This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Making the Case for Federal Support of R&D

Franklin D. Raines
Science 12 June 1998: 1671.
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NetWatch

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

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News and Comment

ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH:
Global Change Fights Off a Chill

Andrew Lawler
Science 12 June 1998: 1682-1684.
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ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH:
Research Limelight Falls on Carbon Cycle

Andrew Lawler
Science 12 June 1998: 1683.
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GLOBAL WARMING:
Hot Year, But Cool Response in Congress

Gretchen Vogel and Andrew Lawler
Science 12 June 1998: 1684.
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SWITZERLAND:
Voters Reject Antigenetics Initiative

Robert Koenig
Science 12 June 1998: 1685.
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RESEARCH FRAUD:
Editors Call for Misconduct Watchdog

Nigel Williams
Science 12 June 1998: 1685-1686.
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U.S. SCIENCE POLICY:
Warm Words for Basic Research

Andrew Lawler
Science 12 June 1998: 1686.
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JAPAN:
New Institutes Would Break Mold

Dennis Normile
Science 12 June 1998: 1687.
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BIOMEDICAL PATENTS:
Making Research Tools More Accessible

Eliot Marshall
Science 12 June 1998: 1687-1688.
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RESEARCH ETHICS:
NIH Examines Standards for Consent

Eliot Marshall
Science 12 June 1998: 1688.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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Research News

PHYSICS:
Weighing In on Neutrino Mass

Dennis Normile
Science 12 June 1998: 1689-1690.
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COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY:
The Fast Way to a Better Fuel Cell

Robert F. Service
Science 12 June 1998: 1690-1691.
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POLYMER ELECTRONICS:
Transistors and Diodes Link and Light Up

Robert F. Service
Science 12 June 1998: 1691.
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GENOMICS RESEARCH:
Sifting Through and Making Sense of Genome Sequences

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 12 June 1998: 1692-1693.
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GEOPHYSICS MEETING:
Scientists Ponder Deep Slabs, Small Comets, Hidden Oceans

Richard A. Kerr
Science 12 June 1998: 1694-1695.
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Letters

Microbes and migrations

Science 12 June 1998: 1671-1677.
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 How Anthrax Kills

Philip Hanna;, Nicholas Duesbery, George Vande Woude, and Stephen Leppla
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 Early Americans

Jean M. Auel
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 Conceiving a Black Hole

Laurent Hodges
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 Areas of the Brain: Movements and Memories

Daniel V. Meegan;, Susan M. Courtney, Laurent Petit, Leslie G. Ungerleider, and James V. Haxby
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 Corrections and Clarifications

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Books et al.

Forty Years in the Conceptual Wilderness

Merton Sandler
Science 12 June 1998: 1709-1710.
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Locating Sustainability

Bryan G. Norton
Science 12 June 1998: 1710.
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Policy

SCIENCE IN ASIA:
A Molecular Biology Network for Asia and the Pacific Rim

Nancy Y. Ip and Gurinder Shahi
Science 12 June 1998: 1708.
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Research Commentaries

NEUROSCIENCE:
Enhanced: The Biology of Being Frazzled

Amy F. T. Arnsten
Science 12 June 1998: 1711-1712.
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PROTEIN STRUCTURE:
Cytochrome c Oxidase: One Enzyme, Two Mechanisms?

Robert B. Gennis
Science 12 June 1998: 1712-1713.
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PALEONTOLOGY:
Hominid Brain Evolution: Looks Can Be Deceiving

Dean Falk
Science 12 June 1998: 1714.
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SURFACE SCIENCE:
How to Have Your Cake and Eat It Too

John B. Pethica
Science 12 June 1998: 1715.
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Association Affairs

 ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
Envisioning Science--A Personal Perspective

Felice Frankel
Science 12 June 1998: 1698-1700.
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Review

A Defect-Tolerant Computer Architecture: Opportunities for Nanotechnology

James R. Heath, Philip J. Kuekes, Gregory S. Snider, and R. Stanley Williams
Science 12 June 1998: 1716-1721.
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Research Article

