This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
Science 26 July 1996: 405.
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Editorial:
A Cautionary Tale

Dorothy S. Zinberg
Science 26 July 1996: 411-0.
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 ScienceScope|

Science 26 July 1996: 419-0.
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 Random Samples|Turtle Project Scores a Success * Tay-Sachs Protein Modeled * Jigsaw Puzzle Gene * NSF Awards Program Goes Electronic

Science 26 July 1996: 435-0.
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 Book Reviews|The Demon-Haunted World, reviewed by F. J. Ayala * The Equity Equation, Y. Xie * Vignettes * Books Received

Science 26 July 1996: 442-444.
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 AAAS News & Notes|

Science 26 July 1996: 517-518.
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 Products & Materials|

Science 26 July 1996: 519-520.
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News and Comment

Science Education: Creationists Evolve New Strategy

Karen Schmidt
Science 26 July 1996: 420-422.
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Science Education: The Battle of the Books

Karen Schmidt
Science 26 July 1996: 421-0.
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Fusion: France, Germany Drop Out of ITER Race

Andrew Lawler
Science 26 July 1996: 422-423.
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Agribiotechnology: Pests Overwhelm Bt Cotton Crop

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 26 July 1996: 423-0.
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Former Soviet Union: Russian Scientists Gain Legal Rights ...

Andrey Allakhverdov
Science 26 July 1996: 424-0.
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Former Soviet Union: ... But Foundation Funds Hit a Snag

Richard Stone
Science 26 July 1996: 424-0.
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Remote Sensing: India Struggles to Handle an Embarrassment of Riches

Pallava Bagla
Science 26 July 1996: 425-0.
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Research News

Biochemistry: Teams Tackle Protein Prediction

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 26 July 1996: 426-428.
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Geophysics: Earth's Core Spins at Its Own Rate

Richard A. Kerr
Science 26 July 1996: 428-429.
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Planet Hunting: 'Hot Jupiters' Leave Theorists in the Cold

Govert Schilling
Science 26 July 1996: 429-0.
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Cytogenetics: New Methods for Expanding the Chromosomal Paint Kit

Jean Marx
Science 26 July 1996: 430-0.
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Evolution: New Mammal Data Challenge Evolutionary Pulse Theory

Richard A. Kerr
Science 26 July 1996: 431-432.
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Archaeology: How the Ancient Egyptians Brewed Beer

Nigel Williams
Science 26 July 1996: 432-0.
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Nuclear Physics: Flood of New Isotopes Offers Keys to Stellar Evolution

Dennis Normile
Science 26 July 1996: 433-0.
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Letters

 This Week's Letters

Science 26 July 1996: 413-417.
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 Varmus at Harvard

Joanne Kamens;, Stephen C. Harrison;, and null Editor
Science 26 July 1996: 413-417.
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 Finding Hamiltonian Cycles

Eric Lewin Altschuler, Martin Lades, and Richard Stong
Science 26 July 1996: 413-417.
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 HIV Quasispecies and Resampling

Shan-Lu Liu, Allen G. Rodrigo, Raj Shankarappa, Gerald H. Learn, Li Hsu, Ori Davidov, Lue Ping Zhao, James I. Mullins;, Barton F. Haynes, Giuseppe Pantaleo, and Anthony S. Fauci
Science 26 July 1996: 413-417.
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 Gene Therapy Chronology

Matthew During
Science 26 July 1996: 413-417.
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 Death in Athens

Richard Ellis
Science 26 July 1996: 413-417.
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 HIV Quasispecies and Resampling

Shan-Lu Liu, Allen G. Rodrigo, Raj Shankarappa, Gerald H. Learn, Li Hsu, Ori Davidov, Lue Ping Zhao, and James I. Mullins
Science 26 July 1996: 415-416.
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 Response: HIV Quasispecies and Resampling

Barton F. Haynes, Giuseppe Pantaleo, and Anthony S. Fauci
Science 26 July 1996: 416.
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 Gene Therapy Chronology

Matthew During
Science 26 July 1996: 416-417.
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 Death in Athens

Richard Ellis
Science 26 July 1996: 417.
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 Corrections and Clarifications

Science 26 July 1996: 413-417.
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Corrections and Clarifications

Science 26 July 1996: 417.
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Books et al.

 The Gender Front: The Equity Equation.

