This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Success Through Innovation

Gerhard Schröder
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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

GENOMICS:
Drug Firms to Create Public Database of Genetic Mutations

Eliot Marshall
Science 16 April 1999: 406-407.
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EPIDEMIOLOGY:
New Virus Fingered in Malaysian Epidemic

Martin Enserink
Science 16 April 1999: 407-410.
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VACCINE DEVELOPMENT:
NIH Scientist to Head IVI Institute in Korea

Michael Baker
Science 16 April 1999: 410.
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ANIMAL RIGHTS:
Activists Ransack Minnesota Labs

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 16 April 1999: 410-411.
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GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS:
Fewer Minorities Under New NSF Rules

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 16 April 1999: 411-412.
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PALEONTOLOGY:
Earliest Animals Growing Younger?

Richard A. Kerr
Science 16 April 1999: 412.
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U.S. WEAPONS LABS:
Security Fears Prompt Computer Shutdown

David Malakoff
Science 16 April 1999: 412-413.
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STEM CELL RESEARCH:
NIH Plans Ethics Review of Proposals

Eliot Marshall
Science 16 April 1999: 413-415.
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MICROBIOLOGY:
Giant Sulfur-Eating Microbe Found

Bernice Wuethrich
Science 16 April 1999: 415.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

MILITARY RESEARCH:
Missile Defense Rides Again

James Glanz
Science 16 April 1999: 416-420.
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MILITARY RESEARCH:
Patriots Missed, But Criticisms Hit Home

James Glanz
Science 16 April 1999: 418-419.
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ACOUSTICS:
Probing the Shaking Microworld

Alexander Hellemans
Science 16 April 1999: 420-421.
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CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS:
The Clock Plot Thickens

Marcia Barinaga
Science 16 April 1999: 421-422.
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TISSUE ENGINEERING:
Lab-Grown Organs Begin to Take Shape

Dan Ferber
Science 16 April 1999: 422-425.
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TISSUE ENGINEERING:
From the Lab to the Clinic

Dan Ferber
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 Yellowstone Grizzly Population

Mark L. Shaffer
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 Managing the National Forests

Chris Wood
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 Angiostatin's Partners

Raul Martinez-Zaguilan; and Robert J. Gillies
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 Climbing and Cliff Ecology

Pat Jodice, Kath Pyke, Sam Davidson;, and Warren G. Guntheroth
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 Do Infants Learn Grammar with Algebra or Statistics?

Mark S. Seidenberg, Jeff L. Elman;, Michiro Negishi;, Peter D. Eimas;, and Gary F. Marcus;
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

GEOSCIENCES:
Held in Place By Practice

David Oldroyd
Science 16 April 1999: 440-441.
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 BROWSINGS

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Policy Forum

TECHNOLOGY:
The Y2K Problem

Robert F. Bennett
Science 16 April 1999: 438-439.
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Perspectives

MICROBIOLOGY:
Deconstructing Vancomycin

Christopher Walsh
Science 16 April 1999: 442-443.
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SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION:
Nuclear Fusion of Signaling Pathways

Ralf Janknecht and Tony Hunter
Science 16 April 1999: 443-444.
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COSMOLOGY:
Enhanced: Is the Universe Fractal?

Vicent J. Martínez
Science 16 April 1999: 445-446.
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 RETROSPECTIVE:
Glenn Seaborg (1912-1999)

Daniel E. Koshland Jr.
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Tech.Sight

INFECTIOUS DISEASE:
PCR Detection of Bacteria in Seven Minutes

Phillip Belgrader, William Benett, Dean Hadley, James Richards, Paul Stratton, Raymond Mariella Jr., and Fred Milanovich
Science 16 April 1999: 449-450.
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SOFTWARE:
Dry Chemistry

Brian Shmaefsky
Science 16 April 1999: 451-452.
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 NEURAL REGENERATION:
Some Nerve!

