This Week in Science

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Editorial:
Issues Facing the New FDA Commissioner

Louis Lasagna and Kenneth I. Kaitin
Science 13 November 1998: 1263.
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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

U.S. ELECTIONS:
Democrats Match GOP in Sending a Physicist to Washington

David Malakoff
Science 13 November 1998: 1234-2135.
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DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY:
Understanding of Ears, Bristles Jumps a Notch

Gretchen Vogel
Science 13 November 1998: 1235.
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COMPUTER SCIENCE:
Microsoft Picks Beijing for New R&D Lab

Justin Wang
Science 13 November 1998: 1235-1237.
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SOCIAL SCIENCES:
Canada Opens Program to Community Groups

Wayne Kondro
Science 13 November 1998: 1237-1238.
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SCIENCE EDUCATION:
NSF to Send College Students Into Schools

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 13 November 1998: 1238-1239.
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BIOTECHNOLOGY:
Reaction to Stem Cells: A Tale of the Ticker

David Malakoff
Science 13 November 1998: 1239.
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ASTRONOMY:
Binaries Answer Riddle of Brown Dwarf Origins

Alexander Hellemans
Science 13 November 1998: 1240.
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GRADUATE EDUCATION:
Cold Spring Harbor to Offer Own Degrees

Eliot Marshall
Science 13 November 1998: 1240-1241.
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EPIDEMIOLOGY:
Pasteur Recruit Resigns in Battle Over New Unit

Michael Balter
Science 13 November 1998: 1241-1243.
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MICROBIOLOGY:
Genome Links Typhus Bug to Mitochondrion

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 13 November 1998: 1243.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

ONCOLOGY:
Training Viruses to Attack Cancers

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 13 November 1998: 1244-126.
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PALEONTOLOGY:
Popular Interest Fuels a Dinosaur Research Boom

Erik Stokstad
Science 13 November 1998: 1246-1247.
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COSMOLOGY:
Does Science Know the Vital Statistics of the Cosmos?

James Glanz
Science 13 November 1998: 1247-1248.
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ASTRONOMY:
No Backing Off From the Accelerating Universe

James Glanz
Science 13 November 1998: 1249-1251.
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MARINE GEOPHYSICS:
Ocean Drilling Floats Ambitious Plans for Growth

Richard A. Kerr and Dennis Normile
Science 13 November 1998: 1251-1252.
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ECOLOGY:
Temperate Forests Gain Ground

Anne Simon Moffat
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 13 November 1998: 1265.
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 Fossil Discoveries in India: Continued

Simon Conway Morris, Sšren Jensen, and Nicholas J. Butterfield
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 California Standards

Steven B. Oppenheimer
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 Human Rights: An Issue Among Anthropologists

Tom Greaves
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 New Niches for Life Scientists

Elaine Caton, Jennifer Cherrier, Elizabeth Farnsworth, Scott Franklin, Beth Hufnagel, Eric Klopfer, Janet Russell, and Ben Sayler
Science 13 November 1998: 1265.
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 Internet Friendships

Philip Aspden and James E. Katz
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 Publishers' Honeymoon?

Louis M. Guenin
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 Apoptosis and Alzheimer's Disease

George Perry, Akihiko Nunomura, Paul Lucassen, Hans Lassmann, and Mark A. Smith
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 Genetics of Alcoholism

Howard J. Edenberg, Tatiana Foroud, Alison Goate, John Rice, Theodore Reich, Robert C. Cloninger, John I. Nurnberger Jr., T.-K. Li, M. Conneally, A. Tischfield, Raymond Crowe, Victor Hesselbrock, Marc Schuckit, Bernice Porjesz, and Henri Begleiter
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Books et al.

ECONOMICS AND TECHNOLOGY:
Innovative History of the Chemical Industry

Christopher Freeman
Science 13 November 1998: 1273-1274.
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 ORNITHOLOGY:
Rainforest "Crows" in Fancy Dress

Sherman J. Suter
Science 13 November 1998: 1274.
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Policy Forum

ECOLOGY:
Conservation Targets in South American Temperate Forests

J. J. Armesto, R. Rozzi, C. Smith-Ram'rez, and M. T. K. Arroyo
Science 13 November 1998: 1271-1272.
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Perspectives

MATERIALS SCIENCE:
Toughened Ceramics

William K. Tredway
Science 13 November 1998: 1275.
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PALEONTOLOGY:
Spinosaurs as Crocodile Mimics

Thomas R. Holtz Jr.
Science 13 November 1998: 1276-1277.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Gathering Glycine Receptors at Synapses

Stanley C. Froehner
Science 13 November 1998: 1277-1279.
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CELL BIOLOGY:
Enhanced: A Cellular Striptease Act

Zena Werb and Yibing Yan
Science 13 November 1998: 1279-1280.
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Association Affairs

 ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
Nobel : Always the Winners, Never the Losers

Elisabeth. Crawford
Science 13 November 1998: 1256-1257.
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Research Articles

