This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Just a Minute, Please

Floyd E. Bloom
Science 9 July 1999: 197.
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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

WORLD CONFERENCE ON SCIENCE:
Science Blueprint Is High on Ideals, Light on Details

Robert Koenig
Science 9 July 1999: 174-175.
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NEUROBIOLOGY:
An Immunization Against Alzheimer's?

Marcia Barinaga
Science 9 July 1999: 175-177.
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SCIENCE POLICY:
NRC Pulled Into Radiation Risk Brawl

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 9 July 1999: 177.
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MATHEMATICS:
Fermat's Last Theorem Extended

Dana Mackenzie
Science 9 July 1999: 178.
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GENETIC TESTING:
Beryllium Screening Raises Ethical Issues

Eliot Marshall
Science 9 July 1999: 178-179.
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ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION:
Plan to Quench the Everglades' Thirst

Martin Enserink
Science 9 July 1999: 180.
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ANIMAL WELFARE:
New Indian Rules Disrupt Research

Pallava Bagla
Science 9 July 1999: 180-181.
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AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH:
Report Tells USDA to Narrow Its Focus

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 9 July 1999: 181.
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SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY:
Tragedy Devastates Radio Astronomers

Michael Balter
Science 9 July 1999: 181-183.
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LIFE SCIENCES:
Japan Readies Huge Increase in Biotech

Dennis Normile
Science 9 July 1999: 183.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

CHEMISTRY:
Race for Molecular Summits

Robert F. Service
Science 9 July 1999: 184-187.
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CHEMISTRY:
Drug Industry Looks to the Lab Instead of Rainforest and Reef

Robert F. Service
Science 9 July 1999: 186.
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GEOPHYSICS:
The Great African Plume Emerges as a Tectonic Player

Richard A. Kerr
Science 9 July 1999: 187-188.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
The Mapmaking Mind

Marcia Barinaga
Science 9 July 1999: 189-192.
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EVOLUTION '99:
DNA and Field Data Help Plumb Evolution's Secrets

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 9 July 1999: 192-193.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 Large Animals in the Fast Lane

Rich Miller and Steve Austad
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 Skepticism and Relativism

Paul A. Roberts;, Paul Odgren;, Christian de Duve;, John R. Skoyles;, William S. Barnes;, Kevin T. Kilty;, and David Miller
Science 9 July 1999: 199.
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Books et al.

PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE:
What It's All About

Barry Allen
Science 9 July 1999: 205.
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EVOLUTION:
Flying Over Uncharted Territory

David Sloan Wilson
Science 9 July 1999: 206.
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Policy Forum

HEALTH CARE POLICY:
The Courts--A Challenge to Health Technology Assessment

Elina Hemminki, David Hailey, and Meri Koivusalo
Science 9 July 1999: 203-204.
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Perspectives

IMMUNOLOGY:
Dancing the Immunological Two-Step

Bernard Malissen
Science 9 July 1999: 207-208.
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ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE:
Enhanced: Summer in the Stratosphere

D. W. Fahey and A. R. Ravishankara
Science 9 July 1999: 208-210.
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GENETICS:
Polyploidy--More Is More or Less

Philip Hieter and Tony Griffiths
Science 9 July 1999: 210-211.
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OPTOELECTRONICS:
Reflections on Polymers

William L. Barnes and Ifor D. W. Samuel
Science 9 July 1999: 211-212.
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BIOMEDICINE:
Stopping DNA Replication in Its Tracks

James E. Cleaver
Science 9 July 1999: 212-213.
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Review

The Structural Era of Endocytosis

M. Marsh and H. T. McMahon
Science 9 July 1999: 215-220.
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Research Article

The Immunological Synapse: A Molecular Machine Controlling T Cell Activation

Arash Grakoui, Shannon K. Bromley, Cenk Sumen, Mark M. Davis, Andrey S. Shaw, Paul M. Allen, and Michael L. Dustin
Science 9 July 1999: 221-227.
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Reports

