This Week in Science

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Science 9 August 1996: 715.
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Editorial:
Pharmaceuticals Based on Biotechnology

Philip H. Abelson
Science 9 August 1996: 719-0.
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 ScienceScope|

Science 9 August 1996: 727-0.
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 Random Samples|Multiple Sclerosis: A Multigene Disease * Rainmaking * Troubled Italian Space Agency Gets New Chief * Grassroots Search for Primes ... * ... Or for E.T. * Nanotube Pipe Cleaners * U.S. Medalists Prescribe Tech Strategies

Science 9 August 1996: 741-743.
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 Book Reviews|The Cigarette Papers, Smokescreen, and Ashes to Ashes, reviewed by S. D. Sugarman * The Way Life Works, P. Szuromi * Vignettes

Science 9 August 1996: 744-745.
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 Products & Materials|

Science 9 August 1996: 817-818.
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News and Comment

Big Physics: U.S. Neutron Scientists Settle for Less

Andrew Lawler
Science 9 August 1996: 728-730.
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Big Physics: Europe and Japan Burst Ahead on Neutron Facilities

Andrew Lawler
Science 9 August 1996: 729-0.
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Space Station: Construction Costs May Bite Into Science

Andrew Lawler
Science 9 August 1996: 730-0.
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Peer Review: Despite Anxiety, NIH Begins Merging Neuroscience Panels

Eliot Marshall
Science 9 August 1996: 731-0.
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Former Soviet Bloc: Hughes Grants Brighten Outlook for Elite Researchers

Nigel Williams
Science 9 August 1996: 732-733.
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International Collaboration: European Labs Brace for German Cuts

Daniel Clery and Andrew Watson
Science 9 August 1996: 733-734.
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Electronic Publishing: E-journal: Delayed but Still a Force

James Glanz
Science 9 August 1996: 734-0.
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Research News

Apoptosis: Forging a Path to Cell Death

Marcia Barinaga
Science 9 August 1996: 735-737.
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Physics: Painting Pictures With Atom Waves

James Glanz
Science 9 August 1996: 737-0.
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: New Experiments Underscore Warnings on Maternal Drinking

Stephen Braun
Science 9 August 1996: 738-739.
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Evolutionary Biology: Genes vs. Teams: Weighing Group Tactics in Evolution

Virginia Morell
Science 9 August 1996: 739-740.
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Letters

 This Week's Letters

Science 9 August 1996: 721-725.
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 Promoting Teaching

Stan Metzenberg; and Howard M. Lenhoff
Science 9 August 1996: 721-725.
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 Fears About Illness

Lawrence Carter-Long
Science 9 August 1996: 721-725.
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 German Society and German Science

Thomas R. Garbe
Science 9 August 1996: 721-725.
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 Fetal Immune Response

Marika Sarfati and Guy Delespesse
Science 9 August 1996: 721-725.
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 Peopling the Americas

Fidias E. Leon-S., Amparo Ariza-Deleon, Martha E. Leon-S., Adriana Ariza-C.;, and Peter Parham
Science 9 August 1996: 721-725.
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 German Society and German Science

Thomas R. Garbe
Science 9 August 1996: 722.
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 Fetal Immune Response

Marika Sarfati and Guy Delespesse
Science 9 August 1996: 722-723.
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 Peopling the Americas

Fidias E. Leon-S., Amparo Ariza-Deleon, Martha E. Leon-S., and Adriana Ariza-C.
Science 9 August 1996: 723-724.
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 Response: Peopling the Americas

Peter Parham
Science 9 August 1996: 724-725.
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Books et al.

 Pictorial Primer: The Way Life Works.

Science 9 August 1996: 745.
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Policy Forum

The Public Health Risk of Animal Organ and Tissue Transplantation into Humans

Frederick A. Murphy
Science 9 August 1996: 746-747.
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Perspectives

Is the New Variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease from Mad Cows?

