This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
Science 9 January 1998: 149.
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Editorial:
Bioethics and Local Circumstances

Edward Mbidde
Science 9 January 1998: 155.
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 1998 AAAS Annual Meeting and Science Innovation Exposition

Science 9 January 1998: 248-260.

 Tech.Sight: Products

Science 9 January 1998: 261.

News

WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION:
Healer Needed for World Health Body

Michael Balter
Science 9 January 1998: 166-169.
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WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION:
Who Will Lead WHO?

Michael Balter
Science 9 January 1998: 167.
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WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION:
Hunting Down the Last of the Poliovirus

Lisa Schlein
Science 9 January 1998: 168.
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HIGH-ENERGY PHYSICS:
Physicists Dream of a Muon Shot

Alexander Hellemans
Science 9 January 1998: 169-170.
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ASTRONOMY:
Far-Off Planet Makes a Comeback

James Glanz
Science 9 January 1998: 170.
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GERMAN RESEARCH:
Gene-War Veteran Seeks New Roles for Granting Agency

Robert Koenig
Science 9 January 1998: 171.
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PAPUA NEW GUINEA:
Management Dispute Shutters Tropical Research Institute

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 9 January 1998: 172-173.
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AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH:
Bill Offers Abundant Harvest for USDA

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 9 January 1998: 173.
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NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES:
Possible New Cause of Alzheimer's Disease Found

Gretchen Vogel
Science 9 January 1998: 174.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Pathfinder Tells a Geologic Tale With One Starring Role

Richard A. Kerr
Science 9 January 1998: 175.
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CELL BIOLOGY:
Structure of Key Cytoskeletal Protein Tubulin Revealed

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 9 January 1998: 176-177.
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CELL BIOLOGY:
Immortality Gene Discovered

David Ehrenstein
Science 9 January 1998: 177.
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ScienceScope

Science 9 January 1998: 165.
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Random Samples

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Special News Report

RESEARCH FUNDING:
Scientists Who Fund Themselves

Jon Cohen
Science 9 January 1998: 178-181.
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RESEARCH FUNDING:
'Gentlemen of Science'

Jon Cohen
Science 9 January 1998: 179.
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Letters

Frontiers and reforms

Science 9 January 1998: 155-161.
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 EMBL's Outward Expansion

Julio E. Celis
Science 9 January 1998: 155.
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 Gene Technology and Democracy

Franco Cavalli;
Science 9 January 1998: 155.
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 FDA "Reform"?

Stephen Feinstone, Andrew M. Lewis Jr., Lewis J. Markoff, Kathryn Carbone, Hana Golding;, and Henry I. Miller
Science 9 January 1998: 155.
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 Thumbs Down on Acupuncture

Arthur Taub
Science 9 January 1998: 155.
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 Drug Abuse and Therapy

Brian A. McMillen; and Charles P. O'Brien
Science 9 January 1998: 155.
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 Ancient Sharks and Rays

J. Mark Erickson, John W. Hoganson, Alan M. Cvancara, and F. D. Holland Jr.
Science 9 January 1998: 155.
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 Corrections and Clarifications

Science 9 January 1998: 155.
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Books et al.

Thawing Science

Alexei Kojevnikov
Science 9 January 1998: 189.
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Policy

BIOMEDICINE:
The Highest Attainable Standard: Ethical Issues in AIDS Vaccines

Barry R. Bloom
Science 9 January 1998: 186-188.
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Research Commentaries

CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS:
Enhanced: Self-Trapping of Electrons at Surfaces

Ulrich Höfer
Science 9 January 1998: 190-191.
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SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION:
Calcium Signaling: Up, Down, Up, Down.... What's the Point?

