This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
French Strategy for Science Education

Claude Allegre
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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

INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION:
Indian Scientists Shaken by Bomb Test Aftershocks

Pallava Bagla
Science 24 July 1998: 494-495.
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ANIMAL CLONING:
Cloned Mice Provide Company for Dolly

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 24 July 1998: 495-497.
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SPACE SCIENCE:
Negative Review Galls Space Crystallographers

Jennifer Couzin
Science 24 July 1998: 497-498.
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FRANCE:
Allègre Sets Tough Targets for Research

Michael Balter
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SPACE SCIENCE:
Chain of Errors Hurled Probe Into Spin

James Glanz
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GLACIOLOGY:
West Antarctica's Weak Underbelly Giving Way?

Richard A. Kerr
Science 24 July 1998: 499-500.
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NEUROBIOLOGY:
How the Brain Sees in Three Dimensions

Marcia Barinaga
Science 24 July 1998: 500-501.
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PHYSICS:
First Ticks of a Super Atom Clock

David Kestenbaum
Science 24 July 1998: 501.
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ENTOMOLOGY:
Earth's Unbounded Beetlemania Explained

Virginia Morell
Science 24 July 1998: 501-503.
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DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY:
How Plants Pick Their Mates

Evelyn Strauss
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

CLIMATE CHANGE:
Coming to Grips With the World's Greenhouse Gases

Karen Schmidt
Science 24 July 1998: 504-506.
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Closing the Carbon Circle

Jocelyn Kaiser and Karen Schmidt
Science 24 July 1998: 504.
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CLIMATE CHANGE:
A Way to Make CO₂ Go Away: Deep-Six It

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 24 July 1998: 505.
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CLIMATE CHANGE:
New Network Aims to Take the World's CO₂ Pulse

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 24 July 1998: 506-507.
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NEUROGENETICS:
New Gene Tied to Common Form of Alzheimer's

Jean Marx
Science 24 July 1998: 507-509.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 24 July 1998: 517-519.
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 Patenting Genes

Allan H. Fried, Marilou E. Watson;, Michael A. Heller, and Rebecca S. Eisenberg
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 The End of Public Higher Education

Brewster C. Denny
Science 24 July 1998: 517.
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 Elevated Atmospheric CO₂ and Soil Biota

Shuijin Hu, Mary K. Firestone, and F. Stuart Chapin III
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 Geomagnetic Reversals

A. K. Baksi; and John Peck
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Books et al.

BEHAVIOR:
Still Stimulating After All These Years

Steven Pinker
Science 24 July 1998: 522-523.
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HISTORY:
Focusing Cell Biology

Peter Satir
Science 24 July 1998: 523-524.
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Policy Forum

MEDICINE:
Toward Safe and Effective Medical Abortion

Wendy R. Ewart and Beverly Winikoff
Science 24 July 1998: 520-521.
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Perspectives

ASTROPHYSICS:
The Challenge of Gamma Ray Burst Observations

Peter J. T. Leonard
Science 24 July 1998: 525-526.
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CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS:
Kondo Effect in Quantum Dots

Takeshi Inoshita
Science 24 July 1998: 526-527.
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IMMUNOLOGY:
Enhanced: Translating Affinity into Response

Bernard Malissen
Science 24 July 1998: 528-529.
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 COMPUTERS:
Nota Bene: Softening Support for Macintoshes

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Association Affairs

 ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
Popular Culture and the Threat to Rational Inquiry

Douglas R. Hofstadter
Science 24 July 1998: 512-513.
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Reports

Rotation of a Single Molecule Within a Supramolecular Bearing

J. K. Gimzewski, C. Joachim, R. R. Schlittler, V. Langlais, H. Tang, and I. Johannsen
Science 24 July 1998: 531-533.
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Exploiting Chemical Libraries, Structure, and Genomics in the Search for Kinase Inhibitors

