This Week in Science

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Science 14 June 1996: 1561.
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Editorial:
Science Policy in Japan

Hideki Hayashida
Science 14 June 1996: 1567-0.
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 ScienceScope|

Science 14 June 1996: 1575-0.
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 Random Samples|Ebola: Ancient History of "New" Disease? * Happiness and DNA * Cool Astronomy * Defining Productivity * ATP Rides Again * University Review Leaves Iconoclast Intact * Dust to Stardust

Science 14 June 1996: 1591-1593.
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 Book Reviews|The End of Science, reviewed by D. L. Goodstein * Color and Light in Nature, B. E. Schaefer * Science in the Making

Science 14 June 1996: 1594-1595.
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 Products & Materials|

Science 14 June 1996: 1675-1676.
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News and Comment

DOE Labs: Is Evolution Enough?

Andrew Lawler
Science 14 June 1996: 1576-1578.
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DOE Labs: Small Labs Make Big Targets

Kim Peterson
Science 14 June 1996: 1578-0.
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Space Science: Ariane Failure Casts Shadow Over ESA's Science Program

Alexander Hellemans
Science 14 June 1996: 1579-0.
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China: IVF Project Stirs Debate Over How to Preserve Pandas

Meiyue Zhou
Science 14 June 1996: 1580-1581.
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After the Breakup: Civil War Leaves Once-Proud Georgian Science in Tatters

Richard Stone
Science 14 June 1996: 1581-1582.
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Georgia: Observatory Fades Away in Splendid Isolation

Richard Stone
Science 14 June 1996: 1582-0.
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Research News

Genetics: Gene Linked to Commonest Cancer

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 14 June 1996: 1583-1584.
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Climate Change: Ice Bubbles Confirm Big Chill

Richard A. Kerr
Science 14 June 1996: 1584-1585.
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Immunology: Simple Mice Test Antibody Complexity

Nigel Williams
Science 14 June 1996: 1585-0.
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Paleoanthropology: Did Neandertals Lose an Evolutionary "Arms" Race?

Ann Gibbons
Science 14 June 1996: 1586-1587.
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Physics: Bose-Einstein Condensates Display Their First Tricks

Gary Taubes
Science 14 June 1996: 1587-1588.
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Planetary Science: Galileo Suggests Deep Roots to Jupiter's Fierce Winds

Richard A. Kerr
Science 14 June 1996: 1589-1590.
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Distant Universe: Precocious Structures Found

James Glanz
Science 14 June 1996: 1590-0.
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Letters

 This Week's Letters

Science 14 June 1996: 1569-1573.
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 Respect for the RAC

Erik Parens
Science 14 June 1996: 1569-1573.
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 Exhilarating Editorial

Vince J. LiCata;, Colleen Clark;, Nicholas Landau;, and William C. Dewey
Science 14 June 1996: 1569-1573.
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 Nesting Dinosaur

Alan Feduccia, Larry D. Martin, and John E. Simmons
Science 14 June 1996: 1569-1573.
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 Benefit-Cost Analysis and the Environment

James F. Kasting, Peter A. Schultz;, K. J. Arrow, M. L. Cropper, G. C. Eads, R. W. Hahn, L. B. Lave, R. G. Noll, P. R. Portney, M. Russell, R. Schmalensee, V. K. Smith, and R. N. Stavins
Science 14 June 1996: 1569-1573.
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 Loco Cow Logo

Gabriele M. Zu Rhein
Science 14 June 1996: 1569-1573.
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 Exhilarating Editorial

Vince J. LiCata
Science 14 June 1996: 1570.
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 Exhilarating Editorial

Colleen Clark
Science 14 June 1996: 1570.
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 Exhilarating Editorial

Nicholas Landau
Science 14 June 1996: 1570-1571.
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 Exhilarating Editorial

William C. Dewey
Science 14 June 1996: 1571.
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 Nesting Dinosaur

Alan Feduccia, Larry D. Martin, and John E. Simmons
Science 14 June 1996: 1571.
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 Benefit-Cost Analysis and the Environment

James F. Kasting and Peter A. Schultz
Science 14 June 1996: 1571-1572.
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 Response: Benefit-Cost Analysis and the Environment

Science 14 June 1996: 1572-1573.
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 Loco Cow Logo

Gabriele M. Zu Rhein
Science 14 June 1996: 1573.
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 Corrections and Clarifications

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Corrections and Clarifications

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Corrections and Clarifications

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Books et al.

 Optical Marvels: Color and Light in Nature.

Bradley E. Schaefer
Science 14 June 1996: 1595.
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 Voices from the Past: Science in the Making.

Katherine Livingston
Science 14 June 1996: 1595.
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Perspectives

Nonequilibrium Structures in Condensed Systems

A. S. Mikhailov and G. Ertl
Science 14 June 1996: 1596-1597.
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Polar Clouds and Sulfate Aerosols

Margaret A. Tolbert
Science 14 June 1996: 1597-0.
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Bacteria Also Vote

Dale Kaiser
Science 14 June 1996: 1598-1599.
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Molybdenum Bolsters the Bioinorganic Brigade

Edward I. Stiefel
Science 14 June 1996: 1599-1600.
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Articles

Spatial Response of Mammals to Late Quaternary Environmental Fluctuations

null FAUNMAP Working Group:, Russell W. Graham, Ernest L. Lundelius, Jr., Mary Ann Graham, Erich K. Schroeder, Rickard S. Toomey, III, Elaine Anderson, Anthony D. Barnosky, James A. Burns, Charles S. Churcher, Donald K. Grayson, R. Dale Guthrie, C. R. Harington, George T. Jefferson, Larry D. Martin, H. Gregory McDonald, Richard E. Morlan, Holmes A. Semken, Jr., S. David Webb, Lars Werdelin, and Michael C. Wilson
Science 14 June 1996: 1601-1606.
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Research Articles

