This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
Science 27 March 1998: 2013.
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Editorial:
A Third Technological Revolution

Philip H. Abelson
Science 27 March 1998: 2019-2109.
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 AAAS News & Notes

Science 27 March 1998: 2131.

 Tech.Sight: Products

Science 27 March 1998: 2133.

 Quarterly Author Index

Science 27 March 1998: 2133.

News and Comment

COMPUTERS:
Beyond 'Big Iron' in Supercomputing

James Glanz
Science 27 March 1998: 2030-2032.
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RADIO ASTRONOMY:
Motorola to Limit Signals Over Arecibo

Dana Mackenzie
Science 27 March 1998: 2032.
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EASTERN EUROPE:
Czech Research Review to Leave No Lab Unturned

Richard Stone
Science 27 March 1998: 2033.
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INDIA:
Physicist Gets Science, Education Posts

Pallava Bagla
Science 27 March 1998: 2034.
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CHINA:
Chemist to Lead New Science Ministry

Xiong Lei
Science 27 March 1998: 2034.
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BUDGET RESOLUTION:
Senate Panel Backs Large NIH Increase

Andrew Lawler
Science 27 March 1998: 2035.
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HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
Darwin's House: A Monument to a Theory

Nigel Williams
Science 27 March 1998: 2035-2036.
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PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING:
Report Deplores Science-Media Gap

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 27 March 1998: 2036.
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NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE:
First Alzheimer's Diagnosis Confirmed

Martin Enserink
Science 27 March 1998: 2037.
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ScienceScope

Science 27 March 1998: 2029.
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Random Samples

Science 27 March 1998: 2047.
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Research News

ARCHAEOLOGY:
North America's Wars

Heather Pringle
Science 27 March 1998: 2038-2040.
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ARCHAEOLOGY:
Crow Creek's Revenge

Heather Pringle
Science 27 March 1998: 2039.
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RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL:
A Hint of Unrest at Yucca Mountain

Richard A. Kerr
Science 27 March 1998: 2040-2041.
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NEUROBIOLOGY:
No-New-Neurons Dogma Loses Ground

Marcia Barinaga
Science 27 March 1998: 2041-2042.
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DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY:
Receptor Links Blood Vessels, Axons

Wade Roush
Science 27 March 1998: 2042.
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EVOLUTION:
For Island Lizards, History Repeats Itself

Gretchen Vogel
Science 27 March 1998: 2043.
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OPTOELECTRONICS:
Double Helix Doubles as Engineer

Sunny Bains
Science 27 March 1998: 2043-2044.
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BIOTECHNOLOGY:
Weighing DNA for Fast Genetic Diagnosis

Joseph Alper
Science 27 March 1998: 2044-2045.
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MATERIALS SCIENCE:
Making a Bigger Chill With Magnets

James Glanz
Science 27 March 1998: 2045.
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Letters

Calculus and coral

Science 27 March 1998: 2019-2025.
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 Calculus Reform

Susan L. Ganter, D. J. Lewis, and Deborah Hughes-Hallett
Science 27 March 1998: 2019-2025.
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 Math and Science Literacy

L. Caldbeck; and Gretchen Vogel
Science 27 March 1998: 2019-2025.
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 Fishery and Reef Management

David R. Bellwood, Jeffrey M. Leis, Ilona C. Stobutzki;, Peter F. Sale, Robert K. Cowen;, and Callum M. Roberts
Science 27 March 1998: 2019-2025.
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 Rapid-Wasting Disease: Pathogen or Predator?

Andrew Bruckner and Robin Bruckner
Science 27 March 1998: 2019-2025.
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Books et al.

No Longer Alone

Roberto Kolter
Science 27 March 1998: 2062.
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Policy

ECOLOGY: Conservation Targets: Do They Help?

Michael E. Soulé and M. A. Sanjayan
Science 27 March 1998: 2060-2061.
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Research Commentaries

SEISMOLOGY:
Enhanced: Shaking Without Quaking

Hiroo Kanamori
Science 27 March 1998: 2063-2064.
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GEOCHEMISTRY:
Origins of Hydrothermal Ores

H. L. Barnes and A. W. Rose
Science 27 March 1998: 2064-2065.
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SUPERFLUID HELIUM:
The Ultimate Spectroscopic Matrix?

K. K. Lehmann and G. Scoles
Science 27 March 1998: 2065-2066.
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IMMUNOLOGY:
Expansion of the Allelic Exclusion Principle?

