This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
U.K. Science Funding Increase

Tony Blair
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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

MEDICAL ETHICS:
Geneticists Debate Eugenics and China's Infant Health Law

Dennis Normile
Science 21 August 1998: 1118-1119.
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EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY:
Doubled Genes May Explain Fish Diversity

Gretchen Vogel
Science 21 August 1998: 1119-1121.
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GENOMICS:
A Second Private Genome Project

Eliot Marshall
Science 21 August 1998: 1121.
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GENOMICS:
DNA Chips Survey an Entire Genome

Robert F. Service
Science 21 August 1998: 1122.
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IMMUNOLOGY:
How Embryos May Avoid Immune Attack

Trisha Gura
Science 21 August 1998: 1122-1124.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Neptune's Hasty Moon Poses Celestial Puzzle

Govert Schilling
Science 21 August 1998: 1124.
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SCIENCE IN SOCIETY:
Institute Copes With Genetic Hot Potato

Martin Enserink
Science 21 August 1998: 1124-1125.
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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY:
Report Urges U.S. to Take the Long View

David Malakoff
Science 21 August 1998: 1125.
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RESEARCH PRODUCTIVITY:
London, Cambridge Lead Europe in Output

Daniel Clery
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

GEOLOGY:
The Next Oil Crisis Looms Large--and Perhaps Close

Richard A. Kerr
Science 21 August 1998: 1128-1131.
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OPEC's Second Coming

Richard A. Kerr
Science 21 August 1998: 1129.
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Big Oil Under the Caspian?

Richard A. Kerr
Science 21 August 1998: 1130.
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MOLECULAR EVOLUTION:
How the Genome Readies Itself for Evolution

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 21 August 1998: 1131-1134.
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PHYSICS:
Under Pressure, Deuterium Gets Into Quite a State

David Kestenbaum
Science 21 August 1998: 1135.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 21 August 1998: 1143-1146.
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 Apple Corps

Randy M. Wadkins and Kevin Ahern
Science 21 August 1998: 1143.
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 Journal Proliferation

Peter T. Shepherd
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 R_x for WHO

Rodney W. Nichols
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 Oceans and Climate Shifts

Hisashi Nakamura and Toshio Yamagata
Science 21 August 1998: 1143.
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 Microelectromechanics

John C. Angus, Uziel Landau, and George M. Whitesides
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 Federal Research Priorities

N. Richard Werthamer and Matthew Diehl
Science 21 August 1998: 1143.
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 A Vision of the Pore

Tilly Bakker-Grunwald
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

NEUROBIOLOGY:
Lack of Attention from Loss of Time

Philip W. Gold
Science 21 August 1998: 1149-1150.
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 VIGNETTE:
Edison as Luddite?

David Lindsay
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PHYLOGENETICS:
Bowfins and the Revenge of Comparative Biology

Philippe Janvier
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Policy Forum

ECOLOGY:
State Policy and Pasture Degradation in Inner Asia

David Sneath
Science 21 August 1998: 1147-1148.
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Perspectives

NEUROSCIENCE:
Enhanced: Memories Are Made of This

Michael D. Rugg
Science 21 August 1998: 1151-1152.
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CLIMATE CHANGE:
Just Add Water Vapor

David Rind
Science 21 August 1998: 1152-1153.
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PARTICLE PHYSICS:
Electroweak Reconciliation

Michael E. Peskin
Science 21 August 1998: 1153-1155.
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CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS:
Electronic Confinement in Organic Metals

Claude Bourbonnais and Denis Jérome
Science 21 August 1998: 1155-1156.
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Tech.Sight

 DRUG DELIVERY:
Sustained Delivery of Proteins for Novel Therapeutic Products

Raymond T. Bartus, Mark A. Tracy, Dwaine F. Emerich, and Stephen E. Zale
Science 21 August 1998: 1161-1162.
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 MOLECULAR MARKERS:
Tissue Cork Borer

Richard Peters and Robert Sikorski
Science 21 August 1998: 1163.
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 CRYOPRESERVATION:
A Frankenstein Experiment

Robert Sikorski and Richard Peters
Science 21 August 1998: 1163-1164.
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 META-LANGUAGE:
XML Is Hatching

Robert Sikorski and Richard Peters
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 SITEFINDER

Robert Sikorski and Richard Peters
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Association Affairs

 ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
Opportunity Knocks!

