This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
Science 30 January 1998: 629.
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Editorial:
Bioethics and Biological Weapons

Raymond A. Zilinskas
Science 30 January 1998: 635.
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 AAAS News & Notes

Science 30 January 1998: 727.

 Tech.Site: Products

Science 30 January 1998: 729.

News

CLONING:
After Dolly, a Pharming Frenzy

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 30 January 1998: 646-648.
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CLONING:
Where's the Beef?

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 30 January 1998: 647.
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XENOTRANSPLANTS:
No Moratorium on Clinical Trials

Gretchen Vogel
Science 30 January 1998: 648.
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CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES:
Reform Shatters 'Iron Rice Bowl'

Li Hui
Science 30 January 1998: 649.
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ITER:
Partners Will Rethink Fusion Project

Andrew Lawler
Science 30 January 1998: 649.
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AIDS RESEARCH:
Impending AIDS Vaccine Trial Opens Old Wounds

Michael Balter
Science 30 January 1998: 650.
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ASTRONOMY:
Exploding Stars Point to a Universal Repulsive Force

James Glanz
Science 30 January 1998: 651-652.
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EARTH SCIENCE:
Comet Shower Hit, But Life Didn't Blink

Richard A. Kerr
Science 30 January 1998: 652.
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ARCHAEOLOGY:
New Finds Explode Old Views of the American Southwest

Mark Muro
Science 30 January 1998: 653-654.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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Special News Report

ASTRONOMY:
Stargazing From the End of the Earth

Richard Stone
Science 30 January 1998: 655-657.
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MARINE BIOLOGY:
First Glimpse at Hidden Life of Seals

Richard Stone
Science 30 January 1998: 657.
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GLACIOLOGY:
Russian Outpost Readies for Otherworldly Quest

Richard Stone
Science 30 January 1998: 658-661.
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VIROLOGY:
Exotic Marine Life in a Frigid Desert

Richard Stone
Science 30 January 1998: 660.
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Letters

Counting sheep

Science 30 January 1998: 635.
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 Dolly Confirmation

Vittorio Sgaramella, Norton D. Zinder;, Keith H. S. Campbell, Alan Colman, and Ian Wilmut
Science 30 January 1998: 635.
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 Reactor Startup

John Stringer and Andrew Lawler
Science 30 January 1998: 635.
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 Methylmercury Risks

Pál Weihe, Philippe Grandjean;, Lynn R. Goldman, William H. Farland;, Grace M. Egeland, and John P. Middaugh
Science 30 January 1998: 635.
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Books et al.

Extraterrestrial Tales

William Sims Bainbridge
Science 30 January 1998: 671.
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Policy

CLIMATE:
A Road Map for U.S. Carbon Reductions

Joseph Romm, Mark Levine, Marilyn Brown, and Eric Petersen
Science 30 January 1998: 669-670.
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Research Commentaries

BOTANY:
Enhanced: A Recipe for Cellulose

Nicholas Carpita and Claudia Vergara
Science 30 January 1998: 672-673.
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SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION:
Lipid-Regulated Kinases: Some Common Themes at Last

Julian Downward
Science 30 January 1998: 673-674.
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PHYSICS:
Sparse Crystals

John Schiffer
Science 30 January 1998: 675-676.
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ASTROPHYSICS:
What the Wild Things Are

James H. Buckley
Science 30 January 1998: 676-677.
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Reports

Interband Electronic Excitation-Assisted Atomic-Scale Restructuring of Metal Surfaces by Nanosecond Pulsed Laser Light

Hans-Joachim Ernst, Fabrice Charra, and Ludovic Douillard
Science 30 January 1998: 679-681.
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The Origin of Chondrules at Jovian Resonances

S. J. Weidenschilling, F. Marzari, and L. L. Hood
Science 30 January 1998: 681-684.
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Possible Production of High-Energy Gamma Rays from Proton Acceleration in the Extragalactic Radio Source Markarian 501 

