This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Space Policy in a Vacuum

David L. Bodde
Science 22 May 1998: 1171.
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NetWatch

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

Science 22 May 1998: 1283.

News and Comment

EARTH SCIENCE:
An Institute for Planet Earth

Gretchen Vogel
Science 22 May 1998: 1182-1185.
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EARTH SCIENCE:
A Mini-Earth Struggles for Respectability

Gretchen Vogel
Science 22 May 1998: 1183.
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HUMAN GENOME PROJECT:
Funders Reassure Genome Sequencers

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 22 May 1998: 1185.
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ANIMAL CARE:
Groups Vie for Space Chimp Colony

David Kestenbaum
Science 22 May 1998: 1186.
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PHILANTHROPY:
Elephantine Gift Stirs Museum Debate

Eliot Marshall
Science 22 May 1998: 1186-1187.
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PUBLIC HEALTH:
WHO's Slow Road to Funding Reform

Lisa Schlein
Science 22 May 1998: 1187.
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BIOTECHNOLOGY:
EU Ends 10-Year Battle Over Biopatents

Helen Gavaghan
Science 22 May 1998: 1188.
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ARMS PROLIFERATION:
Experts Search for Details After Indian Nuclear Tests

Pallava Bagla and Andrew Lawler
Science 22 May 1998: 1189.
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BIOTECHNOLOGY:
Taiwan Trolls for U.S. Firms to Help It Create an Industry

Bruce Agnew
Science 22 May 1998: 1190.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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Research News

BIOMEDICINE:
Building a Better Aspirin

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 22 May 1998: 1191-1192.
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BIOMEDICINE:
Does Aspirin Ward Off Cancer and Alzheimer's?

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 22 May 1998: 1192.
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NANOELECTRONICS:
The Fastest Counter of the Smallest Beans

Robert F. Service
Science 22 May 1998: 1193.
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ASTRONOMY:
A Neutron Star That Got Revved Up

James Glanz
Science 22 May 1998: 1193-1194.
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SEISMOLOGY:
Can Great Quakes Extend Their Reach?

Richard A. Kerr
Science 22 May 1998: 1194-1195.
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ECOLOGY:
Ecosystem 'Engineers' Shape Habitats for Other Species

Joseph Alper
Science 22 May 1998: 1195-1196.
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CANCER THERAPY:
Antibodies Stage a Comeback in Cancer Treatment

Steven Dickman
Science 22 May 1998: 1196-1197.
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Letters

Ages of man

Science 22 May 1998: 1171-1177.
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 Radiocarbon Dates of Kennewick Man

R. E. Taylor, D. L. Kirner, J. R. Southon, and J. C. Chatters
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 Science and the Web

Y. Poumay
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 Research on Auditory Cortex Plasticity

Norman M. Weinberger, Jonathan S. Bakin;, Michael Kilgard, and Michael Merzenich
Science 22 May 1998: 1171.
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 One Infant's Memory of Oedipus

Richard A. Littman;, Victor H. Denenberg;, and Peter W. Jusczyk
Science 22 May 1998: 1171.
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 Corrections and Clarifications

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Books et al.

A Sense of Place

Robert Gottlieb
Science 22 May 1998: 1209.
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Water Ordering Landscapes

Anastasios A. Tsonis
Science 22 May 1998: 1210.
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Research Commentaries

PLANETARY SCIENCE:
The Salt of Europa

Jeffrey S. Kargel
Science 22 May 1998: 1211-1212.
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SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION:
Kinases and Phosphatases--A Marriage Is Consummated

Ernst Hafen
Science 22 May 1998: 1212-1213.
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 SUPERFLUIDS:
Nota Bene: Quantum Trick Shots

David Voss
Science 22 May 1998: 1213.
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Association Affairs

 ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
Science and Morality

Edward Teller
Science 22 May 1998: 1200-1201.
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Reports

 
THE MELT EXPERIMENT

Science 22 May 1998: 1214.

Imaging the Deep Seismic Structure Beneath a Mid-Ocean Ridge: The MELT Experiment

The MELT Seismic Team
Science 22 May 1998: 1215-1218.
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Off-Axis Crustal Thickness Across and Along the East Pacific Rise Within the MELT Area

J. Pablo Canales, Robert S. Detrick, Sara Bazin, Alistair J. Harding, and John A. Orcutt
Science 22 May 1998: 1218-1221.
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Shipboard Geophysical Indications of Asymmetry and Melt Production Beneath the East Pacific Rise Near the MELT Experiment

Daniel S. Scheirer, Donald W. Forsyth, Marie-Hélène Cormier, and Ken C. Macdonald
Science 22 May 1998: 1221-1224.
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Mantle Seismic Structure Beneath the MELT Region of the East Pacific Rise from P and S Wave Tomography

Douglas R. Toomey, William S. D. Wilcock, Sean C. Solomon, William C. Hammond, and John A. Orcutt
Science 22 May 1998: 1224-1227.
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Structure of the Upper Mantle Under the EPR from Waveform Inversion of Regional Events

Spahr C. Webb and Donald W. Forsyth
Science 22 May 1998: 1227-1229.
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Shear-Wave Splitting and Implications for Mantle Flow Beneath the MELT Region of the East Pacific Rise

Cecily J. Wolfe and Sean C. Solomon
Science 22 May 1998: 1230-1232.
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Mantle Discontinuity Structure Beneath the Southern East Pacific Rise from P-to-S Converted Phases

Yang Shen, Anne F. Sheehan, Kenneth G. Dueker, Catherine de Groot-Hedlin, and Hersh Gilbert
Science 22 May 1998: 1232-1235.
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Phase Velocities of Rayleigh Waves in the MELT Experiment on the East Pacific Rise

Donald W. Forsyth, Spahr C. Webb, LeRoy M. Dorman, and Yang Shen
Science 22 May 1998: 1235-1238.
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Science 22 May 1998: 1237.

