This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
On the Future of Scholarly Journals

Alan M. Edelson
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NetWatch

Best of the Web in science.
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News and Comment

ENERGY DEPARTMENT:
DOE Moves to Higher Ground

Andrew Lawler
Science 17 April 1998: 368-370.
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SCIENCE INTERVIEW:
An Energetic Scientific Presence

Andrew Lawler
Science 17 April 1998: 369.
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BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH:
Kansas City Institute's Big Plans

Eliot Marshall
Science 17 April 1998: 370-371.
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ECOLOGY:
Restored Wetlands Flunk Real-World Test

David Malakoff
Science 17 April 1998: 371-372.
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HUNGARY:
Bailout for Drug Research Institute

Richard Stone
Science 17 April 1998: 372.
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METEOROLOGY:
Science Overrides Politics for East Asian Monsoon Study

Dennis Normile and Li Hui
Science 17 April 1998: 373.
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GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT FACILITY:
Science Moves up Ladder in Push for Sustainable Growth

Pallava Bagla
Science 17 April 1998: 374.
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AUTONOMOUS OCEANOGRAPHY:
Mixed Results From the Labrador Sea

Steve Nadis
Science 17 April 1998: 375.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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Research News

NEUROPHYSIOLOGY:
Listening In on the Brain

Marcia Barinaga
Science 17 April 1998: 376-378.
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INFRARED ASTRONOMY:
A Water Generator in the Orion Nebula

James Glanz
Science 17 April 1998: 378.
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MICROBIOLOGY:
A Possible New Approach to Combating Staph Infections

Evelyn Strauss
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MEETING BRIEFS:
Anthropologists Probe Genes, Brains at Annual Meeting

Ann Gibbons
Science 17 April 1998: 380-381.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Fiery Io Models Earth's First Days

Richard A. Kerr
Science 17 April 1998: 381-382.
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RENEWABLE ENERGY:
A Record in Converting Photons to Fuel

Robert F. Service
Science 17 April 1998: 382.
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HEART DISEASE:
Signaling Path May Lead to Better Heart-Failure Therapies

Marcia Barinaga
Science 17 April 1998: 383.
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Letters

Looking ahead

Science 17 April 1998: 359-363.
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 Great Expectations in China

Zong-Ren Chen
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 Owls and Early Learning

David Elkind; and Martin J. Steinbach
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 Natron Trade, 2000 B.C.

Thomas Pauls
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 Kaposi's Sarcoma and Protection from HIV Dementia

Knut Liestæl, Anne K. Goplen, Oona Dunlop, Johan N. Brunn, Jan Mæhlen;, T. Baldeweg, J. Catalan, B. G. Gazzard, and C. Boshoff
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 Oliver Update

John J. Ely and Charleen M. Moore
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 Corrections and Clarifications

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Books et al.

Images of an Inventor Hero

Robert Friedel
Science 17 April 1998: 392-393.
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How the Land Turned Green

Richard Olmstead
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Policy

INFORMATION ACCESS:
Bridging the Racial Divide on the Internet

Donna L. Hoffman and Thomas P. Novak
Science 17 April 1998: 390-391.
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Research Commentaries

IMMUNOLOGY:
Proteases, Processing, and Thymic Selection

Peter Cresswell
Science 17 April 1998: 394-395.
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AGING:
The Future of Human Longevity: A Demographer's Perspective

John R. Wilmoth
Science 17 April 1998: 395-397.
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EVOLUTION:
One or Three Cambrian Radiations?

Guillaume Balavoine and André Adoutte
Science 17 April 1998: 397-398.
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CHEMISTRY:
Enhanced: Rethinking Solution NMR

Warren S. Warren
Science 17 April 1998: 398-399.
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Tech.Sight

 THE PATHFINDER MISSION TO MARS:
Autonomous Navigation and the Sojourner Microrover

J. Matijevic
Science 17 April 1998: 454-455.
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 SIGHTINGS:
Synthetic Protease Switch

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 SIGHTINGS:
Beauty in Simplicity

Science 17 April 1998: 456-457.
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 NET TIPS:
Showing Off Your Lab

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 Products

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Association Affairs

 ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
Movement of the People

Roald Hoffmann
Science 17 April 1998: 386-387.
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Review

Stormy Weather in Galaxy Clusters

Jack O. Burns
Science 17 April 1998: 400-404.
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Reports

Protactinium-231 and Thorium-230 Abundances and High Scavenging Rates in the Western Arctic Ocean

Henrietta N. Edmonds, S. Bradley Moran, John A. Hoff, John N. Smith, and R. Lawrence Edwards
Science 17 April 1998: 405-407.
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Is GRO J1744-28 a Strange Star?

