This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
On the Frontiers of Science

Michel Cuénod
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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. R&D SPENDING:
Computing, NSF to Get Top Billing in 2000 Budget

David Malakoff
Science 15 January 1999: 302-303.
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PALEOANTHROPOLOGY:
Did Early African Hominids Eat Meat?

Gretchen Vogel
Science 15 January 1999: 303.
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AIDS:
T Cell Production Slowed, Not Exhausted?

Michael Balter
Science 15 January 1999: 305-306.
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NEUROBIOLOGY:
How Stimulant Drugs May Calm Hyperactivity

Jean Marx
Science 15 January 1999: 306.
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SCIENTIFIC EXCHANGES:
DOE Blocks Physicists From Indian Meeting

James Glanz
Science 15 January 1999: 307.
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FREEDOM OF INFORMATION:
Scientific Leaders Balk At Broad Data Release

Bruce Agnew
Science 15 January 1999: 307-309.
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GENOMICS:
India Prepares Research, Policy Initiatives

Pallava Bagla
Science 15 January 1999: 309.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

FUTURE FOOD:
Crop Scientists Seek a New Revolution

Charles C. Mann
Science 15 January 1999: 310-314.
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FUTURE FOOD:
Crossing Rice Strains to Keep Asia's Rice Bowls Brimming

Dennis Normile
Science 15 January 1999: 313.
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FUTURE FOOD: BIOENGINEERING:
Genetic Engineers Aim to Soup Up Crop Photosynthesis

Charles C. Mann
Science 15 January 1999: 314-316.
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CLIMATE CHANGE:
Landscape Changes Make Regional Climate Run Hot and Cold

Jennifer Couzin
Science 15 January 1999: 317-319.
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AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY MEETING:
Soggy Cradles of Stars

Govert Schilling
Science 15 January 1999: 319.
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AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY MEETING:
Superflares From Giant Planets

Govert Schilling
Science 15 January 1999: 319.
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AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY MEETING:
Cosmic Expansion, Poco Adagio

James Glanz
Science 15 January 1999: 319-320.
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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION MEETING:
New Data Hint at Why Earth Hums and Mountains Rise

Richard A. Kerr
Science 15 January 1999: 320-321.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 Transgenic Crops in Europe

Milton P. Gordon
Science 15 January 1999: 327.
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 Edison and His Laboratory

John J. Gilman
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 Animal Rights

J. E. R. Staddon;, Barbara Coalgate, Jerry Coalgate;, Leslie Lanoix Davis;, H. William Hunt;, Cindy A. Buckmaster;, and Thomas A. Shannon
Science 15 January 1999: 327.
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 Spanish Natural History Museum

Javier Garcia-Guinea and Jesus Martinez-Frias
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 Animal Domestication

Ronan T. Loftus, David E. MacHugh, Patrick Cunningham, and Daniel G. Bradley
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 Carbon Sink: A Clue from Biosphere 2?

Roy L. Walford
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR:
Only Unthinking Intelligence?

Dorothy Cheney
Science 15 January 1999: 333.
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PLANT ECOLOGY:
To Emerge or Not to Emerge

Susan J. Mazer
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Policy Forum

MEDICINE:
Physician-Scientists--Endangered and Essential

Leon E. Rosenberg
Science 15 January 1999: 331-332.
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Perspectives

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY:
Enhanced: You Are What You Eat

Matthew J. Kohn
Science 15 January 1999: 335-336.
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HIV VACCINES:
Magic of the Occult?

David C. Montefiori and John P. Moore
Science 15 January 1999: 336-337.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Probing Europa's Third Dimension

Clark R. Chapman
Science 15 January 1999: 338-339.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
What Maintains Memories?

John E. Lisman and Justin R. Fallon
Science 15 January 1999: 339-340.
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Tech.Sight

MICROFLUIDICS:
Microfluidic Diffusion-Based Separation and Detection

Bernhard H. Weigl and Paul Yager
Science 15 January 1999: 346-347.
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 SOFTWARE:
Life Sciences Data Analysis

John Wass
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 NET TIP:
Digital Security, Part I

Robert Sikorski and Richard Peters
Science 15 January 1999: 348-349.
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 CLONING:
Cloning 3.0?

