This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
Science 24 January 1997: 453.
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Editorial:
Brain, Drugs, and Society

Michael S. Gazzaniga
Science 24 January 1997: 459-0.
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 Book Reviews|Monad to Man, reviewed by F. J. Ayala * Volcanoes of the Solar System and Volcano Instability on the Earth and Other Planets, J. B. Garvin * Nerve Growth and Guidance, D. Jay * Books Received

Science 24 January 1997: 495-497.

 Products & Materials|

Science 24 January 1997: 561-0.

News and Comment

East-West Collaboration: The Perils of Partnership

Richard Stone
Science 24 January 1997: 468-471.
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East-West Collaboration: Peer Review Lands Safely in Russia

Andrey Allakhverdov and Andrew Lawler
Science 24 January 1997: 469-0.
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East-West Collaboration: Russians Tread Boards to Sell Their Wares

Richard Stone
Science 24 January 1997: 470-0.
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Biomedical Ethics: Embryologists Dismayed by Sanctions Against Geneticist

Eliot Marshall
Science 24 January 1997: 472-0.
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Xenotransplantation: Pig-Human Transplants Barred for Now

Nigel Williams
Science 24 January 1997: 473-0.
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U.S.-China Cooperation: Science Academies Set Joint Agenda

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 24 January 1997: 473-0.
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Forensics: NRC Panel Enters the Fight Over Tagging Explosives

Robert F. Service
Science 24 January 1997: 474-475.
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Germany: Leaders Protest Cuts in Science Support

Robert Koenig
Science 24 January 1997: 475-0.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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Research News

Astrophysics: Visions of Black Holes

James Glanz
Science 24 January 1997: 476-478.
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Black-Hole Observations: The Gathering Darkness

James Glanz
Science 24 January 1997: 477-0.
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Planetary Science: An Icy World Looks Livelier

Richard A. Kerr
Science 24 January 1997: 478-0.
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Ecology: Much-Studied Butterfly Winks Out on Stanford Preserve

Ellen McGarrahan
Science 24 January 1997: 479-480.
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Biochemistry: Photons Add Up to Better Microscopy

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 24 January 1997: 480-481.
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Plasma Physics: More Powerful Pulses Please and Puzzle

Dennis Normile
Science 24 January 1997: 481-482.
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Cancer Research: Designing Therapies That Target Tumor Blood Vessels

Marcia Barinaga
Science 24 January 1997: 482-484.
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Letters

 This Week's Letters

Science 24 January 1997: 461-465.
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 Multiple Authorship

Benjamin White; and Jonathan Knight
Science 24 January 1997: 461-465.
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 "Clear and Present Danger"?

K. K. S. Pillay
Science 24 January 1997: 461-465.
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 Graduate Students' Rights

Eric Dirnbach
Science 24 January 1997: 461-465.
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 EMF Statement

Robert A. Frosch
Science 24 January 1997: 461-465.
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 Combining Expert Opinions

Hal R. Arkes, Jeryl L. Mumpower, and Thomas R. Stewart
Science 24 January 1997: 461-465.
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 Estonian Physicist: Active and Productive

Jaak Aaviksoo; and Karl Rebane
Science 24 January 1997: 461-465.
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 Growth Hormone Research and Therapy

Carl Grunfeld, Maxine Papadakis;, P. Michael Conn, and Cyril Y. Bowers
Science 24 January 1997: 461-465.
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 Corrections and Clarifications

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Perspectives

Early Evolution of Continents

A. W. Hofmann
Science 24 January 1997: 498-499.
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Enhanced: Science and the Protection of Endangered Species

H. Ronald Pulliam and Bruce Babbitt
Science 24 January 1997: 499-500.
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eIF4G--A Multipurpose Ribosome Adapter?

