This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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 Editorial:
Scruples or Squabbles?

Floyd E. Bloom
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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

SCIENCE EDUCATION:
Kansas Dumps Darwin, Raises Alarm Across the United States

Constance Holden
Science 20 August 1999: 1186-1187.
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ENVIRONMENT:
Sharp Drop Seen in Soil Erosion Rates

James Glanz
Science 20 August 1999: 1187-1189.
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MISCONDUCT:
Fraud Finding Triggers Payback Demand

Marcia Barinaga and Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 20 August 1999: 1189-1190.
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SPECIATION:
Mexican Pairs Show Geography's Role

Bernice Wuethrich
Science 20 August 1999: 1190.
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ANIMAL TESTING:
One Mouse's Meat Is Another One's Poison

Laura Helmuth
Science 20 August 1999: 1190-1191.
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ASTRONOMY:
A World With Two Suns

Mark Sincell
Science 20 August 1999: 1191-1193.
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CHINA SPY INQUIRY:
DOE Blames Three at Los Alamos Lab

David Malakoff
Science 20 August 1999: 1193.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

PHYSICS:
Making the Stuff of the Big Bang

David Voss
Science 20 August 1999: 1194-1197.
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PHYSICS:
RHIC Physicists Go to Media School

David Voss
Science 20 August 1999: 1196.
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ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA MEETING:
Getting to the Roots of Carbon Loss, Chili's Gain

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 20 August 1999: 1198-1199.
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HYDROLOGY:
Scarcity of Rain, Stream Gages Threatens Forecasts

Erik Stokstad
Science 20 August 1999: 1199-1200.
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CELL BIOLOGY:
How Chromatin Changes Its Shape

Michael Hagmann
Science 20 August 1999: 1200-1203.
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CELL BIOLOGY:
Clinging to Histones

Michael Hagmann
Science 20 August 1999: 1201.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 Biomass in the Energy Picture

Thomas E. Bull; and John A. Turner
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 Cladistics and Early Hominid Phylogeny

David S. Strait, Frederick E. Grine;, B. Asfaw, T. White, O. Lovejoy, B. Latimer, S. Simpson, G. Suwa;, and Melanie McCollum
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Books et al.

MEDICINE:
Gene Therapy Enters Adolescence

Jeffrey M. Leiden
Science 20 August 1999: 1215-1216.
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ASTRONOMY:
Personal Planetaria

Kevin B. Marvel
Science 20 August 1999: 1216.
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Policy Forum

SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENCE:
Are the Foreign Born a Source of Strength for U.S. Science?

Sharon G. Levin and Paula E. Stephan
Science 20 August 1999: 1213-1214.
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Perspectives

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY:
Take the Shuttle--from Marine Algae to Atmospheric Chemistry

Peter Liss
Science 20 August 1999: 1217-1218.
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CHEMICAL PHYSICS:
Interfering with Water

David C. Clary
Science 20 August 1999: 1218-1219.
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MATERIALS SCIENCE:
Tack--a Sticky Subject

T. P. Russell and H. C. Kim
Science 20 August 1999: 1219-1220.
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BIOMEDICINE:
Xenografts and Retroviruses

Robin A. Weiss
Science 20 August 1999: 1221-1222.
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PLANT BIOLOGY:
Enhanced: Taking Transgenic Plants with a Pinch of Salt

Wolf B. Frommer, Uwe Ludewig, and Doris Rentsch
Science 20 August 1999: 1222-1223.
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Tech.Sight

MICROSPECTROSCOPY:
Imaging Molecular Chemistry with Infrared Microscopy

David L. Wetzel and Steven M. LeVine
Science 20 August 1999: 1224-1225.
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SOFTWARE:
Sequence Server Samurai

Pavel Simakov
Science 20 August 1999: 1226-1227.
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 SOFTWARE:
Order From Chaos

William Seffens
Science 20 August 1999: 1228.
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 SOFTWARE:
Flash Your Data

