This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Investing in the World Health Organization

Barry R. Bloom, David E. Bloom, Joel E. Cohen, and Jeffrey D. Sachs
Science 7 May 1999: 911.
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NetWatch

Best of the Web in science.
Science 7 May 1999: 871.
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 NEW PRODUCTS

Science 7 May 1999: 981-982.

News of the Week

DOE LABORATORIES:
Spy Inquiry Is Taking Toll on Non-U.S. Researchers

David Malakoff
Science 7 May 1999: 882.
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MICROBIOLOGY:
Gene May Promise New Route to Potent Vaccines

Martin Enserink
Science 7 May 1999: 883.
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BIOMEDICAL PATENTS:
Startling Revelations in UC-Genentech Battle

Eliot Marshall
Science 7 May 1999: 883-886.
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DIABETES RESEARCH:
New Lead Found to a Possible 'Insulin Pill'

Trisha Gura
Science 7 May 1999: 886.
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SWEDEN:
Academics Applaud Renewed Support

Annika Nilsson and Joanna Rose
Science 7 May 1999: 886-887.
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WEB TOOLS:
Searching Museums From Your Desktop

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 7 May 1999: 888.
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SPACE ASTRONOMY:
Heaven Can Wait, NASA Tells X-ray Telescope

Michael Hagmann
Science 7 May 1999: 888-889.
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PLANETOLOGY:
Craters Suggest How Venus Lost Her Youth

Richard A. Kerr
Science 7 May 1999: 889.
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SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY:
NAS Elects 60 New Members

Science 7 May 1999: 891.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY:
Israel Hits Rich Seam in Ex-Soviet Immigrants

Richard Stone
Science 7 May 1999: 892-897.
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SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY:
In the R&D Sweepstakes, the Lure of a Quick Shekel Prevails

Richard Stone
Science 7 May 1999: 894.
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SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY:
Science Stronghold Seeks the Big Prize

Richard Stone
Science 7 May 1999: 896.
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TECHNOLOGY:
Shoebox-Sized Space Probes Take to Orbit

James R. Riordon
Science 7 May 1999: 897-899.
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ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE:
Digging in the Mire for the Air of Ancient Times

Robert Koenig
Science 7 May 1999: 900-901.
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SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT:
ORI Report Tracks Gun-Shy Feds

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 7 May 1999: 901.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 7 May 1999: 913.
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 Inhumane Death?

Amnon Kestel
Science 7 May 1999: 913.
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 Pills or Placebos?

James Trussell;, Alan E. Kazdin;, Seymour M. Antelman, Joseph Levine, Samuel Gershon, Anthony R. Caggiula;, Jefferson M. Fish;, Myrna M. Weissman;, and L. D. Hankoff;
Science 7 May 1999: 913.
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 The Physician-Scientist Template

Don C. Rockey
Science 7 May 1999: 913.
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 The "Proboscidian Concept"

Daniel Lachaise
Science 7 May 1999: 913.
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

PSYCHOLOGY:
The Search for Intelligence

Thomas J. Bouchard Jr.
Science 7 May 1999: 922-923.
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EVOLUTION:
Stories from the Front

Michael Ruse
Science 7 May 1999: 923.
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Essays on Science and Society

Uses and Abuses of Tuskegee

Amy L. Fairchild and Ronald Bayer
Science 7 May 1999: 919-921.
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Perspectives

NEUROSCIENCE:
Enhanced: Sensory Maps on the Move

Michael P. Stryker
Science 7 May 1999: 925-926.
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CLIMATE WARMING:
Seeing the Wood from the Trees

Keith R. Briffa and Timothy J. Osborn
Science 7 May 1999: 926-927.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
A Head for Figures

Brian Butterworth
Science 7 May 1999: 928-929.
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 ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS:
Nota Bene: Catching Sprites by Radio

Julia Uppenbrink
Science 7 May 1999: 929.
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Reports

Room-Temperature Deintercalation and Self-Extrusion of Ga from Cr₂GaN

M. W. Barsoum and L. Farber
Science 7 May 1999: 937-939.
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Mercury in a Spanish Peat Bog: Archive of Climate Change and Atmospheric Metal Deposition

A. Martínez-Cortizas, X. Pontevedra-Pombal, E. García-Rodeja, J. C. Nóvoa-Muñoz, and W. Shotyk
Science 7 May 1999: 939-942.
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Direct Experiments on the Ocean Disposal of Fossil Fuel CO₂

Peter G. Brewer, Gernot Friederich, Edward T. Peltzer, and Franklin M. Orr, Jr.
Science 7 May 1999: 943-945.
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Spectroscopic Determination of the Water Pair Potential

R. S. Fellers, C. Leforestier, L. B. Braly, M. G. Brown, and R. J. Saykally
Science 7 May 1999: 945-948.
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Design and Self-Assembly of Open, Regular, 3D Mesostructures

Tricia L. Breen, Joe Tien, Scott R. J. Oliver, Tanja Hadzic, and George M. Whitesides
Science 7 May 1999: 948-951.
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Requirement for Type 2 NO Synthase for IL-12 Signaling in Innate Immunity

Andreas Diefenbach, Heike Schindler, Martin Röllinghoff, Wayne M. Yokoyama, and Christian Bogdan
Science 7 May 1999: 951-955.
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Interaction of Diphtheria Toxin T Domain with Molten Globule-Like Proteins and Its Implications for Translocation

Jianhua Ren, Kelli Kachel, Hyun Kim, Susan E. Malenbaum, R. John Collier, and Erwin London
Science 7 May 1999: 955-957.
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Action of DNA Repair Endonuclease ERCC1/XPF in Living Cells

Adriaan B. Houtsmuller, Suzanne Rademakers, Alex L. Nigg, Deborah Hoogstraten, Jan H. J. Hoeijmakers, and Wim Vermeulen
Science 7 May 1999: 958-961.
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Functional Selection of Adaptive Auditory Space Map by GABA_A-Mediated Inhibition

Weimin Zheng and Eric I. Knudsen
Science 7 May 1999: 962-965.
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Inheritance of Resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis Toxin (Dipel ES) in the European Corn Borer

F. Huang, L. L. Buschman, R. A. Higgins, and W. H. McGaughey
Science 7 May 1999: 965-967.
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An Essential Role for DNA Adenine Methylation in Bacterial Virulence

Douglas M. Heithoff, Robert L. Sinsheimer, David A. Low, and Michael J. Mahan
Science 7 May 1999: 967-970.
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Sources of Mathematical Thinking: Behavioral and Brain-Imaging Evidence

S. Dehaene, E. Spelke, P. Pinel, R. Stanescu, and S. Tsivkin
Science 7 May 1999: 970-974.
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Discovery of a Small Molecule Insulin Mimetic with Antidiabetic Activity in Mice

Bei Zhang, Gino Salituro, Deborah Szalkowski, Zhihua Li, Yan Zhang, Inmaculada Royo, Dolores Vilella, Maria Teresa Díez, Fernando Pelaez, Caroline Ruby, Richard L. Kendall, Xianzhi Mao, Patrick Griffin, Jimmy Calaycay, Juleen R. Zierath, James V. Heck, Roy G. Smith, and David E. Moller
Science 7 May 1999: 974-977.
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Roles of Phosphorylation Sites in Regulating Activity of the Transcription Factor Pho4

Arash Komeili and Erin K. O'Shea
Science 7 May 1999: 977-980.
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Technical Comments

 Rule Learning by Seven-Month-Old Infants and Neural Networks

Gerry T. M. Altmann, Zoltán Dienes;, and Gary F. Marcus;
Science 7 May 1999: 875.
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