Breakthrough of the Year

Editorial

Editorial:
Breakthroughs 1997

Floyd E. Bloom
Science 19 December 1997: 2029.
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News

BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR:
CLONING: The Lamb That Roared

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 19 December 1997: 2038-2039.
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BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR:
The Runners-Up

Science 19 December 1997: 2039-2042.
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SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
Bumper Crop for Pop Science

Science 19 December 1997: 2040.
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ENVIRONMENT:
Politicians Sweat Over Global Warming

Science 19 December 1997: 2040.
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RESEARCH TRENDS:
New Research Horizons

Science 19 December 1997: 2040.
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RESEARCH TRENDS:
Scorecard '96

Science 19 December 1997: 2040.
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This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
Science 19 December 1997: 2027.
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 AAAS News & Notes

Science 19 December 1997: 1249.

 Quarterly Author Index

Science 19 December 1997: 2149.

News and Comment

HUMAN GENOME PROJECT:
'Playing Chicken' Over Gene Markers

Eliot Marshall
Science 19 December 1997: 2046-2048.
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HUMAN GENOME PROJECT:
The Hunting of the SNP

Eliot Marshall
Science 19 December 1997: 2047.
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CLIMATE CHANGE:
Thirty Kyotos Needed to Control Warming

David Malakoff
Science 19 December 1997: 2048.
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U.K. ASTRONOMY:
Funder Rejects RGO Rescue Plan

Judy Redfearn
Science 19 December 1997: 2049.
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GERMANY:
Panel Proposes Ways to Combat Fraud

Robert Koenig
Science 19 December 1997: 2049.
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NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE:
B Cells May Propagate Prions

Gretchen Vogel
Science 19 December 1997: 2050.
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ECOLOGY:
Deformed Frogs Leap Into Spotlight at Health Workshop

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 19 December 1997: 2051-2052.
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ECOLOGY:
Qualified Thumbs Up for Habitat Plan Science

Charles Mann and Mark Plummer
Science 19 December 1997: 2052-2053.
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ScienceScope

Science 19 December 1997: 2045.
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Random Samples

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Research News

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:
Plants Decode a Universal Signal

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 19 December 1997: 2054-2055.
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ASTRONOMY:
Black Hole Lurks in Miniature Quasar

Alexander Hellemans
Science 19 December 1997: 2055.
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MEETING BRIEFS:
Materials Researchers Pick Up the Pace of Discovery

Robert F. Service
Science 19 December 1997: 2056-2057.
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ECOLOGY:
Counting Creatures of the Serengeti, Great and Small

Virginia Morell
Science 19 December 1997: 2058-2060.
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ECOLOGY:
Return of the Forest

Virginia Morell
Science 19 December 1997: 2059.
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PHYSICS:
Cool Sounds at 200 Decibels

Dana Mackenzie
Science 19 December 1997: 2060.
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Letters

Creative realms

Science 19 December 1997: 2031-2037.
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 NEA Funding

Dahlia W. Zaidel;, Kevin Thompson;, Riccardo Baschetti;, William M. Murray;, Gwen Andrew;, and Mark A. Emmert;
Science 19 December 1997: 2031-2037.
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 Fusion Alternatives

Robert J. Goldston;, Ralph W. Moir;, N. Rostoker, M. W. Binderbauer, and Hendrik J. Monkhorst;
Science 19 December 1997: 2031-2037.
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 Fusion Panel Meeting

Steven E. Koonin, C. William Colglazier;, and Andrew Lawler;
Science 19 December 1997: 2031-2037.
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 Lamp Enlightenment

Barry G. DeBoer; and Michael J. Sailor;
Science 19 December 1997: 2031-2037.
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 Corrections and Clarifications

Science 19 December 1997: 2031-2037.
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Books et al.

Catalyst for a Cultural Dialogue

Kenneth Lewes
Science 19 December 1997: 2068-2069.
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Policy Forum

 Conversations with the Community: AAAS at the Millennium

Sheila Jasanoff, Rita Colwell, Mildred S. Dresselhaus, William T. Golden, Robert D. Goldman, M. R. C. Greenwood, Alice S. Huang, William Lester, Simon A. Levin, Marcia C. Linn, Jane Lubchenco, Richard S. Nicholson, Michael J. Novacek, Anna C. Roosevelt, Jean E. Taylor, and Nancy Wexler
Science 19 December 1997: 2066-2067.
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 AAAS Conversation on Science & Society

Science 19 December 1997: 2067.

