This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Taking Inventory

Floyd E. Bloom
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NetWatch

Best of the Web in science.
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 Information for Contributors

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 NEW PRODUCTS

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News of the Week

BIOLOGY:
RNA Molecules May Carry Long-Distance Signals in Plants

Evelyn Strauss
Science 1 January 1999: 12-13.
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HUMAN GENETICS:
Iceland OKs Private Health Databank

Martin Enserink
Science 1 January 1999: 13.
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ASTROPHYSICS:
Has a Dark Particle Come to Light?

James Glanz
Science 1 January 1999: 13-14.
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NEUROBIOLOGY:
Filling in the Blanks of The GABA_B Receptor

Ingrid Wickelgren
Science 1 January 1999: 14-15.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Moon-Forming Crash Is Likely in New Model

Dana Mackenzie
Science 1 January 1999: 15-16.
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HUMAN CLONING:
Korean Report Sparks Anger and Inquiry

Michael Baker
Science 1 January 1999: 16-17.
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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:
DNA Chips Give New View of Classic Test

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 1 January 1999: 17-18.
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TOXICOLOGY:
EPA Ponders Pesticide Tests in Humans

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 1 January 1999: 18-19.
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EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY:
Flat Budget Keeps Space Science on Edge

Helen Gavaghan
Science 1 January 1999: 19.
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ASTROPHYSICS:
Galaxies Seen at the Universe's Dawn

Govert Schilling
Science 1 January 1999: 19-21.
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ASTROPHYSICS:
Microwave Hump Reveals Flat Universe

James Glanz
Science 1 January 1999: 21.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

Eastern Europe's Research Gamble

Robert Koenig
Science 1 January 1999: 22-24.
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Will the Euro Help Grants Flow?

Robert Koenig
Science 1 January 1999: 24.
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EXPANDING EU: SLOVENIA:
Money and Mentors Hold Onto Young Researchers

Robert Koenig
Science 1 January 1999: 25.
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EXPANDING EU: CZECH/SLOVAK:
Bringing Diverging Paths Back Together

Robert Koenig
Science 1 January 1999: 25-26.
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EXPANDING EU: U.S. AID:
End of Joint Programs Leaves Researchers Feeling Jilted

Richard Stone
Science 1 January 1999: 26.
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NANOTECHNOLOGY:
Borrowing From Biology to Power the Petite

Robert F. Service
Science 1 January 1999: 27-28.
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MEETING: AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION:
From Eastern Quakes to a Warming's Icy Clues

Richard A. Kerr
Science 1 January 1999: 28-29.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 Journal Economics

Richard Johnson; and Dana L. Roth
Science 1 January 1999: 33.
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 Miracle Heifer?

John Ebeler
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 What's in a "Midden"?

Jerry L. Modisette
Science 1 January 1999: 33.
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 From Mice to Maize

Colm Lawler and Fred Erbisch
Science 1 January 1999: 33.
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 Replacing Ancient Forests

David W. Stahle
Science 1 January 1999: 33.
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 Hominid Brain Volume

Ralph L. Holloway;, Glenn C. Conroy, Gerhard W. Weber, Horst Seidler, and Phillip V. Tobias
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

NATURE OF SCIENCE:
A Wondrous and Poetic Spectrum

Charles M. Vest
Science 1 January 1999: 38-39.
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EVOLUTION:
Going to Extremes in America

Peter J. Bowler
Science 1 January 1999: 39.
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Policy Forum

MEDICINE:
Effects of Medical Research on Health Care and the Economy

Herbert Pardes, Kenneth G. Manton, Eric S. Lander, H. Dennis Tolley, Arthur D. Ullian, and Hans Palmer
Science 1 January 1999: 36-37.
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Perspectives

COGNITION:
Enhanced: Out of the Minds of Babes

Steven Pinker
Science 1 January 1999: 40-41.
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SURFACE SCIENCE:
Driven Liquids

Michael Grunze
Science 1 January 1999: 41-42.
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SUPERCONDUCTIVITY:
Effective Mass and Color Change

M. V. Klein and G. Blumberg
Science 1 January 1999: 42-43.
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Reports

Superionic and Metallic States of Water and Ammonia at Giant Planet Conditions

C. Cavazzoni, G. L. Chiarotti, S. Scandolo, E. Tosatti, M. Bernasconi, and M. Parrinello
Science 1 January 1999: 44-46.
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Liquid Morphologies on Structured Surfaces: From Microchannels to Microchips

Hartmut Gau, Stephan Herminghaus, Peter Lenz, and Reinhard Lipowsky
Science 1 January 1999: 46-49.
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Sum Rules and Interlayer Conductivity of High-T_c Cuprates

