This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Gene Technology and Democracy

Rolf M. Zinkernagel
Science 14 November 1997: 1207.
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News and Comment

NASA:
Faster, Cheaper Strategy on Trial

Andrew Lawler
Science 14 November 1997: 1216-1217.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Tiny Comets' Spots Called Artifacts

Richard A. Kerr
Science 14 November 1997: 1217-1218.
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SCIENCE BUDGET:
Last-Minute Deal Gives NIH 7.1% Raise

Eliot Marshall
Science 14 November 1997: 1218.
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NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES:
House OKs Compromise on Panel Meetings

Andrew Lawler
Science 14 November 1997: 1219.
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NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL:
Fusion Panel Scored for Tipping Results

Andrew Lawler
Science 14 November 1997: 1219.
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RUSSIA:
Bulgak Fails to Deliver on Reform Plans

Andrey Allakhverdov and Vladimir Pokrovsky
Science 14 November 1997: 1220.
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RUSSIA:
Thieves Target 60-Ton Neutrino Detector

Andrey Allakhverdov and Vladimir Pokrovsky
Science 14 November 1997: 1220.
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SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT:
Editors Seek Ways to Cope With Fraud

Nigel Williams
Science 14 November 1997: 1221.
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RUSSIA:
An Antidote to Bioproliferation

Richard Stone
Science 14 November 1997: 1222.
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AUSTRALIA:
Major Changes Proposed in Antarctica

Elizabeth Finkel
Science 14 November 1997: 1222.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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Research News

HUMAN GENETICS:
The Architecture of Hearing

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 14 November 1997: 1223-1224.
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ASTRONOMY:
Gamma Rays Open a View Down a Cosmic Gun Barrel

James Glanz
Science 14 November 1997: 1225.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Molecules Give New Insights Into Deadliest Brain Cancers

Marcia Barinaga
Science 14 November 1997: 1226.
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AIDS RESEARCH:
HIV Survives Drug Onslaught By Hiding Out in T Cells

Michael Balter
Science 14 November 1997: 1227.
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BIOMEDICINE:
Receptor Offers Clues to How 'Good' Cholesterol Works

Larry Husten
Science 14 November 1997: 1228.
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PALEONTOLOGY:
Lung Fossils Suggest Dinos Breathed in Cold Blood

Ann Gibbons
Science 14 November 1997: 1229-1230.
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PALEONTOLOGY:
Plucking the Feathered Dinosaur

Ann Gibbons
Science 14 November 1997: 1229-1230.
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ASTRONOMY:
Galactic Disk Contains No Dark Matter

Alexander Hellemans
Science 14 November 1997: 1230.
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Letters

 By the sea ... 

Science 14 November 1997: 1209-1213.
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 Affection for the MBL

Sheldon J. Segal;, James F. Case;, and James L. Olds;
Science 14 November 1997: 1209-1213.
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 The Extinction of Paleontology?

Michael S. Y. Lee
Science 14 November 1997: 1209-1213.
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 Estimates of Coastal Populations

Joel E. Cohen, Christopher Small, Andrew Mellinger, John Gallup, Jeffrey Sachs;, Peter M. Vitousek, and Harold A. Mooney;
Science 14 November 1997: 1209-1213.
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 Genetics of Parkinson's Disease

Timothy Lynch, Matt Farrer, Mike Hutton, John Hardy;, and Mihael H. Polymeropoulos;
Science 14 November 1997: 1209-1213.
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Books et al.

A Biographical Bandwagon

Don Howard
Science 14 November 1997: 1241-1242.
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Policy Forum

The Civil Commitment of Sex Offenders

Howard Zonana
Science 14 November 1997: 1248-1249.
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Perspectives

AGRICULTURE:
Enhanced: Location, Location, Location: The First Farmers

Jared Diamond
Science 14 November 1997: 1243-1244.
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PALEOCLIMATOLOGY:
Millennial Climate Oscillations

Delia Oppo
Science 14 November 1997: 1244-1246.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Update: The Early Mars Climate Question Heats Up

James F. Kasting
Science 14 November 1997: 1245.
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APOPTOSIS:
A Myc-Induced Apoptosis Pathway Surfaces

Douglas R. Green
Science 14 November 1997: 1246-1247.
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Tech.Sight

 Tech.Sight: Products

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Articles

Arctic Environmental Change of the Last Four Centuries

J. Overpeck, K. Hughen, D. Hardy, R. Bradley, R. Case, M. Douglas, B. Finney, K. Gajewski, G. Jacoby, A. Jennings, S. Lamoureux, A. Lasca, G. MacDonald, J. Moore, M. Retelle, S. Smith, A. Wolfe, and G. Zielinski
Science 14 November 1997: 1251-1256.
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Research Article

A Pervasive Millennial-Scale Cycle in North Atlantic Holocene and Glacial Climates

Gerard Bond, William Showers, Maziet Cheseby, Rusty Lotti, Peter Almasi, Peter deMenocal, Paul Priore, Heidi Cullen, Irka Hajdas, and Georges Bonani
Science 14 November 1997: 1257-1266.
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Reports

