This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
Science 5 June 1998: 1501.
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Editorial:
It's Not Rocket Science--But It Can Save Lives

Barbara R. Jasny and Floyd E. Bloom
Science 5 June 1998: 1507.
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NetWatch

Best of the Web in science.
Science 5 June 1998: 1499.
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 Tech.Sight: Products

Science 5 June 1998: 1621.

News and Comment

MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH:
NIH Plans Bioengineering Initiative

Bruce Agnew
Science 5 June 1998: 1516-1518.
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MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH:
Biology by Design: From Software to Skin

Bruce Agnew
Science 5 June 1998: 1517.
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CONSERVATION:
Ousted Kenya Parks Head Gets Job Back

Constance Holden
Science 5 June 1998: 1518-1519.
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IRELAND:
Peace Process Set to Boost Collaboration

Nigel Williams
Science 5 June 1998: 1519.
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INDIA:
New Budget Boosts 'Secret' Science

Pallava Bagla
Science 5 June 1998: 1520.
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ASTRONOMY:
Biggest Telescope Opens One Eye

Govert Schilling
Science 5 June 1998: 1520.
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RESEARCH ETHICS:
New Rules on Human Subjects Could End Debate in Canada

Wayne Kondro
Science 5 June 1998: 1521.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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Research News

ASTROPHYSICS:
Cosmos in a Computer

James Glanz
Science 5 June 1998: 1522-1523.
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NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE:
Tau Protein Mutations Confirmed as Neuron Killers

Gretchen Vogel
Science 5 June 1998: 1524-1525.
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HUMAN ORIGINS:
Old, Old Skull Has a New Look

Ann Gibbons
Science 5 June 1998: 1525.
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PHYSICS:
A Giant Snare for Monopoles

David Kestenbaum
Science 5 June 1998: 1526.
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PHYSICS:
Putting Antimatter on the Scales

Alexander Hellemans
Science 5 June 1998: 1526.
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ECOLOGY:
Yellowstone Rising Again From Ashes of Devastating Fires

Richard Stone
Science 5 June 1998: 1527-1528.
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DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY:
One-Eyed Animals Implicate Cholesterol in Development

Evelyn Strauss
Science 5 June 1998: 1528-1529.
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Letters

Conflicts

Science 5 June 1998: 1507-1511.
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 Wildlife Conservation in Kenya

David Western;, Kurt Benirschke, Joel Berger, Daniel H. Janzen, Winnie Hallwachs, Gary K. Meffe, Norman Myers, William D. Newmark, David S. Woodruff, Jack Bradbury;, Peter H. Raven;, and Colin Norman
Science 5 June 1998: 1507.
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Books et al.

Palaeobiography

Paul Copper
Science 5 June 1998: 1542-1543.
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Not Noticed by Darwin?

Deane Bowers
Science 5 June 1998: 1543.
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Policy

GENOMICS:
Shotgun Sequencing of the Human Genome

J. Craig Venter, Mark D. Adams, Granger G. Sutton, Anthony R. Kerlavage, Hamilton O. Smith, and Michael Hunkapiller
Science 5 June 1998: 1540-1542.
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Research Commentaries

LASER PHYSICS:
Enhanced: Geometrical Shaping of Microlaser Emission Patterns

Erich Gornik
Science 5 June 1998: 1544-1545.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Deuteronomy?: A Puzzle of Deuterium and Oxygen on Mars

Yuk L. Yung and David M. Kass
Science 5 June 1998: 1545-1546.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Glutamate Receptor Activation: A Four-Step Program

Christopher Miller
Science 5 June 1998: 1547-1548.
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CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS:
An End in the Beginning

Jay Dunlap
Science 5 June 1998: 1548-1549.
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Association Affairs

 ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
Presidents, Experts, and Asteroids

Sir Arthur Clarke
Science 5 June 1998: 1532-1533.
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Review

Dynamics of Glasses and Glass-Forming Liquids Studied by Inelastic X-ray Scattering

Francesco Sette, Michael H. Krisch, Claudio Masciovecchio, Giancarlo Ruocco, and Giulio Monaco
Science 5 June 1998: 1550-1555.
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Research Articles

High-Power Directional Emission from Microlasers with Chaotic Resonators

Claire Gmachl, Federico Capasso, E. E. Narimanov, Jens U. Nöckel, A. Douglas Stone, Jérôme Faist, Deborah L. Sivco, and Alfred Y. Cho
Science 5 June 1998: 1556-1564.
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Role of the CLOCK Protein in the Mammalian Circadian Mechanism

