This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
Science 1 August 1997: 617.
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Editorial:
Science Funding and Private Philanthropy

Susan M. Fitzpatrick and John T. Bruer
Science 1 August 1997: 621.
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 Science's Next Wave: For Self-Starting Scientists a "Model" Career Awaits

Science 1 August 1997: 705.

News and Comment

HIGHER EDUCATION:
U.K. Universities: The End of Equality

Nigel Williams
Science 1 August 1997: 628-629.
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HIGHER EDUCATION:
Dearing Puts a Price on Education

Nigel Williams
Science 1 August 1997: 629.
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GLOBAL WARMING:
White House Enlists Science for Public Education Effort

Steve Olson
Science 1 August 1997: 630-631.
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BIOTECHNOLOGY:
Transgenic Lambs From Cloning Lab

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 1 August 1997: 631.
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SPACE SCIENCE:
Researchers Hold Their Breath Over Mir Repair

Andrew Lawler, Helen Gavaghan, and Elena Savelyeva
Science 1 August 1997: 632.
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AFFIRMATIVE ACTION:
Ban Has Mixed Impact on Texas, California Grad Schools

Marcia Barinaga
Science 1 August 1997: 633-634.
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U.S.-JAPAN TIES:
Keep Up the Pressure, Urges NRC Panel

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 1 August 1997: 634.
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ScienceScope

Science 1 August 1997: 627.
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Random Samples

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Research News

PREHISTORY:
Archaeologists Rediscover Cannibals

Ann Gibbons
Science 1 August 1997: 635-637.
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BIOPHYSICS:
Feeling a Protein's Motion

David Ehrenstein
Science 1 August 1997: 637.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Possible Glimpse of Earth-like Geology In Mars Rock

Richard A. Kerr
Science 1 August 1997: 638-639.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Flawless Hardware, Fallible Humans

Richard A. Kerr
Science 1 August 1997: 638.
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MEETING BRIEFS:
A Developmental Biology Summit in the High Country

Wade Roush
Science 1 August 1997: 639-640.
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SPEECH DEVELOPMENT:
New Insights Into How Babies Learn Language

Marcia Barinaga
Science 1 August 1997: 641.
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Letters

"Frankness and caution"

Science 1 August 1997: 623-625.
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 Fighting Dengue in Cuba

Mark M. Green
Science 1 August 1997: 623-625.
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 Harassed Expedition

George M. Woodwell
Science 1 August 1997: 623-625.
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 Russian Space Program

A. V. Alferov, N. S. Kardashev;, Irina Dezhina, and Paul Josephson;
Science 1 August 1997: 623-625.
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 NRC Matters

Bruce Alberts; and Arthur Kantrowitz;
Science 1 August 1997: 623-625.
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 Corrections and Clarifications

Science 1 August 1997: 623-625.
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Books et al.

Holistic Cosmology

Joseph Silk
Science 1 August 1997: 644.
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Raising the Dead

Peter Dodson
Science 1 August 1997: 644-645.
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Browsings

Science 1 August 1997: 645.
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Policy Forum

Science and Technology in Foreign Affairs

James D. Watkins
Science 1 August 1997: 650-651.
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Peer Review: The Appropriate GPRA Metric for Research

Ronald N. Kostoff
Science 1 August 1997: 651-652.
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Perspectives

GEOPHYSICS:
Enhanced: Mapping the Core-Mantle Boundary

Louise H. Kellogg
Science 1 August 1997: 646.
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COMPUTATIONAL MATERIAL SCIENCE:
Roughing It

Michael Marder
Science 1 August 1997: 647.
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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:
Of Topo and Maxwell's Dream

David E. Pulleyblank
Science 1 August 1997: 648-649.
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 Webwatch

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Tech.Sight

 Tech.Sight: Products

Science 1 August 1997: 702-703.

 Also see Science's 18 July Tech.Sight features

Science 1 August 1997: 703.

