This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Regulating Human Cloning

Paul Berg and Maxine Singer
Science 16 October 1998: 413.
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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

CLIMATE CHANGE:
Possibly Vast Greenhouse Gas Sponge Ignites Controversy

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 16 October 1998: 386-387.
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SCIENCE EDUCATION:
California Adopts Controversial Standards

Gretchen Vogel
Science 16 October 1998: 387-389.
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NUCLEAR PHYSICS:
Tight Budget Could Shut Down MIT Accelerator

David Malakoff
Science 16 October 1998: 389-390.
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ECOLOGY:
Sea Otter Declines Blamed on Hungry Killers

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 16 October 1998: 390-391.
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ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY:
Deep Chill Triggers Record Ozone Hole

Richard A. Kerr
Science 16 October 1998: 391.
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ASTRONOMY:
Seeing the Universe's Red Dawn

Ann Finkbeiner
Science 16 October 1998: 392.
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AGRICULTURE RESEARCH:
1999 Budget: One Step Forward, Two Back

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 16 October 1998: 392-393.
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EVOLUTION:
Male Mating Blocks New Cuckoo Species

Virginia Morell
Science 16 October 1998: 393.
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SOLAR ASTRONOMY:
Recovered SOHO Passes Health Check

Alexander Hellemans
Science 16 October 1998: 393-395.
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ASTRONOMY:
Planet Hunters Become Weight Watchers

Govert Schilling
Science 16 October 1998: 395.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

DNA ANALYSIS:
Microchip Arrays Put DNA on the Spot

Robert F. Service
Science 16 October 1998: 396-399.
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DNA ANALYSIS:
Will Patent Fights Hold DNA Chips Hostage?

Robert F. Service
Science 16 October 1998: 397.
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LABS ON A CHIP:
Coming Soon: The Pocket DNA Sequencer

Robert F. Service
Science 16 October 1998: 399-401.
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LABS ON A CHIP:
Miniaturization Puts Chemical Plants Where You Want Them

Robert F. Service
Science 16 October 1998: 400.
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MICROMACHINES:
Fomenting a Revolution, in Miniature

Ivan Amato
Science 16 October 1998: 402-405.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 Environmental Decision-Making

Peter D. Saundry
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 Animal Experimentation Rules in India

Sandip K. Basu and Satyajit Rath
Science 16 October 1998: 415.
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 DOD: A Critical Funder and Risk-Taker

Rustum Roy
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 Standards for Engineer Witnesses

Michael D. Green, George W. Pearsall, and Norman W. Edmund
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 The Copyright Issue

E. Peter Geiduschek and Jens Bammel
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

SCIENCE COMMUNICATION:
Science and Civics, Still Immiscible

Kai N. Lee
Science 16 October 1998: 421.
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HISTORY:
A Modest Maker of Modern Physics

Lorna Arnold
Science 16 October 1998: 422.
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Policy Forum

GLOBAL POPULATION GROWTH:
Demographic Consequences of Declining Fertility

John Bongaarts
Science 16 October 1998: 419-420.
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Perspectives

ASTROPHYSICS:
Making Sense of Active Galaxies

Daniel W. Weedman
Science 16 October 1998: 423-424.
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IMMUNOLOGY:
Enhanced: Developmental Options

Ken Shortman and Eugene Maraskovsky
Science 16 October 1998: 424-425.
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CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE:
How to Compact DNA

Andrew W. Murray
Science 16 October 1998: 425-427.
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GEOSCIENCE:
Future of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet

Robert Bindschadler
Science 16 October 1998: 428-429.
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Tech.Sight

REVERSE GENETICS:
RNAi in C. elegans: Soaking in the Genome Sequence

Hiroaki Tabara, Alla Grishok, and Craig C. Mello
Science 16 October 1998: 430-431.
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INTERNET BROWSERS:
Turning the Big Five-O

Robert Sikorski and Richard Peters
Science 16 October 1998: 432.
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IMAGING
The Art of Bubble Making

Richard Peters and Robert Sikorski
Science 16 October 1998: 432-433.
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ELECTROSTIMULATION:
Muscular Electronics

Richard Peters and Robert Sikorski
Science 16 October 1998: 433.
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DNA ANALYSIS:
Pocket Laboratory

Robert Sikorski and Richard Peters
Science 16 October 1998: 433.
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Association Affairs

 ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
Alleviating Poverty Through Technology

Muhammad Yunus
Science 16 October 1998: 409-410.
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Reports

Carbon Dioxide Emission from European Estuaries

Michel Frankignoulle, Gwenaël Abril, Alberto Borges, Isabelle Bourge, Christine Canon, Bruno Delille, Emile Libert, and Jean-Marie Théate
Science 16 October 1998: 434-436.
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A Short Circuit in Thermohaline Circulation: A Cause for Northern Hemisphere Glaciation?

