This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
Science 12 December 1997: 1857.
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Editorial:
The NIH Did It!

Arthur Kornberg
Science 12 December 1997: 1863.
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 Tech.Sight: Products

Science 12 December 1997: 1975-1977.

News and Comment

SCIENCE POLICY:
Wanted: The Ideal Science Adviser

Andrew Lawler
Science 12 December 1997: 1872-1873.
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BIOTECHNOLOGY PATENTS:
The Battle Over BRCA1 Goes to Court; BRCA2 May Be Next

Eliot Marshall
Science 12 December 1997: 1874.
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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:
EMBL's Outward Expansion Strains Its Core Facility

Nigel Williams
Science 12 December 1997: 1875-1876.
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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:
Asian Network Applies a Personal Touch

Dennis Normile
Science 12 December 1997: 1876.
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SCIENCE EDUCATION:
Researchers Help Chicago Schools Onto the Internet

James Glanz
Science 12 December 1997: 1877-1878.
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PUBLIC HEALTH:
Yale Virus Collection Needs a Home

Gary Taubes
Science 12 December 1997: 1878.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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Research News

PHYSICS:
High-Temperature Mystery Heats Up

Robert F. Service
Science 12 December 1997: 1879-1881.
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QUANTUM MECHANICS:
Teleportation Beams Up a Photon's State

Andrew Watson
Science 12 December 1997: 1881-1882.
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DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY:
Possible New Roles for HOX Genes

Steven Dickman
Science 12 December 1997: 1882-1883.
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CELL BIOLOGY:
Pinning Down Cell Division

Gretchen Vogel
Science 12 December 1997: 1883-1884.
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CANCER THERAPY:
Heavy Ions Pack Powerful Punch

Dennis Normile
Science 12 December 1997: 1884.
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Letters

Small but significant

Science 12 December 1997: 1865-1869.
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 Small NASA Missions

Joseph A. Burns and David Smith
Science 12 December 1997: 1865-1869.
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 Corporate Philanthropy

Kevin D. Young, Thomas Hill, Ann Flower, and Francis Sailer
Science 12 December 1997: 1865-1869.
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 Biodiversity and Ecosystem Properties

David Tilman, Shahid Naeem, Johannes Knops, Peter Reich, Evan Siemann, David Wedin, Mark Ritchie, John Lawton;, David A. Wardle, Olle Zackrisson, Greger Hörnberg, and Christiane Gallet;
Science 12 December 1997: 1865-1869.
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 Corrections and Clarifications

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Books et al.

Environmental Pioneer

Marlene Zuk
Science 12 December 1997: 1897.
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Policy Forum

Balancing Fish Consumption Benefits with Mercury Exposure

Grace M. Egeland and John P. Middaugh
Science 12 December 1997: 1904-1905.
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Perspectives

SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION:
Enhanced: Pieces of the True Grail: A G Protein Finds Its Target

Henry R. Bourne
Science 12 December 1997: 1898-1899.
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TRANSCRIPTION:
Getting Around the Nucleosomes

Jonathan Widom
Science 12 December 1997: 1899-1901.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Temporal Coding in Neural Populations?

Eberhard E. Fetz
Science 12 December 1997: 1901-1902.
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APPLIED PHYSICS:
Longer Life for the Blue Laser

Gerhard Fasol
Science 12 December 1997: 1902-1903.
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Research Article

Crystal Structure of the Catalytic Domains of Adenylyl Cyclase in a Complex with G_s·GTPS

John J. G. Tesmer, Roger K. Sunahara, Alfred G. Gilman, and Stephen R. Sprang
Science 12 December 1997: 1907-1916.
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Reports

An Inverse Compton Process for the Excess Diffuse EUV Emission from the Virgo and Coma Galaxy Clusters

Chorng-Yuan Hwang
Science 12 December 1997: 1917-1919.
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A Pulsar, the Heliosphere, and Pioneer 10: Probable Mimicking of a Planet of PSR B1257+12 by Solar Rotation

Klaus Scherer, Horst Fichtner, John D. Anderson, and Eunice L. Lau
Science 12 December 1997: 1919-1921.
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Radar Detection of the Nucleus and Coma of Comet Hyakutake (C/1996 B2)

J. K. Harmon, S. J. Ostro, L. A. M. Benner, K. D. Rosema, R. F. Jurgens, R. Winkler, D. K. Yeomans, D. Choate, R. Cormier, J. D. Giorgini, D. L. Mitchell, P. W. Chodas, R. Rose, D. Kelley, M. A. Slade, and M. L. Thomas
Science 12 December 1997: 1921-1924.
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Spontaneous Formation of Macroscopic Chiral Domains in a Fluid Smectic Phase of Achiral Molecules

