This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Science Roadmaps

Robert Galvin
Science 8 May 1998: 803.
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NetWatch

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

Science 8 May 1998: 929.

News and Comment

THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT:
DNA Sequencers' Trial by Fire

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 8 May 1998: 814-817.
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THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT:
Playing With the Numbers

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 8 May 1998: 815.
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THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT:
The Key to Success Is Finishing Well

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 8 May 1998: 816.
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PLASMA PHYSICS:
Requiem for a Heavyweight at Meeting on Fusion Reactors

James Glanz
Science 8 May 1998: 818-819.
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U.S. R&D BUDGET:
Euphoria Fades as Threats Emerge

Andrew Lawler
Science 8 May 1998: 819-820.
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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION:
Location Dispute Freezes Arctic Facility

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 8 May 1998: 820.
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RUSSIA:
Reformer Named Science Minister

Richard Stone
Science 8 May 1998: 821.
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CANADA:
Plan Would Link, Bolster Health Research

Wayne Kondro
Science 8 May 1998: 821.
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WOMEN IN SCIENCE:
EU Moves to Decrease the Gender Gap

Nigel Williams
Science 8 May 1998: 822.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

Science 8 May 1998: 831.
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Research News

STANDARDS:
Recipe for a Kilogram

David Kestenbaum
Science 8 May 1998: 823-824.
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MEETING BRIEFS:
AIDS Researchers Negotiate Tricky Slopes of Science

Michael Balter
Science 8 May 1998: 825-826.
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ROBOTICS:
Navigating Chernobyl's Deadly Maze

Joseph Alper
Science 8 May 1998: 826-827.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Writing, Speech Separated in Split Brain

Evelyn Strauss
Science 8 May 1998: 827.
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X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY:
Beam Splitter Teases Out Phase Secrets

Robert F. Service
Science 8 May 1998: 828.
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PALEOCLIMATOLOGY:
A Dusty Ice Age Trigger Looks Too Weak

Richard A. Kerr
Science 8 May 1998: 828-829.
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SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY:
NAS Elects New Members

Science 8 May 1998: 829.
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Letters

Protection?

Science 8 May 1998: 803-809.
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 AIDS Vaccine Development

AIDS Vaccine Research Committee
Science 8 May 1998: 803.
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 Ecological Science and Statistical Paradigms

Emery Roe
Science 8 May 1998: 803.
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 On "The Science of Substance Abuse"

Gene M. Heyman
Science 8 May 1998: 803.
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 The Korean DMZ: A Fragile Ecosystem

Kun H. John
Science 8 May 1998: 803.
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Books et al.

Get A Life

Richard E. Lenski
Science 8 May 1998: 849-850.
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Knowledge from the Flies

Walter F. Eanes
Science 8 May 1998: 850-851.
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Browsings

Science 8 May 1998: 851.
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Policy

SOCIAL SCIENCE:
Technology, Experimentation, and the Quality of Survey Data

David E. Bloom
Science 8 May 1998: 847-848.
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Research Commentaries

GEOCHEMISTRY:
Xenon's Inside Story

Ichiro Kaneoka
Science 8 May 1998: 851-852.
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BIOCHEMISTRY:
Enhanced: The Era of Pathway Quantification

Daniel E. Koshland, Jr.
Science 8 May 1998: 852-853.
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RADIATION SOURCES:
Scanning with Ease Through the Far Infrared

Richard Temkin
Science 8 May 1998: 854.
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Association Affairs

 ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
A Book For All Seasons

James Lovelock
Science 8 May 1998: 832-833.
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Review

Biodemographic Trajectories of Longevity

James W. Vaupel, James R. Carey, Kaare Christensen, Thomas E. Johnson, Anatoli I. Yashin, Niels V. Holm, Ivan A. Iachine, Väinö Kannisto, Aziz A. Khazaeli, Pablo Liedo, Valter D. Longo, Yi Zeng, Kenneth G. Manton, and James W. Curtsinger
Science 8 May 1998: 855-860.
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Research Article

