This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
New Zealand's Foresight Project

Maurice Williamson
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NetWatch

Best of the Web in science.
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 Tech.Sight: Products

Science 1 May 1998: 757.

News and Comment

SCIENCE IN EUROPE:
An Anxious Time for Swiss Science

Robert Koenig
Science 1 May 1998: 664-665.
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SPACE STATION:
Report Sees More Overruns, Delays

Andrew Lawler
Science 1 May 1998: 666.
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BIOMEDICAL FUNDING:
Counting NIH's Fiscal Chickens

Eliot Marshall
Science 1 May 1998: 666-667.
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GENOME RESEARCH:
Private Help for a Public Database?

Eliot Marshall
Science 1 May 1998: 667-668.
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SOLAR PHYSICS:
Ulysses Laps Sun, Inspires New Missions

Alexander Hellemans
Science 1 May 1998: 668.
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JAPAN BUDGET:
New Projects Receive Boost As Cuts Pinch Current Work

Dennis Normile
Science 1 May 1998: 669.
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ASTRONOMY:
World's Biggest Telescope Is About to See the Light

Govert Schilling
Science 1 May 1998: 670-671.
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ASTRONOMY:
How to Turn a Big Scope Into a Virtual Behemoth

Govert Schilling
Science 1 May 1998: 671.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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Research News

EVOLUTION:
Genome Data Shake Tree of Life

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 1 May 1998: 672-674.
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EVOLUTION:
Direct Descendants From an RNA World

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 1 May 1998: 673.
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ASTROPHYSICS:
X-ray Flickers Reveal a Space Warp

David Kestenbaum
Science 1 May 1998: 674-675.
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EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY:
Genes Put Mammals in Age of Dinosaurs

Ann Gibbons
Science 1 May 1998: 675-676.
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MICROBIOLOGY:
New Clue to How Anthrax Kills

Evelyn Strauss
Science 1 May 1998: 676.
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ECOLOGY:
Bison Prime Prairie Biodiversity

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 1 May 1998: 677.
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PRIMATOLOGY:
'Monogamous' Gibbons Really Swing

Ann Gibbons
Science 1 May 1998: 677-678.
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ASTRONOMY:
Last Hurrah for an Infrared Satellite

Govert Schilling
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PALEOCEANOGRAPHY:
Deep-Sea Coral Records Quick Response to Climate

Richard A. Kerr
Science 1 May 1998: 679.
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Letters

Whose property?

Science 1 May 1998: 655-659.
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 The Gentle Force of Entropy

Arthur W. Adamson
Science 1 May 1998: 655.
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 Bioresources and "Biopiracy" in Brazil

Marina Silva
Science 1 May 1998: 655.
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 Super-Accelerators and International Collaboration

Björn H. Wiik
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 Shifty Eyes

August L. Reader
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 Funding Themselves and Others

Herbert F. Voigt, Dana D. Ricciadri, and Ernst-August Seyfarth
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 Gray Whales in Cold Water

Martha E. Heath;, John E. Heyning, and James G. Mead
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 Ring Laser Design

M. Schneider, U. Schreiber, and G. E. Stedman
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 Corrections and Clarifications

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Books et al.

A Mole Brought to Light

David Holloway
Science 1 May 1998: 691-692.
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Also Noteworthy

Science 1 May 1998: 691.
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Tales of Terrible Toxins

Michael Young
Science 1 May 1998: 692.
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Policy

BIOTECHNOLOGY:
The Patenting of DNA

John J. Doll
Science 1 May 1998: 689-690.
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Research Commentaries

RARE GAS CLUSTERS:
Enhanced: Explosions and Dissociations

Henry Hutchinson
Science 1 May 1998: 693-694.
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OCEANOGRAPHY:
Microbial Control of Oceanic Carbon Flux: The Plot Thickens

Farooq Azam
Science 1 May 1998: 694-696.
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BIOMEDICINE:
Triplet-Repeat Transcripts: A Role for RNA in Disease

Robert H. Singer
Science 1 May 1998: 696-697.
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Association Affairs

 ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
Extensions of "The Tragedy of the Commons"

Garrett Hardin
Science 1 May 1998: 682-683.
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Review

Can Patents Deter Innovation? The Anticommons in Biomedical Research

Michael A. Heller and Rebecca S. Eisenberg
Science 1 May 1998: 698-701.
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Reports

