This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Science Education for the Public

Hiroo Imura
Science 11 June 1999: 1771.
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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

BIOCOMPUTING:
NIH Urged to Fund Centers to Merge Computing and Biology

David Malakoff
Science 11 June 1999: 1742.
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EDUCATION:
Scientists Block NIH Plan to Grant Ph.D.s

Bruce Agnew
Science 11 June 1999: 1743.
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PALEOCLIMATOLOGY:
Slide Into Ice Ages Not Carbon Dioxide's Fault?

Richard A. Kerr
Science 11 June 1999: 1743-1746.
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IMMUNOLOGY:
Elusive Interferon a Producers Nailed Down

Michael Hagmann
Science 11 June 1999: 1746.
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ECOLOGY:
Great Smokies Species Census Under Way

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 11 June 1999: 1747-1748.
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ASTRONOMY:
An Oversized Star Acts Up

James Glanz
Science 11 June 1999: 1748.
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SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
Germany Waves a Flag for Science

Robert Koenig
Science 11 June 1999: 1748-1749.
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DEFENSE SCIENCE:
Outlook Improves for Research Funding

David Malakoff
Science 11 June 1999: 1749.
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CLINICAL RESEARCH:
NIH Ethics Office Tapped for a Promotion

Eliot Marshall
Science 11 June 1999: 1749-1751.
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NUCLEAR PHYSICS:
Berkeley Crew Bags Element 118

Robert F. Service
Science 11 June 1999: 1751.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

BIOMEDICAL PATENTS:
No Winners in Patent Shootout

Marcia Barinaga
Science 11 June 1999: 1752-1753.
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BIOTECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY ORGANIZATION MEETING:
From the Bioweapons Trenches, New Tools for Battling Microbes

Joseph Alper
Science 11 June 1999: 1754-1755.
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NEUROBIOLOGY:
New Clues to How Neurons Strengthen Their Connections

Marcia Barinaga
Science 11 June 1999: 1755-1757.
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HUMAN RESOURCES:
Efforts to Boost Diversity Face Persistent Problems

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 11 June 1999: 1757-1759.
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WORLD CONFERENCE ON SCIENCE:
A Second Chance to Make a Difference in the Third World?

Robert Koenig
Science 11 June 1999: 1760-1761.
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WORLD CONFERENCE ON SCIENCE:
Third World Researchers See Internet as an Entry Ticket to Mainstream Science

Robert Koenig
Science 11 June 1999: 1761.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 Religion and Science

Francisco J. Ayala;, Steven Weinberg;, News Editors;, Eric Stone;, Ejnar J. Fjerdingstad;, and Ursula W. Goodenough
Science 11 June 1999: 1773.
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 The Systematics of Homo

Milford H. Wolpoff, Bernard Wood, and Mark Collard
Science 11 June 1999: 1773.
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 Wound Healing

Thomas K. Hunt, John Burke, Adrian Barbul, and Michael L. Gimbel
Science 11 June 1999: 1773.
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 Critical Volume Fraction: Second Model

Kenneth M. Golden
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

PHYSICS:
The Seductive Melody of the Strings

Sidney Perkowitz
Science 11 June 1999: 1780.
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CHEMISTRY:
Toward Benign Ends

Walter Leitner
Science 11 June 1999: 1780-1781.
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Policy Forum

DEMOGRAPHICS:
Toward a 24-Hour Economy

Harriet B. Presser
Science 11 June 1999: 1778-1779.
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Perspectives

ECOLOGY:
Forests on Fire

Johann G. Goldammer
Science 11 June 1999: 1782-1783.
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 Toward a New Fire Schism?

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ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE:
Vertical Couplings

Michael E. Summers
Science 11 June 1999: 1783-1785.
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DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY:
Sex and Repression

Mitzi I. Kuroda and Richard L. Kelley
Science 11 June 1999: 1787-1788.
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MANTLE GEOCHEMISTRY:
Enhanced: A Lesson from Ceramics

Alexandra Navrotsky
Science 11 June 1999: 1788-1789.
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Review

The Organization of Replication and Transcription

Peter R. Cook
Science 11 June 1999: 1790-1795.
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Research Articles

Dosage Compensation Proteins Targeted to X Chromosomes by a Determinant of Hermaphrodite Fate

