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Science 26 September 1997: 1901.
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Editorial:
Fear of Hope

Wise Young
Science 26 September 1997: 1907.
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 AAAS News & Notes

Science 26 September 1997: 2012-2013.

 Quarterly Author Index

Science 26 September 1997: 2016.

News

POLICY:
The Right Climate for Assessment

Richard A. Kerr
Science 26 September 1997: 1916-1918.
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MALARIA RESEARCH:
South Wants Place at Table in New Collaborative Effort

Pallava Bagla
Science 26 September 1997: 1918-1919.
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MALARIA RESEARCH:
MIM Gets Down to Business

Pallava Bagla
Science 26 September 1997: 1919.
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RADIATION POISONING:
NIH Case Ends With Mysteries Unsolved

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 26 September 1997: 1920.
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NASA:
Station Costs Pinch Other Programs

Andrew Lawler
Science 26 September 1997: 1920.
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EARTH SCIENCE:
Ocean Floor Is Laid Bare by New Satellite Data

Dana Mackenzie
Science 26 September 1997: 1921.
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AGRICULTURAL GENETICS:
Gene Mutation Provides More Meat on the Hoof

Steven Dickman
Science 26 September 1997: 1922-1923.
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CLIMATE:
Did Satellites Spot a Brightening Sun?

Richard A. Kerr
Science 26 September 1997: 1923-1924.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Martian Magnetic Whisper Detected

Richard A. Kerr
Science 26 September 1997: 1924.
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GAMMA-RAY BURSTS:
Long Afterglows Reveal the Secrets of Distant Fireballs

James Glanz
Science 26 September 1997: 1925.
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MEETING BRIEFS:
ISO Peers Into the Cool Corners of the Universe

Dennis Normile
Science 26 September 1997: 1926-1927.
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AIDS RESEARCH:
HIV Suppressed Long After Treatment

Jon Cohen
Science 26 September 1997: 1927.
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ScienceScope

Science 26 September 1997: 1915.
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Random Samples

Science 26 September 1997: 1929.
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Special News Report

 SILICON MIMICS LIFE

Science 26 September 1997: 1930.

COMPUTER ENGINEERING:
Computer Design Meets Darwin

Gary Taubes
Science 26 September 1997: 1931-1932.
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ROBOTICS:
'RoboCup' Soccer Match Is a Challenge for Silicon Rookies

Dennis Normile
Science 26 September 1997: 1933.
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NEUROMORPHIC ENGINEERING:
Why Can't a Computer Be More Like a Brain?

Andrew Watson
Science 26 September 1997: 1934-1936.
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COMPUTER ENGINEERING:
A Subtler Silicon Cell for Neural Networks

Sunny Bains
Science 26 September 1997: 1935.
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ARTIFICIAL LIFE:
After 50 Years, Self-Replicating Silicon

Gary Taubes
Science 26 September 1997: 1936.
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Letters

Worthy investigations

Science 26 September 1997: 1909-1914.
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 Agricultural Strategies

Herbert F. Massey;, P. A. Matson, W. J. Parton, A. G. Power, and M. J. Swift;
Science 26 September 1997: 1909-1914.
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 High-Temperature Superconductors

Charles M. Lieber, Peidong Yang;, Zenji Hiroi, and Mikio Takano;
Science 26 September 1997: 1909-1914.
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 A Hill of Beans

Rolf Aalto, David R. Montgomery, Bernard Hallet, Timothy B. Abbe, John M. Buffington, Kurt M. Cuffey, Kevin M. Schmidt;, Alexander L. Densmore, Robert S. Anderson, and Michael A. Ellis;
Science 26 September 1997: 1909-1914.
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Books et al.

Molecular Errata

Lawrence A. Loeb
Science 26 September 1997: 1945.
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The Serpent World

Richard Shine
Science 26 September 1997: 1945-1946.
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NMR Perspectives

Warren S. Warren
Science 26 September 1997: 1946-1947.
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Browsings

Science 26 September 1997: 1947.
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Perspectives

DNA METHYLATION:
Tying It All Together: Epigenetics, Genetics, Cell Cycle, and Cancer

Stephen B. Baylin
Science 26 September 1997: 1948-1949.
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IMMUNOLOGY:
Lymphocyte Survival: A Red Queen Hypothesis

Antonio A. Freitas and Benedita Rocha
Science 26 September 1997: 1950.
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ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY:
Enhanced: Mesospheric Mysteries

Paul Crutzen
Science 26 September 1997: 1951-1952.
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 CLIMATE:
Nota Bene: Seasonal Climate Prediction

Julia Uppenbrink
Science 26 September 1997: 1952.
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Tech.Sight

 Tech.Sight: Product

Science 26 September 1997: 2015-2016.

