This Week in Science

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Science 24 May 1996: 1077.
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Editorial:
The Activist Scientist

Jaleh Daie
Science 24 May 1996: 1081-0.
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 ScienceScope|

Science 24 May 1996: 1089-0.
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 Random Samples|Were Cattle Domesticated in Africa? * Getting in the Groove * Round Two for Boron Tumor Treatment * Duel for Control of NAE Nears Climax

Science 24 May 1996: 1105-0.
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 Book Reviews|Disease and Class, reviewed by N. J. Tomes * Mobile Genetic Elements, K. O'Hare * Methods in Nitric Oxide * Books Received

Science 24 May 1996: 1116-1117.
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 Products & Materials|

Science 24 May 1996: 1205-1206.
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News and Comment

Hong Kong's Pre-1997 Science Boom

June Kinoshita
Science 24 May 1996: 1090-1091.
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Stockpile Stewardship: Big Projects Could Threaten Weapons Labs' Research Base

Andrew Lawler
Science 24 May 1996: 1092-1093.
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Space Biology: Surgery Confounds Mission Review

Andrew Lawler
Science 24 May 1996: 1093-0.
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 Rifkin's Latest Target: Genetic Testing

Eliot Marshall
Science 24 May 1996: 1094.
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Biotechnology: Rifkin's Latest Target: Genetic Testing

Eliot Marshall
Science 24 May 1996: 1094-0.
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Science Indicators: How Federal Agencies Spend Their R&D

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 24 May 1996: 1094-0.
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European Space Science: New Launcher to Lift Off With Armada of Plasma Probes

Alexander Hellemans
Science 24 May 1996: 1095-1096.
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Launchers: Space Scientists' New Workhorse

Alexander Hellemans
Science 24 May 1996: 1095-0.
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Italian Science Minister: A Second Spell in the Science Hot Seat

Susan Biggin
Science 24 May 1996: 1096-0.
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Research News

Geology: Ancient Sea-Level Swings Confirmed

Richard A. Kerr
Science 24 May 1996: 1097-1098.
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Genome Meeting: Seeking Life's Bare (Genetic) Necessities

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 24 May 1996: 1098-1099.
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Genome Meeting: Studly Sheep By Non-Mendelian Means

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 24 May 1996: 1099-1100.
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Developmental Biology: Synapse-Making Molecules Revealed

Ingrid Wickelgren
Science 24 May 1996: 1100-0.
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Physics: Schizophrenic Atom Doubles as Schrödinger's Cat--or Kitten

Gary Taubes
Science 24 May 1996: 1101-0.
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Paleontology: Mammal Diversity Takes a 20-Million-Year Leap Backwards

Kim Peterson
Science 24 May 1996: 1102-0.
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Developmental Biology: Zebrafish Embryology Builds Better Model Vertebrate

Wade Roush
Science 24 May 1996: 1103-0.
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Letters

 This Week's Letters

Science 24 May 1996: 1083-1087.
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 Communication Sciences: A Thriving Discipline

Barbara B. Shadden
Science 24 May 1996: 1083-1087.
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 Methylene Chloride

James Huff, John Bucher, and J. Carl Barrett
Science 24 May 1996: 1083-1087.
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 Focus on Basic Plasma Science

Clifford M. Surko
Science 24 May 1996: 1083-1087.
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 Canavan Gene Therapy Protocol

Robert J. Levine; and null Editor
Science 24 May 1996: 1083-1087.
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 Clotting Dispute

James H. Morrissey
Science 24 May 1996: 1083-1087.
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 Wrong Hookworm

David Bruce Conn
Science 24 May 1996: 1083-1087.
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 Importance of Teaching

Maureen Scharberg
Science 24 May 1996: 1083-1087.
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 International Openness

Regina M. Santella;, E. Gerald Meyer;, and John H. Nair
Science 24 May 1996: 1083-1087.
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 Scanning SQUID Microscopy

