This Week in Science

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Editorial:
Better Approaches to Science Policy

Richard E. Sclove
Science 27 February 1998: 1283.
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 Gordon Research Conferences

Science 27 February 1998: 1374-1386.

 AAAS News & Notes

Science 27 February 1998: 1388-1389.

 Tech.Sight: Products

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News

COMPUTER SCIENCE:
Microsoft Researches Its Future

Dana Mackenzie
Science 27 February 1998: 1294-1296.
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COMPUTER SCIENCE:
Solving 'Hard' Problems--or Dodging Them

Dana Mackenzie
Science 27 February 1998: 1295-1296.
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PHYSICS:
Reports Call for New Super-Accelerator

David Kestenbaum
Science 27 February 1998: 1296.
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GLOBAL MATH-SCIENCE TEST:
Northern Europe Tops in High School

Gretchen Vogel
Science 27 February 1998: 1297.
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COSMOLOGY:
Astronomers See a Cosmic Antigravity Force at Work

James Glanz
Science 27 February 1998: 1298-1299.
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AIDS THERAPY:
Controversial Trial Offers Hopeful Result

Eliot Marshall
Science 27 February 1998: 1299.
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ELECTRONICS:
Bringing Order to Amorphous Silicon

Robert F. Service
Science 27 February 1998: 1300.
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BIOMEDICAL FUNDING:
New NIH Grants for Clinical Research

Eliot Marshall
Science 27 February 1998: 1300.
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NEUROBIOLOGY:
Unusual Cells May Help Treat Parkinson's Disease

Marcia Barinaga
Science 27 February 1998: 1301.
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MEETING BRIEFS:
Ocean Scientists Find Life, Warmth in the Seas

Robert Irion
Science 27 February 1998: 1302-1303.
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CLIMATE:
Sea Floor Records Reveal Interglacial Climate Cycles

Richard A. Kerr
Science 27 February 1998: 1304-1305.
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IMMUNOLOGY:
Viral Saboteurs Caught in the Act

Steven Dickman
Science 27 February 1998: 1305.
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 150th BASH DRAWS A CROWD

Science 27 February 1998: 1306.

AAAS MEETING:
Mother Tongues Trace Steps of Earliest Americans

Ann Gibbons
Science 27 February 1998: 1306-1307.
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AAAS MEETING:
Gene Diversity Muddles Heart Disease Story

Robert F. Service
Science 27 February 1998: 1307.
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AAAS MEETING:
10-Gallon Molecule Stomps Tumors

Amy Adams
Science 27 February 1998: 1307-1308.
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AAAS MEETING:
Holding a Nitrogen Grudge

David Malakoff
Science 27 February 1998: 1308.
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AAAS MEETING:
Prodding Cells to Make Proteins

Gretchen Vogel
Science 27 February 1998: 1308.
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AAAS MEETING:
Preventing a Mars Attack

Martin Enserink
Science 27 February 1998: 1309.
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AAAS MEETING:
Population Growing Pains

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 27 February 1998: 1309.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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Letters

Evidence suggests

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 Akkadian Empire Where to Look?

Tony Wilkinson
Science 27 February 1998: 1283.
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 Gentlemen of Science

Krishna R. Dronamraju
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 Muon Collider Studies

David B. Cline
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 Cracking the Codes

Alexander Fowler
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 Pinning Down Cell Division?

George L. Gabor Miklos, Steven D. Hanes, and Richard Maleszka
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 Clinical Applications for Neural Noise?

Michel Le Van Quyen, Jacques Martinerie, Francisco J. Varela;, and William D. O'Neill
Science 27 February 1998: 1283.
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 Haeckel's Embryos

James Hanken and Michael K. Richardson
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 Secretion of Thiols and Disulfide Bond Formation: Retraction

Roberto Sitia, Aldo Ceriotti, Andrea Cabibbo, Giorgio Fassina, and Menotti Ruvo
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 Corrections and Clarifications

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Books et al.

