This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Global Immunization for the 21st Century

Gustav J. V. Nossal
Science 23 April 1999: 587.
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NetWatch

Best of the Web in science.
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 NEW PRODUCTS

Science 23 April 1999: 669-670.

News of the Week

SCIENTIFIC ETHICS:
Two Former Grad Students Sue Over Alleged Misuse of Ideas

Eliot Marshall
Science 23 April 1999: 562-563.
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WEATHER:
Forecasters Learning to Read a Hurricane's Mind

Richard A. Kerr
Science 23 April 1999: 563-565.
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BUDGET RESOLUTION:
R&D Takes a Hit, But Don't Count It Out

Eliot Marshall
Science 23 April 1999: 565-566.
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ASTRONOMY:
Black Holes Enter the Middleweights

Mark Sincell
Science 23 April 1999: 566.
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ASTRONOMY:
Starving Black Holes Sound an SOS

Govert Schilling
Science 23 April 1999: 567-568.
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CONSERVATION BIOLOGY:
Study Sounds Alarm on Yellowstone Grizzlies

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 23 April 1999: 568.
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PARTICLE PHYSICS:
Italy's KLOE Sets Sights on CP Violation

Alexander Hellemans
Science 23 April 1999: 568-569.
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PHYSICS LABS:
What Future for France's IN2P3?

Michael Balter
Science 23 April 1999: 569-571.
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GENETICS:
Discovery of 'Gay Gene' Questioned

Ingrid Wickelgren
Science 23 April 1999: 571.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

EVOLUTION:
A New Human Ancestor?

Elizabeth Culotta
Science 23 April 1999: 572-573.
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ECOLOGY:
As Salmon Stage Disappearing Act, Dams May Too

Richard A. Lovett
Science 23 April 1999: 574-575.
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VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY MEETING:
From Embryos and Fossils, New Clues to Vertebrate Evolution

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 23 April 1999: 575-577.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Neurons and Silicon Get Intimate

Robert F. Service
Science 23 April 1999: 578-579.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Bypassing Nervous System Damage With Electronics

Robert F. Service
Science 23 April 1999: 579.
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SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES:
Blowing the Dust Off the French Academy

Michael Balter
Science 23 April 1999: 580-581.
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SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES:
Academy Reform: Members Have Their Say

Michael Balter
Science 23 April 1999: 581.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 23 April 1999: 589.
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 Evolving Smarts

Mark R. Rosenzweig;, James A. Duke;, and Robert Legrand
Science 23 April 1999: 589.
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 Inner Sanctum

Robert Mullan Cook-Deegan; and Helen Schiff
Science 23 April 1999: 589.
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 Paradigms Lost

Julian Ashford; and Jon Cohen
Science 23 April 1999: 589.
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 Physician-Scientists: Staying Alive

Joseph G. Perpich
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

PALEOCLIMATOLOGY:
The View Through the Rocks

Lisa Cirbus Sloan
Science 23 April 1999: 597.
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 Browsings

Science 23 April 1999: 597.
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Policy Forum

CONSERVATION:
Wildlife Harvest in Logged Tropical Forests

John G. Robinson, Kent H. Redford, and Elizabeth L. Bennett
Science 23 April 1999: 595-596.
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Perspectives

TRANSCRIPTION:
Shifting RNA Polymerase into Overdrive

Robert Landick
Science 23 April 1999: 598-599.
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PLANT BIOLOGY:
Leaves in the Dark See the Light

Christine H. Foyer and Graham Noctor
Science 23 April 1999: 599-601.
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BIOCHEMISTRY:
One Ring to Rule a Superfamily of E3 Ubiquitin Ligases

Mike Tyers and Andrew R. Willems
Science 23 April 1999: 601-604.
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GEOSCIENCE:
Enhanced: Giant Lava Flows, Mass Extinctions, and Mantle Plumes

Paul E. Olsen
Science 23 April 1999: 604-605.
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Review

Transcriptional Coregulators in Development

Mattias Mannervik, Yutaka Nibu, Hailan Zhang, and Michael Levine
Science 23 April 1999: 606-609.
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Research Article

Mechanism of Intrinsic Transcription Termination and Antitermination

W. S. Yarnell and J. W. Roberts
Science 23 April 1999: 611-615.
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Reports

Extensive 200-Million-Year-Old Continental Flood Basalts of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province

