This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Cryptography in America

Irving Lerch and Mary Gray
Science 28 November 1997: 1545.
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 AAAS News & Notes

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 Tech.Sight: Products

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News

SPACE:
Germany's Bleak Future in Space

Robert Koenig
Science 28 November 1997: 1554-1556.
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SPACE:
France Brings Space Goals Down to Earth

Helen Gavaghan
Science 28 November 1997: 1555.
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ANTHROPOLOGY:
Native Claims Muddy Waters in Fight Over Australian Lake

Elizabeth Finkel
Science 28 November 1997: 1556-1557.
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ANTHROPOLOGY:
Science Squeezed Out of Debate

Elizabeth Finkel
Science 28 November 1997: 1557.
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SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING:
Libraries Join Forces on Journal Prices

Martin Enserink
Science 28 November 1997: 1558.
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WOMEN'S HEALTH RESEARCH:
A 5-Year Initiative Slowly Takes Shape

Eliot Marshall
Science 28 November 1997: 1558.
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JAPAN:
Pending Reform Plan Lacks Detail

Dennis Normile
Science 28 November 1997: 1559.
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FUSION:
Brighter Omens for Giant Reactor?

James Glanz
Science 28 November 1997: 1559-1560.
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CELL BIOLOGY:
Multiple Clocks Keep Time in Fruit Fly Tissues

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 28 November 1997: 1560-1561.
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POLAR RESEARCH:
Spacecraft Offers Details of Antarctica

Andrew Lawler
Science 28 November 1997: 1562.
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EVOLUTION:
Sex Frees Viruses From Genetic 'Ratchet'

Virginia Morell
Science 28 November 1997: 1562-1563.
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EVOLUTION:
Viruses Scout Evolution's Path

Virginia Morell
Science 28 November 1997: 1563-1564.
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DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY:
New Developmental Clock Discovered

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 28 November 1997: 1564.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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Special News Report

AIDS RESEARCH:
The Rise and Fall of Projet SIDA

Jon Cohen
Science 28 November 1997: 1565-1568.
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Letters

Heady matters

Science 28 November 1997: 1547-1551.
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 Using One's Head

Arthur Caplan and J. Craig Venter
Science 28 November 1997: 1547-1551.
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 Dopamine's Role

Jeffrey A. Gray, Andrew M. J. Young, Michael H. Joseph;, Martin Sarter, and John P. Bruno;
Science 28 November 1997: 1547-1551.
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 Olfactory "Consciousness"?

Kathleen M. Dorries
Science 28 November 1997: 1547-1551.
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 Sexual Selection in Asian Elephants

Ralph Tiedemann
Science 28 November 1997: 1547-1551.
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 Corrections and Clarifications

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 Note to readers of Technical Comments

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Books et al.

Legacies of the Bendectin Case

Michael D. Green
Science 28 November 1997: 1574-1575.
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Policy Forum

Variations on a Theme: Cataloging Human DNA Sequence Variation

Francis S. Collins, Mark S. Guyer, and Aravinda Chakravarti
Science 28 November 1997: 1580-1581.
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Perspectives

GEOSCIENCE:
Minerals in the Deep Earth: A Message from the Asteroid Belt

Dieter Stöffler
Science 28 November 1997: 1576-1577.
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POLYMER SCIENCE:
Fashioning Flow by Self-Assembly

Tom McLeish
Science 28 November 1997: 1577-1578.
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SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION:
Enhanced: A New Player in Cell Death

Timothy Hoey
Science 28 November 1997: 1578-1579.
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Articles

Thermohaline Circulation, the Achilles Heel of Our Climate System: Will Man-Made CO₂ Upset the Current Balance?

