This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
A Threat to Biomedical Research

Joseph B. Martin
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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

QUANTUM CONDENSATES:
After Bosons, Physicists Tame the Rest of the Particle Kingdom

David Voss
Science 10 September 1999: 1646-1647.
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LASER PHYSICS:
DOE Slams Livermore for Hiding NIF Problems

David Malakoff
Science 10 September 1999: 1647.
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THE OZONE LAYER:
Burnt by the Sun Down Under

Kathryn S. Brown
Science 10 September 1999: 1647-1649.
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ANIMAL RESEARCH:
Research Lab to Surrender Chimps

Elizabeth Norton Lasley
Science 10 September 1999: 1649-1650.
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GAMMA RAY ASTRONOMY:
Array Plans Blocked by Indian Ritual Site

Mark Muro
Science 10 September 1999: 1650-1651.
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CANCER RESEARCH:
A New Way to Combat Therapy Side Effects

Dan Ferber
Science 10 September 1999: 1651-1653.
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ASTRONOMY:
Hubble Snaps Some Moving MACHOs

Govert Schilling
Science 10 September 1999: 1653.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

SCIENCE INTERVIEW:
View From the Top of a Biomedical Empire

Eliot Marshall
Science 10 September 1999: 1654-1656.
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NORTH KOREA:
Joint Projects Allow a Peek Into an Impoverished System

Michael Baker
Science 10 September 1999: 1657-1658.
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ASTRONOMY:
The First Step to Heaven

James Glanz
Science 10 September 1999: 1658-1661.
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ASTRONOMY:
Bypassing the Magellanic Cloud

James Glanz
Science 10 September 1999: 1661.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 Early Plant History: Something Borrowed, Something New?

Karl J. Niklas, William L. Crepet, Kevin C. Nixon;, and Kathryn S. Brown
Science 10 September 1999: 1673.
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 Infants Learning Algebraic Rules

Lokendra Shastri
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 Likelihood of NIH Extramural Funding

H. George Mandel and Elliot S. Vesell
Science 10 September 1999: 1673.
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 Overlooked Control

James L. Sherley
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

PSYCHOLOGY:
Snails and Tails or Sugar and Spice

Kira Hall
Science 10 September 1999: 1681-1682.
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Policy Forum

SCIENCE PRIORITIES:
Who's Balancing the Federal Research Portfolio and How?

Stephen A. Merrill and Michael McGeary
Science 10 September 1999: 1679-1680.
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Perspectives

SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION:
Proteins in Motion

Mark Gerstein and Cyrus Chothia
Science 10 September 1999: 1682-1683.
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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:
Ribozymes in the Nucleolus

John J. Rossi
Science 10 September 1999: 1685.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Making Brain Circuits Listen

Josef P. Rauschecker
Science 10 September 1999: 1686-1687.
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APPLIED PHYSICS:
Enhanced: Playing Tricks with Light

John Pendry
Science 10 September 1999: 1687-1688.
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Review

Trends in the Vertical Distribution of Ozone

William J. Randel, Richard S. Stolarski, Derek M. Cunnold, Jennifer A. Logan, M. J. Newchurch, and Joseph M. Zawodny
Science 10 September 1999: 1689-1692.
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Reports

Onset of Fermi Degeneracy in a Trapped Atomic Gas

B. DeMarco and D. S. Jin
Science 10 September 1999: 1703-1706.
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A Capacitance Standard Based on Counting Electrons

Mark W. Keller, Ali L. Eichenberger, John M. Martinis, and Neil M. Zimmerman
Science 10 September 1999: 1706-1709.
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Increased Summertime UV Radiation in New Zealand in Response to Ozone Loss

Richard McKenzie, Brian Connor, and Greg Bodeker
Science 10 September 1999: 1709-1711.
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Lower Mantle Lateral Heterogeneity Beneath the Caribbean Sea

Ileana Madalina Tibuleac and Eugene Herrin
Science 10 September 1999: 1711-1715.
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An Infrared Spectral Match Between GEMS and Interstellar Grains

John P. Bradley, Lindsay P. Keller, Theodore P. Snow, Martha S. Hanner, George J. Flynn, Joseph C. Gezo, Simon J. Clemett, Donald E. Brownlee, and Janet E. Bowey
Science 10 September 1999: 1716-1718.
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Heterostructures of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes and Carbide Nanorods

Y. Zhang, T. Ichihashi, E. Landree, F. Nihey, and S. Iijima
Science 10 September 1999: 1719-1722.
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Recognition of the Codon-Anticodon Helix by Ribosomal RNA

Satoko Yoshizawa, Dominique Fourmy, and Joseph D. Puglisi
Science 10 September 1999: 1722-1725.
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Activity-Induced Potentiation of Developing Neuromuscular Synapses

Ji-jun Wan and Mu-ming Poo
Science 10 September 1999: 1725-1728.
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Recruitment of the Auditory Cortex in Congenitally Deaf Cats by Long-Term Cochlear Electrostimulation

Rainer Klinke, Andrej Kral, Silvia Heid, Jochen Tillein, and Rainer Hartmann
Science 10 September 1999: 1729-1733.
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A Chemical Inhibitor of p53 That Protects Mice from the Side Effects of Cancer Therapy

Pavel G. Komarov, Elena A. Komarova, Roman V. Kondratov, Konstantin Christov-Tselkov, John S. Coon, Mikhail V. Chernov, and Andrei V. Gudkov
Science 10 September 1999: 1733-1737.
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A Role for the Proteasome in the Light Response of the Timeless Clock Protein

Nirinjini Naidoo, Wei Song, Melissa Hunter-Ensor, and Amita Sehgal
Science 10 September 1999: 1737-1741.
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Fungal Endophyte Symbiosis and Plant Diversity in Successional Fields

Keith Clay and Jenny Holah
Science 10 September 1999: 1742-1744.
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Clonal Interference and the Evolution of RNA Viruses

Rosario Miralles, Philip J. Gerrish, Andrés Moya, and Santiago F. Elena
Science 10 September 1999: 1745-1747.
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High Frequency of Cryptic Deleterious Mutations in Caenorhabditis elegans

Esther K. Davies, Andrew D. Peters, and Peter D. Keightley
Science 10 September 1999: 1748-1751.
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A Piston Model for Transmembrane Signaling of the Aspartate Receptor

Karen M. Ottemann, Wenzhong Xiao, Yeon-Kyun Shin, and Daniel E. Koshland, Jr.
Science 10 September 1999: 1751-1754.
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