Andrea Marzoli, Paul R. Renne, Enzo M. Piccirillo, Marcia Ernesto, Giuliano Bellieni, and Angelo De Min
Science 23 April 1999: 616-618.
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Slow Deformation and Lower Seismic Hazard at the New Madrid Seismic Zone

Andrew Newman, Seth Stein, John Weber, Joseph Engeln, Ailin Mao, and Timothy Dixon
Science 23 April 1999: 619-621.
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Silica Sol as a Nanoglue: Flexible Synthesis of Composite Aerogels

Catherine A. Morris, Michele L. Anderson, Rhonda M. Stroud, Celia I. Merzbacher, and Debra R. Rolison
Science 23 April 1999: 622-624.
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Environment and Behavior of 2.5-Million-Year-Old Bouri Hominids

Jean de Heinzelin, J. Desmond Clark, Tim White, William Hart, Paul Renne, Giday WoldeGabriel, Yonas Beyene, and Elisabeth Vrba
Science 23 April 1999: 625-629.
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Australopithecus garhi: A New Species of Early Hominid from Ethiopia

Berhane Asfaw, Tim White, Owen Lovejoy, Bruce Latimer, Scott Simpson, and Gen Suwa
Science 23 April 1999: 629-635.
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Electron Solvation in Finite Systems: Femtosecond Dynamics of Iodide·(Water)_n Anion Clusters

L. Lehr, M. T. Zanni, C. Frischkorn, R. Weinkauf, and D. M. Neumark
Science 23 April 1999: 635-638.
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Requirement for Tec Kinases Rlk and Itk in T Cell Receptor Signaling and Immunity

Edward M. Schaeffer, Jayanta Debnath, George Yap, Daniel McVicar, X. Charlene Liao, Dan R. Littman, Alan Sher, Harold E. Varmus, Michael J. Lenardo, and Pamela L. Schwartzberg
Science 23 April 1999: 638-641.
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Efficient Persistence of Extrachromosomal KSHV DNA Mediated by Latency-Associated Nuclear Antigen

Mary E. Ballestas, Pamela A. Chatis, and Kenneth M. Kaye
Science 23 April 1999: 641-644.
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A Role for DNA-PK in Retroviral DNA Integration

René Daniel, Richard A. Katz, and Anna Marie Skalka
Science 23 April 1999: 644-647.
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Nonproteolytic Neuroprotection by Human Recombinant Tissue Plasminogen Activator

Yang-Hee Kim, June-Hee Park, Seung Hwan Hong, and Jae-Young Koh
Science 23 April 1999: 647-650.
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Fas-Induced Caspase Denitrosylation

Joan B. Mannick, Alfred Hausladen, Limin Liu, Douglas T. Hess, Ming Zeng, Qian X. Miao, Laurie S. Kane, Andrew J. Gow, and Jonathan S. Stamler
Science 23 April 1999: 651-654.
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Systemic Signaling and Acclimation in Response to Excess Excitation Energy in Arabidopsis

Stanislaw Karpinski, Helen Reynolds, Barbara Karpinska, Gunnar Wingsle, Gary Creissen, and Philip Mullineaux
Science 23 April 1999: 654-657.
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Rbx1, a Component of the VHL Tumor Suppressor Complex and SCF Ubiquitin Ligase

T. Kamura, D. M. Koepp, M. N. Conrad, D. Skowyra, R. J. Moreland, O. Iliopoulos, W. S. Lane, W. G. Kaelin, Jr., S. J. Elledge, R. C. Conaway, J. W. Harper, and J. W. Conaway
Science 23 April 1999: 657-661.
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Reconstitution of G₁ Cyclin Ubiquitination with Complexes Containing SCF^Grr1 and Rbx1

Dorota Skowyra, Deanna M. Koepp, Takumi Kamura, Michael N. Conrad, Ronald C. Conaway, Joan Weliky Conaway, Stephen J. Elledge, and J. Wade Harper
Science 23 April 1999: 662-665.
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Male Homosexuality: Absence of Linkage to Microsatellite Markers at Xq28

George Rice, Carol Anderson, Neil Risch, and George Ebers
Science 23 April 1999: 665-667.
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Technical Comments

 T Cell Turnover in SIV Infection

Zvi Grossman, Ronald B. Herberman, Dimiter S. Dimitrov;, Igor M. Rouzine, John M. Coffin;, Alan S. Perelson, Sebastian Bonhoeffer, Hiroshi Mohri, and David D. Ho;
Science 23 April 1999: 555.
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