections and Clarifications

Science 22 November 1996: 1285-1289.
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Corrections and Clarifications

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Corrections and Clarifications

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Books et al.

 Post-Eruption Ecology: Krakatau.

Ted J. Case
Science 22 November 1996: 1320.
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 Nucleosynthesis and After: Supernovae and Nucleosynthesis.

Grant J. Mathews
Science 22 November 1996: 1320-1321.
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Perspectives

Apomixis--The Asexual Revolution

Jean-Philippe Vielle Calzada, Charles F. Crane, and David M. Stelly
Science 22 November 1996: 1322-1323.
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Hats Off to the Tricorn Protease

Christine Schneider and F. Ulrich Hartl
Science 22 November 1996: 1323-1324.
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Heavy Ozone--A Difficult Puzzle to Solve

Dieter Krankowsky and Konrad Mauersberger
Science 22 November 1996: 1324-1325.
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The 110% Solution

David Voss
Science 22 November 1996: 1325-0.
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Articles

Microwave Spectroscopy at the Dissociation Limit

Alan Carrington
Science 22 November 1996: 1327-1331.
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Reports

The Coulomb Blockade in Coupled Quantum Dots

C. Livermore, C. H. Crouch, R. M. Westervelt, K. L. Campman, and A. C. Gossard
Science 22 November 1996: 1332-1335.
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Diffuse Extreme-Ultraviolet Emission from the Coma Cluster: Evidence for Rapidly Cooling Gases at Submegakelvin Temperatures

Richard Lieu, Jonathan P. D. Mittaz, Stuart Bowyer, Jeffrey O. Breen, Felix J. Lockman, Edward M. Murphy, and Chorng-yuan Hwang
Science 22 November 1996: 1335-1338.
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Extreme-Ultraviolet Flux from the Virgo Cluster: Further Evidence for a 500,000-Kelvin Component

Stuart Bowyer, Michael Lampton, and Richard Lieu
Science 22 November 1996: 1338-1340.
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Stratospheric Mean Ages and Transport Rates from Observations of Carbon Dioxide and Nitrous Oxide

K. A. Boering, S. C. Wofsy, B. C. Daube, H. R. Schneider, M. Loewenstein, J. R. Podolske, and T. J. Conway
Science 22 November 1996: 1340-1343.
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An Explanation for Symmetry-Induced Isotopic Fractionation in Ozone

Gregory I. Gellene
Science 22 November 1996: 1344-1346.
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Oceanic Carbon Dioxide Uptake in a Model of Century-Scale Global Warming

Jorge L. Sarmiento and Corinne Le Quéré
Science 22 November 1996: 1346-1350.
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Red-Emitting Semiconductor Quantum Dot Lasers

S. Fafard, K. Hinzer, S. Raymond, M. Dion, J. McCaffrey, Y. Feng, and S. Charbonneau
Science 22 November 1996: 1350-1353.
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Chemiluminescence in the Agglomeration of Metal Clusters

L. König, I. Rabin, W. Schulze, and G. Ertl
Science 22 November 1996: 1353-1354.
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Glacial to Interglacial Fluctuations in Productivity in the Equatorial Pacific as Indicated by Marine Barite

A. Paytan, M. Kastner, and F. P. Chavez
Science 22 November 1996: 1355-1357.
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Stability of Perovskite (MgSiO₃) in the Earth's Mantle

Surendra K. Saxena, Leonid S. Dubrovinsky, Peter Lazor, Yngve Cerenius, Patrik Häggkvist, Michael Hanfland, and Jingzhu Hu
Science 22 November 1996: 1357-1359.
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Sudden and Gradual Molluscan Extinctions in the Latest Cretaceous of Western European Tethys

Charles R. Marshall and Peter D. Ward
Science 22 November 1996: 1360-1363.
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Melanoma Cell Expression of Fas(Apo-1/CD95) Ligand: Implications for Tumor Immune Escape

