Frontiers in Biomedicine: Regulation of Body Weight

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EPIDEMIOLOGY:
Regulation of Body Weight

Paula A. Kiberstis and Jean Marx
Science 29 May 1998: 1363.
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EPIDEMIOLOGY:
Obesity: How Big a Problem?

Ingrid Wickelgren
Science 29 May 1998: 1364-1367.
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EPIDEMIOLOGY:
Do 'Apples' Fare Worse Than 'Pears'?

Ingrid Wickelgren
Science 29 May 1998: 1365.
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DEMOGRAPHICS:
As Obesity Rates Rise, Experts Struggle to Explain Why

Gary Taubes
Science 29 May 1998: 1367-1368.
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DEMOGRAPHICS:
Weight Increases Worldwide?

Gary Taubes
Science 29 May 1998: 1368.
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CELL BIOLOGY:
Uncoupling Proteins Provide New Clue to Obesity's Causes

Trisha Gura
Science 29 May 1998: 1369-1370.
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Articles

Environmental Contributions to the Obesity Epidemic

James O. Hill and John C. Peters
Science 29 May 1998: 1371-1374.
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The Search for Human Obesity Genes

Anthony G. Comuzzie and David B. Allison
Science 29 May 1998: 1374-1377.
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Signals That Regulate Food Intake and Energy Homeostasis

Stephen C. Woods, Randy J. Seeley, Daniel Porte, Jr., and Michael W. Schwartz
Science 29 May 1998: 1378-1383.
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Strategies and Potential Molecular Targets for Obesity Treatment

L. Arthur Campfield, Françoise J. Smith, and Paul Burn
Science 29 May 1998: 1383-1387.
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Eating Disorders: Progress and Problems

B. Timothy Walsh and Michael J. Devlin
Science 29 May 1998: 1387-1390.
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This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Challenges for European Biology

Fotis C. Kafatos
Science 29 May 1998: 1327.
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NetWatch

Best of the Web in science.
Science 29 May 1998: 1319.
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 Tech.Sight: Products

Science 29 May 1998: 1458.

 AAAS News & Notes

Science 29 May 1998: 1460.

News and Comment

EDUCATION REFORM:
A New Initiative for Russian Science

Richard Stone
Science 29 May 1998: 1336-1337.
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ASTRONOMY:
'First Light' for Giant Sky Survey

James Glanz
Science 29 May 1998: 1337-1338.
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SPACE AND LIFE SCIENCES:
Astrobiology Institute Picks Partners

Andrew Lawler
Science 29 May 1998: 1338.
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SPACE SCIENCE:
Ready for Takeoff, Antimatter Experiment Takes Some Flak

Meher Antia
Science 29 May 1998: 1339.
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CORAL REEF MONITORING:
Smithsonian Field Station Gets the Boot

Joseph Alper
Science 29 May 1998: 1340.
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INTELLECTURAL PROPERTY:
Japan Law Fosters Academic Patents

Dennis Normile
Science 29 May 1998: 1340-1341.
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FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION:
Panel Issues Plea to Boost FDA Research

Eliot Marshall
Science 29 May 1998: 1341.
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AUSTRALIAN ARCHAEOLOGY:
Aboriginal Groups Warm to Studies of Early Australians

Elizabeth Finkel
Science 29 May 1998: 1342-1343.
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AUSTRALIAN ARCHAEOLOGY:
University Funding Feels Big Chill

Elizabeth Finkel
Science 29 May 1998: 1343.
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INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION:
Euro Networks Aim to Train Postdocs, Build a Community

Judy Redfearn
Science 29 May 1998: 1344.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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Research News

EVOLUTION:
Solving the Brain's Energy Crisis

Ann Gibbons
Science 29 May 1998: 1345-1347.
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EVOLUTION:
In Mice, Mom's Genes Favor Brains Over Brawn

Ann Gibbons
Science 29 May 1998: 1346.
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ASTRONOMY:
Taiwan, U.S. Team Up to Chase Shadows

Peter Weiss
Science 29 May 1998: 1347.
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NONLINEAR OPTICS:
Transmuting Light Into X-rays

David Kestenbaum
Science 29 May 1998: 1348.
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BEHAVIORAL GENETICS:
New Clues to Alcoholism Risk

Constance Holden
Science 29 May 1998: 1348-1349.
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MARINE SCIENCE:
Temperature Rise Could Squeeze Salmon

Nigel Williams
Science 29 May 1998: 1349.
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CANCER THERAPY:
Growing Joints Use Their Noggins

Steven Dickman
Science 29 May 1998: 1350.
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INFECTIOUS DISEASES:
New Method Churns Out TB Mutants

Carol Potera
Science 29 May 1998: 1350-1351.
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ARCHAEOLOGY:
Young Ages for Australian Rock Art

Ann Gibbons
Science 29 May 1998: 1351.
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Letters

Stopping AIDS

Science 29 May 1998: 1327-1331.
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 The Ethics of AIDS Vaccine Trials

Jonathan M. Mann;, Debroah Zion, Cheryl Cox Macpherson;, and Barry B. Bloom
Science 29 May 1998: 1327.
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 Corrections and Clarifications

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Books et al.

