This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
A European Perspective on Space

Martin Rees
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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

ASTRONOMY:
China Doubles Budget to Create Astronomy Megainstitute

Hui Li
Science 14 May 1999: 1094-1095.
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MANTLE DYNAMICS:
Iceland's Fires Tap the Heart of the Planet

Richard A. Kerr
Science 14 May 1999: 1095-1097.
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TRANSGENIC ANIMALS:
Fertility Therapy May Aid Gene Transfer

Michael Hagmann
Science 14 May 1999: 1097-1098.
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NEUROBIOLOGY:
Time Cues Help the Brain See Objects

Marcia Barinaga
Science 14 May 1999: 1098-1099.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Asteroids Form Rocky Relationships

Richard A. Kerr
Science 14 May 1999: 1099-1101.
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HIV:
French-Led Therapy Fund Kicks Off in Africa

Michael Balter
Science 14 May 1999: 1101.
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HIV:
AIDS Now World's Fourth Biggest Killer

Michael Balter
Science 14 May 1999: 1101.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

SPACE STATION:
A $100 Billion Orbiting Lab Takes Shape. What Will It Do?

David Malakoff
Science 14 May 1999: 1102-1108.
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SPACE STATION:
Making a Deal With the Devil

Andrew Lawler
Science 14 May 1999: 1106-1107.
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PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY MEETING:
Anthropologists Probe Bones, Stones, and Molecules

Elizabeth Culotta
Science 14 May 1999: 1109-1111.
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SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY:
Mathematics Gets Institutionalized--Again

Barry Cipra
Science 14 May 1999: 1111-1112.
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SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY:
Private Money Adds Two Institutes

Barry Cipra
Science 14 May 1999: 1112.
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ASTRONOMY:
Labs Hold the Key to the 21-Micrometer Mystery

Alexander Hellemans
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 Threat to U.S. Mouse Colonies

Neil S. Lipman, Hai Nguyen, and Scott Perkins
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 Hurricane Forecasting

Roger A. Pielke Jr.
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 Openness in Private-Public Collaboration

Roger O. McClellan
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 Brain Regions and Drug Addiction

Richard E. Harlan and Meredith M. Garcia
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 Scientists in the Courtroom

Jan Beyea
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 Origin of the Japanese Population

Ching-Wan Lam
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 A Fidgeter's Calculation

Roger Cooke;, James A. Levine, and Michael D. Jensen
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Books et al.

HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE:
Uncle Sam Wants You

David L. Hull
Science 14 May 1999: 1131-1133.
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Policy Forum

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS:
Database Protection: Is It Broken and Should We Fix It?

Stephen M. Maurer and Suzanne Scotchmer
Science 14 May 1999: 1129-1130.
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Perspectives

PALEOCLIMATE:
Ice Age Temperatures and Geochemistry

Edouard Bard
Science 14 May 1999: 1133-1134.
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IMMUNOLOGY:
GAD, a Single Autoantigen for Diabetes

Harald von Boehmer and Adelaida Sarukhan
Science 14 May 1999: 1135-1137.
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CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS:
Enhanced: Is This Why T_c Is So Low?

A. V. Balatsky and Z.-X. Shen
Science 14 May 1999: 1137-1138.
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OCEANOGRAPHY:
Is the Deep Sea on a Diet?

Ellen R. M. Druffel and Bruce H. Robison
Science 14 May 1999: 1139-1140.
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 EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY:
Nota Bene: The Male's Dilemma

Richard B. Gallagher
Science 14 May 1999: 1140.
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Reports

Polymersomes: Tough Vesicles Made from Diblock Copolymers

Bohdana M. Discher, You-Yeon Won, David S. Ege, James C-M. Lee, Frank S. Bates, Dennis E. Discher, and Daniel A. Hammer
Science 14 May 1999: 1143-1146.
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The Formation of Jupiter's Faint Rings