Lung Structure and Ventilation in Theropod Dinosaurs and Early Birds

John A. Ruben, Terry D. Jones, Nicholas R. Geist, and W. Jaap Hillenius
Science 14 November 1997: 1267-1270.
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Belated Decision in the Hilbert-Einstein Priority Dispute

Leo Corry, Jürgen Renn, and John Stachel
Science 14 November 1997: 1270-1273.
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Warming Early Mars with Carbon Dioxide Clouds That Scatter Infrared Radiation

François Forget and Raymond T. Pierrehumbert
Science 14 November 1997: 1273-1276.
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Mechanism for the Green Glow of the Upper Ionosphere

Steven L. Guberman
Science 14 November 1997: 1276-1278.
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Mantle Fluids in the San Andreas Fault System, California

B. M. Kennedy, Y. K. Kharaka, W. C. Evans, A. Ellwood, D. J. DePaolo, J. Thordsen, G. Ambats, and R. H. Mariner
Science 14 November 1997: 1278-1281.
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Evolution of the Pacific-Antarctic Ridge South of the Udintsev Fracture Zone

Louis Géli, Henri Bougault, Daniel Aslanian, Anne Briais, Laure Dosso, Joël Etoubleau, Jean-Pierre Le Formal, Marcia Maia, Hélène Ondréas, Jean-Louis Olivet, Chris Richardson, Keizo Sayanagi, Nobukazu Seama, Anjana Shah, Ivan Vlastelic, and Michiko Yamamoto
Science 14 November 1997: 1281-1284.
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Inner Core Rotation Rate from Small-Scale Heterogeneity and Time-Varying Travel Times

Kenneth C. Creager
Science 14 November 1997: 1284-1288.
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Regulation of Distinct Stages of Skeletal Muscle Differentiation by Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases

Anton M. Bennett and Nicholas K. Tonks
Science 14 November 1997: 1288-1291.
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Recovery of Replication-Competent HIV Despite Prolonged Suppression of Plasma Viremia

Joseph K. Wong, Marjan Hezareh, Huldrych F. Günthard, Diane V. Havlir, Caroline C. Ignacio, Celsa A. Spina, and Douglas D. Richman
Science 14 November 1997: 1291-1295.
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Identification of a Reservoir for HIV-1 in Patients on Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy

Diana Finzi, Monika Hermankova, Theodore Pierson, Lucy M. Carruth, Christopher Buck, Richard E. Chaisson, Thomas C. Quinn, Karen Chadwick, Joseph Margolick, Ronald Brookmeyer, Joel Gallant, Martin Markowitz, David D. Ho, Douglas D. Richman, and Robert F. Siliciano
Science 14 November 1997: 1295-1300.
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Amidation of Bioactive Peptides: The Structure of Peptidylglycine -Hydroxylating Monooxygenase

Sean T. Prigge, Aparna S. Kolhekar, Betty A. Eipper, Richard E. Mains, and L. Mario Amzel
Science 14 November 1997: 1300-1305.
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Requirement for the CD95 Receptor-Ligand Pathway in c-Myc-Induced Apoptosis

Anne-Odile Hueber, Martin Zörnig, Debbie Lyon, Takashi Suda, Shigekazu Nagata, and Gerard I. Evan
Science 14 November 1997: 1305-1309.
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A TEL-JAK2 Fusion Protein with Constitutive Kinase Activity in Human Leukemia

Virginie Lacronique, Anthony Boureux, Véronique Della Valle, Hélène Poirel, Christine Tran Quang, Martine Mauchauffé, Christian Berthou, Michel Lessard, Roland Berger, Jacques Ghysdael, and Olivier A. Bernard
Science 14 November 1997: 1309-1312.
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Site of Einkorn Wheat Domestication Identified by DNA Fingerprinting

Manfred Heun, Ralf Schäfer-Pregl, Dieter Klawan, Renato Castagna, Monica Accerbi, Basilio Borghi, and Francesco Salamini
Science 14 November 1997: 1312-1314.
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Nonsyndromic Deafness DFNA1 Associated with Mutation of a Human Homolog of the Drosophila Gene diaphanous

Eric D. Lynch, Ming K. Lee, Jan E. Morrow, Piri L. Welcsh, Pedro E. León, and Mary-Claire King
Science 14 November 1997: 1315-1318.
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daf-16: An HNF-3/forkhead Family Member That Can Function to Double the Life-Span of Caenorhabditis elegans

Kui Lin, Jennie B. Dorman, Aylin Rodan, and Cynthia Kenyon
Science 14 November 1997: 1319-1322.
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Technical Comments

 Note to Readers of Technical Comments

Science 14 November 1997: 1321.

 Immune Response and Myoblasts That Express Fas Ligand

Sang-Mo Kang, Andreas Hofmann, David Le, Matthew L. Springer, Peter G. Stock, Helen M. Blau;, Henry T. Lau, and C. J. Stoeckert;
Science 14 November 1997: 1322-1324.
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