Mark B. Ketchen
Science 24 May 1996: 1083-1087.
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 HERG Sequence Correction

Matthew C. Trudeau, Jeffrey W. Warmke, Barry Ganetzky, and Gail A. Robertson
Science 24 May 1996: 1083-1087.
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 Focus on Basic Plasma Science

Clifford M. Surko
Science 24 May 1996: 1084.
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 Canavan Gene Therapy Protocol

Robert J. Levine
Science 24 May 1996: 1085.
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 Response: Canavan Gene Therapy Protocol

Eliot Marshall
Science 24 May 1996: 1085.
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 Clotting Dispute

James H. Morrissey
Science 24 May 1996: 1085.
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 Wrong Hookworm

David Bruce Conn
Science 24 May 1996: 1086.
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 Importance of Teaching

Maureen Scharberg
Science 24 May 1996: 1086.
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 International Openness

Regina M. Santella
Science 24 May 1996: 1086.
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 International Openness

E. Gerald Meyer
Science 24 May 1996: 1086-1087.
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 International Openness

John H. Nair
Science 24 May 1996: 1087.
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 Scanning SQUID Microscopy

Mark B. Ketchen
Science 24 May 1996: 1087.
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 HERG Sequence Correction

Matthew C. Trudeau, Jeffrey W. Warmke, Barry Ganetzky, and Gail A. Robertson
Science 24 May 1996: 1087.
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Books et al.

 Transposons: Mobile Genetic Elements.

Kevin O'Hare
Science 24 May 1996: 1117.
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 Also Noteworthy: Methods in Nitric Oxide Research.

Katherine Livingston
Science 24 May 1996: 1117.
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 Books Received

Science 24 May 1996: 1117.
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Perspectives

Uncertainty in Climate Change Caused by Aerosols

Stephen E. Schwartz and Meinrat O. Andreae
Science 24 May 1996: 1121-0.
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Arrhenius and Global Warming

Julia Uppenbrink
Science 24 May 1996: 1122-0.
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High-Resolution Imaging of the Self-Assembly of Organic Monolayers

Shirley Chiang
Science 24 May 1996: 1123-1124.
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Viral Counts Count in HIV Infection

David D. Ho
Science 24 May 1996: 1124-1125.
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 Update: Mammalian Cytochrome c Oxidase, a Molecular Monster Subdued

Shelagh Ferguson-Miller
Science 24 May 1996: 1125-0.
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Articles

The Cerebellum: A Neuronal Learning Machine?

Jennifer L. Raymond, Stephen G. Lisberger, and Michael D. Mauk
Science 24 May 1996: 1126-1131.
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Research Articles

A ``Schrödinger Cat'' Superposition State of an Atom

C. Monroe, D. M. Meekhof, B. E. King, and D. J. Wineland
Science 24 May 1996: 1131-1136.
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The Whole Structure of the 13-Subunit Oxidized Cytochrome c Oxidase at 2.8 Å

Tomitake Tsukihara, Hiroshi Aoyama, Eiki Yamashita, Takashi Tomizaki, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Kyoko Shinzawa-Itoh, Ryosuke Nakashima, Rieko Yaono, and Shinya Yoshikawa
Science 24 May 1996: 1136-1144.
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Reports

The Self-Assembly Mechanism of Alkanethiols on Au(111)

G. E. Poirier and E. D. Pylant
Science 24 May 1996: 1145-1148.
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Dynamic Ocean-Atmosphere Coupling: A Thermostat for the Tropics

De-Zheng Sun and Zhengyu Liu
Science 24 May 1996: 1148-1150.
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Fossil Evidence for a Late Cretaceous Origin of ``Hoofed'' Mammals

J. David Archibald
Science 24 May 1996: 1150-1153.
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Bacteria as Mediators of Copper Sulfide Enrichment During Weathering

Richard H. Sillitoe, Robert L. Folk, and Nicolás Saric
Science 24 May 1996: 1153-1155.
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Oceanic Anoxia and the End Permian Mass Extinction