Peter G. Smith and Simon N. Cousens
Science 9 August 1996: 748-0.
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Why Stress Is Bad for Your Brain

Robert M. Sapolsky
Science 9 August 1996: 749-750.
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STATs Find That Hanging Together Can Be Stimulating

Stewart Leung, Xiaoxia Li, and George R. Stark
Science 9 August 1996: 750-751.
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Calculated Clusters

David Voss
Science 9 August 1996: 751-0.
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Articles

The Argentine Precordillera: A Traveler from the Ouachita Embayment of North American Laurentia

William A. Thomas and Ricardo A. Astini
Science 9 August 1996: 752-757.
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Research Article

Evidence for Widespread ²⁶Al in the Solar Nebula and Constraints for Nebula Time Scales

S. S. Russell, G. Srinivasan, G. R. Huss, G. J. Wasserburg, and G. J. MacPherson
Science 9 August 1996: 757-762.
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Reports

"Single-Electron Parametron": Reversible Computation in a Discrete-State System

Konstantin K. Likharev and Alexander N. Korotkov
Science 9 August 1996: 763-765.
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"Tubules-Within-a-Tubule" Hierarchical Order of Mesoporous Molecular Sieves in MCM-41

Hong-Ping Lin and Chung-Yuan Mou
Science 9 August 1996: 765-768.
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Oil-Water Interface Templating of Mesoporous Macroscale Structures

S. Schacht, Q. Huo, I. G. Voigt-Martin, G. D. Stucky, and F. Schüth
Science 9 August 1996: 768-771.
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Mongolian Tree Rings and 20th-Century Warming

Gordon C. Jacoby, Rosanne D. D'Arrigo, and Tsevegyn Davaajamts
Science 9 August 1996: 771-773.
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Photopolymerization and Mass-Independent Sulfur Isotope Fractionations in Carbon Disulfide

Jonah J. Colman, Xianping Xu, Mark H. Thiemens, and William C. Trogler
Science 9 August 1996: 774-776.
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A Statistical Model of the Fluctuations in the Geomagnetic Field from Paleosecular Variation to Reversal

Pierre Camps and Michel Prévot
Science 9 August 1996: 776-779.
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Absorption of Solar Energy in the Atmosphere: Discrepancy Between Model and Observations

Albert Arking
Science 9 August 1996: 779-782.
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Subnanometer-Diameter Wires Isolated in a Polymer Matrix by Fast Polymerization

Josh H. Golden, Francis J. DiSalvo, Jean M. J. Fréchet, John Silcox, Malcolm Thomas, and Jim Elman
Science 9 August 1996: 782-784.
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Visualization of Slow Axonal Transport in Vivo

Sumio Terada, Takao Nakata, Alan C. Peterson, and Nobutaka Hirokawa
Science 9 August 1996: 784-788.
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Immunodeficiency in Protein Kinase C-Deficient Mice

Michael Leitges, Christian Schmedt, Rodolphe Guinamard, Jean Davoust, Stefan Schaal, Silvia Stabel, and Alexander Tarakhovsky
Science 9 August 1996: 788-791.
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Activation of Pyk2 by Stress Signals and Coupling with JNK Signaling Pathway

G. Tokiwa, I. Dikic, S. Lev, and J. Schlessinger
Science 9 August 1996: 792-794.
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Cooperative DNA Binding and Sequence-Selective Recognition Conferred by the STAT Amino-Terminal Domain

Xiang Xu, Ya-Lin Sun, and Timothy Hoey
Science 9 August 1996: 794-797.
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Diffusional Mobility of Golgi Proteins in Membranes of Living Cells

Nelson B. Cole, Carolyn L. Smith, Noah Sciaky, Mark Terasaki, Michael Edidin, and Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz
Science 9 August 1996: 797-801.
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Central Hypotensive Effects of the _2a-Adrenergic Receptor Subtype

Leigh B. MacMillan, Lutz Hein, Marta S. Smith, Michael T. Piascik, and Lee E. Limbird
Science 9 August 1996: 801-803.
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Cardiovascular Regulation in Mice Lacking ₂-Adrenergic Receptor Subtypes b and c

Richard E. Link, Kavin Desai, Lutz Hein, Mary E. Stevens, Andrzej Chruscinski, Daniel Bernstein, Gregory S. Barsh, and Brian K. Kobilka
Science 9 August 1996: 803-805.
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Functional Uncoupling of Linked Neurotransmitter Effects by Combinatorial Convergence

Vladimir Brezina, Irina V. Orekhova, and Klaudiusz R. Weiss
Science 9 August 1996: 806-810.
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Organization of Diphtheria Toxin T Domain in Bilayers: A Site-Directed Spin Labeling Study

Kyoung Joon Oh, Hangjun Zhan, Can Cui, Kálmán Hideg, R. John Collier, and Wayne L. Hubbell
Science 9 August 1996: 810-812.
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Genome Sequence of a Human Tumorigenic Poxvirus: Prediction of Specific Host Response-Evasion Genes

Tatiana G. Senkevich, Joachim J. Bugert, Jerry R. Sisler, Eugene V. Koonin, Gholamreza Darai, and Bernard Moss
Science 9 August 1996: 813-816.
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