News of the Week

CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE:
Britain Hunts Down CJD Epidemic in Removed Appendixes

Nigel Williams
Science 4 September 1998: 1422-1423.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Lunar Prospector Probes Moon's Core Mysteries

Robert Irion
Science 4 September 1998: 1423-1425.
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AIDS RESEARCH:
New HIV Strain Could Pose Health Threat

Michael Balter
Science 4 September 1998: 1425-1426.
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ECOLOGY:
Study Finds 10% of Tree Species Under Threat

Nigel Williams
Science 4 September 1998: 1426.
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SUPERCONDUCTIVITY:
Theory Debate Gets Literary, and Ugly

Peter Rodgers
Science 4 September 1998: 1427.
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ASTRONOMY:
Proposed Scope Takes Mirror Size to the Max

Robert Irion
Science 4 September 1998: 1428.
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ASTRONOMY:
Galaxy's Oldest Stars Shed Light on Big Bang

Alexander Hellemans
Science 4 September 1998: 1428-1429.
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BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS:
New Timepiece Has a Familiar Ring

Marcia Barinaga
Science 4 September 1998: 1429-1430.
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MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY:
Breathalyzer Device Sniffs for Disease

Robert F. Service
Science 4 September 1998: 1431.
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ScienceScope

Science 4 September 1998: 1425.
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Random Samples

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News Focus

COMPARATIVE GENETICS:
Which of Our Genes Make Us Human?

Ann Gibbons
Science 4 September 1998: 1432-1434.
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COMPARATIVE GENETICS:
Pushing a Primate Genome Project

Ann Gibbons
Science 4 September 1998: 1433.
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JAPAN'S EDUCATION MINISTER:
Vocal Critic Gets Chance to Put His Ideas Into Practice

Dennis Normile
Science 4 September 1998: 1435-1436.
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APPROPRIATIONS:
Legislators Get Creative With New Crop of Earmarks

David Malakoff
Science 4 September 1998: 1436-1438.
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APPROPRIATIONS:
Big Bucks for Big Sky Country

Andrew Lawler
Science 4 September 1998: 1437.
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CELL BIOLOGY:
How a Growth Control Path Takes a Wrong Turn to Cancer

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 4 September 1998: 1438-1441.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 4 September 1998: 1453-1457.
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 Logging On in the Rain Forests

Claude Gascon, Rita Mesquita, Niro Higuchi, Bruce J. Cabarle, Gary S. Hartshorn, Ian A. Bowles, Richard E. Rice, Russell A. Mittermeier, and Gustavo A. B. da Fonseca
Science 4 September 1998: 1453.
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 Errors in Genome Reviews

Nikos C. Kyrpides and Christos A. Ouzounis
Science 4 September 1998: 1453.
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Books et al.

INFORMATION SCIENCES:
Libraries in the Digital Future

Michael A. Keller
Science 4 September 1998: 1461-1462.
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GEOSCIENCES:
The World Between Crust and Core

David J. Stevenson
Science 4 September 1998: 1462-1463.
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SOFTWARE:
Virtual Valet

Theo Dreher and Daiki Matsuda
Science 4 September 1998: 1463-1464.
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Policy Forum

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY:
Who Should Own Scientific Papers?

Steven Bachrach, R. Stephen Berry, Martin Blume, Thomas von Foerster, Alexander Fowler, Paul Ginsparg, Stephen Heller, Neil Kestner, Andrew Odlyzko, Ann Okerson, Ron Wigington, and Anne Moffat
Science 4 September 1998: 1459-1460.
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Perspectives

NEUROSCIENCE:
Driving the Growth Cone

Pico Caroni
Science 4 September 1998: 1465-1466.
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NUCLEAR STRUCTURE:
Enhanced: Duplicating a Tangled Genome

Peter Cook
Science 4 September 1998: 1466-1467.
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PALEOCLIMATE:
Glacial Puzzles

M. E. Raymo
Science 4 September 1998: 1467-1468.
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PLASMA PHYSICS:
Laser-Generated Jets and Megagauss Magnetic Fields

John Stamper*
Science 4 September 1998: 1469.
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Association Affairs

 ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
Fossils and the Social Future of Science

