This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
Science 19 September 1997: 1737.
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Editorial:
Finding Patterns in International Assessments

Marcia C. Linn
Science 19 September 1997: 1743.
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News and Comment

ECONOMICS:
Snipping Away at Genome Patenting

Eliot Marshall
Science 19 September 1997: 1752-1753.
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GENETIC ENHANCEMENT:
From Science Fiction to Ethics Quandary

Gretchen Vogel
Science 19 September 1997: 1753-1754.
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EPIDEMIOLOGY:
A Plan to Register Unpublished Studies

Gary Taubes
Science 19 September 1997: 1754.
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BIOMEDICAL POLICY:
Satcher Tapped for Top Health Posts

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 19 September 1997: 1755.
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SCIENCE BUREAUCRACY:
USGS Chief Resigns After Tough Tenure

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 19 September 1997: 1755.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Company Targets Asteroid--and Profits

Andrew Lawler
Science 19 September 1997: 1756.
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AIDS RESEARCH:
Netherlands Pulls Top Teams' Funding

Michael Balter
Science 19 September 1997: 1757.
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CLINICAL RESEARCH:
Privacy Rules Set No New Research Curbs

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 19 September 1997: 1757.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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Research News

BIOPHYSICS:
Mastering the Nonlinear Brain

James Glanz
Science 19 September 1997: 1758-1760.
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BIOPHYSICS:
Sharpening the Senses With Neural 'Noise'

James Glanz
Science 19 September 1997: 1759.
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ARCHAEOLOGY:
Oldest Mound Complex Found at Louisiana Site

Heather Pringle
Science 19 September 1997: 1761-1762.
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CHRONOBIOLOGY:
Gene for Mammals' Body Clocks Found

Michael Balter
Science 19 September 1997: 1762.
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X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY:
Researchers Get Their First Good Look at the Nucleosome

Carol Featherstone
Science 19 September 1997: 1763-1764.
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ORGANIC CHEMISTRY:
Polymer Folds Just Like a Protein

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 19 September 1997: 1764.
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HUMAN GENETICS:
Gene Found for the Fading Eyesight of Old Age

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 19 September 1997: 1765-1766.
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PHYSICS:
Slicing an Electron's Charge Into Three

David Ehrenstein
Science 19 September 1997: 1766.
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Letters

"Across the boundary"

Science 19 September 1997: 1745-1749.
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 Basic Responsibilities

William B. Herrmannsfeldt
Science 19 September 1997: 1745-1749.
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 Evidence of Cannibalism?

Peter Y. Bullock; and Margaret H. Jones;
Science 19 September 1997: 1745-1749.
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 World Population and Food Supplies

Albert A. Bartlett
Science 19 September 1997: 1745-1749.
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 Maximizing U.S. Population?

B. Meredith Burke
Science 19 September 1997: 1745-1749.
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 Defining "Microbiology"

Arnost Cepica;, Evelyn J. Strauss, and Stanley Falkow;
Science 19 September 1997: 1745-1749.
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 Timing of Permian-Triassic Anoxia

Gregory J. Retallack, William T. Holser;, and Yukio Isozaki;
Science 19 September 1997: 1745-1749.
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 Corrections and Clarifications

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Books et al.

Ecological Accountancy

David Pearce
Science 19 September 1997: 1783.
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Cells and Replicons

Carol Newlon
Science 19 September 1997: 1783-1784.
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Browsings

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Perspectives

BIOCHEMISTRY:
Enhanced: Versatile Collagens in Invertebrates

Jürgen Engel
Science 19 September 1997: 1785-1786.
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OPTICAL MATERIALS:
Light-Induced Anisotropy in Amorphous Chalcogenides

Kazunobu Tanaka
Science 19 September 1997: 1786-1787.
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APPLIED PHYSICS:
Organic Solid-State Lasers: Past and Future

A. Dodabalapur, E. A. Chandross, M. Berggren, and R. E. Slusher
Science 19 September 1997: 1787-1788.
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BIOCHEMISTRY:
Creating Isoprenoid Diversity

James C. Sacchettini and C. Dale Poulter
Science 19 September 1997: 1788-1789.
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Tech.Sight

  SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY:
Probing the Future

Mervyn Miles
Science 19 September 1997: 1845-1847.
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 SIGHTINGS:
Primary Target

