This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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 Editorial:
Take Another Look

Stephen Jay Gould
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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

PALEONTOLOGY:
Siberian Mammoth Find Raises Hopes, Questions

Richard Stone
Science 29 October 1999: 876-877.
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EVOLUTIONARY GENETICS:
The Why Behind the Y Chromosome

Gretchen Vogel
Science 29 October 1999: 877-879.
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FORMER SOVIET SCIENCE:
Ukrainian KGB Puts Heat on Researchers

Richard Stone
Science 29 October 1999: 879.
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SOCIAL SCIENCES:
Making Social Science Data More Useful

Wayne Kondro
Science 29 October 1999: 880.
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JAPAN:
Millennium Projects May Provide Science Bonanza

Dennis Normile
Science 29 October 1999: 880-881.
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OBESITY RESEARCH:
Leptin Not Impressive in Clinical Trial

Trisha Gura
Science 29 October 1999: 881-882.
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GEOCHEMISTRY:
Tweaking the Clock of Radioactive Decay

Richard A. Kerr
Science 29 October 1999: 882-883.
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SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT:
Shalala Takes Watchdog Office Out of the Hunt

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 29 October 1999: 883.
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SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT:
Cleared of Misconduct, Geoscientist Sues Critics

David Malakoff
Science 29 October 1999: 883-885.
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MEXICO:
Student Strike Engulfs Research Activities

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 29 October 1999: 885-886.
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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:
Candidate 'Gene Silencers' Found

Evelyn Strauss
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NEUROBIOLOGY:
Fetal Cells Help Parkinson's Patients

Laura Helmuth
Science 29 October 1999: 886-887.
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SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING:
Researchers Plan Free Global Preprint Archive

Eliot Marshall
Science 29 October 1999: 887.
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ASTRONOMY:
First Glimpse of a Cosmic Funnel

Mark Sincell
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

NEUROSCIENCE:
Turning Thoughts Into Actions

Marcia Barinaga
Science 29 October 1999: 888-890.
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ARCHAEOLOGY:
A Long Season Puts Çatalhöyük in Context

Michael Balter
Science 29 October 1999: 890-891.
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GAMMA RAY BURST SYMPOSIUM:
Gamma Ray Bursts Keep Playing Coy

Govert Schilling
Science 29 October 1999: 893.
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GENETIC DISEASE:
Sweden Takes Steps to Protect Tissue Banks

Annika Nilsson and Joanna Rose
Science 29 October 1999: 894.
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SCIENCE EDUCATION:
Grad Students Head to Class as New NSF Teaching Fellows

Jeffrey Mervis
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 Radioactive Nuclear Beams

P. Gregers Hansen
Science 29 October 1999: 901.
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 Quoting the Hippocratic Oath

Christine A. Ruggere
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 Invaders Today, Natives Tomorrow?

Allen M. Young; and Thomas O. Powers
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 Silent Scientists

Stephen B. Pruett
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 Assessing the Spread of Engineered TMV

R. N. Campbell
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

SCIENCE AND RELIGION:
Two Realms and Their Relationships

Craig B. Anderson
Science 29 October 1999: 907-908.
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Policy Forum

CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY:
Costs of Multigreenhouse Gas Reduction Targets for the USA

Katharine Hayhoe, Atul Jain, Hugh Pitcher, Chris MacCracken, Michael Gibbs, Donald Wuebbles, Reid Harvey, and Dina Kruger
Science 29 October 1999: 905-906.
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Perspectives

GEOPHYSICS:
Enhanced: Deep Earthquakes in Real Slabs

Seth A. Stein and David C. Rubie
Science 29 October 1999: 909-910.
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GEOSCIENCE:
Calibrating the Isotopic Paleothermometer

Jean Jouzel
Science 29 October 1999: 910-911.
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CELL CYCLE:
New Tools for the Antimitotic Toolbox

Duane A. Compton
Science 29 October 1999: 913-914.
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NEUROBIOLOGY:
PrP's Double Causes Trouble

