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Editorial:
Poets, Painters, and the Future of Science

Mark A. Emmert
Science 21 November 1997: 1381.
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 Gordon Research Conferences

Science 21 November 1997: 1492-1493.

News and Comment

POLICY:
Easing the Squeeze on R&D

Andrew Lawler
Science 21 November 1997: 1390-1392.
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POLICY:
NASA Faces Billion-Dollar Problem

Andrew Lawler
Science 21 November 1997: 1391.
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DATABASES:
RaDiUS Draws a Bead on U.S. R&D

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 21 November 1997: 1392.
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FREE ELECTRON LASER:
Physicist Sues Duke Over Control of Lab

Eliot Marshall
Science 21 November 1997: 1393.
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MALARIA:
Consensus on African Research Projects

Nigel Williams
Science 21 November 1997: 1393-1394.
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ENERGY RESEARCH:
Laser-Fusion Hot Spot to Migrate East

Peter Weiss
Science 21 November 1997: 1394.
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INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION:
ESF Hopes to Be Voice of European Science

Judy Redfearn
Science 21 November 1997: 1395.
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EUROPE:
New Chief to Go After Industrial Funding

Judy Redfearn
Science 21 November 1997: 1395.
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MATHEMATICS:
Number Theorists Embark on a New Treasure Hunt

Dana Mackenzie
Science 21 November 1997: 1396.
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MATHEMATICS:
A Limited Universe of Solutions?

Dana Mackenzie
Science 21 November 1997: 1396.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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Research News

IMAGING:
A Womb With a View

Wade Roush
Science 21 November 1997: 1397-1399.
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IMAGING:
Information Displays Go 3D

Wade Roush
Science 21 November 1997: 1398.
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MEETING BRIEFS:
How Does HIV Overcome the Body's T Cell Bodyguards?

Michael Balter
Science 21 November 1997: 1399-1400.
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PALEONTOLOGY:
Will Fossil From Down Under Upend Mammal Evolution?

Bernice Wuethrich
Science 21 November 1997: 1401-1402.
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COSMOLOGY:
Clusters Point to Never-Ending Universe

Andrew Watson
Science 21 November 1997: 1402.
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EVOLUTION:
Life's Winners Keep Their Poise in Tough Times

Richard A. Kerr
Science 21 November 1997: 1403.
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MEETING BRIEFS:
Rat Model for Gulf War Syndrome?

Ingrid Wickelgren
Science 21 November 1997: 1404.
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MEETING BRIEFS:
Protective Role for Prion Protein?

Marcia Barinaga
Science 21 November 1997: 1404-1405.
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MEETING BRIEFS:
Heat Shock Protein Linked to Stroke Protection

Ingrid Wickelgren
Science 21 November 1997: 1405.
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Letters

Seeing double

Science 21 November 1997: 1383-1387.
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 Twin Studies, Heritability, and Intelligence

M. W. Feldman, S. P. Otto;, Stanley I. Greenspan;, Leon J. Kamin;, Arthur Falek, Lissy F. Jarvik;, G. E. McClearn and, F. Ahern, B. Johansson and, S. Berg, N. L. Pedersen, S. A. Petrill, and R. Plomin;
Science 21 November 1997: 1383-1387.
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Books et al.

A Naturalist of Note

Kenneth L. Taylor
Science 21 November 1997: 1409-1410.
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Browsings

Science 21 November 1997: 1410.
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Policy Forum

Uncertainties in Projections of Human-Caused Climate Warming

J. D. Mahlman
Science 21 November 1997: 1416-1417.
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Perspectives

CLIMATE CHANGE:
Carbon Dioxide and Vegetation

Graham D. Farquhar
Science 21 November 1997: 1411.
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CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS:
Enhanced: Quantum Magnetism and Its Many Avatars

Sudip Chakravarty
Science 21 November 1997: 1412-1413.
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BIOCHEMISTRY:
Methane: Small Molecule, Big Impact

James G. Ferry
Science 21 November 1997: 1413-1414.
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ECOLOGY:
Marine Managers Look Upstream for Connections

John C. Ogden
Science 21 November 1997: 1414-1415.
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Tech.Sight

  CELL SAMPLING:
Laser Capture Microdissection: Molecular Analysis of Tissue

Robert F. Bonner, Michael Emmert-Buck, Kristina Cole, Thomas Pohida, Rodgrigo Chuaqui, Seth Goldstein, and Lance A. Liotta
Science 21 November 1997: 1481-1483.
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  SIGHTINGS:
Aromatic Probes

Richard Peters and Robert Sikorski
Science 21 November 1997: 1484-1485.
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  SIGHTINGS:
"Lighting" Rods

Robert Sikorski and Richard Peters
Science 21 November 1997: 1485.
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 NET TIPS:
Internet Photoshopping

Robert Sikorski and Richard Peters
Science 21 November 1997: 1486.
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 SITE FINDER:
Cookie Monster?

