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Science 12 September 1997: 1581.
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Editorial:
Global Technology Competition

Philip H. Abelson
Science 12 September 1997: 1587.
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News and Comment

SPACE SCIENCE:
Small Missions Lift Planetary Science

Andrew Lawler
Science 12 September 1997: 1596-1598.
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SPACE SCIENCE:
A Leaner, Faster Jet Propulsion Lab

Andrew Lawler
Science 12 September 1997: 1597.
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SPACE SCIENCE:
Cassini Faces Last-Minute Hurdles

Andrew Lawler
Science 12 September 1997: 1598.
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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION:
Revolving Door Brings in Scientists--at a Price

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 12 September 1997: 1599-1600.
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INFECTIOUS DISEASE:
The Flu Pandemic That Might Have Been

Jon Cohen
Science 12 September 1997: 1600-1601.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY:
Peña Gives Lab Reform a Nudge

Andrew Lawler
Science 12 September 1997: 1601.
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CHEMISTRY:
Transuranic Element Names Finally Final

Richard Stone
Science 12 September 1997: 1601.
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ScienceScope

Science 12 September 1997: 1595.
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Random Samples

Science 12 September 1997: 1611.
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Research News

BIOMEDICINE:
Blunting Nature's Swiss Army Knife

Charles Seife
Science 12 September 1997: 1602-1603.
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EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY:
Searching for Living Relics of the Cell's Early Days

Gretchen Vogel
Science 12 September 1997: 1604.
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CANCER GENETICS:
First p53 Relative May Be a New Tumor Suppressor

Steven Dickman
Science 12 September 1997: 1605-1606.
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AIDS RESEARCH:
HIV Gets a Taste of Its Own Medicine

Jon Cohen
Science 12 September 1997: 1606.
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X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY:
Opening the Door to More Membrane Protein Structures

Anne Simon Moffat
Science 12 September 1997: 1607-1608.
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EARTH SCIENCE:
More Signs of a Far-Traveled West

Richard A. Kerr
Science 12 September 1997: 1608.
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PHYSICS:
New Exotic Particle Points to Double Life for Gluons

Gary Taubes
Science 12 September 1997: 1609.
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Letters

"The search for meaning"

Science 12 September 1997: 1589-1593.
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 Science and Religion

John C. Fletcher;, Kevin Thompson;, Irving Rothchild;, Vishwanath K. N. Ayengar;, B. W. Powell;, Keith B. C. Brady;, Edgar Pearlstein;, E. J. Fjerdingstad;, and Rustum Roy;
Science 12 September 1997: 1589-1593.
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 The Carbon Crop: Continued

David P. Turner, William K. Ferrell, Mark E. Harmon;, David E. Bruderly;, and Eurico C. Oliveira;
Science 12 September 1997: 1589-1593.
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 Assigning Credit

C. K. Gunsalus and Irwin Tessman
Science 12 September 1997: 1589-1593.
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 Corrections and Clarifications

Science 12 September 1997: 1589-1593.
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Books et al.

Close Encounters

J. David Hoeveler
Science 12 September 1997: 1617-1618.
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Galactic Reflections

Anne Cowley
Science 12 September 1997: 1618.
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Perspectives

CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS:
Enhanced: Melting in Clusters

George Bertsch
Science 12 September 1997: 1619.
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BEHAVIOR:
The Importance of a Well-Groomed Child

Robert M. Sapolsky
Science 12 September 1997: 1620-1621.
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GEOSCIENCE:
Southern California Deformation

David D. Jackson, Zheng-kang Shen, David Potter, Xiao-Bin Ge, and Li-yu Sung
Science 12 September 1997: 1621-1622.
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EVOLUTION:
Tempo and Mode of Speciation

Michael L. Rosenzweig
Science 12 September 1997: 1622-1623.
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Web Feature

Science 12 September 1997: 1623.
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Tech.Sight

 TechSight: Products

Science 12 September 1997: 1697-1699.

