This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
Science 2 January 1998: 7.
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Editorial:
Opening Science's Compass

Floyd E. Bloom
Science 2 January 1998: 10.
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 1998 Information for Contributors

Science 2 January 1998: 108-109.

 Tech.Sight: Products

Science 2 January 1998: 110.

News and Comment

Planning a Future Without ITER

James Glanz and Andrew Lawler
Science 2 January 1998: 20-21.
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AFFIRMATIVE ACTION:
NIH Settles, NSF Sued in Student Cases

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 2 January 1998: 22.
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SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY:
Astrophysicist Dies in Plane Crash

David Ehrenstein
Science 2 January 1998: 22.
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HUMAN GENOME PROJECT:
Physicists Urge Technology Push to Reach 2005 Target

Eliot Marshall
Science 2 January 1998: 23.
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KOREA:
5-Year Plan Boosts Basic Research

Michael Baker
Science 2 January 1998: 24.
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PARTICLE PHYSICS:
CERN Picks Maiani to Build the LHC

Alexander Hellemans
Science 2 January 1998: 24.
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DNA SEQUENCING:
Genome of TB Culprit Deciphered

Nigel Williams
Science 2 January 1998: 25.
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ARCHAEOLOGY:
Kennewick Man: More Bones to Pick

Virginia Morell
Science 2 January 1998: 25-26.
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AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH:
Midlife Crisis Threatens Center for Semiarid Crops

Pallava Bagla
Science 2 January 1998: 26-27.
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ScienceScope

Science 2 January 1998: 19.
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Random Samples

Science 2 January 1998: 35.
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Research News

Calibrating the Mitochondrial Clock

Ann Gibbons
Science 2 January 1998: 28-29.
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MEETING BRIEFS:
Geophysicists Ponder Hints Of Otherworldly Water

Richard A. Kerr
Science 2 January 1998: 30-31.
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MATHEMATICS:
Sieving Prime Numbers From Thin Ore

Barry Cipra
Science 2 January 1998: 31.
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PHARMACOLOGY:
New Nonopioid Painkiller Shows Promise in Animal Tests

Evelyn Strauss
Science 2 January 1998: 32-33.
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IMAGING:
Putting the Infrared Heat on X-rays

Robert F. Service
Science 2 January 1998: 33.
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CELL BIOLOGY:
Do Fateful Circles of DNA Cause Cells to Grow Old?

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 2 January 1998: 34.
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Letters

Diversity

Science 2 January 1998: 10-15.
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 The HUGO Mutation Database Initiative

R. G. H. Cotton, V. McKusick, and C. R. Scriver
Science 2 January 1998: 10-15.
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 Sex Offenders

Susan L. McElroy, Harrison G. Pope Jr.;, Abraham L. Halpern, Barbara E. O'Connell;, and Howard Zonana
Science 2 January 1998: 10-15.
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 Cancer Therapy and Tumor Physiology

Amato J. Giaccia, J. Martin Brown, Bradley Wouters, Nicholas Denko, and Constantinos Koumenis
Science 2 January 1998: 10-15.
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 Pyramid Scheme?

Jonathan Gallant
Science 2 January 1998: 10-15.
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 NASA's SkyView

Thomas McGlynn
Science 2 January 1998: 10-15.
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 Genetic Diversity Survey

William J. Schull
Science 2 January 1998: 10-15.
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 SIV Vaccine for AIDS

Charles F. Farthing and John L. Sullivan
Science 2 January 1998: 10-15.
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 Chick Heart, Not Lizard Lung

Science 2 January 1998: 10-15.
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Books et al.

Taxonomy Recapitulates Society

Sherrie Lyons
Science 2 January 1998: 38.
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Policy Forum

BIOMEDICINE:
An Independent Perspective on the Human Genome Project

Steven E. Koonin
Science 2 January 1998: 36-37.
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Perspectives

APPLIED MATHEMATICS:
Is the Geometry of Nature Fractal?

David Avnir, Ofer Biham, Daniel Lidar, and Ofer Malcai
Science 2 January 1998: 39-40.
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VIROLOGY:
Even Viruses Can Learn to Cope with Stress

Grant McFadden
Science 2 January 1998: 40-41.
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 NOTE BENE: OPTICAL PHYSICS:
Sweeping the Field

Science 2 January 1998: 41.
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PRION DISEASES:
Enhanced: BSE and Prions: Uncertainties About the Agent

Bruce Chesebro
Science 2 January 1998: 42-43.
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 Webwatch

Science 2 January 1998: 43.
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Articles

Spin-Transition Polymers: From Molecular Materials Toward Memory Devices

O. Kahn and C. Jay Martinez
Science 2 January 1998: 44-48.
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Research Article

Hydrogen Radicals, Nitrogen Radicals, and the Production of O₃ in the Upper Troposphere

