This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Smallpox: Setting the Research Agenda

Donna E. Shalala
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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

PHYLOGENY:
Deep Green Rewrites Evolutionary History of Plants

Kathryn S. Brown
Science 13 August 1999: 990-991.
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U.S. BUDGET:
Tax Cut Politics Could Swallow Research Gains

David Malakoff
Science 13 August 1999: 991-993.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Deep Space 1 Traces Braille Back to Vesta

Richard A. Kerr
Science 13 August 1999: 993-994.
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BIOTECHNOLOGY:
New Genes Boost Rice Nutrients

Trisha Gura
Science 13 August 1999: 994-995.
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ELECTROCHEMISTRY:
"Super-Iron" Comes to the Rescue of Batteries

Alexander Hellemans
Science 13 August 1999: 995.
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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION:
Education Chief Quietly Steps Down

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 13 August 1999: 997.
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JAPAN:
Panel Examines National Universities

Dennis Normile
Science 13 August 1999: 997.
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ANIMAL RESEARCH:
50 Monkeys Taken From Indian Lab

Pallava Bagla
Science 13 August 1999: 997.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

SCIENCE AND BUSINESS:
Mining the Genome for Drugs

Ingrid Wickelgren
Science 13 August 1999: 998-1001.
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SCIENCE AND BUSINESS:
The Man Who Would Spin Genes Into Gold

Ingrid Wickelgren
Science 13 August 1999: 999.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Small Asteroids Point to a Source for Meteorites

Richard A. Kerr
Science 13 August 1999: 1002-1003.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Escaping From the Asteroid Belt

Richard A. Kerr
Science 13 August 1999: 1002.
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DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY:
Many Modes of Transport for an Embryo's Signals

Gretchen Vogel
Science 13 August 1999: 1003-1005.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 13 August 1999: 1013.
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 Illustrative Prediction

Steven Weinberg
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 Do Questions Matter?

Vera C. Rubin
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 E-Publication Proposal

Marc W. Kirschner;, Vin Marchesi;, and Harry Baum
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 Left with the Truth

Samuel P. Kounaves
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 Chiron's Licensing Policy

Robert P. Blackburn; and Jon Cohen
Science 13 August 1999: 1013.
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 Uncertainty About the Higgs

Georges Azuelos
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 Development of DNA Sequencer

Norm Dovichi
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 Miss Washington's Engineering Career

Mariana Loya
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 Giving Science a Good Rap

Ryan K. Louie (MC Squared) and Allan M. Wong (DJ Helix)
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

HISTORY:
Incubating Bioweapons

William A. Haseltine
Science 13 August 1999: 1019-1020.
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BOTANY:
The Powers of Flowers

Peter K. Endress
Science 13 August 1999: 1020.
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Perspectives

STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY:
How Chaperones Protect Virgin Proteins

David Eisenberg
Science 13 August 1999: 1021-1022.
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ECOLOGY:
A Tale of Big Game and Small Bugs

Esa Ranta, Veijo Kaitala, and Per Lundberg
Science 13 August 1999: 1022-1023.
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PALEONTOLOGY:
Enhanced: A New Molecular Window on Early Life

Andrew H. Knoll
Science 13 August 1999: 1025-1026.
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MINERALOGY:
Mineralogy at a Crossroads

Russell J. Hemley
Science 13 August 1999: 1026-1027.
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Review

Integrin Signaling

Filippo G. Giancotti and Erkki Ruoslahti
Science 13 August 1999: 1028-1033.
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Research Article

Archean Molecular Fossils and the Early Rise of Eukaryotes

Jochen J. Brocks, Graham A. Logan, Roger Buick, and Roger E. Summons
Science 13 August 1999: 1033-1036.
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Reports

Josephson Persistent-Current Qubit

J. E. Mooij, T. P. Orlando, L. Levitov, Lin Tian, Caspar H. van der Wal, and Seth Lloyd
Science 13 August 1999: 1036-1039.
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Energetic Iron(VI) Chemistry: The Super-Iron Battery

