This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Public Access to Data

Mark S. Frankel
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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

AIDS RESEARCH:
Researchers Urged Not to Inject Virulent HIV Strain Into Chimps

Jon Cohen
Science 19 February 1999: 1090-1091.
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SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT:
Baylor Saga Comes to an End

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 19 February 1999: 1091.
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HUMAN GENETICS:
A Gene That Scrambles Your Heart

Michael Hagmann
Science 19 February 1999: 1091-1093.
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VIROLOGY:
Virus Suspect Identified in Elephant Deaths

Dan Ferber
Science 19 February 1999: 1093-1094.
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BIOENGINEERING:
Preliminary Data Touch Off Genetic Food Fight

Martin Enserink
Science 19 February 1999: 1094-1095.
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COSMOLOGY:
Superheavy Particles From the Big Bang?

James Glanz
Science 19 February 1999: 1095-1096.
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FEDERAL RESEARCH:
Efforts to Evaluate R&D Found Wanting

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 19 February 1999: 1096-1097.
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COMPUTER SCIENCE:
New Interface Makes Virtual World Tangible

Joseph Alper
Science 19 February 1999: 1097-1099.
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CANADA:
Planned Chiropractic Merger Riles Faculty

Wayne Kondro
Science 19 February 1999: 1099.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

From Junk Bond King to Cancer Crusader

Erik Stokstad
Science 19 February 1999: 1100-1103.
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Michael Milken's World

Erik Stokstad
Science 19 February 1999: 1101.
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SPACE SCIENCE:
To Mars, En Masse

Oliver Morton
Science 19 February 1999: 1103-1104.
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MEETING: MICROBIAL GENOMES III:
DNA Sequences Provide Grist for Microbiologists

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 19 February 1999: 1105-1106.
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PHYSICS:
Could Charge Stripes Be a Key to Superconductivity?

Robert F. Service
Science 19 February 1999: 1106-1108.
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CLIMATE CHANGE:
Big El Niños Ride the Back of Slower Climate Change

Richard A. Kerr
Science 19 February 1999: 1108-1109.
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In North American Climate, a More Local Control

Richard A. Kerr
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 Reviewing Interdisciplinary Research

James S. Kane
Science 19 February 1999: 1115.
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 Future Food

Alan H. Goldstein;, Peter J. Porpiglia;, Lee D. Hansen, Bruce N. Smith, and Richard S. Criddle
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 Women in Biological Sciences

Mark E. Siddall
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 Virulent HIV Strains, Chimpanzees, and Trial Vaccines

Alfred M. Prince, Jonathan Allan, Linda Andrus, Betsy Brotman, Jorg Eichberg, Roger Fouts, Jane Goodall, Preston Marx, Krishna K. Murthy, Shirley McGreal, and Carole Noon
Science 19 February 1999: 1115.
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 Coping with the DAS in Science

William D. Romey
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 Kaposi's Sarcoma: Correction

Robert C. Gallo
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

NEUROBIOLOGY:
A High Point for Evolution

Terrence J. Sejnowski
Science 19 February 1999: 1121.
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MATHEMATICS:
Infinitesimal Steps

Joseph W. Dauben
Science 19 February 1999: 1122.
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Policy Forum

ARMS CONTROL:
Maintaining a Nuclear Deterrent Under the Test Ban Treaty

Sidney Drell, Raymond Jeanloz, and Bob Peurifoy
Science 19 February 1999: 1119-1120.
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Perspectives

ASTROPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY:
Molecules on a Space Odyssey

Pascale Ehrenfreund
Science 19 February 1999: 1123-1124.
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IMMUNOLOGY:
T Cells and Dendritic Cells Get Intimate

Kim Bottomly
Science 19 February 1999: 1124-1125.
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POROUS MATERIALS:
Prospects for Giant Pores

Gérard Férey and Anthony K. Cheetham
Science 19 February 1999: 1125-1126.
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NEUROBIOLOGY:
Enhanced: Brain, Heal Thyself

Daniel H. Lowenstein and Jack M. Parent
Science 19 February 1999: 1126-1127.
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Tech.Sight

MOLECULAR GENETICS:
MaRX: An Approach to Genetics in Mammalian Cells

Gregory J. Hannon, Peiqing Sun, Amancio Carnero, Lin Ying Xie, Roberta Maestro, Douglas S. Conklin, and David Beach
Science 19 February 1999: 1129-1130.
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SOFTWARE:
Looking Good from This Window

Kathy E. Mitchell and Bruce D. Schultz
Science 19 February 1999: 1131-1132.
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 SOFTWARE:
Protein Structure at Your Desk

Beth Basham
Science 19 February 1999: 1132.
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 STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY:
Difference Mapping Cryo-EM

Richard Peters and Robert Sikorski
Science 19 February 1999: 1133.
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 NET TIP:
Digital Security, Part II

