The Milky Way

Portrait of a Galaxy

Linda Rowan and Richard Stone
Science 7 January 2000: 61.
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News

A Crushing End for Our Galaxy

Robert Irion
Science 7 January 2000: 62-64.
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New Probe to Chart the Milky Way

Alexander Hellemans
Science 7 January 2000: 63.
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Into the Lair of the Beast

Erik Stokstad
Science 7 January 2000: 65-67.
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Biography of a Recluse

Erik Stokstad
Science 7 January 2000: 66.
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A Magnifying Glass for the Milky Way

Govert Schilling
Science 7 January 2000: 67-68.
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Reviews

The Formation and Early Evolution of the Milky Way Galaxy

Roland Buser
Science 7 January 2000: 69-74.
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The Dark Halo of the Milky Way

Charles Alcock
Science 7 January 2000: 74-79.
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The Baryon Halo of the Milky Way: A Fossil Record of Its Formation

Joss Bland-Hawthorn and Ken Freeman
Science 7 January 2000: 79-84.
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The Galactic Center: An Interacting System of Unusual Sources

F. Yusef-Zadeh, F. Melia, and M. Wardle
Science 7 January 2000: 85-91.
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This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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 Editorial:
Science's Why Not Today Problem

Floyd E. Bloom
Science 7 January 2000: 39.
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Editors' Choice

Highlights of the recent literature.
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NetWatch

Best of the Web in science.
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 Information for Contributors

Science 7 January 2000: 147-148.

 NEW PRODUCTS

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News of the Week

CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME:
CDC Struggles to Recover From Debacle Over Earmark

Martin Enserink
Science 7 January 2000: 22-23.
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CELL BIOLOGY:
Kinesin Movements Revealed

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 7 January 2000: 23-25.
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REMOTE SENSING:
Satellite Radar Spies City Subsidence

Alexander Hellemans
Science 7 January 2000: 25.
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TAXONOMY:
Zoology Naming Rules Eased

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 7 January 2000: 26.
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POSTDOCS:
Academy Plans Guide to Improve Status

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 7 January 2000: 26-27.
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ENDANGERED SALMON:
Army Corps Seized by Dam Indecision

Charles C. Mann and Mark L. Plummer
Science 7 January 2000: 27.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

SACRED GROUND:
Archaeology in the Holy Land

Michael Balter
Science 7 January 2000: 28-29.
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THE BIBLE:
Baedeker's Guide, or Just Plain 'Trouble'?

Michael Balter
Science 7 January 2000: 29-30.
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CHRONOLOGY:
The Two Tels: Armageddon For Biblical Archaeology?

Michael Balter
Science 7 January 2000: 31-32.
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PALESTINE:
Palestinians Inherit Riches, But Struggle to Make a Mark

Michael Balter
Science 7 January 2000: 33-34.
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Artifacts Prompt Tug-of-War

Michael Balter
Science 7 January 2000: 33.
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RELIGION:
Archaeologists and Rabbis Clash Over Human Remains

Michael Balter
Science 7 January 2000: 34-35.
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PREHISTORY:
Unearthing Monuments of the Yarmukians

Michael Balter
Science 7 January 2000: 35.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 7 January 2000: 41.
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 Duchamp's L.H.O.O.Q.--From 1919 or 1930?

Rhonda Roland Shearer and Stephen Jay Gould
Science 7 January 2000: 41.
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 Bt Toxin: Assessing GM Strategies

Theo Wallimann
Science 7 January 2000: 41.
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 Resistance to Bt Toxins

Bruce E. Tabashnik, Richard T. Roush, Elizabeth D. Earle, Anthony M. Shelton;, Fangneng Huang, Lawrent Buschman, Randall Higgins, and William McGaughey
Science 7 January 2000: 41.
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 CAMPFIRE Experiences in Zimbabwe

Bruce M. Campbell, Bevlyne Sithole, Peter Frost;, Wayne Getz, Louise Fortmann, David Cumming, Johan Du Toit, and Rowan Martin
Science 7 January 2000: 41.
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

BIOGRAPHY:
Two Views of a Star's Life

Clark R. Chapman
Science 7 January 2000: 46-47.
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LANGUAGE:
Why Do Kids Say Goed and Brang?

James L. McClelland and Mark S. Seidenberg
Science 7 January 2000: 47-48.
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 Books Received

Science 7 January 2000: 48.

Essays on Science and Society

ESSAY ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
Will Tribal Knowledge Survive the Millennium?