Robert Sikorski and Richard Peters
Science 16 April 1999: 453.
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 LAB MANAGEMENT:
Time Is Data

Richard Peters and Robert Sikorski
Science 16 April 1999: 453-454.
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 IMAGE ENHANCEMENT:
The Eyes Have It

Kevin Ahern
Science 16 April 1999: 454.
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Research Article

Structure of the VHL-ElonginC-ElonginB Complex: Implications for VHL Tumor Suppressor Function

Charles E. Stebbins, William G. Kaelin, Jr., and Nikola P. Pavletich
Science 16 April 1999: 455-461.
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Reports

Viscosity Near Earth's Solid Inner Core

D. E. Smylie
Science 16 April 1999: 461-463.
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Global Warming and Marine Carbon Cycle Feedbacks on Future Atmospheric CO₂

Fortunat Joos, Gian-Kasper Plattner, Thomas F. Stocker, Olivier Marchal, and Andreas Schmittner
Science 16 April 1999: 464-467.
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Propagation of a Magnetic Domain Wall in a Submicrometer Magnetic Wire

T. Ono, H. Miyajima, K. Shigeto, K. Mibu, N. Hosoito, and T. Shinjo
Science 16 April 1999: 468-470.
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Magnetization Directions of Individual Nanoparticles

S. A. Majetich and Y. Jin
Science 16 April 1999: 470-473.
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A Steric Mechanism for Inhibition of CO Binding to Heme Proteins

Galina S. Kachalova, Alexander N. Popov, and Hans D. Bartunik
Science 16 April 1999: 473-476.
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Single-Crystal-Like Diffraction Data from Polycrystalline Materials

Thomas Wessels, Christian Baerlocher, and Lynne B. McCusker
Science 16 April 1999: 477-479.
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Synergistic Signaling in Fetal Brain by STAT3-Smad1 Complex Bridged by p300

Kinichi Nakashima, Makoto Yanagisawa, Hirokazu Arakawa, Naoki Kimura, Tatsuhiro Hisatsune, Masahiro Kawabata, Kohei Miyazono, and Tetsuya Taga
Science 16 April 1999: 479-482.
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Dissecting and Exploiting Intermodular Communication in Polyketide Synthases

Rajesh S. Gokhale, Stuart Y. Tsuji, David E. Cane, and Chaitan Khosla
Science 16 April 1999: 482-485.
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Aminoacyl-CoAs as Probes of Condensation Domain Selectivity in Nonribosomal Peptide Synthesis

Peter J. Belshaw, Christopher T. Walsh, and Torsten Stachelhaus
Science 16 April 1999: 486-489.
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Functional Arteries Grown in Vitro

L. E. Niklason, J. Gao, W. M. Abbott, K. K. Hirschi, S. Houser, R. Marini, and R. Langer
Science 16 April 1999: 489-493.
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Dense Populations of a Giant Sulfur Bacterium in Namibian Shelf Sediments

H. N. Schulz, T. Brinkhoff, T. G. Ferdelman, M. Hernández Mariné, A. Teske, and B. B. Jørgensen
Science 16 April 1999: 493-495.
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SPA1, a WD-Repeat Protein Specific to Phytochrome A Signal Transduction

Ute Hoecker, James M. Tepperman, and Peter H. Quail
Science 16 April 1999: 496-499.
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Control of mRNA Decay by Heat Shock-Ubiquitin-Proteasome Pathway

Gaurav Laroia, Rafael Cuesta, Gary Brewer, and Robert J. Schneider
Science 16 April 1999: 499-502.
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Regulation of Mammalian Circadian Behavior by Non-rod, Non-cone, Ocular Photoreceptors

Melanie S. Freedman, Robert J. Lucas, Bobby Soni, Malcolm von Schantz, Marta Muñoz, Zoë David-Gray, and Russell Foster
Science 16 April 1999: 502-504.
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Regulation of the Mammalian Pineal by Non-rod, Non-cone, Ocular Photoreceptors

Robert J. Lucas, Melanie S. Freedman, Marta Muñoz, José-M. Garcia-Fernández, and Russell G. Foster
Science 16 April 1999: 505-507.
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Vancomycin Derivatives That Inhibit Peptidoglycan Biosynthesis Without Binding D-Ala-D-Ala

Min Ge, Zhong Chen, H. Russell Onishi, Joyce Kohler, Lynn L. Silver, Robert Kerns, Seketsu Fukuzawa, Christopher Thompson, and Daniel Kahne
Science 16 April 1999: 507-511.
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