Yu Xie
Science 26 July 1996: 443-444.
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 Books Received

Science 26 July 1996: 444.
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Policy Forum

The Changing Frontiers of Science and Technology

Philip H. Abelson
Science 26 July 1996: 445-447.
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Perspectives

The Biosphere Is Going Deep

W. S. Fyfe
Science 26 July 1996: 448-0.
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Hormone Mimicry

James A. Wells
Science 26 July 1996: 449-450.
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Spinal Cord Regeneration

Wise Young
Science 26 July 1996: 451-0.
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Articles

Comparative Earth History and Late Permian Mass Extinction

A. H. Knoll, R. K. Bambach, D. E. Canfield, and J. P. Grotzinger
Science 26 July 1996: 452-457.
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Research Articles

Small Peptides as Potent Mimetics of the Protein Hormone Erythropoietin

Nicholas C. Wrighton, Francis X. Farrell, Ray Chang, Arun K. Kashyap, Francis P. Barbone, Linda S. Mulcahy, Dana L. Johnson, Ronald W. Barrett, Linda K. Jolliffe, and William J. Dower
Science 26 July 1996: 458-463.
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Functional Mimicry of a Protein Hormone by a Peptide Agonist: The EPO Receptor Complex at 2.8 Å

Oded Livnah, Enrico A. Stura, Dana L. Johnson, Steven A. Middleton, Linda S. Mulcahy, Nicholas C. Wrighton, William J. Dower, Linda K. Jolliffe, and Ian A. Wilson
Science 26 July 1996: 464-471.
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Reports

Nonlinear Optics in Relativistic Plasmas and Laser Wake Field Acceleration of Electrons

D. Umstadter, S.-Y. Chen, A. Maksimchuk, G. Mourou, and R. Wagner
Science 26 July 1996: 472-475.
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Rates of DNA-Mediated Electron Transfer Between Metallointercalators

M. R. Arkin, E. D. A. Stemp, R. E. Holmlin, J. K. Barton, A. Hörmann, E. J. C. Olson, and P. F. Barbara
Science 26 July 1996: 475-480.
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Low-Frequency Raman Scattering and the Fast Relaxation Process in Glycerol

Takashi Uchino and Toshinobu Yoko
Science 26 July 1996: 480-483.
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Crystalline Ropes of Metallic Carbon Nanotubes

Andreas Thess, Roland Lee, Pavel Nikolaev, Hongjie Dai, Pierre Petit, Jerome Robert, Chunhui Xu, Young Hee Lee, Seong Gon Kim, Andrew G. Rinzler, Daniel T. Colbert, Gustavo E. Scuseria, David Tománek, John E. Fischer, and Richard E. Smalley
Science 26 July 1996: 483-487.
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Investigation of Ancient Egyptian Baking and Brewing Methods by Correlative Microscopy

Delwen Samuel
Science 26 July 1996: 488-490.
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Volatiles from the 1994 Eruptions of Rabaul: Understanding Large Caldera Systems

Kurt Roggensack, Stanley N. Williams, Stephen J. Schaefer, and Roderic A. Parnell, Jr.
Science 26 July 1996: 490-493.
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Multicolor Spectral Karyotyping of Human Chromosomes

E. Schröck, S. du Manoir, T. Veldman, B. Schoell, J. Wienberg, M. A. Ferguson-Smith, Y. Ning, D. H. Ledbetter, I. Bar-Am, D. Soenksen, Y. Garini, and T. Ried
Science 26 July 1996: 494-497.
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Control Strategies for Tuberculosis Epidemics: New Models for Old Problems

S. M. Blower, P. M. Small, and P. C. Hopewell
Science 26 July 1996: 497-500.
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A Receptor for the Selective Uptake and Degradation of Proteins by Lysosomes

Ana Maria Cuervo and J. Fred Dice
Science 26 July 1996: 501-503.
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Lymphocyte Apoptosis: Mediation by Increased Type 3 Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate Receptor

Adil A. Khan, Mark J. Soloski, Alan H. Sharp, Gabriele Schilling, David M. Sabatini, Shi-Hua Li, Christopher A. Ross, and Solomon H. Snyder
Science 26 July 1996: 503-507.
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The POU Factor Oct-6 and Schwann Cell Differentiation

Martine Jaegle, Wim Mandemakers, Ludo Broos, Ronald Zwart, Alar Karis, Pim Visser, Frank Grosveld, and Dies Meijer
Science 26 July 1996: 507-510.
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Spinal Cord Repair in Adult Paraplegic Rats: Partial Restoration of Hind Limb Function

Henrich Cheng, Yihai Cao, and Lars Olson
Science 26 July 1996: 510-513.
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Persistent Site-Specific Remodeling of a Nucleosome Array by Transient Action of the SWI/SNF Complex

T. Owen-Hughes, R. T. Utley, J. Côté, C. L. Peterson, and J. L. Workman
Science 26 July 1996: 513-516.
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