This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
Science 11 August 2000: 829.
|Full Text »

Editorial:
Balancing Biomedicine's Postdoc Exchange Rate

Torsten Wiesel
Science 11 August 2000: 867.
Summary »|  

Editors' Choice

Highlights of the recent literature.
Science 11 August 2000: 833.
|Full Text »

NetWatch

Best of the Web in science.
Science 11 August 2000: 827.
|Full Text »

 NEW PRODUCTS

Science 11 August 2000: 963.

News of the Week

EMERGING DISEASES:
New Arenavirus Blamed for Recent Deaths in California

Martin Enserink
Science 11 August 2000: 842-843.
Summary »|   Full Text »|  

AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY:
Monsanto Donates Its Share of Golden Rice

Dennis Normile
Science 11 August 2000: 843-845.
Summary »|   Full Text »|  

PUBLIC HEALTH:
Gates Foundation on Big Funding Spree

Michael Hagmann
Science 11 August 2000: 845.
Summary »|   Full Text »|  

ROBOTICS:
Rescue Droids Stumble in an Urban Jungle

Mark Sincell
Science 11 August 2000: 846.
Summary »|   Full Text »|  

ACADEMIC FREEDOM:
Political Scientist Becomes Cause Célèbre

Robert Koenig
Science 11 August 2000: 846-847.
Summary »|   Full Text »|  

NEUROBIOLOGY:
Long-Sought Protein Packages Glutamate

Laura Helmuth
Science 11 August 2000: 847-849.
Summary »|   Full Text »|  

EMERGING DISEASES:
Hunt for Mad Cow in Sheep Reassuring

Michael Balter
Science 11 August 2000: 849.
Summary »|   Full Text »|  

ScienceScope

Science 11 August 2000: 845.
|Full Text »

Random Samples

Science 11 August 2000: 859.
|Full Text »

News Focus

NEW TOOLS:
A New Breed of High-Tech Detectives

Andrew Watson
Science 11 August 2000: 850-854.
Summary »|   Full Text »|  

BODY CHEMISTRY:
Where Dead Men Really Do Tell Tales

Robert F. Service
Science 11 August 2000: 855-857.
Summary »|   Full Text »|  

BODY CHEMISTRY:
Forensic Science on a Shoestring

Robert F. Service
Science 11 August 2000: 857.
Summary »|   Full Text »|  

Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 11 August 2000: 869.
Summary »|  

 Weighing the Benefits of New Alzheimer's Treatments

Rebecca Dresser
Science 11 August 2000: 869.
Full Text »|  

 Biological Control of Invading Species

David Pimentel
Science 11 August 2000: 869.
Full Text »|  

 Educators Have Hard Choices; Nationally, Not Just in Kansas

Anthony White, Walt Meier, Frank Lovell, Wes McCoy, Charles J. Robinove, Tyler F. Creelan, Rudolf Brun, Ian Gordon, Robert Mac West, Ivan E. Collier, Duane T. Gish, William K. Hartmann, Michael J. Behe;, and Eugenie C. Scott
Science 11 August 2000: 869-871.
Full Text »|  

 This Year's . . .

lrving Rothchild
Science 11 August 2000: 871-872.
Full Text »|  

Books et al.

FISHERIES:
Of Tuna and Tonnaroti

Barbara A. Block
Science 11 August 2000: 876-877.
Summary »|   Full Text »|  

ECOLOGY:
Wet and Wild

Sandra Knapp
Science 11 August 2000: 877.
Summary »|   Full Text »|  

 Books Received

Science 11 August 2000: 877.

