This Week in Science

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Editorial:
Future Imperfect and Tense

Floyd E. Bloom
Science 14 February 1997: 907-0.
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 Book Reviews|The lac Operon, reviewed by P. Lu * The Quantum Theory of Fields, C. Quigg * Nitric Oxide Synthase, J. Beckman * Books Received

Science 14 February 1997: 938-939.

 Products & Materials|

Science 14 February 1997: 999-1000.

News and Comment

The 1998 Budget: Smoother Road for R&D Spending?

Andrew Lawler
Science 14 February 1997: 916-919.
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The 1998 Budget: Space Scientists Find Fiscal Relief

Andrew Lawler
Science 14 February 1997: 917-0.
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The 1998 Budget: NSF Revamps Graduate Training Grants

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 14 February 1997: 918-0.
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Microelectronics: Europe Starts Search for Lone Electron

Alexander Hellemans
Science 14 February 1997: 920-0.
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Scientific Misconduct: The 'Gallo Case': Popovic Strikes Back

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 14 February 1997: 920-921.
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Space Station: Russian Money Woes Endanger Project

Andrew Lawler
Science 14 February 1997: 921-0.
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Research Management: Spat Over Intellectual Property Threatens Canadian Networks

Wayne Kondro
Science 14 February 1997: 922-923.
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Developmental Biology: A Zebrafish Genome Project?

Wade Roush
Science 14 February 1997: 923-0.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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Research News

Archaeology: Death in Norse Greenland

Heather Pringle
Science 14 February 1997: 924-926.
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Autoimmunity: Thyroid Disease--A Case of Cell Suicide?

Nigel Williams
Science 14 February 1997: 926-0.
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Solar Physics: Bold Prediction Downplays the Sun's Next Peak

James Glanz
Science 14 February 1997: 927-0.
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Cell Biology: Cells Count Proteins to Keep Their Telomeres in Line

Marcia Barinaga
Science 14 February 1997: 928-0.
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Mathematics: Smart Neurons Offer Neuroscience a Math Lesson

Barry Cipra
Science 14 February 1997: 929-0.
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Neuroimmunology: Tracing Molecules That Make the Brain-Body Connection

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 14 February 1997: 930-931.
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Atomic Physics: Atoms Take a Turn for the Better

Charles Seife
Science 14 February 1997: 931-0.
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Letters

 This Week's Letters

Science 14 February 1997: 909-912.
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 Green Education

Frances S. Vandervoort; and E. N. Anderson
Science 14 February 1997: 909-912.
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 Confinement Predictions for ITER

Weston M. Stacey; and Ezio Zolti
Science 14 February 1997: 909-912.
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 Surfing the Neuroscience Net

Pratibha Chaturvedi, Rinee Mukherjee;, and Fred Lenherr
Science 14 February 1997: 909-912.
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 In Focus

Janos Kirz; and David A. Jefferson
Science 14 February 1997: 909-912.
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 Brain Activation and Sentence Comprehension

Brenda Rapp, Michael McCloskey;, M. A. Just, P. A. Carpenter, T. A. Keller, W. F. Eddy, and K. R. Thulborn
Science 14 February 1997: 909-912.
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 Corrections and Clarifications

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Perspectives

Fast, Cheap, and Very Bright

Gerhard Fasol
Science 14 February 1997: 941-942.
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Enhanced: Extraterrestrial Handedness?

Jeffrey L. Bada
Science 14 February 1997: 942-943.
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What Makes Us Tick?

Leonard Guarente
Science 14 February 1997: 943-944.
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Research Article

Chemical Selection for Catalysis in Combinatorial Antibody Libraries

Kim D. Janda, Lee-Chiang Lo, Chih-Hung L. Lo, Mui-Mui Sim, Ruo Wang, Chi-Huey Wong, and Richard A. Lerner
Science 14 February 1997: 945-948.
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Reports

A Functional Model Related to Cytochrome c Oxidase and Its Electrocatalytic Four-Electron Reduction of O₂

James P. Collman, Lei Fu, Paul C. Herrmann, and Xumu Zhang
Science 14 February 1997: 949-951.
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Enantiomeric Excesses in Meteoritic Amino Acids

John R. Cronin and Sandra Pizzarello
Science 14 February 1997: 951-955.
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Atomistic Simulation of Shock Wave-Induced Melting in Argon

A. B. Belonoshko
Science 14 February 1997: 955-957.
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Twentieth-Century Sea Surface Temperature Trends

Mark A. Cane, Amy C. Clement, Alexey Kaplan, Yochanan Kushnir, Dmitri Pozdnyakov, Richard Seager, Stephen E. Zebiak, and Ragu Murtugudde
Science 14 February 1997: 957-960.
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Potential Involvement of Fas and Its Ligand in the Pathogenesis of Hashimoto's Thyroiditis

Science 14 February 1997: 960-963.
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Isolation of Putative Progenitor Endothelial Cells for Angiogenesis

Takayuki Asahara, Toyoaki Murohara, Alison Sullivan, Marcy Silver, R. van der Zee, Tong Li, Bernhard Witzenbichler, Gina Schatteman, and Jeffrey M. Isner
Science 14 February 1997: 964-966.
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Somatic Frameshift Mutations in the BAX Gene in Colon Cancers of the Microsatellite Mutator Phenotype

Nicholas Rampino, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Yurij Ionov, Yan Li, Hisako Sawai, John C. Reed, and Manuel Perucho
Science 14 February 1997: 967-969.
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Involvement of Pre- and Postsynaptic Mechanisms in Posttetanic Potentiation at Aplysia Synapses

Jian-Xin Bao, Eric R. Kandel, and Robert D. Hawkins
Science 14 February 1997: 969-973.
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A Mammalian Telomerase-Associated Protein

Lea Harrington, Timothy McPhail, Vernon Mar, Wen Zhou, Rena Oulton, Amgen EST Program, Mike B. Bass, Isabel Arruda, and Murray O. Robinson
Science 14 February 1997: 973-977.
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Immunoglobulin E Production in the Absence of Interleukin-4-Secreting CD1-Dependent Cells

Stephen T. Smiley, Mark H. Kaplan, and Michael J. Grusby
Science 14 February 1997: 977-979.
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Structural and Functional Conservation of the Caenorhabditis elegans Timing Gene clk-1

Jonathan J. Ewbank, Thomas M. Barnes, Bernard Lakowski, Marc Lussier, Howard Bussey, and Siegfried Hekimi
Science 14 February 1997: 980-983.
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Structure of Bcl-x_L-Bak Peptide Complex: Recognition Between Regulators of Apoptosis

Michael Sattler, Heng Liang, David Nettesheim, Robert P. Meadows, John E. Harlan, Matthias Eberstadt, Ho Sup Yoon, Suzanne B. Shuker, Brian S. Chang, Andy J. Minn, Craig B. Thompson, and Stephen W. Fesik
Science 14 February 1997: 983-986.
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A Protein-Counting Mechanism for Telomere Length Regulation in Yeast

Stéphane Marcand, Eric Gilson, and David Shore
Science 14 February 1997: 986-990.
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Defective Transcription-Coupled Repair of Oxidative Base Damage in Cockayne Syndrome Patients from XP Group G

Priscilla K. Cooper, Thierry Nouspikel, Stuart G. Clarkson, and Steven A. Leadon
Science 14 February 1997: 990-993.
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Regulation of Replicon Size in Xenopus Egg Extracts

Johannes Walter and John W. Newport
Science 14 February 1997: 993-995.
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Technical Comments

 Oxygenic Photoautotrophic Growth and Photosystem I

Science 14 February 1997: 996.
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