M. Hahne, D. Rimoldi, M. Schröter, P. Romero, M. Schreier, L. E. French, P. Schneider, T. Bornand, A. Fontana, D. Lienard, J.-C. Cerottini, and J. Tschopp
Science 22 November 1996: 1363-1366.
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Structure of the A Site of Escherichia coli 16S Ribosomal RNA Complexed with an Aminoglycoside Antibiotic

Dominique Fourmy, Michael I. Recht, Scott C. Blanchard, and Joseph D. Puglisi
Science 22 November 1996: 1367-1371.
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Major Susceptibility Locus for Prostate Cancer on Chromosome 1 Suggested by a Genome-Wide Search

Jeffrey R. Smith, Diha Freije, John D. Carpten, Henrik Grönberg, Jianfeng Xu, Sarah D. Isaacs, Michael J. Brownstein, G. Steven Bova, Hong Guo, Piroska Bujnovszky, Deborah R. Nusskern, Jan-Erik Damber, Anders Bergh, Monika Emanuelsson, Olli P. Kallioniemi, Jennifer Walker-Daniels, Joan E. Bailey-Wilson, Terri H. Beaty, Deborah A. Meyers, Patrick C. Walsh, Francis S. Collins, Jeffrey M. Trent, and William B. Isaacs
Science 22 November 1996: 1371-1374.
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RAC Regulation of Actin Polymerization and Proliferation by a Pathway Distinct from Jun Kinase

Tom Joneson, Michele McDonough, Dafna Bar-Sagi, and Linda Van Aelst
Science 22 November 1996: 1374-1376.
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Uncoupling of Obesity from Insulin Resistance Through a Targeted Mutation in aP2, the Adipocyte Fatty Acid Binding Protein

Gökhan S. Hotamisligil, Randall S. Johnson, Robert J. Distel, Ramsey Ellis, Virginia E. Papaioannou, and Bruce M. Spiegelman
Science 22 November 1996: 1377-1379.
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Liver Failure and Defective Hepatocyte Regeneration in Interleukin-6-Deficient Mice

Drew E. Cressman, Linda E. Greenbaum, Robert A. DeAngelis, Gennaro Ciliberto, Emma E. Furth, Valeria Poli, and Rebecca Taub
Science 22 November 1996: 1379-1383.
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Neuroprotection by Aspirin and Sodium Salicylate Through Blockade of NF-B Activation

Mariagrazia Grilli, Marina Pizzi, Maurizio Memo, and PierFranco Spano
Science 22 November 1996: 1383-1385.
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Tricorn Protease--The Core of a Modular Proteolytic System

Tomohiro Tamura, Noriko Tamura, Zdenka Cejka, Reiner Hegerl, Friedrich Lottspeich, and Wolfgang Baumeister
Science 22 November 1996: 1385-1389.
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Control of C. elegans Larval Development by Neuronal Expression of a TGF- Homolog

Peifeng Ren, Chang-Su Lim, Robert Johnsen, Patrice S. Albert, David Pilgrim, and Donald L. Riddle
Science 22 November 1996: 1389-1391.
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Technical Comments

Resistance to Leishmania major in Mice

P. Demant, M. Lipoldova, M. Svobodova;, M. Güler, K. Murphy, and J. Gorham
Science 22 November 1996: 1392-0.
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 Resistance to Leishmania major in Mice

Peter Demant, Marie Lipoldova, and Milena Svobodova
Science 22 November 1996: 1392.
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 Response: Resistance to Leishmania major in Mice

Mehmet Güler, Kenneth Murphy, and James Gorham
Science 22 November 1996: 1392-1393.
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Role of -Chemokines in Suppressing HIV Replication

C. E. Mackewicz, E. Barker, J. A. Levy;, F. Cocchi, A. L. DeVico, A. Garzino-Demo, P. Lusso, and R. C. Gallo
Science 22 November 1996: 1393-0.
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 Response: Role of -Chemokines in Suppressing HIV Replication

Fiorenza Cocchi, Anthony L. DeVico, Alfredo Garzino-Demo, Paolo Lusso, and Robert C. Gallo
Science 22 November 1996: 1394-1395.
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