Redox-Coupled Crystal Structural Changes in Bovine Heart Cytochrome c Oxidase

Shinya Yoshikawa, Kyoko Shinzawa-Itoh, Ryosuke Nakashima, Rieko Yaono, Eiki Yamashita, Noriko Inoue, Min Yao, Ming Jie Fei, Clare Peters Libeu, Tsunehiro Mizushima, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Takashi Tomizaki, and Tomitake Tsukihara
Science 12 June 1998: 1723-1729.
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Reports

Endocranial Capacity in an Early Hominid Cranium from Sterkfontein, South Africa

Glenn C. Conroy, Gerhard W. Weber, Horst Seidler, Phillip V. Tobias, Alex Kane, and Barry Brunsden
Science 12 June 1998: 1730-1731.
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Single-Molecule Vibrational Spectroscopy and Microscopy

B. C. Stipe, M. A. Rezaei, and W. Ho
Science 12 June 1998: 1732-1735.
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Combinatorial Electrochemistry: A Highly Parallel, Optical Screening Method for Discovery of Better Electrocatalysts

Erik Reddington, Anthony Sapienza, Bogdan Gurau, Rameshkrishnan Viswanathan, S. Sarangapani, Eugene S. Smotkin, and Thomas E. Mallouk
Science 12 June 1998: 1735-1737.
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Compatibility of Rhenium in Garnet During Mantle Melting and Magma Genesis

Kevin Righter and Erik H. Hauri
Science 12 June 1998: 1737-1741.
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Integrated Optoelectronic Devices Based on Conjugated Polymers

Henning Sirringhaus, Nir Tessler, and Richard H. Friend
Science 12 June 1998: 1741-1744.
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Carbon Nanotube Quantum Resistors

Stefan Frank, Philippe Poncharal, Z. L. Wang, and Walt A. de Heer
Science 12 June 1998: 1744-1746.
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Hormone-Dependent Coactivator Binding to a Hydrophobic Cleft on Nuclear Receptors

Weijun Feng, Ralff C. J. Ribeiro, Richard L. Wagner, Hoa Nguyen, James W. Apriletti, Robert J. Fletterick, John D. Baxter, Peter J. Kushner, and Brian L. West
Science 12 June 1998: 1747-1749.
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Mutation of BCL-6 Gene in Normal B Cells by the Process of Somatic Hypermutation of Ig Genes

Hong Ming Shen, Andrew Peters, Beverly Baron, Xiangdong Zhu, and Ursula Storb
Science 12 June 1998: 1750-1752.
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Mutation of a Gene Encoding a Protein with Extracellular Matrix Motifs in Usher Syndrome Type IIa

James D. Eudy, Michael D. Weston, SuFang Yao, Denise M. Hoover, Heidi L. Rehm, Manling Ma-Edmonds, Denise Yan, Iqbal Ahmad, Jason J. Cheng, Carmen Ayuso, Cor Cremers, Sandra Davenport, Claes Moller, Catherine B. Talmadge, Kirk W. Beisel, Marta Tamayo, Cynthia C. Morton, Anand Swaroop, William J. Kimberling, and Janos Sumegi
Science 12 June 1998: 1753-1757.
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Promotion of Met-tRNA_i^Met Binding to Ribosomes by yIF2, a Bacterial IF2 Homolog in Yeast

Sang Ki Choi, Joon H. Lee, Wendy L. Zoll, William C. Merrick, and Thomas E. Dever
Science 12 June 1998: 1757-1760.
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The Ubiquitin-Related Protein RUB1 and Auxin Response in Arabidopsis

J. C. del Pozo, C. Timpte, S. Tan, J. Callis, and M. Estelle
Science 12 June 1998: 1760-1763.
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Close Contacts with the Endoplasmic Reticulum as Determinants of Mitochondrial Ca²⁺ Responses

Rosario Rizzuto, Paolo Pinton, Walter Carrington, Frederic S. Fay, Kevin E. Fogarty, Lawrence M. Lifshitz, Richard A. Tuft, and Tullio Pozzan
Science 12 June 1998: 1763-1766.
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