This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
Science 12 July 1996: 157.
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Editorial:
Scientific Imagination and Integrity

Kenneth J. Ryan
Science 12 July 1996: 163-0.
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 ScienceScope|

Science 12 July 1996: 171-0.
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 Random Samples|High Court Won't Review Hopwood * Manatee Killer Revealed * Canada Considers Gene Law

Science 12 July 1996: 191-0.
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 Book Reviews|Bendectin and Birth Defects, reviewed by S. Bartlett Foote * The Mismeasure of Man * The World According to Wavelets * Wavelets * Vignette * Books Received

Science 12 July 1996: 196-197.
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 Products & Materials|

Science 12 July 1996: 262-263.
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 Science's Next Wave|Bioinformatics: New Frontier Calls Young Scientists

Science 12 July 1996: 265-0.
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News

Education: The Decline of German Universities

Patricia Kahn
Science 12 July 1996: 172-174.
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Education: Foreign Students Bypassing Germany

Patricia Kahn
Science 12 July 1996: 173-0.
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 Disputed Results Now Just a Footnote

Eliot Marshall
Science 12 July 1996: 174-175.
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Imanishi-Kari Case: Disputed Results Now Just a Footnote

Eliot Marshall
Science 12 July 1996: 174-175.
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Immunologists on Immunology

Science 12 July 1996: 174-0.
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NASA Life Sciences: Panel Backs Joint Bion Mission

Andrew Lawler
Science 12 July 1996: 175-0.
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Oceanography: Earmark for New Ship Puts Academics Over Pork Barrel

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 12 July 1996: 176-0.
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Italian Bioethics: Embryo Report Opens Old Wounds

Susan Biggin
Science 12 July 1996: 177-0.
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Scientific Publishing: Publisher Draws Censorship Charge

Constance Holden
Science 12 July 1996: 177-0.
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Tobacco Studies: UC Objects to Research Restrictions

Marcia Barinaga
Science 12 July 1996: 178-0.
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Superconducting Wire: Silver Thread Boosts Current Capacity

Robert F. Service
Science 12 July 1996: 178-0.
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Solar Physics: Unruly Sun Emerges in Solar Observatory's First Results

James Glanz
Science 12 July 1996: 179-180.
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Solar Physics: Spying On the Sun--on the Cheap

James Glanz
Science 12 July 1996: 180-0.
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Meeting Briefs: Evolutionary and Systematic Biologists Converge

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 12 July 1996: 181-182.
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Radio Astronomy: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Quasar

Govert Schilling
Science 12 July 1996: 182-0.
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Structural Biology: Protein Matchmaker May Lead New Gene Therapy to the Altar

Michael Balter
Science 12 July 1996: 183-0.
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Special News Report

Special News Report: Putting Prions to the Test

Rosie Mestel
Science 12 July 1996: 184-189.
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Prions: Flipping Yeast

Rosie Mestel
Science 12 July 1996: 186-0.
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Prions: Prusiner and the Press

Rosie Mestel
Science 12 July 1996: 188-0.
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Letters

 This Week's Letters

Science 12 July 1996: 165-168.
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 Not the "Dark Ages"

Winona C. Barker and Robert S. Ledley
Science 12 July 1996: 165-168.
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 Dinosaurs and Their Youth

Mark A. Norell, James M. Clark;, Nicholas R. Geist, and Terry D. Jones
Science 12 July 1996: 165-168.
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 Tobacco Research

James F. Glenn;, Jon Cohen;, and Theodor D. Sterling
Science 12 July 1996: 165-168.
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 Uninterrupted Electric Power

Daniel N. Baker and John G. Kappenman
Science 12 July 1996: 165-168.
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 Response: Dinosaurs and Their Youth

Nicholas R. Geist and Terry D. Jones
Science 12 July 1996: 166-167.
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 Tobacco Research

James F. Glenn
Science 12 July 1996: 167.
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 Response: Tobacco Research

Theodor D. Sterling
Science 12 July 1996: 167-168.
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 Uninterrupted Electric Power

Daniel N. Baker and John G. Kappenman
Science 12 July 1996: 168.
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Books et al.

 Causation in the Courts: Bendectin and Birth Defects.

Susan Bartlett Foote
Science 12 July 1996: 196.
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 Also Noteworthy: The Mismeasure of Man.

Katherine Livingston
Science 12 July 1996: 196-197.
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 Also Noteworthy: The World According to Wavalets.

Katherine Livingston
Science 12 July 1996: 197.
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 Books Received

Science 12 July 1996: 197.
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Perspectives

If a Tree Falls in the Forest...

