This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
Science 8 August 1997: 741.
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Editorial:
Evolution of Higher Education

Philip H. Abelson
Science 8 August 1997: 747.
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News and Comment

POLICY:
Dark Tunnel Ahead for Light Sources

Andrew Lawler
Science 8 August 1997: 756-757.
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POLICY:
Industry Chafes at APS Rules

Robert F. Service
Science 8 August 1997: 757.
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GOVERNMENT GRANTS:
Academia Wins a Round on Raw Data

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 8 August 1997: 758.
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ASTRONOMY:
Gemini Woos Australia to Replace Chile

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 8 August 1997: 758-759.
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BIOTECHNOLOGY:
NIH Nixes Appeal to Bypass Patent Law

Eliot Marshall
Science 8 August 1997: 759-760.
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INFECTIOUS DISEASES:
Congress Readies Injection of Funds

Jon Cohen
Science 8 August 1997: 760.
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BROOKHAVEN REACTOR:
Panel Favors Restart Option

Andrew Lawler
Science 8 August 1997: 761.
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CHINA:
Engineer to Head Chinese Academy

Li Hui
Science 8 August 1997: 761.
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ENVIRONMENT:
Agency Says Dam Should Come Down

David A. Malakoff
Science 8 August 1997: 762.
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GENOMICS:
Your Complete Web Guide to Tumors

David Ehrenstein
Science 8 August 1997: 762.
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ScienceScope

Science 8 August 1997: 755.
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Random Samples

Science 8 August 1997: 769.
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Research News

NEUROSCIENCE:
What Makes Fruit Flies Roam?

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 8 August 1997: 763.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Once, Maybe Still, an Ocean on Europa

Richard A. Kerr
Science 8 August 1997: 764-765.
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ASTRONOMY:
Flickers From Far-Off Planets

James Glanz
Science 8 August 1997: 765-766.
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ARCHAEOLOGY:
New Respect for Metal's Role in Ancient Arctic Cultures

Heather Pringle
Science 8 August 1997: 766-767.
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CANCER RESEARCH:
How TRAIL Kills Cancer Cells, But Not Normal Cells

Trisha Gura
Science 8 August 1997: 768.
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Letters

"Reward system"

Science 8 August 1997: 749-753.
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 Marijuana Addiction

Lester Grinspoon, James B. Bakalar, Lynn Zimmer, John P. Morgan;, Iain S. McGregor;, Gaetano Di Chiaro;, F. Rodríguez de Fonseca, Miguel Navarro, M. Rocio A. Carrera, George F. Koob, and Friedbert Weiss;
Science 8 August 1997: 749-753.
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 Hawksbill Turtles in Cuba

N. Mrosovsky and Grahame Webb
Science 8 August 1997: 749-753.
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 Corrections and Clarifications

Science 8 August 1997: 749-753.
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Books et al.

Action Potentials Reconsidered

Anthony Zador
Science 8 August 1997: 772.
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Development and Diversity

Anthony P. Mahowald
Science 8 August 1997: 772-773.
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Browsings

Science 8 August 1997: 773.
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Policy Forum

The Polio Eradication Effort: Should Vaccine Eradication Be Next?

Alan W. Dove and Vincent R. Racaniello
Science 8 August 1997: 779-780.
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Ending Polio Immunization

Harry F. Hull and R. Bruce Aylward
Science 8 August 1997: 780.
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Perspectives

BEHAVIOR:
Enhanced: Subtle, Secret Female Chimpanzees

Richard W. Wrangham
Science 8 August 1997: 774-775.
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ISOTOPE FRACTIONATION:
Vibrations Under Pressure

Simon M. F. Sheppard
Science 8 August 1997: 775-776.
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 RETROSPECTIVE:
Eugene M. Shoemaker (1928-1997)

Susan W. Kieffer
Science 8 August 1997: 776-777.
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MARINE GEOCHEMISTRY:
A New Look at Old Carbon

Katherine H. Freeman
Science 8 August 1997: 777-778.
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Tech.Sight

 Tech.Sight: Products

Science 8 August 1997: 842-843.

Articles

Electronic Coherence and Collective Optical Excitations of Conjugated Molecules

Shaul Mukamel, Sergei Tretiak, Thomas Wagersreiter, and Vladimir Chernyak
Science 8 August 1997: 781-787.
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Reports

Surface Energies and Thermodynamic Phase Stability in Nanocrystalline Aluminas

J. M. McHale, A. Auroux, A. J. Perrotta, and A. Navrotsky
Science 8 August 1997: 788-791.
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The Effect of Pressure on Deuterium-Hydrogen Fractionation in High-Temperature Water

T. Driesner
Science 8 August 1997: 791-794.
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Paleostress in Cratonic North America: Implications for Deformation of Continental Interiors

Ben A. van der Pluijm, John P. Craddock, Brita R. Graham, and John H. Harris
Science 8 August 1997: 794-796.
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Variability in Radiocarbon Ages of Individual Organic Compounds from Marine Sediments