James W. Putney, Jr.
Science 9 January 1998: 191-192.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Opening the Window to Odor Space

Randall R. Reed
Science 9 January 1998: 193.
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Review

Activation of Unimolecular Reactions by Ambient Blackbody Radiation

R. C. Dunbar and T. B. McMahon
Science 9 January 1998: 194-197.
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Reports

Engineering Broader Specificity into an Antibiotic-Producing Polyketide Synthase

Andrew F. A. Marsden, Barrie Wilkinson, Jesús Cortés, Nicholas J. Dunster, James Staunton, and Peter F. Leadlay
Science 9 January 1998: 199-202.
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Femtosecond Dynamics of Electron Localization at Interfaces

N.-H. Ge, C. M. Wong, R. L. Lingle, Jr., J. D. McNeill, K. J. Gaffney, and C. B. Harris
Science 9 January 1998: 202-205.
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Photonic Channels for Quantum Communication

S. J. van Enk, J. I. Cirac, and P. Zoller
Science 9 January 1998: 205-208.
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A Laser Ablation Method for the Synthesis of Crystalline Semiconductor Nanowires

Alfredo M. Morales and Charles M. Lieber
Science 9 January 1998: 208-211.
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Evidence for New Sources of NO_X in the Lower Atmosphere

Edward C. Zipf and Sheo S. Prasad
Science 9 January 1998: 211-213.
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Sensitivity of Boreal Forest Carbon Balance to Soil Thaw

M. L. Goulden, S. C. Wofsy, J. W. Harden, S. E. Trumbore, P. M. Crill, S. T. Gower, T. Fries, B. C. Daube, S.-M. Fan, D. J. Sutton, A. Bazzaz, and J. W. Munger
Science 9 January 1998: 214-217.
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Evidence of Shallow Fault Zone Strengthening After the 1992 M7.5 Landers, California, Earthquake

Yong-Gang Li, John E. Vidale, Keiiti Aki, Fei Xu, and Thomas Burdette
Science 9 January 1998: 217-219.
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Asymmetry of Chimpanzee Planum Temporale: Humanlike Pattern of Wernicke's Brain Language Area Homolog

Patrick J. Gannon, Ralph L. Holloway, Douglas C. Broadfield, and Allen R. Braun
Science 9 January 1998: 220-222.
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Stabilization of Dendritic Arbor Structure in Vivo by CaMKII

Gang-Yi Wu and Hollis T. Cline
Science 9 January 1998: 222-226.
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Sensitivity of CaM Kinase II to the Frequency of Ca²⁺ Oscillations

Paul De Koninck and Howard Schulman
Science 9 January 1998: 227-230.
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Requirement for DCP-1 Caspase During Drosophila Oogenesis

Kimberly McCall and Hermann Steller
Science 9 January 1998: 230-234.
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Activation of the Cardiac Calcium Release Channel (Ryanodine Receptor) by Poly-S-Nitrosylation

Le Xu, Jerry P. Eu, Gerhard Meissner, and Jonathan S. Stamler
Science 9 January 1998: 234-237.
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Functional Expression of a Mammalian Odorant Receptor

Haiqing Zhao, Lidija Ivic, Joji M. Otaki, Mitsuhiro Hashimoto, Katsuhiro Mikoshiba, and Stuart Firestein
Science 9 January 1998: 237-242.
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Frameshift Mutants of  Amyloid Precursor Protein and Ubiquitin-B in Alzheimer's and Down Patients

Fred W. van Leeuwen, Dominique P. V. de Kleijn, Helma H. van den Hurk, Andrea Neubauer, Marc A. F. Sonnemans, Jacqueline A. Sluijs, Soner Köycü, Ravindra D. J. Ramdjielal, Ahmad Salehi, Gerard J. M. Martens, Frank G. Grosveld, J. Peter H. Burbach, and Elly M. Hol
Science 9 January 1998: 242-247.
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Technical Comments

 Paleosols and Devonian Forests

Dennis Dahms, Vance Holliday, Peter W. Birkeland;, and Gregory J. Retallack;
Science 9 January 1998: 151.
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 Nucleotide Sequence: Correction

Diane Mathis and Christophe Benoist
Science 9 January 1998: 151.
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