This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Korean Science and Technology

Chang-Hee Kang
Science 7 August 1998: 781.
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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

PHYSICS:
Practical Tests for an 'Untestable' Theory of Everything?

David Kestenbaum
Science 7 August 1998: 758-759.
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SCIENCE APPOINTMENTS:
Physicist Named Japan's Education Minister

Dennis Normile
Science 7 August 1998: 759-760.
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ENERGY:
Fusion Facility Faces Fall Deadline

Andrew Lawler
Science 7 August 1998: 761-762.
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SUPERCOMPUTING:
Computer Experts Urge New Federal Initiative

Jennifer Couzin
Science 7 August 1998: 762.
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PHYSICS:
Gravity Measurements Ride the Atom Wave

Robert F. Service
Science 7 August 1998: 762-763.
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PROTEIN CHEMISTRY:
A Two-Piece Protein Assembles Itself

Gretchen Vogel
Science 7 August 1998: 763-764.
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PHYSICS:
Accelerator Gets Set to Explore Cosmic Bias

Andrew Watson
Science 7 August 1998: 764-765.
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SPACE:
Engineers Dream of Practical Star Flight

James Glanz
Science 7 August 1998: 765-766.
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BIOTECH REGULATIONS:
Paving the Way for British Xenotransplants

Nigel Williams
Science 7 August 1998: 767.
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SCIENCE POLICY:
USGS Nominee Breaks Ground

Jocelyn Kaiser
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

PLANT GENETICS:
Agricultural Biotech Faces Backlash in Europe

Nigel Williams
Science 7 August 1998: 768-771.
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PLANT GENETICS:
Can Regulations Requiring Labeling of Genetically Modified Foods Work?

Science 7 August 1998: 769.
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RADIO ASTRONOMY:
China Hopes to Move FAST on Largest Telescope

Li Hui
Science 7 August 1998: 771-773.
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RUSSIAN MUSEUMS:
Fight Erupts Over Rights to Profits From Holdings

Richard Stone
Science 7 August 1998: 773-774.
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MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION MEETING:
New Views of the Origins of Mammals

Dennis Normile
Science 7 August 1998: 774-775.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 7 August 1998: 783-785.
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 The New Look

Nicholas A. Halasz, Pat Mail, Susan Rabitan, Janet Rubin, Len Stephan, Bret Cooper, and Dominic Eisinger
Science 7 August 1998: 783.
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 Making the Case for Science

Mary Woolley
Science 7 August 1998: 783.
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 Dangerous Mixture

John C. Angus, Ya-Dong Li, and Quian Yitai
Science 7 August 1998: 783.
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 The Advanced Tokamak

Richard D. Hazeltine, Gerald A. Navratil, William M. Nevins, Miklos Porkolab, Ned R. Sauthoff, Thomas C. Simonen, and Weston M. Stacey
Science 7 August 1998: 783.
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 Indian Science

T. Balakrishna Reddy and G. Padmanaban
Science 7 August 1998: 783.
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 Arsenic-Laced Water in Chile

Mary Lou Biggs, Reina Haque, Lee Moore, Allan Smith, Catterina Ferreccio, and Claudia Hopenhayn-Rich
Science 7 August 1998: 783.
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 Household Antibiotic Storage

Xavier Bosch and Rosamund J. Williams
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Books et al.

ECOLOGY: Beyond the Null Hypothesis

Thomas E. Miller and Gretchen LeBuhn
Science 7 August 1998: 788.
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SOFTWARE: Neural Nets for Novices

John Wass
Science 7 August 1998: 789.
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Policy Forum

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY:
Database Protection and Access to Information

William Gardner and Joseph Rosenbaum
Science 7 August 1998: 786-787.
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Perspectives

MUSCLE CONTRACTION:
Coordinated Feet and the Dance of Ryanodine Receptors

Donald M. Bers and Michael Fill
Science 7 August 1998: 790-791.
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PALEOMAGNETISM:
A Complex Field

Rob Van der Voo
Science 7 August 1998: 791-792.
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QUANTUM COMPUTING:
Beyond Factorization and Search

Lov K. Grover
Science 7 August 1998: 792-794.
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DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROSCIENCE:
Enhanced: Choline, a Vital Amine

Jan Krzysztof Blusztajn
Science 7 August 1998: 794-795.
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Association Affairs

 ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
Closing the Knowledge Gap Between Scientist and Nonscientist