Perspectives

PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Enhanced: New Views of Asteroids

Erik Asphaug
Science 19 December 1997: 2070-2071.
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MATERIALS SCIENCE:
Conducting Polymers: From Novel Science to New Technology

J. Campbell Scott
Science 19 December 1997: 2071-2072.
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PROTEIN SYNTHESIS:
A Ribosome at the End of the Tunnel

Ted Powers and Peter Walter
Science 19 December 1997: 2072-2073.
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TRANSCRIPTION:
Control of the Supply Line

Jeffrey Roberts
Science 19 December 1997: 2073-2074.
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Tech.Sight

  AIDS RESEARCH:
Animal Models of HIV-1 Disease

J. M. McCune
Science 19 December 1997: 2141-2142.
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 SIGHTINGS:
Capturing Genes

Robert Sikorski and Richard Peters
Science 19 December 1997: 2143.
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 SIGHTINGS:
Cell Shocked

Robert Sikorski and Richard Peters
Science 19 December 1997: 2143.
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  NETTIPS:
Pacified Passwords

Robert Sikorski and Richard Peters
Science 19 December 1997: 2144-2145.
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  SITEFINDER:
Patents Online

Robert Sikorski and Richard Peters
Science 19 December 1997: 2145.
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Articles

Signaling Through Scaffold, Anchoring, and Adaptor Proteins

Tony Pawson and John D. Scott
Science 19 December 1997: 2075-2080.
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Research Articles

Large-Cage Zeolite Structures with Multidimensional 12-Ring Channels

Xianhui Bu, Pingyun Feng, and Galen D. Stucky
Science 19 December 1997: 2080-2085.
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Immune Versus Natural Selection: Antibody Aldolases with Enzymic Rates But Broader Scope

Carlos F. Barbas, III, Andreas Heine, Guofu Zhong, Torsten Hoffmann, Svetlana Gramatikova, Robert Björnestedt, Benjamin List, James Anderson, Enrico A. Stura, Ian A. Wilson, and Richard A. Lerner
Science 19 December 1997: 2085-2092.
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Transcription Regulation by Initiating NTP Concentration: rRNA Synthesis in Bacteria

Tamas Gaal, Michael S. Bartlett, Wilma Ross, Charles L. Turnbough, Jr., and Richard L. Gourse
Science 19 December 1997: 2092-2097.
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Reports

Multivariable Dependence of Fe-Mg Partitioning in the Lower Mantle

Ho-kwang Mao, Guoyin Shen, and Russell J. Hemley
Science 19 December 1997: 2098-2100.
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Impact of Molecular Order in Langmuir-Blodgett Films on Catalysis

Karl Töllner, Ronit Popovitz-Biro, Meir Lahav, and David Milstein
Science 19 December 1997: 2100-2102.
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A Tunable Diode Based on an Inorganic SemiconductorConjugated Polymer Interface

Mark C. Lonergan
Science 19 December 1997: 2103-2106.
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Estimating the Mass of Asteroid 253 Mathilde from Tracking Data During the NEAR Flyby

D. K. Yeomans, J.-P. Barriot, D. W. Dunham, R. W. Farquhar, J. D. Giorgini, C. E. Helfrich, A. S. Konopliv, J. V. McAdams, J. K. Miller, W. M. Owen, Jr., D. J. Scheeres, S. P. Synnott, and B. G. Williams
Science 19 December 1997: 2106-2109.
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NEAR's Flyby of 253 Mathilde: Images of a C Asteroid

J. Veverka, P. Thomas, A. Harch, B. Clark, J. F. Bell, III, B. Carcich, J. Joseph, C. Chapman, W. Merline, M. Robinson, M. Malin, L. A. McFadden, S. Murchie, S. E. Hawkins, III, R. Farquhar, N. Izenberg, and A. Cheng
Science 19 December 1997: 2109-2114.
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Quantum-Confined Stark Effect in Single CdSe Nanocrystallite Quantum Dots

S. A. Empedocles and M. G. Bawendi
Science 19 December 1997: 2114-2117.
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Natural Variation in a Drosophila Clock Gene and Temperature Compensation

Lesley A. Sawyer, J. Michael Hennessy, Alexandre A. Peixoto, Ezio Rosato, Helen Parkinson, Rodolfo Costa, and Charalambos P. Kyriacou
Science 19 December 1997: 2117-2120.
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Arabidopsis NPH1: A Protein Kinase with a Putative Redox-Sensing Domain

Eva Huala, Paul W. Oeller, Emmanuel Liscum, In-Seob Han, Elise Larsen, and Winslow R. Briggs
Science 19 December 1997: 2120-2123.
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Alignment of Conduits for the Nascent Polypeptide Chain in the Ribosome-Sec61 Complex

Roland Beckmann, Doryen Bubeck, Robert Grassucci, Pawel Penczek, Adriana Verschoor, Günter Blobel, and Joachim Frank
Science 19 December 1997: 2123-2126.
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Abscisic Acid Signaling Through Cyclic ADP-Ribose in Plants

Yan Wu, Jennifer Kuzma, Eric Maréchal, Richard Graeff, Hon Cheung Lee, Randy Foster, and Nam-Hai Chua
Science 19 December 1997: 2126-2130.
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Human Factor IX Transgenic Sheep Produced by Transfer of Nuclei from Transfected Fetal Fibroblasts

Angelika E. Schnieke, Alexander J. Kind, William A. Ritchie, Karen Mycock, Angela R. Scott, Marjorie Ritchie, Ian Wilmut, Alan Colman, and Keith H. S. Campbell
Science 19 December 1997: 2130-2133.
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Technical Comments

 Cladistic Analysis and Anthropoid Origins

Jonathan I. Bloch, Daniel C. Fisher, Philip D. Gingerich, Gregg F. Gunnell, Elwyn L. Simons, Mark D. Uhen;, Richard F. Kay, Callum Ross, Blythe A. Williams, and Derek Johnson;
Science 19 December 1997: 2134-2136.
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