This Week in Science

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Editorial:
The Wake-Up Call We Dare Not Ignore

Gerald Wheeler
Science 13 March 1998: 1611.
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 Tech.Sight: Products

Science 13 March 1998: 1744-1745.

News and Comment

U.S. SCIENCE POLICY:
Keeping Up With Rita Colwell

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 13 March 1998: 1622-1623.
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RUSSIA:
Physics Centers Forced to Go Private

Andrey Allakhverdov and Vladimir Pokrovsky
Science 13 March 1998: 1623.
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BIOPROSPECTING:
Lawsuit Targets Yellowstone Bug Deal

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 13 March 1998: 1624.
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U.S. SCIENCE POLICY:
Clintons Push for R&D Boost

Andrew Lawler
Science 13 March 1998: 1625.
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GERMAN UNIVERSITIES:
Tuition Fees Fight Stalls Reform Law

Sabine Steghaus-Kovac
Science 13 March 1998: 1625.
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PALEONTOLOGY:
Scientists Flock to Explore China's 'Site of the Century'

Justin Wang
Science 13 March 1998: 1626-1627.
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ASTRONOMY:
A Most Precocious Galaxy

Ann Finkbeiner
Science 13 March 1998: 1627.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Cheapest Mission Finds Moon's Frozen Water

Richard A. Kerr
Science 13 March 1998: 1628.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
The Short Life of a Spacecraft

Richard A. Kerr
Science 13 March 1998: 1628.
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EMERGING DISEASES:
Celebrated Virus Hunters Set Up Shop in France

Michael Balter
Science 13 March 1998: 1629-1630.
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EMERGING DISEASES:
Europe's First High-Security Pathogens Lab

Michael Balter
Science 13 March 1998: 1630.
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ScienceScope

Science 13 March 1998: 1621.
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Random Samples

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Research News

CANCER:
New Role for Estrogen in Cancer?

Robert F. Service
Science 13 March 1998: 1631-1633.
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EVOLUTION:
Did the First Complex Cell Eat Hydrogen?

Gretchen Vogel
Science 13 March 1998: 1633-1634.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Surveyor Shows the Flat Face of Mars

Richard A. Kerr
Science 13 March 1998: 1634.
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PALEOANTHROPOLOGY:
Ancient Island Tools Suggest Homo erectus Was a Seafarer

Ann Gibbons
Science 13 March 1998: 1635-1637.
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PALEOANTHROPOLOGY:
In China, a Handier Homo erectus

Ann Gibbons
Science 13 March 1998: 1636.
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MATHEMATICS:
Polyhedra Can Bend But Not Breathe

Dana Mackenzie
Science 13 March 1998: 1637.
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Letters

"Duck soup"?

Science 13 March 1998: 1611.
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 Unexpected Opportunity?

Daniel Joseph
Science 13 March 1998: 1611.
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 After the Genome Database

Howard M. Cann
Science 13 March 1998: 1611.
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 NMR Availability

Oleg Jardetzky
Science 13 March 1998: 1611.
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 Eating Cake?

Jason M. Johnson
Science 13 March 1998: 1611.
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 ICRISAT's Accomplishments

C. S. Prakash
Science 13 March 1998: 1611.
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 Fractality in Nature

A. A. Tsonis;, Ofer Biham, Ofer Malaci, Daniel A. Lidar, and David Avnir
Science 13 March 1998: 1611.
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 Responsive Chord

Stacy L. Daniels
Science 13 March 1998: 1611.
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 Does Public Funding Corrupt?

Raymond R. White; and Jason Hodin
Science 13 March 1998: 1611.
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 Hopping Away?

L. Tarrant
Science 13 March 1998: 1611.
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 Early Education of the Deaf

Henry J. Adler, Jeffrey Liebman, Robert M. Raphael, J. Tilak Ratnanather, and Peter S. Steyger
Science 13 March 1998: 1611.
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 Corrections and Clarifications

Science 13 March 1998: 1611.
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Books et al.

Quantum Devices

Leo Kouwenhoven
Science 13 March 1998: 1649-1650.
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Browsings

Science 13 March 1998: 1650.
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Research Commentaries

ORIGINS OF AGRICULTURE:
Enhanced: Between Foraging and Farming

Bruce D. Smith
Science 13 March 1998: 1651-1652.
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MATERIALS SCIENCE:
Sound and Fracture

Fernando Lund
Science 13 March 1998: 1652-1653.
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NEUROBIOLOGY:
Mapping the Sensory Mosaic

Sharon L. Juliano
Science 13 March 1998: 1653-1654.
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SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION:
A Bridge to Control

Bruce Demple
Science 13 March 1998: 1655-1656.
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 ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY:
Nota Bene: On the Trans-Siberian Railroad

Julia Uppenbrink
Science 13 March 1998: 1656.
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Association Affairs

 ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
What We Don't Know Does Hurt Us. How Scientific Illiteracy Hobbles Society

Norman Augustine
Science 13 March 1998: 1640-1641.
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Research Articles

A Massive Terraced Village Complex in Chihuahua, Mexico, 3000 Years Before Present

Robert J. Hard and John R. Roney
Science 13 March 1998: 1661-1664.
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Evolution of a Transfer RNA Gene Through a Point Mutation in the Anticodon

Margaret E. Saks, Jeffrey R. Sampson, and John Abelson
Science 13 March 1998: 1665-1670.
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Reports

 MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR

Science 13 March 1998: 1670.

