This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
Science 7 March 1997: 1393.
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Editorial:
Rethinking Grant Peer Review

Steven J. Fliesler
Science 7 March 1997: 1399-0.
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 Book Reviews|Gregor Mendel, reviewed by R. Olby * The Psychopharmacologists, L. Iversen * Vignettes * Browsings

Science 7 March 1997: 1438-1439.

 Products & Materials|

Science 7 March 1997: 1497-1498.

 Science's Next Wave: Jobs for New Ph.D.s: Rosy Data Hide Some Thorns

Nicole Ruediger
Science 7 March 1997: 1501-0.

News and Comment

Germany: Slow Rebuilding of Germany's East

Robert Koenig
Science 7 March 1997: 1408-1409.
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U.S. Science Policy: All-Star Group Prescribes Partnerships for R&D Woes

Jon Cohen
Science 7 March 1997: 1410-0.
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U.S. Science Policy: Feds Probe Causes of Academic Stress

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 7 March 1997: 1410-0.
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Russia: New Tax Code Threatens Science Funds

Andrey Allakhverdov and Vladimir Pokrovsky
Science 7 March 1997: 1411-0.
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Scientific Misconduct: Charges Fly Over Advocacy Research

Jock Friedly
Science 7 March 1997: 1411-1412.
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High-End Computing: Panel Hopes to Splice Pieces of U.S. Research Network

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 7 March 1997: 1412-1413.
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High-End Computing: The Next Wave of Supercomputing Centers

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 7 March 1997: 1412-0.
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European Union: Framework: 'Unfocused, Underachieving'

Nigel Williams
Science 7 March 1997: 1414-0.
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Mars Meteorites: Tighter Rules for Sharing Studied

Andrew Lawler
Science 7 March 1997: 1414-0.
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ScienceScope

Science 7 March 1997: 1407.
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Random Samples

Science 7 March 1997: 1423.
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Research News

Embryology: Will Dolly Send in the Clones?

Elizabeth Pennisi and Nigel Williams
Science 7 March 1997: 1415-1416.
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Embryology: Cloning Sparks Calls for New Laws

Nigel Williams
Science 7 March 1997: 1415-0.
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Astronomy: Farsighted Gravity Lens Sees Stars

James Glanz
Science 7 March 1997: 1416-1417.
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Wildlife Biology: In Search of Africa's Forgotten Forest Elephant

Laura Tangley
Science 7 March 1997: 1417-1419.
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Wildlife Biology: One Species or Two (or Three)?

Laura Tangley
Science 7 March 1997: 1418-0.
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Paleontology: How Reptiles Took Wing

Bernice Wuethrich
Science 7 March 1997: 1419-0.
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Biophysics: Double Helix Does Chemistry at a Distance--But How?

Gary Taubes
Science 7 March 1997: 1420-1421.
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Cell Biology: Parasites Shed Light on Cellular Evolution

Gretchen Vogel
Science 7 March 1997: 1422-0.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 7 March 1997: 1401-1404.
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 Butterfly Watching

Steven B. Sands
Science 7 March 1997: 1401-1404.
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 APEX: An Unexplained Event

Michael E. Zeller, Jack Sandweiss;, and Walter Greiner
Science 7 March 1997: 1401-1404.
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 Authorship: Truth in Labeling

J. J. Hopfield
Science 7 March 1997: 1401-1404.
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 Asbestos Removal

Marc Hindry; and Michael Harris
Science 7 March 1997: 1401-1404.
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 Recombinant DNA Technique and Sickle Cell Anemia Research

Kirk R. Thomas, Mario R. Capecchi;, and Eric B. Kmiec
Science 7 March 1997: 1401-1404.
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 The Cause of Obesity

Per Södersten
Science 7 March 1997: 1401-1404.
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 Corrections and Clarifications

Science 7 March 1997: 1401-1404.
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Perspectives

Ion-Surface Interactions--From Channeling to Soft-Landing

A. W. Kleyn
Science 7 March 1997: 1440-1441.
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Enhanced: Unresolvable Endings--Defective Telomeres and Failed Separation

R. Scott Hawley
Science 7 March 1997: 1441.
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 WebWatch

Science 7 March 1997: 1441-0.
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Update: Biological Nitrogen Fixation and Model Chemistry

G. J. Leigh
Science 7 March 1997: 1442-0.
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Reports

Transformation of Coordinated Dinitrogen by Reaction with Dihydrogen and Primary Silanes

