This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Successful Priority-Setting Initiatives

Floyd E. Bloom
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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

BIOETHICS
NIMH to Screen Studies for Science and Human Risks

Eliot Marshall
Science 22 January 1999: 464-465.
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BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH
Ruling May Free NIH to Fund Stem Cell Studies

Eliot Marshall
Science 22 January 1999: 465-467.
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PALEOCLIMATE
El Niño Grew Strong As Cultures Were Born

Richard A. Kerr
Science 22 January 1999: 467-468.
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PALEONTOLOGY
Stunning Fossil Shows Breath of a Dinosaur

Bernice Wuethrich
Science 22 January 1999: 468.
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LIGHT POLLUTION
Development Blocked Near Tucson Telescopes

Mark Muro
Science 22 January 1999: 469.
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CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE
Diagnostic Test Scores High Marks in Study

Michael Balter
Science 22 January 1999: 469-471.
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DEVELOPMENT
Brain Stem Cells Show Their Potential

Evelyn Strauss
Science 22 January 1999: 471.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

PARTICLE PHYSICS
Exploring the Proton Sea

Andrew Watson
Science 22 January 1999: 472-474.
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NUCLEAR PHYSICS:
Element 114 Lumbers Into View

Richard Stone
Science 22 January 1999: 474.
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SOCIETY FOR INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY MEETING:
Rocky Mountain Rendezvous

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 22 January 1999: 475-477.
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JAPAN BUDGET:
Science Spending Keeps Rising But May Miss 5-Year Targets

Dennis Normile
Science 22 January 1999: 478.
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MONGOLIA:
Science Hopes to Rebound in Post-Cold War Era

Andrew Lawler
Science 22 January 1999: 479-480.
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AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY MEETING:
A Black Hole's Feeding Tube

James Glanz
Science 22 January 1999: 480-481.
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AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY MEETING:
"Magnetars"--the Missing Pulsars?

Robert Irion
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 Iceland's Central Database of Health Records

Ragnheidur Haraldsd-ttir
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 Georgetown Faculty Grievance

Robert I. Glazer and Donald Massaro
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 Livestock Cloning

Robert H. Foote
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 Phytolith Analysis

Irwin Rovner
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 Science and Technology at the State Department

Lisa R. Shaffer
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

HISTORY:
Entrancing Influences

Alan Gauld
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MATHEMATICS:
True Stories of An Imaginary Number

Victor J. Katz
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Policy Forum

SAMPLING:
A One-Number Census: Some Related History

Tommy Wright
Science 22 January 1999: 491-492.
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Perspectives

ECOLOGY:
Enhanced: Diversity by Default

David Tilman
Science 22 January 1999: 495-496.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Energy on Demand

Pierre J. Magistretti, Luc Pellerin, Douglas L. Rothman, and Robert G. Shulman
Science 22 January 1999: 496-497.
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OCEANOGRAPHY:
Spice and the Demon

Raymond W. Schmitt
Science 22 January 1999: 498-499.
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CLIMATE AND CULTURE:
Transitions in the Mid-Holocene

Daniel H. Sandweiss, Kirk A. Maasch, and David G. Anderson
Science 22 January 1999: 499-500.
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Review

Astrophysics on the GRAPE Family of Special-Purpose Computers

Piet Hut and Jun Makino
Science 22 January 1999: 501-505.
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Reports

Self-Oriented Regular Arrays of Carbon Nanotubes and Their Field Emission Properties

Shoushan Fan, Michael G. Chapline, Nathan R. Franklin, Thomas W. Tombler, Alan M. Cassell, and Hongjie Dai
Science 22 January 1999: 512-514.
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Pulmonary Function and Metabolic Physiology of Theropod Dinosaurs

John A. Ruben, Cristiano Dal Sasso, Nicholas R. Geist, Willem J. Hillenius, Terry D. Jones, and Marco Signore
Science 22 January 1999: 514-516.
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An ~15,000-Year Record of El Niño-Driven Alluviation in Southwestern Ecuador

Donald T. Rodbell, Geoffrey O. Seltzer, David M. Anderson, Mark B. Abbott, David B. Enfield, and Jeremy H. Newman
Science 22 January 1999: 516-520.
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Nanophase-Separated Polymer Films as High-Performance Antireflection Coatings

Stefan Walheim, Erik Schäffer, Jürgen Mlynek, and Ullrich Steiner
Science 22 January 1999: 520-522.
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Conversion of Supramolecular Clusters to Macromolecular Objects

Eugene R. Zubarev, Martin U. Pralle, Leiming Li, and Samuel I. Stupp
Science 22 January 1999: 523-526.
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Compensation of Horizontal Temperature and Salinity Gradients in the Ocean Mixed Layer

Daniel L. Rudnick and Raffaele Ferrari
Science 22 January 1999: 526-529.
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Transient Phase-Induced Nucleation

E. B. Sirota and A. B. Herhold
Science 22 January 1999: 529-532.
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Recruitment of a hedgehog Regulatory Circuit in Butterfly Eyespot Evolution

David N. Keys, David L. Lewis, Jane E. Selegue, Bret J. Pearson, Lisa V. Goodrich, Ronald L. Johnson, Julie Gates, Matthew P. Scott, and Sean B. Carroll
Science 22 January 1999: 532-534.
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Turning Brain into Blood: A Hematopoietic Fate Adopted by Adult Neural Stem Cells in Vivo

Christopher R. R. Bjornson, Rodney L. Rietze, Brent A. Reynolds, M. Cristina Magli, and Angelo L. Vescovi
Science 22 January 1999: 534-537.
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A Tobacco Syntaxin with a Role in Hormonal Control of Guard Cell Ion Channels

Barbara Leyman, Danny Geelen, Francisco J. Quintero, and Michael R. Blatt
Science 22 January 1999: 537-540.
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Reciprocal Inhibitory Connections and Network Synchrony in the Mammalian Thalamus

Molly M. Huntsman, Darrell M. Porcello, Gregg E. Homanics, Timothy M. DeLorey, and John R. Huguenard
Science 22 January 1999: 541-543.
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Prevention of Constitutive TNF Receptor 1 Signaling by Silencer of Death Domains

Yingping Jiang, John D. Woronicz, Wei Liu, and David V. Goeddel
Science 22 January 1999: 543-546.
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Silencing of Genes Flanking the P1 Plasmid Centromere

Oleg Rodionov, Magorzata Lobocka,*, and Michael Yarmolinsky
Science 22 January 1999: 546-549.
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The Role of Locus Coeruleus in the Regulation of Cognitive Performance

Marius Usher, Jonathan D. Cohen, David Servan-Schreiber, Janusz Rajkowski, and Gary Aston-Jones
Science 22 January 1999: 549-554.
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Light-Gap Disturbances, Recruitment Limitation, and Tree Diversity in a Neotropical Forest

S. P. Hubbell, R. B. Foster, S. T. O'Brien, K. E. Harms, R. Condit, B. Wechsler, S. J. Wright, and S. Loo de Lao
Science 22 January 1999: 554-557.
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Technical Comments

 Proofreading by Isoleucyl-Transfer RNA Synthetase: Response

O. Nureki, D. G. Vassylyev, M. Tateno, A. Shimada, T. Nakama, S. Fukai, M. Konno, T. L. Hendrickson, P. Schimmel, and S. Yokoyama
Science 22 January 1999: 459.
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