Nicholas Gekakis, David Staknis, Hubert B. Nguyen, Fred C. Davis, Lisa D. Wilsbacher, David P. King, Joseph S. Takahashi, and Charles J. Weitz
Science 5 June 1998: 1564-1569.
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Reports

Coupled ¹⁸⁶Os and ¹⁸⁷Os Evidence for Core-Mantle Interaction

Alan D. Brandon, Richard J. Walker, John W. Morgan, Marc D. Norman, and Hazel M. Prichard
Science 5 June 1998: 1570-1573.
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Distribution of Rock, Metals, and Ices in Callisto

J. D. Anderson, G. Schubert, R. A. Jacobson, E. L. Lau, W. B. Moore, and W. L. Sjogren
Science 5 June 1998: 1573-1576.
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Detection of Atomic Deuterium in the Upper Atmosphere of Mars

Vladimir A. Krasnopolsky, Michael J. Mumma, and G. Randall Gladstone
Science 5 June 1998: 1576-1580.
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Atmosphere-Surface Interactions on Mars: ¹⁷O Measurements of Carbonate from ALH 84001 

James Farquhar, Mark H. Thiemens, and Teresa Jackson
Science 5 June 1998: 1580-1582.
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Localization of Metastable Atom Beams with Optical Standing Waves: Nanolithography at the Heisenberg Limit

K. S. Johnson, J. H. Thywissen, N. H. Dekker, K. K. Berggren, A. P. Chu, R. Younkin, and M. Prentiss
Science 5 June 1998: 1583-1586.
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Silacalix-[n]-phosphaarenes: Macrocyclic Ligands Based on Dicoordinate Phosphorus Centers

Narcis Avarvari, Nicolas Mézailles, Louis Ricard, Pascal Le Floch, and François Mathey
Science 5 June 1998: 1587-1589.
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High-T_c Superconductors in the Two-Dimensional Limit: [(Py-C_nH_2n+1)₂HgI₄]-Bi₂Sr₂Ca_m1Cu_mO_y (m = 1 and 2)

Jin-Ho Choy, Soon-Jae Kwon, and Gyeong-Su Park
Science 5 June 1998: 1589-1592.
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Ribozyme-Mediated Repair of Sickle -Globin mRNAs in Erythrocyte Precursors

Ning Lan, Richard P. Howrey, Seong-Wook Lee, Clayton A. Smith, and Bruce A. Sullenger
Science 5 June 1998: 1593-1596.
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The Tetrameric Structure of a Glutamate Receptor Channel

Christian Rosenmund, Yael Stern-Bach, and Charles F. Stevens
Science 5 June 1998: 1596-1599.
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Closing the Circadian Loop: CLOCK-Induced Transcription of Its Own Inhibitors per and tim

Thomas K. Darlington, Karen Wager-Smith, M. Fernanda Ceriani, David Staknis, Nicholas Gekakis, Thomas D. L. Steeves, Charles J. Weitz, Joseph S. Takahashi, and Steve A. Kay
Science 5 June 1998: 1599-1603.
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Teratogen-Mediated Inhibition of Target Tissue Response to Shh Signaling

Michael K. Cooper, Jeffery A. Porter, Keith E. Young, and Philip A. Beachy
Science 5 June 1998: 1603-1607.
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Inhibition of a Mycobacterium tuberculosis -Ketoacyl ACP Synthase by Isoniazid

Khisimuzi Mdluli, Richard A. Slayden, YaQi Zhu, Srinivas Ramaswamy, Xi Pan, David Mead, Deborah D. Crane, James M. Musser, and Clifton E. Barry, III
Science 5 June 1998: 1607-1610.
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Axonal Swellings and Degeneration in Mice Lacking the Major Proteolipid of Myelin

Ian Griffiths, Matthias Klugmann, Thomas Anderson, Donald Yool, Christine Thomson, Markus H. Schwab, Armin Schneider, Frank Zimmermann, Mailise McCulloch, Nancy Nadon, and Klaus-Armin Nave
Science 5 June 1998: 1610-1613.
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Inhibition of Cell Migration, Spreading, and Focal Adhesions by Tumor Suppressor PTEN

Masahito Tamura, Jianguo Gu, Kazue Matsumoto, Shin-ichi Aota, Ramon Parsons, and Kenneth M. Yamada
Science 5 June 1998: 1614-1617.
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Entry of Alphaherpesviruses Mediated by Poliovirus Receptor-Related Protein 1 and Poliovirus Receptor

Robert J. Geraghty, Claude Krummenacher, Gary H. Cohen, Roselyn J. Eisenberg, and Patricia G. Spear
Science 5 June 1998: 1618-1620.
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