Unification Not Proved

John Dupré
Science 29 May 1998: 1395.
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Boundaries Not Established

Steve Fuller
Science 29 May 1998: 1396-1397.
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Also Noteworthy

Sherman Suter
Science 29 May 1998: 1396.
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Policy

CLIMATE:
The Terrestrial Carbon Cycle: Implications for the Kyoto Protocol

IGBP Terrestrial Carbon Working Group
Science 29 May 1998: 1393-1394.
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Research Commentaries

COSMOLOGY:
The Case of the Curved Universe: Open, Closed, or Flat?

Marc Kamionkowski
Science 29 May 1998: 1397-1398.
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COSMOLOGY:
A Little Hot Dark Matter Matters

Joel R. Primack
Science 29 May 1998: 1398-1400.
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DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY:
Enhanced: Cloning for Profit

Gary B. Anderson and George E. Seidel
Science 29 May 1998: 1400-1401.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
What's the Best Sound?

Eric D. Young
Science 29 May 1998: 1402-1403.
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HUMAN GENETICS:
Update: More Deafness Genes

Karen P. Steel and Steve D. M. Brown
Science 29 May 1998: 1403.
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Association Affairs

 ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
The Shoulders of Giants

Dara Horn
Science 29 May 1998: 1354-1355.
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Research Article

Extracting Primordial Density Fluctuations

Eric Gawiser and Joseph Silk
Science 29 May 1998: 1405-1411.
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Reports

Phase-Matched Generation of Coherent Soft X-rays

Andy Rundquist, Charles G. Durfee, III, Zenghu Chang, Catherine Herne, Sterling Backus, Margaret M. Murnane, and Henry C. Kapteyn
Science 29 May 1998: 1412-1415.
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Electrical Conductivity of Olivine, Wadsleyite, and Ringwoodite Under Upper-Mantle Conditions

Yousheng Xu, Brent T. Poe, Thomas J. Shankland, and David C. Rubie
Science 29 May 1998: 1415-1418.
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In Situ Discovery of Graphite with Interstellar Isotopic Signatures in a Chondrule-Free Clast in an L3 Chondrite

S. Mostefaoui, P. Hoppe, and A. El Goresy
Science 29 May 1998: 1418-1420.
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Eclogitic Diamond Formation at Jwaneng: No Room for a Recycled Component

Pierre Cartigny, Jeffrey W. Harris, and Marc Javoy
Science 29 May 1998: 1421-1424.
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Multiple-Step Melting in Two-Dimensional Hexatic Liquid-Crystal Films

Chia-Fu Chou, Anjun J. Jin, S. W. Hui, C. C. Huang, and John T. Ho
Science 29 May 1998: 1424-1426.
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Helical Superstructures from Charged Poly(styrene)-Poly(isocyanodipeptide) Block Copolymers

Jeroen J. L. M. Cornelissen, Matthias Fischer, Nico A. J. M. Sommerdijk, and Roeland J. M. Nolte
Science 29 May 1998: 1427-1430.
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Identification of Water Ice on the Centaur 1997 CU26

Robert H. Brown, Dale P. Cruikshank, Yvonne Pendleton, and Glenn J. Veeder
Science 29 May 1998: 1430-1432.
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Impairment of Mycobacterial Immunity in Human Interleukin-12 Receptor Deficiency

Frédéric Altare, Anne Durandy, David Lammas, Jean-François Emile, Salma Lamhamedi, Françoise Le Deist, Pam Drysdale, Emmanuelle Jouanguy, Rainer Döffinger, Françoise Bernaudin, Olle Jeppsson, Jared A. Gollob, Edgar Meinl, Antony W. Segal, Alain Fischer, Dinakantha Kumararatne, and Jean-Laurent Casanova
Science 29 May 1998: 1432-1435.
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Severe Mycobacterial and Salmonella Infections in Interleukin-12 Receptor-Deficient Patients

Rolien de Jong, Frédéric Altare, Inez-Anne Haagen, Diënne G. Elferink, Tjitske de Boer, Peter J. C. van Breda Vriesman, Peter J. Kabel, Johannes M. T. Draaisma, Jaap T. van Dissel, Frank P. Kroon, Jean-Laurent Casanova, and Tom H. M. Ottenhoff
Science 29 May 1998: 1435-1438.
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Optimizing Sound Features for Cortical Neurons

R. Christopher deCharms, David T. Blake, and Michael M. Merzenich
Science 29 May 1998: 1439-1444.
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Correction of Deafness in shaker-2 Mice by an Unconventional Myosin in a BAC Transgene

Frank J. Probst, Robert A. Fridell, Yehoash Raphael, Thomas L. Saunders, Aihui Wang, Yong Liang, Robert J. Morell, Jeffrey W. Touchman, Robert H. Lyons, Konrad Noben-Trauth, Thomas B. Friedman, and Sally A. Camper
Science 29 May 1998: 1444-1447.
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Association of Unconventional Myosin MYO15 Mutations with Human Nonsyndromic Deafness DFNB3

Aihui Wang, Yong Liang, Robert A. Fridell, Frank J. Probst, Edward R. Wilcox, Jeffrey W. Touchman, Cynthia C. Morton, Robert J. Morell, Konrad Noben-Trauth, Sally A. Camper, and Thomas B. Friedman
Science 29 May 1998: 1447-1451.
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Continuity in Evolution: On the Nature of Transitions

Walter Fontana and Peter Schuster
Science 29 May 1998: 1451-1455.
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Noggin, Cartilage Morphogenesis, and Joint Formation in the Mammalian Skeleton

Lisa J. Brunet, Jill A. McMahon, Andrew P. McMahon, and Richard M. Harland
Science 29 May 1998: 1455-1457.
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