This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Balancing the Research Portfolio

Wm. A. Wulf
Science 18 September 1998: 1803.
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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

HUMAN GENOME PROJECT:
NIH to Produce a 'Working Draft' of the Genome by 2001

Eliot Marshall
Science 18 September 1998: 1774-1775.
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ARCHAEOLOGY:
Traces of Ancient Mariners Found in Peru

Heather Pringle
Science 18 September 1998: 1775-1777.
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ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION:
Strict Rules Rile Indian Scientists

Pallava Bagla
Science 18 September 1998: 1777-1778.
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SCIENCE EDUCATION:
Graduate Admissions Down for Minorities

Marcia Barinaga
Science 18 September 1998: 1778.
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SCIENCE EDUCATION:
A Record Grant for College Programs

Jennifer Couzin
Science 18 September 1998: 1779.
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BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH:
China Sets Rules for Foreign Collaboration

Hui Li
Science 18 September 1998: 1779-1780.
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ECOLOGY:
Impact of Primate Losses Estimated

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 18 September 1998: 1780-1781.
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QUANTUM COMPUTING:
Fighting Corruption in the Quantum World

Andrew Watson
Science 18 September 1998: 1781.
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CANADIAN FUNDING:
NRC Seeks Boost for Base, Special Projects

Wayne Kondro
Science 18 September 1998: 1781-1783.
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HEAVY ELEMENTS:
Fast Chemistry Snares Stray Plutonium Isotope

Robert F. Service
Science 18 September 1998: 1783.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

DIGITAL LIBRARIES:
Assembling the World's Biggest Library on Your Desktop

Joseph Alper
Science 18 September 1998: 1784-1786.
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DIGITAL LIBRARIES:
Taming MEDLINE With Concept Spaces

Joseph Alper
Science 18 September 1998: 1785.
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GENOME RESEARCH:
A Closer Look at SNPs Suggests Difficulties

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 18 September 1998: 1787-1789.
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GENOME RESEARCH:
More SNPs on the Way

Ken Garber
Science 18 September 1998: 1788.
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ECOLOGY:
Software Helps Australia Manage Forest Debate

Elizabeth Finkel
Science 18 September 1998: 1789-1791.
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U.K. SCIENCE POLICY:
From Supermarket Boss to Science Minister

Nigel Williams
Science 18 September 1998: 1792-1793.
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Sainsbury: Science Philanthropist

Nigel Williams
Science 18 September 1998: 1792.
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BIOCHEMISTRY:
A Sweet Way to Keep Proteins Safe

Carol Potera
Science 18 September 1998: 1793.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 18 September 1998: 1805.
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 Patent Income

Allen D. Roses
Science 18 September 1998: 1805.
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 Solution to a Conservation Problem?

Frank A. von Hippel
Science 18 September 1998: 1805.
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 Tobacco: Who Pays Whom?

Steve Milloy and Gio Batta Gori
Science 18 September 1998: 1805.
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 Estimating the CO₂ Uptake in Europe

Philippe Martin
Science 18 September 1998: 1805.
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 Big Spenders?

Eric Arnett and Robert M. May
Science 18 September 1998: 1805.
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 NRC on Global Change

G. James Collatz and Yoram Kaufman
Science 18 September 1998: 1805.
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 Native Coral

Mac Chapin and Peter R. Jutro
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

EVOLUTION:
On the Ontology and Origin of Species

Richard M. Burian
Science 18 September 1998: 1812-1813.
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ANTHROPOLOGY:
Rescued Account of a Vanished People

Gustavo Politis
Science 18 September 1998: 1813-1814.
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MULTIMEDIA:
Making Multimedia

Hamid Ghanadan
Science 18 September 1998: 1814.
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 VIGNETTE:
Scientific Reformation

Steve Fuller
Science 18 September 1998: 1814.
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Policy Forum

BIOTECHNOLOGY:
The Swiss Vote on Gene Technology

Gottfried Schatz
Science 18 September 1998: 1810-1811.
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Perspectives

ASTROPHYSICS:
Shedding Light on Black Holes

Mark Reid
Science 18 September 1998: 1815-1816.
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PLASMA PHYSICS:
Turbulence and Sheared Flow

Keith H. Burrell
Science 18 September 1998: 1816-1817.
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CELL BIOLOGY:
Enhanced: Telomeres--Unsticky Ends

David Shore
Science 18 September 1998: 1818-1819.
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Tech.Sight

PHARMACOGENOMICS:
Genetic Variation as a Guide to Drug Development

Patrick W. Kleyn and Elliot S. Vesell
Science 18 September 1998: 1820-1821.
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E-MAIL SECURITY:
E-mail Trojan Horses

Richard Peters and Robert Sikorski
Science 18 September 1998: 1822.
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ENZYMOLOGY TECHNIQUE:
Two-Hybridzyme

Robert Sikorski and Richard Peters
Science 18 September 1998: 1822-1823.
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 SITE FINDER:
Security Advisories