Heather E. Dawes, Dorit S. Berlin, Denise M. Lapidus, Chad Nusbaum, Tamara L. Davis, and Barbara J. Meyer
Science 11 June 1999: 1800-1804.
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Importance of AMPA Receptors for Hippocampal Synaptic Plasticity But Not for Spatial Learning

Daniel Zamanillo, Rolf Sprengel, Øivind Hvalby, Vidar Jensen, Nail Burnashev, Andrei Rozov, Katharina M. M. Kaiser, Helmut J. Köster, Thilo Borchardt, Paul Worley, Joachim Lübke, Michael Frotscher, Peter H. Kelly, Bernd Sommer, Per Andersen, Peter H. Seeburg, and Bert Sakmann
Science 11 June 1999: 1805-1811.
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Rapid Spine Delivery and Redistribution of AMPA Receptors After Synaptic NMDA Receptor Activation

Song-Hai Shi, Yasunori Hayashi, Ronald S. Petralia, Shahid H. Zaman, Robert J. Wenthold, Karel Svoboda, and Roberto Malinow
Science 11 June 1999: 1811-1816.
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Reports

Reconstructing Phylogeny with and without Temporal Data

David L. Fox, Daniel C. Fisher, and Lindsey R. Leighton
Science 11 June 1999: 1816-1819.
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Two-Dimensional Photonic Band-Gap Defect Mode Laser

O. Painter, R. K. Lee, A. Scherer, A. Yariv, J. D. O'Brien, P. D. Dapkus, and I. Kim
Science 11 June 1999: 1819-1821.
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Optical Properties of an Ionic-Type Phononic Crystal

Yan-qing Lu, Yong-yuan Zhu, Yan-feng Chen, Shi-ning Zhu, Nai-ben Ming, and Yi-Jun Feng
Science 11 June 1999: 1822-1824.
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Middle Eocene Seawater pH and Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentrations

Paul N. Pearson and Martin R. Palmer
Science 11 June 1999: 1824-1826.
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Regular and Irregular Patterns in Semiarid Vegetation

Christopher A. Klausmeier
Science 11 June 1999: 1826-1828.
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Reexamining Fire Suppression Impacts on Brushland Fire Regimes

Jon E. Keeley, C. J. Fotheringham, and Marco Morais
Science 11 June 1999: 1829-1832.
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Positive Feedbacks in the Fire Dynamic of Closed Canopy Tropical Forests

Mark A. Cochrane, Ane Alencar, Mark D. Schulze, Carlos M. Souza, Jr., Daniel C. Nepstad, Paul Lefebvre, and Eric A. Davidson
Science 11 June 1999: 1832-1835.
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The Nature of the Principal Type 1 Interferon-Producing Cells in Human Blood

Frederick P. Siegal, Norimitsu Kadowaki, Michael Shodell, Patricia A. Fitzgerald-Bocarsly, Kokila Shah, Stephen Ho, Svetlana Antonenko, and Yong-Jun Liu
Science 11 June 1999: 1835-1837.
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Math1: An Essential Gene for the Generation of Inner Ear Hair Cells

Nessan A. Bermingham, Bassem A. Hassan, Steven D. Price, Melissa A. Vollrath, Nissim Ben-Arie, Ruth Anne Eatock, Hugo J. Bellen, Anna Lysakowski, and Huda Y. Zoghbi
Science 11 June 1999: 1837-1841.
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Crystal Structure of the Z Domain of the Human Editing Enzyme ADAR1 Bound to Left-Handed Z-DNA

Thomas Schwartz, Mark A. Rould, Ky Lowenhaupt, Alan Herbert, and Alexander Rich
Science 11 June 1999: 1841-1845.
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Specific Coupling of NMDA Receptor Activation to Nitric Oxide Neurotoxicity by PSD-95 Protein

Rita Sattler, Zhigang Xiong, Wei-Yang Lu, Mathias Hafner, John F. MacDonald, and Michael Tymianski
Science 11 June 1999: 1845-1848.
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Technical Comments

 Heat Content Changes in the Pacific Ocean

Kathryn A. Kelly, LuAnne Thompson, Frédéric Vivier;, and ATOC Consortium (3);
Science 11 June 1999: 1735.
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 Regional Carbon Imbalances in the Oceans

Peter J. le B. Williams, David G. Bowers;, Carlos M. Duarte, Susana Agustí, Paul A. del Giorgio, and Jonathan J. Cole;
Science 11 June 1999: 1735.
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