Ordering of Ruthenium Cluster Carbonyls in Mesoporous Silica

Wuzong Zhou, John Meurig Thomas, Douglas S. Shephard, Brian F. G. Johnson, Don Ozkaya, Thomas Maschmeyer, Robert G. Bell, and Qingfeng Ge
Science 1 May 1998: 705-708.
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A Trivalent System from Vancomycin·D-Ala-D-Ala with Higher Affinity Than Avidin·Biotin

Jianghong Rao, Joydeep Lahiri, Lyle Isaacs, Robert M. Weis, and George M. Whitesides
Science 1 May 1998: 708-711.
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An Analysis of the Origins of a Cooperative Binding Energy of Dimerization

Dudley H. Williams, Alison J. Maguire, Wakako Tsuzuki, and Martin S. Westwell
Science 1 May 1998: 711-714.
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Elucidation of the Chain Conformation in a Glassy Polyester, PET, by Two-Dimensional NMR

K. Schmidt-Rohr, W. Hu, and N. Zumbulyadis
Science 1 May 1998: 714-717.
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Effect of Substrate Strain on Adsorption

M. Gsell, P. Jakob, and D. Menzel
Science 1 May 1998: 717-720.
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Micromechanical "Trampoline" Magnetometers for Use in Large Pulsed Magnetic Fields

V. Aksyuk, F. F. Balakirev, G. S. Boebinger, P. L. Gammel, R. C. Haddon, and D. J. Bishop
Science 1 May 1998: 720-722.
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Reductive Dechlorination of DDE to DDMU in Marine Sediment Microcosms

John F. Quensen, III, Sherry A. Mueller, Mahendra K. Jain, and James M. Tiedje
Science 1 May 1998: 722-724.
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Deep-Sea Coral Evidence for Rapid Change in Ventilation of the Deep North Atlantic 15,400 Years Ago

Jess F. Adkins, Hai Cheng, Edward A. Boyle, Ellen R. M. Druffel, and R. Lawrence Edwards
Science 1 May 1998: 725-728.
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Local Orbital Forcing of Antarctic Climate Change During the Last Interglacial

Seong-Joong Kim, Thomas J. Crowley, and Achim Stössel
Science 1 May 1998: 728-730.
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Cope's Rule and the Dynamics of Body Mass Evolution in North American Fossil Mammals

John Alroy
Science 1 May 1998: 731-734.
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Proteolytic Inactivation of MAP-Kinase-Kinase by Anthrax Lethal Factor

Nicholas S. Duesbery, Craig P. Webb, Stephen H. Leppla, Valery M. Gordon, Kurt R. Klimpel, Terry D. Copeland, Natalie G. Ahn, Marianne K. Oskarsson, Kenji Fukasawa, Ken D. Paull, and George F. Vande Woude
Science 1 May 1998: 734-737.
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Disruption of Splicing Regulated by a CUG-Binding Protein in Myotonic Dystrophy

Anne V. Philips, Lubov T. Timchenko, and Thomas A. Cooper
Science 1 May 1998: 737-741.
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Yeast Ku as a Regulator of Chromosomal DNA End Structure

Serge Gravel, Michel Larrivée, Pascale Labrecque, and Raymund J. Wellinger
Science 1 May 1998: 741-744.
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Modulation of Diversity by Grazing and Mowing in Native Tallgrass Prairie

Scott L. Collins, Alan K. Knapp, John M. Briggs, John M. Blair, and Ernest M. Steinauer
Science 1 May 1998: 745-747.
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Anterior Cingulate Cortex, Error Detection, and the Online Monitoring of Performance

Cameron S. Carter, Todd S. Braver, Deanna M. Barch, Matthew M. Botvinick, Douglas Noll, and Jonathan D. Cohen
Science 1 May 1998: 747-749.
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Actin Mutations in Dilated Cardiomyopathy, a Heritable Form of Heart Failure

Timothy M. Olson, Virginia V. Michels, Stephen N. Thibodeau, Yin-Shan Tai, and Mark T. Keating
Science 1 May 1998: 750-752.
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Ribonuclease P Protein Structure: Evolutionary Origins in the Translational Apparatus

Travis Stams, S. Niranjanakumari, Carol A. Fierke, and David W. Christianson
Science 1 May 1998: 752-755.
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