Timothy I. Eglinton, Bryan C. Benitez-Nelson, Ann Pearson, Ann P. McNichol, James E. Bauer, and Ellen R. M. Druffel
Science 8 August 1997: 796-799.
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North Siberian Lakes: A Methane Source Fueled by Pleistocene Carbon

S. A. Zimov, Y. V. Voropaev, I. P. Semiletov, S. P. Davidov, S. F. Prosiannikov, F. S. Chapin, III, M. C. Chapin, S. Trumbore, and S. Tyler
Science 8 August 1997: 800-802.
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Sizes and Ages of Seamounts Using Remote Sensing: Implications for Intraplate Volcanism

Paul Wessel
Science 8 August 1997: 802-805.
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Identification of the Tuberous Sclerosis Gene TSC1 on Chromosome 9q34

Marjon van Slegtenhorst, Ronald de Hoogt, Caroline Hermans, Mark Nellist, Bart Janssen, Senno Verhoef, Dick Lindhout, Ans van den Ouweland, Dicky Halley, Janet Young, Mariwyn Burley, Steve Jeremiah, Karen Woodward, Joseph Nahmias, Margaret Fox, Rosemary Ekong, John Osborne, Jonathan Wolfe, Sue Povey, Russell G. Snell, Jeremy P. Cheadle, Alistair C. Jones, Maria Tachataki, David Ravine, Julian R. Sampson, Mary Pat Reeve, Paul Richardson, Friederike Wilmer, Cheryl Munro, Trevor L. Hawkins, Tiina Sepp, Johari B. M. Ali, Susannah Ward, Andrew J. Green, John R. W. Yates, Jolanta Kwiatkowska, Elizabeth P. Henske, M. Priscilla Short, Jonathan H. Haines, Sergiusz Jozwiak, and David J. Kwiatkowski
Science 8 August 1997: 805-808.
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Mitochondrial and Chloroplast Phage-Type RNA Polymerases in Arabidopsis

Boris Hedtke, Thomas Börner, and Andreas Weihe
Science 8 August 1997: 809-811.
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Sensitization to Morphine Induced by Viral-Mediated Gene Transfer

William A. Carlezon, Jr., Virginia A. Boundy, Colin N. Haile, Sarah B. Lane, Robert G. Kalb, Rachael L. Neve, and Eric J. Nestler
Science 8 August 1997: 812-815.
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An Antagonist Decoy Receptor and a Death Domain-Containing Receptor for TRAIL

Guohua Pan, Jian Ni, Ying-Fei Wei, Guo-liang Yu, Reiner Gentz, and Vishva M. Dixit
Science 8 August 1997: 815-818.
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Control of TRAIL-Induced Apoptosis by a Family of Signaling and Decoy Receptors

James P. Sheridan, Scot A. Marsters, Robert M. Pitti, Austin Gurney, Maya Skubatch, Daryl Baldwin, Lakshmi Ramakrishnan, Christa L. Gray, Kevin Baker, William I. Wood, Audrey D. Goddard, Paul Godowski, and Avi Ashkenazi
Science 8 August 1997: 818-821.
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Neural Correlates of Motor Memory Consolidation

Reza Shadmehr and Henry H. Holcomb
Science 8 August 1997: 821-825.
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Drosophila Mitotic Domain Boundaries as Cell Fate Boundaries

Sidney B. Cambridge, Robert L. Davis, and Jonathan S. Minden
Science 8 August 1997: 825-828.
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The Influence of Dominance Rank on the Reproductive Success of Female Chimpanzees

Anne Pusey, Jennifer Williams, and Jane Goodall
Science 8 August 1997: 828-831.
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Bypass of Senescence After Disruption of p21^CIP1/WAF1 Gene in Normal Diploid Human Fibroblasts

Jeremy P. Brown, Wenyi Wei, and John M. Sedivy
Science 8 August 1997: 831-834.
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Natural Behavior Polymorphism Due to a cGMP-Dependent Protein Kinase of Drosophila

K. A. Osborne, A. Robichon, E. Burgess, S. Butland, R. A. Shaw, A. Coulthard, H. S. Pereira, R. J. Greenspan, and M. B. Sokolowski
Science 8 August 1997: 834-836.
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Technical Comments

 Basal Forebrain Neuronal Loss in Mice Lacking Neurotrophin Receptor p75

Daniel A. Peterson, John T. Leppert, Kuo-Fen Lee, Fred H. Gage;, Theo Hagg, Catharina E.E.M. Van der Zee, Gregory M. Ross, and Richard J. Riopelle;
Science 8 August 1997: 837-839.
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 Measuring Memory in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease

Aryeh Routtenberg;, Karen Hsiao, Paul Chapman, Steven Nilsen, Chris Eckman, Yasuo Harigaya, Steven Younkin, Fusheng Yang, and Greg Cole;
Science 8 August 1997: 839-841.
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