An Essential Role for Ectodomain Shedding in Mammalian Development

Jacques J. Peschon, Jennifer L. Slack, Pranitha Reddy, Kim L. Stocking, Susan W. Sunnarborg, David C. Lee, William E. Russell, Beverly J. Castner, Richard S. Johnson, Jeffrey N. Fitzner, Rogely W. Boyce, Nicole Nelson, Carl J. Kozlosky, Martin F. Wolfson, Charles T. Rauch, Douglas Pat Cerretti, Raymond J. Paxton, Carl J. March, and Roy A. Black
Science 13 November 1998: 1281-1284.
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Presolar Corundum and Spinel in Ordinary Chondrites: Origins from AGB Stars and a Supernova

Byeon-Gak Choi, Gary R. Huss, G. J. Wasserburg, and Roberto Gallino
Science 13 November 1998: 1284-1289.
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Reports

Direct Observations of Structural Phase Transitions in Planar Crystallized Ion Plasmas

T. B. Mitchell, J. J. Bollinger, D. H. E. Dubin, X.-P. Huang, W. M. Itano, and R. H. Baughman
Science 13 November 1998: 1290-1293.
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Controlling Factors for the Brittle-to-Ductile Transition in Tungsten Single Crystals

Peter Gumbsch, Joachim Riedle, Alexander Hartmaier, and Hellmut F. Fischmeister
Science 13 November 1998: 1293-1295.
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A Tough, Thermally Conductive Silicon Carbide Composite with High Strength up to 1600°C in Air

Toshihiro Ishikawa, Shinji Kajii, Kenji Matsunaga, Toshihiko Hogami, Yasuhiko Kohtoku, and Toshio Nagasawa
Science 13 November 1998: 1295-1297.
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A Long-Snouted Predatory Dinosaur from Africa and the Evolution of Spinosaurids

Paul C. Sereno, Allison L. Beck, Didier B. Dutheil, Boubacar Gado, Hans C. E. Larsson, Gabrielle H. Lyon, Jonathan D. Marcot, Oliver W. M. Rauhut, Rudyard W. Sadleir, Christian A. Sidor, David D. Varricchio, Gregory P. Wilson, and Jeffrey A. Wilson
Science 13 November 1998: 1298-1302.
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Ultrastable Mesostructured Silica Vesicles

Seong Su Kim, Wenzhong Zhang, and Thomas J. Pinnavaia
Science 13 November 1998: 1302-1305.
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Large-Scale Nitrogen Oxide Plumes in the Tropopause Region and Implications for Ozone

Dominik Brunner, Johannes Staehelin, and Dominique Jeker
Science 13 November 1998: 1305-1309.
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Discovery of a Low-Mass Brown Dwarf Companion of the Young Nearby Star G 196-3 

Rafael Rebolo, María R. Zapatero Osorio, Santiago Madruga, Víctor J. S. Béjar, Santiago Arribas, and Javier Licandro
Science 13 November 1998: 1309-1312.
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Requirement for MAPK Activation for Normal Mitotic Progression in Xenopus Egg Extracts

Thomas M. Guadagno and James E. Ferrell, Jr.
Science 13 November 1998: 1312-1315.
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Catalytic Plasticity of Fatty Acid Modification Enzymes Underlying Chemical Diversity of Plant Lipids

Pierre Broun, John Shanklin, Ed Whittle, and Chris Somerville
Science 13 November 1998: 1315-1317.
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Regulation of Cell Death Protease Caspase-9 by Phosphorylation

Michael H. Cardone, Natalie Roy, Henning R. Stennicke, Guy S. Salvesen, Thomas F. Franke, Eric Stanbridge, Steven Frisch, and John C. Reed
Science 13 November 1998: 1318-1321.
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Dual Requirement for Gephyrin in Glycine Receptor Clustering and Molybdoenzyme Activity

Guoping Feng, Hartmut Tintrup, Joachim Kirsch, Mia C. Nichol, Jochen Kuhse, Heinrich Betz, and Joshua R. Sanes
Science 13 November 1998: 1321-1324.
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Structure of Human Methionine Aminopeptidase-2 Complexed with Fumagillin

Shenping Liu, Joanne Widom, Christopher W. Kemp, Craig M. Crews, and Jon Clardy
Science 13 November 1998: 1324-1327.
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A Structural Explanation for the Recognition of Tyrosine-Based Endocytotic Signals

David J. Owen and Philip R. Evans
Science 13 November 1998: 1327-1332.
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Reovirus Therapy of Tumors with Activated Ras Pathway

Matthew C. Coffey, James E. Strong, Peter A. Forsyth, and Patrick W. K. Lee
Science 13 November 1998: 1332-1334.
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Role for Cingulate Motor Area Cells in Voluntary Movement Selection Based on Reward

Keisetsu Shima and Jun Tanji
Science 13 November 1998: 1335-1338.
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Control of Neonatal Tolerance to Tissue Antigens by Peripheral T Cell Trafficking

Judith Alferink, Anna Tafuri, Dietmar Vestweber, Rupert Hallmann, Günter J. Hämmerling, and Bernd Arnold
Science 13 November 1998: 1338-1341.
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Technical Comments

 Detecting Possible Rotation of Earth's Inner Core

Paul G. Richards, Xiaodong Song, Anyi Li;, and Annie Souriau;
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