Policy Forum

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY:
Coauthorship and Coinventorship

Philippe Ducor
Science 11 August 2000: 873-875.
Summary »|   Full Text »|  

Perspectives

STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY:
Enhanced: The Ribosome Is a Ribozyme

Thomas R. Cech
Science 11 August 2000: 878-879.
Summary »|   Full Text »|  

MATERIALS PROCESSING:
The Power of Direct Writing

Douglas B. Chrisey
Science 11 August 2000: 879-881.
Summary »|   Full Text »|  

CHEMISTRY:
Harnessing the Power of Diatomics

H. Holden Thorp
Science 11 August 2000: 882-883.
Summary »|   Full Text »|  

IMMUNOLOGY:
Lymphocyte Survival--Ignorance Is BLys

Yacine Laâbi and Andreas Strasser
Science 11 August 2000: 883-884.
Summary »|   Full Text »|  

Pathways of Discovery

One Hundred Years of Quantum Physics

Daniel Kleppner and Roman Jackiw
Science 11 August 2000: 893-898.
Summary »|   Full Text »|  

Research Articles

The Complete Atomic Structure of the Large Ribosomal Subunit at 2.4 Å Resolution

Nenad Ban, Poul Nissen, Jeffrey Hansen, Peter B. Moore, and Thomas A. Steitz
Science 11 August 2000: 905-920.
Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

The Structural Basis of Ribosome Activity in Peptide Bond Synthesis

Poul Nissen, Jeffrey Hansen, Nenad Ban, Peter B. Moore, and Thomas A. Steitz
Science 11 August 2000: 920-930.
Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Reports

Magnetic Vortex Core Observation in Circular Dots of Permalloy

T. Shinjo, T. Okuno, R. Hassdorf, K. Shigeto, and T. Ono
Science 11 August 2000: 930-932.
Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

High-Gain Harmonic-Generation Free-Electron Laser

L.-H. Yu, M. Babzien, I. Ben-Zvi, L. F. DiMauro, A. Doyuran, W. Graves, E. Johnson, S. Krinsky, R. Malone, I. Pogorelsky, J. Skaritka, G. Rakowsky, L. Solomon, X. J. Wang, M. Woodle, V. Yakimenko, S. G. Biedron, J. N. Galayda, E. Gluskin, J. Jagger, V. Sajaev, and I. Vasserman
Science 11 August 2000: 932-934.
Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Ultrafast Electron Localization Dynamics Following Photo-Induced Charge Transfer

Alvin T. Yeh, Charles V. Shank, and James K. McCusker
Science 11 August 2000: 935-938.
Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

O₂ Activation by Nonheme Iron Complexes: A Monomeric Fe(III)-Oxo Complex Derived From O₂

Cora E. MacBeth, Adina P. Golombek, Victor G. Young, Jr., Cheng Yang, Krzysztof Kuczera, Michael P. Hendrich, and A. S. Borovik
Science 11 August 2000: 938-941.
Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Folds on Europa: Implications for Crustal Cycling and Accommodation of Extension

Louise M. Prockter and and Robert T. Pappalardo
Science 11 August 2000: 941-943.
Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Pleistocene Milestones on the Out-of-Africa Corridor at Gesher Benot Ya'aqov, Israel

Naama Goren-Inbar, Craig S. Feibel, Kenneth L. Verosub, Yoel Melamed, Mordechai E. Kislev, Eitan Tchernov, and Idit Saragusti
Science 11 August 2000: 944-947.
Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

A Single Adenosine with a Neutral pK_a in the Ribosomal Peptidyl Transferase Center

Gregory W. Muth, Lori Ortoleva-Donnelly, and Scott A. Strobel
Science 11 August 2000: 947-950.
Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Inhibition of Adipogenesis by Wnt Signaling

Sarah E. Ross, Nahid Hemati, Kenneth A. Longo, Christina N. Bennett, Peter C. Lucas, Robin L. Erickson, and Ormond A. MacDougald
Science 11 August 2000: 950-953.
Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Calcium Sensitivity of Glutamate Release in a Calyx-Type Terminal

Johann H. Bollmann, Bert Sakmann, and J. Gerard G. Borst
Science 11 August 2000: 953-957.
Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Uptake of Glutamate into Synaptic Vesicles by an Inorganic Phosphate Transporter

Elizabeth E. Bellocchio, Richard J. Reimer, Robert T. Fremeau, Jr., and Robert H. Edwards
Science 11 August 2000: 957-960.
Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|