Articles

Iron-Sulfur Clusters: Nature's Modular, Multipurpose Structures

Helmut Beinert, Richard H. Holm, and Eckard Münck
Science 1 August 1997: 653-659.
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Reports

Effects of Rapid Intramolecular Electron Transfer on Vibrational Spectra

Tasuku Ito, Tomohiko Hamaguchi, Haruko Nagino, Tadashi Yamaguchi, John Washington, and Clifford P. Kubiak
Science 1 August 1997: 660-663.
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An Advective-Reflective Conceptual Model for the Oscillatory Nature of the ENSO

J. Picaut, F. Masia, and Y. du Penhoat
Science 1 August 1997: 663-666.
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Observations of PKKP Precursors Used to Estimate Small-Scale Topography on the Core-Mantle Boundary

Paul S. Earle and Peter M. Shearer
Science 1 August 1997: 667-670.
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Seismic Evidence of Partial Melt Within a Possibly Ubiquitous Low-Velocity Layer at the Base of the Mantle

J. Revenaugh and R. Meyer
Science 1 August 1997: 670-673.
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Distance-Dependent Electron Transfer in DNA Hairpins

Frederick D. Lewis, Taifeng Wu, Yifan Zhang, Robert L. Letsinger, Scott R. Greenfield, and Michael R. Wasielewski
Science 1 August 1997: 673-676.
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Evidence for Interacting Gas Flows and an Extended Volatile Source Distribution in the Coma of Comet C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake)

Walter M. Harris, Michael R. Combi, R. Kent Honeycutt, Béatrice E. A. Mueller, and Frank Scherb
Science 1 August 1997: 676-681.
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Failure of Parturition in Mice Lacking the Prostaglandin F Receptor

Yukihiko Sugimoto, Atsushi Yamasaki, Eri Segi, Kazuhito Tsuboi, Yoshiya Aze, Tatsuya Nishimura, Hiroji Oida, Nobuaki Yoshida, Takashi Tanaka, Masato Katsuyama, Ken-yuh Hasumoto, Takahiko Murata, Masakazu Hirata, Fumitaka Ushikubi, Manabu Negishi, Atsushi Ichikawa, and Shuh Narumiya
Science 1 August 1997: 681-683.
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Cross-Language Analysis of Phonetic Units in Language Addressed to Infants

Patricia K. Kuhl, Jean E. Andruski, Inna A. Chistovich, Ludmilla A. Chistovich, Elena V. Kozhevnikova, Viktoria L. Ryskina, Elvira I. Stolyarova, Ulla Sundberg, and Francisco Lacerda
Science 1 August 1997: 684-686.
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A G Protein-Coupled Receptor Phosphatase Required for Rhodopsin Function

Javier Vinós, Kees Jalink, Robert W. Hardy, Steven G. Britt, and Charles S. Zuker
Science 1 August 1997: 687-690.
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Simplification of DNA Topology Below Equilibrium Values by Type II Topoisomerases

Valentin V. Rybenkov, Christian Ullsperger, Alexander V. Vologodskii, and Nicholas R. Cozzarelli
Science 1 August 1997: 690-693.
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A Cytoplasmic Inhibitor of the JNK Signal Transduction Pathway

Martin Dickens, Jeffrey S. Rogers, Julie Cavanagh, Art Raitano, Zhengui Xia, Jocelyn R. Halpern, Michael E. Greenberg, Charles L. Sawyers, and Roger J. Davis
Science 1 August 1997: 693-696.
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Analysis of a Chemical Plant Defense Mechanism in Grasses

Monika Frey, Paul Chomet, Erich Glawischnig, Cornelia Stettner, Sebastian Grün, Albert Winklmair, Wolfgang Eisenreich, Adelbert Bacher, Robert B. Meeley, Steven P. Briggs, Kevin Simcox, and Alfons Gierl
Science 1 August 1997: 696-699.
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