This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
Science 26 June 1998: 2021.
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Editorial:
Reaching out for World Health

Gro Harlem Brundtland
Science 26 June 1998: 2027.
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NetWatch

Best of the Web in science.
Science 26 June 1998: 2019.
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 Tech.Sight: Products

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 AAAS News & Notes

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 Quarterly Author Index

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News and Comment

SEISMOLOGY:
Did Test Ban Watchdog Fail to Bark?

Eliot Marshall
Science 26 June 1998: 2038-2040.
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NOVAYA ZEMLYA:
The Quake That Roared

Eliot Marshall
Science 26 June 1998: 2039.
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CABINET APPOINTMENT:
Los Alamos Ally Gets Top DOE Post

Andrew Lawler
Science 26 June 1998: 2040.
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CARBON DATING:
Rock Dates Thrown Into Doubt, Researcher Under Fire

David Malakoff
Science 26 June 1998: 2041-2042.
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ASTRONOMY:
ESA Commits to Hubble's Successor

Alexander Hellemans
Science 26 June 1998: 2042.
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BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FUNDING:
Dexter Takes Over Wellcome Trust's Pot of Gold

Nigel Williams
Science 26 June 1998: 2043.
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BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FUNDING:
Europe's Cold Spring Harbor

Nigel Williams
Science 26 June 1998: 2043-2044.
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CHEMISTRY:
New Fullerene Rounds Out the Family

Robert F. Service
Science 26 June 1998: 2044.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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Research News

NEUROCHEMISTRY:
Teaching the Brain to Take Drugs

Ingrid Wickelgren
Science 26 June 1998: 2045-2047.
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NEUROCHEMISTRY:
Pills to Help Keep You Clean

Ingrid Wickelgren
Science 26 June 1998: 2046.
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ASTRONOMY:
Seeking the Sun's Deepest Notes

Alexander Hellemans
Science 26 June 1998: 2047.
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MICROBIOLOGY:
A Tangled Tale of E. coli Virulence

Kristin Weidenbach
Science 26 June 1998: 2048.
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ECOLOGY:
El Niño Drives Spectacular Flower Show

Richard A. Lovett
Science 26 June 1998: 2048-2049.
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COSMOLOGY:
Cosmic Web Captures Lost Matter

James Glanz
Science 26 June 1998: 2049-2050.
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MICROBIOLOGY:
Possible New Weapon for Insect Control

Evelyn Strauss
Science 26 June 1998: 2050.
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PALEONTOLOGY:
Dinosaur Fossils, in Fine Feather, Show Link to Birds

Ann Gibbons
Science 26 June 1998: 2051.
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Letters

Into orbit

Science 26 June 1998: 2027-2033.
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 Scientist-Diplomats

Peter A. Cohen
Science 26 June 1998: 2027.
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 Spacelab's Worth

Simon Ostrach; and Andrew Lawler
Science 26 June 1998: 2027.
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 Global Temperature Patterns

Michael E. Mann, Raymond S. Bradley, Malcolm K. Hughes, and Philip D. Jones
Science 26 June 1998: 2027.
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 Renaming the "Henneman Size Principle"

Joel A. Vilensky and Sid Gilman
Science 26 June 1998: 2027.
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 Populations as "Species-in-Waiting"?

Kai M. A. Chan;, Jennifer Hughes, Gretchen Daily, and Paul Ehrlich
Science 26 June 1998: 2027.
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 Corrections and Clarifications

Science 26 June 1998: 2027.
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Books et al.

Contingency and Convergence

Mike Foote
Science 26 June 1998: 2068-2069.
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Browsings

Science 26 June 1998: 2070.
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Policy

GLOBAL HEALTH:
The "Roll Back Malaria" Campaign

David N. Nabarro and Elizabeth M. Tayler
Science 26 June 1998: 2067-2068.
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Research Commentaries

GAME THEORY:
Enhanced: Give and Ye Shall Be Recognized

Claus Wedekind
Science 26 June 1998: 2070-2071.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
New Insights on the Kuiper Belt

Alessandro Morbidelli
Science 26 June 1998: 2071-2073.
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MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES:
Life at the Freezing Point

Roland Psenner and Birgit Sattler
Science 26 June 1998: 2073-2074.
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SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION:
G Proteins and Small GTPases: Distant Relatives Keep in Touch

Alan Hall
Science 26 June 1998: 2074-2075.
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Association Affairs

 ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
Putting Science in the Hands of the Public

Goéry Delacote
Science 26 June 1998: 2054-2055.
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Reports

