This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Budget--The Big Picture

Henry J. Aaron
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NetWatch

Best of the Web in science.
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 NEW PRODUCTS

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News of the Week

FUNDING:
U.K. Government, Wellcome Trust Give $1.75 Billion Boost to R&D

Nigel Williams
Science 17 July 1998: 314-315.
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PALEONTOLOGY:
Smuggled Chinese Fossils on Exhibit

Mutsumi Stone, Jennifer Couzin, and Li Hui
Science 17 July 1998: 315-317.
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AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH:
Plant Biologists Score Two New Major Facilities

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 17 July 1998: 317-318.
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PUBLIC HEALTH:
Epidemiologist Named CDC Director

Eliot Marshall
Science 17 July 1998: 318.
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PHYSICS PUBLISHING:
Russian Academy to End AIP Journals Deal?

Andrey Allakhverdov
Science 17 July 1998: 318.
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RUSSIA:
Relief From Finance Farce?

Andrey Allakhverdov and Vladimir Pokrovsky
Science 17 July 1998: 319.
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PALEOBIOLOGY:
A Fruitful Scoop for Ancient DNA

Erik Stokstad
Science 17 July 1998: 319.
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ASTRONOMY:
Glow Reveals Early Star Nurseries

Andrew Watson
Science 17 July 1998: 320.
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PHYSICS:
Hydrogen Coaxed Into Quantum Condensate

David Kestenbaum
Science 17 July 1998: 321.
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CHEMICAL ECOLOGY:
Building a Better Bug Repellent

Luis Campos
Science 17 July 1998: 321-323.
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ARCHAEOLOGY:
Green Farming by the Incas?

Kevin Krajick
Science 17 July 1998: 322.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

MICROBIAL GENETICS:
Genome Reveals Wiles and Weak Points of Syphilis

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 17 July 1998: 324-325.
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CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE:
Scientists Step Onto the Political Stage

Robert Koenig
Science 17 July 1998: 326-327.
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INDONESIA:
Turbulent Times Mean Trouble for Science

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 17 July 1998: 327-329.
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EVOLUTION:
Tracking the History of the Genetic Code

Gretchen Vogel
Science 17 July 1998: 329.
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EVOLUTION:
The First Codon and Its Descendants

Elizabeth Pennisi
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PLANT PHYSIOLOGY:
Plant Biology in the Genome Era

Christine Mlot
Science 17 July 1998: 331-332.
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ASTRONOMY:
A Dark Matter Candidate Loses Its Luster

James Glanz
Science 17 July 1998: 332-333.
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Letters

Letters Intro

Science 17 July 1998: 347-351.
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 The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer

Robert P. Redwine
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 Kenyan Wildlife Conservation

Agi Kiss
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 Embryology and Evolution

Michael J. Behe, Klaus Sander, and Roland Bender
Science 17 July 1998: 347-351.
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 Tick Population Trends and Forest Type

Howard S. Ginsberg, Kerwin E. Hyland, Renjie Hu, Thomas J. Daniels;, Richard C. Falco, Richard S. Ostfeld, Clive G. Jones, Michele P. Richard, Eric M. Schauber, and Jerry O. Wolff
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

EVOLUTION:
Into Jurassic Air

Sharon Swartz
Science 17 July 1998: 355-356.
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ECOLOGY:
Mapping Natural Communities and Ecosystems

Sherman Suter
Science 17 July 1998: 356.
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Policy Forum

EPIDEMIOLOGY:
Elimination of Syphilis in the United States

Michael E. St. Louis and Judith N. Wasserheit
Science 17 July 1998: 353-354.
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Perspectives

APPLIED PHYSICS:
Switching with Hot Spins

Jo De Boeck
Science 17 July 1998: 357-359.
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ASTROPHYSICS:
Enhanced: Giant Planets to Brown Dwarfs: What Is in Between?

Filipe D. Santos
Science 17 July 1998: 359-360.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
A Tale of Two Transmitters

Roger A. Nicoll and Robert C. Malenka
Science 17 July 1998: 360-361.
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Tech.Sight

DNA SEQUENCING:
A Sequencing Method Based on Real-Time Pyrophosphate

Mostafa Ronaghi, Mathias UhlŽn, and and PŒl NyrŽn
Science 17 July 1998: 363-365.
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NET TIP:
Job Hunting with a Net

Richard Peters and Robert Sikorski
Science 17 July 1998: 366-367.
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PROTEIN ENGINEERING:
Chemical Weddings

Richard Peters and Robert Sikorski
Science 17 July 1998: 367-368.
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PROTEIN CHEMISTRY:
The Heat Is On!