Robert Sikorski and Richard Peters
Science 19 September 1997: 1848-1849.
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 SIGHTINGS:
Just One Word: Plastics

Richard Peters and Robert Sikorski
Science 19 September 1997: 1849.
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 NET TIPS:
Tech Traps

Robert Sikorski and Richard Peters
Science 19 September 1997: 1849-1850.
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 Digital Mailbag

Richard Peters and Robert Sikorski
Science 19 September 1997: 1850-1851.
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 Products

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Reports

An Electrochemical Coulomb Staircase: Detection of Single Electron-Transfer Events at Nanometer Electrodes

Fu-Ren F. Fan and Allen J. Bard
Science 19 September 1997: 1791-1793.
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Solvophobically Driven Folding of Nonbiological Oligomers

James C. Nelson, Jeffery G. Saven, Jeffrey S. Moore, and Peter G. Wolynes
Science 19 September 1997: 1793-1796.
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A Mound Complex in Louisiana at 5400-5000 Years Before the Present

Joe W. Saunders, Rolfe D. Mandel, Roger T. Saucier, E. Thurman Allen, C. T. Hallmark, Jay K. Johnson, Edwin H. Jackson, Charles M. Allen, Gary L. Stringer, Douglas S. Frink, James K. Feathers, Stephen Williams, Kristen J. Gremillion, Malcolm F. Vidrine, and Reca Jones
Science 19 September 1997: 1796-1799.
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Reversible Nanocontraction and Dilatation in a Solid Induced by Polarized Light

P. Krecmer, A. M. Moulin, R. J. Stephenson, T. Rayment, M. E. Welland, and S. R. Elliott
Science 19 September 1997: 1799-1802.
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Association of Mutations in a Lysosomal Protein with Classical Late-Infantile Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis

David E. Sleat, Robert J. Donnelly, Henry Lackland, Chang-Gong Liu, Istvan Sohar, Raju K. Pullarkat, and Peter Lobel
Science 19 September 1997: 1802-1805.
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Mutation of the Stargardt Disease Gene (ABCR) in Age-Related Macular Degeneration

Rando Allikmets, Noah F. Shroyer, Nanda Singh, Johanna M. Seddon, Richard Alan Lewis, Paul S. Bernstein, Andy Peiffer, Norman A. Zabriskie, Yixin Li, Amy Hutchinson, Michael Dean, James R. Lupski, and Mark Leppert
Science 19 September 1997: 1805-1807.
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Cichlid Fish Diversity Threatened by Eutrophication That Curbs Sexual Selection

Ole Seehausen, Jacques J. M. van Alphen, and Frans Witte
Science 19 September 1997: 1808-1811.
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Structure and Function of a Squalene Cyclase

K. Ulrich Wendt, Karl Poralla, and Georg E. Schulz
Science 19 September 1997: 1811-1815.
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Structural Basis for Cyclic Terpene Biosynthesis by Tobacco 5-Epi-Aristolochene Synthase

Courtney M. Starks, Kyoungwhan Back, Joseph Chappell, and Joseph P. Noel
Science 19 September 1997: 1815-1820.
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Crystal Structure of Pentalenene Synthase: Mechanistic Insights on Terpenoid Cyclization Reactions in Biology

Charles A. Lesburg, Guangzhi Zhai, David E. Cane, and David W. Christianson
Science 19 September 1997: 1820-1824.
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Toroidal Structure of -Exonuclease

Rhett Kovall and Brian W. Matthews
Science 19 September 1997: 1824-1827.
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25-Hydroxyvitamin D₃ 1-Hydroxylase and Vitamin D Synthesis

Ken-ichi Takeyama, Sachiko Kitanaka, Takashi Sato, Masato Kobori, Junn Yanagisawa, and Shigeaki Kato
Science 19 September 1997: 1827-1830.
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Extensible Collagen in Mussel Byssus: A Natural Block Copolymer

Kathryn J. Coyne, Xiao-Xia Qin, and J. Herbert Waite
Science 19 September 1997: 1830-1832.
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Technical Comments

 Highly Variable Mutation Rates in Commensal and Pathogenic Escherichia coli

Ivan Matic, Miroslav Radman, François Taddei, Bertrand Picard, Catherine Doit, Edouard Bingen, Erick Denamur, Jacques Elion;, J. Eugene LeClerc, and Thomas A. Cebula;
Science 19 September 1997: 1833-1834.
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