This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
Science 20 June 1997: 1765.
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Editorial:
Tech.Sight: Techniques Without Mystique

Floyd E. Bloom
Science 20 June 1997: 1771.
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News and Comment

SPACE:
Russia's Last Shot at Space

Richard Stone
Science 20 June 1997: 1780-1782.
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Space Research Centers Search for New Frontier

Richard Stone
Science 20 June 1997: 1781.
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COMPUTING:
Microsoft Puts Down Roots in Cambridge

Nigel Williams
Science 20 June 1997: 1783.
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ANTHROPOLOGY:
Cultural Divide at Stanford

Ann Gibbons
Science 20 June 1997: 1783-1784.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY:
DOE Struggles With Lab Management

Andrew Lawler
Science 20 June 1997: 1784.
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ENDANGERED SPECIES:
Turtle Project Can't Outrun Bureaucracy

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 20 June 1997: 1785.
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RADIO ASTRONOMY:
Arecibo's More Sensitive Eye on the Sky

Charles Seife
Science 20 June 1997: 1785.
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NATIONAL ACADEMIES:
Bison Study Marks Radical Shift for Research Council

Andrew Lawler
Science 20 June 1997: 1786-1787.
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BISON MANAGEMENT:
Study Shows One-Fifth of Female Bison Infected

Yvonne Baskin
Science 20 June 1997: 1786.
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REGIONAL SCIENCE:
NSF Offers Carrot to 'Needy' States

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 20 June 1997: 1787.
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ScienceScope

Science 20 June 1997: 1779.
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Random Samples

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Research News

Causing Cancer by Remote Control?

Trisha Gura
Science 20 June 1997: 1788-1789.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
How the Hectic Young Sun Cooked Up Stony Meteorites

James Glanz
Science 20 June 1997: 1789-1790.
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ECOLOGY:
Is Warming Trend Harming Penguins?

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 20 June 1997: 1790.
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EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY:
Life on the Edge: Rainforest Margins May Spawn Species

Martin Enserink
Science 20 June 1997: 1791-1792.
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MEETING BRIEFS:
Geophysicists Ponder Ancient Chills and Elusive Quakes

Richard A. Kerr
Science 20 June 1997: 1792-1793.
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AIDS RESEARCH:
Does a Common Virus Give HIV a Helping Hand?

Michael Balter
Science 20 June 1997: 1794.
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PARTICLE PHYSICS:
New Experiments Step Up Hunt for Neutrino Mass

Dennis Normile
Science 20 June 1997: 1795.
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Letters

Foundations

Science 20 June 1997: 1773-1776.
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 Successful Collaboration

Hong Yang
Science 20 June 1997: 1773-1776.
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 Italian Basic and Applied Research

Pietro Calissano, Francesco Clementi, Jacopo Meldolesi, Cesare Montecucco, Benedetto Salvato, and Stefano Schiaffino
Science 20 June 1997: 1773-1776.
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 Smoky Skies, Mosquitoes, and Disease

Forrest M. Mims III, Brent N. Holben, Thomas F. Eck, Brian C. Montgomery, and William B. Grant
Science 20 June 1997: 1773-1776.
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 Science Funding in Argentina

Liliana Busconi
Science 20 June 1997: 1773-1776.
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 Nannobacteria: Size Limits and Evidence

Jack Maniloff;, Kenneth H. Nealson;, Roland Psenner, Maria Loferer;, and Robert L. Folk;
Science 20 June 1997: 1773-1776.
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 Corrections and Clarifications

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Books et al.

Engines of Biodiversity

Christopher Field
Science 20 June 1997: 1811.
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Microbial Invention

Frederick C. Neidhardt
Science 20 June 1997: 1811-1812.
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Browsings

Science 20 June 1997: 1812.
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Policy Forum

Targets for Stabilization of Atmospheric CO₂

Christian Azar and Henning Rodhe
Science 20 June 1997: 1818-1819.
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Perspectives

ASTROPHYSICS:
Enhanced: The Quest for a Supernova Companion

Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente
Science 20 June 1997: 1813-1814.
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NUCLEAR TRANSPORT:
Whose Finger Is on the Switch?

David S. Goldfarb
Science 20 June 1997: 1814-1816.
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EVOLUTION:
Human Groups as Units of Selection

David Sloan Wilson
Science 20 June 1997: 1816-1817.
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 IMMUNOLOGY:
Nota Bene: Population Biology of Lymphocytes

Richard B. Gallagher
Science 20 June 1997: 1817.
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Tech.Sight

 DNA SEQUENCING:
A Magnetic Attraction to High-Throughput Genomics

Trevor L. Hawkins, Kevin J. McKernan, Laurent B. Jacotot, Jason B. MacKenzie, Paul M. Richardson, and Eric S. Lander
Science 20 June 1997: 1887-1889.
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 SIGHTINGS:
A Cell Growth Switch

Robert Sikorski and Richard Peters
Science 20 June 1997: 1891.
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 SIGHTINGS:
Xenotransplanters Turn Xenovirologists

Robert Sikorski and Richard Peters
Science 20 June 1997: 1893.
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 NET TIPS:
How to Use Usenet

Robert Sikorski and Richard Peters
Science 20 June 1997: 1893-1895.
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Research Article