K. S. Cheng, Z. G. Dai, D. M. Wei, and T. Lu
Science 17 April 1998: 407-409.
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Two-Fraction Model of Initial Sediment Motion in Gravel-Bed Rivers

Peter R. Wilcock
Science 17 April 1998: 410-412.
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Formation of Carbonates in the Tatahouine Meteorite

J. A. Barrat, Ph. Gillet, C. Lécuyer, S. M. F. Sheppard, and M. Lesourd
Science 17 April 1998: 412-414.
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Oxygen Isotopic Abundances in Calcium- Aluminum-Rich Inclusions from Ordinary Chondrites: Implications for Nebular Heterogeneity

Kevin D. McKeegan, Laurie A. Leshin, Sara S. Russell, and Glenn J. MacPherson
Science 17 April 1998: 414-418.
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Osmium Isotopic Evidence for Ancient Subcontinental Lithospheric Mantle Beneath the Kerguelen Islands, Southern Indian Ocean

Deborah R. Hassler and Nobumichi Shimizu
Science 17 April 1998: 418-421.
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Unitary Control in Quantum Ensembles: Maximizing Signal Intensity in Coherent Spectroscopy

S. J. Glaser, T. Schulte-Herbrüggen, M. Sieveking, O. Schedletzky, N. C. Nielsen, O. W. Sørensen, and C. Griesinger
Science 17 April 1998: 421-424.
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A Monolithic Photovoltaic-Photoelectrochemical Device for Hydrogen Production via Water Splitting

Oscar Khaselev and John A. Turner
Science 17 April 1998: 425-427.
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Gastrointestinal Tract as a Major Site of CD4⁺ T Cell Depletion and Viral Replication in SIV Infection

Ronald S. Veazey, MaryAnn DeMaria, Laura V. Chalifoux, Daniel E. Shvetz, Douglas R. Pauley, Heather L. Knight, Michael Rosenzweig, R. Paul Johnson, Ronald C. Desrosiers, and Andrew A. Lackner
Science 17 April 1998: 427-431.
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Association of the AP-3 Adaptor Complex with Clathrin

Esteban C. Dell'Angelica, Judith Klumperman, Willem Stoorvogel, and Juan S. Bonifacino
Science 17 April 1998: 431-434.
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NMR Structure of a Classical Pseudoknot: Interplay of Single- and Double-Stranded RNA

Michaël H. Kolk, Marinette van der Graaf, Sybren S. Wijmenga, Cornelis W. A. Pleij, Hans A. Heus, and Cornelis W. Hilbers
Science 17 April 1998: 434-438.
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Autoinducer of Virulence As a Target for Vaccine and Therapy Against Staphylococcus aureus

Naomi Balaban, Tzipora Goldkorn, Rachael T. Nhan, Luong B. Dang, Steven Scott, Rose M. Ridgley, Avraham Rasooly, Susan C. Wright, James W. Larrick, Reuven Rasooly, and James R. Carlson
Science 17 April 1998: 438-440.
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Impacts of Rising Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide on Model Terrestrial Ecosystems

T. H. Jones, L. J. Thompson, J. H. Lawton, T. M. Bezemer, R. D. Bardgett, T. M. Blackburn, K. D. Bruce, P. F. Cannon, G. S. Hall, S. E. Hartley, G. Howson, C. G. Jones, C. Kampichler, E. Kandeler, and D. A. Ritchie
Science 17 April 1998: 441-443.
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Control of Alternative Splicing of Potassium Channels by Stress Hormones

Jiuyong Xie and David P. McCobb
Science 17 April 1998: 443-446.
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Maternal Control of Embryogenesis by MEDEA, a Polycomb Group Gene in Arabidopsis

Ueli Grossniklaus, Jean-Philippe Vielle-Calzada, Marilu A. Hoeppner, and Wendy B. Gagliano
Science 17 April 1998: 446-450.
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Cathepsin L: Critical Role in Ii Degradation and CD4 T Cell Selection in the Thymus

Terry Nakagawa, Wera Roth, Phillip Wong, Andrew Nelson, Andrew Farr, Jan Deussing, Jose A. Villadangos, Hidde Ploegh, Christoph Peters, and Alexander Y. Rudensky
Science 17 April 1998: 450-453.
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Technical Comments

 Counting the Fingers of Birds and Dinosaurs

Sankar Chatterjee;, Joseph P. Garner, Adrian L. R. Thomas;, Ann C. Burke, J. Alan Feduccia, and Richard Hinchliffe;
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