Articles

X-ray Emissions from Comets Detected in the Röntgen X-ray Satellite All-Sky Survey

Konrad Dennerl, Jakob Englhauser, and Joachim Trümper
Science 12 September 1997: 1625-1630.
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STATs and Gene Regulation

James E. Darnell, Jr.
Science 12 September 1997: 1630-1635.
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Reports

The Effect of Smoke Particles on Clouds and Climate Forcing

Yoram J. Kaufman and Robert S. Fraser
Science 12 September 1997: 1636-1639.
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Explosive Basaltic Volcanism from Cerro Negro Volcano: Influence of Volatiles on Eruptive Style

Kurt Roggensack, Richard L. Hervig, Steven B. McKnight, and Stanley N. Williams
Science 12 September 1997: 1639-1642.
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Measurements of the Cretaceous Paleolatitude of Vancouver Island: Consistent with the Baja-British Columbia Hypothesis

Peter D. Ward, José M. Hurtado, Joseph L. Kirschvink, and Kenneth L. Verosub
Science 12 September 1997: 1642-1645.
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Fossilized Metazoan Embryos from the Earliest Cambrian

Stefan Bengtson and Yue Zhao
Science 12 September 1997: 1645-1648.
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Image Improvement from a Sodium-Layer Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics System

C. E. Max, S. S. Olivier, H. W. Friedman, J. An, K. Avicola, B. V. Beeman, H. D. Bissinger, J. M. Brase, G. V. Erbert, D. T. Gavel, K. Kanz, M. C. Liu, B. Macintosh, K. P. Neeb, J. Patience, and K. E. Waltjen
Science 12 September 1997: 1649-1652.
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Requirement for GD3 Ganglioside in CD95- and Ceramide-Induced Apoptosis

Ruggero De Maria, Luisa Lenti, Florence Malisan, Federica d'Agostino, Barbara Tomassini, Ann Zeuner, Maria Rita Rippo, and Roberto Testi
Science 12 September 1997: 1652-1655.
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A Broad-Spectrum Chemokine Antagonist Encoded by Kaposi's Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus

Thomas N. Kledal, Mette M. Rosenkilde, Florence Coulin, Graham Simmons, Anders H. Johnsen, Sami Alouani, Christine A. Power, Hans R. Lüttichau, Jan Gerstoft, Paul R. Clapham, Ian Clark-Lewis, Timothy N. C. Wells, and Thue W. Schwartz
Science 12 September 1997: 1656-1659.
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Maternal Care, Hippocampal Glucocorticoid Receptors, and Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Responses to Stress

Dong Liu, Josie Diorio, Beth Tannenbaum, Christian Caldji, Darlene Francis, Alison Freedman, Shakti Sharma, Deborah Pearson, Paul M. Plotsky, and Michael J. Meaney
Science 12 September 1997: 1659-1662.
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Structure of a Murine Leukemia Virus Receptor-Binding Glycoprotein at 2.0 Angstrom Resolution

Deborah Fass, Robert A. Davey, Christian A. Hamson, Peter S. Kim, James M. Cunningham, and James M. Berger
Science 12 September 1997: 1662-1666.
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The Importance of Recent Ice Ages in Speciation: A Failed Paradigm

John Klicka and Robert M. Zink
Science 12 September 1997: 1666-1669.
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Regulation of Human Placental Development by Oxygen Tension

Olga Genbacev, Yan Zhou, John W. Ludlow, and Susan J. Fisher
Science 12 September 1997: 1669-1672.
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Proteolysis and DNA Replication: The CDC34 Requirement in the Xenopus Egg Cell Cycle

P. Renee Yew and Marc W. Kirschner
Science 12 September 1997: 1672-1676.
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X-ray Structure of Bacteriorhodopsin at 2.5 Angstroms from Microcrystals Grown in Lipidic Cubic Phases

Eva Pebay-Peyroula, Gabriele Rummel, Jurg P. Rosenbusch, and Ehud M. Landau
Science 12 September 1997: 1676-1681.
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Cysteine and Glutathione Secretion in Response to Protein Disulfide Bond Formation in the ER

Stephana Carelli, Aldo Ceriotti, Andrea Cabibbo, Giorgio Fassina, Menotti Ruvo, and Roberto Sitia
Science 12 September 1997: 1681-1684.
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Synaptic Efficacy Enhanced by Glial Cells in Vitro

Frank W. Pfrieger and Barbara A. Barres
Science 12 September 1997: 1684-1687.
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Science 12 September 1997: 1684.

 Scaling from Trees to Forests: Analysis of a Complex Simulation Model
Douglas H. Deutschman, Simon A. Levin, Catherine Devine, Linda A. Buttel

Science 12 September 1997: 1684.

Technical Comments

 "Killer" Impacts and Life's Origins

Hendrik Tiedemann
Science 12 September 1997: 1687-1688.
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 The Usefulness of NMR Quantum Computing

Warren S. Warren;, Neil Gershenfeld, and Isaac Chuang;
Science 12 September 1997: 1688-1690.
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