This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
Science 21 February 1997: 1041.
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Editorial:
Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence

Richard N. Zare
Science 21 February 1997: 1047-0.
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 Book Reviews|Female Control, reviewed by R. H. Wiley * Ocean Circulation Theory and The Ocean Circulation Inverse Problem, K. Bryan

Science 21 February 1997: 1075-1076.

 Gordon Research Conference

Science 21 February 1997: 1143-1165.

 Products& Materials|

Science 21 February 1997: 1169-0.

News and Comment

Medicine: The Breast-Screening Brawl

Gary Taubes
Science 21 February 1997: 1056-1059.
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Medicine: How One Radiologist Turns Up the Heat

Gary Taubes
Science 21 February 1997: 1057-0.
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Atmospheric Physics: Ionosphere Research Lab Sparks Fears in Alaska

Lisa Busch
Science 21 February 1997: 1060-1061.
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AAAS Meeting: R&D Confronts Political, Fiscal Problems

Andrew Lawler
Science 21 February 1997: 1061-1062.
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AAAS Meeting: Scientists Describe Deep-Sea Rebirth

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 21 February 1997: 1061-0.
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Health Research: U.S., Russia to Study Radiation Effects

Eliot Marshall
Science 21 February 1997: 1062-1063.
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France: Transgenic Corn Ban Sparks a Furor

Michael Balter
Science 21 February 1997: 1063-0.
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ScienceScope

Science 21 February 1997: 1055.
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Random Samples

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Research News

Astrometry: Hipparcos Charts the Heavens

Andrew Watson
Science 21 February 1997: 1064-1065.
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Astrometry: A Mapmaker That Was Nearly Lost

Andrew Watson
Science 21 February 1997: 1065-0.
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Biochemistry: Src Structure Crystallizes 20 Years of Oncogene Research

Carol Featherstone
Science 21 February 1997: 1066-0.
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Physiology: A New View of How Leg Muscles Operate on the Run

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 21 February 1997: 1067-0.
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Molecular Evolution: Did Birds Sail Through the K-T Extinction With Flying Colors?

Ann Gibbons
Science 21 February 1997: 1068-0.
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Fullerenes: Trapped Buckyball Turns Up the Amp

Alexander Hellemans
Science 21 February 1997: 1069-0.
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Electron Microscopes: Electron Mirror Gives a Clearer View

Erik Stokstad
Science 21 February 1997: 1069-1070.
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Mathematics: How to Play Platonic Billiards

Barry Cipra
Science 21 February 1997: 1070-0.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 21 February 1997: 1049-1053.
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 "Man of the Year"

Christine Gorman
Science 21 February 1997: 1049-1053.
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 Particle Physics Pessimism

Gordon Kane
Science 21 February 1997: 1049-1053.
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 Fusion Firsts?

B. Coppi
Science 21 February 1997: 1049-1053.
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 Risk Analysis

John H. Austin, Charles B. Connor, and Brittain E. Hill
Science 21 February 1997: 1049-1053.
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 Risks in Collaboration?

Iain E. P. Taylor
Science 21 February 1997: 1049-1053.
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 Funding Sequencing Efforts

Enriqueta Bond, M. J. Finley Austin;, and André Goffeau
Science 21 February 1997: 1049-1053.
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 Doppler What?

Roy D. North
Science 21 February 1997: 1049-1053.
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 "Ecological Footprint"

Jon Rosenberg
Science 21 February 1997: 1049-1053.
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 Global Mean Sea Level Change: Correction

R. S. Nerem
Science 21 February 1997: 1049-1053.
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 Corrections and Clarifications

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Perspectives

Rapid Sea-Level Rise Soon from West Antarctic Ice Sheet Collapse?

