This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
Science 31 January 1997: 595.
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Editorial:
Bright Star Among Billions

Stephen Jay Gould
Science 31 January 1997: 599-0.
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 Book Reviews|Born to Rebel, reviewed by J. Modell * Browsings

Science 31 January 1997: 624-625.

 AAAS News & Notes

Science 31 January 1997: 685-0.

 Products & Materials

Science 31 January 1997: 687-688.

News and Comment

Space Science: Europe Ponders Space Constraints

Alexander Hellemans
Science 31 January 1997: 606-607.
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Switzerland: Biologists Mobilize Against Anti-Genetics Referendum

Robert Koenig
Science 31 January 1997: 607-608.
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Research Funding: Senate Bills Back Huge Increases

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 31 January 1997: 608-0.
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Scientific Facilities: NSF Fits In New Projects Despite Squeeze on Funding

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 31 January 1997: 609-0.
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France: Thrust and Parry Over Nuclear Risks

Michael Balter
Science 31 January 1997: 610-0.
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Scientific Misconduct: $1.6 Million Fraud Award Overturned

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 31 January 1997: 610-0.
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Space Science: The Clearest View: Hubble Telescope to Get an Upgrade

Gretchen Vogel
Science 31 January 1997: 611-612.
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Plasma Physics: ITER Review Team Takes Bullish Stance

Andrew Lawler
Science 31 January 1997: 612-0.
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ScienceScope

Science 31 January 1997: 605.
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Random Samples

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Research News

Geophysics: Deep-Sinking Slabs Stir the Mantle

Richard A. Kerr
Science 31 January 1997: 613-615.
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Geophysics: 20,000 Leagues Under the Earth

Richard A. Kerr
Science 31 January 1997: 614-0.
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AIDS: Advances Painted in Shades of Gray at a D.C. Conference

Jon Cohen
Science 31 January 1997: 615-616.
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Physics: First Atom Laser Shoots Pulses of Coherent Matter

Gary Taubes
Science 31 January 1997: 617-618.
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Physics: A New Recipe for Atom Condensates

Gary Taubes
Science 31 January 1997: 617-0.
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Developmental Biology: A "Master Control" Gene for Fly Eyes Shares Its Power

Wade Roush
Science 31 January 1997: 618-619.
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Astronomy: Gas Clouds May Be Relics of Creation

James Glanz
Science 31 January 1997: 619-0.
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Radio Astronomy: Japanese Mission Stretches Limits of Interferometry

Dennis Normile
Science 31 January 1997: 620-0.
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Genetics Research: Glaucoma Gene Provides Light at the End of the Tunnel

Gretchen Vogel
Science 31 January 1997: 621-0.
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Letters

 This Week's Letters

Science 31 January 1997: 601-603.
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 Human Genome Agreements

Bradley G. Lorimier;, J. Craig Venter;, and Neil A. Holtzman
Science 31 January 1997: 601-603.
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 Teaching Quality

Stephen C. Trombulak
Science 31 January 1997: 601-603.
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 Cosmological Interpretations

Hans-Dieter Radecke
Science 31 January 1997: 601-603.
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Perspectives

Enhanced: Microlensing Sheds Light on Dark Matter

Paul Hewett and Stephen Warren
Science 31 January 1997: 626-627.
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Searching a Quantum Phone Book

Gilles Brassard
Science 31 January 1997: 627-628.
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Akt Signaling--Linking Membrane Events to Life and Death Decisions

Brian A. Hemmings
Science 31 January 1997: 628-630.
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Alzheimer's Disease--Genotypes, Phenotype, and Treatments

Dennis J. Selkoe
Science 31 January 1997: 630-631.
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Articles

How Cells Get the Right Chromosomes

R. Bruce Nicklas
Science 31 January 1997: 632-637.
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Research Article

Observation of Interference Between Two Bose Condensates

M. R. Andrews, C. G. Townsend, H.-J. Miesner, D. S. Durfee, D. M. Kurn, and W. Ketterle
Science 31 January 1997: 637-641.
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Reports

Photochemically Driven Collapse of Titan's Atmosphere

Ralph D. Lorenz, Christopher P. McKay, and Jonathan I. Lunine
Science 31 January 1997: 642-644.
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Earth-Based Radio Tracking of the Galileo Probe for Jupiter Wind Estimation

W. M. Folkner, R. A. Preston, J. S. Border, J. Navarro, W. E. Wilson, and M. Oestreich
Science 31 January 1997: 644-646.
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Microscopic Growth Mechanisms for Carbon Nanotubes

Jean-Christophe Charlier, Alessandro De Vita, Xavier Blase, and Roberto Car
Science 31 January 1997: 647-649.
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A Silicon Single-Electron Transistor Memory Operating at Room Temperature

Lingjie Guo, Effendi Leobandung, and Stephen Y. Chou
Science 31 January 1997: 649-651.
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Micropatterning Fluid Lipid Bilayers on Solid Supports

Jay T. Groves, Nick Ulman, and Steven G. Boxer
Science 31 January 1997: 651-653.
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Magnetic Collapse in Transition Metal Oxides at High Pressure: Implications for the Earth

Ronald E. Cohen, I. I. Mazin, and Donald G. Isaak
Science 31 January 1997: 654-657.
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A General Strategy for Selecting High-Affinity Zinc Finger Proteins for Diverse DNA Target Sites

Harvey A. Greisman and Carl O. Pabo
Science 31 January 1997: 657-661.
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Regulation of Neuronal Survival by the Serine-Threonine Protein Kinase Akt

Henryk Dudek, Sandeep Robert Datta, Thomas F. Franke, Morris J. Birnbaum, Ryoji Yao, Geoffrey M. Cooper, Rosalind A. Segal, David R. Kaplan, and Michael E. Greenberg
Science 31 January 1997: 661-665.
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Direct Regulation of the Akt Proto-Oncogene Product by Phosphatidylinositol-3,4-bisphosphate

Thomas F. Franke, David R. Kaplan, Lewis C. Cantley, and Alex Toker
Science 31 January 1997: 665-668.
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Identification of a Gene That Causes Primary Open Angle Glaucoma

Edwin M. Stone, John H. Fingert, Wallace L. M. Alward, Thai D. Nguyen, Jon R. Polansky, Sara L. F. Sunden, Darryl Nishimura, Abbot F. Clark, Arne Nystuen, Brian E. Nichols, David A. Mackey, Robert Ritch, Jeffrey W. Kalenak, E. Randy Craven, and Val C. Sheffield
Science 31 January 1997: 668-670.
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Preattentive Filling-in of Visual Surfaces in Parietal Extinction

Jason B. Mattingley, Greg Davis, and Jon Driver
Science 31 January 1997: 671-674.
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NMDA Channel Regulation by Channel-Associated Protein Tyrosine Kinase Src

Xian-Min Yu, Rand Askalan, Gary J. Keil, II, and Michael W. Salter
Science 31 January 1997: 674-678.
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Positive Selection of T Cells Induced by Viral Delivery of Neopeptides to the Thymus

Naoko Nakano, Ronald Rooke, Christophe Benoist, and Diane Mathis
Science 31 January 1997: 678-683.
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Technical Comments

Comparative Rates of Development in Monodelphis and Didelphis

K. K. Smith, A. F. H. van Nievelt;, and T. Rowe
Science 31 January 1997: 683-684.
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