Melvyn Bragg
Science 21 August 1998: 1138-1139.
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Review

Biotic Transitions in Global Marine Diversity

Arnold I. Miller
Science 21 August 1998: 1157-1160.
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Reports

C, N, and Noble Gas Isotopes in Grain Size Separates of Presolar Diamonds from Efremovka

A. B. Verchovsky, A. V. Fisenko, L. F. Semjonova, I. P. Wright, M. R. Lee, and C. T. Pillinger
Science 21 August 1998: 1165-1168.
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Biogeochemical Evidence for Dinoflagellate Ancestors in the Early Cambrian

J. Michael Moldowan and Nina M. Talyzina
Science 21 August 1998: 1168-1170.
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Moho Offset Across the Northern Margin of the Tibetan Plateau

Lupei Zhu and Donald V. Helmberger
Science 21 August 1998: 1170-1172.
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Cambrian Burgess Shale Animals Replicated in Clay Minerals

Patrick J. Orr, Derek E. G. Briggs, and Stuart L. Kearns
Science 21 August 1998: 1173-1175.
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Variation of Interplate Fault Zone Properties with Depth in the Japan Subduction Zone

Susan L. Bilek and Thorne Lay
Science 21 August 1998: 1175-1178.
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Measurements of the Equation of State of Deuterium at the Fluid Insulator-Metal Transition

G. W. Collins, L. B. Da Silva, P. Celliers, D. M. Gold, M. E. Foord, R. J. Wallace, A. Ng, S. V. Weber, K. S. Budil, and R. Cauble
Science 21 August 1998: 1178-1181.
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Dimensionality-Driven Insulator-to-Metal Transition in the Bechgaard Salts

V. Vescoli, L. Degiorgi, W. Henderson, G. Grüner, K. P. Starkey, and L. K. Montgomery
Science 21 August 1998: 1181-1184.
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Making Memories: Brain Activity that Predicts How Well Visual Experience Will Be Remembered

James B. Brewer, Zuo Zhao, John E. Desmond, Gary H. Glover, and John D. E. Gabrieli
Science 21 August 1998: 1185-1187.
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Building Memories: Remembering and Forgetting of Verbal Experiences as Predicted by Brain Activity

Anthony D. Wagner, Daniel L. Schacter, Michael Rotte, Wilma Koutstaal, Anat Maril, Anders M. Dale, Bruce R. Rosen, and Randy L. Buckner
Science 21 August 1998: 1188-1191.
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Prevention of Allogeneic Fetal Rejection by Tryptophan Catabolism

David H. Munn, Min Zhou, John T. Attwood, Igor Bondarev, Simon J. Conway, Brendan Marshall, Corrie Brown, and Andrew L. Mellor
Science 21 August 1998: 1191-1193.
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Direct Allelic Variation Scanning of the Yeast Genome

Elizabeth A. Winzeler, Dan R. Richards, Andrew R. Conway, Alan L. Goldstein, Sue Kalman, Michael J. McCullough, John H. McCusker, David A. Stevens, Lisa Wodicka, David J. Lockhart, and Ronald W. Davis
Science 21 August 1998: 1194-1197.
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Prototype of a Heme Chaperone Essential for Cytochrome c Maturation

Henk Schulz, Hauke Hennecke, and Linda Thöny-Meyer
Science 21 August 1998: 1197-1200.
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Determinants of Kinesin Motor Polarity

Sharyn A. Endow and Kimberly W. Waligora
Science 21 August 1998: 1200-1202.
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Characterization of an Ammonium Transport Protein from the Peribacteroid Membrane of Soybean Nodules

Brent N. Kaiser, Patrick M. Finnegan, Stephen D. Tyerman, Lynne F. Whitehead, Fraser J. Bergersen, David A. Day, and Michael K. Udvardi
Science 21 August 1998: 1202-1206.
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Technical Comments

 "Green Rust" in the Lab and in the Soil

Ronald S. Oremland, John Stolz, Derek Lovley;, S. C. B. Myneni, T. K. Tokunaga, and G. E. Brown, Jr.
Science 21 August 1998: 1111.
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