Charles Weissmann and Adriano Aguzzi
Science 29 October 1999: 914-915.
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Review

The Presenilins in Alzheimer's Disease--Proteolysis Holds the Key

Christian Haass and Bart De Strooper
Science 29 October 1999: 916-919.
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Reports

Imaging Magma Transport During the 1997 Seismic Swarm off the Izu Peninsula, Japan

Yosuke Aoki, Paul Segall, Teruyuki Kato, Peter Cervelli, and Seiichi Shimada
Science 29 October 1999: 927-930.
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Abrupt Climate Change at the End of the Last Glacial Period Inferred from Trapped Air in Polar Ice

Jeffrey P. Severinghaus and Edward J. Brook
Science 29 October 1999: 930-934.
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16°C Rapid Temperature Variation in Central Greenland 70,000 Years Ago

C. Lang, M. Leuenberger, J. Schwander, and S. Johnsen
Science 29 October 1999: 934-937.
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Seismic Consequences of Warm Versus Cool Subduction Metamorphism: Examples from Southwest and Northeast Japan

Simon M. Peacock and Kelin Wang
Science 29 October 1999: 937-939.
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In Situ Observation of the Formation of 10 Å Phase from Talc + H₂O at Mantle Pressures and Temperatures

Nicholas J. Chinnery, Alison R. Pawley, and Simon M. Clark
Science 29 October 1999: 940-942.
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Field-Effect Flow Control for Microfabricated Fluidic Networks

Richard B. M. Schasfoort, Stefan Schlautmann, Jan Hendrikse, and Albert van den Berg
Science 29 October 1999: 942-945.
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Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Materials as Semiconducting Channels in Thin-Film Field-Effect Transistors

C. R. Kagan, D. B. Mitzi, and C. D. Dimitrakopoulos
Science 29 October 1999: 945-947.
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The Root of Angiosperm Phylogeny Inferred from Duplicate Phytochrome Genes

Sarah Mathews and Michael J. Donoghue
Science 29 October 1999: 947-950.
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A Species of Small Antisense RNA in Posttranscriptional Gene Silencing in Plants

Andrew J. Hamilton and David C. Baulcombe
Science 29 October 1999: 950-952.
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TCR-Mediated Internalization of Peptide-MHC Complexes Acquired by T Cells

Jing-Feng Huang, Young Yang, Homero Sepulveda, Weixing Shi, Inkyu Hwang, Per A. Peterson, Michael R. Jackson, Jonathan Sprent, and Zeling Cai
Science 29 October 1999: 952-954.
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Epigenetic Inheritance of Active Chromatin After Removal of the Main Transactivator

Giacomo Cavalli and Renato Paro
Science 29 October 1999: 955-958.
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A Direct Estimate of the Human T Cell Receptor Diversity

T. Petteri Arstila, Armanda Casrouge, Véronique Baron, Jos Even, Jean Kanellopoulos, and Philippe Kourilsky
Science 29 October 1999: 958-961.
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Arabidopsis NPH3: A NPH1 Photoreceptor-Interacting Protein Essential for Phototropism

Andrei Motchoulski and Emmanuel Liscum
Science 29 October 1999: 961-964.
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Four Evolutionary Strata on the Human X Chromosome

Bruce T. Lahn and David C. Page
Science 29 October 1999: 964-967.
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Opposite Patterns of Synchrony in Sympatric Disease Metapopulations

Pejman Rohani, David J. D. Earn, and Bryan T. Grenfell
Science 29 October 1999: 968-971.
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Small Molecule Inhibitor of Mitotic Spindle Bipolarity Identified in a Phenotype-Based Screen

Thomas U. Mayer, Tarun M. Kapoor, Stephen J. Haggarty, Randall W. King, Stuart L. Schreiber, and Timothy J. Mitchison
Science 29 October 1999: 971-974.
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Technical Comments

 Origin of Argon-Lead Isotopic Correlation in Basalts

P. G. Burnard;, Philippe Sarda, Manuel Moreira, and Thomas Staudacher;
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