Variations in Atmospheric N₂O Concentration During Abrupt Climatic Changes

J. Flückiger, A. Dällenbach, T. Blunier, B. Stauffer, T. F. Stocker, D. Raynaud, and J.-M. Barnola
Science 9 July 1999: 227-230.
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Optical Vortices Crystals: Spontaneous Generation in Nonlinear Semiconductor Microcavities

J. Scheuer and M. Orenstein
Science 9 July 1999: 230-233.
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All-Polymer Optoelectronic Devices

Peter K. H. Ho, D. Stephen Thomas, Richard H. Friend, and Nir Tessler
Science 9 July 1999: 233-236.
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Role of Fluids in Faulting Inferred from Stress Field Signatures

Jeanne L. Hardebeck and Egill Hauksson
Science 9 July 1999: 236-239.
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Estimation of Particulate Organic Carbon in the Ocean from Satellite Remote Sensing

Dariusz Stramski, Rick A. Reynolds, Mati Kahru, and B. Greg Mitchell
Science 9 July 1999: 239-242.
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A Nucleoside Transporter from Trypanosoma brucei Involved in Drug Resistance

Pascal Mäser, Christine Sütterlin, Anastasia Kralli, and Ronald Kaminsky
Science 9 July 1999: 242-244.
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Pigment Epithelium-Derived Factor: A Potent Inhibitor of Angiogenesis

D. W. Dawson, O. V. Volpert, P. Gillis, S. E. Crawford, H.-J. Xu, W. Benedict, and N. P. Bouck
Science 9 July 1999: 245-248.
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HMG-1 as a Late Mediator of Endotoxin Lethality in Mice

Haichao Wang, Ona Bloom, Minghuang Zhang, Jaideep M. Vishnubhakat, Michael Ombrellino, Jiantu Che, Asia Frazier, Huan Yang, Svetlana Ivanova, Lyudmila Borovikova, Kirk R. Manogue, Eugen Faist, Edward Abraham, Jan Andersson, Ulf Andersson, Patricia E. Molina, Naji N. Abumrad, Andrew Sama, and Kevin J. Tracey
Science 9 July 1999: 248-251.
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Ploidy Regulation of Gene Expression

Timothy Galitski, Alok J. Saldanha, Cora A. Styles, Eric S. Lander, and Gerald R. Fink
Science 9 July 1999: 251-254.
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A Functional Assay for Centromere-Associated Sister Chromatid Cohesion

Paul C. Megee and Douglas Koshland
Science 9 July 1999: 254-257.
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Reach Plans in Eye-Centered Coordinates

Aaron P. Batista, Christopher A. Buneo, Lawrence H. Snyder, and Richard A. Andersen
Science 9 July 1999: 257-260.
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BLyS: Member of the Tumor Necrosis Factor Family and B Lymphocyte Stimulator

Paul A. Moore, Ornella Belvedere, Amy Orr, Krystyna Pieri, David W. LaFleur, Ping Feng, Daniel Soppet, Meghan Charters, Reiner Gentz, David Parmelee, Yuling Li, Olga Galperina, Judith Giri, Viktor Roschke, Bernardetta Nardelli, Jeffrey Carrell, Svetlana Sosnovtseva, Wilbert Greenfield, Steven M. Ruben, Henrik S. Olsen, James Fikes, and David M. Hilbert
Science 9 July 1999: 260-263.
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hRAD30 Mutations in the Variant Form of Xeroderma Pigmentosum

Robert E. Johnson, Christine M. Kondratick, Satya Prakash, and Louise Prakash
Science 9 July 1999: 263-265.
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Technical Comments

 STAT Genes Found in C. elegans

Xiangdong Liu, Anne Marie Quinn, Yue E. Chin, Xin-Yuan Fu;, Gary Ruvkun, and Oliver Hobert;
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