This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
More Regulation of Rodents

Frankie L. Trull and Barbara A. Rich
Science 28 May 1999: 1463.
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NetWatch

Best of the Web in science.
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 NEW PRODUCTS

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 AAAS News & Notes

Science 28 May 1999: 1546-1548.

News of the Week

ASTRONOMY:
Hubble Telescope Settles Cosmic Distance Debate--Or Does It?

Ann Finkbeiner
Science 28 May 1999: 1438-1439.
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HUMAN GENOME PROJECT:
Sequencers Endorse Plan for a Draft in 1 Year

Eliot Marshall
Science 28 May 1999: 1439-1441.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
A New Look at the Martian Landscape

Bernice Wuethrich
Science 28 May 1999: 1441-1442.
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GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD:
Britain Struggles to Turn Anti-GM Tide

Helen Gavaghan
Science 28 May 1999: 1442-1444.
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ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING:
New Memory Cell Could Boost Computer Speeds

Robert F. Service
Science 28 May 1999: 1444.
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MICROSCOPY:
Imaging Living Cells The Friendly Way

Meher Antia
Science 28 May 1999: 1445.
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TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER:
NIH Proposes Rules for Materials Exchange

Martin Enserink
Science 28 May 1999: 1445.
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SCIENCE EDUCATION:
Ideology Rules Debate Over Teacher Training

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 28 May 1999: 1447.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

COSMOLOGY:
Which Way to the Big Bang?

James Glanz
Science 28 May 1999: 1448-1451.
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COSMOLOGY:
Wanted: New Creation Stories

James Glanz
Science 28 May 1999: 1450.
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SCIENCE FUNDING:
Community Divides Over Push for Bigger Budget

David Malakoff
Science 28 May 1999: 1452-1453.
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TRADE POLICY:
Scientific Cross-Claims Fly in Continuing Beef War

Michael Balter
Science 28 May 1999: 1453-1455.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 28 May 1999: 1465.
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 UC-Genentech Trial

Dennis Henner, David V. Goeddel, Herbert Heyneker, Keiichi Itakura, Daniel Yansura, Michael Ross, Giuseppe Miozzari;, and Peter H. Seeburg
Science 28 May 1999: 1465.
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 Paleolithic Population Growth

Richard A. Gould;, G. A. Clark;, and Mary C. Stiner
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

EDUCATION POLICY:
The Effects of Affirmative Action

Robert E. Thach
Science 28 May 1999: 1473-1474.
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MENTAL HEALTH:
Light on Darkened Minds

Norman E. Rosenthal
Science 28 May 1999: 1474.
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Policy Forum

GENETIC ENGINEERING:
A Rational Approach to Labeling Biotech-Derived Foods

Henry I. Miller
Science 28 May 1999: 1471-1472.
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Perspectives

VIROLOGY:
Hole-istic Medicine

Joshua Zimmerberg
Science 28 May 1999: 1475-1477.
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HOMOGENEOUS CATALYSIS:
Enhanced: Toward Greener Chemistry

R. Thomas Baker and William Tumas
Science 28 May 1999: 1477-1479.
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MICROBIOLOGY:
TB Vaccines: Global Solutions for Global Problems

Douglas B. Young and Brian D. Robertson
Science 28 May 1999: 1479-1480.
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 RETROSPECTIVE:
Gertrude Belle Elion (1918-1999)

Michael Colvin
Science 28 May 1999: 1480.
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Reviews

The Cosmic Triangle: Revealing the State of the Universe

Neta A. Bahcall, Jeremiah P. Ostriker, Saul Perlmutter, and Paul J. Steinhardt
Science 28 May 1999: 1481-1488.
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Modeling Astrophysical Phenomena in the Laboratory with Intense Lasers

Bruce A. Remington, David Arnett, R. Paul, Drake, and Hideaki Takabe
Science 28 May 1999: 1488-1493.
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Research Articles