Robert Sikorski and Richard Peters
Science 19 February 1999: 1133-1134.
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 SOFTWARE:
Graphically Speaking

Darryl Nishimura
Science 19 February 1999: 1134.
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Reports

UV Irradiation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Ices: Production of Alcohols, Quinones, and Ethers

Max P. Bernstein, Scott A. Sandford, Louis J. Allamandola, J. Seb Gillette, Simon J. Clemett, and Richard N. Zare
Science 19 February 1999: 1135-1138.
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Magma Flow Instability and Cyclic Activity at Soufriere Hills Volcano, Montserrat, British West Indies

B. Voight, R. S. J. Sparks, A. D. Miller, R. C. Stewart, R. P. Hoblitt, A. Clarke, J. Ewart, W. P. Aspinall, B. Baptie, E. S. Calder, P. Cole, T. H. Druitt, C. Hartford, R. A. Herd, P. Jackson, A. M. Lejeune, A. B. Lockhart, S. C. Loughlin, R. Luckett, L. Lynch, G. E. Norton, R. Robertson, I. M. Watson, R. Watts, and S. R. Young
Science 19 February 1999: 1138-1142.
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Cristobalite in Volcanic Ash of the Soufriere Hills Volcano, Montserrat, British West Indies

P. J. Baxter, C. Bonadonna, R. Dupree, V. L. Hards, S. C. Kohn, M. D. Murphy, A. Nichols, R. A. Nicholson, G. Norton, A. Searl, R. S. J. Sparks, and B. P. Vickers
Science 19 February 1999: 1142-1145.
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Supertetrahedral Sulfide Crystals with Giant Cavities and Channels

Hailian Li, Aaron Laine, M. O'Keeffe, and O. M. Yaghi
Science 19 February 1999: 1145-1147.
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A Chemically Functionalizable Nanoporous Material [Cu₃(TMA)₂(H₂O)₃]_n

Stephen S.-Y. Chui, Samuel M.-F. Lo, Jonathan P. H. Charmant, A. Guy Orpen, and Ian D. Williams
Science 19 February 1999: 1148-1150.
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Direct Evidence for R Rotons Having Antiparallel Momentum and Velocity

M. A. H. Tucker and A. F. G. Wyatt
Science 19 February 1999: 1150-1152.
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A Processive Single-Headed Motor: Kinesin Superfamily Protein KIF1A

Yasushi Okada and Nobutaka Hirokawa
Science 19 February 1999: 1152-1157.
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A Molecular Pathway Revealing a Genetic Basis for Human Cardiac and Craniofacial Defects

Hiroyuki Yamagishi, Vidu Garg, Rumiko Matsuoka, Tiffani Thomas, and Deepak Srivastava
Science 19 February 1999: 1158-1161.
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Regulation of Chamber-Specific Gene Expression in the Developing Heart by Irx4

Zheng-Zheng Bao, Benoit G. Bruneau, J. G. Seidman, Christine E. Seidman, and Constance L. Cepko
Science 19 February 1999: 1161-1164.
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Nonmethylated Transposable Elements and Methylated Genes in a Chordate Genome

Martin W. Simmen, Sabine Leitgeb, Jillian Charlton, Steven J. M. Jones, Barbara R. Harris, Victoria H. Clark, and Adrian Bird
Science 19 February 1999: 1164-1167.
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A Computational Screen for Methylation Guide snoRNAs in Yeast

Todd M. Lowe and Sean R. Eddy
Science 19 February 1999: 1168-1171.
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Novel Endotheliotropic Herpesviruses Fatal for Asian and African Elephants

Laura K. Richman, Richard J. Montali, Richard L. Garber, Melissa A. Kennedy, John Lehnhardt, Thomas Hildebrandt, Dennis Schmitt, Douglas Hardy, Donald J. Alcendor, and Gary S. Hayward
Science 19 February 1999: 1171-1176.
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Three-Dimensional Structure of a Recombinant Gap Junction Membrane Channel

Vinzenz M. Unger, Nalin M. Kumar, Norton B. Gilula, and Mark Yeager
Science 19 February 1999: 1176-1180.
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Regulation of Neurotrophin-3 Expression by Epithelial-Mesenchymal Interactions: The Role of Wnt Factors

Ardem Patapoutian, Carey Backus, Andreas Kispert, and Louis F. Reichardt
Science 19 February 1999: 1180-1183.
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Reciprocal Control of T Helper Cell and Dendritic Cell Differentiation

Marie-Clotilde Rissoan, Vassili Soumelis, Norimitsu Kadowaki, Geraldine Grouard, Francine Briere, René de Waal Malefyt, and Yong-Jun Liu
Science 19 February 1999: 1183-1186.
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Technical Comments

 Sexual Selection and Sensory Exploitation

Paul W. Sherman, Hudson Kern Reeve;, and Michael J. Ryan;
Science 19 February 1999: 1083.
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