This Week in Science

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Science 20 February 1998: 1105.
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Editorial:
SPECIAL ADDRESS FROM THE PRESIDENT
Catalyzing Scientific Progress

Bill Clinton
Science 20 February 1998: 1111.
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News and Comment

SCIENCE POLICY:
Clinton Names Adviser, NSF Chief

Andrew Lawler
Science 20 February 1998: 1122-1123.
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SCIENCE AND POLITICS:
Biomedical Groups Derail Fast-Track Anticloning Bill

Eliot Marshall
Science 20 February 1998: 1123-1124.
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POLICY:
House Panel Icy to White House Plans

Andrew Lawler
Science 20 February 1998: 1124.
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POLICY:
EU Bodies on Collision Course Over Research Budget

Nigel Williams
Science 20 February 1998: 1125.
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GERMAN RESEARCH:
Max Planck at 50 Seeks to Move With the Times

Robert Koenig
Science 20 February 1998: 1126.
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INSTRUMENTATION:
NMR Researchers Look to the Next Generation of Machines

Robert F. Service
Science 20 February 1998: 1127-1128.
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CAREERS:
Young Physicists Despair of Tenured Jobs

James Glanz
Science 20 February 1998: 1128.
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ScienceScope

Science 20 February 1998: 1121.
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Random Samples

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Research News

CELL BIOLOGY:
The Nucleus's Revolving Door

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 20 February 1998: 1129-1131.
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ARCHAEOLOGY:
Black Sea Deluge May Have Helped Spread Farming

Richard A. Kerr
Science 20 February 1998: 1132.
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AIDS THERAPY:
Failure Isn't What It Used to Be ... But Neither Is Success

Jon Cohen
Science 20 February 1998: 1133-1134.
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OBESITY RESEARCH:
New Appetite-Boosting Peptides Found

Marcia Barinaga
Science 20 February 1998: 1134.
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MATERIALS SCIENCE:
Self-Assembled LEDs Shine Brightly

Robert F. Service
Science 20 February 1998: 1135.
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MATERIALS SCIENCE:
Your (Light-Emitting) Logo Here

Robert F. Service
Science 20 February 1998: 1135.
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PARASITOLOGY:
Malaria Strains Appear to Gang Up Against Immune Defenses

Nigel Williams
Science 20 February 1998: 1136.
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Letters

Vertebrates and Invertebrates

Science 20 February 1998: 1113-1117.
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 FDA Reform: Unintended Outcome?

David Korn
Science 20 February 1998: 1113-1117.
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 On Their Own

Anne Fausto-Sterling
Science 20 February 1998: 1113-1117.
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 One Man's "Torment..."

David Dunthorn
Science 20 February 1998: 1113-1117.
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 "Gaps" in the K-T Record

J. David Archibald
Science 20 February 1998: 1113-1117.
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 Human Genome Project:Data Quality

Phil Green and Steven E. Koonin
Science 20 February 1998: 1113-1117.
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 a-Synuclein Gene and Parkinson's Disease

The French Parkinson's Disease Genetics Study Group
Science 20 February 1998: 1113-1117.
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 Universal Quantum Simulators: Correction

Seth Lloyd
Science 20 February 1998: 1113-1117.
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Books et al.

Many Faces of the Synapse

Laurence Trussell
Science 20 February 1998: 1155.
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Browsings

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Policy

BIOMEDICINE:
Containment of Antibiotic Resistance

Rosamund J. Williams and David L. Heymann
Science 20 February 1998: 1153-1154.
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Research Commentaries

PHYSICS:
Enhanced: Chaos Has Come Again

Daniel J. Gauthier
Science 20 February 1998: 1156-1157.
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PHYSICS:
Superconductivity Compatibility

Anthony J. Leggett
Science 20 February 1998: 1157-1158.
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EVOLUTION:
Complexity Matters

Günter Wagner
Science 20 February 1998: 1158-1159.
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IMMUNOLOGY:
Fixing Mismatches

Michele Shannon and Martin Weigert
Science 20 February 1998: 1159-1160.
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Tech.Sight

  MOLECULAR BEACONS:
Spectral Genotyping of Human Alleles

Leondios G. Kostrikis, Sanjay Tyagi, Musa M. Mhlanga, David D. Ho, and Russell Fred Kramer
Science 20 February 1998: 1228-1229.
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  SIGHTINGS:
Mass Spectroscopic Genomics

Richard Peters and Robert Sikorski
Science 20 February 1998: 1230.
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 SIGHTINGS:
Molecular Plumbing

Richard Peters and Robert Sikorski
Science 20 February 1998: 1230.
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 SITE FINDER:
On the PROW

Richard Peters and Robert Sikorski
Science 20 February 1998: 1231.
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  NET TIPS:
The X Files

Richard Peters and Robert Sikorski
Science 20 February 1998: 1231.
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 Product

Science 20 February 1998: 1232-1233.

Association Affairs

 ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
What Is the Role of Science in Developing Countries?

