This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Census 2000--Science Meets Politics

Kenneth Prewitt
Science 12 February 1999: 935.
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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

HIV TESTING:
French AIDS Research Pioneers to Testify in Trial of Ministers

Michael Balter
Science 12 February 1999: 910-911.
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ORGANIC CHEMISTRY:
Cooking Up Sugar Chains in a Hurry

Robert F. Service
Science 12 February 1999: 911-913.
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SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT:
Investigations on Trial in a Texas Court

Eliot Marshall
Science 12 February 1999: 913-914.
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ASTRONOMY:
New Telescope Will Turn a Keen Ear on E.T.

Donald Goldsmith
Science 12 February 1999: 914.
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SCIENCE IN SOCIETY:
Plan for Divulging Raw Data Eases Fears

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 12 February 1999: 914-915.
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ARCHAEOLOGY:
Black Sea Flood Theory to Be Tested

Richard Stone
Science 12 February 1999: 915-916.
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AIDS:
Cheap Treatment Cuts HIV Transmission

Jon Cohen
Science 12 February 1999: 916-917.
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NUCLEAR PHYSICS:
MIT's Bates Lab Gets Sudden Reprieve

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 12 February 1999: 917.
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SOLAR PHYSICS:
SOHO Learns the Cruder Arts of Navigation

Alexander Hellemans
Science 12 February 1999: 917-919.
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SPACE SCIENCE:
Red Tape Entangles Small Satellite

David Malakoff
Science 12 February 1999: 919.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

ARCHAEOLOGY:
New Light on the Oldest Art

Michael Balter
Science 12 February 1999: 920-922.
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ARCHAEOLOGY:
Jean Clottes: Rock Art's Jovial Cave Bear

Virginia Morell
Science 12 February 1999: 920-921.
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ASTRONOMY:
How Dark Matter Became an Unlikely Media Star

James Glanz
Science 12 February 1999: 923.
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SWEDEN:
Environmental Researchers Wait Anxiously for Salvation

Annika Nilsson and Joanna Rose
Science 12 February 1999: 924.
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AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY AND MATHEMATICAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA MEETING:
Mathematicians Offer Answers to Everyday Conundrums

Barry Cipra
Science 12 February 1999: 925-927.
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PARTICLE PHYSICS:
Search for Neutrino Mass Is Big Stretch for Three Labs

Dennis Normile
Science 12 February 1999: 928-929.
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ARCHAEOLOGY:
Researchers Ready for the Plunge Into Deep Water

Richard Stone
Science 12 February 1999: 929.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 12 February 1999: 937.
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 Pluto's Planetary Status

Robert L. Millis, Richard P. Binzel, Joseph A. Burns, Dale P. Cruikshank, William B. McKinnon, Karen J. Meech, S. Alan Stern;, and Govert Schilling
Science 12 February 1999: 937.
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 Animal Rights Review

F. Barbara Orlans, Tom L. Beauchamp, Rebecca Dresser, David B. Morton, and John P. Gluck
Science 12 February 1999: 937.
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 Perfect Mirrors, Past and Present

James W. Seeser, Charles K. Carniglia;, and Jonathan P. Dowling
Science 12 February 1999: 937.
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 Brown Dwarf Origins

Ralph Neuhaeuser
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 Scientific Responsibility in Global Climate Change Research

S. Ichtiaque Rasool
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

PALEOBIOLOGY:
Whale Origins--Conquering the Seas

John E. Heyning
Science 12 February 1999: 943.
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DEVELOPMENT:
Heart-Making Details

Lewis Wolpert
Science 12 February 1999: 943-944.
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Browsings

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Perspectives

EVOLUTION:
Turtle Origins

Olivier Rieppel
Science 12 February 1999: 945-946.
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POLYMER SYNTHESIS:
Enhanced: Making Polymers from Carbon Dioxide

Eric J. Beckman
Science 12 February 1999: 946-947.
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CELL PROLIFERATION:
Unlimited Mileage from Telomerase?

