This Week in Science

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Science 13 February 1998: 957.
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Editorial:
The Budget: Too Good or True?

Floyd E. Bloom
Science 13 February 1998: 963.
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 AAAS Colloquium

Science 13 February 1998: 994-995.

 Tech.Sight: Product

Science 13 February 1998: 1058.

News and Comment

THE 1999 BUDGET:
Science Funding: Up in Smoke?

Eliot Marshall
Science 13 February 1998: 974-975.
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BIOMEDICAL FUNDING:
FDA Scientists Resist Cuts in In-House Research Positions

Bruce Agnew
Science 13 February 1998: 976-977.
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NASA BUDGET:
Red Ink Will Not Wash Out Space Science

Andrew Lawler
Science 13 February 1998: 977.
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X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY:
Taking a Structured Approach to Understanding Proteins

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 13 February 1998: 978-979.
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CANADIAN SOCIAL SCIENCE:
Database Funding Left Out in the Cold

Wayne Kondro
Science 13 February 1998: 979-980.
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ECOLOGY:
New Wetlands Proposal Draws Flak

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 13 February 1998: 980.
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ScienceScope

Science 13 February 1998: 973.
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Random Samples

Science 13 February 1998: 991.
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Research News

COSMOLOGY:
The Universe Shows Its Age

Andrew Watson
Science 13 February 1998: 981-983.
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INFECTIOUS DISEASES:
A Method in Ebola's Madness

Ingrid Wickelgren
Science 13 February 1998: 983-984.
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ECOLOGY:
Of Mice and Moths--and Lyme Disease?

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 13 February 1998: 984-985.
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SEISMOLOGY:
A Slow Start for Earthquakes

Richard A. Kerr
Science 13 February 1998: 985.
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PHYSICS:
Atom Laser Shows That It Is Worthy of the Name

Alexander Hellemans
Science 13 February 1998: 986-987.
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PHYSICS:
Laser Trap Gives Clearer View of Condensates

Alexander Hellemans
Science 13 February 1998: 986.
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ASTROPHYSICS:
Sunquakes May Power Solar Symphony

Erik Stokstad
Science 13 February 1998: 987.
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ECOLOGY:
Global Nitrogen Overload Problem Grows Critical

Anne Simon Moffat
Science 13 February 1998: 988-989.
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REEF BIOLOGY:
New Threat Seen From Carbon Dioxide

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 13 February 1998: 989.
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Letters

Global concerns

Science 13 February 1998: 963.
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 X-ray Data: To Have or To Hold?

Floyd E. Bloom
Science 13 February 1998: 963.
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 Multilab Partnerships

Burton Richter; and John J. Rush
Science 13 February 1998: 963.
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 "More of the Same" in Switzerland?

Jonathan R. Latham; and Rolf Zinkernagel
Science 13 February 1998: 963.
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 MRC Commitments

George K. Radda; and Stephen C. Harvey
Science 13 February 1998: 963.
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 Climate Change and Human Health

Rita R. Colwell, Paul R. Epstein, Duane Gubler, Nancy Maynard, Anthony J. McMichael, Jonathan A. Patz, R. Brad Sack, and Robert Shope
Science 13 February 1998: 963.
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 Heisenberg Meets Photobiology?

Dan A. Oren; and Steve A. Kay
Science 13 February 1998: 963.
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 Corrections and Clarifications

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Books et al.

Unraveling Complex Events

Stephen G. Brush
Science 13 February 1998: 998.
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Policy

BIOMEDICINE:
Medical Consequences of Antibiotic Use in Agriculture

Wolfgang Witte
Science 13 February 1998: 996-997.
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Research Commentaries

CELL CYCLE:
Mitotic Arrest: Mad2 Prevents Sleepy from Waking Up the APC

Stephen J. Elledge
Science 13 February 1998: 999-1000.
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TRANSCRIPTION:
Enhanced: Inner Workings of a Transcription Factor Partnership

Barbara J. Graves
Science 13 February 1998: 1000-1002.
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ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY:
Radical Ideas

Dieter H. Ehhalt
Science 13 February 1998: 1002-1003.
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CLIMATE:
Warmer and Wetter 6000 Years Ago?

