This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Training for Today's Marketplace

Elizabeth Marincola and Frank Solomon
Science 31 July 1998: 645.
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NetWatch

Best of the Web in science.
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 NEW PRODUCTS

Science 31 July 1998: 713.

 AAAS News & Notes

Science 31 July 1998: 714-715.

News of the Week

PRIMATE EVOLUTION:
New Study Points to Eurasian Ape as Great Ape Ancestor

Ann Gibbons
Science 31 July 1998: 622-623.
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NOMINATIONS:
Clinton's R&D Chiefs Waiting on Sidelines

Andrew Lawler
Science 31 July 1998: 623.
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ECOLOGY:
U.S., Ukraine Launch New Chernobyl Lab

Richard Stone
Science 31 July 1998: 623-624.
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SCIENCE POLICY:
Outside Insider Named to Head EPA Research

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 31 July 1998: 625-626.
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ECOLOGY:
Vanishing Pools Taking Species With Them

Kathryn S. Brown
Science 31 July 1998: 626.
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ORIGIN OF LIFE:
Did Twisty Starlight Set Stage for Life?

Robert Irion
Science 31 July 1998: 626-627.
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ORIGIN OF LIFE:
A Sulfurous Start for Protein Synthesis?

Gretchen Vogel
Science 31 July 1998: 627-629.
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MICROSCOPY:
Molecular Imaging Beats Limits of Light

Rob van den Berg
Science 31 July 1998: 629.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

IMMUNOLOGY:
A Shadow Falls on Hepatitis B Vaccination Effort

Eliot Marshall
Science 31 July 1998: 630-631.
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IMMUNOLOGY:
Possible Cause Found for Lyme Arthritis

Steven Dickman
Science 31 July 1998: 631-632.
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TECHNOLOGY:
Field Emitters Finding Home in Electronics

Dennis Normile
Science 31 July 1998: 632-633.
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ECOLOGY:
The Sahara Is Not Marching Southward

Richard A. Kerr
Science 31 July 1998: 633-634.
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MATHEMATICS:
Sphere Does Elegant Gymnastics in New Video

Dana Mackenzie
Science 31 July 1998: 634-635.
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U.S. SCIENCE POLICY:
Physicist-Turned-Politician Seeks Middle Ground

Andrew Lawler
Science 31 July 1998: 635-636.
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ASTRONOMY:
Gravity Teases Details From Ancient Cosmic Birthplaces

James Glanz
Science 31 July 1998: 637.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 31 July 1998: 647-649.
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 Scientific Literacy

Richard L. Hinman
Science 31 July 1998: 647.
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 That Corner Office

Frank Selker
Science 31 July 1998: 647.
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 The Plight of Postdocs

Trevor M. Penning
Science 31 July 1998: 647.
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 Strategies for Carbon Reduction

Ronald J. Sutherland;, Joseph Romm, Mark Levine, Marilyn Brown, and Eric Petersen
Science 31 July 1998: 647.
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Books et al.

NEUROSCIENCE:
A Piece of Your Mind

Melvin Konner
Science 31 July 1998: 653-654.
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MEDICINE:
Boundaries in Blood

John T. Truman
Science 31 July 1998: 654.
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Policy Forum

BIOMEDICINE:
ART into Science: Regulation of Fertility Techniques

ISLAT Working Group
Science 31 July 1998: 651-652.
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Perspectives

GEOSCIENCE:
Enhanced: Two Views of the Deep Mantle

Jeroen Tromp and Adam M. Dziewonski
Science 31 July 1998: 655-656.
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CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS:
Buried Spins in Slow Motion

J. M. Kikkawa and D. D. Awschalom
Science 31 July 1998: 656-657.
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THERAPEUTICS:
Genetic Medicine--When Will It Come to the Drugstore?

Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede
Science 31 July 1998: 657-658.
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PROTEIN SYNTHESIS:
All You Need Is RNA

Paul Schimmel and Rebecca Alexander
Science 31 July 1998: 658-659.
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Association Affairs

 ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
The Challenge of Faust

Hans Christoph Binswanger
Science 31 July 1998: 640-641.
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Review

An Integrated Model of the Transcription Complex in Elongation, Termination, and Editing

Peter H. von Hippel
Science 31 July 1998: 660-665.
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Research Article

Reconstitution of Peptide Bond Formation with Escherichia coli 23S Ribosomal RNA Domains

Itaru Nitta, Yoshie Kamada, Hiroe Noda, Takuya Ueda, and Kimitsuna Watanabe
Science 31 July 1998: 666-669.
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Reports

Peptides by Activation of Amino Acids with CO on (Ni,Fe)S Surfaces: Implications for the Origin of Life

Claudia Huber and Günter Wächtershäuser
Science 31 July 1998: 670-672.
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Circular Polarization in Star- Formation Regions: Implications for Biomolecular Homochirality

Jeremy Bailey, Antonio Chrysostomou, J. H. Hough, T. M. Gledhill, Alan McCall, Stuart Clark, François Ménard, and Motohide Tamura
Science 31 July 1998: 672-674.
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Elastic Moduli of Wadsleyite (-Mg₂SiO₄) to 7 Gigapascals and 873 Kelvin

Baosheng Li, Robert C. Liebermann, and Donald J. Weidner
Science 31 July 1998: 675-677.
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Ultrasonic Shear Wave Velocities of MgSiO₃ Perovskite at 8 GPa and 800 K and Lower Mantle Composition

Yegor D. Sinelnikov, Ganglin Chen, Daniel R. Neuville, Michael T. Vaughan, and Robert C. Liebermann
Science 31 July 1998: 677-679.
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Multi-Atom Resonant Photoemission: A Method for Determining Near-Neighbor Atomic Identities and Bonding

A. Kay, E. Arenholz, S. Mun, F. J. García de Abajo, C. S. Fadley, R. Denecke, Z. Hussain, and M. A. Van Hove
Science 31 July 1998: 679-683.
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Visualization of Three-Dimensional Chaos

G. O. Fountain, D. V. Khakhar, and J. M. Ottino
Science 31 July 1998: 683-686.
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Ultraslow Electron Spin Dynamics in GaAs Quantum Wells Probed by Optically Pumped NMR

N. N. Kuzma, P. Khandelwal, S. E. Barrett, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West
Science 31 July 1998: 686-690.
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Near Extinction of a Large, Widely Distributed Fish

Jill M. Casey and Ransom A. Myers
Science 31 July 1998: 690-692.
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Regulation of a Transcription Factor Network Required for Differentiation and Metabolism

Stephen A. Duncan, M. Angeles Navas, Daniel Dufort, Janet Rossant, and Markus Stoffel
Science 31 July 1998: 692-695.
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Impact of a Catastrophic Hurricane on Island Populations

David A. Spiller, Jonathan B. Losos, and Thomas W. Schoener
Science 31 July 1998: 695-697.
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Nucleation of COPII Vesicular Coat Complex by Endoplasmic Reticulum to Golgi Vesicle SNAREs

Sebastian Springer and Randy Schekman
Science 31 July 1998: 698-700.
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Functional Reconstitution of Ypt7p GTPase and a Purified Vacuole SNARE Complex

Ken Sato and William Wickner
Science 31 July 1998: 700-702.
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Identification of LFA-1 as a Candidate Autoantigen in Treatment-Resistant Lyme Arthritis

Dawn M. Gross, Thomas Forsthuber, Magdalena Tary-Lehmann, Carey Etling, Kouichi Ito, Zoltan A. Nagy, Jodie A. Field, Allen C. Steere, and Brigitte T. Huber
Science 31 July 1998: 703-706.
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Pioneer Axon Guidance by UNC-129, a C. elegans TGF-

Antonio Colavita, Srikant Krishna, Hong Zheng, Richard W. Padgett, and Joseph G. Culotti
Science 31 July 1998: 706-709.
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Concerted Evolution in an Egg Receptor for a Rapidly Evolving Abalone Sperm Protein

Willie J. Swanson and Victor D. Vacquier
Science 31 July 1998: 710-712.
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Technical Comments

 Learning and the Sensorimotor Synapse in Aplysia

Robert D. Hawkins;, Geoffrey G. Murphy, and David L. Glanzman;
Science 31 July 1998: 619.
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