Articles

A Metalloradical Mechanism for the Generation of Oxygen from Water in Photosynthesis

Curtis W. Hoganson and Gerald T. Babcock
Science 26 September 1997: 1953-1956.
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Research Article

Global Sea Floor Topography from Satellite Altimetry and Ship Depth Soundings

Walter H. F. Smith and David T. Sandwell
Science 26 September 1997: 1956-1962.
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Reports

Total Solar Irradiance Trend During Solar Cycles 21 and 22 

Richard C. Willson
Science 26 September 1997: 1963-1965.
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Increased Compressibility of Pseudobrookite-Type MgTi₂O₅ Caused by Cation Disorder

Robert M. Hazen and Hexiong Yang
Science 26 September 1997: 1965-1967.
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Implications of Satellite OH Observations for Middle Atmospheric H₂O and Ozone

M. E. Summers, R. R. Conway, D. E. Siskind, M. H. Stevens, D. Offermann, M. Riese, P. Preusse, D. F. Strobel, and J. M. Russell, III
Science 26 September 1997: 1967-1970.
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Nanobeam Mechanics: Elasticity, Strength, and Toughness of Nanorods and Nanotubes

Eric W. Wong, Paul E. Sheehan, and Charles M. Lieber
Science 26 September 1997: 1971-1975.
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Enhancement of Protein Crystal Nucleation by Critical Density Fluctuations

Pieter Rein ten Wolde and Daan Frenkel
Science 26 September 1997: 1975-1978.
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Reversible Tuning of Silver Quantum Dot Monolayers Through the Metal-Insulator Transition

C. P. Collier, R. J. Saykally, J. J. Shiang, S. E. Henrichs, and J. R. Heath
Science 26 September 1997: 1978-1981.
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Regioselective Stepwise Growth of Dendrimer Units in the Internal Voids of a Main Dendrimer

Christophe Galliot, Christophe Larré, Anne-Marie Caminade, and Jean-Pierre Majoral
Science 26 September 1997: 1981-1984.
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Infants' Memory for Spoken Words

Peter W. Jusczyk and Elizabeth A. Hohne
Science 26 September 1997: 1984-1986.
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LKLF: A Transcriptional Regulator of Single-Positive T Cell Quiescence and Survival

Chay T. Kuo, Margaret L. Veselits, and Jeffrey M. Leiden
Science 26 September 1997: 1986-1990.
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Aggregation of Huntingtin in Neuronal Intranuclear Inclusions and Dystrophic Neurites in Brain

Marian DiFiglia, Ellen Sapp, Kathryn O. Chase, Stephen W. Davies, Gillian P. Bates, J. P. Vonsattel, and Neil Aronin
Science 26 September 1997: 1990-1993.
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Identification of a Naturally Occurring Peroxidase-Lipoxygenase Fusion Protein

Reet Koljak, Olivier Boutaud, Bih-Hwa Shieh, Nigulas Samel, and Alan R. Brash
Science 26 September 1997: 1994-1996.
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Human DNA-(Cytosine-5) Methyltransferase-PCNA Complex as a Target for p21^WAF1

Linda S.-H. Chuang, Hang-In Ian, Tong-Wey Koh, Huck-Hui Ng, Guoliang Xu, and Benjamin F. L. Li
Science 26 September 1997: 1996-2000.
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Repair of Adult Rat Corticospinal Tract by Transplants of Olfactory Ensheathing Cells

Ying Li, Pauline M. Field, and Geoffrey Raisman
Science 26 September 1997: 2000-2002.
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Requirement for Macrophage Elastase for Cigarette Smoke-Induced Emphysema in Mice

R. Dean Hautamaki, Dale K. Kobayashi, Robert M. Senior, and Steven D. Shapiro
Science 26 September 1997: 2002-2004.
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Selective Expression of the Eotaxin Receptor CCR3 by Human T Helper 2 Cells

Federica Sallusto, Charles R. Mackay, and Antonio Lanzavecchia
Science 26 September 1997: 2005-2007.
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Fluorescence-Based Isolation of Bacterial Genes Expressed Within Host Cells

Raphael H. Valdivia and Stanley Falkow
Science 26 September 1997: 2007-2011.
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