Plasticity Induced by Shock Waves in Nonequilibrium Molecular-Dynamics Simulations

Brad Lee Holian and Peter S. Lomdahl
Science 26 June 1998: 2085-2088.
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Design and Fabrication of Topologically Complex, Three-Dimensional Microstructures

Rebecca J. Jackman, Scott T. Brittain, Allan Adams, Mara G. Prentiss, and George M. Whitesides
Science 26 June 1998: 2089-2091.
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From Shifting Silt to Solid Stone: The Manufacture of Synthetic Basalt in Ancient Mesopotamia

E. C. Stone, D. H. Lindsley, V. Pigott, G. Harbottle, and M. T. Ford
Science 26 June 1998: 2091-2093.
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(Mg,Fe)SiO₃-Perovskite Stability Under Lower Mantle Conditions

G. Serghiou, A. Zerr, and R. Boehler
Science 26 June 1998: 2093-2095.
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Perennial Antarctic Lake Ice: An Oasis for Life in a Polar Desert

John C. Priscu, Christian H. Fritsen, Edward E. Adams, Stephen J. Giovannoni, Hans W. Paerl, Christopher P. McKay, Peter T. Doran, Douglas A. Gordon, Brian D. Lanoil, and James L. Pinckney
Science 26 June 1998: 2095-2098.
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Gold Nanoelectrodes of Varied Size: Transition to Molecule-Like Charging

Shaowei Chen, Roychelle S. Ingram, Michael J. Hostetler, Jeremy J. Pietron, Royce W. Murray, T. Gregory Schaaff, Joseph T. Khoury, Marcos M. Alvarez, and Robert L. Whetten
Science 26 June 1998: 2098-2101.
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Giant Electrostriction and Relaxor Ferroelectric Behavior in Electron-Irradiated Poly(vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene) Copolymer

Q. M. Zhang, Vivek Bharti, and X. Zhao
Science 26 June 1998: 2101-2104.
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Neptune's Eccentricity and the Nature of the Kuiper Belt

William R. Ward and Joseph M. Hahn
Science 26 June 1998: 2104-2106.
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Embryonic Folate Metabolism and Mouse Neural Tube Defects

Angeleen Fleming and Andrew J. Copp
Science 26 June 1998: 2107-2109.
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p115 RhoGEF, a GTPase Activating Protein for G₁₂ and G₁₃

Tohru Kozasa, Xuejun Jiang, Matthew J. Hart, Pamela M. Sternweis, William D. Singer, Alfred G. Gilman, Gideon Bollag, and Paul C. Sternweis
Science 26 June 1998: 2109-2111.
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Direct Stimulation of the Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Activity of p115 RhoGEF by G₁₃

Matthew J. Hart, Xuejun Jiang, Tohru Kozasa, William Roscoe, William D. Singer, Alfred G. Gilman, Paul C. Sternweis, and Gideon Bollag
Science 26 June 1998: 2112-2114.
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Type IV Pili, Transient Bacterial Aggregates, and Virulence of Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli

David Bieber, Sandra W. Ramer, Cheng-Yen Wu, William J. Murray, Toru Tobe, Rosemary Fernandez, and Gary K. Schoolnik
Science 26 June 1998: 2114-2118.
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Drosophila Synapse Formation: Regulation by Transmembrane Protein with Leu-Rich Repeats, CAPRICIOUS

Emiko Shishido, Masatoshi Takeichi, and Akinao Nose
Science 26 June 1998: 2118-2121.
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Abolition of Long-Term Stability of New Hippocampal Place Cell Maps by NMDA Receptor Blockade

Clifford Kentros, Eric Hargreaves, Robert D. Hawkins, Eric R. Kandel, Matthew Shapiro, and Robert V. Muller
Science 26 June 1998: 2121-2126.
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Edge Effects and the Extinction of Populations Inside Protected Areas

Rosie Woodroffe and Joshua R. Ginsberg
Science 26 June 1998: 2126-2128.
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Insecticidal Toxins from the Bacterium Photorhabdus luminescens

David Bowen, Thomas A. Rocheleau, Michael Blackburn, Olga Andreev, Elena Golubeva, Rohit Bhartia, and Richard H. ffrench-Constant
Science 26 June 1998: 2129-2132.
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Technical Comments

Ambiguities in Direct Dating of Rock Surfaces Using Radiocarbon Measurements

W. Beck, D. J. Donahue, A. J. T. Jull, G. Burr, W. S. Broecker, G. Bonani, I. Hajdas, E. Malotki;, and Ronald I. Dorn;
Science 26 June 1998: 2132-2139.
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