This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Staying Competitive

D. Allan Bromley
Science 6 August 1999: 833.
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NetWatch

Best of the Web in science.
Science 6 August 1999: 799.
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 NEW PRODUCTS

Science 6 August 1999: 940.

News of the Week

SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING:
E-biomed Morphs to E-biosci, Focus Shifts to Reviewed Papers

Eliot Marshall
Science 6 August 1999: 810-811.
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SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING:
DOE Builds a Web Site for the Physical Sciences

Eliot Marshall
Science 6 August 1999: 811.
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MICROBIOLOGY:
New Clues to Whooping Cough Pathology

Evelyn Strauss
Science 6 August 1999: 811-812.
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RESEARCH FUNDING:
House Panel Cuts Space Science, NSF Budgets

Michael Hagmann
Science 6 August 1999: 813-814.
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CELL BIOLOGY:
Gene Linked to Faulty Cholesterol Transport

Trisha Gura
Science 6 August 1999: 814-815.
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NAVIGATION:
GPS's 'Dress Rehearsal' for Year 2000 Problem

Richard A. Kerr
Science 6 August 1999: 816.
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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE:
Science Board Floats $1 Billion Trial Balloon

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 6 August 1999: 816-817.
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ENDANGERED SPECIES:
A Plan to Save Hawaii's Threatened Biodiversity

Richard Stone
Science 6 August 1999: 817-819.
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SPACE SCIENCE:
U.N. Plans Its Future in Space

Helen Gavaghan
Science 6 August 1999: 819.
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SYNCHROTRON RADIATION:
France Takes Share in British Synchrotron

Alexander Hellemans
Science 6 August 1999: 819.
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ScienceScope

Science 6 August 1999: 813.
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Random Samples

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News Focus

FUSION'S FUTURE:
Common Ground for Fusion

James Glanz
Science 6 August 1999: 820-821.
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ALTERNATIVES:
Fusion Power From a Floating Magnet?

James Riordon
Science 6 August 1999: 821-823.
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ALTERNATIVES:
Many Shapes for a Fusion Machine

James Riordon
Science 6 August 1999: 822.
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EUROPE:
JET Staff OKs Pay Settlement

Judy Redfearn
Science 6 August 1999: 823.
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ECOLOGY:
A Long March to Save Africa's Dwindling Wildlands

Richard Stone
Science 6 August 1999: 825.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 6 August 1999: 835.
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 How Women Contribute

Londa Schiebinger
Science 6 August 1999: 835.
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 "Macho Total Synthesis"

Carl Djerassi; and John Haseltine
Science 6 August 1999: 835.
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 Facts about Artificial Intelligence

Diane Proudfoot
Science 6 August 1999: 835.
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 Chimp Cultural Diversity

David S. Woodruff;, Nina G. Jablonski, and George Chaplin
Science 6 August 1999: 835.
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 DNA Discovery

Graham Wallis
Science 6 August 1999: 835.
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 Mitochondrial Recombination? (Continued)

D. Andrew Merriweather and Frederika A. Kaestle
Science 6 August 1999: 835.
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 Protein Crystallization at NASA: Well Grounded

Michael R. Fiske
Science 6 August 1999: 835.
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

Science 6 August 1999: 835.
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Books et al.

MATHEMATICS:
Representing the World in a Computer

Brian Sleeman
Science 6 August 1999: 842.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Themes of Thought and Thinking

C. R. Gallistel
Science 6 August 1999: 842-843.
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 Browsings

Science 6 August 1999: 843.
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Essays on Science and Society

ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
A Tale of Two Cities: Architecture and the Digital Revolution

William J. Mitchell
Science 6 August 1999: 839-841.
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Perspectives

VISUAL SCIENCE:
Close Encounters--An Artist Shows that Size Affects Shape

Denis G. Pelli
Science 6 August 1999: 844-846.
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GEOPHYSICS:
Hawaiian Plume Dynamics

John Lassiter
Science 6 August 1999: 846-847.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE & ASTRONOMY:
Extrasolar Giant Planets and Brown Dwarfs

Adam Burrows
Science 6 August 1999: 847-848.
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SOLAR PHYSICS:
How the Sun's Corona Gets Hot

H. S. Hudson and T. Kosugi
Science 6 August 1999: 849.
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Review

A Diamond Trilogy: Superplumes, Supercontinents, and Supernovae

Stephen E. Haggerty
Science 6 August 1999: 851-860.
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Reports

TRACE Observation of Damped Coronal Loop Oscillations: Implications for Coronal Heating

V. M. Nakariakov, L. Ofman, E. E. DeLuca, B. Roberts, and J. M. Davila
Science 6 August 1999: 862-864.
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Minimum Field Strength in Precessional Magnetization Reversal