Darren R. Link, Giorgio Natale, Renfan Shao, Joseph E. Maclennan, Noel A. Clark, Eva Körblova, and David M. Walba
Science 12 December 1997: 1924-1927.
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"New View" of Protein Folding Reconciled with the Old Through Multiple Unfolding Simulations

Themis Lazaridis and Martin Karplus
Science 12 December 1997: 1928-1931.
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Atomic and Macroscopic Reaction Rates of a Surface-Catalyzed Reaction

J. Wintterlin, S. Völkening, T. V. W. Janssens, T. Zambelli, and G. Ertl
Science 12 December 1997: 1931-1934.
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Growth of SiO₂ at Room Temperature with the Use of Catalyzed Sequential Half-Reactions

Jason W. Klaus, Ofer Sneh, and Steven M. George
Science 12 December 1997: 1934-1936.
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Cleavage of the BMP-4 Antagonist Chordin by Zebrafish Tolloid

Patrick Blader, Sepand Rastegar, Nadine Fischer, and Uwe Strähle
Science 12 December 1997: 1937-1940.
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Role of Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate Receptor in Ventral Signaling in Xenopus Embryos

Shoen Kume, Akira Muto, Takafumi Inoue, Kei Suga, Hideyuki Okano, and Katsuhiko Mikoshiba
Science 12 December 1997: 1940-1943.
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Crystal Structure of the Adenylyl Cyclase Activator G_s

Roger K. Sunahara, John J. G. Tesmer, Alfred G. Gilman, and Stephen R. Sprang
Science 12 December 1997: 1943-1947.
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Mediation of Sonic Hedgehog-Induced Expression of COUP-TFII by a Protein Phosphatase

Venkatesh Krishnan, Fred A. Pereira, Yuhong Qiu, Chien-Huan Chen, Philip A. Beachy, Sophia Y. Tsai, and Ming-Jer Tsai
Science 12 December 1997: 1947-1950.
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Spike Synchronization and Rate Modulation Differentially Involved in Motor Cortical Function

Alexa Riehle, Sonja Grün, Markus Diesmann, and Ad Aertsen
Science 12 December 1997: 1950-1953.
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Protein Disulfide Isomerase as a Regulator of Chloroplast Translational Activation

Jungmook Kim and Stephen P. Mayfield
Science 12 December 1997: 1954-1957.
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Sequence-Specific and Phosphorylation-Dependent Proline Isomerization: A Potential Mitotic Regulatory Mechanism

Michael B. Yaffe, Mike Schutkowski, Minhui Shen, Xiao Zhen Zhou, P. Todd Stukenberg, Jens-Ulrich Rahfeld, Jian Xu, Jian Kuang, Marc W. Kirschner, Gunter Fischer, Lewis C. Cantley, and Kun Ping Lu
Science 12 December 1997: 1957-1960.
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Mechanism of Transcription Through the Nucleosome by Eukaryotic RNA Polymerase

Vasily M. Studitsky, George A. Kassavetis, E. Peter Geiduschek, and Gary Felsenfeld
Science 12 December 1997: 1960-1963.
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NDR1, a Pathogen-Induced Component Required for Arabidopsis Disease Resistance

Karen S. Century, Allan D. Shapiro, Peter P. Repetti, Douglas Dahlbeck, Eric Holub, and Brian J. Staskawicz
Science 12 December 1997: 1963-1965.
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Conversion of Bcl-2 to a Bax-like Death Effector by Caspases

Emily H.-Y. Cheng, David G. Kirsch, Rollie J. Clem, Rajani Ravi, Michael B. Kastan, Atul Bedi, Kazuyoshi Ueno, and J. Marie Hardwick
Science 12 December 1997: 1966-1968.
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Technical Comments

 Note to readers of Technical Comments

Science 12 December 1997: 1968.

 Kaposi's Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus Infection and Multiple Myeloma

Carlo Parravicini, Eleonora Lauri, Luca Baldini, Antonino Neri, Francesca Poli, Girolamo Sirchia, Mauro Moroni, Massimo Galli, Mario Corbellino;, Rizwan Masood, Tong Zheng, Anil Tulpule, Naveen Arora, Louise Chatlynne, Michael Handy, James Whitman, Jr., Mark Kaplan, Michael Dosik, Dharam V. Ablashi, Parkash S. Gill;, Denise Whitby, Chris Boshoff, Mario Luppi, Giuseppe Torelli;, Francesca Cottoni, Stefania Uccini;, P. Brousset, F. Meggetto, M. Attal, G. Delsol;, M. B. Rettig, J. W. Said R. Sun, and R. A. Vescio J. R. Berenson;
Science 12 December 1997: 1969-1973.
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