Nathanael S. Gray, Lisa Wodicka, Andy-Mark W. H. Thunnissen, Thea C. Norman, Soojin Kwon, F. Hernan Espinoza, David O. Morgan, Georjana Barnes, Sophie LeClerc, Laurent Meijer, Sung-Hou Kim, David J. Lockhart, and Peter G. Schultz
Science 24 July 1998: 533-538.
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Synthesis of Macroporous Minerals with Highly Ordered Three-Dimensional Arrays of Spheroidal Voids

Brian T. Holland, Christopher F. Blanford, and Andreas Stein
Science 24 July 1998: 538-540.
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A Tunable Kondo Effect in Quantum Dots

Sara M. Cronenwett, Tjerk H. Oosterkamp, and Leo P. Kouwenhoven
Science 24 July 1998: 540-544.
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Mass-Independent Oxygen Isotope Fractionation in Atmospheric CO as a Result of the Reaction CO + OH

T. Röckmann, C. A. M. Brenninkmeijer, G. Saueressig, P. Bergamaschi, J. N. Crowley, H. Fischer, and P. J. Crutzen
Science 24 July 1998: 544-546.
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A Correlation Between Ultra-Low Basal Velocities in the Mantle and Hot Spots

Q. Williams, J. Revenaugh, and E. Garnero
Science 24 July 1998: 546-549.
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Fast Recession of a West Antarctic Glacier

E. J. Rignot
Science 24 July 1998: 549-551.
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Distance Modulation of Neural Activity in the Visual Cortex

Allan C. Dobbins, Richard M. Jeo, József Fiser, and John M. Allman
Science 24 July 1998: 552-555.
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"Inordinate Fondness" Explained: Why Are There So Many Beetles?

Brian D. Farrell
Science 24 July 1998: 555-559.
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Activity-Dependent Cortical Target Selection by Thalamic Axons

Susan M. Catalano and Carla J. Shatz
Science 24 July 1998: 559-562.
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A Viral Mechanism for Inhibition of the Cellular Phosphatase Calcineurin

James E. Miskin, Charles C. Abrams, Lynnette C. Goatley, and Linda K. Dixon
Science 24 July 1998: 562-565.
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Delivery of Epitopes by the Salmonella Type III Secretion System for Vaccine Development

Holger Rüssmann, Homayoun Shams, Fernando Poblete, Yixin Fu, Jorge E. Galán, and Ruben O. Donis
Science 24 July 1998: 565-568.
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An Unusual Mechanism for Ligand Antagonism

Chikako Torigoe, John K. Inman, and Henry Metzger
Science 24 July 1998: 568-572.
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Fidelity of T Cell Activation Through Multistep T Cell Receptor  Phosphorylation

Ellen Neumeister Kersh, Andrey S. Shaw, and Paul M. Allen
Science 24 July 1998: 572-575.
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Inactivation of a Serotonin-Gated Ion Channel by a Polypeptide Toxin from Marine Snails

Laura J. England, Julita Imperial, Richard Jacobsen, A. Grey Craig, Joseph Gulyas, Mateen Akhtar, Jean Rivier, David Julius, and Baldomero M. Olivera
Science 24 July 1998: 575-578.
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Technical Comments

 -Chemokine MDC and HIV-1 Infection

Benhur Lee, Joseph Rucker, Robert W. Doms, Monica Tsang, Xiachun Hu, Mary Dietz, Robert Bailer, Luis J. Montaner, Craig Gerard, Nancy Sullivan, Joseph Sodroski, Tzanko S. Stantchev, Christopher C. Broder;, F. Arenzana-Seisdedos, A. Amara, D. Thomas, J. L. Virelizier, F. Baleux, I. Clark-Lewis, D. F. Legler, B. Moser, M. Baggiolini;, Anthony L. DeVico, Ranajit Pal, Philip D. Markham, Alfredo Garzino-Demo, and Robert C. Gallo;
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