This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Airborne Particulate Matter

Philip H. Abelson
Science 11 September 1998: 1609.
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NetWatch

Best of the Web in science.
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 NEW PRODUCTS

Science 11 September 1998: 1869-1870.

News of the Week

SCIENCE IN THE COURTROOM:
Should Engineer Witnesses Meet Same Standards as Scientists?

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 11 September 1998: 1578.
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MICROBIOLOGY:
Cattle Diet Linked to Bacterial Growth

Jennifer Couzin
Science 11 September 1998: 1578.
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BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH:
Senate Committee Votes Boost for NIH

Eliot Marshall
Science 11 September 1998: 1579-1580.
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BIOLOGY:
RNA-Splicing Machinery Revealed

Dan Ferber
Science 11 September 1998: 1581-1582.
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CELL BIOLOGY:
Leptin Sparks Blood Vessel Growth

Marcia Barinaga
Science 11 September 1998: 1582.
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ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH:
NSF Draws Up Plans for $70 Million Plane

Jennifer Couzin
Science 11 September 1998: 1583-1584.
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CAREERS IN SCIENCE:
Report Paints Grim Outlook for Young Ph.D.s

Constance Holden
Science 11 September 1998: 1584.
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CRYSTALLOGRAPHY:
Transfer of Protein Data Bank Sparks Concern

Eliot Marshall
Science 11 September 1998: 1584-1585.
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SOLAR PHYSICS:
So Far, So Good for SOHO

Alexander Hellemans
Science 11 September 1998: 1585-1587.
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SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY:
Five Researchers Die in Plane Crash

Michael Balter
Science 11 September 1998: 1587.
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JAPAN BUDGET:
Bad Economy Is Good News for R&D

Dennis Normile
Science 11 September 1998: 1587.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

THE CEREBELLUM:
The Brain's Engine of Agility

Ingrid Wickelgren
Science 11 September 1998: 1588-1590.
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THE CEREBELLUM:
Where Are Our Motor Memories?

Ingrid Wickelgren
Science 11 September 1998: 1589.
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INTERNATIONAL GENETICS CONGRESS MEETING:
Tipping Off Arabidopsis

Dennis Normile
Science 11 September 1998: 1591.
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INTERNATIONAL GENETICS CONGRESS MEETING:
The Dividing Line for Stem Cells

Dennis Normile
Science 11 September 1998: 1591-1593.
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ASTRONOMY:
Early Start for Lumpy Universe

Govert Schilling
Science 11 September 1998: 1593.
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PHYSICS:
Neutrinos Throw Their Weight Around

David Kestenbaum
Science 11 September 1998: 1594-1595.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 11 September 1998: 1611-1615.
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 Quiescence in Nuclear Transfer

Ian Wilmut, Keith H. S. Campbell, James M. Robl, D. Joseph Jerry, Steven Stice, and Jose Cibelli
Science 11 September 1998: 1611.
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 The Future of Long Life

Leonid A. Gavrilov, Natalia S. Gavrilova, S. Jay Olshansky, Bruce A. Carnes, Christine Cassel, Joseph J. Strout, and John R. Wilmoth
Science 11 September 1998: 1611.
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

EVOLUTION OF BEHAVIOR:
Are We Selfish, Are we Nice, or Are We Nice Because We Are Selfish?

Leonard Nunney
Science 11 September 1998: 1619-1621.
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 VIGNETTE:
Environmental Expertise

Edward O. Wilson
Science 11 September 1998: 1621.
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Policy Forum

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH:
The Paradox of Lead Poisoning Prevention

Bruce P. Lanphear
Science 11 September 1998: 1617-1618.
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Perspectives

PALEOENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH:
Enhanced: Tales Told in Lead

Jerome O. Nriagu
Science 11 September 1998: 1622-1623.
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GEOPHYSICS:
Oceanic Effects on Earth's Rotation Rate

Clark R. Wilson
Science 11 September 1998: 1623-1624.
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NEUROPHARMACOLOGY:
Reward for Persistence in Substance P Research

Claes Wahlestedt
Science 11 September 1998: 1624-1625.
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SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION:
Routing MAP Kinase Cascades

Elaine A. Elion
Science 11 September 1998: 1625-1626.
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Association Affairs

 ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
Women, Science, and Society

Sandra Harding
Science 11 September 1998: 1599-1600.
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Research Articles

History of Atmospheric Lead Deposition Since 12,370 ¹⁴C yr BP from a Peat Bog, Jura Mountains, Switzerland

W. Shotyk, D. Weiss, P. G. Appleby, A. K. Cheburkin, R. Frei, M. Gloor, J. D. Kramers, S. Reese, and W. O. Van Der Knaap
Science 11 September 1998: 1635-1640.
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Distinct Mechanism for Antidepressant Activity by Blockade of Central Substance P Receptors

Mark S. Kramer, Neal Cutler, John Feighner, Ram Shrivastava, John Carman, John J. Sramek, Scott A. Reines, Guanghan Liu, Duane Snavely, Edwina Wyatt-Knowles, Jeffrey J. Hale, Sander G. Mills, Malcolm MacCoss, Christopher J. Swain, Timothy Harrison, Raymond G. Hill, Franz Hefti, Edward M. Scolnick, Margaret A. Cascieri, Gary G. Chicchi, Sharon Sadowski, Angela R. Williams, Louise Hewson, David Smith, Emma J. Carlson, Richard J. Hargreaves, and Nadia M. J. Rupniak
Science 11 September 1998: 1640-1645.
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Reports

