This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Toward a Transparent Federal S&T Budget

Jeff Bingaman and Joseph Lieberman
Science 15 May 1998: 983.
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NetWatch

Best of the Web in science.
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News and Comment

SEQUENCING:
Hubris and the Human Genome

Eliot Marshall
Science 15 May 1998: 994-995.
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SEQUENCING:
Picking Up the Pace of Sequencing

Robert F. Service
Science 15 May 1998: 995.
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SCIENCE AND THE MEDIA:
The Power of the Front Page of The New York Times

Eliot Marshall
Science 15 May 1998: 996-997.
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CANCER:
The Roadblocks to Angiogenesis Blockers

Eliot Marshall
Science 15 May 1998: 997.
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SPACE SCIENCE:
Mars 2001 Mission Hits the Wall

Oliver Morton
Science 15 May 1998: 998.
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U.S. FOREIGN POLICY:
State Department Sees S&T Weaknesses

Andrew Lawler
Science 15 May 1998: 998-999.
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GENOME SEQUENCING:
German Biotechs Form Gene Venture

Robert Koenig
Science 15 May 1998: 999-1000.
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EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION:
Japan Urged to Drop Short-Term Goal

Dennis Normile
Science 15 May 1998: 1000.
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ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH:
Allen Roses: From 'Street Fighter' to Corporate Insider

Eliot Marshall
Science 15 May 1998: 1001-1004.
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ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH:
The Alzheimer's Gene Puzzle

Eliot Marshall
Science 15 May 1998: 1002.
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ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH:
A Clash Over Testing for Alzheimer's Disease

Eliot Marshall
Science 15 May 1998: 1004.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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Research News

NEUROBIOLOGY:
Probing the Biology of Emotion

Christine Mlot
Science 15 May 1998: 1005-1007.
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NEUROBIOLOGY:
Unmasking the Emotional Unconscious

Christine Mlot
Science 15 May 1998: 1006.
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PALEONTOLOGY:
Biggest Extinction Looks Catastrophic

Richard A. Kerr
Science 15 May 1998: 1007.
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ASTRONOMY:
Exploding Stars Flash New Bulletins From Distant Universe

James Glanz
Science 15 May 1998: 1008-1009.
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ATOMIC PHYSICS:
On the Trail of Supercharged Hydrogen

Alexander Hellemans
Science 15 May 1998: 1009.
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MOLECULAR IMAGING:
New Probes Open Windows on Gene Expression, and More

Robert F. Service
Science 15 May 1998: 1010-1011.
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Letters

From the past to the future

Science 15 May 1998: 983-989.
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 Haeckel, Embryos, and Evolution

Michael K. Richardson, James Hanken, Lynne Selwood, Glenda M. Wright, Robert J. Richards, Claude Pieau, and Albert Raynaud
Science 15 May 1998: 983.
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 Demographic Thinking

James W. Vaupel
Science 15 May 1998: 983.
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 Bird, Dinosaur Link

Kevin Padian
Science 15 May 1998: 983.
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 Science in Vietnam

Tuan V. Nguyen
Science 15 May 1998: 983.
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 A Good Estrogen

Victor S. Pribluda and Shawn J. Green
Science 15 May 1998: 983.
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 Causal Systems in Ecology

Joel H. Reynolds
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 Corrections and Clarifications

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Books et al.

Early Neuro Networks

Martha Constantine-Paton
Science 15 May 1998: 1032-1033.
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 VIGNETTE:
Advancement in Science

Frederic Lawrence Holmes
Science 15 May 1998: 1033.
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Browsings

Science 15 May 1998: 1033.
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Policy

SCIENCE EDUCATION:
Interpretation of International Test Score Comparisons

Iris C. Rotberg
Science 15 May 1998: 1030-1031.
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Research Commentaries

GEOPHYSICS:
Enhanced: A New Spin on Hydrothermal Plumes

Kevin G. Speer
Science 15 May 1998: 1034-1035.
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CELL CYCLE:
The Expanding Role of Cell Cycle Regulators

Tyler Jacks and Robert A. Weinberg
Science 15 May 1998: 1035-1036.
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ONCOGENESIS:
Landscaping the Cancer Terrain

Kenneth W. Kinzler and Bert Vogelstein
Science 15 May 1998: 1036-1037.
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Tech.Sight

  COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE:
Predicting Properties from Scratch

Gerbrand Ceder
Science 15 May 1998: 1099-1100.
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  SIGHTINGS:
Automating a Mouse

Robert Sikorski and Richard Peters
Science 15 May 1998: 1101.
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 SIGHTINGS:
Zeptomolar Damage

Richard Peters and Robert Sikorski
Science 15 May 1998: 1101-1102.
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 NET TIPS:
Internet Connectivity

Robert Sikorski and Richard Peters
Science 15 May 1998: 1102.
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Association Affairs

 ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
Science as a Craft Industry

Freeman J. Dyson
Science 15 May 1998: 1014-1015.
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Research Article

U/Pb Zircon Geochronology and Tempo of the End-Permian Mass Extinction

S. A. Bowring, D. H. Erwin, Y. G. Jin, M. W. Martin, K. Davidek, and W. Wang
Science 15 May 1998: 1039-1045.
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Reports