K. Mannheim
Science 30 January 1998: 684-686.
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Bragg Diffraction from Crystallized Ion Plasmas

W. M. Itano, J. J. Bollinger, J. N. Tan, B. Jelenkovi, X.-P. Huang, and D. J. Wineland
Science 30 January 1998: 686-689.
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Changes in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Since 1963 from Declassified Satellite Photography

Robert Bindschadler and Patricia Vornberger
Science 30 January 1998: 689-692.
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Penny Ice Cap Cores, Baffin Island, Canada, and the Wisconsinan Foxe Dome Connection: Two States of Hudson Bay Ice Cover

David A. Fisher, Roy M. Koerner, Jocelyne C. Bourgeois, Greg Zielinski, Cameron Wake, Claus U. Hammer, H. B. Clausen, N. Gundestrup, Sigfus Johnsen, Kumiko Goto-Azuma, Takeo Hondoh, Erik Blake, and Mike Gerasimoff
Science 30 January 1998: 692-695.
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Role of Vesicle-Associated Syntaxin 5 in the Assembly of Pre-Golgi Intermediates

Tony Rowe, Christiane Dascher, Sergei Bannykh, Helen Plutner, and William E. Balch
Science 30 January 1998: 696-700.
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Differential Use of CREB Binding Protein-Coactivator Complexes

Riki Kurokawa, Daniel Kalafus, Marie-Hélène Ogliastro, Chrissa Kioussi, Lan Xu, Joseph Torchia, Michael G. Rosenfeld, and Christopher K. Glass
Science 30 January 1998: 700-703.
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Transcription Factor-Specific Requirements for Coactivators and Their Acetyltransferase Functions

Edward Korzus, Joseph Torchia, David W. Rose, Lan Xu, Riki Kurokawa, Eileen M. McInerney, Tina-Marie Mullen, Christopher K. Glass, and Michael G. Rosenfeld
Science 30 January 1998: 703-707.
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Phosphorylation and Activation of p70^s6k by PDK1

Nicholas Pullen, Patrick B. Dennis, Mirjana Andjelkovic, Almut Dufner, Sara C. Kozma, Brian A. Hemmings, and George Thomas
Science 30 January 1998: 707-710.
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Protein Kinase B Kinases That Mediate Phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-Trisphosphate-Dependent Activation of Protein Kinase B

Len Stephens, Karen Anderson, David Stokoe, Hediye Erdjument-Bromage, Gavin F. Painter, Andrew B. Holmes, Piers R. J. Gaffney, Colin B. Reese, Frank McCormick, Paul Tempst, J. Coadwell, and Phillip T. Hawkins
Science 30 January 1998: 710-714.
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Role of Ceruloplasmin in Cellular Iron Uptake

Chinmay K. Mukhopadhyay, Zouhair K. Attieh, and Paul L. Fox
Science 30 January 1998: 714-717.
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Molecular Analysis of Cellulose Biosynthesis in Arabidopsis

Tony Arioli, Liangcai Peng, Andreas S. Betzner, Joanne Burn, Werner Wittke, Werner Herth, Christine Camilleri, Herman Höfte, Jacek Plazinski, Rosemary Birch, Ann Cork, Julie Glover, John Redmond, and Richard E. Williamson
Science 30 January 1998: 717-720.
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Alopecia Universalis Associated with a Mutation in the Human hairless Gene

Wasim Ahmad, Muhammad Faiyaz ul Haque, Valeria Brancolini, Hui C. Tsou, Sayed ul Haque, HaMut Lam, Vincent M. Aita, Jason Owen, Michelle deBlaquiere, Jorge Frank, Peter B. Cserhalmi-Friedman, Andrew Leask, John A. McGrath, Monica Peacocke, Mahmud Ahmad, Jurg Ott, and Angela M. Christiano
Science 30 January 1998: 720-724.
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