Robert Sikorski and Richard Peters
Science 15 January 1999: 349.
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 GENE SEQUENCING:
Size Matters

Robert Sikorski and Richard Peters
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Review

Mass-Independent Isotope Effects in Planetary Atmospheres and the Early Solar System

Mark H. Thiemens
Science 15 January 1999: 341-345.
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Research Articles

Far-Ultraviolet Imaging Spectroscopy of Io's Atmosphere with HST/STIS

F. L. Roesler, H. W. Moos, R. J. Oliversen, R. C. Woodward, Jr., K. D. Retherford, F. Scherb, M. A. McGrath, W. H. Smyth, P. D. Feldman, and D. F. Strobel
Science 15 January 1999: 353-357.
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Fusion-Competent Vaccines: Broad Neutralization of Primary Isolates of HIV

Rachel A. LaCasse, Kathryn E. Follis, Meg Trahey, John D. Scarborough, Dan R. Littman, and Jack H. Nunberg
Science 15 January 1999: 357-362.
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Reports

Enhancement of Cation Diffusion Rates Across the 410-Kilometer Discontinuity in Earth's Mantle

S. Chakraborty, R. Knoche, H. Schulze, D. C. Rubie, D. Dobson, N. L. Ross, and R. J. Angel
Science 15 January 1999: 362-365.
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Phytoplankton Community Structure and the Drawdown of Nutrients and CO₂ in the Southern Ocean

Kevin R. Arrigo, Dale H. Robinson, Denise L. Worthen, Robert B. Dunbar, Giacomo R. DiTullio, Michael VanWoert, and Michael P. Lizotte
Science 15 January 1999: 365-367.
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Isotopic Evidence for the Diet of an Early Hominid, Australopithecus africanus

Matt Sponheimer and Julia A. Lee-Thorp
Science 15 January 1999: 368-370.
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Ozone Isotope Enrichment: Isotopomer-Specific Rate Coefficients

K. Mauersberger, B. Erbacher, D. Krankowsky, J. Günther, and R. Nickel
Science 15 January 1999: 370-372.
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Self-Assembly of Ordered Microporous Materials from Rod-Coil Block Copolymers

Samson A. Jenekhe and X. Linda Chen
Science 15 January 1999: 372-375.
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Electron Transfer Between Bases in Double Helical DNA

Shana O. Kelley and Jacqueline K. Barton
Science 15 January 1999: 375-381.
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Emergent Properties of Networks of Biological Signaling Pathways

Upinder S. Bhalla and Ravi Iyengar
Science 15 January 1999: 381-387.
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Role of DNA 5-Methylcytosine Transferase in Cell Transformation by fos

A. V. Bakin and T. Curran
Science 15 January 1999: 387-390.
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Xid-Like Immunodeficiency in Mice with Disruption of the p85 Subunit of Phosphoinositide 3-Kinase

Harumi Suzuki, Yasuo Terauchi, Mari Fujiwara, Shinichi Aizawa, Yoshio Yazaki, Takashi Kadowaki, and Shigeo Koyasu
Science 15 January 1999: 390-392.
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Impaired B Cell Development and Proliferation in Absence of Phosphoinositide 3-Kinase p85

David A. Fruman, Scott B. Snapper, Claudine M. Yballe, Laurie Davidson, Jonathan Y. Yu, Frederick W. Alt, and Lewis C. Cantley
Science 15 January 1999: 393-397.
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Role of Serotonin in the Paradoxical Calming Effect of Psychostimulants on Hyperactivity

Raul R. Gainetdinov, William C. Wetsel, Sara R. Jones, Edward D. Levin, Mohamed Jaber, and Marc G. Caron
Science 15 January 1999: 397-401.
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Unresponsiveness to Cannabinoids and Reduced Addictive Effects of Opiates in CB₁ Receptor Knockout Mice

Catherine Ledent, Olga Valverde, Gregorio Cossu, François Petitet, Jean-François Aubert, Françoise Beslot, Georg A. Böhme, Assunta Imperato, Thierry Pedrazzini, Bernard P. Roques, Gilbert Vassart, Walter Fratta, and Marc Parmentier
Science 15 January 1999: 401-404.
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Diminishing Returns from Mutation Supply Rate in Asexual Populations

J. Arjan G., M. de Visser, Clifford W. Zeyl, Philip J. Gerrish, Jeffrey L. Blanchard, and Richard E. Lenski
Science 15 January 1999: 404-406.
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Technical Comments

 Investigating the Possible Use of Fire at Zhoukoudian, China

Xinzhi Wu;, Steve Weiner, Qinqi Xu, Paul Goldberg, Jinyi Liu, and Ofer Bar-Yosef;
Science 15 January 1999: 299.
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