Stellar Birth and Death

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Science 30 May 1997: 1391.
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Editorial

Editorial:
Stellar Birth and Death

Linda Rowan
Science 30 May 1997: 1315.
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Articles

Brown Dwarfs: A Possible Missing Link Between Stars and Planets

S. R. Kulkarni
Science 30 May 1997: 1350-1354.
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Young Stars and Their Surroundings

C. Robert O'Dell and Steven V. W. Beckwith
Science 30 May 1997: 1355-1359.
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Nucleosynthesis in Stars: Recent Developments

David Arnett and Grant Bazan
Science 30 May 1997: 1359-1362.
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Low-Mass Pre-Main Sequence Stars and Their X-ray Emission

Ralph Neuhäuser
Science 30 May 1997: 1363-1370.
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Globular Clusters at Low and High Redshift

Denis Burgarella
Science 30 May 1997: 1370-1374.
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Type II Supernovae SN 1987A and SN 1993J

Roger A. Chevalier
Science 30 May 1997: 1374-1378.
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Type Ia Supernovae: Their Origin and Possible Applications in Cosmology

Ken'ichi Nomoto, Koichi Iwamoto, and Nobuhiro Kishimoto
Science 30 May 1997: 1378-1382.
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Planetary Nebulae: Understanding the Physical and Chemical Evolution of Dying Stars

Ronald Weinberger and Florian Kerber
Science 30 May 1997: 1382-1386.
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Using Neutron Stars and Black Holes in X-ray Binaries to Probe Strong Gravitational Fields

Philip Kaaret and Eric C. Ford
Science 30 May 1997: 1386-1391.
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This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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 Products & Materials

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 AAAS New & Notes

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News and Comment

Health Policy: How Much Pain for Cardiac Gain?

Marcia Barinaga
Science 30 May 1997: 1324-1327.
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Physiology: How Exercise Works Its Magic

Marcia Barinaga
Science 30 May 1997: 1325.
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Asthma Genetics: A Scientific Result Without the Science

Gretchen Vogel
Science 30 May 1997: 1327.
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National Academies: NRC Lets a Little Sun Shine In

Andrew Lawler
Science 30 May 1997: 1328.
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1998 Budget: Five-Year Plan Squeezes R&D

Andrew Lawler
Science 30 May 1997: 1328-1329.
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Conservation Biology: Can Cloning Help Save Beleaguered Species?

Jon Cohen
Science 30 May 1997: 1329-1330.
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Conservation Biology: Would-Be Cloners Face Daunting Hurdles

Jon Cohen
Science 30 May 1997: 1330.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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Research News

Paleoanthropology: A New Face for Human Ancestors

Ann Gibbons
Science 30 May 1997: 1331-1333.
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Paleoanthropology: Into the Pit of Human History

Ann Gibbons
Science 30 May 1997: 1332.
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Planetary Science: Spots Confirmed, Tiny Comets Spurned

Richard A. Kerr
Science 30 May 1997: 1333-1334.
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Astronomy: Gap in Starbirth Picture Filled

Gretchen Vogel
Science 30 May 1997: 1334.
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Ecology: New Model Charts Swings in Crab Populations

Kathryn S. Brown
Science 30 May 1997: 1335.
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Astronomy: Worlds Around Other Stars Shake Planet Birth Theory

James Glanz
Science 30 May 1997: 1336-1339.
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Astronomy: 51 Peg and the Perils of Planet Searches

James Glanz
Science 30 May 1997: 1338.
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Optoelectronics: Storing Light by Surfing on Silicon

Alexander Hellemans
Science 30 May 1997: 1339.
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Letters

All in the family

Science 30 May 1997: 1317-1321.
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 NAS-NRC Independence

Saunders Mac Lane; and Robert M. White;
Science 30 May 1997: 1317-1321.
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 Phylogenetic Analysis

Andrew V. Z. Brower, Gabriela Chavarrķa, Darlene D. Judd;, and David M. Hillis
Science 30 May 1997: 1317-1321.
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 Evaluating Biologics

Joseph Edward Rall
Science 30 May 1997: 1317-1321.
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 Doctoral Entitlement?

Norton Savage; and Ronald Torrey
Science 30 May 1997: 1317-1321.
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 Tenure Tracking

John W. Geissman, Leslie D. McFadden, Laura J. Crossey, Mel Yazawa;, Jennifer J. Halpern, and Paul F. Velleman
Science 30 May 1997: 1317-1321.
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 Corrections and Clarifications

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Books et al.