Robert Sikorski and Richard Peters
Science 20 August 1999: 1228-1229.
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 PROTEIN EXPRESSION:
Folding to Green

Richard Peters and Robert Sikorski
Science 20 August 1999: 1229.
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Research Articles

Normal-Mode and Free-Air Gravity Constraints on Lateral Variations in Velocity and Density of Earth's Mantle

Miaki Ishii and Jeroen Tromp
Science 20 August 1999: 1231-1236.
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Search for Cross-Species Transmission of Porcine Endogenous Retrovirus in Patients Treated with Living Pig Tissue

Khazal Paradis, Gillian Langford, Zhifeng Long, Walid Heneine, Paul Sandstrom, William M. Switzer, Louisa E. Chapman, Chris Lockey, David Onions, The XEN 111 Study Group, and Edward Otto
Science 20 August 1999: 1236-1241.
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Reports

Superconductivity and the c Axis Spectral Weight of High-T_c Superconductors

L. B. Ioffe and A. J. Millis
Science 20 August 1999: 1241-1244.
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Decreased Rates of Alluvial Sediment Storage in the Coon Creek Basin, Wisconsin, 1975-93

Stanley W. Trimble
Science 20 August 1999: 1244-1246.
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Switchable Tackiness and Wettability of a Liquid Crystalline Polymer

Guillaume de Crevoisier, Pascale Fabre, Jean-Marc Corpart, and Ludwik Leibler
Science 20 August 1999: 1246-1249.
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Chemical "Double Slits": Dynamical Interference of Photodissociation Pathways in Water

R. N. Dixon, D. W. Hwang, X. F. Yang, S. Harich, J. J. Lin, and X. Yang
Science 20 August 1999: 1249-1253.
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Alternative Dewetting Pathways of Thin Liquid Films

Rachel Yerushalmi-Rozen, Tobias Kerle, and Jacob Klein
Science 20 August 1999: 1254-1256.
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Salt Tolerance Conferred by Overexpression of a Vacuolar Na⁺/H⁺ Antiport in Arabidopsis

Maris P. Apse, Gilad S. Aharon, Wayne A. Snedden, and Eduardo Blumwald
Science 20 August 1999: 1256-1258.
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Genetic Variation in Susceptibility to Endocrine Disruption by Estrogen in Mice

Jimmy L. Spearow, Paul Doemeny, Robyn Sera, Rachael Leffler, and Marylynn Barkley
Science 20 August 1999: 1259-1261.
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Rapid Infection of Oral Mucosal-Associated Lymphoid Tissue with Simian Immunodeficiency Virus

Christiane Stahl-Hennig, Ralph M. Steinman, Klara Tenner-Racz, Melissa Pope, Nicole Stolte, Kerstin Mätz-Rensing, Gudrun Grobschupff, Birgit Raschdorff, Gerhard Hunsmann, and Paul Racz
Science 20 August 1999: 1261-1265.
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Conservatism of Ecological Niches in Evolutionary Time

A. T. Peterson, J. Soberón, and V. Sánchez-Cordero
Science 20 August 1999: 1265-1267.
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AP-2 Recruitment to Synaptotagmin Stimulated by Tyrosine-Based Endocytic Motifs

Volker Haucke and Pietro De Camilli
Science 20 August 1999: 1268-1271.
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Identification of a Mating Type-Like Locus in the Asexual Pathogenic Yeast Candida albicans

Christina M. Hull and Alexander D. Johnson
Science 20 August 1999: 1271-1275.
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Anti-inflammatory Properties of Cytochrome P450 Epoxygenase-Derived Eicosanoids

Koichi Node, Yuqing Huo, Xiulu Ruan, Baichun Yang, Martin Spiecker, Klaus Ley, Darryl C. Zeldin, and James K. Liao
Science 20 August 1999: 1276-1279.
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Technical Comments

 Phylogenies, Temporal Data, and Negative Evidence

John E. Heyning, Christine Thacker;, Daniel C. Fisher, David L. Fox, and Lindsey R. Leighton;
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