This Week in Science

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Science 6 February 1998: 777.
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Editorial:
In Celebration of AAAS

The 150th Anniversary Essay Committee
Science 6 February 1998: 783.
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 Tech.Sight: Products

Science 6 February 1998: 884-885.

News and Comment

THE 1999 BUDGET:
Science Catches Clinton's Eye

Andrew Lawler
Science 6 February 1998: 794-797.
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THE 1999 BUDGET:
A New Link Between Tobacco and Cancer

Eliot Marshall
Science 6 February 1998: 796.
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DEMOGRAPHY:
Census 2000: Where Science and Politics Count Equally

David Kestenbaum
Science 6 February 1998: 798-799.
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BIOPHYSICS:
Blasting Tumors With Particle Beams

Nigel Williams
Science 6 February 1998: 799.
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WILDLIFE BIOLOGY:
Atlantic Salmon Spawn Fight Over Species Protection

David Malakoff
Science 6 February 1998: 800.
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AIDS RESEARCH:
Virus From 1959 Sample Marks Early Years of HIV

Michael Balter
Science 6 February 1998: 801.
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ASTRONOMY:
Korea Makes a Bid to Catch Neutrinos From the Cosmos

Dennis Normile
Science 6 February 1998: 802.
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ScienceScope

Science 6 February 1998: 793.
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Random Samples

Science 6 February 1998: 811.
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Research News

PALEONTOLOGY:
Pushing Back the Origins of Animals

Richard A. Kerr
Science 6 February 1998: 803-804.
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MATHEMATICS:
Proving a Link Between Logic and Origami

Barry Cipra
Science 6 February 1998: 804-805.
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MATHEMATICS:
Algorigami, Anyone?

Barry Cipra
Science 6 February 1998: 805.
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MANTLE DYNAMICS:
A Deep Root for Iceland?

Richard A. Kerr
Science 6 February 1998: 806.
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SOLAR PHYSICS:
That Winking, Blinking Sun

Andrew Watson
Science 6 February 1998: 806.
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MEETING BRIEFS:
Coral Reefs Dominate Integrative Biology Meeting

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 6 February 1998: 807-809.
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MARINE ECOLOGY:
Overfishing Disrupts Entire Ecosystems

Nigel Williams
Science 6 February 1998: 809.
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Letters

Envisioning the future

Science 6 February 1998: 783.
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 Is Nature Fractal?

Benoit B. Mandelbrot;, Peter Pfeifer;, Ofer Biham, Ofer Malcai, Daniel A. Lidar, and David Avnir
Science 6 February 1998: 783.
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 Muon Collider

Andrew M. Sessler
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 Insulin/IGF Signaling and HNF-3/forkhead Proteins

Terry G. Unterman;, Kui Lin, and Cynthia Kenyon
Science 6 February 1998: 783.
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 Ending Polio Immunization

Tjeerd G. Kimman, Marion P. G. Koopmans, Harrie G. A. M. van der Avoort;, Alan W. Dove, Vincent R. Racaniello;, Harry F. Hull, and R. Bruce Aylward
Science 6 February 1998: 783.
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Books et al.

A View from the Other Side

Richard C. Adelman
Science 6 February 1998: 819.
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Policy

BIOMEDICINE:
Badgers and Bovine TB: Conflicts Between Conservation and Health

J. R. Krebs, R. M. Anderson, T. Clutton-Brock, C. A. Donnelly, S. Frost, W. I. Morrison, R. Woodroffe, and D. Young
Science 6 February 1998: 817-818.
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Research Commentaries

CHEMICAL REACTIONS:
Selective Chemistry Redux

Izhack Oref
Science 6 February 1998: 820-821.
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ECOLOGY:
Reversal of the Burden of Proof in Fisheries Management

Paul K. Dayton
Science 6 February 1998: 821-822.
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 RETROSPECTIVE:
Kenichi Fukui (1918-1998)

Kimihiko Hirao
Science 6 February 1998: 822.
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MEIOSIS:
Searching for a Partner

James E. Haber
Science 6 February 1998: 823-824.
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GEOSCIENCE:
Enhanced: Sliding Skis and Slipping Faults

Douglas A. Wiens
Science 6 February 1998: 824-825.
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 Webwatch

Science 6 February 1998: 825.
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Association Affairs

 ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
The Great Asymmetry

Stephen Jay Gould
Science 6 February 1998: 812-813.
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Research Article

