This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
The World Conference on Science

Federico Mayor
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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

BIOMEDICINE:
Ethicists Back Stem Cell Research, White House Treads Cautiously

Eliot Marshall
Science 23 July 1999: 502.
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RESEARCH FUNDING:
Michigan Plans Massive Investment in Biotech

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 23 July 1999: 502-503.
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PALEOCLIMATE:
Why the Ice Ages Don't Keep Time

Richard A. Kerr
Science 23 July 1999: 503-505.
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PHYSICS:
DOE to Review Nuclear Grant

David Malakoff
Science 23 July 1999: 505-506.
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CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS:
CRY's Clock Role Differs in Mice, Flies

Marcia Barinaga
Science 23 July 1999: 506-507.
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KOREA:
Faculty Protest Proposed Reform

Michael Baker
Science 23 July 1999: 507.
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NEUROBIOLOGY:
Mapping Smells in the Brain

Marcia Barinaga
Science 23 July 1999: 508.
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INFECTIOUS DISEASES:
Gene Sequencers Target Malaria Mosquito

Michael Balter
Science 23 July 1999: 508-509.
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IMAGING:
X-ray Crystallography Without Crystals

Robert F. Service
Science 23 July 1999: 509-511.
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CONGRESS:
U.S. Science Advocate George Brown Dies

David Malakoff
Science 23 July 1999: 509.
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DATA DISCLOSURE:
Congress Votes Down Delay in Access Law

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 23 July 1999: 511.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

PHYSICS:
String Theorists Find a Rosetta Stone

Gary Taubes
Science 23 July 1999: 512-517.
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PHYSICS:
The Holographic Universe

Gary Taubes
Science 23 July 1999: 515.
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EVOLUTION '99 MEETING:
Development Shapes Evolution

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 23 July 1999: 518-519.
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U.S.-CHINA TIES:
Biomedical Group Lobbies NIH

Eliot Marshall
Science 23 July 1999: 519.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 23 July 1999: 531.
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 No Ice on the Moon?

Von R. Eshleman, George A. Parks;, W. C. Feldman, S. Maurice, D. J. Lawrence, B. L. Barraclough, R. C. Elphic, and A. B. Binder
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 Prescribing Heroin

Sue Rusche;, William Caltrider;, Gabriele Bammer, Anja Dobler-Mikola, Philip Fleming, John Strang, and Ambrose Uchtenhagen
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Books et al.

ARCHAEOLOGY:
From Hobbes to Rousseau and Back Again

J. Andrew Darling
Science 23 July 1999: 537.
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CULTURE OF SCIENCE:
Does Sex Matter?

Florence P. Haseltine
Science 23 July 1999: 538.
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Policy Forum

SCIENCE AND REGULATION:
A Solution to Concerns Over Public Access to Scientific Data

Linda R. Cohen and Robert W. Hahn
Science 23 July 1999: 535-536.
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Perspectives

MICROBIOLOGY:
Looking for a Few Good Mutants

William E. Goldman
Science 23 July 1999: 539-541.
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DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROSCIENCE:
Spontaneous Activity: Signal or Noise?

David A. McCormick
Science 23 July 1999: 541-543.
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NATURAL GAS DEPOSITS:
Methane in the Deep Blue Sea

Bilal U. Haq
Science 23 July 1999: 543-544.
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BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES:
Enhanced: The Not-So-Big U.S. Carbon Sink

Christopher B. Field and Inez Y. Fung
Science 23 July 1999: 544-545.
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Review

Deficient Cellular Immunity--Finding and Fixing the Defects

Philip D. Greenberg and Stanley R. Riddell
Science 23 July 1999: 546-551.
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Research Article

Light-Dependent Sequestration of TIMELESS by CRYPTOCHROME

M. Fernanda Ceriani, Thomas K. Darlington, David Staknis, Paloma Más, Allegra A. Petti, Charles J. Weitz, and Steve A. Kay
Science 23 July 1999: 553-556.
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Reports

