This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
The Future of U.S. Science Policy

Vernon J. Ehlers
Science 16 January 1998: 302.
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News and Comment

AIDS RESEARCH:
Has French AIDS Research Stumbled?

Michael Balter
Science 16 January 1998: 312-314.
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AIDS RESEARCH:
The Twin Icons of French AIDS Research

Michael Balter
Science 16 January 1998: 313.
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SCIENCE IN SOCIETY:
Cloning Plan Spawns Ethics Debate

David Kestenbaum
Science 16 January 1998: 315.
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GLOBAL CHANGE:
The Hottest Year, By a Hair

Richard A. Kerr
Science 16 January 1998: 315-316.
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EARTH OBSERVATION:
Europe Forges a Plan in Collaboration With Industry

Helen Gavaghan
Science 16 January 1998: 316-317.
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PLANT BREEDING:
Biotech Firm in High-Nicotine Intrigue

Eliot Marshall
Science 16 January 1998: 317.
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NASA HEADACHE-I:
AXAF Delay Threatens Station, Hubble

Andrew Lawler
Science 16 January 1998: 318.
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NASA HEADACHE-II:
Goldin May Cancel NASA Earth Probe

Andrew Lawler
Science 16 January 1998: 318.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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Research News

NEUROPHYSIOLOGY:
Teaching the Spinal Cord to Walk

Ingrid Wickelgren
Science 16 January 1998: 319-321.
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NEUROPHYSIOLOGY:
Watching "Walking" Nerves Learn

Ingrid Wickelgren
Science 16 January 1998: 320.
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ASTRONOMY:
Intruder in a Star's Dust Glimpsed

Robert Irion
Science 16 January 1998: 322.
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ASTRONOMY:
Hubble Sees All the Light There Is

Robert Irion
Science 16 January 1998: 322.
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CANCER RESEARCH:
Peptide-Guided Cancer Drugs Show Promise in Mice

Marcia Barinaga
Science 16 January 1998: 323-324.
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INFECTIOUS DISEASE:
Sequence Offers Clues to Deadly Flu

Gretchen Vogel
Science 16 January 1998: 324.
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ARCHAEOLOGY:
Sea-Floor Dust Shows Drought Felled Akkadian Empire

Richard A. Kerr
Science 16 January 1998: 325-326.
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MATERIALS SCIENCE:
Getting a 3D View of Surfaces

Gary Taubes
Science 16 January 1998: 326-327.
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AIDS RESEARCH:
Chemokine Mutation Slows Progression

Michael Balter
Science 16 January 1998: 327.
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Letters

Roots and branches

Science 16 January 1998: 302.
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 Wheat Domestication

Martin K. Jones, Robin G. Allaby, Terence A. Brown;, Frank Hole;, Manfred Heun, Basilio Borghi, and F. Salamini
Science 16 January 1998: 302.
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 Aging and Endocrinology

Ronald Ross Watson;, Allan Mazur;, and Steven W. J. Lamberts
Science 16 January 1998: 302.
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 Immediate Release of Crystallographic Data: A Proposal

Alexander Wlodawer;, David Davies, Gregory Petsko, Michael Rossmann, Arthur Olson, and Joel Sussman
Science 16 January 1998: 302.
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 Synchrotron Collaboration

Grant Bunker
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 Corrections and Clarifications

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Books et al.

Where Sea Meets Sky

Rik Wanninkhof
Science 16 January 1998: 332.
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Policy

CLIMATE:
The Kyoto Negotiations on Climate Change: A Science Perspective

Bert Bolin
Science 16 January 1998: 330-331.
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Research Commentaries

BIOLOGICAL RHYTHMS:
Enhanced: Tweaking the Human Circadian Clock with Light

Dan A. Oren and Michael Terman
Science 16 January 1998: 333-334.
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CELL BIOLOGY:
Telomeres and Senescence: Ending the Debate

Titia de Lange
Science 16 January 1998: 334-335.
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SURFACE CHEMISTRY:
A New Opportunity in Silicon-Based Microelectronics

John T. Yates, Jr.
Science 16 January 1998: 335-336.
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DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY:
Reprolysins and Astacins ... Alive, Alive-O

Gerry Weinmaster
Science 16 January 1998: 336-337.
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Tech.Sight

  SUPERCONDUCTIVITY:
Fingerprinting Vortices with Smoke

Peter Gammel and David Bishop
Science 16 January 1998: 410-411.
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  SIGHTINGS:
Lactamase Live!

Robert Sikorski and Richard Peters
Science 16 January 1998: 412.
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  SIGHTINGS:
Droplet Discovery

Robert Sikorski and Richard Peters
Science 16 January 1998: 412.
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  NET TIPS:
Jamming Spam

Robert Sikorski and Richard Peters
Science 16 January 1998: 413.
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 Products

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Review

Memory Suppressor Genes: Inhibitory Constraints on the Storage of Long-Term Memory

Ted Abel, Kelsey C. Martin, Dusan Bartsch, and Eric R. Kandel
Science 16 January 1998: 338-341.
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Research Articles

Resilient Quantum Computation

Emanuel Knill, Raymond Laflamme, and Wojciech H. Zurek
Science 16 January 1998: 342-345.
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Absence of a Spin Gap in the Superconducting Ladder Compound Sr₂Ca₁₂Cu₂₄O₄₁

H. Mayaffre, P. Auban-Senzier, M. Nardone, D. Jérome, D. Poilblanc, C. Bourbonnais, U. Ammerahl, G. Dhalenne, and A. Revcolevschi
Science 16 January 1998: 345-348.
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Extension of Life-Span by Introduction of Telomerase into Normal Human Cells

