This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Future U.S. Technology Leadership?

Philip H. Abelson
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NetWatch

Best of the Web in science.
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 NEW PRODUCTS

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 AAAS News & Notes

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News of the Week

EARTHQUAKES:
In Turkey, Havoc From a Falling-Domino Fault

Tim Appenzeller
Science 27 August 1999: 1334-1335.
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PALEOANTHROPOLOGY:
Kenyan Skeleton Shakes Ape Family Tree

Carl Zimmer
Science 27 August 1999: 1335-1337.
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RESEARCH RISKS:
California Probes Prison Teens Study

Marcia Barinaga
Science 27 August 1999: 1337-1338.
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MATHEMATICS:
Proving the Perfection of the Honeycomb

Dana Mackenzie
Science 27 August 1999: 1338-1339.
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DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY:
Selenium's Role in Infertility Explained

Evelyn Strauss
Science 27 August 1999: 1339.
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NEUROBIOLOGY:
New Role Found for the Hippocampus

Laura Helmuth
Science 27 August 1999: 1339-1341.
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CHINA:
Academy Seeks to Tap University Elites

Lin Gu
Science 27 August 1999: 1341.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

PHYSICS:
Wiggling and Undulating Out of an X-ray Shortage

Robert F. Service
Science 27 August 1999: 1342-1346.
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PHYSICS:
Ribosome Finally Begins to Yield Its Complete Structure

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 27 August 1999: 1343.
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PHYSICS:
Upgrade Brings Hope to Berkeley's Advanced Light Source

Robert F. Service
Science 27 August 1999: 1344.
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PHYSICS:
The Automated Approach to Protein Structure

Robert F. Service
Science 27 August 1999: 1345.
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CHEMISTRY:
Brazil Lobbies for First Nobel

Cassio Leite Vieira
Science 27 August 1999: 1346.
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INTERNATIONAL BOTANICAL CONGRESS MEETING:
New Ways to Glean Medicines From Plants

Trisha Gura
Science 27 August 1999: 1347-1349.
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ASTRONOMY:
Subaru Sees an Unruly Pair

Dennis Normile
Science 27 August 1999: 1349.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 Darwin in Kansas

George B. Dyson
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 Ethane on Pluto?

Dale P. Cruikshank, Catherine de Bergh, Sylvain Douté, Thomas R. Geballe, Tobias C. Owen, Eric Quirico, Ted L. Roush, and Bernard Schmitt
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 Increasing Food Availability

Pietro Cavalli
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 High-Altitude Tubers

Hector Flores
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 Polite Disagreement

Ian Tattersall and Jeffrey H. Schwartz
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 Artiodactyl Nuclear DNA Study

Conrad A. Matthee
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 Cold Fusion Prediction

Richard L. Garwin
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 Growing Metallic Whiskers: Alternative Interpretation

T. El-Raghy and M. W. Barsoum
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 Minority Data

William Yslas Velez
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 Rankings of Research-Active Departments

Vincent H. Crespi
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Books et al.

HISTORY OF MEDICINE:
Curing and Caring--The Long View

John V. Pickstone
Science 27 August 1999: 1362.
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Policy Forum

ETHICS:
Privacy in Genetics Research

B. P. Fuller, M. J. Ellis Kahn, P. A. Barr, L. Biesecker, E. Crowley, J. Garber, M. K. Mansoura, P. Murphy, J. Murray, J. Phillips, K. Rothenberg, M. Rothstein, J. Stopfer, G. Swergold, B. Weber, F. S. Collins, and K. L. Hudson
Science 27 August 1999: 1359-1361.
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Perspectives

BIOMEDICINE:
The Benefits of Recycling

Karen P. Steel
Science 27 August 1999: 1363-1364.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Primordial Water

Robert N. Clayton
Science 27 August 1999: 1364-1365.
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GEOPHYSICS:
Enhanced: A Seismic Look Under the Continents