Paul B. Wignall and Richard J. Twitchett
Science 24 May 1996: 1155-1158.
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Nanotribology and Nanofabrication of MoO₃ Structures by Atomic Force Microscopy

Paul E. Sheehan and Charles M. Lieber
Science 24 May 1996: 1158-1161.
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GS28, a 28-Kilodalton Golgi SNARE That Participates in ER-Golgi Transport

V. Nathan Subramaniam, Frank Peter, Robin Philp, Siew Heng Wong, and Wanjin Hong
Science 24 May 1996: 1161-1163.
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Vertical Flux of Biogenic Carbon in the Ocean: Is There Food Web Control?

Richard B. Rivkin, Louis Legendre, Don Deibel, Jean-Eric Tremblay, Bert Klein, Kenneth Crocker, Suzanne Roy, Norman Silverberg, Connie Lovejoy, Fabrice Mesplé, Nancy Romero, M. Robin Anderson, Paul Matthews, Claude Savenkoff, Alain Vézina, Jean-Claude Therriault, Joel Wesson, Chantal Bérubé, and R. Grant Ingram
Science 24 May 1996: 1163-1166.
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Prognosis in HIV-1 Infection Predicted by the Quantity of Virus in Plasma

John W. Mellors, Charles R. Rinaldo, Jr., Phalguni Gupta, Roseanne M. White, John A. Todd, and Lawrence A. Kingsley
Science 24 May 1996: 1167-1170.
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Regulation of T Cell Receptor Signaling by Tyrosine Phosphatase SYP Association with CTLA-4

Luc E. M. Marengère, Paul Waterhouse, Gordon S. Duncan, Hans-Willi Mittrücker, Gen-Sheng Feng, and Tak W. Mak
Science 24 May 1996: 1170-1173.
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Direct Regulation of ZAP-70 by SHP-1 in T Cell Antigen Receptor Signaling

David R. Plas, Robin Johnson, Jeanette T. Pingel, R. James Matthews, Mark Dalton, Garbiñe Roy, Andrew C. Chan, and Matthew L. Thomas
Science 24 May 1996: 1173-1176.
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Entorhinal-Hippocampal Interactions Revealed by Real-Time Imaging

Toshio Iijima, Menno P. Witter, Michinori Ichikawa, Takashi Tominaga, Riichi Kajiwara, and Gen Matsumoto
Science 24 May 1996: 1176-1179.
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TAB1: An Activator of the TAK1 MAPKKK in TGF- Signal Transduction

Hiroshi Shibuya, Kyoko Yamaguchi, Kyoko Shirakabe, Akane Tonegawa, Yukiko Gotoh, Naoto Ueno, Kenji Irie, Eisuke Nishida, and Kunihiro Matsumoto
Science 24 May 1996: 1179-1182.
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Requirement for Cholinergic Synaptic Transmission in the Propagation of Spontaneous Retinal Waves

Marla B. Feller, David P. Wellis, David Stellwagen, Frank S. Werblin, and Carla J. Shatz
Science 24 May 1996: 1182-1187.
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Polyclonal Origin of Colonic Adenomas in an XO/XY Patient with FAP

M. R. Novelli, J. A. Williamson, I. P. M. Tomlinson, G. Elia, S. V. Hodgson, I. C. Talbot, W. F. Bodmer, and N. A. Wright
Science 24 May 1996: 1187-1190.
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Technical Comments

X Chromosome Dosage Compensation in Drosophila

J. A. Birchler;, R. L. Kelley, and M. I. Kuroda
Science 24 May 1996: 1190-1191.
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 X Chromosome Dosage Compensation in Drosophila

James A. Birchler
Science 24 May 1996: 1190.
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 Response: X Chromosome Dosage Compensation in Drosophila

Richard L. Kelley and Mitzi I. Kuroda
Science 24 May 1996: 1190-1191.
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