Charles R. Bentley
Science 21 February 1997: 1077-1078.
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Superconductivity and Antiferromagnetism in High-T_c Cuprates

Naoto Nagaosa
Science 21 February 1997: 1078-1079.
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Enhanced: Synchronous Spawning--When Timing Is Everything

Mark Hay
Science 21 February 1997: 1080-1081.
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Controlling Cell Death

Pierre Golstein
Science 21 February 1997: 1081-1082.
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Research Article

A Unified Theory Based on SO(5) Symmetry of Superconductivity and Antiferromagnetism

Shou-Cheng Zhang
Science 21 February 1997: 1089-1096.
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Reports

Nanofabrication of Small Copper Clusters on Gold(111) Electrodes by a Scanning Tunneling Microscope

D. M. Kolb, R. Ullmann, and T. Will
Science 21 February 1997: 1097-1099.
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Five-Coordinate Hydrogen: Neutron Diffraction Analysis of the Hydrido Cluster Complex [H₂Rh₁₃(CO)₂₄]³

Robert Bau, Mary H. Drabnis, Luigi Garlaschelli, Wim T. Klooster, Zuowei Xie, Thomas F. Koetzle, and Secondo Martinengo
Science 21 February 1997: 1099-1102.
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Probing Single Molecules and Single Nanoparticles by Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering

Shuming Nie and Steven R. Emory
Science 21 February 1997: 1102-1106.
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Direct Measurement of Single-Molecule Diffusion and Photodecomposition in Free Solution

Xiao-Hong Xu and Edward S. Yeung
Science 21 February 1997: 1106-1109.
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Mass Survival of Birds Across the Cretaceous- Tertiary Boundary: Molecular Evidence

Alan Cooper and David Penny
Science 21 February 1997: 1109-1113.
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Muscular Force in Running Turkeys: The Economy of Minimizing Work

Thomas J. Roberts, Richard L. Marsh, Peter G. Weyand, and C. Richard Taylor
Science 21 February 1997: 1113-1115.
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Mass Spawning by Green Algae on Coral Reefs

Kenneth E. Clifton
Science 21 February 1997: 1116-1118.
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Calmodulin Regulation of Calcium Stores in Phototransduction of Drosophila

Assaf Arnon, Boaz Cook, Craig Montell, Zvi Selinger, and Baruch Minke
Science 21 February 1997: 1119-1121.
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Interaction of CED-4 with CED-3 and CED-9: A Molecular Framework for Cell Death

Arul M. Chinnaiyan, Karen O'Rourke, Brian R. Lane, and Vishva M. Dixit
Science 21 February 1997: 1122-1126.
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Interaction and Regulation of Subcellular Localization of CED-4 by CED-9

Dayang Wu, Herschel D. Wallen, and Gabriel Nuñez
Science 21 February 1997: 1126-1129.
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Prevention of Apoptosis by Bcl-2: Release of Cytochrome c from Mitochondria Blocked

Jie Yang, Xuesong Liu, Kapil Bhalla, Caryn Naekyung Kim, Ana Maria Ibrado, Jiyang Cai, Tsung-I Peng, Dean P. Jones, and Xiaodong Wang
Science 21 February 1997: 1129-1132.
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The Release of Cytochrome c from Mitochondria: A Primary Site for Bcl-2 Regulation of Apoptosis

Ruth M. Kluck, Ella Bossy-Wetzel, Douglas R. Green, and Donald D. Newmeyer
Science 21 February 1997: 1132-1136.
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Role for the Amino-Terminal Region of Human TBP in U6 snRNA Transcription

Vivek Mittal and Nouria Hernandez
Science 21 February 1997: 1136-1140.
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Structural Convergence in the Active Sites of a Family of Catalytic Antibodies

Jean-Baptiste Charbonnier, Se-Ho Kim, Béatrice Golinelli-Pimpaneau, Benoît Gigant, Dan S. Tawfik, Rachel Chap, Daniel G. Schindler, Bernard S. Green, Zelig Eshhar, and Marcel Knossow
Science 21 February 1997: 1140-1142.
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