Takashi Tachibana
Science 7 August 1998: 778-779.
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Reports

The Magnetic Stability of Spin-Dependent Tunneling Devices

S. Gider, B.-U. Runge, A. C. Marley, and S. S. P. Parkin
Science 7 August 1998: 797-799.
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Evidence of Soft-Mode Quantum Phase Transitions in Electron Double Layers

Vittorio Pellegrini, Aron Pinczuk, Brian S. Dennis, Annette S. Plaut, Loren N. Pfeiffer, and Ken W. West
Science 7 August 1998: 799-802.
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Preparation of Photonic Crystals Made of Air Spheres in Titania

Judith E. G. J. Wijnhoven and Willem L. Vos
Science 7 August 1998: 802-804.
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Diffusion Kinetics of Samarium and Neodymium in Garnet, and a Method for Determining Cooling Rates of Rocks

J. Ganguly, M. Tirone, and R. L. Hervig
Science 7 August 1998: 805-807.
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Decoupled Temporal Patterns of Evolution and Ecology in Two Post-Paleozoic Clades

Frank K. McKinney, Scott Lidgard, J. John Sepkoski, Jr., and Paul D. Taylor
Science 7 August 1998: 807-809.
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In Situ Observations of a High-Pressure Phase of H₂O Ice

I-Ming Chou, Jennifer G. Blank, Alexander F. Goncharov, Ho-kwang Mao, and Russell J. Hemley
Science 7 August 1998: 809-812.
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Evidence Against a Significant Younger Dryas Cooling Event in New Zealand

Christiane Singer, James Shulmeister, and Bill McLea
Science 7 August 1998: 812-814.
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Callosal Window Between Prefrontal Cortices: Cognitive Interaction to Retrieve Long-Term Memory

Isao Hasegawa, Tetsuya Fukushima, Takeshi Ihara, and Yasushi Miyashita
Science 7 August 1998: 814-818.
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Coupled Gating Between Individual Skeletal Muscle Ca²⁺ Release Channels (Ryanodine Receptors)

Steven O. Marx, Karol Ondrias, and Andrew R. Marks
Science 7 August 1998: 818-821.
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Role of Phosphorylation in Regulation of the Assembly of Endocytic Coat Complexes

Vladimir I. Slepnev, Gian-Carlo Ochoa, Margaret H. Butler, Detlev Grabs, and Pietro De Camilli
Science 7 August 1998: 821-824.
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How Temperature Changes Reset a Circadian Oscillator

Yi Liu, Martha Merrow, Jennifer J. Loros, and Jay C. Dunlap
Science 7 August 1998: 825-829.
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RNA-Mediated Trans-Activation of Transcription from a Viral RNA

Tim L. Sit, Andrew A. Vaewhongs, and Steven A. Lommel
Science 7 August 1998: 829-832.
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Role of IQGAP1, a Target of the Small GTPases Cdc42 and Rac1, in Regulation of E-Cadherin- Mediated Cell-Cell Adhesion

Shinya Kuroda, Masaki Fukata, Masato Nakagawa, Katsuhiko Fujii, Tomoko Nakamura, Tadashi Ookubo, Ichiro Izawa, Takahiro Nagase, Nobuo Nomura, Hideki Tani, Ikuo Shoji, Yoshiharu Matsuura, Shin Yonehara, and Kozo Kaibuchi
Science 7 August 1998: 832-835.
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Positive Selection Through a Motif in the T Cell Receptor

B. Thomas Bäckström, Urs Müller, Barbara Hausmann, and Ed Palmer
Science 7 August 1998: 835-838.
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DARPP-32: Regulator of the Efficacy of Dopaminergic Neurotransmission

A. A. Fienberg, N. Hiroi, P. G. Mermelstein, W.-J. Song, G. L. Snyder, A. Nishi, A. Cheramy, J. P. O'Callaghan, D. B. Miller, D. G. Cole, R. Corbett, C. N. Haile, D. C. Cooper, S. P. Onn, A. A. Grace, C. C. Ouimet, F. J. White, S. E. Hyman, D. J. Surmeier, J.-A. Girault, E. J. Nestler, and P. Greengard
Science 7 August 1998: 838-842.
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Technical Comments

Allometric Scaling in Biology

Haymo Kurz, Konrad Sandau;, Thomas H. Dawson;, James H. Brown, Brian J. Enquist, and Geoffrey B. West;
Science 7 August 1998: 751.
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