M. Keller, D. A. Clark, D. B. Clark, A. M. Weitz, and E. Veldkamp
Science 12 July 1996: 201-0.
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The Shrewd Grasp of RNA Polymerase

Robert Landick and Jeffrey W. Roberts
Science 12 July 1996: 202-203.
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Rho Returns--Its Targets in Focal Adhesions

Howard Bussey
Science 12 July 1996: 203-0.
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Articles

New Designs of Macroporous Polymers and Supports: From Separation to Biocatalysis

Frantisek Svec and Jean M. J. Fréchet
Science 12 July 1996: 205-211.
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Research Article

Transcription Processivity: Protein-DNA Interactions Holding Together the Elongation Complex

Evgeny Nudler, Ekaterina Avetissova, Vadim Markovtsov, and Alex Goldfarb
Science 12 July 1996: 211-217.
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Reports

Compression of Ice to 210 Gigapascals: Infrared Evidence for a Symmetric Hydrogen-Bonded Phase

A. F. Goncharov, V. V. Struzhkin, M. S. Somayazulu, R. J. Hemley, and H. K. Mao
Science 12 July 1996: 218-220.
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Making DNA Add

Frank Guarnieri, Makiko Fliss, and Carter Bancroft
Science 12 July 1996: 220-223.
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Maya Blue Paint: An Ancient Nanostructured Material

M. José-Yacamán, Luis Rendón, J. Arenas, and Mari Carmen Serra Puche
Science 12 July 1996: 223-225.
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Formation of Atomically Flat Silver Films on GaAs with a "Silver Mean" Quasi Periodicity

Arthur R. Smith, Kuo-Jen Chao, Qian Niu, and Chih-Kang Shih
Science 12 July 1996: 226-228.
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Mechanism of Suppression of Cell-Mediated Immunity by Measles Virus

Christopher L. Karp, Maria Wysocka, Larry M. Wahl, Joseph M. Ahearn, Peter J. Cuomo, Barbara Sherry, Giorgio Trinchieri, and Diane E. Griffin
Science 12 July 1996: 228-231.
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Structure of the Amino-Terminal Core Domain of the HIV-1 Capsid Protein

Rossitza K. Gitti, Brian M. Lee, Jill Walker, Michael F. Summers, Sanghee Yoo, and Wesley I. Sundquist
Science 12 July 1996: 231-235.
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Polar Overdominance at the Ovine callipyge Locus

Noelle E. Cockett, Sam P. Jackson, Tracy L. Shay, Frédéric Farnir, Stéphane Berghmans, Gary D. Snowder, Dahlia M. Nielsen, and Michel Georges
Science 12 July 1996: 236-238.
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Structure of the FKBP12-Rapamycin Complex Interacting with Binding Domain of Human FRAP

Jungwon Choi, Jie Chen, Stuart L. Schreiber, and Jon Clardy
Science 12 July 1996: 239-242.
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Long-Term Lymphohematopoietic Reconstitution by a Single CD34-Low/Negative Hematopoietic Stem Cell

Masatake Osawa, Ken-ichi Hanada, Hirofumi Hamada, and Hiromitsu Nakauchi
Science 12 July 1996: 242-245.
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Regulation of Myosin Phosphatase by Rho and Rho-Associated Kinase (Rho-Kinase)

Kazushi Kimura, Masaaki Ito, Mutsuki Amano, Kazuyasu Chihara, Yuko Fukata, Masato Nakafuku, Bunpei Yamamori, Jianhua Feng, Takeshi Nakano, Katsuya Okawa, Akihiro Iwamatsu, and Kozo Kaibuchi
Science 12 July 1996: 245-248.
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Bipartite Ca²⁺-Binding Motif in C₂ Domains of Synaptotagmin and Protein Kinase C

Xuguang Shao, Bazbek A. Davletov, R. Bryan Sutton, Thomas C. Südhof, and Josep Rizo
Science 12 July 1996: 248-251.
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Platelet-Mediated Lymphocyte Delivery to High Endothelial Venules

Thomas G. Diacovo, Kamal D. Puri, R. Aaron Warnock, Timothy A. Springer, and Ulrich H. von Andrian
Science 12 July 1996: 252-255.
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Technical Comments

On Catching Fly Balls

J. L. Dannemiller, T. G. Babler, B. L. Babler;, T. M. Jacobs, M. D. Lawrence, K. Hong, N. Giordano, Jr., N. Giordano, Sr., M. K. McBeath, D. M. Shaffer, and M. K. Kaiser
Science 12 July 1996: 256-260.
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 On Catching Fly Balls

T. M. Jacobs, M. D. Lawrence, K. Hong, N. Giordano, Jr., and N. Giordano, Sr.
Science 12 July 1996: 257-258.
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 Response: On Catching Fly Balls

Michael K. McBeath, Dennis M. Shaffer, and Mary K. Kaiser
Science 12 July 1996: 258-260.
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