Andrew Chess
Science 27 March 1998: 2067-2068.
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ECOLOGY:
Planning for Biodiversity

Stuart L. Pimm and John H. Lawton
Science 27 March 1998: 2068-2069.
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Association Affairs

 ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
Integrated Science and The Coming Century of The Environment

Edward O. Wilson
Science 27 March 1998: 2048-2049.
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Review

The Quantum-Classical Metal

David G. Clarke, S. P. Strong, P. M. Chaikin, and E. I. Chashechkina
Science 27 March 1998: 2071-2076.
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Reports

Optical Amplification of Ligand-Receptor Binding Using Liquid Crystals

Vinay K. Gupta, Justin J. Skaife, Timothy B. Dubrovsky, and Nicholas L. Abbott
Science 27 March 1998: 2077-2080.
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Isolation of a Benzene Valence Isomer with One-Electron Phosphorus-Phosphorus Bonds

Yves Canac, Didier Bourissou, Antoine Baceiredo, Heinz Gornitzka, Wolfgang W. Schoeller, and Guy Bertrand
Science 27 March 1998: 2080-2082.
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Superfluidity Within a Small Helium-4 Cluster: The Microscopic Andronikashvili Experiment

Slava Grebenev, J. Peter Toennies, and Andrei F. Vilesov
Science 27 March 1998: 2083-2086.
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Elevation Change of the Southern Greenland Ice Sheet

Curt H. Davis, Craig A. Kluever, and Bruce J. Haines
Science 27 March 1998: 2086-2088.
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Earth's Background Free Oscillations

Naoki Suda, Kazunari Nawa, and Yoshio Fukao
Science 27 March 1998: 2089-2091.
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Formation of a Magmatic-Hydrothermal Ore Deposit: Insights with LA-ICP-MS Analysis of Fluid Inclusions

Andreas Audétat, Detlef Günther, and Christoph A. Heinrich
Science 27 March 1998: 2091-2094.
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Siliceous Tablets in the Larval Shells of Apatitic Discinid Brachiopods

Alwyn Williams, Maggie Cusack, James O. Buckman, and Thomas Stachel
Science 27 March 1998: 2094-2096.
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Anomalous Strain Accumulation in the Yucca Mountain Area, Nevada

Brian Wernicke, James L. Davis, Richard A. Bennett, Pedro Elósegui, Mark J. Abolins, Robert J. Brady, Martha A. House, Nathan A. Niemi, and J. Kent Snow
Science 27 March 1998: 2096-2100.
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Test of General Relativity and Measurement of the Lense-Thirring Effect with Two Earth Satellites

Ignazio Ciufolini, Erricos Pavlis, Federico Chieppa, Eduardo Fernandes-Vieira, and Juan Pérez-Mercader
Science 27 March 1998: 2100-2103.
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Quantitation of HIV-1-Specific Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes and Plasma Load of Viral RNA

Graham S. Ogg, Xia Jin, Sebastian Bonhoeffer, P. Rod Dunbar, Martin A. Nowak, Simon Monard, Jeremy P. Segal, Yunzhen Cao, Sarah L. Rowland-Jones, Vincenzo Cerundolo, Arlene Hurley, Martin Markowitz, David D. Ho, Douglas F. Nixon, and Andrew J. McMichael
Science 27 March 1998: 2103-2106.
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Biodiversity Assessment and Conservation Strategies

Albert S. van Jaarsveld, Stefanie Freitag, Steven L. Chown, Caron Muller, Stephanie Koch, Heath Hull, Chuck Bellamy, Martin Krüger, Sebastian Endrödy-Younga, Mervyn W. Mansell, and Clarke H. Scholtz
Science 27 March 1998: 2106-2108.
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Competition in Retinogeniculate Patterning Driven by Spontaneous Activity

Anna A. Penn, Patricio A. Riquelme, Marla B. Feller, and Carla J. Shatz
Science 27 March 1998: 2108-2112.
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Transcriptional and Posttranscriptional Plant Gene Silencing in Response to a Pathogen

Nadia S. Al-Kaff, Simon N. Covey, Maria M. Kreike, Anthony M. Page, Rachel Pinder, and Philip J. Dale
Science 27 March 1998: 2113-2115.
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Contingency and Determinism in Replicated Adaptive Radiations of Island Lizards

Jonathan B. Losos, Todd R. Jackman, Allan Larson, Kevin de Queiroz, and Lourdes Rodríguez-Schettino
Science 27 March 1998: 2115-2118.
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Monoallelic Expression of the Interleukin-2 Locus

Georg A. Holländer, Saulius Zuklys, Corinne Morel, Emiko Mizoguchi, Kathrine Mobisson, Stephen Simpson, Cox Terhorst, William Wishart, David E. Golan, Atul K. Bhan, and Steven J. Burakoff
Science 27 March 1998: 2118-2121.
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Structure of Nitric Oxide Synthase Oxygenase Dimer with Pterin and Substrate

Brian R. Crane, Andrew S. Arvai, Dipak K. Ghosh, Chaoqun Wu, Elizabeth D. Getzoff, Dennis J. Stuehr, and John A. Tainer
Science 27 March 1998: 2121-2126.
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Species Distributions, Land Values, and Efficient Conservation

Amy Ando, Jeffrey Camm, Stephen Polasky, and Andrew Solow
Science 27 March 1998: 2126-2128.
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Technical Comments

 Constitutive Expression of FasL in Thyrocytes

Theophil A. Stokes, Michal Rymaszewski, Patricia L. Arscott, Su He Wang, James D. Bretz, Jeffery Bartron, James R. Baker, Jr., Petra Fiedler, Christian E. Schaetzlein, Hermann Eibel;, Giuliana Papoff, Giorgio Stassi, Ruggero De Maria, Carla Giordano, Aldo Galluzzo, Marcello Bagnasco, Giovina Ruberti, and Roberto Testi;
Science 27 March 1998: 2015.
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