Michael D. Fryzuk, Jason B. Love, Steven J. Rettig, and Victor G. Young
Science 7 March 1997: 1445-1447.
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Soft-Landing of Polyatomic Ions at Fluorinated Self-Assembled Monolayer Surfaces

S. A. Miller, H. Luo, S. J. Pachuta, and R. G. Cooks
Science 7 March 1997: 1447-1450.
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Gliding Mechanism in the Late Permian Reptile Coelurosauravus

Eberhard Frey, Hans-Dieter Sues, and Wolfgang Munk
Science 7 March 1997: 1450-1452.
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Strontianite in Coral Skeletal Aragonite

Robert B. Greegor, Nicholas E. Pingitore, Jr., and Farrel W. Lytle
Science 7 March 1997: 1452-1454.
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Pulses of Rapid Ventilation in the North Atlantic Surface Ocean During the Past Century

Ellen R. M. Druffel
Science 7 March 1997: 1454-1457.
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Controlling Polymer-Surface Interactions with Random Copolymer Brushes

P. Mansky, Y. Liu, E. Huang, T. P. Russell, and C. Hawker
Science 7 March 1997: 1458-1460.
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Dinitrogen Bridged Gold Clusters

Hui Shan, Yi Yang, Alan J. James, and Paul R. Sharp
Science 7 March 1997: 1460-1462.
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Optical Computation with Negative Light Intensity with a Plastic Bacteriorhodopsin Film

Aaron Lewis, Yehuda Albeck, Zvi Lange, Julia Benchowski, and Gavriel Weizman
Science 7 March 1997: 1462-1464.
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Oxidative Thymine Dimer Repair in the DNA Helix

Peter J. Dandliker, R. Erik Holmlin, and Jacqueline K. Barton
Science 7 March 1997: 1465-1468.
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Requirement of the DEAD-Box Protein Ded1p for Messenger RNA Translation

Ray-Yuan Chuang, Paul L. Weaver, Zheng Liu, and Tien-Hsien Chang
Science 7 March 1997: 1468-1471.
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Structure of a Protein Photocycle Intermediate by Millisecond Time-Resolved Crystallography

Ulrich K. Genick, Gloria E. O. Borgstahl, Kingman Ng, Zhong Ren, Claude Pradervand, Patrick M. Burke, Vukica rajer, Tsu-Yi Teng, Wilfried Schildkamp, Duncan E. McRee, Keith Moffat, and Elizabeth D. Getzoff
Science 7 March 1997: 1471-1475.
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PTG, a Protein Phosphatase 1-Binding Protein with a Role in Glycogen Metabolism

John A. Printen, Matthew J. Brady, and Alan R. Saltiel
Science 7 March 1997: 1475-1478.
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Block in Anaphase Chromosome Separation Caused by a Telomerase Template Mutation

Karen E. Kirk, Brian P. Harmon, Isabel K. Reichardt, John W. Sedat, and Elizabeth H. Blackburn
Science 7 March 1997: 1478-1481.
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Immune Hyperactivation of HIV-1-Infected T Cells Mediated by Tat and the CD28 Pathway

Melanie Ott, Stephane Emiliani, Carine Van Lint, Georges Herbein, Jennie Lovett, Narendra Chirmule, Thomas McCloskey, Savita Pahwa, and Eric Verdin
Science 7 March 1997: 1481-1485.
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A Plastid of Probable Green Algal Origin in Apicomplexan Parasites

Sabine Köhler, Charles F. Delwiche, Paul W. Denny, Lewis G. Tilney, Paul Webster, R. J. M. Wilson, Jeffrey D. Palmer, and David S. Roos
Science 7 March 1997: 1485-1489.
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Technical Comments

 Evidence for a Family of Archaeal ATPases

Eugene V. Koonin
Science 7 March 1997: 1489-1490.
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 Aquaporins and Ion Conductance

Peter Agre, M. Douglas Lee, Sreenivas Devidas, William B. Guggino;, Sei Sei Sasaki, Shinichi Uchida, Michio Kuwahara, Kiyohide Fushimi, Fumiaki Marumo;, A. S. Verkman, Baoxue Yang;, P. M. T. Deen, S. M. Mulders, S. M. Kansen, C. H. van Os;, Jorge Fischbarg, Kunyan Kuang, Jun Li, Pavel Iserovich, Qian Wen;, Rajkumar V. Patil, Zhiquang Han, Martin B. Wax;, J. W. Regan, W. D. Stamer, and A. J. Yool
Science 7 March 1997: 1490-1492.
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