Tropical Climate Instability: The Last Glacial Cycle from a Qinghai-Tibetan Ice Core

L. G. Thompson, T. Yao, M. E. Davis, K. A. Henderson, E. Mosley-Thompson, P.-N. Lin, J. Beer, H.-A. Synal, J. Cole-Dai, and J. F. Bolzan
Science 20 June 1997: 1821-1825.
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Reports

White Phosphors from a Silicate-Carboxylate Sol-Gel Precursor That Lack Metal Activator Ions

Will H. Green, Khoa P. Le, Jonathan Grey, Tiffany T. Au, and Michael J. Sailor
Science 20 June 1997: 1826-1828.
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The Late Neogene ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr Record of Lowland Himalayan Rivers

Jay Quade, Lois Roe, Peter G. DeCelles, and Tank P. Ojha
Science 20 June 1997: 1828-1831.
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Topographically Induced Mixing Around a Shallow Seamount

Rolf G. Lueck and Todd D. Mudge
Science 20 June 1997: 1831-1833.
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Abrupt Early to Mid-Holocene Climatic Transition Registered at the Equator and the Poles

J. C. Stager and P. A. Mayewski
Science 20 June 1997: 1834-1836.
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Giant Planet Formation by Gravitational Instability

Alan P. Boss
Science 20 June 1997: 1836-1839.
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Oxygen on Ganymede: Laboratory Studies

R. A. Vidal, D. Bahr, R. A. Baragiola, and M. Peters
Science 20 June 1997: 1839-1842.
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Requirement of Guanosine Triphosphate-Bound Ran for Signal-Mediated Nuclear Protein Export

Stephanie A. Richards, Kimberly L. Carey, and Ian G. Macara
Science 20 June 1997: 1842-1844.
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Inhibition of Ran Guanosine Triphosphatase-Dependent Nuclear Transport by the Matrix Protein of Vesicular Stomatitis Virus

Lu-Shiun Her, Elsebet Lund, and James E. Dahlberg
Science 20 June 1997: 1845-1848.
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Transformation of Chicken Cells by the Gene Encoding the Catalytic Subunit of PI 3-Kinase

Hwai Wen Chang, Masahiro Aoki, David Fruman, Kurt R. Auger, Alfonso Bellacosa, Philip N. Tsichlis, Lewis C. Cantley, Thomas M. Roberts, and Peter K. Vogt
Science 20 June 1997: 1848-1850.
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Kaposi's Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus Infection of Bone Marrow Dendritic Cells from Multiple Myeloma Patients

M. B. Rettig, H. J. Ma, R. A. Vescio, M. Põld, G. Schiller, D. Belson, A. Savage, C. Nishikubo, C. Wu, J. Fraser, J. W. Said, and J. R. Berenson
Science 20 June 1997: 1851-1854.
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A Role for Ecotones in Generating Rainforest Biodiversity

Thomas B. Smith, Robert K. Wayne, Derek J. Girman, and Michael W. Bruford
Science 20 June 1997: 1855-1857.
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Macrophages as a Source of HIV During Opportunistic Infections

Jan M. Orenstein, Cecil Fox, and Sharon M. Wahl
Science 20 June 1997: 1857-1861.
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Crystal Structure of Human BPI and Two Bound Phospholipids at 2.4 Angstrom Resolution

Lesa J. Beamer, Stephen F. Carroll, and David Eisenberg
Science 20 June 1997: 1861-1864.
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ARF1, a Transcription Factor That Binds to Auxin Response Elements

Tim Ulmasov, Gretchen Hagen, and Tom J. Guilfoyle
Science 20 June 1997: 1865-1868.
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Large Porous Particles for Pulmonary Drug Delivery

David A. Edwards, Justin Hanes, Giovanni Caponetti, Jeffrey Hrkach, Abdelaziz Ben-Jebria, Mary Lou Eskew, Jeffrey Mintzes, Daniel Deaver, Noah Lotan, and Robert Langer
Science 20 June 1997: 1868-1872.
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Specific Oxidative Cleavage of Carotenoids by VP14 of Maize

Steven H. Schwartz, Bao Cai Tan, Douglas A. Gage, Jan A. D. Zeevaart, and Donald R. McCarty
Science 20 June 1997: 1872-1874.
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Identification of a Chemokine Receptor Encoded by Human Cytomegalovirus as a Cofactor for HIV-1 Entry

Olivier Pleskoff, Carole Tréboute, Anne Brelot, Nikolaus Heveker, Michel Seman, and Marc Alizon
Science 20 June 1997: 1874-1878.
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Activation of the G Protein Gq/11 Through Tyrosine Phosphorylation of the  Subunit

Hisashi Umemori, Takafumi Inoue, Shoen Kume, Naohiro Sekiyama, Motoshi Nagao, Hiroshi Itoh, Shigetada Nakanishi, Katsuhiko Mikoshiba, and Tadashi Yamamoto
Science 20 June 1997: 1878-1881.
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Technical Comments

Estimating Chaos in an Insect Population

Joe N. Perry, Ian P. Woiwod, Robert H. Smith, David Morse;, R. A. Desharnais, R. F. Costantino, J. M. Cushing, and Brian Dennis;
Science 20 June 1997: 1881-1882.
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