Andrea G. Bodnar, Michel Ouellette, Maria Frolkis, Shawn E. Holt, Choy-Pik Chiu, Gregg B. Morin, Calvin B. Harley, Jerry W. Shay, Serge Lichtsteiner, and Woodring E. Wright
Science 16 January 1998: 349-352.
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Reports

Shape Transition of Germanium Nanocrystals on a Silicon (001) Surface from Pyramids to Domes

Gilberto Medeiros-Ribeiro, Alexander M. Bratkovski, Theodore I. Kamins, Douglas A. A. Ohlberg, and R. Stanley Williams
Science 16 January 1998: 353-355.
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Accurate Experimental Electronic Properties of DL-Proline Monohydrate Obtained Within 1 Day

T. Koritsánszky, R. Flaig, D. Zobel, H.-G. Krane, W. Morgenroth, and P. Luger
Science 16 January 1998: 356-358.
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Space Geodetic Observations of Nazca-South America Convergence Across the Central Andes

Edmundo Norabuena, Lisa Leffler-Griffin, Ailin Mao, Timothy Dixon, Seth Stein, I. Selwyn Sacks, Leonidas Ocola, and Michael Ellis
Science 16 January 1998: 358-362.
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A Search for Endogenous Amino Acids in Martian Meteorite ALH84001

Jeffrey L. Bada, Daniel P. Glavin, Gene D. McDonald, and Luann Becker
Science 16 January 1998: 362-365.
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Isotopic Evidence for a Terrestrial Source of Organic Compounds Found in Martian Meteorites Allan Hills 84001 and Elephant Moraine 79001 

A. J. T. Jull, C. Courtney, D. A. Jeffrey, and J. W. Beck
Science 16 January 1998: 366-369.
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Import of Mitochondrial Carriers Mediated by Essential Proteins of the Intermembrane Space

Carla M. Koehler, Ernst Jarosch, Kostas Tokatlidis, Karl Schmid, Rudolf J. Schweyen, and Gottfried Schatz
Science 16 January 1998: 369-373.
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Helicobacter pylori Adhesin Binding Fucosylated Histo-Blood Group Antigens Revealed by Retagging

Dag Ilver, Anna Arnqvist, Johan Ögren, Inga-Maria Frick, Dangeruta Kersulyte, Engin T. Incecik, Douglas E. Berg, Antonello Covacci, Lars Engstrand, and Thomas Borén
Science 16 January 1998: 373-377.
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Cancer Treatment by Targeted Drug Delivery to Tumor Vasculature in a Mouse Model

Wadih Arap, Renata Pasqualini, and Erkki Ruoslahti
Science 16 January 1998: 377-380.
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Chemokines and the Arrest of Lymphocytes Rolling Under Flow Conditions

James J. Campbell, Joseph Hedrick, Albert Zlotnik, Michael A. Siani, Darren A. Thompson, and Eugene C. Butcher
Science 16 January 1998: 381-384.
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Structure of the HIV-1 Nucleocapsid Protein Bound to the SL3 -RNA Recognition Element

Roberto N. De Guzman, Zheng Rong Wu, Chelsea C. Stalling, Lucia Pappalardo, Philip N. Borer, and Michael F. Summers
Science 16 January 1998: 384-388.
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Genetic Restriction of AIDS Pathogenesis by an SDF-1 Chemokine Gene Variant

Cheryl Winkler, William Modi, Michael W. Smith, George W. Nelson, Xueyun Wu, Mary Carrington, Michael Dean, Tasaku Honjo, Kai Tashiro, D. Yabe, Susan Buchbinder, Eric Vittinghoff, James J. Goedert, Thomas R. O'Brien, Lisa P. Jacobson, Roger Detels, Sharyne Donfield, Anne Willoughby, Edward Gomperts, David Vlahov, John Phair, ALIVE Study, Hemophilia Growth and Development Study (HGDS), Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study (MACS), Multicenter Hemophilia Cohort Study (MHCS), San Francisco City Cohort (SFCC), and Stephen J. O'Brien
Science 16 January 1998: 389-393.
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Characterization of an Avian Influenza A (H5N1) Virus Isolated from a Child with a Fatal Respiratory Illness

Kanta Subbarao, Alexander Klimov, Jacqueline Katz, Helen Regnery, Wilina Lim, Henrietta Hall, Michael Perdue, David Swayne, Catherine Bender, Jing Huang, Mark Hemphill, Thomas Rowe, Michael Shaw, Xiyan Xu, Keiji Fukuda, and Nancy Cox
Science 16 January 1998: 393-396.
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Extraocular Circadian Phototransduction in Humans

Scott S. Campbell and Patricia J. Murphy
Science 16 January 1998: 396-399.
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Postsynaptic Membrane Fusion and Long-Term Potentiation

Pierre-Marie Lledo, Xiangyang Zhang, Thomas C. Südhof, Robert C. Malenka, and Roger A. Nicoll
Science 16 January 1998: 399-403.
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A Potassium Channel Mutation in Neonatal Human Epilepsy

Christian Biervert, Björn C. Schroeder, Christian Kubisch, Samuel F. Berkovic, Peter Propping, Thomas J. Jentsch, and Ortrud K. Steinlein
Science 16 January 1998: 403-406.
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An Arabidopsis MADS Box Gene That Controls Nutrient-Induced Changes in Root Architecture

Hanma Zhang and Brian G. Forde
Science 16 January 1998: 407-409.
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