Chemical Amplification: Continuous-Flow PCR on a Chip

Martin U. Kopp, Andrew J. de Mello, and Andreas Manz
Science 15 May 1998: 1046-1048.
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Predatory Dinosaur Remains from Madagascar: Implications for the Cretaceous Biogeography of Gondwana

Scott D. Sampson, Lawrence M. Witmer, Catherine A. Forster, David W. Krause, Patrick M. O'Connor, Peter Dodson, and Florent Ravoavy
Science 15 May 1998: 1048-1051.
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Tracking the Evolution of a Hydrothermal Event Plume with a RAFOS Neutrally Buoyant Drifter

John E. Lupton, Edward T. Baker, Newell Garfield, Gary J. Massoth, Richard A. Feely, James P. Cowen, Ronald R. Greene, and Thomas A. Rago
Science 15 May 1998: 1052-1055.
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Earthquakes on Dipping Faults: The Effects of Broken Symmetry

David D. Oglesby, Ralph J. Archuleta, and Stefan B. Nielsen
Science 15 May 1998: 1055-1059.
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Percolation of Core Melts at Lower Mantle Conditions

M. C. Shannon and C. B. Agee
Science 15 May 1998: 1059-1061.
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Localized Reconnection in the Near Jovian Magnetotail

C. T. Russell, K. K. Khurana, D. E. Huddleston, and M. G. Kivelson
Science 15 May 1998: 1061-1064.
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Ferromagnetism in LaFeO₃-LaCrO₃ Superlattices

Kenji Ueda, Hitoshi Tabata, and Tomoji Kawai
Science 15 May 1998: 1064-1066.
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Inducible Repair of Thymine Glycol Detected by an Ultrasensitive Assay for DNA Damage

X. Chris Le, James Z. Xing, Jane Lee, Steven A. Leadon, and Michael Weinfeld
Science 15 May 1998: 1066-1069.
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Inhibitory Function of p21^Cip1/WAF1 in Differentiation of Primary Mouse Keratinocytes Independent of Cell Cycle Control

Ferdinando Di Cunto, Gabrielle Topley, Enzo Calautti, Jimmy Hsiao, Lydia Ong, Prem K. Seth, and G. Paolo Dotto
Science 15 May 1998: 1069-1072.
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Genetic Evaluation of Suspected Cases of Transient HIV-1 Infection of Infants

Lisa M. Frenkel, James I. Mullins, Gerald H. Learn, Laura Manns-Arcuino, Belinda L. Herring, Marcia L. Kalish, Richard W. Steketee, Donald M. Thea, Joan E. Nichols, Shan-Lu Liu, Abdallah Harmache, Xi He, David Muthui, Anup Madan, Leroy Hood, Ashley T. Haase, Mary Zupancic, Katherine Staskus, Steven Wolinsky, Paul Krogstad, JiaQi Zhao, Irvin Chen, Richard Koup, David Ho, Bette Korber, Raymond J. Apple, Robert W. Coombs, Savita Pahwa, and Norbert J. Roberts, Jr.
Science 15 May 1998: 1073-1077.
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Large-Scale Identification, Mapping, and Genotyping of Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms in the Human Genome

David G. Wang, Jian-Bing Fan, Chia-Jen Siao, Anthony Berno, Peter Young, Ron Sapolsky, Ghassan Ghandour, Nancy Perkins, Ellen Winchester, Jessica Spencer, Leonid Kruglyak, Lincoln Stein, Linda Hsie, Thodoros Topaloglou, Earl Hubbell, Elizabeth Robinson, Michael Mittmann, Macdonald S. Morris, Naiping Shen, Dan Kilburn, John Rioux, Chad Nusbaum, Steve Rozen, Thomas J. Hudson, Robert Lipshutz, Mark Chee, and Eric S. Lander
Science 15 May 1998: 1077-1082.
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RasGRP, a Ras Guanyl Nucleotide- Releasing Protein with Calcium- and Diacylglycerol-Binding Motifs

Julius O. Ebinu, Drell A. Bottorff, Edmond Y. W. Chan, Stacey L. Stang, Robert J. Dunn, and James C. Stone
Science 15 May 1998: 1082-1086.
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Mutations in the SMAD4/DPC4 Gene in Juvenile Polyposis

James R. Howe, Stina Roth, John C. Ringold, Robert W. Summers, Heikki J. Järvinen, Pertti Sistonen, Ian P. M. Tomlinson, Richard S. Houlston, Steve Bevan, Frank A. Mitros, Edwin M. Stone, and Lauri A. Aaltonen
Science 15 May 1998: 1086-1088.
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Requirement for Atm in Ionizing Radiation-Induced Cell Death in the Developing Central Nervous System

Karl-Heinz Herzog, Miriam J. Chong, Manuela Kapsetaki, James I. Morgan, and Peter J. McKinnon
Science 15 May 1998: 1089-1091.
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COI1: An Arabidopsis Gene Required for Jasmonate-Regulated Defense and Fertility

Dao-Xin Xie, Bart F. Feys, Sarah James, Manuela Nieto-Rostro, and John G. Turner
Science 15 May 1998: 1091-1094.
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