Joseph A. Burns, Mark R. Showalter, Douglas P. Hamilton, Philip D. Nicholson, Imke de Pater, Maureen E. Ockert-Bell, and Peter C. Thomas
Science 14 May 1999: 1146-1150.
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65,000 Years of Vegetation Change in Central Australia and the Australian Summer Monsoon

B. J. Johnson, G. H. Miller, M. L. Fogel, J. W. Magee, M. K. Gagan, and A. R. Chivas
Science 14 May 1999: 1150-1152.
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Electrostatic Modulation of Superconductivity in Ultrathin GdBa₂Cu₃O_7-x Films

C. H. Ahn, S. Gariglio, P. Paruch, T. Tybell, L. Antognazza, and J.-M. Triscone
Science 14 May 1999: 1152-1155.
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Control of Hippocampal Morphogenesis and Neuronal Differentiation by the LIM Homeobox Gene Lhx5

Yangu Zhao, Hui Z. Sheng, Reshad Amini, Alexander Grinberg, Eric Lee, SingPing Huang, Masanori Taira, and Heiner Westphal
Science 14 May 1999: 1155-1158.
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Separate Signals for Target Selection and Movement Specification in the Superior Colliculus

Gregory D. Horwitz and William T. Newsome
Science 14 May 1999: 1158-1161.
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Interaction of RAFT1 with Gephyrin Required for Rapamycin-Sensitive Signaling

David M. Sabatini, Roxanne K. Barrow, Seth Blackshaw, Patrick E. Burnett, Michael M. Lai, Michael E. Field, Ben A. Bahr, Joachim Kirsch, Heinrich Betz, and Solomon H. Snyder
Science 14 May 1999: 1161-1164.
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Visual Form Created Solely from Temporal Structure

Sang-Hun Lee and Randolph Blake
Science 14 May 1999: 1165-1168.
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Bone Marrow as a Potential Source of Hepatic Oval Cells

B. E. Petersen, W. C. Bowen, K. D. Patrene, W. M. Mars, A. K. Sullivan, N. Murase, S. S. Boggs, J. S. Greenberger, and J. P. Goff
Science 14 May 1999: 1168-1170.
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Crystal Structure of a Conserved Ribosomal Protein-RNA Complex

Graeme L. Conn, David E. Draper, Eaton E. Lattman, and Apostolos G. Gittis
Science 14 May 1999: 1171-1174.
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Long-Term Discrepancy Between Food Supply and Demand in the Deep Eastern North Pacific

Kenneth L. Smith, Jr. and Ronald S. Kaufmann
Science 14 May 1999: 1174-1177.
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Net Primary Production of a Forest Ecosystem with Experimental CO₂ Enrichment

Evan H. DeLucia, Jason G. Hamilton, Shawna L. Naidu, Richard B. Thomas, Jeffrey A. Andrews, Adrien Finzi, Michael Lavine, Roser Matamala, Jacqueline E. Mohan, George R. Hendrey, and William H. Schlesinger
Science 14 May 1999: 1177-1179.
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Mammalian Transgenesis by Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection

Anthony C. F. Perry, Teruhiko Wakayama, Hidefumi Kishikawa, Tsuyoshi Kasai, Masaru Okabe, Yutaka Toyoda, and Ryuzo Yanagimachi
Science 14 May 1999: 1180-1183.
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Control of Autoimmune Diabetes in NOD Mice by GAD Expression or Suppression in  Cells

Ji-Won Yoon, Chang-Soon Yoon, Hye-Won Lim, Qi Quan Huang, Yup Kang, Kwang Ho Pyun, Kensuke Hirasawa, Robert S. Sherwin, and Hee-Sook Jun
Science 14 May 1999: 1183-1187.
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Inactivation of Misselected CD8 T Cells by CD8 Gene Methylation and Cell Death

Gary A. Pestano, Yaling Zhou, Linda A. Trimble, John Daley, Georg F. Weber, and Harvey Cantor
Science 14 May 1999: 1187-1191.
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Technical Comments

 Considering a Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth

Nicholas Christie-Blick, Linda E. Sohl, Martin J. Kennedy;, Paul F. Hoffman, and Daniel P. Schrag;
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