Wallace S. Broecker
Science 28 November 1997: 1582-1588.
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Research Article

Late Pliocene Faunal Turnover in the Turkana Basin, Kenya and Ethiopia

Anna K. Behrensmeyer, Nancy E. Todd, Richard Potts, and Geraldine E. McBrinn
Science 28 November 1997: 1589-1594.
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Reports

Platinum-Group Element Abundance Patterns in Different Mantle Environments

Mark Rehkämper, Alex N. Halliday, Dan Barfod, J. Godfrey Fitton, and J. Barry Dawson
Science 28 November 1997: 1595-1598.
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Transitions Between Blocked and Zonal Flows in a Rotating Annulus with Topography

Eric R. Weeks, Yudong Tian, J. S. Urbach, Kayo Ide, Harry L. Swinney, and Michael Ghil
Science 28 November 1997: 1598-1601.
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Reversible Polymers Formed from Self-Complementary Monomers Using Quadruple Hydrogen Bonding

Rint P. Sijbesma, Felix H. Beijer, Luc Brunsveld, Brigitte J. B. Folmer, J. H. K. Ky Hirschberg, Ronald F. M. Lange, Jimmy K. L. Lowe, and E. W. Meijer
Science 28 November 1997: 1601-1604.
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Two-Dimensional Melting of an Anisotropic Crystal Observed at the Molecular Level

H. D. Sikes and D. K. Schwartz
Science 28 November 1997: 1604-1607.
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Enhanced Intergrain Tunneling Magnetoresistance in Half-Metallic CrO₂ Films

H. Y. Hwang and S.-W. Cheong
Science 28 November 1997: 1607-1609.
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Imaging of Intermittency in Ripple-Wave Turbulence

William B. Wright, R. Budakian, D. J. Pine, and S. J. Putterman
Science 28 November 1997: 1609-1612.
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IRAK (Pelle) Family Member IRAK-2 and MyD88 as Proximal Mediators of IL-1 Signaling

Marta Muzio, Jian Ni, Ping Feng, and Vishva M. Dixit
Science 28 November 1997: 1612-1615.
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Modulating Irrelevant Motion Perception by Varying Attentional Load in an Unrelated Task

Geraint Rees, Christopher D. Frith, and Nilli Lavie
Science 28 November 1997: 1616-1619.
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Spatial Pattern Formation in an Insect Host-Parasitoid System

John L. Maron and Susan Harrison
Science 28 November 1997: 1619-1621.
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The Spatial Dimension in Population Fluctuations

Esa Ranta, Veijo Kaitala, and Per Lundberg
Science 28 November 1997: 1621-1623.
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Requirement for V14 NKT Cells in IL-12-Mediated Rejection of Tumors

Junqing Cui, Tahiro Shin, Tetsu Kawano, Hiroshi Sato, Eisuke Kondo, Isao Toura, Yoshikatsu Kaneko, Haruhiko Koseki, Masamoto Kanno, and Masaru Taniguchi
Science 28 November 1997: 1623-1626.
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CD1d-Restricted and TCR-Mediated Activation of V14 NKT Cells by Glycosylceramides

Tetsu Kawano, Junqing Cui, Yasuhiko Koezuka, Isao Toura, Yoshikatsu Kaneko, Kazuhiro Motoki, Hitomi Ueno, Ryusuke Nakagawa, Hiroshi Sato, Eisuke Kondo, Haruhiko Koseki, and Masaru Taniguchi
Science 28 November 1997: 1626-1629.
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Defective TNF--Induced Apoptosis in STAT1-Null Cells Due to Low Constitutive Levels of Caspases

Aseem Kumar, Mairead Commane, Thomas W. Flickinger, Curt M. Horvath, and George R. Stark
Science 28 November 1997: 1630-1632.
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Independent Photoreceptive Circadian Clocks Throughout Drosophila

Jeffrey D. Plautz, Maki Kaneko, Jeffrey C. Hall, and Steve A. Kay
Science 28 November 1997: 1632-1635.
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The Filamentous Phage pIV Multimer Visualized by Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy

Nora A. Linderoth, Martha N. Simon, and Marjorie Russel
Science 28 November 1997: 1635-1638.
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Nuclear Accumulation of NFAT4 Opposed by the JNK Signal Transduction Pathway

Chi-Wing Chow, Mercedes Rincón, Julie Cavanagh, Martin Dickens, and Roger J. Davis
Science 28 November 1997: 1638-1641.
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Independent and Additive Effects of Central POMC and Leptin Pathways on Murine Obesity

Bruce A. Boston, Kathryn M. Blaydon, Jeffrey Varnerin, and Roger D. Cone
Science 28 November 1997: 1641-1644.
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