Structural Analysis of Substrate Binding by the Molecular Chaperone DnaK

Xiaotian Zhu, Xun Zhao, William F. Burkholder, Alexander Gragerov, Craig M. Ogata, Max E. Gottesman, and Wayne A. Hendrickson
Science 14 June 1996: 1606-1614.
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Crystal Structure of DMSO Reductase: Redox-Linked Changes in Molybdopterin Coordination

Hermann Schindelin, Caroline Kisker, James Hilton, K. V. Rajagopalan, and Douglas C. Rees
Science 14 June 1996: 1615-1621.
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Sending and Receiving the Hedgehog Signal: Control by the Drosophila Gli Protein Cubitus interruptus

María Domínguez, Martina Brunner, Ernst Hafen, and Konrad Basler
Science 14 June 1996: 1621-1625.
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Reports

Microscopic Particle Motions in Strongly Coupled Dusty Plasmas

Lin I, Wen-Tau Juan, Chih-Hui Chiang, and J. H. Chu
Science 14 June 1996: 1626-1628.
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Electrical Properties of the Venus Surface from Bistatic Radar Observations

Gordon H. Pettengill, Peter G. Ford, and Richard A. Simpson
Science 14 June 1996: 1628-1631.
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High-Resolution Molecular Spectroscopy of van der Waals Clusters in Liquid Helium Droplets

Matthias Hartmann, Roger E. Miller, J. Peter Toennies, and Andrej F. Vilesov
Science 14 June 1996: 1631-1634.
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Direct pH Measurement of NaCl-Bearing Fluid with an in Situ Sensor at 400°C and 40 Megapascals

Kang Ding and William E. Seyfried, Jr.
Science 14 June 1996: 1634-1636.
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Climate Change During the Last Deglaciation in Antarctica

P. A. Mayewski, M. S. Twickler, S. I. Whitlow, L. D. Meeker, Q. Yang, J. Thomas, K. Kreutz, P. M. Grootes, D. L. Morse, E. J. Steig, E. D. Waddington, E. S. Saltzman, P.-Y. Whung, and K. C. Taylor
Science 14 June 1996: 1636-1638.
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Melting of H₂SO₄·4H₂O Particles upon Cooling: Implications for Polar Stratospheric Clouds

Thomas Koop and Kenneth S. Carslaw
Science 14 June 1996: 1638-1641.
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Compensatory ahpC Gene Expression in Isoniazid-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis

David R. Sherman, Khisimuzi Mdluli, Mark J. Hickey, Taraq M. Arain, Sheldon L. Morris, Clifton E. Barry, III, and C. Kendall Stover
Science 14 June 1996: 1641-1643.
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Arrested DNA Replication in Xenopus and Release by Escherichia coli Mutagenesis Proteins

Naoko Oda, Joshua D. Levin, Alexander Y. Spoonde, Ekaterina G. Frank, Arthur S. Levine, Roger Woodgate, and Eric J. Ackerman
Science 14 June 1996: 1644-1646.
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Thymine-Thymine Dimer Bypass by Yeast DNA Polymerase

John R. Nelson, Christopher W. Lawrence, and David C. Hinkle
Science 14 June 1996: 1646-1649.
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A Quasi-Monoclonal Mouse

Marilia Cascalho, Audrey Ma, Steven Lee, Linda Masat, and Matthias Wabl
Science 14 June 1996: 1649-1652.
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Identification of MAP Kinase Domains by Redirecting Stress Signals into Growth Factor Responses

Anne Brunet and Jacques Pouysségur
Science 14 June 1996: 1652-1655.
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Enzymatic Synthesis of a Quorum-Sensing Autoinducer Through Use of Defined Substrates

Margret I. Moré, L. David Finger, Joel L. Stryker, Clay Fuqua, Anatol Eberhard, and Stephen C. Winans
Science 14 June 1996: 1655-1658.
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Site-Directed Hydroxyl Radical Probing of the rRNA Neighborhood of Ribosomal Protein S5

Gabriele M. Heilek and Harry F. Noller
Science 14 June 1996: 1659-1662.
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Activation of Gal4p by Galactose-Dependent Interaction of Galactokinase and Gal80p

F. T. Zenke, R. Engels, V. Vollenbroich, J. Meyer, C. P. Hollenberg, and K. D. Breunig
Science 14 June 1996: 1662-1665.
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 Activation of Gal4p by Galactose-Dependent Interaction of Galactokinase and Gal80p

Science 14 June 1996: 1663-1665.

Optical Imaging of Functional Organization in the Monkey Inferotemporal Cortex

Gang Wang, Keiji Tanaka, and Manabu Tanifuji
Science 14 June 1996: 1665-1668.
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Human Homolog of patched, a Candidate Gene for the Basal Cell Nevus Syndrome

Ronald L. Johnson, Alana L. Rothman, Jingwu Xie, Lisa V. Goodrich, John W. Bare, Jeannette M. Bonifas, Anthony G. Quinn, Richard M. Myers, David R. Cox, Ervin H. Epstein, Jr., and Matthew P. Scott
Science 14 June 1996: 1668-1671.
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Technical Comments

Is EIAV Tat Protein a Homeodomain?

P. Rösch and D. Willbold
Science 14 June 1996: 1672-0.
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