Radar and Optical Observations of Asteroid 1998 KY26

Steven J. Ostro, Petr Pravec, Lance A. M. Benner, R. Scott Hudson, Lenka arounová, Michael D. Hicks, David L. Rabinowitz, James V. Scotti, David J. Tholen, Marek Wolf, Raymond F. Jurgens, Michael L. Thomas, Jon D. Giorgini, Paul W. Chodas, Donald K. Yeomans, Randy Rose, Robert Frye, Keith D. Rosema, Ron Winkler, and Martin A. Slade
Science 23 July 1999: 557-559.
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Estimating the Mass of Asteroid 433 Eros During the NEAR Spacecraft Flyby

D. K. Yeomans, P. G. Antreasian, A. Cheng, D. W. Dunham, R. W. Farquhar, R. W. Gaskell, J. D. Giorgini, C. E. Helfrich, A. S. Konopliv, J. V. McAdams, J. K. Miller, W. M. Owen, Jr., P. C. Thomas, J. Veverka, and B. G. Williams
Science 23 July 1999: 560-561.
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Imaging of Asteroid 433 Eros During NEAR's Flyby Reconnaissance

J. Veverka, P. C. Thomas, J. F. Bell, III, M. Bell, B. Carcich, B. Clark, A. Harch, J. Joseph, P. Martin, M. Robinson, S. Murchie, N. Izenberg, E. Hawkins, J. Warren, R. Farquhar, A. Cheng, D. Dunham, C. Chapman, W. J. Merline, L. McFadden, D. Wellnitz, M. Malin, W. M. Owen, Jr., J. K. Miller, B. G. Williams, and D. K. Yeomans
Science 23 July 1999: 562-564.
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Pacemaking the Ice Ages by Frequency Modulation of Earth's Orbital Eccentricity

J. A. Rial
Science 23 July 1999: 564-568.
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The Role of Sub-Milankovitch Climatic Forcing in the Initiation of the Northern Hemisphere Glaciation

K. J. Willis, A. Kleczkowski, K. M. Briggs, and C. A. Gilligan
Science 23 July 1999: 568-571.
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Superradiant Rayleigh Scattering from a Bose-Einstein Condensate

S. Inouye, A. P. Chikkatur, D. M. Stamper-Kurn, J. Stenger, D. E. Pritchard, and W. Ketterle
Science 23 July 1999: 571-574.
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The U.S. Carbon Budget: Contributions from Land-Use Change

R. A. Houghton, J. L. Hackler, and K. T. Lawrence
Science 23 July 1999: 574-578.
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An Adhesin of the Yeast Pathogen Candida glabrata Mediating Adherence to Human Epithelial Cells

Brendan P. Cormack, Nafisa Ghori, and Stanley Falkow
Science 23 July 1999: 578-582.
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Transcriptional Activation of APETALA1 by LEAFY

Doris Wagner, Robert W. M. Sablowski, and Elliot M. Meyerowitz
Science 23 July 1999: 582-584.
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Activation of a Floral Homeotic Gene in Arabidopsis

Maximilian A. Busch, Kirsten Bomblies, and Detlef Weigel
Science 23 July 1999: 585-587.
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Role of Bacterial Intimin in Colonic Hyperplasia and Inflammation

Lisa M. Higgins, Gad Frankel, Ian Connerton, Nathalie S. Gonçalves, Gordon Dougan, and Thomas T. MacDonald
Science 23 July 1999: 588-591.
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Genetic Selection of Peptide Inhibitors of Biological Pathways

Thea C. Norman, Dana L. Smith, Peter K. Sorger, Becky L. Drees, Sean M. O'Rourke, Timothy R. Hughes, Christopher J. Roberts, Stephen H. Friend, Stan Fields, and Andrew W. Murray
Science 23 July 1999: 591-595.
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Neuronal Protection in Stroke by an sLe^x-Glycosylated Complement Inhibitory Protein

Judy Huang, Louis J. Kim, Richard Mealey, Henry C. Marsh, Jr., Yuan Zhang, Andrea J. Tenner, E. Sander Connolly, Jr., and David J. Pinsky
Science 23 July 1999: 595-599.
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Correlational Structure of Spontaneous Neuronal Activity in the Developing Lateral Geniculate Nucleus in Vivo

Michael Weliky and Lawrence C. Katz
Science 23 July 1999: 599-604.
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Technical Comments

 The Autocorrelation Function and Human Influences on Climate

A. A. Tsonis, J. B. Elsner;, T. M. L. Wigley, R. L. Smith, and B. D. Santer;
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