Paul Alan Cox
Science 7 January 2000: 44-45.
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Perspectives

GRAVITY:
Brane-Worlds

Gary Gibbons
Science 7 January 2000: 49-50.
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EPIDEMIOLOGY:
Enhanced: Tracing the Origins of Salmonella Outbreaks

Andreas J. Bäumler, Billy M. Hargis, and Renee M. Tsolis
Science 7 January 2000: 50-52.
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BIOCHEMISTRY:
Reading the Worm Genome

Stuart K. Kim
Science 7 January 2000: 52-53.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Charon's First Detailed Spectra Hold Many Surprises

Eliot Young
Science 7 January 2000: 53-54.
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 AGING:
Nota Bene: Sensing Old Age

Orla Smith
Science 7 January 2000: 54.
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Research Articles

Structural Basis of Smad2 Recognition by the Smad Anchor for Receptor Activation

Geng Wu, Ye-Guang Chen, Barish Ozdamar, Cassie A. Gyuricza, P. Andrew Chong, Jeffrey L. Wrana, Joan Massagué, and Yigong Shi
Science 7 January 2000: 92-97.
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Generating Solitons by Phase Engineering of a Bose-Einstein Condensate

J. Denschlag, J. E. Simsarian, D. L. Feder, Charles W. Clark, L. A. Collins, J. Cubizolles, L. Deng, E. W. Hagley, K. Helmerson, W. P. Reinhardt, S. L. Rolston, B. I. Schneider, and W. D. Phillips
Science 7 January 2000: 97-101.
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Reports

Equilibrium Regained: From Nonequilibrium Chaos to Statistical Mechanics

David A. Egolf
Science 7 January 2000: 101-104.
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A Nucleation Site and Mechanism Leading to Epitaxial Growth of Diamond Films

S. T. Lee, H. Y. Peng, X. T. Zhou, N. Wang, C. S. Lee, I. Bello, and Y. Lifshitz
Science 7 January 2000: 104-106.
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Evidence for Crystalline Water and Ammonia Ices on Pluto's Satellite Charon

Michael E. Brown and and Wendy M. Calvin
Science 7 January 2000: 107-109.
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Evidence for a Low-Density Universe from the Relative Velocities of Galaxies

R. Juszkiewicz, P. G. Ferreira, H. A. Feldman, A. H. Jaffe, and M. Davis
Science 7 January 2000: 109-112.
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The Changing Morphology and Increasing Deceleration of Supernova 1993J in M81

N. Bartel, M. F. Bietenholz, M. P. Rupen, A. J. Beasley, D. A. Graham, V. I. Altunin, T. Venturi, G. Umana, W. H. Cannon, and J. E. Conway
Science 7 January 2000: 112-116.
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Protein Interaction Mapping in C. elegans Using Proteins Involved in Vulval Development

Albertha J. M. Walhout, Raffaella Sordella, Xiaowei Lu, James L. Hartley, Gary F. Temple, Michael A. Brasch, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg, and Marc Vidal
Science 7 January 2000: 116-122.
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A Short Fe-Fe Distance in Peroxodiferric Ferritin: Control of Fe Substrate Versus Cofactor Decay?

Jungwon Hwang, Carsten Krebs, Boi Hanh Huynh, Dale E. Edmondson, Elizabeth C. Theil, and James E. Penner-Hahn
Science 7 January 2000: 122-125.
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Modulation of Brain Reward Circuitry by Leptin

Stephanie Fulton, Barbara Woodside, and Peter Shizgal
Science 7 January 2000: 125-128.
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Sex Determination in Malaria Parasites

Richard E. L. Paul, Timothy N. Coulson, Anna Raibaud, and Paul T. Brey
Science 7 January 2000: 128-131.
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DNA Topoisomerase II and Neural Development

Xia Yang, Wei Li, Elizabeth D. Prescott, Steven J. Burden, and James C. Wang
Science 7 January 2000: 131-134.
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Tbx5 and the Retinotectum Projection

Kazuko Koshiba-Takeuchi, Jun K. Takeuchi, Ken Matsumoto, Tsuyoshi Momose, Kenichiro Uno, Veit Hoepker, Keiko Ogura, Naoki Takahashi, Harukazu Nakamura, Kunio Yasuda, and Toshihiko Ogura
Science 7 January 2000: 134-137.
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A Mammalian H⁺ Channel Generated Through Alternative Splicing of the NADPH Oxidase Homolog NOH-1

Botond Bánfi, Andrés Maturana, Stefano Jaconi, Serge Arnaudeau, Terese Laforge, Bhanu Sinha, Erzsébet Ligeti, Nicolas Demaurex, and Karl-Heinz Krause
Science 7 January 2000: 138-142.
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Stat3-Mediated Transformation of NIH-3T3 Cells by the Constitutively Active Q205L G_o Protein

Prahlad T. Ram, Curt M. Horvath, and Ravi Iyengar
Science 7 January 2000: 142-144.
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Technical Comments

Non-molecular Carbon Dioxide (CO₂) Solids

Jianjun Dong, John K. Tomfohr, Otto F. Sankey;, C. Cavazzoni, G. L. Chiarotti, S. Scandolo, S. Serra, E. Tosatti;, and C. S. Yoo;
Science 7 January 2000: 11.
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