A Transmembrane Form of the Prion Protein in Neurodegenerative Disease

Ramanujan S. Hegde, James A. Mastrianni, Michael R. Scott, Kathryn A. DeFea, Patrick Tremblay, Marilyn Torchia, Stephen J. DeArmond, Stanley B. Prusiner, and Vishwanath R. Lingappa
Science 6 February 1998: 827-834.
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Reports

Incorporation of Photoluminescent Polarizers into Liquid Crystal Displays

Christoph Weder, Christian Sarwa, Andrea Montali, Cees Bastiaansen, and Paul Smith
Science 6 February 1998: 835-837.
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A Rare-Earth Phosphor Containing One-Dimensional Chains Identified Through Combinatorial Methods

Earl Danielson, Martin Devenney, Daniel M. Giaquinta, Josh H. Golden, Robert C. Haushalter, Eric W. McFarland, Damodara M. Poojary, Casper M. Reaves, W. Henry Weinberg, and Xin Di Wu
Science 6 February 1998: 837-839.
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Frictional Melting During the Rupture of the 1994 Bolivian Earthquake

Hiroo Kanamori, Don L. Anderson, and Thomas H. Heaton
Science 6 February 1998: 839-842.
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A Determination of the HDO/H₂O Ratio in Comet C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp)

Roland Meier, Tobias C. Owen, Henry E. Matthews, David C. Jewitt, Dominique Bockelée-Morvan, Nicolas Biver, Jacques Crovisier, and Daniel Gautier
Science 6 February 1998: 842-844.
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Water in Betelgeuse and Antares

Donald E. Jennings and Pedro V. Sada
Science 6 February 1998: 844-847.
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Femtosecond Activation of Reactions and the Concept of Nonergodic Molecules

Eric W.-G. Diau, Jennifer L. Herek, Zee Hwan Kim, and Ahmed H. Zewail
Science 6 February 1998: 847-851.
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Fluorescent, Sequence-Selective Peptide Detection by Synthetic Small Molecules

Chao-Tsen Chen, Holger Wagner, and W. Clark Still
Science 6 February 1998: 851-853.
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Expansion and Length-Dependent Fragility of CTG Repeats in Yeast

Catherine H. Freudenreich, Sara M. Kantrow, and Virginia A. Zakian
Science 6 February 1998: 853-856.
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A Spliceosomal Recycling Factor That Reanneals U4 and U6 Small Nuclear Ribonucleoprotein Particles

Pratima L. Raghunathan and Christine Guthrie
Science 6 February 1998: 857-860.
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Fishing Down Marine Food Webs

Daniel Pauly, Villy Christensen, Johanne Dalsgaard, Rainer Froese, and Francisco Torres, Jr.
Science 6 February 1998: 860-863.
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Impaired Locomotion and Dopamine Signaling in Retinoid Receptor Mutant Mice

Wojciech Krel, Norbert Ghyselinck, Tarek A. Samad, Valérie Dupé, Philippe Kastner, Emiliana Borrelli, and Pierre Chambon
Science 6 February 1998: 863-867.
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Abnormal Hippocampal Spatial Representations in CaMKII^T286A and CREB Mice

Yoon H. Cho, Karl P. Giese, Heikki Tanila, Alcino J. Silva, and Howard Eichenbaum
Science 6 February 1998: 867-869.
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Autophosphorylation at Thr²⁸⁶ of the  Calcium-Calmodulin Kinase II in LTP and Learning

Karl Peter Giese, Nikolai B. Fedorov, Robert K. Filipkowski, and Alcino J. Silva
Science 6 February 1998: 870-873.
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Conjugative Transfer by the Virulence System of Legionella pneumophila

Joseph. P. Vogel, Helene L. Andrews, Swee Kee Wong, and Ralph R. Isberg
Science 6 February 1998: 873-876.
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Meiotic Synapsis in the Absence of Recombination

Kim S. McKim, Becky L. Green-Marroquin, Jeff J. Sekelsky, Gregory Chin, Carrie Steinberg, Rita Khodosh, and R. Scott Hawley
Science 6 February 1998: 876-878.
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Precambrian Sponges with Cellular Structures

Chia-Wei Li, Jun-Yuan Chen, and Tzu-En Hua
Science 6 February 1998: 879-882.
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Technical Comments

 Organic Shielding of Greenhouse Gases on Early Earth

Stanley L. Miller, James R. Lyons;, and Christopher F. Chyba;
Science 6 February 1998: 779.
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