N. W. Driscoll and G. H. Haug
Science 16 October 1998: 436-438.
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Changes in the Carbon Balance of Tropical Forests: Evidence from Long-Term Plots

Oliver L. Phillips, Yadvinder Malhi, Niro Higuchi, William F. Laurance, Percy V. Núñez, Rodolfo M. Vásquez, Susan G. Laurance, Leandro V. Ferreira, Margaret Stern, Sandra Brown, and John Grace
Science 16 October 1998: 439-442.
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A Large Terrestrial Carbon Sink in North America Implied by Atmospheric and Oceanic Carbon Dioxide Data and Models

S. Fan, M. Gloor, J. Mahlman, S. Pacala, J. Sarmiento, T. Takahashi, and P. Tans
Science 16 October 1998: 442-446.
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North Atlantic Oscillation Dynamics Recorded in Greenland Ice Cores

C. Appenzeller, T. F. Stocker, and M. Anklin
Science 16 October 1998: 446-449.
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Two-Dimensional Magnetic Particles

C. Stamm, F. Marty, A. Vaterlaus, V. Weich, S. Egger, U. Maier, U. Ramsperger, H. Fuhrmann, and D. Pescia
Science 16 October 1998: 449-451.
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Oxygen Reservoirs in the Early Solar Nebula Inferred from an Allende CAI

Edward D. Young and Sara S. Russell
Science 16 October 1998: 452-455.
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Antarctic Elevation Change from 1992 to 1996 

Duncan J. Wingham, Andrew J. Ridout, Remko Scharroo, Robert J. Arthern, and C. K. Shum
Science 16 October 1998: 456-458.
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Migration of Fluids Beneath Yellowstone Caldera Inferred from Satellite Radar Interferometry

Charles Wicks, Jr., Wayne Thatcher, and Daniel Dzurisin
Science 16 October 1998: 458-462.
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Induced Massive Star Formation in the Trifid Nebula?

J. Cernicharo, B. Lefloch, P. Cox, D. Cesarsky, C. Esteban, F. Yusef-Zadeh, D. I. Méndez, J. Acosta-Pulido, R. J. García López, and A. Heras
Science 16 October 1998: 462-465.
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Exceeding 5000-Fold Concentration of Dilute Analytes in Micellar Electrokinetic Chromatography

Joselito P. Quirino and Shigeru Terabe
Science 16 October 1998: 465-468.
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Increased Vascularization in Mice Overexpressing Angiopoietin-1

Chitra Suri, Joyce McClain, Gavin Thurston, Donald M. McDonald, Hao Zhou, Eben H. Oldmixon, Thomas N. Sato, and George D. Yancopoulos
Science 16 October 1998: 468-471.
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Host-Race Formation in the Common Cuckoo

Karen Marchetti, Hiroshi Nakamura, and H. Lisle Gibbs
Science 16 October 1998: 471-472.
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Killer Whale Predation on Sea Otters Linking Oceanic and Nearshore Ecosystems

J. A. Estes, M. T. Tinker, T. M. Williams, and D. F. Doak
Science 16 October 1998: 473-476.
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Induction of Antigen-Specific Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes in Humans by a Malaria DNA Vaccine

Ruobing Wang, Denise L. Doolan, Thong P. Le, Richard C. Hedstrom, Kevin M. Coonan, Yupin Charoenvit, Trevor R. Jones, Peter Hobart, Michal Margalith, Jennifer Ng, Walter R. Weiss, Martha Sedegah, Charles de Taisne, Jon A. Norman, and Stephen L. Hoffman
Science 16 October 1998: 476-480.
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Differentiation of Monocytes into Dendritic Cells in a Model of Transendothelial Trafficking

Gwendalyn J. Randolph, Sylvie Beaulieu, Serge Lebecque, Ralph M. Steinman, and William A. Muller
Science 16 October 1998: 480-483.
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An Integrated Nanoliter DNA Analysis Device

Mark A. Burns, Brian N. Johnson, Sundaresh N. Brahmasandra, Kalyan Handique, James R. Webster, Madhavi Krishnan, Timothy S. Sammarco, Piu M. Man, Darren Jones, Dylan Heldsinger, Carlos H. Mastrangelo, and David T. Burke
Science 16 October 1998: 484-487.
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Phosphorylation and Activation of 13S Condensin by Cdc2 in Vitro

Keiji Kimura, Michiko Hirano, Ryuji Kobayashi, and Tatsuya Hirano
Science 16 October 1998: 487-490.
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Inhibition of Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis by Blockade of CD95 with Human Intravenous Immunoglobulin

Isabelle Viard, Philippe Wehrli, Roberto Bullani, Pascal Schneider, Nils Holler, Denis Salomon, Thomas Hunziker, Jean-Hilaire Saurat, Jürg Tschopp, and Lars E. French
Science 16 October 1998: 490-493.
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Two Modes of Survival of Fission Yeast Without Telomerase

Toru M. Nakamura, Julia Promisel Cooper, and Thomas R. Cech
Science 16 October 1998: 493-496.
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