Richard Peters and Robert Sikorski
Science 17 July 1998: 368-369.
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Association Affairs

 ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
The Role of Science in Sustainable Development

Angela Merkel
Science 17 July 1998: 336-337.
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Research Article

Complete Genome Sequence of Treponema pallidum, the Syphilis Spirochete

Claire M. Fraser, Steven J. Norris, George M. Weinstock, Owen White, Granger G. Sutton, Robert Dodson, Michelle Gwinn, Erin K. Hickey, Rebecca Clayton, Karen A. Ketchum, Erica Sodergren, John M. Hardham, Michael P. McLeod, Steven Salzberg, Jeremy Peterson, Hanif Khalak, Delwood Richardson, Jerrilyn K. Howell, Monjula Chidambaram, Teresa Utterback, Lisa McDonald, Patricia Artiach, Cheryl Bowman, Matthew D. Cotton, Claire Fujii, Stacey Garland, Bonnie Hatch, Kurt Horst, Kevin Roberts, Mina Sandusky, Janice Weidman, Hamilton O. Smith, and J. Craig Venter
Science 17 July 1998: 375-388.
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Reports

Reversible Hydrogels from Self-Assembling Artificial Proteins

Wendy A. Petka, James L. Harden, Kevin P. McGrath, Denis Wirtz, and David A. Tirrell
Science 17 July 1998: 389-392.
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Atmospheric Residence Time of CH₃Br Estimated from the Junge Spatial Variability Relation

Jonah J. Colman, Donald R. Blake, and F. Sherwood Rowland
Science 17 July 1998: 392-396.
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Water as a Dense Icelike Component in Silicate Glasses

P. Richet and A. Polian
Science 17 July 1998: 396-398.
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Evidence for Large Earthquakes in Metropolitan Los Angeles

Charles M. Rubin, Scott C. Lindvall, and Thomas K. Rockwell
Science 17 July 1998: 398-402.
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Molecular Coproscopy: Dung and Diet of the Extinct Ground Sloth Nothrotheriops shastensis

Hendrik N. Poinar, Michael Hofreiter, W. Geoffrey Spaulding, Paul S. Martin, B. Artur Stankiewicz, Helen Bland, Richard P. Evershed, Göran Possnert, and Svante Pääbo
Science 17 July 1998: 402-406.
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Room Temperature-Operating Spin-Valve Transistors Formed by Vacuum Bonding

D. J. Monsma, R. Vlutters, and J. C. Lodder
Science 17 July 1998: 407-409.
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Boundary Formation in Drosophila Wing: Notch Activity Attenuated by the POU Protein Nubbin

Carl J. Neumann and Stephen M. Cohen
Science 17 July 1998: 409-413.
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Uncoupling of Nonreceptor Tyrosine Kinases from PLC-1 in an SLP-76-Deficient T Cell

Deborah Yablonski, Michelle R. Kuhne, Theresa Kadlecek, and Arthur Weiss
Science 17 July 1998: 413-416.
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Requirement for the Leukocyte-Specific Adapter Protein SLP-76 for Normal T Cell Development

James L. Clements, Baoli Yang, Susan E. Ross-Barta, Steve L. Eliason, Ronald F. Hrstka, Roger A. Williamson, and Gary A. Koretzky
Science 17 July 1998: 416-419.
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Corelease of Two Fast Neurotransmitters at a Central Synapse

Peter Jonas, Josef Bischofberger, and Jürgen Sandkühler
Science 17 July 1998: 419-424.
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Spatial Organization of Transcription Elongation Complex in Escherichia coli

Evgeny Nudler, Ivan Gusarov, Ekaterina Avetissova, Maxim Kozlov, and Alex Goldfarb
Science 17 July 1998: 424-428.
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Combinatorial Chemistry in Insects: A Library of Defensive Macrocyclic Polyamines

Frank C. Schröder, Jay J. Farmer, Athula B. Attygalle, Scott R. Smedley, Thomas Eisner, and Jerrold Meinwald
Science 17 July 1998: 428-431.
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Technical Comments

 Feasibility of a Colliding Beam Fusion Reactor

W. M. Nevins;, A. Carlson;, Norman Rostoker, Michl W. Binderbauer, and Hendrik J. Monkhorst;
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