Titia de Lange and Ronald A. DePinho
Science 12 February 1999: 947-949.
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CLIMATE VARIABILITY:
Nota Bene: The North Atlantic Oscillation

Julia Uppenbrink
Science 12 February 1999: 948-949.
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Review

Genesis and Evolution of the 1997-98 El Niño

Michael J. McPhaden
Science 12 February 1999: 950-954.
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Reports

Mechanism of Zeolite A Nanocrystal Growth from Colloids at Room Temperature

Svetlana Mintova, Norman H. Olson, Valentin Valtchev, and Thomas Bein
Science 12 February 1999: 958-960.
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Giant Wormlike Rubber Micelles

You-Yeon Won, H. Ted Davis, and Frank S. Bates
Science 12 February 1999: 960-963.
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Ordered Mesoporous Polymers of Tunable Pore Size from Colloidal Silica Templates

Stacy A. Johnson, Patricia J. Ollivier, and Thomas E. Mallouk
Science 12 February 1999: 963-965.
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Dislocations Faster than the Speed of Sound

Peter Gumbsch and Huajian Gao
Science 12 February 1999: 965-968.
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Chemical Analysis of Polar Stratospheric Cloud Particles

Jochen Schreiner, Christiane Voigt, Andreas Kohlmann, Frank Arnold, Konrad Mauersberger, and Niels Larsen
Science 12 February 1999: 968-970.
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A 0.5-Million-Year Record of Millennial-Scale Climate Variability in the North Atlantic

Jerry F. McManus, Delia W. Oppo, and James L. Cullen
Science 12 February 1999: 971-975.
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A Kuroko-Type Polymetallic Sulfide Deposit in a Submarine Silicic Caldera

K. Iizasa, R. S. Fiske, O. Ishizuka, M. Yuasa, J. Hashimoto, J. Ishibashi, J. Naka, Y. Horii, Y. Fujiwara, A. Imai, and S. Koyama
Science 12 February 1999: 975-977.
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A Giant Protease with Potential to Substitute for Some Functions of the Proteasome

Elke Geier, Günter Pfeifer, Matthias Wilm, Maria Lucchiari-Hartz, Wolfgang Baumeister, Klaus Eichmann, and Gabriele Niedermann
Science 12 February 1999: 978-981.
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Role of NADH Shuttle System in Glucose-Induced Activation of Mitochondrial Metabolism and Insulin Secretion

Kazuhiro Eto, Yoshiharu Tsubamoto, Yasuo Terauchi, Takuya Sugiyama, Takuya Kishimoto, Noriko Takahashi, Naoko Yamauchi, Naoto Kubota, Shigeo Murayama, Toru Aizawa, Yasuo Akanuma, Shinichi Aizawa, Haruo Kasai, Yoshio Yazaki, and Takashi Kadowaki
Science 12 February 1999: 981-985.
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Conserved Structures of Mediator and RNA Polymerase II Holoenzyme

Francisco J. Asturias, Yi Wei Jiang, Lawrence C. Myers, Claes M. Gustafsson, and Roger D. Kornberg
Science 12 February 1999: 985-987.
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Crystallographic Evidence for Preformed Dimers of Erythropoietin Receptor Before Ligand Activation

Oded Livnah, Enrico A. Stura, Steven A. Middleton, Dana L. Johnson, Linda K. Jolliffe, and Ian A. Wilson
Science 12 February 1999: 987-990.
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Erythropoietin Receptor Activation by a Ligand-Induced Conformation Change

Ingrid Remy, Ian A. Wilson, and Stephen W. Michnick
Science 12 February 1999: 990-993.
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Hunting Behavior of a Marine Mammal Beneath the Antarctic Fast Ice

R. W. Davis, L. A. Fuiman, T. M. Williams, S. O. Collier, W. P. Hagey, S. B. Kanatous, S. Kohin, and M. Horning
Science 12 February 1999: 993-996.
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A Copper Cofactor for the Ethylene Receptor ETR1 from Arabidopsis

Fernando I. Rodríguez, Jeffrey J. Esch, Anne E. Hall, Brad M. Binder, G. Eric Schaller, and Anthony B. Bleecker
Science 12 February 1999: 996-998.
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A Molecular Phylogeny of Reptiles

S. Blair Hedges and Laura L. Poling
Science 12 February 1999: 998-1001.
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Efficient Bypass of a Thymine-Thymine Dimer by Yeast DNA Polymerase, Pol

Robert E. Johnson, Satya Prakash, and Louise Prakash
Science 12 February 1999: 1001-1004.
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