This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Fending off Furtive Strategists

R. Brooks Hanson and Floyd E. Bloom
Science 17 September 1999: 1847.
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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

BIOMEDICINE:
FDA Weighs Using Tumor Cell Lines for Vaccine Development

Gretchen Vogel
Science 17 September 1999: 1826-1827.
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CLIMATE CHANGE:
New Center Gives Japan an Arctic Toehold

Bernice Wuethrich
Science 17 September 1999: 1827.
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NSF AND NASA BUDGETS:
Rhetoric Meets Reality on the House Floor

Jeffrey Mervis and David Malakoff
Science 17 September 1999: 1827-1829.
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EUROPEAN UNION:
Tough Questions Greet New Research Chief

Robert Koenig
Science 17 September 1999: 1829-1830.
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BIOTECHNOLOGY:
Wellcome Seeks New Home for Business Park

Helen Gavaghan
Science 17 September 1999: 1830-1831.
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COSMOLOGY:
Firming Up the Case for a Flat Cosmos

Mark Sincell
Science 17 September 1999: 1831.
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LASER FUSION:
A Less Powerful NIF Will Still Cost More

David Malakoff and Andrew Lawler
Science 17 September 1999: 1831-1833.
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INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES:
Iranian Delegation Makes Rare U.S. Visit

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 17 September 1999: 1833.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

PREDICTING INVASIONS:
Biological Invaders Sweep In

Martin Enserink
Science 17 September 1999: 1834-1836.
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FIGHTING BACK:
Stemming the Tide of Invading Species

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 17 September 1999: 1836-1841.
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FIGHTING BACK:
Keeping Paradise Safe for the Natives

Richard Stone
Science 17 September 1999: 1837.
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FIGHTING BACK:
Vanquishing Nutria: Where There's a Will, There's a Way

Erik Stokstad
Science 17 September 1999: 1838.
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BIOLOGICAL CONTROL:
Fighting Fire With Fire

David Malakoff
Science 17 September 1999: 1841-1843.
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BIOLOGICAL CONTROL:
Australian Biocontrol Beats Rabbits, But Not Rules

Elizabeth Finkel
Science 17 September 1999: 1842.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 17 September 1999: 1849.
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 Kansas Evolution Ruling

Herbert Lin
Science 17 September 1999: 1849.
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 Seussiana

Rob Whetten
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 Information Technology Research

Herbert A. Simon
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 NIH Study-Section Scoring

Sebastian Doniach
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 Energy R&D Funding

Louis Ianniello
Science 17 September 1999: 1849.
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 The Difference a Year Makes

Ricardo Godoy
Science 17 September 1999: 1849.
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 Reducing Natural Disasters

Neal Lane
Science 17 September 1999: 1849.
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 Effect on the Biosphere of Elevated Atmospheric CO₂

Bert Bolin, Josep Canadell, Berrien Moore III, Ian Noble, Will Steffen;, Evan H. DeLucia, and William H. Schlesinger
Science 17 September 1999: 1849.
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 Keeping Track of Carbon

G. Philip Robertson
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE:
Structure for Theories of Biology

Ernst Mayr
Science 17 September 1999: 1856-1857.
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DECISION-MAKING:
Calculating the Chances

John S. Evans
Science 17 September 1999: 1857.
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Policy Forum

HEALTH:
Regulation of "Nutraceuticals"

Steven H. Zeisel
Science 17 September 1999: 1853-1855.
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Perspectives

GEOLOGY:
Enhanced: The 17 August 1999 Izmit Earthquake

Aykut Barka
Science 17 September 1999: 1858-1859.
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BIOMEDICINE:
Beating the Odds with Big K

Shai D. Silberberg and Karl L. Magleby
Science 17 September 1999: 1859-1860.
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PLANT BIOPHYSICS:
Forcible Entry

Nicholas J. Talbot
Science 17 September 1999: 1860-1861.
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BIOCHEMISTRY:
How Serpins Are Shaping Up

Robin W. Carrell
Science 17 September 1999: 1861-1863.
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Tech.Sight

ASTRONOMY:
Snapshots of Alien Worlds--The Future of Interferometry

Antoine Labeyrie
Science 17 September 1999: 1864-1865.
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SOFTWARE:
Digital Chemical Intelligence

Andreas Madlung
Science 17 September 1999: 1866-1867.
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 PROTEIN INTERACTION:
Complex Grabbing

Robert Sikorski and Richard Peters
Science 17 September 1999: 1868.
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 NET TIP:
Lab Search Engine

Robert Sikorski and Richard Peters
Science 17 September 1999: 1868.
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 SOFTWARE:
Pull-Down Stats

Emile M. Bellott
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Review

Long-Term Potentiation--A Decade of Progress?