Jose Goldemberg
Science 20 February 1998: 1140-1141.
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Research Articles

Structural Basis of Plasticity in T Cell Receptor Recognition of a Self Peptide-MHC Antigen

K. Christopher Garcia, Massimo Degano, Larry R. Pease, Mingdong Huang, Per A. Peterson, Luc Teyton, and Ian A. Wilson
Science 20 February 1998: 1166-1172.
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Association of Malaria Parasite Population Structure, HLA, and Immunological Antagonism

Sarah C. Gilbert, Magdalena Plebanski, Sunetra Gupta, Joanne Morris, Martin Cox, Michael Aidoo, Dominic Kwiatkowski, Brian M. Greenwood, Hilton C. Whittle, and Adrian V. S. Hill
Science 20 February 1998: 1173-1177.
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Reports

Rare Gas Systematics in Popping Rock: Isotopic and Elemental Compositions in the Upper Mantle

Manuel Moreira, Joachim Kunz, and Claude Allègre
Science 20 February 1998: 1178-1181.
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The Formation of HCS and HCSH Molecules and Their Role in the Collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter

R. I. Kaiser, C. Ochsenfeld, M. Head-Gordon, and Y. T. Lee
Science 20 February 1998: 1181-1184.
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Direct Observation of Heterogeneous Chemistry in the Atmosphere

Eric E. Gard, Michael J. Kleeman, Deborah S. Gross, Lara S. Hughes, Jonathan O. Allen, Bradley D. Morrical, David P. Fergenson, Tas Dienes, Markus E. Gälli, Robert J. Johnson, Glen R. Cass, and Kimberly A. Prather
Science 20 February 1998: 1184-1187.
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Atmospheric Radiocarbon Calibration to 45,000 yr B.P.: Late Glacial Fluctuations and Cosmogenic Isotope Production

H. Kitagawa and J. van der Plicht
Science 20 February 1998: 1187-1190.
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Probing Single Secretory Vesicles with Capillary Electrophoresis

Daniel T. Chiu, Sheri J. Lillard, Richard H. Scheller, Richard N. Zare, Sandra E. Rodriguez-Cruz, Evan R. Williams, Owe Orwar, Mats Sandberg, and J. Anders Lundqvist
Science 20 February 1998: 1190-1193.
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Images of Interlayer Josephson Vortices in Tl₂Ba₂CuO₆₊

Kathryn A. Moler, John R. Kirtley, D. G. Hinks, T. W. Li, and Ming Xu
Science 20 February 1998: 1193-1196.
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c-Axis Electrodynamics as Evidence for the Interlayer Theory of High-Temperature Superconductivity

Philip W. Anderson
Science 20 February 1998: 1196-1198.
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Communication with Chaotic Lasers

Gregory D. VanWiggeren and Rajarshi Roy
Science 20 February 1998: 1198-1200.
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Induced Responses to Herbivory and Increased Plant Performance

Anurag A. Agrawal
Science 20 February 1998: 1201-1202.
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Regulation of Neurotransmitter Release Kinetics by NSF

Felix E. Schweizer, Thomas Dresbach, William M. DeBello, Vincent O'Connor, George J. Augustine, and Heinrich Betz
Science 20 February 1998: 1203-1206.
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Mismatch Repair Co-opted by Hypermutation

Marilia Cascalho, Jamie Wong, Charles Steinberg, and Matthias Wabl
Science 20 February 1998: 1207-1210.
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Pleiotropy and the Preservation of Perfection

David Waxman and Joel R. Peck
Science 20 February 1998: 1210-1213.
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Sensorimotor Adaptation in Speech Production

John F. Houde and Michael I. Jordan
Science 20 February 1998: 1213-1216.
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Mass Spectrometric Analysis of the Anaphase-Promoting Complex from Yeast: Identification of a Subunit Related to Cullins

Wolfgang Zachariae, Andrej Shevchenko, Paul D. Andrews, Rafael Ciosk, Marta Galova, Michael J. R. Stark, Matthias Mann, and Kim Nasmyth
Science 20 February 1998: 1216-1219.
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Identification of a Cullin Homology Region in a Subunit of the Anaphase-Promoting Complex

Hongtao Yu, Jan-Michael Peters, Randall W. King, Andrew M. Page, Philip Hieter, and Marc W. Kirschner
Science 20 February 1998: 1219-1222.
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Rapid Turnover of T Lymphocytes in SIV-Infected Rhesus Macaques

Hiroshi Mohri, Sebastian Bonhoeffer, Simon Monard, Alan S. Perelson, and David D. Ho
Science 20 February 1998: 1223-1227.
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Technical Comments

 ABCR Gene and Age-Related Macular Degeneration

Thaddeus P. Dryja, Christine E. Briggs, Eliot L. Berson, Philip J. Rosenfeld, Marc Abitbol;, Caroline C. W. Klaver, Jacqueline J. M. Assink, Arthur A. B. Bergen, Cornelia M. van Duijn;, Michael Dean, Rando Allikmets, Noah F. Shroyer, James R. Lupski, Richard A. Lewis, Mark Leppert, Paul S. Bernstein, and Johanna M. Seddon;
Science 20 February 1998: 1107.
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