Adolescent Sexual Behavior, Drug Use, and Violence: Increased Reporting with Computer Survey Technology

C. F. Turner, L. Ku, S. M. Rogers, L. D. Lindberg, J. H. Pleck, and F. L. Sonenstein
Science 8 May 1998: 867-873.
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Reports

A 100,000-Year Periodicity in the Accretion Rate of Interplanetary Dust

Stephen J. Kortenkamp and Stanley F. Dermott
Science 8 May 1998: 874-876.
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Plutonium-Fission Xenon Found in Earth's Mantle

Joachim Kunz, Thomas Staudacher, and Claude J. Allègre
Science 8 May 1998: 877-880.
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Reaction Sequence of Iron Sulfide Minerals in Bacteria and Their Use as Biomarkers

Mihály Pósfai, Peter R. Buseck, Dennis A. Bazylinski, and Richard B. Frankel
Science 8 May 1998: 880-883.
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Clams As Recorders of Ocean Ridge Volcanism and Hydrothermal Vent Field Activity

Stanley R. Hart and Jerzy Blusztajn
Science 8 May 1998: 883-886.
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Pressure-Induced Amorphization and Negative Thermal Expansion in ZrW₂O₈

C. A. Perottoni and J. A. H. da Jornada
Science 8 May 1998: 886-889.
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Self-Trapping of Dark Incoherent Light Beams

Zhigang Chen, Matthew Mitchell, Mordechai Segev, Tamer H. Coskun, and Demetrios N. Christodoulides
Science 8 May 1998: 889-892.
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Ultrathin Films of a Polyelectrolyte with Layered Architecture

A. R. Esker, C. Mengel, and G. Wegner
Science 8 May 1998: 892-895.
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The Biochemical Basis of an All-or-None Cell Fate Switch in Xenopus Oocytes

James E. Ferrell, Jr. and Eric M. Machleder
Science 8 May 1998: 895-898.
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Role of Rac1 and Oxygen Radicals in Collagenase-1 Expression Induced by Cell Shape Change

Farrah Kheradmand, Erica Werner, Patrice Tremble, Marc Symons, and Zena Werb
Science 8 May 1998: 898-902.
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Modular Organization of Cognitive Systems Masked by Interhemispheric Integration

Kathleen Baynes, James C. Eliassen, Helmi L. Lutsep, and Michael S. Gazzaniga
Science 8 May 1998: 902-905.
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Thymocyte Development in the Absence of Pre-T Cell Receptor Extracellular Immunoglobulin Domains

Bryan A. Irving, Frederick W. Alt, and Nigel Killeen
Science 8 May 1998: 905-908.
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Replication Checkpoint Enforced by Kinases Cds1 and Chk1

Michael N. Boddy, Beth Furnari, Odile Mondesert, and Paul Russell
Science 8 May 1998: 909-912.
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Chaos, Persistence, and Evolution of Strain Structure in Antigenically Diverse Infectious Agents

Sunetra Gupta, Neil Ferguson, and Roy Anderson
Science 8 May 1998: 912-915.
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Identification of Non-Heme Diiron Proteins That Catalyze Triple Bond and Epoxy Group Formation

Michael Lee, Marit Lenman, Antoni Bana, Maureen Bafor, Surinder Singh, Michael Schweizer, Ralf Nilsson, Conny Liljenberg, Anders Dahlqvist, Per-Olov Gummeson, Staffan Sjödahl, Allan Green, and Sten Stymne
Science 8 May 1998: 915-918.
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A Role for the AKT1 Potassium Channel in Plant Nutrition

Rebecca E. Hirsch, Bryan D. Lewis, Edgar P. Spalding, and Michael R. Sussman
Science 8 May 1998: 918-921.
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Knowing Where and Getting There: A Human Navigation Network

Eleanor A. Maguire, Neil Burgess, James G. Donnett, Richard S. J. Frackowiak, Christopher D. Frith, and John O'Keefe
Science 8 May 1998: 921-924.
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