This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Mitigating Natural Disasters

Frank Press and Robert M. Hamilton
Science 18 June 1999: 1927.
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NetWatch

Best of the Web in science.
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 NEW PRODUCTS

Science 18 June 1999: 2006-2007.

News of the Week

FRANCE:
Top Scientists Lock Horns in Research Reform Debate

Michael Balter
Science 18 June 1999: 1898.
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ARCHAEOLOGY:
How Aztecs Played Their Rubber Matches

Erik Stokstad
Science 18 June 1999: 1898-1899.
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NEUROBIOLOGY:
Mutant Fruit Flies Respond to Lorenzo's Oil

Marcia Barinaga
Science 18 June 1999: 1899-1901.
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EMERGING DISEASES:
Canada Dedicates New Human, Animal Labs

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 18 June 1999: 1902.
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KOREA:
Spending Boost Aims to Reform Academia

Michael Baker
Science 18 June 1999: 1902-1903.
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PATENT LAW:
Supreme Court Limits Scope of Appeals

David Malakoff
Science 18 June 1999: 1903.
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JAPAN:
Corporate Ties Still Off Limits for Academics

Dennis Normile
Science 18 June 1999: 1905.
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SCIENCE POLICING:
Tulane Inquiry Clears Lead Researcher

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 18 June 1999: 1905.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

HUMAN GENOME:
A High-Stakes Gamble on Genome Sequencing

Eliot Marshall
Science 18 June 1999: 1906-1909.
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PARTICLE PHYSICS:
Experiment Uses Nuclear Plants to Understand Neutrinos

Dennis Normile
Science 18 June 1999: 1909-1911.
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PARTICLE PHYSICS:
SNO Closes In on Solar Neutrino Riddle

Mark Sincell
Science 18 June 1999: 1910.
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CENTRAL ASIA:
Survival Test for Geophysics Center

Richard Stone
Science 18 June 1999: 1911-1912.
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ASTRONOMY:
Telescope Builders Think Big--Really Big

Govert Schilling
Science 18 June 1999: 1913-1915.
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ASTRONOMY:
Lofty Observatory Gets Boost

Govert Schilling
Science 18 June 1999: 1915.
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AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MICROBIOLOGY MEETING:
Microbes Feature as Pathogens and Pals at Gathering

Evelyn Strauss
Science 18 June 1999: 1916-1917.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 "New Physics" Patents

Thomas Valone;, Eugene F. Mallove;, Paul LaViolette;, John E. Haaland;, Leon Kaufman;, and Lee Kavanau;
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 Tulane Investigation Completed

John C. LaRosa
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:
Information Isn't Everything

Louis J. DeFelice
Science 18 June 1999: 1935.
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BIOCHEMISTRY:
Free Radicals in the 20th Century

Ian A. Cotgreave and Sten Orrenius
Science 18 June 1999: 1935-1936.
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Perspectives

BIOMECHANICS:
Enhanced: Unsteady Aerodynamics

Robert Dudley
Science 18 June 1999: 1937-1939.
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MAGNETISM:
Small Is Beautiful

AndrÚ Thiaville and Jacques Miltat
Science 18 June 1999: 1939-1940.
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RETROSPECTIVE:
Rolf Landauer (1927-1999)

Charles Bennett
Science 18 June 1999: 1940.
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BIOENERGETICS:
Respiration Without O₂

Lars Hederstedt
Science 18 June 1999: 1941-1942.
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 CHEMISTRY:
Nota Bene: Completing the Cycle

Julia Uppenbrink
Science 18 June 1999: 1942.
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Tech.Sight

PROTEIN BIOCHEMISTRY:
Protein Interaction Methods-Toward an Endgame

Andrew R. Mendelsohn and Roger Brent
Science 18 June 1999: 1948-1950.
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SOFTWARE:
At Your Fingertips

John Wass
Science 18 June 1999: 1951.
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 BIOMEDICINE:
Test Tube Kidneys

Robert Sikorski and Richard Peters
Science 18 June 1999: 1952.
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 NET TIP:
Electronic Lab Suppliers

Richard Peters and Robert Sikorski
Science 18 June 1999: 1952-1953.
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 SOFTWARE:
Back to the Basics?