Mars Global Surveyor Mission: Overview and Status

A. L. Albee, F. D. Palluconi, and R. E. Arvidson
Science 13 March 1998: 1671-1672.
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The Structure of the Upper Atmosphere of Mars: In Situ Accelerometer Measurements from Mars Global Surveyor

G. M. Keating, S. W. Bougher, R. W. Zurek, R. H. Tolson, G. J. Cancro, S. N. Noll, J. S. Parker, T. J. Schellenberg, R. W. Shane, B. L. Wilkerson, J. R. Murphy, J. L. Hollingsworth, R. M. Haberle, M. Joshi, J. C. Pearl, B. J. Conrath, M. D. Smith, R. T. Clancy, R. C. Blanchard, R. G. Wilmoth, D. F. Rault, T. Z. Martin, D. T. Lyons, P. B. Esposito, M. D. Johnston, C. W. Whetzel, C. G. Justus, and J. M. Babicke
Science 13 March 1998: 1672-1676.
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Magnetic Field and Plasma Observations at Mars: Initial Results of the Mars Global Surveyor Mission

M. H. Acuña, J. E. P. Connerney, P. Wasilewski, R. P. Lin, K. A. Anderson, C. W. Carlson, J. McFadden, D. W. Curtis, D. Mitchell, H. Reme, C. Mazelle, J. A. Sauvaud, C. d'Uston, A. Cros, J. L. Medale, S. J. Bauer, P. Cloutier, M. Mayhew, D. Winterhalter, and N. F. Ness
Science 13 March 1998: 1676-1680.
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Early Views of the Martian Surface from the Mars Orbiter Camera of Mars Global Surveyor

M. C. Malin, M. H. Carr, G. E. Danielson, M. E. Davies, W. K. Hartmann, A. P. Ingersoll, P. B. James, H. Masursky, A. S. McEwen, L. A. Soderblom, P. Thomas, J. Veverka, M. A. Caplinger, M. A. Ravine, T. A. Soulanille, and J. L. Warren
Science 13 March 1998: 1681-1685.
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Topography of the Northern Hemisphere of Mars from the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter

D. E. Smith, M. T. Zuber, H. V. Frey, J. B. Garvin, J. W. Head, D. O. Muhleman, G. H. Pettengill, R. J. Phillips, S. C. Solomon, H. J. Zwally, W. B. Banerdt, and T. C. Duxbury
Science 13 March 1998: 1686-1692.
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Results from the Mars Global Surveyor Thermal Emission Spectrometer

P. R. Christensen, D. L. Anderson, S. C. Chase, R. T. Clancy, R. N. Clark, B. J. Conrath, H. H. Kieffer, R. O. Kuzmin, M. C. Malin, J. C. Pearl, T. L. Roush, and M. D. Smith
Science 13 March 1998: 1692-1698.
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Science 13 March 1998: 1693.

The Postspinel Phase Boundary in Mg₂SiO₄ Determined by in Situ X-ray Diffraction

Tetsuo Irifune, Norimasa Nishiyama, Koji Kuroda, Toru Inoue, Maiko Isshiki, Wataru Utsumi, Ken-ichi Funakoshi, Satoru Urakawa, Takeyuki Uchida, Tomoo Katsura, and Osamu Ohtaka
Science 13 March 1998: 1698-1700.
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Ultra-Low Velocity Zones Near the Core-Mantle Boundary from Broadband PKP Precursors

Lianxing Wen and Donald V. Helmberger
Science 13 March 1998: 1701-1703.
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The Life and Death of "Bare" Viscous Bubbles

G. Debrégeas, P.-G. de Gennes, and F. Brochard-Wyart
Science 13 March 1998: 1704-1707.
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Deuterium in Comet C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp): Detection of DCN

Roland Meier, Tobias C. Owen, David C. Jewitt, Henry E. Matthews, Matthew Senay, Nicolas Biver, Dominique Bockelée-Morvan, Jacques Crovisier, and Daniel Gautier
Science 13 March 1998: 1707-1710.
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High-Selectivity, High-Flux Silica Membranes for Gas Separation

Renate M. de Vos and Henk Verweij
Science 13 March 1998: 1710-1711.
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Identification of a Blue Photoluminescent Composite Material from a Combinatorial Library

Jingsong Wang, Young Yoo, Chen Gao, Ichiro Takeuchi, Xiaodong Sun, Hauyee Chang, X.-D. Xiang, and Peter G. Schultz
Science 13 March 1998: 1712-1714.
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Cortical Map Reorganization Enabled by Nucleus Basalis Activity

Michael P. Kilgard and Michael M. Merzenich
Science 13 March 1998: 1714-1718.
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Activation of the OxyR Transcription Factor by Reversible Disulfide Bond Formation

Ming Zheng, Fredrik Åslund, and Gisela Storz
Science 13 March 1998: 1718-1722.
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Structural Basis for a Ca²⁺-Sensing Function of the Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors

Yoshihiro Kubo, Tomoyuki Miyashita, and Yoshimichi Murata
Science 13 March 1998: 1722-1725.
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Hyperinnervation of Neuromuscular Junctions Caused by GDNF Overexpression in Muscle

Quyen T. Nguyen, Alexander Sh. Parsadanian, William D. Snider, and Jeff W. Lichtman
Science 13 March 1998: 1725-1729.
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Conservation of T Cell Receptor Conformation in Epidermal Cells with Disrupted Primary V Gene Usage

Caroline A. Mallick-Wood, Julia M. Lewis, Lauren I. Richie, Michael J. Owen, Robert E. Tigelaar, and Adrian C. Hayday
Science 13 March 1998: 1729-1733.
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Roles for ORC in M Phase and S Phase

Andrew Dillin and Jasper Rine
Science 13 March 1998: 1733-1737.
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Recognition of Stress-Induced MHC Molecules by Intestinal Epithelial T Cells

Veronika Groh, Alexander Steinle, Stefan Bauer, and Thomas Spies
Science 13 March 1998: 1737-1740.
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