The Global Topography of Mars and Implications for Surface Evolution

David E. Smith, Maria T. Zuber, Sean C. Solomon, Roger J. Phillips, James W. Head, James B. Garvin, W. Bruce Banerdt, Duane O. Muhleman, Gordon H. Pettengill, Gregory A. Neumann, Frank G. Lemoine, James B. Abshire, Oded Aharonson, C. David, Brown, Steven A. Hauck, Anton B. Ivanov, Patrick J. McGovern, H. Jay Zwally, and Thomas C. Duxbury
Science 28 May 1999: 1495-1503.
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A Younger Age for the Universe

Charles H. Lineweaver
Science 28 May 1999: 1503-1507.
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Reports

Supercurrents Through Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

A. Yu. Kasumov, R. Deblock, M. Kociak, B. Reulet, H. Bouchiat, I. I. Khodos, Yu. B. Gorbatov, V. T. Volkov, C. Journet, and M. Burghard
Science 28 May 1999: 1508-1511.
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A Post-Stishovite SiO₂ Polymorph in the Meteorite Shergotty: Implications for Impact Events

T. G. Sharp, A. El Goresy, B. Wopenka, and M. Chen
Science 28 May 1999: 1511-1513.
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Temperatures on Europa from Galileo Photopolarimeter-Radiometer: Nighttime Thermal Anomalies

John R. Spencer, Leslie K. Tamppari, Terry Z. Martin, and Larry D. Travis
Science 28 May 1999: 1514-1516.
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An Aqueous Channel for Filamentous Phage Export

Denise K. Marciano, Marjorie Russel, and Sanford M. Simon
Science 28 May 1999: 1516-1519.
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Comparative Genomics of BCG Vaccines by Whole-Genome DNA Microarray

M. A. Behr, M. A. Wilson, W. P. Gill, H. Salamon, G. K. Schoolnik, S. Rane, and P. M. Small
Science 28 May 1999: 1520-1523.
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Broadly Protective Vaccine for Staphylococcus aureus Based on an in Vivo-Expressed Antigen

David McKenney, Kimberly L. Pouliot, Ying Wang, Vivek Murthy, Martina Ulrich, Gerd Döring, Jean C. Lee, Donald A. Goldmann, and Gerald B. Pier
Science 28 May 1999: 1523-1527.
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Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate That Underlies Complex Ca²⁺ Mobilization Patterns

Kenzo Hirose, Shiro Kadowaki, Mao Tanabe, Hiroshi Takeshima, and Masamitsu Iino
Science 28 May 1999: 1527-1530.
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Interactions of Prefrontal Cortex in Relation to Awareness in Sensory Learning

Anthony Randal McIntosh, M. Natasha Rajah, and Nancy J. Lobaugh
Science 28 May 1999: 1531-1533.
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Defective Angiogenesis in Mice Lacking Endoglin

Dean Y. Li, Lise K. Sorensen, Benjamin S. Brooke, Lisa D. Urness, Elaine C. Davis, Douglas G. Taylor, Beth B. Boak, and Daniel P. Wendel
Science 28 May 1999: 1534-1537.
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Equivalence in Yield from Marine Reserves and Traditional Fisheries Management

Alan Hastings and Louis W. Botsford
Science 28 May 1999: 1537-1538.
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PKS1, a Substrate Phosphorylated by Phytochrome That Modulates Light Signaling in Arabidopsis

Christian Fankhauser, Kuo-Chen Yeh, J. Clark, Lagarias, Hong Zhang, Tedd D. Elich, and Joanne Chory
Science 28 May 1999: 1539-1541.
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Technical Comments

 Polymorphisms Not Found in the IL-13 Gene Promoter

Karen L. Anderson, Peter W. Mathieson, Kathleen M. Gillespie;, Marsha Wills-Karp, and Lanny J. Rosenwasser;
Science 28 May 1999: 1431.
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 Fas, p53, and Apoptosis

Liam O'Connor, Andreas Strasser;, Martin Bennett, Kirstey Macdonald, Shiu-Wan Chan, J. Paul Luzio, Robert Simari, and Peter Weissberg;
Science 28 May 1999: 1431.
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