Frank Hoover
Science 18 June 1999: 1953.
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Review

Mitigation Emerges as Major Strategy for Reducing Losses Caused by Natural Disasters

Board on Natural Disasters
Science 18 June 1999: 1943-1947.
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Research Articles

Wing Rotation and the Aerodynamic Basis of Insect Flight

Michael H. Dickinson, Fritz-Olaf Lehmann, and Sanjay P. Sane
Science 18 June 1999: 1954-1960.
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Structure of the Escherichia coli Fumarate Reductase Respiratory Complex

Tina M. Iverson, César Luna-Chavez, Gary Cecchini, and Douglas C. Rees
Science 18 June 1999: 1961-1966.
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Reports

Quantum Computing with Electrons Floating on Liquid Helium

P. M. Platzman and M. I. Dykman
Science 18 June 1999: 1967-1969.
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Spontaneous Bubble Domain Formation in a Layered Ferromagnetic Crystal

T. Fukumura, H. Sugawara, T. Hasegawa, K. Tanaka, H. Sakaki, T. Kimura, and Y. Tokura
Science 18 June 1999: 1969-1971.
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Century-Scale Shifts in Early Holocene Atmospheric CO₂ Concentration

Friederike Wagner, Sjoerd J. P. Bohncke, David L. Dilcher, Wolfram M. Kürschner, Bas van Geel, and Henk Visscher
Science 18 June 1999: 1971-1973.
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Contribution of Disturbance to Increasing Seasonal Amplitude of Atmospheric CO₂

S. A. Zimov, S. P. Davidov, G. M. Zimova, A. I. Davidova, F. S. Chapin, III, M. C. Chapin, and J. F. Reynolds
Science 18 June 1999: 1973-1976.
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Xyloglucan Fucosyltransferase, an Enzyme Involved in Plant Cell Wall Biosynthesis

Robyn M. Perrin, Amy E. DeRocher, Maor Bar-Peled, Weiqing Zeng, Lorena Norambuena, Ariel Orellana, Natasha V. Raikhel, and Kenneth Keegstra
Science 18 June 1999: 1976-1979.
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Dissociating Pain from Its Anticipation in the Human Brain

Alexander Ploghaus, Irene Tracey, Joseph S. Gati, Stuart Clare, Ravi S. Menon, Paul M. Matthews, and J. Nicholas P. Rawlins
Science 18 June 1999: 1979-1981.
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Gating of BDNF-Induced Synaptic Potentiation by cAMP

Lisa Boulanger and Mu-ming Poo
Science 18 June 1999: 1982-1984.
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Preventing Neurodegeneration in the Drosophila Mutant bubblegum

Kyung-Tai Min and Seymour Benzer
Science 18 June 1999: 1985-1988.
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Prehistoric Polymers: Rubber Processing in Ancient Mesoamerica

Dorothy Hosler, Sandra L. Burkett, and Michael J. Tarkanian
Science 18 June 1999: 1988-1991.
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Requirement for Croquemort in Phagocytosis of Apoptotic Cells in Drosophila

Nathalie C. Franc, Pascal Heitzler, R. Alan B. , Ezekowitz, and Kristin White
Science 18 June 1999: 1991-1994.
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Vessel Cooption, Regression, and Growth in Tumors Mediated by Angiopoietins and VEGF

J. Holash, P. C. Maisonpierre, D. Compton, P. Boland, C. R. Alexander, D. Zagzag, G. D. Yancopoulos, and S. J. Wiegand
Science 18 June 1999: 1994-1998.
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Initiation of Mammalian Liver Development from Endoderm by Fibroblast Growth Factors

Joonil Jung, Minghua Zheng, Mitchell Goldfarb, and Kenneth S. Zaret
Science 18 June 1999: 1998-2003.
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Identification of Both Shared and Distinct Proteins in the Major and Minor Spliceosomes

Cindy L. Will, Claudia Schneider, Robin Reed, and Reinhard Lührmann
Science 18 June 1999: 2003-2005.
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Technical Comments

 Wind and Climate on Mars

Conway B. Leovy; and Matthew P. Golombek;
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