Karen M. Fischer and Rob D. van der Hilst
Science 27 August 1999: 1365-1366.
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IMMUNOLOGY:
Regulating the Regulator

Bernard Mach
Science 27 August 1999: 1367.
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Review

Global Optimization of Clusters, Crystals, and Biomolecules

David J. Wales and Harold A. Scheraga
Science 27 August 1999: 1368-1372.
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Reports

Temperature Dependence of the Half-Integer Magnetic Flux Quantum

J. R. Kirtley, C. C. Tsuei, and K. A. Moler
Science 27 August 1999: 1373-1375.
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Inhibition of Crystallite Growth in the Sol-Gel Synthesis of Nanocrystalline Metal Oxides

Nae-Lih Wu, Sze-Yen Wang, and I. A. Rusakova
Science 27 August 1999: 1375-1377.
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Asteroidal Water Within Fluid Inclusion-Bearing Halite in an H5 Chondrite, Monahans (1998)

Michael E. Zolensky, Robert J. Bodnar, Everett K. Gibson, Jr., Laurence E. Nyquist, Young Reese, Chi-Yu Shih, and Henry Wiesmann
Science 27 August 1999: 1377-1379.
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Origin of Graphitic Carbon and Pentlandite in Matrix Olivines in the Allende Meteorite

Adrian J. Brearley
Science 27 August 1999: 1380-1382.
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Equatorius: A New Hominoid Genus from the Middle Miocene of Kenya

Steve Ward, Barbara Brown, Andrew Hill, Jay Kelley, and Will Downs
Science 27 August 1999: 1382-1386.
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Fossil Plants and Global Warming at the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary

J. C. McElwain, D. J. Beerling, and F. I. Woodward
Science 27 August 1999: 1386-1390.
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Gene Expression Profile of Aging and Its Retardation by Caloric Restriction

Cheol-Koo Lee, Roger G. Klopp, Richard Weindruch, and Tomas A. Prolla
Science 27 August 1999: 1390-1393.
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Dual Function of the Selenoprotein PHGPx During Sperm Maturation

Fulvio Ursini, Sabina Heim, Michael Kiess, Matilde Maiorino, Antonella Roveri, Josef Wissing, and Leopold Flohé
Science 27 August 1999: 1393-1396.
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Eutrophication, Fisheries, and Consumer-Resource Dynamics in Marine Pelagic Ecosystems

Fiorenza Micheli
Science 27 August 1999: 1396-1398.
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Selection-Based Biodiversity at a Small Spatial Scale in a Low-Dispersing Insular Bird

Jacques Blondel, Paula C. Dias, Philippe Perret, Marie Maistre, and Marcel M. Lambrechts
Science 27 August 1999: 1399-1402.
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GTP Binding by Class II Transactivator: Role in Nuclear Import

Jonathan A. Harton, Drew E. Cressman, Keh-Chuang Chin, Channing J. Der, and Jenny P. Y. Ting
Science 27 August 1999: 1402-1405.
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Rapid Adaptation in Visual Cortex to the Structure of Images

James R. Müller, Andrew B. Metha, John Krauskopf, and Peter Lennie
Science 27 August 1999: 1405-1408.
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Altered Cochlear Fibrocytes in a Mouse Model of DFN3 Nonsyndromic Deafness

O. Minowa, K. Ikeda, Y. Sugitani, T. Oshima, S. Nakai, Y. Katori, M. Suzuki, M. Furukawa, T. Kawase, Y. Zheng, M. Ogura, Y. Asada, K. Watanabe, H. Yamanaka, S. Gotoh, M. Nishi-Takeshima, T. Sugimoto, T. Kikuchi, T. Takasaka, and T. Noda
Science 27 August 1999: 1408-1411.
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Long-Term Depression in Hippocampal Interneurons: Joint Requirement for Pre- and Postsynaptic Events

Fernanda Laezza, James J. Doherty, and Raymond Dingledine
Science 27 August 1999: 1411-1414.
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