The Radio-Frequency Single-Electron Transistor (RF-SET): A Fast and Ultrasensitive Electrometer

R. J. Schoelkopf, P. Wahlgren, A. A. Kozhevnikov, P. Delsing, and D. E. Prober
Science 22 May 1998: 1238-1242.
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Salts on Europa's Surface Detected by Galileo's Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer

T. B. McCord, G. B. Hansen, F. P. Fanale, R. W. Carlson, D. L. Matson, T. V. Johnson, W. D. Smythe, J. K. Crowley, P. D. Martin, A. Ocampo, C. A. Hibbitts, J. C. Granahan, and the NIMS Team
Science 22 May 1998: 1242-1245.
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Viscosity of Oceanic Asthenosphere Inferred from Remote Triggering of Earthquakes

Fred F. Pollitz, Roland Bürgmann, and Barbara Romanowicz
Science 22 May 1998: 1245-1249.
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Geochemical Evidence for a Comet Shower in the Late Eocene

K. A. Farley, A. Montanari, E. M. Shoemaker, and C. S. Shoemaker
Science 22 May 1998: 1250-1253.
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Fullerene Pipes

Jie Liu, Andrew G. Rinzler, Hongjie Dai, Jason H. Hafner, R. Kelley Bradley, Peter J. Boul, Adrian Lu, Terry Iverson, Konstantin Shelimov, Chad B. Huffman, Fernando Rodriguez-Macias, Young-Seok Shon, T. Randall Lee, Daniel T. Colbert, and Richard E. Smalley
Science 22 May 1998: 1253-1256.
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Cloned Transgenic Calves Produced from Nonquiescent Fetal Fibroblasts

Jose B. Cibelli, Steve L. Stice, Paul J. Golueke, Jeff J. Kane, Joseph Jerry, Cathy Blackwell, F. Abel Ponce de León, and James M. Robl
Science 22 May 1998: 1256-1258.
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A Signaling Complex of Ca²⁺-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase IV and Protein Phosphatase 2A

Ryan S. Westphal, Kristin A. Anderson, Anthony R. Means, and Brian E. Wadzinski
Science 22 May 1998: 1258-1261.
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Catalytic Activation of the Phosphatase MKP-3 by ERK2 Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase

Montserrat Camps, Anthony Nichols, Corine Gillieron, Bruno Antonsson, Marco Muda, Christian Chabert, Ursula Boschert, and Steve Arkinstall
Science 22 May 1998: 1262-1265.
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Requirement for T Cells in Allergic Airway Inflammation

Claudia Zuany-Amorim, Claude Ruffié, Solomon Hailé, B. Boris Vargaftig, Pablo Pereira, and Marina Pretolani
Science 22 May 1998: 1265-1267.
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Aspirin-like Molecules that Covalently Inactivate Cyclooxygenase-2

Amit S. Kalgutkar, Brenda C. Crews, Scott W. Rowlinson, Carlos Garner, Karen Seibert, and Lawrence J. Marnett
Science 22 May 1998: 1268-1270.
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Molecular Basis for Interactions of G Protein Subunits with Effectors

Carolyn E. Ford, Nikolai P. Skiba, Hyunsu Bae, Yehia Daaka, Eitan Reuveny, Lee R. Shekter, Ramon Rosal, Gezhi Weng, Chii-Shen Yang, Ravi Iyengar, Richard J. Miller, Lily Y. Jan, Robert J. Lefkowitz, and Heidi E. Hamm
Science 22 May 1998: 1271-1274.
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Distinct WNT Pathways Regulating AER Formation and Dorsoventral Polarity in the Chick Limb Bud

Mineko Kengaku, Javier Capdevila, Concepción Rodriguez-Esteban, Jennifer De La Peña, Randy L. Johnson, Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte, and Clifford J. Tabin
Science 22 May 1998: 1274-1277.
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X-ray Crystal Structure of C3d: A C3 Fragment and Ligand for Complement Receptor 2 

Bhushan Nagar, Russell G. Jones, Russell J. Diefenbach, David E. Isenman, and James M. Rini
Science 22 May 1998: 1277-1281.
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Technical Comments

 Second Family of Histone Deacetylases

L. Aravind, Eugene V. Koonin;, Markus Dangl, Alexandra Lusser, Gerald Brosch, Adele Loidl, Hubertus Haas, and Peter Loidl;
Science 22 May 1998: 1167.
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