Warren Beck
Science 13 February 1998: 1003-1004.
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 MUSCLE CONTRACTION:
Update: Heartthrobs

Dottie Hanck
Science 13 February 1998: 1004.
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Association Affairs

 ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
The Third Culture

Kevin Kelly
Science 13 February 1998: 992-993.
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Reports

Bosonic Stimulation in the Formation of a Bose-Einstein Condensate

H.-J. Miesner, D. M. Stamper-Kurn, M. R. Andrews, D. S. Durfee, S. Inouye, and W. Ketterle
Science 13 February 1998: 1005-1007.
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Three-Dimensional Simulations of Plume-Lithosphere Interaction at the Hawaiian Swell

William B. Moore, Gerald Schubert, and Paul Tackley
Science 13 February 1998: 1008-1011.
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Photometry and Spectroscopy of the GRB 970508 Optical Counterpart

Alberto J. Castro-Tirado, Javier Gorosabel, Narciso Benítez, Christian Wolf, Ralf Fockenbrock, Enrique Martínez-González, Helmuth Kristen, Adrick Broeils, Holger Pedersen, Jochen Greiner, Enrico Costa, Marco Feroci, Luigi Piro, Filippo Frontera, Luciano Nicastro, Eliana Palazzi, Corrado Bartolini, Adriano Guarnieri, Nicola Masetti, Adalberto Piccioni, Marco Mignoli, Magrethe Wold, Mark Lacy, Kurt Birkle, Tom Broadhurst, Søren Brandt, and Niels Lund
Science 13 February 1998: 1011-1014.
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Temperature and Surface-Ocean Water Balance of the Mid-Holocene Tropical Western Pacific

Michael K. Gagan, Linda K. Ayliffe, David Hopley, Joseph A. Cali, Graham E. Mortimer, John Chappell, Malcolm T. McCulloch, and M. John Head
Science 13 February 1998: 1014-1018.
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Simulated Increase of Hurricane Intensities in a CO₂-Warmed Climate

Thomas R. Knutson, Robert E. Tuleya, and Yoshio Kurihara
Science 13 February 1998: 1018-1021.
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Chiral Spaces: Dissymmetric Capsules Through Self-Assembly

José M. Rivera, Tomás Martín, and Julius Rebek, Jr.
Science 13 February 1998: 1021-1023.
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Chain Reactions Linking Acorns to Gypsy Moth Outbreaks and Lyme Disease Risk

Clive G. Jones, Richard S. Ostfeld, Michele P. Richard, Eric M. Schauber, and Jerry O. Wolff
Science 13 February 1998: 1023-1026.
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Ca²⁺ Flux Through Promiscuous Cardiac Na⁺ Channels: Slip-Mode Conductance

L. F. Santana, A. M. Gómez, and W. J. Lederer
Science 13 February 1998: 1027-1033.
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Distinct Cellular Interactions of Secreted and Transmembrane Ebola Virus Glycoproteins

Zhi-yong Yang, Rafael Delgado, Ling Xu, Robert F. Todd, Elizabeth G. Nabel, Anthony Sanchez, and Gary J. Nabel
Science 13 February 1998: 1034-1037.
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The Structure of GABP/: An ETS Domain- Ankyrin Repeat Heterodimer Bound to DNA

Adrian H. Batchelor, Derek E. Piper, Fabienne Charles de la Brousse, Steven L. McKnight, and Cynthia Wolberger
Science 13 February 1998: 1037-1041.
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Budding Yeast Cdc20: A Target of the Spindle Checkpoint

Lena H. Hwang, Lucius F. Lau, Dana L. Smith, Cathy A. Mistrot, Kevin G. Hardwick, Ellen S. Hwang, Angelika Amon, and Andrew W. Murray
Science 13 February 1998: 1041-1044.
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Fission Yeast Slp1: An Effector of the Mad2-Dependent Spindle Checkpoint

Sang Hoon Kim, Diana P. Lin, Sanae Matsumoto, Ana Kitazono, and Tomohiro Matsumoto
Science 13 February 1998: 1045-1047.
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Structure of the Amino-Terminal Protein Interaction Domain of STAT-4

Uwe Vinkemeier, Ismail Moarefi, James E. Darnell, Jr., and John Kuriyan
Science 13 February 1998: 1048-1052.
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Uncoupling of Immune Complex Formation and Kidney Damage in Autoimmune Glomerulonephritis

Raphael Clynes, Calin Dumitru, and Jeffrey V. Ravetch
Science 13 February 1998: 1052-1054.
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The Minor Histocompatibility Antigen HA-1: A Diallelic Gene with a Single Amino Acid Polymorphism

Joke M. M. den Haan, Leslie M. Meadows, Wei Wang, Jos Pool, Els Blokland, Tracie L. Bishop, Carla Reinhardus, Jeffrey Shabanowitz, Rienk Offringa, Donald F. Hunt, Victor H. Engelhard, and Els Goulmy
Science 13 February 1998: 1054-1057.
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