Quantum Physics With an Eastern Eye

J. D. Jackson
Science 27 February 1998: 1319.
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Recreating the Brain Online

Richard Frackowiak
Science 27 February 1998: 1320.
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Browsings

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Research Commentaries

ASTROPHYSICS:
At the Border of Eternity

G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan
Science 27 February 1998: 1321-1322.
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SONOLUMINESCENCE:
That Flashing Sound

Harold Metcalf
Science 27 February 1998: 1322-1323.
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BOTANY:
Plants See the Blue Light

Paula Suárez-López and George Coupland
Science 27 February 1998: 1323-1324.
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EVOLUTION:
Enhanced: After the End: Recovery from Extinction

Douglas H. Erwin
Science 27 February 1998: 1324-1325.
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Association Affairs

 ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
Gardenification of Wildland Nature and the Human Footprint*

Daniel Janzen
Science 27 February 1998: 1312-1313.
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Reports

Geographic Variation in the Molluscan Recovery from the End-Cretaceous Extinction

David Jablonski
Science 27 February 1998: 1327-1330.
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Geomagnetic Modulation of the ³⁶Cl Flux in the GRIP Ice Core, Greenland

S. Baumgartner, J. Beer, J. Masarik, G. Wagner, L. Meynadier, and H.-A. Synal
Science 27 February 1998: 1330-1332.
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Carbonic Acid in the Gas Phase and Its Astrophysical Relevance

Wolfgang Hage, Klaus R. Liedl, Andreas Hallbrucker, and Erwin Mayer
Science 27 February 1998: 1332-1335.
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Abrupt Climate Events 500,000 to 340,000 Years Ago: Evidence from Subpolar North Atlantic Sediments

D. W. Oppo, J. F. McManus, and J. L. Cullen
Science 27 February 1998: 1335-1338.
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Time Scales in Atmospheric Chemistry: Coupled Perturbations to N₂O, NO_y, and O₃

Michael J. Prather
Science 27 February 1998: 1339-1341.
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The Role of Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions in Tropical Cooling During the Last Glacial Maximum

Andrew B. G. Bush and S. George H. Philander
Science 27 February 1998: 1341-1344.
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Molecular Mimicry by Herpes Simplex Virus-Type 1: Autoimmune Disease After Viral Infection

Zi-Shan Zhao, Francesca Granucci, Lily Yeh, Priscilla A. Schaffer, and Harvey Cantor
Science 27 February 1998: 1344-1347.
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An Area Specialized for Spatial Working Memory in Human Frontal Cortex

Susan M. Courtney, Laurent Petit, José Ma. Maisog, Leslie G. Ungerleider, and James V. Haxby
Science 27 February 1998: 1347-1351.
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Propagating Activity Patterns in Large-Scale Inhibitory Neuronal Networks

J. Rinzel, D. Terman, X.-J. Wang, and B. Ermentrout
Science 27 February 1998: 1351-1355.
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Linkage of Adhesion, Filamentous Growth, and Virulence in Candida albicans to a Single Gene, INT1

Cheryl A. Gale, Catherine M. Bendel, Mark McClellan, Melinda Hauser, Jeffrey M. Becker, Judith Berman, and Margaret K. Hostetter
Science 27 February 1998: 1355-1358.
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Melatonin Production: Proteasomal Proteolysis in Serotonin N-Acetyltransferase Regulation

Jonathan A. Gastel, Patrick H. Roseboom, Peter A. Rinaldi, Joan L. Weller, and David C. Klein
Science 27 February 1998: 1358-1360.
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Regulation of Flowering Time by Arabidopsis Photoreceptors

Hongwei Guo, Hongyun Yang, Todd C. Mockler, and Chentao Lin
Science 27 February 1998: 1360-1363.
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Src Activation in the Induction of Long-Term Potentiation in CA1 Hippocampal Neurons

You Ming Lu, John C. Roder, Jonathan Davidow, and Michael W. Salter
Science 27 February 1998: 1363-1368.
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Target-Specific Expression of Presynaptic Mossy Fiber Plasticity

Gianmaria Maccaferri, Katalin Tóth, and Chris J. McBain
Science 27 February 1998: 1368-1371.
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Changes in Auxin Response from Mutations in an AUX/IAA Gene

Dean Rouse, Pamela Mackay, Petra Stirnberg, Mark Estelle, and Ottoline Leyser
Science 27 February 1998: 1371-1373.
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