Matthias W. Hentze
Science 24 January 1997: 500-501.
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Articles

Modeling the Exchanges of Energy, Water, and Carbon Between Continents and the Atmosphere

P. J. Sellers, R. E. Dickinson, D. A. Randall, A. K. Betts, F. G. Hall, J. A. Berry, G. J. Collatz, A. S. Denning, H. A. Mooney, C. A. Nobre, N. Sato, C. B. Field, and A. Henderson-Sellers
Science 24 January 1997: 502-509.
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Reports

The Breakdown of Olivine to Perovskite and Magnesiowüstite

Yanbin Wang, Isabelle Martinez, François Guyot, and Robert C. Liebermann
Science 24 January 1997: 510-513.
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Transformation in Garnet from Orthorhombic Perovskite to LiNbO₃ Phase on Release of Pressure

Nobumasa Funamori, Takehiko Yagi, Nobuyoshi Miyajima, and Kiyoshi Fujino
Science 24 January 1997: 513-515.
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An Fe₂^IVO₂ Diamond Core Structure for the Key Intermediate Q of Methane Monooxygenase

Lijin Shu, Jeremy C. Nesheim, Karl Kauffmann, Eckard Münck, John D. Lipscomb, and Lawrence Que, Jr.
Science 24 January 1997: 515-518.
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Detection and Characterization of the Cumulene Carbenes H₂C₅ and H₂C₆

M. C. McCarthy, M. J. Travers, A. Kovács, Wei Chen, Stewart E. Novick, C. A. Gottlieb, and P. Thaddeus
Science 24 January 1997: 518-520.
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Niobium/Uranium Evidence for Early Formation of the Continental Crust

Paul J. Sylvester, Ian H. Campbell, and Deborah A. Bowyer
Science 24 January 1997: 521-523.
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Regulation of NF-B by Cyclin-Dependent Kinases Associated with the p300 Coactivator

Neil D. Perkins, Lisa K. Felzien, Jonathan C. Betts, Kwanyee Leung, David H. Beach, and Gary J. Nabel
Science 24 January 1997: 523-527.
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A Legume Ethylene-Insensitive Mutant Hyperinfected by Its Rhizobial Symbiont

R. Varma Penmetsa and Douglas R. Cook
Science 24 January 1997: 527-530.
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Measuring Serotonin Distribution in Live Cells with Three-Photon Excitation

S. Maiti, Jason B. Shear, R. M. Williams, W. R. Zipfel, and Watt W. Webb
Science 24 January 1997: 530-532.
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Vascular System Defects and Impaired Cell Chemokinesis as a Result of G₁₃ Deficiency

Stefan Offermanns, Valeria Mancino, Jean-Paul Revel, and Melvin I. Simon
Science 24 January 1997: 533-536.
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DCP-1, a Drosophila Cell Death Protease Essential for Development

Zhiwei Song, Kimberly McCall, and Hermann Steller
Science 24 January 1997: 536-540.
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Requirement for the Transcription Factor LSIRF/IRF4 for Mature B and T Lymphocyte Function

Hans-Willi Mittrücker, Toshifumi Matsuyama, Alex Grossman, Thomas M. Kündig, Julia Potter, Arda Shahinian, Andrew Wakeham, Bruce Patterson, Pamela S. Ohashi, and Tak W. Mak
Science 24 January 1997: 540-543.
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Still life, a Protein in Synaptic Terminals of Drosophila Homologous to GDP-GTP Exchangers

Masaki Sone, Mikio Hoshino, Emiko Suzuki, Shinya Kuroda, Kozo Kaibuchi, Hideki Nakagoshi, Kaoru Saigo, Yo-ichi Nabeshima, and Chihiro Hama
Science 24 January 1997: 543-547.
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Tumor Infarction in Mice by Antibody-Directed Targeting of Tissue Factor to Tumor Vasculature

Xianming Huang, Grietje Molema, Steven King, Linda Watkins, Thomas S. Edgington, and Philip E. Thorpe
Science 24 January 1997: 547-550.
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Geographic Distribution of Endangered Species in the United States

A. P. Dobson, J. P. Rodriguez, W. M. Roberts, and D. S. Wilcove
Science 24 January 1997: 550-553.
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Technical Comments

Measuring Biogenic Carbon Flux in the Ocean

P. Boyd, P. Newton;, ; R. B. Rivkin, L. Legendre, D. Deibel, J.-É Tremblay, B. Klein, K. Crocker, S. Roy, N. Silverberg, C. Lovejoy, F. Mesplé, N. Romero, M. R. Anderson, P. Matthews, C. Savenkoff, A. Vézina, J.-C. Therriault, J. Wesson, C. Bérubé, and R. G. Ingram
Science 24 January 1997: 554-555.
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