C. H. Back, R. Allenspach, W. Weber, S. S. P. Parkin, D. Weller, E. L. Garwin, and H. C. Siegmann
Science 6 August 1999: 864-867.
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Current-Induced Switching of Domains in Magnetic Multilayer Devices

E. B. Myers, D. C. Ralph, J. A. Katine, R. N. Louie, and R. A. Buhrman
Science 6 August 1999: 867-870.
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Galileo Imaging of Atmospheric Emissions from Io

P. E. Geissler, A. S. McEwen, W. Ip, M. J. S. Belton, T. V. Johnson, W. H. Smyth, and A. P. Ingersoll
Science 6 August 1999: 870-874.
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Quantitative Assessment of Reactive Surface Area of Phlogopite During Acid Dissolution

Eric Rufe and Michael F. Hochella, Jr.
Science 6 August 1999: 874-876.
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Late Miocene Atmospheric CO₂ Concentrations and the Expansion of C₄ Grasses

Mark Pagani, Katherine H. Freeman, and Michael A. Arthur
Science 6 August 1999: 876-879.
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Hf Isotope Evidence for Pelagic Sediments in the Source of Hawaiian Basalts

J. Blichert-Toft, F. A. Frey, and F. Albarède
Science 6 August 1999: 879-882.
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Molecular Identification of a Eukaryotic, Stretch-Activated Nonselective Cation Channel

Makoto Kanzaki, Masahiro Nagasawa, Itaru Kojima, Chikara Sato, Keiji Naruse, Masahiro Sokabe, and Hidetoshi Iida
Science 6 August 1999: 882-886.
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Requirement of Rsk-2 for Epidermal Growth Factor-Activated Phosphorylation of Histone H3

Paolo Sassone-Corsi, Craig A. Mizzen, Peter Cheung, Claudia Crosio, Lucia Monaco, Sylvie Jacquot, André Hanauer, and C. David Allis
Science 6 August 1999: 886-891.
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The Selective Advantage of Low Relatedness

Blaine J. Cole and Diane C. Wiernasz
Science 6 August 1999: 891-893.
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Landscape Structure and Biological Control in Agroecosystems

Carsten Thies and Teja Tscharntke
Science 6 August 1999: 893-895.
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Signaling from Rho to the Actin Cytoskeleton Through Protein Kinases ROCK and LIM-kinase

Midori Maekawa, Toshimasa Ishizaki, Shuken Boku, Naoki Watanabe, Akiko Fujita, Akihiro Iwamatsu, Takashi Obinata, Kazumasa Ohashi, Kensaku Mizuno, and Shuh Narumiya
Science 6 August 1999: 895-898.
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Fas Ligand: A Sensor for DNA Damage Critical in Skin Cancer Etiology

Laurie L. Hill, Allal Ouhtit, Susan M. Loughlin, Margaret L. Kripke, Honnavara N. Ananthaswamy, and Laurie B. Owen-Schaub
Science 6 August 1999: 898-900.
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Functional Characterization of the S. cerevisiae Genome by Gene Deletion and Parallel Analysis

Elizabeth A. Winzeler, Daniel D. Shoemaker, Anna Astromoff, Hong Liang, Keith Anderson, Bruno Andre, Rhonda Bangham, Rocio Benito, Jef D. Boeke, Howard Bussey, Angela M. Chu, Carla Connelly, Karen Davis, Fred Dietrich, Sally Whelen Dow, Mohamed El Bakkoury, Françoise Foury, Stephen H. Friend, Erik Gentalen, Guri Giaever, Johannes H. Hegemann, Ted Jones, Michael Laub, Hong Liao, Nicole Liebundguth, David J. Lockhart, Anca Lucau-Danila, Marc Lussier, Nasiha M'Rabet, Patrice Menard, Michael Mittmann, Chai Pai, Corinne Rebischung, Jose L. Revuelta, Linda Riles, Christopher J. Roberts, Petra Ross-MacDonald, Bart Scherens, Michael Snyder, Sharon Sookhai-Mahadeo, Reginald K. Storms, Steeve Véronneau, Marleen Voet, Guido Volckaert, Teresa R. Ward, Robert Wysocki, Grace S. Yen, Kexin Yu, Katja Zimmermann, Peter Philippsen, Mark Johnston, and Ronald W. Davis
Science 6 August 1999: 901-906.
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Early Neocortical Regionalization in the Absence of Thalamic Innervation

Emily M. Miyashita-Lin, Robert Hevner, Karen Montzka Wassarman, Salvador Martinez, and John L. R. Rubenstein
Science 6 August 1999: 906-909.
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Technical Comments

 Genetics and Male Sexual Orientation

Dean H. Hamer;, George Rice, Neil Risch, and George Ebers;
Science 6 August 1999: 803.
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