A "Green" Route to Adipic Acid: Direct Oxidation of Cyclohexenes with 30 Percent Hydrogen Peroxide

Kazuhiko Sato, Masao Aoki, and Ryoji Noyori
Science 11 September 1998: 1646-1647.
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Onset of Catalytic Activity of Gold Clusters on Titania with the Appearance of Nonmetallic Properties

M. Valden, X. Lai, and D. W. Goodman
Science 11 September 1998: 1647-1650.
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Long-Range Electrostatic Trapping of Single-Protein Molecules at a Liquid-Solid Interface

Xiao-Hong Nancy Xu and Edward S. Yeung
Science 11 September 1998: 1650-1653.
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Design of Organic Molecules with Large Two-Photon Absorption Cross Sections

Marius Albota, David Beljonne, Jean-Luc Brédas, Jeffrey E. Ehrlich, Jia-Ying Fu, Ahmed A. Heikal, Samuel E. Hess, Thierry Kogej, Michael D. Levin, Seth R. Marder, Dianne McCord-Maughon, Joseph W. Perry, Harald Röckel, Mariacristina Rumi, Girija Subramaniam, Watt W. Webb, Xiang-Li Wu, and Chris Xu
Science 11 September 1998: 1653-1656.
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Detection and Modeling of Nontidal Oceanic Effects on Earth's Rotation Rate

Steven L. Marcus, Yi Chao, Jean O. Dickey, and Pascal Gegout
Science 11 September 1998: 1656-1659.
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Energetics of Amino Acid Synthesis in Hydrothermal Ecosystems

J. P. Amend and E. L. Shock
Science 11 September 1998: 1659-1662.
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Crystal Structure of the Catalytic Domain of Human Plasmin Complexed with Streptokinase

Xiaoqiang Wang, Xinli Lin, Jeffrey A. Loy, Jordan Tang, and Xuejun C. Zhang
Science 11 September 1998: 1662-1665.
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Grain Feeding and the Dissemination of Acid-Resistant Escherichia coli from Cattle

Francisco Diez-Gonzalez, Todd R. Callaway, Menas G. Kizoulis, and James B. Russell
Science 11 September 1998: 1666-1668.
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MP1: A MEK Binding Partner That Enhances Enzymatic Activation of the MAP Kinase Cascade

Hans J. Schaeffer, Andrew D. Catling, Scott T. Eblen, Lara S. Collier, Anke Krauss, and Michael J. Weber
Science 11 September 1998: 1668-1671.
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A Mammalian Scaffold Complex That Selectively Mediates MAP Kinase Activation

Alan J. Whitmarsh, Julie Cavanagh, Cathy Tournier, Jun Yasuda, and Roger J. Davis
Science 11 September 1998: 1671-1674.
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Enhanced Phosphorylation of p53 by ATM in Response to DNA Damage

S. Banin, L. Moyal, S.-Y. Shieh, Y. Taya, C. W. Anderson, L. Chessa, N. I. Smorodinsky, C. Prives, Y. Reiss, Y. Shiloh, and Y. Ziv
Science 11 September 1998: 1674-1677.
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Activation of the ATM Kinase by Ionizing Radiation and Phosphorylation of p53

Christine E. Canman, Dae-Sik Lim, Karlene A. Cimprich, Yoichi Taya, Katsuyuki Tamai, Kazuyasu Sakaguchi, Ettore Appella, Michael B. Kastan, and Janet D. Siliciano
Science 11 September 1998: 1677-1679.
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NF-B Antiapoptosis: Induction of TRAF1 and TRAF2 and c-IAP1 and c-IAP2 to Suppress Caspase-8 Activation

Cun-Yu Wang, Marty W. Mayo, Robert G. Korneluk, David V. Goeddel, and Albert S. Baldwin, Jr.
Science 11 September 1998: 1680-1683.
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Biological Action of Leptin as an Angiogenic Factor

M. Rocío Sierra-Honigmann, Anjali K. Nath, Chiaki Murakami, Guillermo García-Cardeña, Andreas Papapetropoulos, William C. Sessa, Lisa A. Madge, Jeffrey S. Schechner, Michael B. Schwabb, Peter J. Polverini, and Jaime R. Flores-Riveros
Science 11 September 1998: 1683-1686.
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Disruption of a Neuropeptide Gene, flp-1, Causes Multiple Behavioral Defects in Caenorhabditis elegans

Laura S. Nelson, Marc L. Rosoff, and Chris Li
Science 11 September 1998: 1686-1690.
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Prevention of Cardiac Hypertrophy in Mice by Calcineurin Inhibition

Mark A. Sussman, Hae W. Lim, Natalie Gude, Tyler Taigen, Eric N. Olson, Jeffrey Robbins, Melissa C. Colbert, Antonio Gualberto, David F. Wieczorek, and Jeffery D. Molkentin
Science 11 September 1998: 1690-1693.
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Technical Comments

 Ferromagnetic Superlattices

Warren E. Pickett;, G. I. Meijer;, Kenji Ueda, H. Tabata, and Tomoji Kawai;
Science 11 September 1998: 1571.
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