D. N. Basov, S. I. Woods, A. S. Katz, E. J. Singley, R. C. Dynes, M. Xu, D. G. Hinks, C. C. Homes, and M. Strongin
Science 1 January 1999: 49-52.
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Imaging Electron Wave Functions of Quantized Energy Levels in Carbon Nanotubes

Liesbeth C. Venema, Jeroen W. G. Wildöer, Jorg W. Janssen, Sander J. Tans, Hinne L. J. Temminck Tuinstra, Leo P. Kouwenhoven, and Cees Dekker
Science 1 January 1999: 52-55.
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DOAS Measurements of Tropospheric Bromine Oxide in Mid-Latitudes

Kai Hebestreit, Jochen Stutz, David Rosen, Valery Matveiv, Mordechai Peleg, Menachem Luria, and Ulrich Platt
Science 1 January 1999: 55-57.
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Electrochemical Principles for Active Control of Liquids on Submillimeter Scales

Benedict S. Gallardo, Vinay K. Gupta, Franklin D. Eagerton, Lana I. Jong, Vincent S. Craig, Rahul R. Shah, and Nicholas L. Abbott
Science 1 January 1999: 57-60.
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Quantum Statistical Corrections to Dynamic Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

Leonard J. Mueller and Daniel P. Weitekamp
Science 1 January 1999: 61-65.
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Chain Length Recognition: Core-Shell Supramolecular Assembly from Oppositely Charged Block Copolymers

Atsushi Harada and Kazunori Kataoka
Science 1 January 1999: 65-67.
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Requirement for Diverse, Low-Abundance Peptides in Positive Selection of T Cells

Gregory M. Barton and Alexander Y. Rudensky
Science 1 January 1999: 67-70.
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Blockade of NMDA Receptors and Apoptotic Neurodegeneration in the Developing Brain

Chrysanthy Ikonomidou, Friederike Bosch, Michael Miksa, Petra Bittigau, Jessica Vöckler, Krikor Dikranian, Tanya I. Tenkova, Vanya Stefovska, Lechoslaw Turski, and John W. Olney
Science 1 January 1999: 70-74.
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Role of Heteromer Formation in GABA_B Receptor Function

Rohini Kuner, Georg Köhr, Sylvia Grünewald, Gisela Eisenhardt, Alfred Bach, and Hans-Christian Kornau
Science 1 January 1999: 74-77.
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Rule Learning by Seven-Month-Old Infants

G. F. Marcus, S. Vijayan, S. Bandi Rao, and P. M. Vishton
Science 1 January 1999: 77-80.
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Assembly and Analysis of Conical Models for the HIV-1 Core

Barbie K. Ganser, Su Li, Victor Y. Klishko, John T. Finch, and Wesley I. Sundquist
Science 1 January 1999: 80-83.
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The Transcriptional Program in the Response of Human Fibroblasts to Serum

Vishwanath R. Iyer, Michael B. Eisen, Douglas T. Ross, Greg Schuler, Troy Moore, Jeffrey C. F. Lee, Jeffrey M. Trent, Louis M. Staudt, James Hudson, Jr., Mark S. Boguski, Deval Lashkari, Dari Shalon, David Botstein, and Patrick O. Brown
Science 1 January 1999: 83-87.
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Regulated Delivery of Therapeutic Proteins After in Vivo Somatic Cell Gene Transfer

Xuehai Ye, Victor M. Rivera, Philip Zoltick, Franklin Cerasoli, Jr., Michael A. Schnell, Guang-ping Gao, Joseph V. Hughes, Michael Gilman, and James M. Wilson
Science 1 January 1999: 88-91.
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Processing of the Notch Ligand Delta by the Metalloprotease Kuzbanian

Huilin Qi, Matthew D. Rand, Xiaohui Wu, Nenad Sestan, Weiyi Wang, Pasko Rakic, Tian Xu, and Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas
Science 1 January 1999: 91-94.
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Plant Paralog to Viral Movement Protein That Potentiates Transport of mRNA into the Phloem

Beatriz Xoconostle-Cázares, Yu Xiang, Roberto Ruiz-Medrano, Hong-Li Wang, Jan Monzer, Byung-Chun Yoo, K. C. McFarland, Vincent R. Franceschi, and William J. Lucas
Science 1 January 1999: 94-98.
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Technical Comments

Gene Targeting in Human Cells Without Isogenic DNA

John M. Sedivy, Bert Vogelstein, Howard L. Liber, Eric A. Hendrickson, and Alan Rosmarin
Science 1 January 1999: 9.
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Endocranial Capacity of Early Hominids

Charles A. Lockwood, William H. Kimbel;, John Hawks, Milford H. Wolpoff;, Glenn C. Conroy, Gerhard W. Weber, Horst Seidler, and Phillip V. Tobias;
Science 1 January 1999: 9.
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