Robert C. Malenka and and Roger A. Nicoll
Science 17 September 1999: 1870-1874.
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Reports

Instability of Magma Flow from Volatile-Dependent Viscosity

Jonathan J. Wylie, Barry Voight, and J. A. Whitehead
Science 17 September 1999: 1883-1885.
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Climate Variability in Northwest Greece During the Last Interglacial

M. R. Frogley, P. C. Tzedakis, and T. H. E. Heaton
Science 17 September 1999: 1886-1889.
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Iron Isotope Biosignatures

Brian L. Beard, Clark M. Johnson, Lea Cox, Henry Sun, Kenneth H. Nealson, and Carmen Aguilar
Science 17 September 1999: 1889-1892.
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Oxygen and Iron Isotope Studies of Magnetite Produced by Magnetotactic Bacteria

Kevin W. Mandernack, Dennis A. Bazylinski, Wayne C. Shanks, III, and Thomas D. Bullen
Science 17 September 1999: 1892-1896.
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Optical Measurements of Invasive Forces Exerted by Appressoria of a Plant Pathogenic Fungus

Clemens Bechinger, Karl-Friedrich Giebel, Martin Schnell, Paul Leiderer, Holger B. Deising, and Martin Bastmeyer
Science 17 September 1999: 1896-1899.
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Formation of Cycloidal Features on Europa

Gregory V. Hoppa, B. Randall Tufts, Richard Greenberg, and Paul E. Geissler
Science 17 September 1999: 1899-1902.
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Ultrasonic Deposition of High-Selectivity Nanoporous Carbon Membranes

Mark B. Shiflett and Henry C. Foley
Science 17 September 1999: 1902-1905.
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Room Temperature Lasing at Blue Wavelengths in Gallium Nitride Microcavities

Takao Someya, Ralph Werner, Alfred Forchel, Massimo Catalano, Roberto Cingolani, and Yasuhiko Arakawa
Science 17 September 1999: 1905-1906.
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Proteinaceous Pheromone Affecting Female Receptivity in a Terrestrial Salamander

Stephanie M. Rollmann, Lynne D. Houck, and Richard C. Feldhoff
Science 17 September 1999: 1907-1909.
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Water Vapor Absorption in Arthropods by Accumulation of Myoinositol and Glucose

Mark Bayley and Martin Holmstrup
Science 17 September 1999: 1909-1911.
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Coincident Induction of Long-Term Facilitation in Aplysia: Cooperativity Between Cell Bodies and Remote Synapses

Carolyn M. Sherff and Thomas J. Carew
Science 17 September 1999: 1911-1914.
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Shape Representations and Visual Guidance of Saccadic Eye Movements

Tirin Moore
Science 17 September 1999: 1914-1917.
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Constitutive Activation of Toll-Mediated Antifungal Defense in Serpin-Deficient Drosophila

Elena A. Levashina, Emma Langley, Clare Green, David Gubb, Michael Ashburner, Jules A. Hoffmann, and Jean-Marc Reichhart
Science 17 September 1999: 1917-1919.
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Inhibition of the Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Kinase Superfamily by a Yersinia Effector

Kim Orth, Lance E. Palmer, Zhao Qin Bao, Scott Stewart, Amy E. Rudolph, James B. Bliska, and Jack E. Dixon
Science 17 September 1999: 1920-1923.
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Synergy Between Tumor Suppressor APC and the -Catenin-Tcf4 Target Tcf1

Jeroen Roose, Gerwin Huls, Moniek van Beest, Petra Moerer, Karin van der Horn, Roel Goldschmeding, Ton Logtenberg, and Hans Clevers
Science 17 September 1999: 1923-1926.
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Antiangiogenic Activity of the Cleaved Conformation of the Serpin Antithrombin

Michael S. O'Reilly, Steven Pirie-Shepherd, William S. Lane, and Judah Folkman
Science 17 September 1999: 1926-1928.
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Acute Activation of Maxi-K Channels (hSlo) by Estradiol Binding to the  Subunit

Miguel A. Valverde, Patricio Rojas, Julio Amigo, Diego Cosmelli, Patricio Orio, Maria I. Bahamonde, Giovanni E. Mann, Cecilia Vergara, and Ramon Latorre
Science 17 September 1999: 1929-1931.
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