Stuart Licht, Baohui Wang, and Susanta Ghosh
Science 13 August 1999: 1039-1042.
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Phonon- Versus Electron-Mediated Desorption and Oxidation of CO on Ru(0001)

M. Bonn, S. Funk, Ch. Hess, D. N. Denzler, C. Stampfl, M. Scheffler, M. Wolf, and G. Ertl
Science 13 August 1999: 1042-1045.
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Brownian Ratchets: Molecular Separations in Lipid Bilayers Supported on Patterned Arrays

Alexander van Oudenaarden and Steven G. Boxer
Science 13 August 1999: 1046-1048.
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Controlling Molecular Self-Organization: Formation of Nanometer-Scale Spheres and Tubules

G. William Orr, Leonard J. Barbour, and Jerry L. Atwood
Science 13 August 1999: 1049-1052.
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Hafnium Isotope Stratigraphy of Ferromanganese Crusts

Der-Chuen Lee, Alex N. Halliday, James R. Hein, Kevin W. Burton, John N. Christensen, and Detlef Günther
Science 13 August 1999: 1052-1054.
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Abiogenic Methane Formation and Isotopic Fractionation Under Hydrothermal Conditions

Juske Horita and Michael E. Berndt
Science 13 August 1999: 1055-1057.
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Structural Basis of Chaperone Function and Pilus Biogenesis

Frederic G. Sauer, Klaus Fütterer, Jerome S. Pinkner, Karen W. Dodson, Scott J. Hultgren, and Gabriel Waksman
Science 13 August 1999: 1058-1061.
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X-ray Structure of the FimC-FimH Chaperone-Adhesin Complex from Uropathogenic Escherichia coli

Devapriya Choudhury, Andrew Thompson, Vivian Stojanoff, Solomon Langermann, Jerome Pinkner, Scott J. Hultgren, and Stefan D. Knight
Science 13 August 1999: 1061-1066.
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Requirement of Circadian Genes for Cocaine Sensitization in Drosophila

Rozi Andretic, Sarah Chaney, and Jay Hirsh
Science 13 August 1999: 1066-1068.
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Dynamical Role of Predators in Population Cycles of a Forest Insect: An Experimental Test

P. Turchin, A. D. Taylor, and J. D. Reeve
Science 13 August 1999: 1068-1071.
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Common Dynamic Structure of Canada Lynx Populations Within Three Climatic Regions

Nils Chr. Stenseth, Kung-Sik Chan, Howell Tong, Rudy Boonstra, Stan Boutin, Charles J. Krebs, Eric Post, Mark O'Donoghue, Nigel G. Yoccoz, Mads C. Forchhammer, and James W. Hurrell
Science 13 August 1999: 1071-1073.
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Insights into Editing from an Ile-tRNA Synthetase Structure with tRNA^Ile and Mupirocin

Laura F. Silvian, Jimin Wang, and Thomas A. Steitz
Science 13 August 1999: 1074-1077.
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Quaternary Structure of the Insulin-Insulin Receptor Complex

Robert Z.-T. Luo, Daniel R. Beniac, Allan Fernandes, Cecil C. Yip, and F. P. Ottensmeyer
Science 13 August 1999: 1077-1080.
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Coordinate Regulation of RAG1 and RAG2 by Cell Type-Specific DNA Elements 5' of RAG2

Wong Yu, Ziva Misulovin, Heikyung Suh, Richard R. Hardy, Mila Jankovic, Nikos Yannoutsos, and Michel C. Nussenzweig
Science 13 August 1999: 1080-1084.
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Control of the Terminal Step of Intracellular Membrane Fusion by Protein Phosphatase 1 

C. Peters, P. D. Andrews, M. J. R. Stark, S. Cesaro- Tadic, A. Glatz, A. Podtelejnikov, M. Mann, and A. Mayer
Science 13 August 1999: 1084-1087.
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Technical Comments

 (Mg,Fe)SiO₃-Perovskite Stability and Lower Mantle Conditions

L. S. Dubrovinsky, S. K. Saxena, S. Rekhi;, George Serghiou, Andreas Zerr, and Reinhard Boehler;
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