A Rise to Distinction

Ronald E. Doel
Science 30 May 1997: 1343-1344.
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Tales of Neutrinos

James M. Lattimer
Science 30 May 1997: 1344.
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Perspectives

Cell Biology: Enhanced: Stretching Is Good for a Cell

Erkki Ruoslahti
Science 30 May 1997: 1345-1346.
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Planetary Geology: Extreme Cratering

William B. McKinnon
Science 30 May 1997: 1346-1348.
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Sonoluminescence: Shocking Revelations

Lawrence A. Crum and Thomas J. Matula
Science 30 May 1997: 1348-1349.
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Reports

A Hominid from the Lower Pleistocene of Atapuerca, Spain: Possible Ancestor to Neandertals and Modern Humans

J. M. Bermúdez de Castro, J. L. Arsuaga, E. Carbonell, A. Rosas, I. Martínez, and M. Mosquera
Science 30 May 1997: 1392-1395.
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Tin-Based Amorphous Oxide: A High-Capacity Lithium-Ion-Storage Material

Yoshio Idota, Tadahiko Kubota, Akihiro Matsufuji, Yukio Maekawa, and Tsutomu Miyasaka
Science 30 May 1997: 1395-1397.
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Calculated Pulse Widths and Spectra of a Single Sonoluminescing Bubble

William C. Moss, Douglas B. Clarke, and David A. Young
Science 30 May 1997: 1398-1401.
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Block Copolymer Lithography: Periodic Arrays of ~10¹¹ Holes in 1 Square Centimeter

Miri Park, Christopher Harrison, Paul M. Chaikin, Richard A. Register, and Douglas H. Adamson
Science 30 May 1997: 1401-1404.
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Control of Mouse Cardiac Morphogenesis and Myogenesis by Transcription Factor MEF2C

Qing Lin, John Schwarz, Corazon Bucana, and Eric N. Olson
Science 30 May 1997: 1404-1407.
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Severe Fibronectin-Deposit Renal Glomerular Disease in Mice Lacking Uteroglobin

Zhongjian Zhang, Gopal C. Kundu, Chiun-Jye Yuan, Jerrold M. Ward, Eric J. Lee, Francesco DeMayo, Heiner Westphal, and Anil B. Mukherjee
Science 30 May 1997: 1408-1412.
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A Cellular Cofactor for the Constitutive Transport Element of Type D Retrovirus

Hengli Tang, Guido M. Gaietta, Wolfgang H. Fischer, Mark H. Ellisman, and Flossie Wong-Staal
Science 30 May 1997: 1412-1415.
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Induction of Leaf Primordia by the Cell Wall Protein Expansin

Andrew J. Fleming, Simon McQueen-Mason, Therese Mandel, and Cris Kuhlemeier
Science 30 May 1997: 1415-1418.
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STAT3 as an Adapter to Couple Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase to the IFNAR1 Chain of the Type I Interferon Receptor

Lawrence M. Pfeffer, Jerald E. Mullersman, Susan R. Pfeffer, Aruna Murti, Wei Shi, and Chuan He Yang
Science 30 May 1997: 1418-1420.
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Role of the Major Antigen of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Cell Wall Biogenesis

John T. Belisle, Varalakshmi D. Vissa, Todd Sievert, Kuni Takayama, Patrick J. Brennan, and Gurdyal S. Besra
Science 30 May 1997: 1420-1422.
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Hyperplasia of Lymphatic Vessels in VEGF-C Transgenic Mice

Michael Jeltsch, Arja Kaipainen, Vladimir Joukov, Xiaojuan Meng, Merja Lakso, Heikki Rauvala, Melody Swartz, Dai Fukumura, Rakesh K. Jain, and Kari Alitalo
Science 30 May 1997: 1423-1425.
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Geometric Control of Cell Life and Death

Christopher S. Chen, Milan Mrksich, Sui Huang, George M. Whitesides, and Donald E. Ingber
Science 30 May 1997: 1425-1428.
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Lamina-Specific Connectivity in the Brain: Regulation by N-Cadherin, Neurotrophins, and Glycoconjugates

Akihiro Inoue and Joshua R. Sanes
Science 30 May 1997: 1428-1431.
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Stochastic Dynamics and Deterministic Skeletons: Population Behavior of Dungeness Crab

Kevin Higgins, Alan Hastings, Jacob N. Sarvela, and Louis W. Botsford
Science 30 May 1997: 1431-1435.
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