P. O. Wennberg, T. F. Hanisco, L. Jaeglé, D. J. Jacob, E. J. Hintsa, E. J. Lanzendorf, J. G. Anderson, R.-S. Gao, E. R. Keim, S. G. Donnelly, L. A. Del Negro, D. W. Fahey, S. A. McKeen, R. J. Salawitch, C. R. Webster, R. D. May, R. L. Herman, M. H. Proffitt, J. J. Margitan, E. L. Atlas, S. M. Schauffler, F. Flocke, C. T. McElroy, and T. P. Bui
Science 2 January 1998: 49-53.
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Reports

Infrared Photorefractive Polymers and Their Applications for Imaging

B. Kippelen, S. R. Marder, E. Hendrickx, J. L. Maldonado, G. Guillemet, B. L. Volodin, D. D. Steele, Y. Enami, Sandalphon, Y. J. Yao, J. F. Wang, H. Röckel, L. Erskine, and N. Peyghambarian
Science 2 January 1998: 54-57.
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Electromechanical Properties of an Ultrathin Layer of Directionally Aligned Helical Polypeptides

T. Jaworek, D. Neher, G. Wegner, R. H. Wieringa, and A. J. Schouten
Science 2 January 1998: 57-60.
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Coupling of South American and African Plate Motion and Plate Deformation

Paul G. Silver, Raymond M. Russo, and Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni
Science 2 January 1998: 60-63.
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Footwall Refrigeration Along a Detachment Fault: Implications for the Thermal Evolution of Core Complexes

Jean Morrison and J. Lawford Anderson
Science 2 January 1998: 63-66.
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Suppression of Volcanism During Rapid Extension in the Basin and Range Province, United States

P. B. Gans and W. A. Bohrson
Science 2 January 1998: 66-68.
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Migrating Planets

N. Murray, B. Hansen, M. Holman, and S. Tremaine
Science 2 January 1998: 69-72.
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Magnetic Properties of Hexagonal Closed-Packed Iron Deduced from Direct Observations in a Diamond Anvil Cell

Stuart Gilder and Jonathan Glen
Science 2 January 1998: 72-74.
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Formation of Molecular Chlorine from the Photolysis of Ozone and Aqueous Sea-Salt Particles

K. W. Oum, M. J. Lakin, D. O. DeHaan, T. Brauers, and B. J. Finlayson-Pitts
Science 2 January 1998: 74-76.
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Broad-Spectrum, Non-Opioid Analgesic Activity by Selective Modulation of Neuronal Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors

A. W. Bannon, M. W. Decker, M. W. Holladay, P. Curzon, D. Donnelly-Roberts, P. S. Puttfarcken, R. S. Bitner, A. Diaz, A. H. Dickenson, R. D. Porsolt, M. Williams, and S. P. Arneric
Science 2 January 1998: 77-80.
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Inhibition of the Hammerhead Ribozyme Cleavage Reaction by Site-Specific Binding of Tb(III)

Andrew L. Feig, William G. Scott, and Olke C. Uhlenbeck
Science 2 January 1998: 81-84.
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Quantitation of Transcription and Clonal Selection of Single Living Cells with -Lactamase as Reporter

Gregor Zlokarnik, Paul A. Negulescu, Thomas E. Knapp, Lora Mere, Neal Burres, Luxin Feng, Michael Whitney, Klaus Roemer, and Roger Y. Tsien
Science 2 January 1998: 84-88.
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Dimerization-Induced Inhibition of Receptor Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase Function Through an Inhibitory Wedge

Ravindra Majeti, Alexandrine M. Bilwes, Joseph P. Noel, Tony Hunter, and Arthur Weiss
Science 2 January 1998: 88-91.
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Dissociated Pattern of Activity in Visual Cortices and Their Projections During Human Rapid Eye Movement Sleep

Allen R. Braun, Thomas J. Balkin, Nancy J. Wesensten, Fuad Gwadry, Richard E. Carson, Mary Varga, Paul Baldwin, Gregory Belenky, and Peter Herscovitch
Science 2 January 1998: 91-95.
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Discrete Start Sites for DNA Synthesis in the Yeast ARS1 Origin

Anja-Katrin Bielinsky and Susan A. Gerbi
Science 2 January 1998: 95-98.
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Modification of the NADH of the Isoniazid Target (InhA) from Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Denise A. Rozwarski, Gregory A. Grant, Derek H. R. Barton, William R. Jacobs, Jr., and James C. Sacchettini
Science 2 January 1998: 98-102.
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Ultraviolet-Induced Cell Death Blocked by a Selenoprotein from a Human Dermatotropic Poxvirus

Joanna L. Shisler, Tatiana G. Senkevich, Marla J. Berry, and Bernard Moss
Science 2 January 1998: 102-105.
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Change in Chemoattractant Responsiveness of Developing Axons at an Intermediate Target

Ryuichi Shirasaki, Ryuta Katsumata, and Fujio Murakami
Science 2 January 1998: 105-107.
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Technical Comments

 Polar Wander and the Cambrian

Trond H. Torsvik, Joseph G. Meert, Mark A. Smethurst;, David A. Evans, Robert L. Ripperdan, and Joseph L. Kirschvink;
Science 2 January 1998: 9.
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