Science 18 September 1998: 1822.
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TUMOR GROWTH ASSAY:
Metastasis in Eggs

Robert Sikorski and Richard Peters
Science 18 September 1998: 1823.
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Association Affairs

 ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
Personal Journey Through Genetics and Civil Rights

David Suzuki
Science 18 September 1998: 1796-1797.
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Research Article

Overview and Initial Results of the Very Long Baseline Interferometry Space Observatory Programme

H. Hirabayashi, H. Hirosawa, H. Kobayashi, Y. Murata, P. G. Edwards, E. B. Fomalont, K. Fujisawa, T. Ichikawa, T. Kii, J. E. J. Lovell, G. A. Moellenbrock, R. Okayasu, M. Inoue, N. Kawaguchi, S. Kameno, K. M. Shibata, Y. Asaki, T. Bushimata, S. Enome, S. Horiuchi, T. Miyaji, T. Umemoto, V. Migenes, K. Wajima, J. Nakajima, M. Morimoto, J. Ellis, D. L. Meier, D. W. Murphy, R. A. Preston, J. G. Smith, S. J. Tingay, D. L. Traub, R. D. Wietfeldt, J. M. Benson, M. J. Claussen, C. Flatters, J. D. Romney, J. S. Ulvestad, L. R. D'Addario, G. I. Langston, A. H. Minter, B. R. Carlson, P. E. Dewdney, D. L. Jauncey, J. E. Reynolds, A. R. Taylor, P. M. McCulloch, W. H. Cannon, L. I. Gurvits, A. J. Mioduszewski, R. T. Schilizzi, and R. S. Booth
Science 18 September 1998: 1825-1829.
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Reports

Quebrada Jaguay: Early South American Maritime Adaptations

Daniel H. Sandweiss, Heather McInnis, Richard L. Burger, Asunción Cano, Bernardino Ojeda, Rolando Paredes, María del Carmen Sandweiss, and Michael D. Glascock
Science 18 September 1998: 1830-1832.
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Early Maritime Economy and El Niño Events at Quebrada Tacahuay, Peru

David K. Keefer, Susan D. deFrance, Michael E. Moseley, James B. Richardson, III, Dennis R. Satterlee, and Amy Day-Lewis
Science 18 September 1998: 1833-1835.
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Turbulent Transport Reduction by Zonal Flows: Massively Parallel Simulations

Z. Lin, T. S. Hahm, W. W. Lee, W. M. Tang, and R. B. White
Science 18 September 1998: 1835-1837.
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Implications of Mars Pathfinder Data for the Accretion History of the Terrestrial Planets

Constance M. Bertka and Yingwei Fei
Science 18 September 1998: 1838-1840.
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Forest Fires: An Example of Self-Organized Critical Behavior

Bruce D. Malamud, Gleb Morein, and Donald L. Turcotte
Science 18 September 1998: 1840-1842.
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Molecular Assembly and Encapsulation Directed by Hydrogen-Bonding Preferences and the Filling of Space

Tomás Martín, Ulrike Obst, and Julius Rebek, Jr.
Science 18 September 1998: 1842-1845.
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Inhibition of Xenoreactive Natural Antibody Production by Retroviral Gene Therapy

Jennifer L. Bracy, David H. Sachs, and John Iacomini
Science 18 September 1998: 1845-1847.
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Dendritic Integration and Its Role in Computing Image Velocity

Sandra Single and Alexander Borst
Science 18 September 1998: 1848-1850.
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Aggregation and Motor Neuron Toxicity of an ALS-Linked SOD1 Mutant Independent from Wild-Type SOD1

Lucie I. Bruijn, Megan K. Houseweart, Shinsuke Kato, Karen L. Anderson, Scott D. Anderson, Eisaku Ohama, Andrew G. Reaume, Rick W. Scott, and Don W. Cleveland
Science 18 September 1998: 1851-1854.
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Regulation of Meiotic S Phase by Ime2 and a Clb5,6-Associated Kinase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Léon Dirick, Loretta Goetsch, Gustav Ammerer, and Breck Byers
Science 18 September 1998: 1854-1857.
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Fertilization Defects in Sperm from Mice Lacking Fertilin  

Chunghee Cho, Donna O'Dell Bunch, Jean-Emmanuel Faure, Eugenia H. Goulding, Edward M. Eddy, Paul Primakoff, and Diana G. Myles
Science 18 September 1998: 1857-1859.
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Activation of Apoptosis Signal-Regulating Kinase 1 (ASK1) by the Adapter Protein Daxx

Howard Y. Chang, Hideki Nishitoh, Xiaolu Yang, Hidenori Ichijo, and David Baltimore
Science 18 September 1998: 1860-1863.
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Promotion of Dendritic Growth by CPG15, an Activity-Induced Signaling Molecule

Elly Nedivi, Gang-Yi Wu, and Hollis T. Cline
Science 18 September 1998: 1863-1866.
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