Richard Peters and Robert Sikorski
Science 21 November 1997: 1486-1487.
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 Products

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Articles

Colliding Beam Fusion Reactor

Norman Rostoker, Michl W. Binderbauer, and Hendrik J. Monkhorst
Science 21 November 1997: 1419-1422.
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Research Article

Impact of Lower Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide on Tropical Mountain Ecosystems

F. Alayne Street-Perrott, Yongsong Huang, R. Alan Perrott, Geoffrey Eglinton, Philip Barker, Leila Ben Khelifa, Douglas D. Harkness, and Daniel O. Olago
Science 21 November 1997: 1422-1426.
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Reports

Evolution of Magnetic and Superconducting Fluctuations with Doping of High-T_c Superconductors

G. Blumberg, Moonsoo Kang, M. V. Klein, K. Kadowaki, and C. Kendziora
Science 21 November 1997: 1427-1432.
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Nearly Singular Magnetic Fluctuations in the Normal State of a High-T_c Cuprate Superconductor

G. Aeppli, T. E. Mason, S. M. Hayden, H. A. Mook, and J. Kulda
Science 21 November 1997: 1432-1435.
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Direct Measurement of the Current-Phase Relation of a Superfluid ³He-B Weak Link

S. Backhaus, S. V. Pereverzev, A. Loshak, J. C. Davis, and R. E. Packard
Science 21 November 1997: 1435-1438.
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A Tribosphenic Mammal from the Mesozoic of Australia

Thomas H. Rich, Patricia Vickers-Rich, Andrew Constantine, Timothy F. Flannery, Lesley Kool, and Nicholas van Klaveren
Science 21 November 1997: 1438-1442.
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Contribution of Stream Channel Erosion to Sediment Yield from an Urbanizing Watershed

Stanley W. Trimble
Science 21 November 1997: 1442-1444.
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Adatom Pairing Structures for Ge on Si(100): The Initial Stage of Island Formation

X. R. Qin and M. G. Lagally
Science 21 November 1997: 1444-1447.
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Vigorous HIV-1-Specific CD4⁺ T Cell Responses Associated with Control of Viremia

Eric S. Rosenberg, James M. Billingsley, Angela M. Caliendo, Steven L. Boswell, Paul E. Sax, Spyros A. Kalams, and Bruce D. Walker
Science 21 November 1997: 1447-1450.
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Insolation Cycles as a Major Control of Equatorial Indian Ocean Primary Production

Luc Beaufort, Yves Lancelot, Pierre Camberlin, Olivia Cayre, Edith Vincent, Franck Bassinot, and Laurent Labeyrie
Science 21 November 1997: 1451-1454.
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Connectivity and Management of Caribbean Coral Reefs

Callum M. Roberts
Science 21 November 1997: 1454-1457.
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Crystal Structure of Methyl-Coenzyme M Reductase: The Key Enzyme of Biological Methane Formation

Ulrich Ermler, Wolfgang Grabarse, Seigo Shima, Marcel Goubeaud, and Rudolf K. Thauer
Science 21 November 1997: 1457-1462.
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Targeting of HIV- and SIV-Infected Cells by CD4-Chemokine Receptor Pseudotypes

Michael J. Endres, Salman Jaffer, Beth Haggarty, Julie D. Turner, Benjamin J. Doranz, Peter J. O'Brien, Dennis L. Kolson, and James A. Hoxie
Science 21 November 1997: 1462-1464.
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Inhibition of Invasion of Epithelial Cells by Tiam1-Rac Signaling

Peter L. Hordijk, Jean Paul ten Klooster, Rob A. van der Kammen, Frits Michiels, Lauran C. J. M. Oomen, and John G. Collard
Science 21 November 1997: 1464-1466.
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Sec-Independent Protein Translocation by the Maize Hcf106 Protein

A. Mark Settles, Ann Yonetani, Aimee Baron, Daniel R. Bush, Kenneth Cline, and Rob Martienssen
Science 21 November 1997: 1467-1470.
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CD4-Independent Binding of SIV gp120 to Rhesus CCR5

Kathleen A. Martin, Richard Wyatt, Michael Farzan, Hyeryun Choe, Luisa Marcon, Elizabeth Desjardins, James Robinson, Joseph Sodroski, Craig Gerard, and Norma P. Gerard
Science 21 November 1997: 1470-1473.
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Technical Comments

 Note to Readers of Technical Comments

Science 21 November 1997: 1473.

 Shock Wave-Induced Melting in Argon by Atomistic Simulation

L. S. Dubrovinsky; and Anatoly B. Belonoshko;
Science 21 November 1997: 1474-1476.
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 Intertropical Latitudes and Precessional and Half-Precessional Cycles

A. Berger, M. F. Loutre;, and Andrew McIntyre;
Science 21 November 1997: 1476-1478.
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