Geerat J. Vermeij
Science 4 September 1998: 1444-1445.
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Reports

Lunar Prospector: Overview

Alan B. Binder
Science 4 September 1998: 1475-1476.
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Improved Gravity Field of the Moon from Lunar Prospector

A. S. Konopliv, A. B. Binder, L. L. Hood, A. B. Kucinskas, W. L. Sjogren, and J. G. Williams
Science 4 September 1998: 1476-1480.
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Lunar Surface Magnetic Fields and Their Interaction with the Solar Wind: Results from Lunar Prospector

R. P. Lin, D. L. Mitchell, D. W. Curtis, K. A. Anderson, C. W. Carlson, J. McFadden, M. H. Acuña, L. L. Hood, and A. Binder
Science 4 September 1998: 1480-1484.
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Global Elemental Maps of the Moon: The Lunar Prospector Gamma-Ray Spectrometer

D. J. Lawrence, W. C. Feldman, B. L. Barraclough, A. B. Binder, R. C. Elphic, S. Maurice, and D. R. Thomsen
Science 4 September 1998: 1484-1489.
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Major Compositional Units of the Moon: Lunar Prospector Thermal and Fast Neutrons

W. C. Feldman, B. L. Barraclough, S. Maurice, R. C. Elphic, D. J. Lawrence, D. R. Thomsen, and A. B. Binder
Science 4 September 1998: 1489-1493.
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Lunar Fe and Ti Abundances: Comparison of Lunar Prospector and Clementine Data

R. C. Elphic, D. J. Lawrence, W. C. Feldman, B. L. Barraclough, S. Maurice, A. B. Binder, and P. G. Lucey
Science 4 September 1998: 1493-1496.
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Fluxes of Fast and Epithermal Neutrons from Lunar Prospector: Evidence for Water Ice at the Lunar Poles

W. C. Feldman, S. Maurice, A. B. Binder, B. L. Barraclough, R. C. Elphic, and D. J. Lawrence
Science 4 September 1998: 1496-1500.
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Low-Temperature Synthesis of Zintl Compounds with a Single-Source Molecular Precursor

Michael A. Beswick, Nick Choi, Christopher N. Harmer, Alexander D. Hopkins, Mary McPartlin, and Dominic S. Wright
Science 4 September 1998: 1500-1501.
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Segregation of Transcription and Replication Sites Into Higher Order Domains

Xiangyun Wei, Jagath Samarabandu, Rakendu S. Devdhar, Alan J. Siegel, Raj Acharya, and Ronald Berezney
Science 4 September 1998: 1502-1505.
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CBP: A Signal-Regulated Transcriptional Coactivator Controlled by Nuclear Calcium and CaM Kinase IV

Sangeeta Chawla, Giles E. Hardingham, David R. Quinn, and Hilmar Bading
Science 4 September 1998: 1505-1509.
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Identification of c-MYC as a Target of the APC Pathway

Tong-Chuan He, Andrew B. Sparks, Carlo Rago, Heiko Hermeking, Leigh Zawel, Luis T. da Costa, Patrice J. Morin, Bert Vogelstein, and Kenneth W. Kinzler
Science 4 September 1998: 1509-1512.
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Extrapolating Species Abundance Across Spatial Scales

William E. Kunin
Science 4 September 1998: 1513-1515.
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Conversion of Neuronal Growth Cone Responses from Repulsion to Attraction by Cyclic Nucleotides

Hong-jun Song, Guo-li Ming, Zhigang He, Maxime Lehmann, Lisa McKerracher, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, and Mu-ming Poo
Science 4 September 1998: 1515-1518.
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Expression of a Gene Cluster kaiABC as a Circadian Feedback Process in Cyanobacteria

Masahiro Ishiura, Shinsuke Kutsuna, Setsuyuki Aoki, Hideo Iwasaki, Carol R. Andersson, Akio Tanabe, Susan S. Golden, Carl H. Johnson, and Takao Kondo
Science 4 September 1998: 1519-1523.
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Technical Comments

 Measuring Patterns in Population Fluctuations

Barry Cooke;, Esa Ranta, Veijo Kaitala, and Per Lundberg;
Science 4 September 1998: 1415.
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